Gujarati Vocabulary List

Gujarati English
uneasiness
accident
intelligence
/ experiment
flat, terraced roof of a house
hesitate
/ fantastic /strange
brightness
adjacent / next to each other
sharp
perfume
to bump
pickle
exchange
jealousy
wonderful
right
unfinished
pineapple
cereals
orphan
suitable / favourable
experience
many / numerous
criminal
disabled / lame
shelf
acting

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 congratulations
/ / actor / actress
to be of the opinion
pride
to study
application form
mirror
meaning
/ coming and going of people, traffic
/ noise
to go often
effect
account; report
number / issue of a magazine
personal
thumb
English (=language / person)
fig
/ finish (noun) / end
heart; distance
dark
shape
attraction
sky
/ / / end (adv), in the end
fire
arrival
( ) forecast (as in weather)
persuasive force
/ far
thin / light
horizontal
all around
looking forward to
to set (sunset)

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 ginger
support
modern
joy, delight
automatically
climate
thank you
tamarind
to give an invitation
nanny
a religious ritual
/ through
marble
to have a rest
health
income, earnings
welcome
to know
such / so
/ about / roughly / approximately
to wish
blessing, benediction
a hermitage / a place of shelter
consolation
laziness
eye
forecourt of a home
finger
a push; a jerk
blind (adj.)
tears
remedy, cure; treatment
, wish
injury
history
prize, reward

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 worm / caterpillar (as in fruit or
vegetable)
idea / intention / aim / purpose
to iron
hospital
brick
steamed rice cake
/ / God
egg
/ to boil
/ to pull (a plant)
/ to plant
/ to open
higher
pronunciation
/ to bounce
to borrow
to grow
wakefulness / keep awake
picnic, feast
/ brightness
kite festival
passenger
accommodation as a base
excellent
to encourage
festival
enthusiasm, zeal
generous, munificent; frank; noble
sad
industry
cough
to lend
a good deed for someone
; to take off (plane); to lift
useful

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 / upstairs / the floor above
in addition
fast (as in staying hungry)
solution / cure
applicant / candidate
to add
excitement
to turn inside out
joy
mouse
age
/ to celebrate / celebration
/ to get up
/ to fly
/ to come down
wool
to depart
to overflow
vomit
to stand
against
/ to sleep
to carry
high / tall
camel
deep
upside down
season
alone
so / therefore
/ leftover food in the plate
/ / / is that so / really
luxury
to melt
/ suddenly

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 , bed cover / bed linen

tools
communal seating area usually
found outside a house or around a
tree
/ to wear / cover
room / separate room /
/ /
compartment
/ pillow
to know (people)
to brush e.g. (hair)
to cross
level
nagging
plastic
to be crushed / run over
rubbish
salad
office
// stuffed savoury pastry
bowl
slice / a piece
emergency
hard
pulses
crisp
bitter
sound of thunder / lightning
bracelet
/ frying pan
curried yoghurt
to queue
( , tale (e.g. folk-tale, novel)
brown
size
appreciate
, ugly

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 ever
, cup
/ clothes / clothing
forehead
to have / to own
Kabadi (an Indian game)
/ cupboard / chest of drawers
pigeon
to agree
waist
lotus
amazement
to earn
to economise / being thrifty
to bite
saw (tool)
officer
hail stones
, pulses / spices
sad
spider
imagination
poet
exercise
( ) to test (exams)
to say / to tell
/ lock / switch
urn / jug
art (gallery)
invitation card
miser
/ to get bored / boring
sweetmeat shop
cucumber
, , , uncle

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 aunt
paper(s) (=paper; documents)
glass (material)
crisps
- half cooked
cashew nuts
to remove
puncture
scissors
ear
to cut
work / job
law, rule, act passed by a
legislature
always
career
factory
skilled worker
office
care
black
thorn
wrist
coast
castle
teenager
price
teapot
/ family
/ Master / Miss
total
ice cream
well / clever
earing
potter
/ unmarried

