Vocab Flashcards
Phiz noun
A person’s face or expression
I hope we get another chance to gaze on his magnificent Phiz before we leave.
Garter-Knight noun
The highest order of knighthood
The Garter knight advance onwards.
Weedynoun
Thin
We pulled to the weedy parking lot
Genera noun
A group of organisms having a common characteristic
Theses animlas are distributed into five genera’
Essayed verb
Attempt to try
I once essayed a back flip in misleads school
Cetacea noun
Members of the group of whale, dolphins, and porpoises
No Cetacea were seen on the shore
Fat-Cutter
“Blubber”
Subalterns noun
Subordinates
Rhodes served as a subalterns in World War 2
Company noun
Ships crew
The company depended on their whaling voyage for money
Punctilious adjective
Formal modes of behavior
He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
Materially adverb
Substantially
If that were done, it would materially help to ease the situtuaion
Skipper verb
Captain
The boat was skippered by a skilled veteran sailor
Subserve verb
Help to promote
If it wasn’t because i wish to observe and subserve to the law of the land, I would have killed him a long ago
Entrenchments noun
Fortifications
Right below the Entrenchments, you will fine another underground bunker
Indomitableness noun
Quality of being impossible to dominate or subdue
He seems to have been a man of indomitable spirit, considering his difficulty
