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- Abdicate
– Renounce a throne, high office or
dignity
- Abolish
– Do away with
- Accelerate
– To move faster
- Accomplice
– One associated with another
especially in wrong-doing
- Acoustics
– Science of the production,
transmission, reception and effect of sound
- Acrobat
– One who performs gymnastic feats
- Adolescence
– The period of life from puberty to
maturity
- Actuary
– One who calculates insurance and
annuity premium etc
- Adulterate
– Make impure by the addition of
inferior substance
- Aggression
– Unprovoked attack of one country
by another
- Amnesty
– General pardon
- Abattoir
– A building where animals are killed for meal (or
slaughterhouse)
- Ad
hoc
– Made for a particular purpose
- Aeronautics
– The science of the operation and flight of
aircraft
- Aesthete
– A person with a highly developed
sense of beauty
- Agnostic
– One who believes that nothing can be known about
God
- Agoraphobia
– Fear of open spaces
- Alibi
– It is Latin for elsewhere. It is actually a plea
of having been elsewhere at the time of commission of an act. But it is
now used in the sense of an excuse. Example: He offered no alibi for his
absence from duty.
- Alimony
– Compensatory allowance given to
wife after divorce
- Allergic
– Allergy means, a heightened sensitivity to a
substance as food, medicine etc. Allergic means having an aversion to. He
is allergic to hard work.
- Altruist
– One who is habitually kind to
others
- Alumnus
– A former student of a school or
college
- Ambivalent
– The word means simultaneous attraction towards
and repulsion from an object, person or action. The attitude of educated
Indians to love-marriages is ambivalent
- Anachronism
– That which appears to be in the
wrong period
- Anarchy
– Lawlessness and disorder caused by absence of
control
- Anecdote
– A short interesting or amusing
story
- Anthology
– A collection of poems or writings
- Aphorism
– (or maxim) A wise saying in a few words
- Aphrodisiac
– A medicine causing sexual
excitement
- Apiary
– A place where bees are kept
- Apprentice
– A person who works under someone to learn that
person’s skill
- Arboreal
– Those who live in trees
- Armistice
– (or cease-fire or truce) An agreement to stop
fighting
- Ascetic
– One who avoids physical pleasures
and comforts
- Astrology
– The art of understanding the
influence of heavenly bodies
- Astronomy
– Scientific study of heavenly
bodies
- Aviary
– A place for keeping birds
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Backlog
– It means an accumulation of arrears. Example: I must
clear my heavy backlog of arrears.
- Backwater
– A Dart of a river out of the main
stream, where the water does not move
- Barbarian
– An uncivilised person
- Barbecue
– A metal flame on which meat etc.
is cooked over an open fire
- Barometer
– An instrument for measuring the
air pressure
- Beverage
– A liquid for drinking
- Bibliography
– A list of writings on a subject
- Biennial
– Happening once every two years
- Bigamy
– System of two marriages
- Biodata
– (or resume or curriculum vitae) A short written
account of one’s education and past employment
- Black
Hole
– An area in outer space into which
everything near it, including light, is pulled-
- Bleach
– Make white or pale by mean~ of
chemicals or sunlight
- Blue
Blood
– The quality of being a noble
person by birth
- Blueprint
– The word originated in the engineering industry
where it means the final stage of paper design. So it may mean the final
plan or layout. Example: The blueprint of the Five-Year Plan is ready.
- Bonsai
– The art of growing a plant in a
pot that is prevented from reaching its natural size
- Bon
Vivant
– One who likes good wine and food
and cheerful companions
- Bookworm
– (or nerd) One who is too fond of reading and
study
- Botany
– The scientific study of plants
- Bottleneck
– It is a narrow passage, a place, stage or
condition that checks progress. Example: We must rem o”e all bottlenecks
in the swift implementation of policies.
