400-450 Flashcards
Repatriate
To send or bring a person back to his own country
Fastidious
Meticulous
Being very careful
Expecting 100 percentage
precarious
Not safe
Not certain
Dangerous
Intestate
Intaglio
Die without making a legal will
Engravings on precious stone
Inveterate
Bad habbit always doing it
Unlikely to stop
Masochist
Sadist
Hurts himself
Hurts others
Nihilist
A person who believes nothing has value especially religion
Physiology
Scientific study of normal function of living
trilogy
Study of three related works of a same author
Topology
Way something is arranged or related
trichology
Study of hair and scalp
Epigraphy
Study of ancient inscriptions
Like words written in a stone
Succulent
Dissident
Juicy and having thick tissues
Person who critices government in a country where it is dangerous
Thespian
An actor (humorous)
Fascimile
FAX
Exact copy of something
Semantics
Study of meanings and words
Null
Lull or soothe or placate
Cull
To reduce to nothing
To make somebody relaxed and calm
To kill certain number of animals in group to prevent over population
Annul
To officially ban or state something is no longer legal
Hackneyed
Overused therefore boring
Unoriginal and trite( lacking originality)
Syllogism
A way of arguing in which two statements are used to prove the third statement is true
Epitome
Epistle
Perfect example
Long serious letter on important subject
Hieroglyphics
Written iN pictorial symbols
Acronym
A word formed from the first letters of words
CAD , WHO
Abridgement
Short veraion of a written work
Almanac
A book published every year that gives information about the subject in that particular year
Anachronism
A person or custom that is old fashioned
Parvenu
A person from low social or economic position who suddenly became rich and powerful
Promiscuous
Having many sexual partners
Taken from Wide range of sources
Without careful thought
Sumptuary
Regulating / controling expenditure/ personal behaviour(kind of law that restricts freedom like male should not wear gold and only samurai can have sword like tat)
Paleontology
Study of fossils ( the remains of plants and animals in rocks )
Statute
A law passed by parliment
Stature
A persons height
Respect or importance given to a person based on his ability
Prop
A piece of wood or metal used for supporting something or keeping something
scaffold
Plateform used for execution of criminals by cutting of their heads or hanging them
Lean to
A small building with its roof leaning against the side of building
Rafter
Sloping piece of wood tat supports the roof
Aquaphobia
Fear of drowning in water
horizon
Longest distant at which land and sky joins
waybill
List of goods or passengers carried
Wagon
Railway or railroad truck carrying goods
Wirepuller
A person who is able to control or influnece events without realizing it
Whist
Card game
Callous
Cruel not caring about others
Hagiography
A book about life of person that praises him too much(oruthanoda pugal padura book)
Invincible
Infalliable
Invulnerable
Cannot be defeated
Never wrong no mistakes
Safe cannot be harmed
Hanger
Large building where aircrafts are kept
granary
Dockyard
Place where grains are stored
Area where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired
Usurer
Person who lends money for high interests
Inadmissible
That cannot be allowed or accepted
Janitor
One who is appointed to maintain and clean the building
Beadle(verger)
One who hold decorum in prayer meeting in church
Congregation
Group of people gather in church for prayer excluding priest and choir
Confrontation
Angry dispute
Conflageration
excessive fire that destroys lot of buildings and land
