Session 19 . Vocab Flashcards
Spartan
characterised by a lack of comfort or luxury (adj)
Tartan
A cloth of patterned lines and squares (Scottish)
Urban
Relating to a town or city
Rural
Relating to the countryside
Testament
The part of a person’s will that relates to what should be done with their personal property
Something that is evidence that a specific fact or event happened
A section of the Bible (2 sections: “old” and “new”)
Sacrament
A religious ceremony or ritual
Endowment
The money or property inherited by someone
Confer
To discuss or exchange ideas and opinions
Preach
To deliver a religious sermon, or to give moral advice to someone (in a pompous way)
Demean
To do something that disrespects someone or something
Deplete
To use up resources / supplies
Gore
Blood that has been shed - usually as a result of violence
Goad
To provoke or annoy someone in a way that makes them react / fight back
Calamitous
Disastrous
Undermine
To do something to lessen the effectiveness or power of something or of someone’s efforts
To dig beneath a building to make it collapse
Sanitary
Hygienic and clean
Embellished
To make something more attractive by adding decoration
Pledge
A solemn promise
A promise of a donation to charity
Condemn
To strongly disapprove of something
To declare something as being unusable for its purpose
Apprehend
To arrest someone for a crime
To understand
Feud
A prolonged and bitter quarrel
Variance
A state of disagreement (between two opinions or two documents)
Subside
To become less intense or severe (e.g. pain subsiding)
To go lower (when talking about the level of water, say in a flood, or the level of a building if it is sinking into the ground)
Plush
Luxurious (adj)
