➲ Virago - A high tempered woman always ready to fight.
➲ Sympathy - To feel sorry for a person who is suffering.
➲ Judas - A person who betrays even friends (like in the bible).
➲ Empathy - To understand another person's feelings.
➲ Immaculate - to be very neat and tidy in dressing and in habits.
➲ Polygraph - A lie detector machine.
➲ Monograph - To write about one subject.
➲ Topiary - To trim and cut trees or bushes and make them look decorative like in gardens where bushes are made to look like various animals.
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➲ Heresy - Opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted.
➲ Hearsay - A rumour, something that is not true.
➲ Gourmet - A person who has a deep knowledge about the tastes and cooking of different foods therefore.
➲ Fresco - To paint on plaster like a ceiling.
➲ Brewery - A place where beer is manufactured.
➲ Herbarium - A place where dried plants are collected to be exhibited.
➲ Carcass - A dead body (usually used for a dead animal).
➲ Elocution - To speak in a way that will influence people.
➲ Etymology - A study of words and their history.
➲ Philology - A study of the different languages used in the world.
➲ Paleography - Studying ancient scripts and writings.
➲ Taxidermy - A study or preservation of dead bodies and skins.
➲ Quixotic - One who is extremely idealistic and impractical.
➲ Diffident - A person who is shy, and timid.
➲ Ennui - To be bored and frustrated in his life.
➲ Procrastination - To keep postponing things to be done.
➲ Stevedore - One who loads and unloads cargo from ships.
➲ Sheath - Is a cover for a knife or sword.
➲ Jockey - A person who rides horses in a horse race.
➲ Bunting - A collection of flags.
➲ Lapidist - One who cuts precious stones.
➲ Brewery - A place where beer is manufactured or brewed.
➲ Confectioner - A person who bakes cakes/sweet etc or a baker.
➲ Oculist - A person who cures eye disease or an optician.
➲ Polyglot - One who knows many languages.
➲ Recluse - Someone who likes to stay by himself.
➲ Hypocrite - A person who pretends to be what he is not.
➲ Flock - A Community of people who go to the same church.
➲ Cant - An insincere talk that is often hypocritical.
➲ Contumely - Worshiping someone.
➲ Fungi - A class of plants which have no chlorophyll.
➲ Fauna - Animals of a given region or period.
➲ Adulation - Excessive Devotion Towards something or someone.
➲ Aggravate - Make worse or more serious.
➲ Allegory - Description of a subject with symbolical representation of another.
➲ Allusive - Having reference to something.
➲ Infirmary - A home or room used for ill or injured people.
➲ Itinerant - One who journeys from place to place.
➲ Acerose - Needle shaped.
➲ Intercede - To mediate between two people who are fighting.
➲ Provoke/Exasperate - To anger someone.
➲ Milliner - Person who makes ladies hats.
➲ Formalize - To legally finalize something.
➲ Header - To go before anything else.
➲ Homogenize - To make something merge or blend.
➲ Deponent - A person who gives a written testimony in court.
➲ Participant - A person who takes part.
➲ Partner - A person who is your colleague.
➲ Competitor - A person who competes.
➲ Patrimony - Property left to the children from the father.
➲ Geriatrics - Treating medical problems of the elderly.
➲ Patriarch - The head of the family.
➲ Pensioner - A retired person who gets a pension.
➲ Legacy - An amount of money or property left to someone in will.
➲ Forfeit/surrender - To give up.
➲ Divest - To remove or separate.
➲ Colleagues - Persons working together in the same institution.
➲ Companion - A person with whom one spends a lot of time or with whom one travels.
➲ Contemplate - To think about something.
➲ Rivalry - The competition between two for the same objective.
➲ Podium - A speaker's platform.
➲ Stand/stance - A view point or opinion.
➲ Pulpit - A raised enclosed platform in a church.
➲ Cartography - Science or practice of map drawing.
➲ Xerography - A process of writing in which light is used.
➲ Pictography - A form of writing which uses pictorial drawings.
➲ Theist - One who believes in the existence of God.
➲ Atheist - A person who does not believe in the existence of God.
➲ Doubter - Someone who doubts the existence of God.
➲ Preacher - A person who preaches about faith and God.
➲ Taciturn - One who is not talkative.
➲ Chatty/Loquacious/talkative - One who talks a lot
➲ Transgressor - One who violates a rule.
➲ Victim - A person who is hurt.
➲ Ally/Associate - A partner or friend.
➲ Sneak - To move about in a sly and secretive manner.
➲ Sociable - Friendly and willing to spend time and talk with other people.