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 dog / puppy
to jump
nature
well
circle
blessing
path
drug
centre
mango
saffron
orange colour
to educate / education
banana
elbow
to carve
coriander
paper bag / sack
cabbage
delicate
/ border
dry
coal
effort
order
stadium
/ / anger /angry
cashier
date as in food
lorry
rock
danger / dangerous
know
reporter
shoulder

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 shirt
to spend
rough surface
to fall (as in leaves falling off a
branch)
a bad experience
to buy
true, correct
completed, finished; consumed,
/
exhausted
disturbance
to move
to shake off
/ to scratch / itch
/ bed (single / double)
sour / sharp
ditch
fertiliser
assurance
account
/ home spun cloth /cotton
/ food stuffs / food (= eating)
private school
puddle
salty
empty
to eat
special offer
sugar
to pound
pocket
hotchpotch
tightly packed
to tease
/ to scold / to reprimand
valley

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 milk pudding
pimple
to bloom
nail
peg
/ chair / armchair
open (adj.)
, in a good / bad mood
corner
a lot many / much
beauty / secret
to dig into body e.g. a pin prick
farmer
to play / to do sport
player
/ farm / orchard
to pull
box (e.g. chocolates)
loss
wrong
to dig
to open
to be missing
lap
/ sound of thunder
/ maths
uniform
speed / destiny
to feel scared
sad
to like (to)
went
sieve
confusion / complication
hot
singing and dancing

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 poor (= not rich)
lions cry / roar
lane
counter
neck / throat
/ sweet
dirty
smell
serious
carrot
car
bullock - cart
/ mattress / soft seat, cushion
village
- cow - bull
/ carpet
/ , to sing / song
to strain
knot
mad / silly
traffic
dense / overcrowded
/ to pass by / to pass away
quality
crime
cave
to lose
/ rose / pink
an Indian sweet
criminal / thug
sticking gum / glue
to knit
/ to complicate / complicated
knee
to put, place (e.g. a vase)

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 / to find / to look for
round (=shape); raw ungranulated
sugar
tablet / pill
bulb; sphere
pride (good type)
wheat
/ incident, occurrence
reduce
watch, clock
a pot
house
/ old / elderly
jewellery
customer
to rub
to drag
large bell
grindstone
/ wound; to throw
thick / dark
grass
ghee
a rattle; sweet stuffed pastry
/ horse / horse riding
sparrow
dizziness / round
chutney
// hot and spicy / tasty / delicious
bite (wasp bite)
to climb
shorts
builder / mason
under skirt for a sari
agile
/ knife

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 spoon
fat
movie
discussion
currency
to walk / to drive / to make one
/ walk / to do with it (as in will
tolerate)
spectacles
face
to shine
chappals / sandals without back
strap
to taste (e.g. good / bad)
/ skin / sun burn
landing
continue / hold on (e.g. telephone)
/ to chew / chewing gum
key (ring)
to love
dot on the forehead / moon
/ silver / silver coloured
the moon
full to the brim
picture (= painting)
worry
sticky
thing
scream, shriek, loud cry
to direct / to point
to pay (for)
silent
/ / cooker / oven / coal stove
to suck (e.g. a mango)
to caution / to warn
infection
, salty food / savoury snacks

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 square (= in town)
// guard / care taker
of course
rice
tidy / neat / clean
a tuft of hair on the top of the scalp
/ a plait
to put on / to apply (e.g. cream)
/ book
leaflet
to steal
/ to stick to something
to escape
ceiling
umbrella
photograph
- fork and knife
chest
boarding school
secret
roof
to print
/ newspaper
skin (e.g. banana skin)
to spray
shade
buttermilk
sneeze
to become free
separate
secretly done
/ to mash / mashed potato
/ to cancel (writing) / to rub off /
rubber / eraser
to cheat
last (adj.)
/ boy / girl

