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Vocabulary : Traders
• Croupier…One who collects the bets and pays out to the winner in the
gambling club
• Upholsterer…One who makes and sells cushions and covers for motor-cars
• Pedlar… One who travels from place to place selling miscellaneous articles
• Hawker… One who travels from place to place selling miscellaneous articles
• Stationer…One who sells paper, ink, pen and other writing materials
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Vocabulary : Professions
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• Archaeologist…One who study the past through the objects left behind
• Archaeologist…One who study the past through the objects left behind
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Vocabulary-Government
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• Oligarchy…Government by a few
• Regent…One who governs the kingdom during the infancy, absence of the
sovereign
This list Vocabulary-Marriage will give you all the words denoting
Marriage.
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• Bigamist…One who marries second wife or husband while the first legal
spouse is alive
Vocabulary-Places
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• Crèche…The place where the children are cared for while their parents are
at work
• Paddock…The place adjoining race-course where the horses are kept for
racing
• Scullery…the place where the plates and other utensils are washed up
• Ewer…The large jug or pitcher for holding water for the washbasin
• Cruet…The small bottle for holding sauces for the dining table
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Places.
Vocabulary-Church
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• Crypt…A chapel or vault beneath a church usually used for the burial of the
dead
• Vestry…A room attached to the church in which the church officials are
meeting
• Halo…The circle of light seen in the pictures around the head of Jesus Christ
and other holy people
• Aureole… The circle of light seen in the pictures around the head of Jesus
Christ and other holy people
• Vespers…Evening service
• Agnostic…One who believes that man can not have knowledge of God but
only of natural elements
• Apostate…One who renounces his religious vows and forsakes his religious
principles
• Chapel…A portion of a large building with an altar of its own where services
can be held for a small number of people
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Vocabulary-Death
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• Morgue…The place where the dead bodies are placed for identification
• Obituary…An account in the news paper about the funeral of the deceased
• Cenotaph…A monument set up for the person who are buried elsewhere
Vocabulary-Instruments
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Vocabulary-Medicine
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• Anemia…Want of blood
• Pulmonary…Affecting lungs
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Vocabulary-Science
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• Physiology…The science which deals with the way in which the human-body
works
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Vocabulary : Arts
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• Physiology…The science which deals with the way in which the human-body
works
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Vocabulary-Opposites
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• Literate…Able to read
• Illiterate…Unable to read
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Vocabulary-Negatives
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• Immortal…Unable to die
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Vocabulary-Nature is the list of words related to Nature.
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• Germ… That part of the seed which develops into the plant
• Plumule… That part of the embryo which develops into the stem
• Tendril…A spiral shoots of a plant which winds itself round another body for
support
• Offal…The parts of animal killed for foods which are rejected waste
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Vocabulary : Characters
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• Ventriloquist…One who has the art of speaking in such a way that the
sounds seem to come from another person
• Amateur…One who engages in any pursuit for the love of it and not for any
gain
• Demagogue…A leader of people who can sway his followers by his oratory
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Vocabulary-Literature
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• Extant…Still in use
• Soliloquy…Speaking to oneself
• Lucubration…Study by night
• Acrostic…A poem in which the first letters of each line, taken in order, form
a name or a sentence
Vocabulary-Miscellaneous
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• Extravagant…Wasteful in spending
• Imminent...Close at hand
• Sinecure…A job for which one is paid, but which one has few or no duties
• Orthography…Correct spelling
• Cacography…Bad spelling
• Amnesia…Loss of memory
• Aphonia…Loss of voice
• Aphony…Loss of voice
• Waif…A forsaken or neglected child who has no home and spends most of
its time on the streets
• Ferrule…An iron ring placed at the end of a staff to prevent it from splitting
• Carnivorous…Living on flesh
• Graminivorous…Living on grass
• Piscivorous…Living on fish
• Alias…A name taken on by a person but which is not his real name
• Roster…A list showing the order in which certain persons have to perform
their duties
• Embezzle…To put one’s use the money of another with which one is
entrusted
• Ullage…The space which for safety is left unfilled in a cask or vessel before
it is sealed
• Felloe…The whole rim (or one of the segments of the rim) of a wheel
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Glossary
Active:
Adjective:
Adjective Phrase:
A group of words where the main word is an adjective and which does the
function of an adjective.
