MOUNT ASSISI SCHOOL, BHAGALPUR

QUARTERLY EXAMINATION 2023-2024

ENGLISH DICTATION
CLASS – VII

1. Cavernous : A large, dark cave like space.

2. Hideous : very ugly
3. Ravenous : very hungry
4. Scurry : move hurriedly with short steps, quick steps.
5. Inkling : A vague idea, an indication of how to go about something.
6. Arrears : debts still to be paid.
7. Coax : Persuade
8. Immense : Huge, Great
9. Muzzle : Nose and throat (Of an animal)
10. Niche : A small hollow or hole.
11. Protracted : prolonged, made longer.
12. Resentment : Feeling hurt, angry etc. because of an insult or injury.
13. Tenant : One who occupies land under a landlord
14. Clouts : hits
15. Flounders : struggle or plunges in mud or while wading
16. Marquee : A large tent
17. Squall : A sudden and violent gust of wind
18. Utter : complete
19. Condemn : To express strong disapproval
20. Drudgery : tediousness or unpleasantness
21. Galore : In great numbers
22. Mourning : To show grief for the dead.
23. Solemnly : earnestly, seriously, and soberly.
24. Wistfully : sadly
25. Circumstances : Conditions related to an event.

26. Sacrosanct : Too important or special to be questioned or changed.

27. Resurrection : To bring back something to life or existence.
28. Crucifixion : An ancient form of execution in which a person was nailed
or bound to across.
29. Sedition : Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the
authority of a state or monarch.
30. Gospel : One of the four books in the bible which describe the life and
teachings of Jesus.
31. Barbaric : Very cruel and violent.
32. Crusade : A fight for something that you believe to be good or against
something you believe to be bad.
33. Pilgrimage : a long journey that a person makes to visit a religious place.
34. Revelations : Something that is made known, that was unknown before.
35. Monotheism : The belief that there is only one god.
36. Denounce : To say publicly that something is wrong.
37. Emigrated : To leave one’s own country in order to settle in another.
38. Intermingling : To mix with one another (to make culture).
39. Bolted : (Of a horse or elephant or another animal) to run away suddenly,
typically out of fear.
40. Perplexed : completely baffled, very puzzled.
41. Replenish : To replace what has been used up and make something full again.
42. Cosmopolitan : including people from many different countries.
43. Amassed : to collect or put together a large quantity of something.
44. Dynasty : A series of rulers who are from the same family.
45. Commissioned : Ordered officially to produce or construct (especially of a work
or art).
46. Statesmanship : Skill in managing people affairs.
47. Evading : to escape or avoid something especially by guile or trickery.
48. Incompetence : Inability to do something successfully.
49. Grid : a grid is a set of lines used to find the exact location of places on
a map.
50. Troposphere : it is the lower most layer of the atmosphere. It contains dust
particles and water vapour.
51. Ozonosphere : this lower region of stratosphere containing relatively higher
concentration of ozone is called ozonosphere.
52. Weather : weather is the condition of the atmosphere over a small area,
generally for 24 hours to 1 week.
53. Temperature : the degree of hotness or coldness of the air is called temperature.
54. Humidity : humidity refers to the amount of moisture or water vapour
present in the air.
55. Isotherms : the distribution of temperature on a map is shown with lines that
join places that have the same temperature at a particular time.
56. Isohyets : the distribution of rainfall on a map is shown with the lines that
join places that have the same rainfall.
57. Atmosphere : the air surrounding the earth is called the atmosphere.
58. Exosphere : it is the uppermost layer of the atmosphere.
59. Thermosphere : it is located between 80 and 400 km above the mesopause.
60. Cartography : the process of map making.
61. Photosynthesis : the process by which green plants and some other organisms use
sunlight synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.
62. Radiation : the process of energy transmission from one body to another
without any medium.
63. Conduction : the transfer of heat through matter by transmission of energy
from particle to particle without displacement.
64. Convection : the process of heat transfer in a gas or liquid in which the warmer
parts move up and the colder parts move down.
65. Existence : Is the state of being alive or being real.
66. Omnipresent : Present everywhere at the same time.
67. Gratitude : The feeling of being grateful or of wanting to give your thanks to
somebody.
68. Reveal : to make publicly or generally known.
69. Disabilities : the state of being unable to use a part of your body properly.
70. Salutation : A gesture or utterance made as a greeting.
71. Mentor : An experienced person who advises and helps somebody.
72. Affection : A feeling of loving or liking somebody/something.
73. Concentration : The action or power of focusing all ones attention.
74. Dwindle : To become steadily less.
75. Curb : A check or restraint on something.
 76. Auditorium : The part of a theatre, concert hall or other public building in
which the audience sits.