- Boulevard
– A broad street having trees on
each side
- Bourgeois
– Belonging to the middle class
- Bric-a-brac
– Small objects kept for decoration
- Bullion
– Bars of gold or silver
- Bust
– A piece of sculpture showing a
person’s head, shoulders, and upper chest
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- Cabal
– A small group of people who make
secret plans for political action
- Calligraphy
– The art of beautiful writing by
hand
- Canine
– Of a dog
- Cannibal
– One who eats human flesh
- Cardiac
– Connected with the heart
- Catch-22
– A situation from which one is
prevented from escaping by something that is part of the situation itself
- Celestial
– Of the sky or heaven
- Cerebral
– Connected with the brain
- Chalet
– A wooden house with a steeply
sloping roof
- Charlatan
– One who deceives others by falsely
claiming to have a skill
- Calmistry
– The art of telling one’s character
or future by examining one’s hands
- Celibacy
– One who does not indulge in carnal
pleasure
- Clean
sweep
– A complete victory
- Clock-and-Dagger
– Stories
that deal with adventure and exciting mystery
- Clot
– A half-solid mass or lump formed
from a liquid, especially blood
- Clubfoot
– A badly-shaped foot twisted out of
position from birth
- Coagulate
– Change from a liquid into a solid
by chemical action
- Cold
war
– Severe political struggle between
countries, without actual fighting
- Colloquial
– Suitable for ordinary, informal,
or familiar conversation
- Colonnade
– A row of pillars supporting a roof
or arches
- Coma
– A state of long unnatural deep
unconsciousness
- Combustible
– (or Inflammable) That can catch
fire and burn easily
- Comrade
– A close companion who shares
difficult work
- Congenital
– Existing at or from one’s birth
- Connotation
– The feeling or ideas that are
suggested by a word
- Consortium
– A combination of several
companies, banks, etc. for a common purpose
- Consul
– A person appointed by a govt. to
protect and help its citizens and its interests in trade in a foreign city
- Contemporary
– A person living at the same time
as another
- Contretemps
– An unlucky and unexpected event,
socially uncomfortable
- Corinthian
– Typical of the most richly decorated
style of ancient Greek building
- Corrigendum
– Something (to be) made correct in
a printed book
- Counterfeit
– Made exactly like something real
in order to deceive
- Countervailing
– Acting with equal force but
opposite effect
- Couture
– The business of making and selling
fashionable women’s clothes
- Cradle
– A small bed for a baby
- Creativity
– The ability to produce new and
original ideas
- Criminology
– The scientific study of crime and
criminals
- Crossroads
– A point at which an important
decision must be taken
- Cruise
– A sea voyage for pleasure
- Cuisine
– A style of cooking
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- Daredevil
– One who is prepared to take
dangerous risks
- D-day
– A day on which an important
operation is to begin
- Debacle
– A sudden complete failure
- Decanter
– A container for holding alcoholic
drinks, especially wine
- Defeatism
– The practice of thinking in a way
that shows an expectation of being unsuccessful
- Deficit
– The amount by which something is
less than what is needed
- Déja
vu
– The feeling of remembering
something that in fact one is experiencing for the first time
- Depression
– A long period of seriously reduced
business activity and high unemployment
- Designate
– Chosen for an office but not yet
officially placed in it
- Disarmament
– Reduction of weapons by a
government
- Dissection
– Cutting up the body of a plant or
animal for studying
- Dividend
– The money which is divided among
shareholders
- Dome
– A rounded roof on a building
- Dormitory
– A large room containing a number
of beds
- Down-and-out
– One who is suffering from lack of
money, work, etc, and is unable to change the situation
- Dragnet
– A system of connected actions and
methods for catching criminals
- Dregs
– Sediment in a liquid that sinks to
the, bottom and is thrown away
- Drudgery
– Hard uninteresting work
- Dutch
– Of the Netherlands (Holland)
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- Eagle-eyed
– Looking with very keen attention and noticing
small details
- Eaves
– The edges of a roof which come out
beyond the walls
- Eddy
– A circular movement of water,
wind, dust, etc.
