English Vocabulary PDF

Lamentable: Regrettable; unfortunate Tyrannous: Unjustly severe Propagate: To increase in amount or number Devotion: Earnest attachment to a cause, person, and so on Purged: Cleansed or purified Discourses: Talks Vile: Highly offensive Braggart: Loud, arrogant boaster Slander: False spoken s...

Lamentable: Regrettable; unfortunate Tyrannous: Unjustly severe Propagate: To increase in amount or number Devotion: Earnest attachment to a cause, person, and so on Purged: Cleansed or purified Discourses: Talks Vile: Highly offensive Braggart: Loud, arrogant boaster Slander: False spoken statement that is made to cause people to have a bad opinion of someone Effeminate: Having female qualities Calamity: A great misfortune or disaster (as a flood or serious injury) Mangle: To injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing Chide: To express disapproval of; scold; reproach Kindred: A group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or race Abate: Reduce in amount, degree, intensity, and so on Valor: Bravery Abhorred: Regarded with extreme repugnance or aversion Paramour: An illicit lover, especially of a married person Inauspicious: Boding ill; unfavorable Scourge: Someone or something that causes a great amount of trouble or suffering Enmity: A very deep unfriendly feeling; hatred; ill will Thwarted: Prevented from happening Contagion: A disease that can be passed from one person or animal to another by touching Prorogue: Postpone Shrine: Any place devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity Chastity: Purity Amorous: Of or pertaining to love Idolatry: Worship of a picture or object as a God Vexed: Tormented, troubled; problematic Bier: A frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it, is laid before burial