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 plant
to leave (place)
to peel
/ world
place
person
to notify
birth
Krishna birth
right (on the)
to dine / eat dinner / meal
ground
/ necessary
/ quick / fast
an Indian sweet
/ answer
vehicle / ship
wild
insect
to wake up
/ toilet
fat
to know (facts)
race
/ pilgrimage / tour
magic
/ ( , ) detective film
to make public
advert
to maintain
net
district
to win
tongue
to live (= be alive)
gambling

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 different
/ young
/ Jowar / millet
lies
group
old
any how
prison
same size / age
danger
to weigh
/ connection (trains)
boot
strength
/ quarrel / fight
/ speed / express train
to flash as in lightning
Indian shirt
stream
light rain / drizzle
jeweller
dew
/ tree
diarrhoea
broom
pale (colour)
tiny
bunch (of keys)
bunch (of grapes)
hut
poison
to drip
post, post office / postman /
/
postwoman
tomato
bald head

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 to avoid
tank
criticism
drop
to hang
towel
short (e.g. hair)
hill
support
/ habit
top / summit
basket
cap
crowd
scolding
to cool down
stone in a fruit, e.g. in a prune
cool (temperature)
to pour in (liquid, sugar and such
grains)
well (as in feeling well)
, small; short (in height)
jump
residence, address (on letter);
stability
all around
trip ( as in falling)
container
tin opener
to be frightened
bite
stain
left (on the left side)
wise
branch
onion
sink, drown

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 neck
bucket
heap
to drag
method
to cover
delay
doll
fried sweet / savoury pancake
a savoury dish
vet
drum
dosa (pancakes made from rice
flour)
to pour (as a waste / by accident)
pretence
/ opportunity
trouble
cinnamon
sunny
/ watermelon
stress
to warm up
to check
saucepan
drums (= percussion)
health, mood; temperament
swimming pool
to go towards
to swim
thirst(y)
to fry
pond
at the bottom
tight
shortage

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 fit / healthy
tent
strength
fresh
to stretch
/ temperature
date
star
rhythm
to train
fever / a temperature
tray
clap
/ to lock (up)
safe (as in storing cash etc.)
/ hot / mild
bitter
brightness
, to meet = pickup, fetch
oil
to get ready
rude
/ / to break
storm
door garland
pain / stress / tyranny
triangle
layer
/ to get tired / tired
/ plate / saucer
pillar
/ to freeze
/ saliva / to spit
savoury chappati / fried leaven
/
bread
bag (shopping)

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 a little
to stop / wait
interruption
ball (= sport)
schoolbag / satchel
/ to press
tailor
in the meanwhile
entrance (= place)
sea
/ each (= per item) / all
pain
worship / faith
to indicate
argue
medicine (= from chemist’s)
yoghurt
fine / baton
to enter
example
to burn (self)
pomegranate
beard
/ staircase
paternal grandfather / mother
alcohol
charity / alms
turn to field (as in playing e.g. in a
cricket game)
lentil soup / boiled rice
/ dancing sticks
/ toothbrush
comb
sorry
day
match stick

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 Diwali (festival)
direction
/ / / son / daughter
wall
lamp
to run a shop
drought
/ to hurt (e.g. my arm hurts)
milk
scene
to show
gods / goddesses
church
country (in the)
to run / jog
rope
to lead / to draw
cotton thread
friend
grape
/ by / through
/ to push
commitment
to beat (heart)
money / rich
thanks
threat
trouble as in riot
Earth
earthquake
by force
/ to present / offering
religion
/ / business / business-man / woman
popcorn

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 metal
pomp
to think
/ religion / R.E
/ patient (adj.)
/ chimney
fog(gy)
, smoking
falls
class, form, (in school); (authorized
standard
motorway
to wash
white bread
/ meditation; to care; to be careful
aim
to shiver
copy
map
nail
to watch
near
river
/ profit
weak
to bow / express greetings /
/
greetings
Muslim prayer
example (rubric)
humble
soft
free time
nine night festival
surprise, wonder
new
luck (good / bad)
to have a bath