- Elastic
– Able to spring back into shape
after being stretched
- Electrocute
– To kill by passing electricity
through the body
- Embargo
– An official order forbidding trade
with another country
- Empirical
– Based on practical experience of
the world we see and feel
- Enigmatic
– That which is mysterious and very
hard to understand
- Entomology
– The scientific study of insects
- Epic
– A long narrative poem
- Epicurean
– Lover of physical/material
- Ergonomics
– The study of the conditions in
which people work most effectively with machines
- Estuary
– The wide lower part or mouth of a
river
- Evaporate
– To change into steam and disappear
- Evolution
– Gradual development from simpler
forms
- Excise
– Tax on goods produced and used
inside a country
- Expletive
– An often meaningless word used for
swearing
- Expressionism
– A style of painting which
expresses feelings rather than describing objects and experiences
- Extrovert
– One who likes to spend time with
others
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- Facet
– Any of the many flat sides of a
cut jewel
- Faeces
– The solid waste material passed
from the bowels
- Fallacy
– A false idea or belief
- Farce
– A light humorous play full of
silly things happening
- Farrier
– One who makes and fits shoes for horses
- Febrile
– Of or caused by fever
- Felony
– A serious crime such as murder or armed robbery
- Fiance
Р(feminine fianc̩e) The person one
is going to marry
- Filament
– A thin thread
- Flogging
– Severe beating with a whip or
stick
- Flora
– All the plants of a particular
place, country, or period
- Fluvial
– Of, found in, or produced by
rivers
- Foible
– A small rather strange and stupid
personal habit
- Foolscap
– A large size of paper, especially
writing paper
- Foray
– A sudden rush into enemy country
- Foreman
– A skilled and experienced worker
in charge of other workers
- Fortnight
– Two weeks
- Fourth
Estate – Newspapers and
their writers, considered with regard to their political influence
- Freckle
– A small flat brown spot on the skin
- Freight
– Goods carried by ship, train.
plane, etc.
- Frill
– A decorative edge to a piece of
material
- Frontispiece
– A picture or photograph at the
beginning of a book
- Fumigate
– To clear of disease, bacteria etc.
by means of chemical smoke
- Furrow
– A long narrow track cut by a
plough
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- Galaxy
– A large group of stars
- Gastronomy
– The art and science of cooking and
eating good food
- Gelatine
– A clear substance used for making
jellies
- Geocentric
– Having the Earth as the central
point
- Gigolo
– A man who is paid to be a woman’s
lover
- Glacier
– A mass of ice moving very slowly
down a mountain valley
- Glut
– A larger supply than is necessary
- Goatee
– A little pointed beard on the
bottom of the chin
- Go-Getter
– One who is forceful, determined,
and likely to succeed in getting what one wants
- Good
Samaritan – One who helps
others in trouble, without thinking of oneself
- Gorge
– A deep narrow valley with steep
sides
- Graffiti
– Drawings or writing on a wall
- Grange
– A large country house with Farm
buildings
- Green
Belt
– A stretch of land, around a town
or city, where building is not allowed, so that fields, woods, etc. remain
- Grunt
– Short deep rough sound of a pig
- Gubernatorial
– Of a governor
- Guinea
pig
– A person who is subject of some
kind of test
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- Halitosis
– A condition in which one has bad
breath
- Handbook
– ‘A short book giving all the most
important information about a subject
- Hangar
– A big building where aircraft are
kept between flights
- Harpoon
– A spear with a long rope, used for
hunting large sea animals
- Haven
– A place of calm and safety
- Headgear
– A covering for the head
- Headstrong
– Determined to do what one wants in
spite of all advice
- Heat-stroke
– Fever and weakness caused by too
much heat
- Heirloom
– A valuable object passed on for
generations
- Herbivore
– A plant-eating animal
- Hide
– An animal’s skin, when removed to
be used for leather
- Hinterland
– The inner part of a country
- Histrionics
– Behaviour resembling a theatrical performance
- Holocaust
– Great destruction and the loss of
many lives
- Holster
– A leather holder for a pistol
- Hooligan
– A noisy rough person who causes
trouble
- Hothead
– One who does things too quickly,
without thinking
- Hub
– The central part of a wheel
- Hump
– A lump on the back of a camel
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- Ideology
– A set of ideas on which a
political or economic system is based
- Idolatry
– The worship of idols
- Illegible
– Difficult or impossible to read
- Immortal
– That which will never die
- Implacable
– Impossible to satisfy, change, or
make less angry
- Improvident
– One who does not save for the
future
- Incarnate
– In physical form rather than in
the form of a spirit or idea
- Incorporeal
– Without a body
- Inedible
– Not suitable for eating
- Inflate
– To fill until swelled with air or
gas
- Ingest
– To take food into the stomach
- Innate
– That which one is born with
- Inseminate
– To put male seed into a female
- Intelligentsia
– Those who are highly educated and
often concern themselves with ideas and new developments
- Intestate
– Not having made a will
- Invective
– A forceful attacking speech used
for blaming someone
- Invoice
– A list of goods supplied, stating
quantity and price
- Irreproachable
– So good that no blame at all could be given
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- Journal
– A serious magazine produced by a
specialist society
- Junta –
A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of
government.
