Vocabulary Building Lecture 4

Vocabulary

• Edible: fit to be eaten
• Samaritan: a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it
• Anarchist: a person who believes that law and governments are not necessary
• Fastidious: one who is hard to please
• Apostate: a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle
• Cartographer: someone who makes or draws maps
• Amphibian: an animal that lives both on land and water

People

• Misanthrope: a person who hates and avoids other people
• Atheist: one who doesn't believe in God
• Orphan: one who has lost one's parents
• Daredevil: a person who enjoys doing dangerous things
• Alimonist: a person who receives money from their former spouse
• Waif: a forsaken or neglected child who has no home and spends most of their time on the streets

Places

• Mint: a place where coins, medals, or tokens are made
• Casino: a place for gambling
• Granary: a storehouse for threshed grain
• Domicile: the place that a person treats as their permanent home
• Hangar: a place where aircraft are kept when not in use
• Cemetery: a graveyard where dead bodies are buried

Concepts

• Plagiarism: copying someone else's work and trying to submit it as your own
• Conspiracy: a secret plan, made to do something (usually wrong)
• Procrastination: putting off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness
• Nostalgia: a feeling of pleasure and slight sadness when thinking about things that happened in the past
• Illegible: which cannot be read
• Genocide: the murder of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group
• Fatal: causing or ending in death
• Fatalist: one who believes in fate
• Pact: a formal agreement between two or more nations or persons
• Wreath: an arrangement of flowers and leaves in a circular shape, used as a decoration or as a sign of respect and remembrance for a person who has died

Animals

• Mammal: any animal in which the female gives birth to babies, not eggs, and feeds them on milk from her own body
• Amphibian: an animal that lives both on land and water

Miscellaneous

• Bonfire: a large fire that is made outside to burn unwanted things, or for pleasure
• Encyclopedia: a book that contains information on various subjects
• Anthropology: the study of the evolution of mankind
• Aviary: a place where birds are kept
• Shoal: a large number of fish swimming together
• Ductile: capable of being bent or pulled into different shapes
• Lexicographer: a person who compiles a dictionary
• Saga: a long story about past events over a long period of time
• Caravan: a group of travelers, animals, or vehicles traveling together
• Convalescence: gradual recovery of health and strength