Example:
It was not strong enough.
Adverb:
Adverbial Clause:
A type of subordinate clause that says when, how, where etc… something
happens.
Example:
Before I went to school this morning, I did my homework.
Adverbial Phrase:
Affirmative sentence:
A statement that is positive, not negative.
Example:
He has achieved this honor.
Agent:
A person or a thing that performs the action described in the verb.
Usually it is the subject in an active clause and comes after “by” in a passive
clause.
Auxiliary verb:
The verbs be, have, and do when they are used with a main verb to form
questions, negatives, tenses, passive forms etc…
Modal verbs are also auxiliary verbs.
Example:
You be here till I come back.
REFER: MODAL VERB
Clause:
Complement:
Completion:
Compound noun:
Compound adjective:
Conditional clause:
A conditional clause usually starts with ‘if’ but other but other patterns are
possible
Example:
If you come with me, I am prepared to attend the wedding-function.
Conditional sentence:
Conjunction:
Countable noun:
Determiner:
A word that goes in front of a noun to identify what the noun refers to
Example:
This pencil is not mine.
Direct speech:
Speech that is written using the exact words of the speaker, without any
changes
Example:
Clinton said, “This university was the one in which he wanted to study”.
COMPARE: REPORTED SPEECH
Dynamic verb:
Finite verb:
Imperative clause:
An imperative clause uses the bare-infinite form of a verb for such things as
giving order and making suggestions
Example:
Go to bed.
Indirect speech:
Speech that is reported without using the exact words of the speaker
This is also called reported speech.
Example:
Clinton told us that Mr. John would not attend the function.
COMPARE: DIRECT SPEECH
REFER: REPORTED SPEECH
Infinite verb:
Intransitive verb:
Inversion:
Changing the usual word order so that the verb comes before the subject
Example:
The balloon went up.
Up went the balloon.
Linking verb:
Modal verb:
Noun:
Noun phrase:
A group of words where the main word is a noun
Example:
We spoke to several small children.
Object:
Participle:
Past participle:
Present participle:
Proper noun:
Passive:
Performative verb:
A verb that states the action that is performed when the speaker uses the
verb
Example:
I promise I will do it tomorrow.
Personal pronoun:
The seven pronouns as such are personal pronouns. I, we, he, she, it, you
and they are they.
Example:
You can do it.
Possessive:
Preposition:
A word such as in, on, by or above that comes before a noun or a pronoun or
a noun-phrase is called preposition.
Example:
The pen is on the table.
Prepositional phrase:
Pronoun:
Qualifier:
A word or a phrase that goes front a noun or a noun-phrase to talk about the
quantity of something
Example:
A little water is enough for this plant.
Ten students have been elected.
Relative clause:
Reflexive pronoun:
Relative pronoun:
Reported speech:
Speech that is reported without using the exact words of the speaker
This is also called indirect speech.
Example:
Clinton told us that Mr. John would not attend the function.
COMPARE: DIRECT SPEECH
REFER: INDIRECT SPEECH
Reporting clause:
A statement that reports what people think or say is often divided into
reporting clause and reported clause
Example:
She said that the building was unsafe.
Reported clause:
A statement that reports what people think or say is often divided into
reporting clause and reported clause
Example:
She said that the building was unsafe.
Simple sentence:
State verb:
A verb that is used to describe a state rather than an action
Example:
We believe that you are the best.
COMPARE: ACTIVE VERB
Subject:
The person or the thing that does the action of the verb
Example:
The animals are grazing in the field.
