Vocabulary Building Lecture 4

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What is an anarchist?

A person who hates and avoids other people

A person who believes that law and governments are not necessary (correct)

A person who believes that law and governments are necessary

A person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it

What is a cartographer?

Someone who gives help and sympathy to people who need it

Someone who believes that law and governments are not necessary

Someone who studies the evolution of mankind

Someone who draws or makes maps (correct)

What is a relic?

A person who renounces a religious or political belief

A book that contains information on various subjects

A type of animal that lives on land and water

Something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period (correct)

What is an encyclopedia?

A book that contains information on various subjects Signup and view all the answers

What is a misanthrope?

A person who hates and avoids other people Signup and view all the answers

What is a plutocracy?

A government governed by wealth Signup and view all the answers

What is a daredevil?

A person who enjoys doing dangerous things Signup and view all the answers

What is plagiarism?

Copying someone else’s work and trying to submit it as your own Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of alimony?

The money paid to the former wife, husband, or partner when the marriage is ended Signup and view all the answers

What is a caravan?

A group of travelers, animals, or vehicles traveling together Signup and view all the answers

What is convalescence?

Gradual recovery of health and strength Signup and view all the answers

What is a sagal?

A long story about past events over a long period of time Signup and view all the answers

What is an imposter?

One who pretends to be somebody else Signup and view all the answers

What is a shoal?

A large number of fish swimming together Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of nostalgia?

A feeling of pleasure and slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past Signup and view all the answers

What is a granary?

A storehouse for threshed grain Signup and view all the answers

What is a person who cannot hear called?

Deaf Signup and view all the answers

What does a Shuttle refer to?

A type of vehicle Signup and view all the answers

What is a Cosmopolitan?

A person who loves the world as their country Signup and view all the answers

What is Lexicography?

The practice of writing dictionaries Signup and view all the answers

What is a Wreath?

An arrangement of flowers in a circular shape Signup and view all the answers

What is a Hangar?

A place where aircraft are kept Signup and view all the answers

What is a Septuagenarian?

A person whose age is between 70 and 79 years Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean to Slouch?

To stand or sit with the shoulders hanging forward and the head bent slightly over Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

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