77. Lecture : A formal talk on a serious subject given to students.
78. Wisdom : The quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment.
79. Enlightenment : The process of gaining knowledge and understanding something.
80. Vision : The act or power of imagination.
81. Nourish : To provide people or living things with food in order to make
them grow and keep them healthy.
82. Compassion : To recognize the suffering of others and take action to help.
83. Consciousness : The quality or state of being aware especially of something
within oneself.
84. Eternal : Having no beginning and no end.
85. Obstacle : Something that stands in the way of progress or achievement.
86. Cripple : A person whose legs or arms do not work in the usual way.
87. Cohesion : force that holds molecules together
88. Compressibility : a property due to which particles of matter come closer on
applying pressure
89. Fluidity : ability of a substance to flow
90. Liquefaction : change from gaseous to liquid state
91. Thermal expansion : change in dimensions due to supply of heat
92. Compound : a substance that can split into simpler substances by chemical
means
93. Sublimation : change from solid state to gaseous state
94. Chemical bond : force that holds any two atoms in a molecule
95. Molecule : smallest part of an element that can exist independently
96. Valency : combining capacity of an element with other elements
97. Radicals : an atom with a charge or a group of atoms behaving as a single
atom with a charge
98. Atomicity : the no. of atoms contained in a molecule
99. Reactant : substance that takes part in a chemical reaction
100. Product : substance formed in a chemical reaction
101. Effervescence : formation of gas bubbles with a sound due to a reaction
102. Catalyst
103. Precipitate
104. Endothermic reaction : a reaction in which heat is absorbed
105. Exothermic reaction
106. Polyatomic
107. Binary compound
108. Decomposition reaction : reactions involving only reactant, though the products may
109. Tetravalent
110. Volume
111. Capacity
112. Temperature
113. Rectilinear motion
114. Curvilinear motion
115. Oscillatory motion
116. Periodic motion
117. Displacement
118. Scalar quantity
119. Thermometer
120. Mechanical energy
121. Kinetic energy
122. Potential energy
123. Conservation
124. Transformation
125. Configuration
126. Hydroelectricity
127. Gravitational
128. Photosynthesis
129. Invertebrates
: a substance that alters the speed of a chemical reaction
without itself undergoing any change
: solid that separates when a solution is added to another
: a reaction in which heat is evolved
: a molecule having atomicity greater than 2
: compound formed by two elements
be two or more
: elements with valency 4.
: the total space occupied by an object.
: the maximum volume of a liquid that a container can hold.
: degree of hotness or coldness.
: motion along a straight line.
: motion along a curved path.
: to and fro motion of an object as a whole.
: a motion that repeats itself after regular intervals of time.
: the shortest distance covered by a body between its initial
and final positions
: a quantity that can be described only by its magnitude.
: a device used to measure temperature.
: the sum total of potential and kinetic energy.
: energy possessed by a body by virtue of its motion.
: energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position.
: use in a judicious way
: change form
: shape
: electricity generated by hydel power plants.
: of gravity
: the process by which plants prepare their food.
: Animals without backbone
130. Vertebrates : Animal with vertebral column or backbone
131. Nephridia : Excretory organs of annelids
132. Amphibians : Animals that can live in water as well as on land
133. Chlorophyll : Green coloured photosynthetic pigment
134. Cryptogams : plants that do not bear flowers, seeds, and fruits
135. Thallophyta : plants with thallus: like body
136. Rhizoids : Thread like structures that help thallus to attach to the
surface and absorb water and minerals
137. Rhizome : underground stem of irregular shape, modified to store food
138. Saprophytes : Plants that derive their food from dead and decaying organic matter
139. Organ : A structure in an organism, made of several tissues that
perform similar functions
140. Collenchyma : Elongated parenchyma cells with wall thickened at the corners
141. Xylem : vascular tissues in plants for the transport of water from
roots to all plant parts
142. Phloem : vascular tissue in plants that transports food from leaves to
all the parts of plant
143. Tendon : Nonelastic, white fibrous connective tissues that joins
skeletal muscle to the bone
144. Ligament : Elastic fibrous tissue that joins two bones at the joint
145. Neuron : structural unit of nervous tissue, also called nerve cell.
146. Phloem : vascular tissue in plants that transports food from leaves to
all the parts of plant
147. Tendon : Nonelastic, white fibrous connective tissues that joins
skeletal muscle to the bone
148. Ligament : Elastic fibrous tissue that joins two bones at the joint
149. Neuron : structural unit of nervous tissue, also called nerve cell
150. Stomata : minute pores in the epidermis of leaves for the passage of gases.

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