First week - 14/5 - 18/5 Flashcards
Disorder or chaos
Havoc
Something enormous in size or power
Behemoth
The head servant in a household who is usually in charge of food service, the care of silverware, and the deportment of other servants
Butler
One of the flat polished surfaces cut on a gemstone or occurring naturally on a crystal
Facet
A mammal similar to a rabbit but having longer ears and legs and giving birth to active, furred young
Hare
Easily influenced or affected
Susceptible
To cause or stop
Halt
A person who keeps bees for their honey; apiarist
Beekeeper
One who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
Poacher
A brief or cursory look
Glimpse
An adult male chicken
Rooster
A tumultuous crowd; a mob
Rabble
Easily sickened or nauseated, as by the sight of blood
Squeamish
Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order of Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease
Mile
To connect or link in a series or chain
Concatenate
A primitive egg-laying mammal, the female of which has no teats but provide milks directly through the skin to their young
Monotreme
A herbicide
Weedkiller
To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious
Infest
A chemical used to kill unwanted animals or plants
Pesticide
A small room adjoining a kitchen, in which dishwashing and other kitchen chores are done
Scullery
Proud; delighted (UK/IRL)
Chuffed
To make a grating or squeaking sound
Creak
To give a name to facetiously or playfully; nickname
Dub
A large amount or number; a lot
Slew
A minor battle in war, as one between small forcers of between large forces avoiding direct conflict
Skirmish
A flat and usually level area of mown and cultivated grass
Infest
A field on which soccer is played
Pitch
A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice
Copse
To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or sound resembling it
Toot
A matter remaining after something has been removed
Residue
The paved area in front of and around airport hangars and terminal buildings
Apron
A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft
Hangar
A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with perforations for draining off liquids and rising food
Collander
Behind the times; out of fashion
Old hat
A silly, rather unintelligent person
Airhead
A leader of speaker who stirs up the passions of the masses; a demagogue (with hyphen)
Rabble-rouser
A person employed to take care of wildlife and to prevent poaching, as on an estate
Gamekeeper
To perfect or make more intense or effective
Hone
To cut something by repeated blows, as of an axe
Hew
A wind blowing in the same direction as that of the course of an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle
Tailwind
An implement consisting of a long, curved, single-edged blade with a long handle, used for mowing or reaping
Scythe
A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate
Axis
To question the truth or validity of; doubt
Dispute
A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet
Shroud
Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable
Myriad
A thin oblong piece of material, such as wood or slate, that is laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof or sides of house or other building
Shingle
Not pleasant or agreeable
Unpalatable
Having many aspects or phases
Multifaceted
A strip of level, usually paved ground on which aircraft take off and land
Runway
A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary or river
Creek
A small room or closet, usually off a kitchen, where food, tableware, linens and similar itens are store
Pantry
An overflowing store; an abundance
Cornucopia
A brief, incomplete view or look
Glimpse
Any huge or powerful thing
Leaviathan
A substance used to destroy or inhibit the growth of plants, especially weeds
Herbicide
A nocturnal burrowing egg-laying mamma, having a spiny coat, a slender snout, and an extensible sticky tongue used for catching insects
Echidna
Conspicuously bad or offensive
Egregious
A semiaquatic egg-laying mammal, having a broad flat tail, webbed feet, a snout resembling a duck’s bill, and in the male, venomous spurs on the hind legs
Platypus
Kindling
To kindle
To start a fire
Thee
Objective pronoun “you”
Behold
Look at; see; to observe
“My yoke is easy and my burden light”
Yoke
A device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal.
To yearn
To have this intense feeling of loss or lack and longing for something
“We yearned for the future.”
Upholstery
The materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
Smudgy
Marked with smudges; dark marks