➲ Snippet - A small piece of something.
➲ Snitch - A person who reports the wrongdoing of others to someone in an authority position.
➲ Cavort - Jump or dance around excitedly.
➲ Caucus - Meet to select a candidate or promote a policy.
➲ Carp - Any of various freshwater fish of the family cyprinidae.
➲ Circumvent - Surround so as to force to give up.
➲ Amenable - Easily persuaded or controlled.
➲ Anathema - A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication.
➲ Abrogate - Evade a responsibility or duty.
➲ Absquatulate - To depart hurriedly.
➲ Abscond - Run away, often taking something or somebody along.
➲ Abstruse - Difficult to understood.
➲ Quadruped - An animal with four feet.
➲ Biped - Having two feet ( ex- man, woman etc.)
➲ Mortal - One who has to die one day.
➲ Quadrennial - Recurring every four years.
➲ Centennial - The hundredth anniversary.
➲ Bicentennial - A 200th anniversary.
➲ Jubilee - A milestone anniversary like the 25th is silver, 50th is gold and 60th is diamond jubilee.
➲ Quintuplet - Five children born at one time from one woman.
➲ Triplets - Three children born at the same time.
➲ Twins - Two children born at the same time.
➲ Flipper - A fin of a fish or an oar of a boat.
➲ Polyglot - Someone who speaks many languages.
➲ Pauper - A bankrupt person who has no many.
➲ Sottoper - A habitual drunkard.
➲ Agnostic - A person who believes that nothing is known or can known about God.
➲ Omnipotent - One who is all powerful
➲ Omnivorous - One who eats everything.
➲ Omnipresent - One who is present everywhere.
➲ Omniscient - One who knows everything.
➲ Alchemy - Transmuting baser metals into gold.
➲ Stevedore - A person employed at a dock who loads and unloads ships.
➲ Sinecure - A job with high salary and little responsibility.
➲ Ordination - The ceremony of swearing in a man to a priesthood.
➲ Circumnavigate - To sail around the earth.
➲ Bulrush - A tall thin plant growing near any damp ground or water.
➲ Circumlocution - Use many words where a few are needed just to evade an issue.
➲ Blandishment - Flattery intended to persuade.
➲ Bilk - To obtain money from someone through unfair means, To cheat.
➲ Balk - To hesitate.
➲ Brandish - To flaunt (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.
➲ Allude - to refer to something indirectly.
➲ Allude - Suggest or call attention to indirectly, Hint at.
➲ Advertise - Describe or draw attention to in public medium.
➲ Announce - Make a public and typically formal declaration about a fact.
➲ Publicize - To give publicity to ; bring to public notice.
➲ Avalanche - Snow falling down a mountain with a great noise and volume.
➲ Ooze - Slowly tickle or seep out of something; flow in a very gradual way.
➲ Leak - To let something such as a liquid or gas in or out through a hole in a surface.
➲ Shortfall - The quantity by which something falls short; shortage.
➲ Posthumous - A child born after the death of its father.
➲ Postprandial - After a meal.
➲ Antemortem - The injuries a body has received before death.
➲ Postmortem - An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
➲ Wreath - A garland of Flowers.
➲ Armlet - A bracelet around the upper part of the arm.
➲ Cortege - A funeral procession comprising a number of mourners.
➲ Abandon - To leave someone stranded and alone without any support.
➲ Assiduous - Hard working.
➲ Assignee - A representative who manages property.
➲ Artesian well - A very deep bored well.
➲ Alias - An assumed name.
➲ Alcove - An area at the side of a larger room.
➲ Aroma - A pleasant smell.
➲ Annex - To add at the end.
➲ Hymn - A religious song.
➲ Scullery - A place of washing dishes adjoining kitchen.
➲ Condominium - A building complex with individual units.
➲ Sanatorium - A hospital especially for tuberculosis patients and convalescents.
➲ Niche - A hollow space in a wall for a statue.
➲ Dislocate - To move from its proper place.
➲ Swarm - A large group of flying insects.
➲ Shoal - A large number of fish swimming together.
➲ Hearth - The furnace floor/fireplace floor where embers collect.
➲ Abyssal - The depth of the ocean.
➲ Baritone - A voice that sounds between bass a tenor.
➲ Entourage - An escort.
➲ Becalm - To quieten someone.
➲ Beck - To call someone by using gestures.
➲ Bedaub - To smear with something oily.
➲ Batter - A thick paste to be used in cooking.
➲ Baton - A stick borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority.
➲ Battalion - Infantry groups forming a part of a regiment.
➲ Batten - A narrow strip of wood.