- Juxtapose
– To place side by side or close together
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- Kennel
– A small hut for a dog
- Kimono
– A long loose garment made of silk
- Knuckle
– The joint between the finger and
the hand
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- Lackey
– One who behaves like a servant by
always obeying
- Lead
Time
– The time taken in planning and
producing a new product
- Lecher
– One who continually looks for
sexual pleasure
- Leonine
– Of or like a lion
- Levee –
An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent
overflow.
- Levy
– An official demand and collection,
especially of a tax
- Libertarian
– One who believes that people
should have freedom of expression
- Lien
–
A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
- Limerick
– A humorous short poem with five
lines
- Linchpin
– An important member which keeps
the whole group together
- Literati
– People with great knowledge of
literature
- Livery
– Uniform of a special type for
servants
- Locale
– A place where something particular
happens
- Logger
V
– One whose job is to cut down trees
- Loom
– A machine on which thread is woven
into cloth
- Lore
– Old beliefs, not written down,
about a particular subject
- Lowbrow
– One who has no interest in
literature, art, etc.
- Lullaby
– A pleasant song used for causing
children to sleep
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- Machete
– A knife with a broad heavy blade
- Magnum
Opus – A great work of
art
- Malady
– That which is wrong with a system
- Malaise
– A feeling of pain without any
particular pain or appearance of disease
- Malcontent
–
One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
- Male Chauvinist
– A man who believes that men are
better than women
- Malign
–
To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
- Mane
– The long hair on the back of a
horse’s neck
- Manual
– A book giving information about
how to do something
- Market
Forces – The free
operation of business and trade without govt. controls
- Mascot
– Chosen as a symbol and thought to
bring good luck
- Massacre
–
The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
- Materialism
– Too great interest on in money
& material etc, rather than spiritual matters
- Mechanics
– The science of the action of
forces on objects
- Megalomania
– The belief that one is more
important than one really is
- Mercantile
– Of trade and business
- Meteorology
– The scientific study of weather
conditions
- Midriff
– The part of the human body between
the chest and the waist
- Militia
– Those trained as soldiers but not
belonging to a regular army
- Miniature
– A very small painting
- Mirage
– The appearing of objects which are
not really there
- Misnomer
–
A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
- Moccasin
– A simple shoe made of leather
- Modus
Operandi – A method of
doing something typical of someone
- Mogul
– A person of very great power.
wealth, and importance
- Monarchy
– Rule by a king or queen
- Monomaniac
– One who keeps thinking of one
particular idea only
- Moralistic
– Having unchanging narrow ideas
about right and wrong
- Morbid
–
Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
- Motto
– A few words taken as the guiding
principle
- Multinational
– A company having operations in
many different countries
- Mundane means
– Worldly/earthly
- Mycology
–
The study of fungi (plural of fungus)
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- Namesake
– A person with the same name as
yours is your
- Nautical –
Of sailors, ships, or sailing
- Necromancy
– The practice which claims to learn
about the future by talking with the dead
- Nemesis
– Just and unavoidable punishment
- Newfangled
– New (idea. machine etc) but
neither necessary nor better
- Nihilism
– The belief that nothing has
meaning or value
- Nodding
– lower and raise
one’s head slightly and briefly, to give someone a signal
- Acquaintance
– A very slight familiarity
- Nosegay
– A small bunch of flowers, to be carried
or worn on a dress
- Notary
– A public official who makes
written statements official
- No-win
Situation – That which will
end badly whichever choice one makes
- Nursery
– A place where small children are
taken care of
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- Oar
– A long pole used for rowing a boat
- Obstetrics
– The branch of medicine concerned
with childbirth
- Obtrude
–
To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
- Obtrusive
–
Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
- Obviate
–
To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
- Odoriferous
– Having a smell, especially a
pleasant one
- Off-White
– White with some grey or yellow
- Oligarchy
– A collective government formed by
a few persons
- One-Upmanship
– The art of getting an advantage
over others without actually cheating
- Ontology
– The branch of philosophy concerned
with the nature of existence
- Operational
– The study of how
best to build and use
- Research machines
- Opprobrium
–
The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
- Orderly
– A soldier who attends an officer
- Ornithology
– The scientific study of birds
- Ostentation
–
A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
- Ostracism
–
Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
- Outcast
– One who is forced from one’s home
or without friends
- Overhaul
– Thorough examination and repair if
necessary
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- Pacemaker
– A small machine that regularises
heartbeats
- Palaeography
– The study of ancient writing
- Panacea
–
A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
- Panache –
An admirably stylish manner of doing things effortlessly
- Panegyric
–
A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an
act.