COMPARE: OBJECT
Subjunctive:
The subjunctive is the set of verb forms used, mainly in rather formal English
to talk about possibilities rather than a fact.
Example: We recommend that he be given the job.
Transitive verb:
Two-word verb:
Three-word verb:
Prepositional verb:
Phrasal verb:
Wh-word:
Wh-question:
Yes/no question:
This Glossary contains all the words for which you could find the definitions in
their respective section.
This Glossary will be expanded as and when new words and their definitions
are brought to our attention.
Vocabulary-Universe
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reference.
Space:
Outer Space:
Outer Space means all space other than the earth. Outer space is vast.
Milky Way:
Milky Way is our home galaxy. The Milky Way is faint band of light crossing
the night sky. It consists of stars in the Plane of our Galaxy. Milky Way is a
spiral Galaxy about 100,000 light years in diameter, containing at least 100
billion stars, like our sun.
Galaxy:
The cluster or bunch of billions stars. There are about 100 billion galaxies in
the universe.
Nebula:
Nebula is the cloud of gas and dust in the space. Nebula is the birth-place of
stars.
Solar System:
Solar System comprises of the sun and the nine other planets which orbit the
sun.
The Sun:
The Sun is the star at the center of the solar system. The Sun is about 4.7
billion years old and is composed about 70% hydrogen and 30% helium with
other elements making up less than 1%. The Sun is at the distance of about
32,000 light years from the center of the Galaxy. The diameter of the Sun is
1,392,000km.
Planets:
The Planets are large celestial bodies in orbit around a star (SUN), composed
of rock, metal or gas. There are nine planets in our solar system. They are:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto.
Meteors:
Meteor, the flash of light in the sky, popularly known as falling star or
shooting star is caused by a particles of dust. Meteoroid is a piece of rock or
metal like substance from space that reaches the earth’s surface or the
surface of other celestial body.
Satellites:
Satellites are small bodies that orbit a large one, either natural or artificial..
The Moon:
The Moon is the natural satellite of our earth and is its nearest neighbor in
space.
Comets:
Comets are small icy bodies orbiting the sun, usually on a highly elliptical
path.
Light Year:
One light year is the distance light travels in one year at nearly 3, 00, 00 km
a second. This is the speed of the light.
Eclipses:
Lunar Eclipse:
The moon is said to be in eclipse when the earth comes between the moon
and the sun and this is called lunar eclipse.
Solar Eclipse:
The sun is said to be in eclipse when the moon comes between the sun and
the earth and this is called as Solar Eclipse.
Tides:
The tide is rise and fall of sea level due to the gravitational forces of the
moon and the sun. The rise in the water level is called as high tide and the
fall is called as low or ebb tide.
Atmosphere:
Deserts:
Deserts are arid areas without sufficient rainfall and consequently without
vegetations to support human-life.
Earth-quake:
Volcano:
Volcano is a vent (small opening) in the earth’s crust from which molten,
rock, lava, ashes and gases are ejected.
Oceans:
River:
River is a long water course that flows down a slope along a channel.
Lake:
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phobia
This ROOT-WORD is PHOBIA which comes from Greek word Phobos which
means IRRATIONAL FEAR.There are innumerable words with this suffix
PHOBIA. The list is endless. Here a collection of few words with this suffix-
PHOBIA has been given.
mania
This ROOT-WORD is the suffix MANIA which comes from Greek word mania
which means ADDICTION TO & EXCESSIVE OBSSESSION WITH . This
ROOT is used only as a suffix.There are innumerable words with this suffix.
Here a collection of few words has been given.
Vocabulary-Military
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• Convoy…A number of ships traveling together under escort for the sake of
safety
• Puttees…Long cloths bound round the legs of soldiers from ankle to knee
• Cavalry…Horse-soldiers
• Infantry…Foot-soldiers
• Bandolier…A broad belt worn across the chest with pockets for carrying
ammunitions
• Canteen…A place where soldiers can buy drinks and other refreshments
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