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?

<p>A book that contains information on various subjects (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a misanthrope?

<p>A person who hates and avoids other people (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a plutocracy?

<p>A government governed by wealth (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a daredevil?

<p>A person who enjoys doing dangerous things (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is plagiarism?

<p>Copying someone else’s work and trying to submit it as your own (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of alimony?

<p>The money paid to the former wife, husband, or partner when the marriage is ended (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a caravan?

<p>A group of travelers, animals, or vehicles traveling together (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is convalescence?

<p>Gradual recovery of health and strength (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a sagal?

<p>A long story about past events over a long period of time (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an imposter?

<p>One who pretends to be somebody else (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a shoal?

<p>A large number of fish swimming together (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the meaning of nostalgia?

<p>A feeling of pleasure and slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a granary?

<p>A storehouse for threshed grain (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a person who cannot hear called?

<p>Deaf (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does a Shuttle refer to?

<p>A type of vehicle (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a Cosmopolitan?

<p>A person who loves the world as their country (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Lexicography?

<p>The practice of writing dictionaries (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a Wreath?

<p>An arrangement of flowers in a circular shape (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a Hangar?

<p>A place where aircraft are kept (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a Septuagenarian?

<p>A person whose age is between 70 and 79 years (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean to Slouch?

<p>To stand or sit with the shoulders hanging forward and the head bent slightly over (B)</p> 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

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