- Pariah
– One who is not accepted by society
- Parricide
– Act of murdering one’s father
- Parting
Shot
– A last remark made at the moment
of leaving
- Passive
Smoking – The breathing in
of smoke from the cigarettes that others are smoking
- Patent
– The right to make or sell a new
invention
- Paunch
– A man’s fat stomach
- Peanuts
– Too small a sum of money
- Peeping
Tom – One who secretly
looks at others when they are undressing
- Penance
– Making oneself willingly suffer
for one’s wrongs
- Perdition
– Everlasting punishment after death
- Perjury
– A lie told on purpose
- Persona on
Grata – One who is not
acceptable or welcome
- Petrology
– The scientific study of rocks
- Phonetics
– The study and science of speech
sounds
- Phylum
– A main division of animals or
plants
- Pigment
– The natural colouring matter of
plants and animals
- Pillion
– A seat for a second person on a
motorcycle
- Pithead
– The entrance to a coalmine
- Placate –
To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or
friendliness.
- Plaintiff
– One who brings a charge against
someone in a court
- Platitude
–
A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- Platonic
– A friendly, not sexual,
relationship between a man and a woman
- Plebeian
– Of the lower social classes
- Poetaster
– A writer of bad poems
- Poker
Face
– A face that shows nothing of what
one is thinking or feeling
- Porcine
– Of or like a pig
- Pork
– Meat from pigs
- Portend
–
To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
- Post-Haste
– In a great hurry
- Pot-Boiler
– A book of low quality produced
quickly to get money
- Powder
Keg
– Something dangerous that might
explode
- Précis
– A shortened form of a piece of
writing
- Prescient
– Able to imagine or guess what will
probably happen
- Prevaricate
–
To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or
diverting attention.
- Prey
– An animal that is hunted and eaten
by another
- Prima
Donna – The main woman
singer in an opera company
- Prodigal
–
One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
- Profile
– A side view of someone’s head
- Projection
– Something that sticks out from a
surface
- Propellant
– An explosive for firing a bullet
or a rocket
- Protagonist
– means first actor in a play. It means one who
takes the leading part in a drama, novel or any other sphere. Clearly the
word is not an antonym of antagonist which means one who contends with
another.
- Proscribe
–
To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
- Prosody
– The rules by which the patterns of
sounds are arranged in poetry
- Postscript (or
P.S.)
– A note added at the end of a letter
- Pulmonary
– Of or having an effect on the
lungs
- Punctilious
–
Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
- Punter
– One who makes a bet on horserace
results
- Pus
– A thick yellowish liquid produced
in an infected wound
- Putsch
– A sudden secretly planned attempt
to remove a govt. by force
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- Quartet
– Four singers or musicians
performing together
- Quixotic
– Trying to do the impossible, often
so as to help others, while getting oneself into danger
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- Raconteur
– One who is good at telling stories
in an interesting way
- Raillery
– Friendly joking al someone’s
weakness
- Ranger
– The keeper of a forest
- Real
Estate
– Property in the form of land and
houses
- Real
Politick – Politics based
on practical facts rather than on moral aims
- Rebuff
–
A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
- Recant
–
To withdraw formally one’s belief (in something previously believed or
maintained).
- Recumbent
– Lying down on the back or side
- Red-Handed
– In the act of doing something
wrong
- Redundant
– means exceeding what is natural, usual or
necessary. The idea of too much is inseparable from it. It is not a
synonym of inappropriate.
- Reflation
– A govt. policy of increasing the
amount of money
- Relic
– Something old that reminds us of
the past
- Renaissance
– A renewal of interest in some particular kind of
art, literature, etc.
