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Ascetic: characterized by severe self-discipline and
abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for
religious reasons
Parasol: a light umbrella used to give shade from the
sun.
Apostle : a vigorous and pioneering advocate or
supporter of a particular policy, idea, or cause.
Plutocracy :government by the wealthy people.
Oligarchy: a small group of people having control of
a country or organization.
Dotage: the period of life in which a person is old and
weak.
Evacuate: remove (someone) from a place of danger
to a safer place.
Cynic: a person who believes that people are
motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for
honourable or unselfish reasons.
Transparency: a positive transparent photograph
printed on transparent plastic or glass, able to be
viewed using a slide projector.
Bellicose: demonstrating aggression and willingness
to fight
On tenterhooks: In a state of tension or anxiety or
suspense
Swat: hit or crush (something, especially an insect)
with a sharp blow from a flat object.
Asylum: the protection granted by a state to someone
who has left their home country as a political refugee.
Hinterland: the remote areas of a country away from
the coast or the banks of major rivers.
Martyr: a person who sacrifices his life for a cause.
Omniscient: knowing everything.
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Euthanasia: the painless killing of a patient suffering
from an incurable and painful disease or in an
irreversible coma.
Deploy: move (troops or equipment) into position for
military action.
Adultery: voluntary sexual intercourse between a
married person and a person who is not their spouse.
Logomania: pathologically excessive (and often
incoherent) talking.
Licentious: promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual
matters.
Anecdote: a short amusing or interesting story about a
real incident or person.
Autocracy: a system of government by one person
with absolute power.
Serenade: a piece of music sung or played in the open
air, typically by a man at night under the window of
his beloved.
Bungalow: a low house having only one storey or, in
some cases, upper rooms set in the roof, typically with
dormer windows.
Belfry: the part of a bell tower or steeple in which
bells are housed.
Chasm: a deep fissure in the earth's surface
Stub: the truncated remnant of a pencil, cigarette, or
similar-shaped object after use.
Abdication: an act of abdicating or renouncing the
throne.
Monumental: great in importance, extent, or size.
Gust: a sudden strong rush of wind.
Fulminate: express vehement protest
Bibliophile: a person who collects or has a great love
of books.
Monastery: a building or buildings occupied by a
community of monks living under religious vows.
Granary: a storehouse for threshed grain.
Outriders: a person in a motor vehicle or on
horseback who goes in front of or beside a vehicle as
an escort or guard.
Reproof: an expression of blame or disapproval.
Trickster: a person who cheats or deceives people.
Masque: a form of amateur dramatic entertainment,
popular among the nobility in 16th- and 17th-century
England, which consisted of dancing and acting
performed by masked players.
Convalescence: time spent recovering from an illness
or medical treatment; recuperation.
Pen: a small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other
farm animals are kept.
Theomania: a mental illness in which the patient
believes him/herself to be a god or to be possessed by
one.
Deport: exile (a native) to another country.
Hippy: a person of unconventional appearance,
typically having long hair, associated with a
subculture involving a rejection of conventional
values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs.
Domicile: a person's residence or home.
Inexorable: (of a person) impossible to persuade;
unrelenting.
Fable: a short story, typically with animals as
characters, conveying a moral.
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Curator: a keeper or custodian of a museum or other
collection.
Yacht: a medium-sized sailing boat equipped for
cruising or racing
Rebut: claim or prove that (evidence or an
accusation) is false.
Emeritus: (of the former holder of an office,
especially a university professor) having retired but
allowed to retain their title as an honour.
Deploy: move (troops or equipment) into position for
military action.
Highbrow: intellectual or rarefied in taste.
Pace: walk at a steady speed, especially without a
particular destination and as an expression of anxiety
or annoyance.
Pagan: a person holding religious beliefs other than
those of the main world religions
Acrobat: an entertainer who performs spectacular
gymnastic feats.
Sinecure: a position requiring little or no work but
giving the holder status or financial benefit.
Horizon: the line at which the earth's surface and the
sky appear to meet.
Pantheist: person who believes that reality is
identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an
all-encompassing, immanent god.
Reprisal: an act of retaliation.
Homonym: each of two or more words having the
same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings
and origins.
Consanguinity: the fact of being descended from the
same ancestor.
Heresy: belief or opinion contrary to orthodox
religious (especially Christian) doctrine.
Topiary: the art or practice of clipping shrubs or trees
into ornamental shapes.
Monomaniac: a person exhibiting an exaggerated or
obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one
thing.