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 tap
nose
to put / to throw away
citizen
/ to dance
drama
Christmas
maternal grandparents
/ small / small child
fail
name (also = surname)
accounts
orange (= fruit)
bathroom
destruction
to run away
/ breakfast; refreshments; snacks
coconut
essay
salt
rule; regulation; usage, custom
despondent, despairing
decision

/
sign (road)

school
retired / retirement
criticism / gossip
to get out
to drip
damage / loss
New Year
leader (e.g. of travel group)
/ servant / employee / job
note
justice

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 to catch / to hold
/ to cook
leg
stair / step
salary, pay
to digest
to knock something or someone
/
down
belt
curtain
to fall
tin (metal)
kite
butterfly
– husband - wife
( cards (playing)
letter
journalist
stone
cheese
paw paw
change (small)
, to marry
abroad
envelope
licence
sweat
acquaintance / introduction
nurse / hostess / maid
result
test / examination
suburb
/ / excursion, trip
environment
mountain (s)
, fried leaven bread
cross-legged posture

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 to windsurf
/ mammal / birds
to choose
to go past (by car / on foot)
to wear
before (conj.)
to reach / to arrive
moment
fan
bread
/ ( ) to ripen / ripe (fruit)
, wallet
turban
at the back
to return, come / go back
trousers
rail tracks
board (white / black)
bandage
lesson
neighbour
water sports
- Patra –fritters ( a savoury)
slim / thin
to spread
leaf
page
, papaddom
to feel / to get
foundation
/ spinach
animal (pet)
wing
watered down / light
cage
– cousin / brother / sister

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 ( , , ,
/ back
drink
sweet (as in boiled sweet)
serve food
to drink
yellow
brush
adult
proof
/ man / woman
bridge
library
to ask
worship ritual
revered / respected
cardboard (box)
to lock up somebody
flood
Puri, (a kind of fried bread);
completed / finished
tail
tummy
suitcase
firm, company
penda – a sweet meat
wheel
money
soft
packet
parrot
blouse
/ nutrition / nutritious
to be able to afford
grandson / daughter / child
well known

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 progress; advance
exhibition
pollution
bowing with folded hands
/ / valid
to try (to do something)
activity
/ admission charge
/ question
occasion
animal
primary school
prayer
honest
dear (= letters)
love
only
paragraph
fireworks
difference
duty
compulsory
to travel; to roam about; to turn
around
salty food / savoury
complaint
again
to get caught up in
fruit
courtyard
to blow up
lantern
profit, gain, advantage
Faluda - a dessert
to get used to
contribution

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 balloon
ruler
leisure respite, spare time
shower (= bathroom); fountain
flower
to swell
to change
to spread
/ to throw (away)
to skin / to shell
to go bad
garden
to save (= money)
/ childhood
to escape / to be saved
baby (commonly used for animal
babies)
market (place)
bite / piece
to show
lamp
/ ( to change (= money)
almond
to become, get
/ (in the) afternoon
jar, pot (e.g. jam)
ice
alright / proper(ly)
brave
excuse
outside
female friend
!/ ! great! cool!
/ to burn
bracelet
sea port / harbour

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 closed
both
fire brigade
firemen
garden
side (e.g. on this side)
bottle
/ to boil / boiled potatoes
matter
/ door
window
baby / child
to burn something
bench
/ to build
poor thing / pitiable
// quite / totally / fair
cat
seed
ill
to be scared of
intelligence
ear studs
to shout, scream
unemployed
son
/ // to sit / seat
unconscious
to speak
/ devotee
to act (in a play)
to roam about without any aim
to hit / bump into
flame
to learn
// niece