- Renal
– Of the kidneys
- Requisition
– An official demand or request
- Rescind
–
To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior
authority.
- Resonance
– Sound produced in one object by
sound waves from another
- Retribution
– A severe deserved punishment
- Revisionism
– The questioning of the main
beliefs of an already existing political system
- Rhyme
– To end with the same sound,
including a vowel
- Right-hand Man
– One’s most useful and valuable
helper
- Ringleader
– One who leads others to do wrong
or make trouble
- Riviera
– A warm stretch of coast, popular
with holiday makers
- Rodent
– A small herbivore with strong
sharp long front teeth
- Rolling
Stone – One who.travels
around a lot and has no fixed address or responsibilities
- Rosary
– A string of beads used for counting
prayers
- Roving
eye
– Sexual interests that pass quickly
from one person to another
- Rubber
Stamp – One who acts
only to make official the decisions already made by another
- Ruling
– An official decision of a court
- Rung
– Any of the cross-bars that form
the steps of a ladder
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- Saboteur
– One who practices sabotage
- Salve
– (or Ointment) An oily substance for putting on a
cut, wound, etc.
- Sapient
– Wise and full of deep knowledge
- Scaffold
– A structure built up from poles
and boards for workmen to stand on
- Scalp
– The skin on the top of the human
head
- Sceptical
– Unwilling to believe a claim or
promise.
- Scraps
– Pieces of food not eaten at a meal, and thrown
away
- Scuba
– An instrument used for breathing
while swimming underwater
- Seam
– A line of stitches ‘joining two
pieces of cloth, leather, etc.
- Sedentary
– Done while sitting down
- Seer
– One who can see into the future
- Seismic
– Of or caused by earthquakes
- Seller’s
Market – Where there are
not many goods for sale
- Sensationalism
– The intentional producing of
excitement or shock
- Septic
– Infected with disease bacteria
- Sexagenarian
– One who is between 60 and 69 years
old
- Sexism
– The belief that one sex is not as
good as the other
- Shaman
– A priest believed to have magical
powers and cure people
- Shibboleth
– A once-important custom which no
longer has much meaning
- Shoot
– A new growth from a plant
- Short-change
– To give back less than what
actually should be given back
- Siamese
twins – Those joined
together from birth at some part of their bodies
- Side
Effect
– An unwanted effect happening in
addition to the intended one
- Signatory
– Any of those who sign an agreement
- Sill
– The flat piece at the base of a
window
- Singsong
– A repeated rising and falling of
the voice in speaking
- Skyscraper
– A very tall modern city building
- Sleeping
Partner – A partner in a
business who takes no active part
- Slip-up
– A slight unintentional mistake.
- Small
Fry
– A young or unimportant person
- Smokestack
– The tall chimney of a factory or a
ship
- Snippet
– A short piece from something
spoken or written
- Socialite
– A person well known for going to
fashionable parties
- Sociology
– The scientific study of societies
and human behaviour in groups
- Solidarity
– Loyal agreement of interests,
aims, or principles among a group
- Somnambulism
– The habit of walking about while
asleep
- SOS
– An urgent message from someone in
trouble
- Souvenir
– An object kept as a reminder of
something
- Spatial
– Connected with space
- Spectacle
– A grand public show or scene
- Spindle
– A machine part round which
something turns
- Splinter
– A small sharp-pointed piece of
wood broken off something
- Sportsmanship
– A spirit of honest fair play
- Sprig
– A small end of a stem or branch
with leaves
- Stallion
– A fully-grown male horse kept for
breeding
- Standard-bearer
– An
important leader in a moral argument or movement
- Statesman
– A political leader who is
respected as being wise, honourable, and fair-minded
- Stellar
– Of the stars
- Sticking
Point – Something that
prevents an agreement
- Stock
Broker – One whose job is
buying and selling shares and debentures for others
- Stoic
– One who is indifferent to
joys/sorrows
- Stooge
– One who habitually does what another person
wants
- Stratagem
– A trick to deceive an enemy
- Strategist
– A person skilled in planning, especially of
military movements.
- Stride
– A long step in walking.