Sensitive: quick to detect or respond to slight
changes, signals, or influences.
Repartee: conversation or speech characterized by
quick, witty comments or replies.
Coquette: a flirtatious woman.
Conservative: averse to change or innovation and
holding traditional values.
Platitude: a remark or statement, especially one with
a moral content, that has been used too often to be
interesting or thoughtful.
Ascetic: characterized by severe self-discipline and
abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for
religious reasons.
Lapidist: a skilled worker who cuts and engraves
precious stones.
Apostle: an important early Christian teacher or
pioneering missionary.
Circumlocution: the use of many words where fewer
would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be
vague or evasive.
Alma mater: the university, school, or college that
one formerly attended.
Idyll: a short description in verse or prose of a
picturesque scene or incident, especially in rustic life.
Sojourn: a temporary stay.
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Philanderer: a man who readily or frequently enters
into casual sexual relationships with women; a
womanizer.
Indictment: a formal charge or accusation of a
serious crime.
Dromomania: a desire for frequent traveling or
wanderlust.
Transmute: change in form, nature, or substance.
Repartee: conversation or speech characterized by
quick, witty comments or replies.
Thearchy: rule by a god or gods.
Jargon: special words or expressions used by a
profession or group that are difficult for others to
understand.
Sadist: a person who derives pleasure, especially
sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or
humiliation on others.
Altar: a table or flat-topped block used as the focus
for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices
or offerings to a deity.
Plenipotentiary: having full power to take
independent action.
Oubliette: a secret dungeon with access only through
a trapdoor in its ceiling.
Mosaic: a picture or pattern produced by arranging
together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, etc.
Heinous: (of a person or wrongful act, especially a
crime) utterly odious or wicked.
Midwife: a person, typically a woman, who is trained
to assist women in childbirth.
Desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent
disrespect.
Pyromania: an obsessive desire to set fire to things.
Phrenology: the detailed study of the shape and size
of the cranium as a supposed indication of character
and mental abilities.
Dusk: the darker stage of twilight.
Yacht: a medium-sized sailing boat equipped for
cruising or racing.
Bursar: a student who holds a bursary.
Pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary
to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes ), either
as a fault of style or for emphasis.
Incendiary: a person who starts fires.
Resplendent: attractive and impressive through being
richly colourful or sumptuous.
Anteroom: an antechamber, typically serving as a
waiting room.
Orchard: a piece of enclosed land planted with fruit
trees.
Duffer: an incompetent or stupid person.
Mediocre: of only average quality; not very good.
Rebut: claim or prove that (evidence or an
accusation) is false.
Punctilious: showing great attention to detail or
correct behaviour.
Kiln: a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying,
especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.
Peer: a person of the same age, status, or ability as
another specified person
Intercede: intervene on behalf of another.
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Nymphomania: uncontrollable or excessive sexual
desire in a woman.
Brigand: a member of a gang that ambushes and robs
people in forests and mountains.
Typography: the style and appearance of printed
matter.
Cuckold: a man whose wife is sexually unfaithful,
often regarded as an object of derision.
Hippodrome: a stadium for chariot or horse races.
Furrow: a long, narrow trench made in the ground by
a plough, especially for planting seeds or irrigation.
Elysium: a place or state of perfect happiness
Vacillation: the inability to decide between different
opinions or actions; indecision.
Whip: an official of a political party appointed to
maintain parliamentary discipline among its members,
especially so as to ensure attendance and voting in
debates.
Memorandum: a written message in business or
diplomacy.
Henpecked: (of a woman) continually criticize and
order about (her husband or other male partner).
Abrogate: repeal or do away with (a law, right, or
formal agreement).
Lithotomy: surgical removal of a calculus (stone)
from the bladder, kidney, or urinary tract.
Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by
appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary
people rather than by using rational argument.
Adjourn: break off (a meeting, legal case, or game)
with the intention of resuming it later.
Stupor: a state of near-unconsciousness or
insensibility.
Obituary: a notice of a death, especially in a
newspaper, typically including a brief biography of
the deceased person.
Venial: (of a fault or offence) slight and pardonable.
Voluptuary: a person devoted to luxury and sensual
pleasure.
Harlot: a woman who has many casual sexual
encounters or relationships.
Immigrate: come to live permanently in a foreign
country.
Congregation: a group of people assembled for
religious worship.
Arsonist: a person who starts fires.
Infiltrator: a person who enter or gain access to (an
organization, place, etc.) surreptitiously and gradually,
especially in order to acquire secret information.
Sodomite: a person who engages in anal intercourse.