➲ Atheism - Not to accept the existence of God.
➲ Belay - To fix a running rope round a rock, pin, or other object.
➲ Belated - Coming or happening later than should have been the case.
➲ Believe - To accept as true.
➲ Buffoonery - Playing a fool, behaving in a silly manner.
➲ Isohyets - A line on a map connecting points having the same amount of rainfall in a given period.
➲ Isobars - Lines that connect points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time.
➲ Isotherm - Lines on maps joining points having the same temperature at a given time.
➲ Isohels - lines on maps connecting points having the same duration of sunshine.
➲ Tableau - A lifelike representation of a famous scene by a group of motionless costumed participants.
➲ Polygraph - A lie detector machine.
➲ Adit - A horizontal passage into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage.
➲ Lade - To load cargo on ship.
➲ Politeness - Very soft and gentle behaviour towards someone.
➲ Isthmus - A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses.
➲ Peninsula - Land projecting out into a body of water.
➲ Delta - Land where a river divides into smaller rivers.
➲ Oasis - A fertile spot in a desert/watering hole.
➲ Postscript -- A note added at the end of a letter, after the signature.
➲ Appendix - Extra information added at the end of the book.
➲ Epilogue - Comment at the end of the book.
➲ Sequel - A follow up or a continuation.
➲ Potpourri - A mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl to perfume a room.
➲ Salmagundi - A salad dish.
➲ Patchwork - A patch of mixed materials stitched together.
➲ Smorgasbor - A variety of open sandwiches.
➲ Abut - To touch at the end of boundary line.
➲ Abrade - To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
➲ Mandate - Give (someone) authority to act in a certain way.
➲ Ingrate - An ungrateful person.
➲ Affectation - A studied or ostentatious pretence or attempt.
➲ Disparage - Criticize or belittle.
➲ Peccadillo - A relatively minor fault or sin; trivial offence.
➲ Appall - To fill with dismay or horror.
➲ Apotheosis - Deification.
➲ Wizen - To become or cause to become withered or dry.
➲ Colonnade - A series of regularly spaced columns.
➲ Anathematize - To denounce or to curse.
➲ Bdellium - A fragrant resin obtained from plants, used in perfumes.
➲ Protege - Person under protection of, or guided by another.
➲ Tempter - An allurer or enticer to evil.
➲ Termagant - Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
➲ Protege - A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person.
➲ Zealot - A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.
➲ Archive - Place of storage of old documents.
➲ Venal - That which can be bribed.
➲ Paucity - Shortage.
➲ Catalogue - Place or store (something) in an archive.
➲ Archive - A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.
➲ Soporific - That which induces sleep.
➲ Flustered - Worked-up, not calm
➲ Mercenary - Concerned only with money.
➲ Veneer - Surface coating.
➲ Ingenue - Unsophisticated person.
➲ Proscribe - To forbid something.
➲ Inscribe - To write or carve on something.
➲ Prescribe - To advise the use of something in writing.
➲ Incorrigible - State of being beyond reform or correction.
➲ Inveteracy - State of being established in habit.
➲ Gregarious - Enjoying company of people.
➲ Fable - An animal story with a moral.
➲ Episode - An incident/scene that is a part of a narrative
➲ Cable - A wire used to transmit electricity or date
➲ Fantasy - A fairy tale
➲ Trilogy - Group of three novels.
➲ Nemesis - A long standing rival, an arch enemy.
➲ Parvenu - Someone who has suddenly become rich and influential.
➲ Pilferage - Act of stealing something in small quantities.
➲ Plagiarist - A person who steals the written of others.
➲ Perdurable - That which is imperishable.
➲ Unabated - A continuous process without any reduction in intensity or strength.
➲ Continual - Without interruptions.
➲ Windfall - An unexpected piece of good fortune.
➲ Occidental - Pertaining to the west.
➲ Illegible - Difficult or impossible to read.
➲ Illogical - The absence of logic, unreasonable.
➲ Concede - To surrender or yield (a possession, right, or privilege)
➲ Perdurable - That which is imperishable.
➲ Unabated - A continuous process without any reduction in intensity or strength.
➲ Continual - Without interruptions.
➲ Peripheral - Relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something.
➲ Horizontal - Parallel to the plane of the horizon.
➲ Vertical - Upright or perpendicular.
➲ Elliptical - Oblique or oval.
➲ Allude - Suggest or call attention to indirectly.
➲ Pisciculture - The controlled breeding and rearing of fish especially for food.
➲ Aquarium - A transparent tank of water in which live fish and water creatures and plants are kept.
➲ Oceanography - The study of oceans.