- Strobe
Light
– A light which goes on and off very quickly
- Subcutaneous
– Beneath the skin
- Sub Judice
– A legal case being considered in court
- Subsidy
– Money paid by the govt. to make
prices lower
- Superannuated
– Too old for work
- Surety
– One who takes responsibility for
the behaviour of someone
- Surreal
– Having a strange dreamlike unreal
quality
- Swarm
– A large group of insects moving in a mass
- Sweet
Tooth
– A liking for sweet and sugary
things
- Sword of
Damocles
– Something bad that may happen at
any time
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- Tactile
– Of the sense of touch
- Take-home
Pay – Wages left after
all taxes, pension payments, etc. have been paid
- Tannery
– A Place where animal skin is made into leather
- Tarot
– A set of 22 cards used for telling the future
- Tautology
– is redundancy, which consists of needless
repetition of meaning in other words. Example: audible to the ear return
back, One after another in succession.
- Taxonomy
– The system of putting plants and
animals into various classes
- Technocrat
– A highly skilled specialist in
charge of organisation
- Teller
– One who is employed to receive and
pay out money in a bank
- Tenure
– The act, right, or period of
holding land or a job
- Territorial
waters – The sea near a country’s coast
over which it has legal control
- Testamentary
– Of or done according to a will
- Thatch
– Roof covering of straw, reeds,
etc.
- Thermal
– Of heat
- Thorax
– The part between the neck and the
abdomen
- Thromhosis
– Having a clot in a blood tube or
the heart
- Topiary
– The art of cutting trees into
decorative shapes
- Touchstone
– Something used as a test or
standard
- Tract
– A short piece dealing with a
religious or moral subject
- Traitor
– One who is disloyal to one’s
country
- Transient
–
One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
- Transmogrify
– To change completely as if by
magic
- Transpire
– It does not mean to happen or occur but to
become known. Example: It transpired at the meeting that he was going to
be our next President.
- Treatise
– A serious book or article that
examines a particular subject.
- Tribunal
– A court of people officially
appointed to deal with special matters.
- Troglodyte
– One who lives in a cave.
- Trousseau
– The personal possessions that a
woman brings with her when she marries.
- Tunnel
Vision – A condition in
which one can see only straight ahead
- Turf
– A surface made up of earth and a
thick covering of grass
- Tutelage
–
The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
- Tyrant
– A ruler with complete power, who
rules cruelly and unjustly
- Tyro
–
One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
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- Underling
– A person of low rank in relation
to another
- Undermanned
– Not having enough workers
- Unguent
– A thick oily substance used on the
skin
- Unisex
– Of one type used by both male and
female
- Upholstery
– A comfortable covering and filling
for a seat
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- Valise
– A small bag used while travelling
- Vase
– A decorative container used to put
flowers in
- Vendor
– A seller of small articles that
can be carried about
- Vertebrate
– A living creature which has a
backbone
- Vicissitude
–
A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as
of fortune.
- Vinous
– Of wine
- Voluntary
– Done willingly, without being
forced
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- Wade
– To walk through water
- Walkout
– Leaving a meeting as an expression
of disapproval
- Wardrobe
– A large cupboard in which one
hangs up clothes
- Wasteland
– Empty, unproductive, usually ugly
land
- Waterloo
– A severe defeat after a time of
unusual success
- Weakling
– One who lacks physical strength or
strength of character
- Wean
–
To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother’s milk to another form
of nourishment.
- Westher-beaten
– Marked or damaged by the force of
wind. sun, rain. etc.
- Wheeler-dealer
– One who is skilled at making
profitable or successful deals
- Whirlpool
– A place with circular currents of
water, which can pull objects down into it
- Wholesale
– The business of selling goods to
shopkeepers
- Wit
– The ability to say clever and
amusing things
- Wizard
– One who has magic powers
- Word Blindness
– (or dyslexia) Difficulty in seeing the
difference between letter shape
- Workaholic
– One who likes to work too hard
- Working
knowledge – Enough practical
knowledge to do something
- Wreckage
– The broken parts of a destroyed
thing
- Wretch
– An unfortunate or unhappy person
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- Xenophobia
– Fear of strange or foreign people,
customs, etc.
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- Yeoman
service – Great and loyal
service, help, or support
- Yuppie
– A young person in a professional
job with a high-income
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- Zeitgeist
–
The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
- Zoology
– The scientific
study of animals
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