Interlude: an intervening period of time; an interval.
Noose: a loop with a running knot, tightening as the
rope or wire is pulled and used to trap animals or hang
people.
Bumpkin: an unsophisticated or socially awkward
person from the countryside.
Equestrian: relating to horse riding.
Extravasate: let or force out (a fluid, especially
blood) from the vessel that contains it into the
surrounding area
Strut: walk with a stiff, erect, and apparently arrogant
or conceited gait.
Expiate: make amends or reparation for (guilt or
wrongdoing).
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Deponent: a person who makes a deposition or
affidavit under oath.
Transmigration: the movement of a soul into another
body after death.
Milliner: a person who makes or sells women's hats
Philanderer: a man who readily or frequently enters
into casual sexual relationships with women; a
womanizer
Emigrate: leave one's own country in order to settle
permanently in another.
Clinophobia: the fear of beds or going to bed.
Obstetrician: a physician or surgeon qualified to
practise in obstetrics.
Hermaphrodite: a person or animal having both male
and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics,
either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms)
as the natural condition.
Masochist: a person who derives sexual gratification
from their own pain or humiliation.
Elope: run away secretly in order to get married.
Manicure: a cosmetic treatment of the hands
involving shaping and often painting of the nails,
removal of the cuticles, and softening of the skin.
Ochlophobia: extreme or irrational fear or dislike of
crowds.
Benign: (of a tumour) not malignant.
Habitat: the natural home or environment of an
animal, plant, or other organism.
Lavatory: a room, building, or cubicle containing a
toilet or toilets.
Inn: a house providing accommodation, food, and
drink, especially for travellers.
Despotism: the exercise of absolute power, especially
in a cruel and oppressive way.
Anarchist: a person who believes in or tries to bring
about anarchy.
Boor: a rough and bad-mannered person.
Peel: remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit,
vegetable, or prawn).
Howdah: (in South Asia) a seat for riding on the back
of an elephant or camel, typically with a canopy and
accommodating two or more people.
Peninsula: a piece of land almost surrounded by
water or projecting out into a body of water.
Scullery: a small kitchen or room at the back of a
house used for washing dishes and other dirty
household wor
Piggyback: a ride on someone's back and shoulders.
Cacographist: bad handwriting or spelling
Pot-boiler: a book, film, or other creative work
produced solely to make the originator a living by
catering to popular taste.
Parable: a simple story used to illustrate a moral or
spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.
Unintelligible: impossible to understand.
Chaperon: an older woman responsible for the
decorous behaviour of a young unmarried girl at
social occasions.
Indispensable: absolutely necessary.
Dirge: a mournful song, piece of music, or sound.
Parasite: an organism that lives in or on an organism
of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving
nutrients at the other's expense
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Clearing house: a bankers' establishment where
cheques and bills from member banks are exchanged,
so that only the balances need be paid in cash
Virago: a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered
woman.
Felicitate: congratulate.
Flora: the plants of a particular region, habitat, or
geological period.
Mutiny: an open rebellion against the proper
authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against
their officers.
Postulate: suggest or assume the existence, fact, or
truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning,
discussion, or belief.
Malapropism: the mistaken use of a word in place of
a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect.
Geologist: an expert in or student of geology
Stroll: walk in a leisurely way.
Condominium: the joint control of a state's affairs by
other states.
Megalomania: delusion about one's own power or
importance.
Cartographer: a person who draws or produces maps
Madrigal: a part-song for several voices, especially
one of the Renaissance period, typically
unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate
counterpoint.
Shredding: a piece cut or torn off, especially in a
narrow strip. a bit; scrap.
Subterranean: existing, occurring, or done under the
earth's surface.
Mercenary: primarily concerned with making money
at the expense of ethics.
Chimerical: hoped for but illusory or impossible to
achieve.
Byre: a cowshed.
Pantisocracy: a form of utopian social organization
in which all are equal in social position and
responsibility.
Gust: a sudden strong rush of wind
Hansom: a two-wheeled horse-drawn cab
accommodating two inside, with the driver seated
behind.
Commute: travel some distance between one's home
and place of work on a regular basis.
Ostler: a man employed to look after the horses of
people staying at an inn.
Matin: a Christian service of morning prayer,
especially in the Anglican Church.
Reticule: a woman's small handbag, typically having
a drawstring and decorated with embroidery or
beading.
Obliterate: destroy utterly; wipe out.
Apprentice: a person who is learning a trade from a
skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed
period at low wages.