- Eager:-Curious to know something
- Placid:-Calm and peaceful
- Plagiarism:-the act of using someone elses' words,ideas or work and pretending they are your own.
- Commemorate:-to do something that you remember and respect someone important or an important event in the past.
- deify:-to treat someone or something with much respect or admiration
- disparity:-a difference between two or more things especially an unfair one.
- lethal:-having power to cause death
- serene:-calm and relaxed
- gruesome:-very unpleasant and shocking
- tyranny:-unfair and strict control over someone
- obligatory:-mandatory and compulsory
- impetuous:tending to do things quickly without thinking much.
- nebulous:-not clear or exact that is vague
- wrath:-extreme anger
- bashful:-shy
- garner:-to collect something esp information
- moribund:-coming to an end or slowly dying
- bemoan/lament:to express disappointment or sadness about something
- malice/spite:-to intentionally upset someone
- debilitate:-weaken
- ostentatious:-to show how rich they are.
- pervert:-to change something in an unnatural and harmful way
- diligent:-someone who works hard
- dissolute:-immoral
- niggard:-miser
- anathema:-something that is completely opposite of what you believe in
- abnegation/self denial:-the act of not allowing yourself to do something that you want
- abrade:-to rub something very hard that the surface becomes damaged.
- quest:-a long search for something
- desperate:-feeling or showing that you have an ability to do something
- haze:-air that is very difficult to see through
- erstwhile:-former,not any more
- transcendent:-going beyond the useful limits
- wrangles/tiff/rift/bicker,squabble:-an argument that is complicated and continuous for a long period of time
- fallacious:wrong,based on a false idea
- parity:-the state of being equal,especially the state of having equal pay or status
- renege:-to break a promise or an agreement
- perpetrate:-to commit crime or something wrong
- deception:-the act of deliberately making sb believe that sth is wrong
- fiscal:-connected with govt or public money
- callous:-not caring about others' feelings or sufferings
- asylum:-protection that a govt gives to people for political reasons
- sodomy:-a sexual act
- connivance:-help in doing something wrong
- elevate:-to raise or promote
- detriment:-the act of causing harm or damage
- anonymity:the state of being unknown to most of the people
- alienate:to make somebody sympathetic towards you
- symphony:a large orchestra that plays classical music
- protean:-able to change quickly or easily
- sonata:a piece of sound for one instrument
- epilogue:-conclusion to book or a novel
- compositor:-a person who arranges pages in an order before printing
- prospector:-one who searches an area for precious metals
- sermon:-to talk on a moral religious subject
Thursday, 16 January 2014
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