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 // nephew
showy, pompous (e.g. dress)
fear
awful, terrible, horrific
full / in abundance
to fill (in) (= to fill cup / to fill a form)
trust
recommendation
splendid
to bark
- brothers and sisters
male friend
part
to run away
seldom
/ fare
to rent, hire
cooked rice
senses
weight
Indian
heavy (= weight)
cost / price
to like the taste
speech
language (foreign)
to break (e.g. a glass)
to beg
rush / traffic / crowd
/ wet / to get wet
/ wall / wallpaper
powder
hunger
underground / tube / métro
geography

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 land
blue
/ mistake / forget
to collect
humid
present, gift
difference
mixed
meal
naive
ground floor
cellar (= house / wine)
corn / maize
building
brain
mosquito
, strong
enjoyment
porter / labourer
peas
station
to help
honey
- middle (in the middle of)
medium (= height / length)
/ mind / favourite
refusal
/ person (= human being)
entertainment
free (= no charge)
hen / chicken
chilli - pepper
/ to twist
pepper
dead / death
ointment

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 cream
mosque
masala – dosa (rice pancake)
spices
importance
great
to practise
month
guest
labour, exertion, effort, work
please
palace
to meet (by intention)
agree
group / club
secretary
temple
earthen pot
mother - father / parents
butter
fly
fish
soil / earth
to enjoy
head (= body)
medium
secondary school
respect
to believe
/ to measure / size
moderate
/ ? forgiveness / forgive me? / pardon?
kind
to hit (a ball / a person)
van (delivery)
owner

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 massage
monthly - (magazine / meeting)
information
( floor (e.g. 1st floor)
/ bead necklace / rosary
gardener
/ to ask for
just about
illness
meat
party
friend
capital
friendly
close (as in eyes)
candle
zero / dot
main (e.g. station / road / course)
crown
according
point
greetings
to postpone
visit
difficult
Muslim
passenger
to put (= to lay)
stupid
/ idol / statue
root
rainbow
to set / organise a table / desk
playing field
dirty

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 dry fruit and nuts
get on with (a person )
to gain, mix / person who gains or
/
mixes
fair
henna
to send
enjoyment / fun
slippers
a pair of socks
, wave
/ mouth / face
peacock
sweet lime / orange
/ bland / not hot or salty
expensive, dear
/ machine / mechanic
list
young person
appropriate /
plan, project
figure (of money)
Rakshabandhan – a festival
to roam about aimlessly
duvet
holiday
/ to present / presentation
to cry
pound (in weight)
cancel
to play
Ramadan
comedy
to depart
semolina
juice

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 to be interested in
chemistry
receipt
kitchen
street / road
to stay, remain
pleasant (as per scenery)
, to paint
ash
a thread to tie on the wrist
to keep
tune
furniture
Kingdom / state (as in India) / party
/
(= political)
- King - Queen
glad(ly)
Raita
/ national / international
await
relief
to cook
rickshaw
ways and customs
aubergine
beauty
rupees
in person
handkerchief
to pour
sand (castle)
railway / train
silk
hard cash
to forbid (forbidden)
disease

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 (un) healthy
diary
daily
wages
Muslim fast
flattened bread
to plant
exciting
/ to cry
/ to fetch / get / take / bring
characteristic
to write
pertaining to
to put on / to hit
, marriage
to hang
to slip
army
garlic
( / ) to go (ice / roller) skating
to limp
rectangle
length
stick
feeling
to feel hurt / to hurt
sweet round edible balls
kick
benefit
a kiosk on four wheels
red
temptation / greed
long
line
green

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 smooth
lemon
sly / cunning
to wipe
robbery
article / writing
people (= in general)
/ steel
flour
frying pan
exhausted
greed
blood
lawyer
time
praise
to play (e.g. music)
without
etcetera
promise / word
to weigh
elder
to roll (a chapatti)
to grow / increase
, wood / forest
vegetation
– husband - wife
/ rain / shower (= weather)
/ annually
steam
class
to describe
, year
attitude
to settle / live

