Vocabulary

Words

Meanings

Words

Meanings

Augment

To make bigger; to add to; to increase; ;

; ; : ~ ones income.
Favorable; ; ; ; : an ~ moment
A person who settles dispute; a judge; a person
who has influence over something;
; : The government will
be the final ~ in the dispute. The sole ~ of ones
own destiny.
Hermit like; avoiding physical pleasures and
living a simple life, often for religious reasons;
; ; : They live a very ~ life.
Unadorned; severe or strict in appearance or
manner; having no comforts, luxurious or
adornment; ; ; ;
Ruling with absolute authority; extremely
bossy; ; ; ;
Acting independently; ; ;

Benefactor

someone who gives money or other help to an

organization, society, or person; ;
Generous; kind; doing good deeds; ;
Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild; () ;
() ; : ()

Auspicious
Arbiter
(of)

Ascetic

Austere

Autocratic
Autonomous
Avarice
Avow

Avuncular

Awry
(adj+adv)

Axiom

Assiduous
Banal
Bane
Bastion

To claim; to declare boldly; to admit; /

; ; avowal
: make an avowal of ones secret thoughts.
Friendly, kind, or helpful, like the expected
behavior of an uncle; : He was
avuncular, reassuring and trustworthy.
away from the appropriate or expected course
or position; (); (); ;
Go ~: ; : All our projects went ~.
Self-evident truth;
; ; : It is a widely held axiom
that governments should not negotiate with terrorists.
Hardworking; busy; quite diligent; ;
; ~ in ones studies.
Unoriginal; ordinary; ; ; : ~remarks
Poison; a cause of great annoyance or distress;
; ; : Facebook was the bane of my life.
Stronghold; fortress; fortified place; ; ;
;

To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause;

; War ~s misery and ruin.

Belabor

1. To explain something more than necessary:

There's no need to ~ the point. 2. To hit
someone or something hard and repeatedly: She
~ him with her walking stick.
3. to criticize someone
To surround; to besiege; to harass;
To give a false impression of; to contradict;
;
Her calm face belied the terror she was feeling.
To put someone down; ; ;
: Stop ~ling yourself - your work is highly valued.
1. Wishing to fight or argue: a ~
person/gesture/mood 2. (/) ; :

Belittle
Belligerent

Bequest

Something left to someone in a will; ;

; : a ~ of over 90k.

Bereaved

Be deprived of a close relation or friend through

their death; : The ~ family/widow.

Beset

Harass; to surround; ; :
The recent disaster has ~ us with all difficulties.

Blasphemy

Profane or sacrilegious talk about God or

sacred things; ; ;

Blatant

Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring;

; ;
: A blatant lie. The whole
episode was a blatant attempt to gain publicity.
A disease that damages and kills plants;
;
; ; ; : His arrival cast a
blight on the wedding day. ;
; : A broken leg ~ed her

Greed; excessive love of riches; ; ;

Beget

Beleaguer
Belie

Benevolent
Benign

Blight

chances of winning the championship. His hopes

were ~ed by the sudden death of his father.
Blithe
Bourgeois

Bovine
Brevity
Broach

Confused; bewildered;

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To open up a subject for discussion often a delicate

subject;
: He at last ~ed the topc of his marriage.

Bucolic

Relating to rural or pastoral life; rustic; a pastoral

poem; ; ; : ~verse.

Bureaucracy

A system of government in which most decisions are taken

by state officials rather than elected representatives;
excessively complicated administrative procedure;
;
To develop or grow quickly; ; ;
; : Love ~d between them.

Burgeon
Burlesque

A ludicrous mocking or exaggerated

imitation; a parody; ; ( , ,
, , ) ; -

Cacophony

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds; ;

: A cacophony deafening alarm bells.

Cajole

To persuade someone to do something he

or she doesn't want to do; ;
; Cajolery(n)-

Capitalism

Free enterprise; ;

I can't stand his belligerence (= his wish to argue

with people all the time).

Bemused

Carefree; cheerful; ; ;
Of or characteristic of the middle class,
especially in having materialistic values or
conventional attitudes; (in Marxist contexts)
capitalist; ;
;
; ;
Cow related; ; (, ) ,
Briefness; : ~ is the soul of wit.

Vocabulary
Words
Cadence
Callow
Candor (n)
Capitulate
Capricious

Caricature

Castigate
Catalyst

Categorical

Catharsis

Catholic

Caustic
Celibacy

Celibate
(adj&n)

Censure

Cerebral
Chagrin
Chasm

Meanings
Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds; ;
:; - ; ()
Immature; ; ; : a ~ youth.
Callowness(n)-
Truthfulness; sincere honesty; ; ;
: a man of refreshing candor.
To surrender; to give up/give in;
Unpredictable; like to change at any moment;
; ; : a capricious child.
capriciously(adv.)- ; :
A portrait or description that is purposely distorted
or exaggerated often to prove some point about its
subject; ; ; - Caricaturist
(n)-
Reprimand severely; /
In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes
something happen without being directly involved in
it; ; ;
: The high suicide
rate acted as a catalyst for change in the prison
system.
Without any doubt or possibility of being changed;
; ; ; ; ; : a
categorical statement/reply/assurance.
The process of releasing, and thereby providing
relief from strong or repressed emotions; Medicine,
rare purgation ; ; : Music is a
means of catharsis for them.
Universal; embracing everything; ; ;
; : a man with ~ tastes. The Catholic
Church- Roman catholic- -
Like acid; corrosive; ; ; ~ soda. ;
; : ~ remark.
Abstinence from marriage and sexual relations;
; : A priest who had taken a vow of
celibacy.
Abstaining from marriage and sexual relations,
typically for religious reasons; having or involving
no sexual relations; ; a ~ priest/lifestyle. A
person who abstains from marriage and sexual
relations; : hes attracted and attractive to
women and yet he lives as a celibate.
To condemn severely for doing something bad;
; ; ;

Brainy; intellectually refined; -; ;

Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment (,

)
A deep gaping hole; a gorge; ; ; ;
(, , )

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Words
Charisma

Meanings
A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or
inspire loyalty; () ;
, :

How did a man of so little personal charisma get to

be prime minister?
Charlatan

Chastise

Fraud; quack; con man;

, ;
: a self-confessed con artist and ~.
Rebuke or reprimand severely: he chastised his
colleagues for their laziness. Dated punish,
especially be beating; : her

mistress chastised her with a whip for blasphemy.

Chicanery

Chimera

Choleric
Chronicle

Circuitous
Circumlocution

Circumscribe

Circumspect
Circumvent

Civil

Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or

political; ; ; : Storylines
packed with political chicanery.
An illusion; a foolish fancy ( ) ;

;
Hot-tempered; quick to anger; ;
A record of events in order of time; a history;
;
: his work ~s 20th century migration.
Roundabout; ; ; : a ~ route.
An indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive
language; -;
: Politicians are experts in circumlocution.
To draw a line around; to set the limits; to define;
to restrict. ; ;
; : ~ ones movements.
; :
To frustrate as though by surrounding; ( )
; ( , ,
)
Polite; civilized; courteous; ;
: Civil law- ,
; Civil marriage- ,
; Civil rights-
; Civil war- ; Civil Defence
Corps ; :

He gave me a civil answer. Civilly-

Clemency

Clich

Clique

Mercy; forgiveness; mildness; ; ;

; : The jury passed a verdict of guilty,
with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
An overused saying or idea;
; : My
wedding day - and I know it's a clich - was just the
happiest day of my life.
A small close-knit of people who do not readily
allow others to join them; ;
; : His flat became a heaven for a clique
of young men of similar taste. The old school clique.