800 Flashcards
Respite
Postponing a punishment
Period of rest
Spire
Splurge
Scourge
A tall pointed thing at the top of a building
Act spending lot of money on something not needed
A person who inspires fear
Aberration
Amalgamation
Disorder in mental state
Combining of two or more of anything
Idiosyncrasy
Idiolect
Peculiar habit
Particular way a person uses a language
hoodlum
Aggressive and voilent young criminal
Obsidian
A type of dark glass like rock that comes out of a valcano
Rectilineal /rectilinear
Moving in straight line
Gregarian
Has no special status in a large group
Sanctity
Gratuity
State of being very important or worth protecting
Money given to an employee when leaving a job
Panorama
Wide uninterupted view
Manometer
Anemometer
Barometer
To measure pressure of gases and liquids
Measure wind speed and direction
Measure atmospheric pressure and predict weather
Ingrate
Ungrateful
Potpourri
A mixture of dried leaf and flowers used for making room smell
Eremology
Ethology
Study of deserts
Study of animals in natural habitat
Harangue
Hullabaloo
Pandemonium
Long expressive / aggressive speech
Disturbance usually in protest
State of extreme confusion and disorder
amenable
Readily reacting to suggestions and influences
Abbot
Padre
Deacon
Head of monks
Father (priest in church)
Rank below priest in a church
Iniquitous
Very unfair or wrong
usurper
Usherer
Undertaker
One who wrongly or illegaly takes anothers land
Someone employed to conduct others
One whose business is management of funerals
Quangos
An organisation which is started by government
To do public works but has its liberty
Prodigy
Young intelligent or gifted person
Nations that do not look upon or trust each other
Askance
Mnemonic
Helping u to remember something
Corrigendum
Postscript
Printers error to be corrected
Note appended to a letter after the signature
Quay
Metal or stone platform for loading and unloading ships
Boer
Boor
Boar
South african
Rude or clumsy
Pig
ineptness
Insolence
Lack of skills
Rude and disrespectful behaviour
Mortar and pestle
Thistle
Stifle
Sceptre
Palaiya kalathula iruka olaku cup-mortar
Kuchi-pestle
Flower
To choke someone
Raja kaila irukum