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 spring
people
to look at
love
early
to flow (as in a river)
communication (as in relationship /
letters / telephone / transport)
to distribute
to turn
bowing
whirl wind
sentence
to be hurt
fair (= just)
/ instrument
to wait for
bowl (e.g. of fruit)
hedge
speech
tale
atmosphere
- debate
cloud
dish (food)
to spend (= money)
gas / wind
/ turn
story
parents
/ / flag
to plant
storm(y)
to wash up
stale
transport

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 hairbrush
to sweep
fault
( curly (= hair)
bend
to read
objection
development
detail
/ ( ) idea / thought / to take care
funny (= strange)
electricity / lightning
science
student
ceremony / ritual
polite
request
section
plane
to have a break
huge
about (as in write about)
trust
subject (favourite)
area, district
to select / pick
to go through (as in pain / time)
ring
- animosity
creeper
to sell
person
/ to organise
athletics
strength
possible

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word
bedroom
bet
cold (e.g. have a cold)
lemon-juice drink
shame
/ body
to begin/start
/ city
vegetables
vegetarian
quiet
teacher
advice
winter
discipline
/ to learn / apprentice (-ship)
a sweet dish
good wishes
to bake
boss
hobby
discovery
faith
/ Mr / Mrs
breath
/ ( extreme e.g. temperature (minus
zero)

facility
relative (= relation)
to decorate
to rot
continuously
apple
successful

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/ white
member
meeting
to understand
time
news
society
even ( as in level)
to cut
function
inclusion
to repair
collectively
civil servant
to compare
procession
address
fine (= weather)
/ good
lake
advice
/ (in the) morning
ride
question
cheap (= not expensive)
to bear
assistant / helper
shared
signature
safe
a little
tour
easy
to burn

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number
music (pop / classical / folk)
museum
tangerine / orange
to hide
/ satisfaction / satisfactory
message
dusk
contact
parcel
care
/ culture / cultured / elegant
bicycle
lump sugar
// to look after / to be careful
right (= correct)
well / in good health; intact
/ sari / short sari
with
simple
instrument / tool
snake
/ / to clean / cleaning
proof
soap
ingredients
magazine
luggage
usually
opposite (prep)
treatment / care
/ totally
/ careful!
// to sweep / vacuum clean /

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adventure
literature
narrow
chain
/ (in the) evening
to stich
to hear
coin
without, except, excluding
lion
ladder / stair case
/ ( straight (e.g. hair)
to sew
to dry
/ happiness / pleasant / enjoyable
made of cotton
carpenter
to correct
convenience, facility
/ / beautiful
/ to dry up or slim down / to dry
/ to swell
instruction
quite / lonely
( ) sun (rise)
to sleep
to sniff
dry ginger
vermicelli
to serve
/ gold / golden
/ needle
place, spot
belonging to a place, local

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fat
love
competition
cemetery
smile
clean
free / independent
own country
dream
innate, nature; character,
disposition; habit, practice.
fit
to greet
delicious
to receive
right
pilgrimage to Mecca
/ still
stubbornness
arms
palm
hammer
not yet / not now
rivalry, competition
joy
light (as in weight); inferior or
cheap quality
/ to move
Halwa (an Indian sweet)
air
weather
now
to laugh, to smile
light
/ // to drive

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present / absent
bone
kiosk
arm
elephant
injury / damage
row (e.g. of seats)
( series (e.g. on TV or mountains)
be defeated, lose (prize etc.) in
game or competition
at present
accounts
to swing
Hindu
courage, bravery, boldness, daring,
fortitude
order
heart
affection / with affection
harassed, troubled, tired,
tormented
safe
lip
boat
the Holi festival, ceremonial bonfire
enthusiasm
/ / clever

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