These are the most important MCQs for Entry tests. All of these Pair of Words are from the past papers of CSS, ACCA, NAT, GAT, ECAT, MCAT and others Important Tests.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2000
Need:
Meaning: require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable:
Sentence: I need your help now
Knead:
Meaning: work (moistened flour or clay) into dough or paste with the hands or massage or squeeze with the hands.
Sentence: She kneaded his back
Queue:
Meaning: a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something
Sentence: There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.
Cue:
Meaning: a signal for someone to do something
Sentence: They started washing up, so that was our cue to leave the party.
Quarts:
Meaning: a unit of liquid measure of capacity.
Sentence: You spilled a quart of water on my table.
Quartz:
Meaning: a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Sentence: The rocks i have used contain some quartz, which may help to create the effect we want.
Choral:
Meaning: of a chorus or a choir,
Sentence: Choral singing became a matter of national pride.
Coral:
Meaning: the hard, stony skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
Sentence: What you will not find here are pristine corals.
Discrete:
Meaning: separate and distinct.
Sentence: These are discrete projects, and their funding records should be kept separate.
Discreet:
Meaning: careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential.
Sentence: Discreet silence over the matter.
Epic:
Meaning: An epic is a story or long poem telling the tale of a fictional or historical hero.
Sentence: Epic tale that favors the bizarre.
Epoch:
Meaning: a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events, developments, persons, etc
Sentence: Epoch of the final decline of democracy.
Libel:
Meaning: Law a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.
Sentence: He was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes.
Liable:
Meaning: legally bound or obligated, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction; responsible.
Sentence: Chief Officer should be vicariously liable for the actions of their officers.
Mail:
Meaning: Postal material for a specific person or organization.
Sentence: I have send him a letter by air mail.
Male:
Meaning: Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex; masculine
Sentence: The king had no male descendant.
Banned:
Meaning: something that is prohibited.
Sentence: The death penalty is banned in New York and New Jersey.
Band:
Meaning: a group of people working together, particularly in the field of music.
Sentence: 9 zero Band's new album, i remember being instantly impressed.
Barred:
Meaning: provided with one or more bars
Sentence: Barred owls roosting by the side of the road!
Bard:
Meaning: an ancient person who composes and signs poems about heroes and epic events.
Sentence: Bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2001
Brooch:
Meaning: a small piece of jewelry with a pin at the back that is fastened to a woman's clothes
Sentence: She wore a small silver brooch.
Broad:
Meaning: very wide
Sentence: We walked down a broad avenue lined with trees.
Collision:
Meaning: an accident that happens when two vehicles hit each other with force
Sentence: There has been a collision on the southbound stretch of the motorway.
Collusion:
Meaning: agreement between people to act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive or cheat someone
Sentence: It is thought that they worked in collusion with the terrorist network.
Fain:
Meaning: glad; ready
Sentence: He is fain to do all things himself.
Feign:
Meaning: to pretend to feel something, usually an emotion
Sentence: You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
Hoard:
Meaning: to collect large amounts of something and keep it in a safe, often secret, place
Sentence: During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.
Horde:
Meaning: a large group of people
Sentence: Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult.
Illusion:
Meaning: an idea or belief which is not true
Sentence: He had no illusions about his talents as a singer.
Delusion:
Meaning: when someone believes something that is not true
Sentence: He's under the delusion that he will be promoted this year.
Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political
beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a
person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Prescribe:
Meaning: to say what medical treatment someone should have
Sentence: The drug is often prescribed for ulcers.
Proscribe:
Meaning: to not allow something
Sentence: The Athletics Federation has banned the runner from future races for using proscribed drugs.
Respectfully:
Meaning: in a way that shows you want to be polite or honor someone
Sentence: As the body was carried through the crowd, people drew back respectfully.
Respectively:
Meaning: relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned
Sentence: In the 200 meters, Lizzy and Sarah came first and third respectively.
Complacent:
Meaning: Satisfied
Sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.
Complaisant:
Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?
Corporal:
Meaning: of the human body; bodily; physical:
Sentence: Nowadays it is not the custom to inflict corporal punishment in schools.
Corporeal:
Meaning: Of a material nature; tangible.
Sentence: Corporeal need such as food and drink should receive due measure of attention.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2004
Auger:
Meaning: a tool consisting of a twisted rod of metal fixed to a handle, used for making large holes in wood or in the
ground
Sentence: In order to measure the pH directly; the kit includes a plastic auger to perforate the ground.
Augur:
Meaning: to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future
Sentence: Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs a shift in government policy?
Fain:
Meaning: glad; ready
Sentence: He is fain to do all things himself.
Feign:
Meaning: to pretend to feel something, usually an emotion
Sentence: You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
Emigrate:
Meaning: to leave a country permanently and go to live in another one
Sentence: Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century.
Immigrate:
Meaning: to come to live in a different country
Sentence: He immigrated with his parents in 1895, and grew up in London.
Envy:
Meaning: to wish that you had something that another person has
Sentence: I envy her ability to talk to people she's never met before.
Jealousy:
Meaning: a feeling of unhappiness and anger because someone has something that you want
Sentence: The team has performed very badly this season due to petty jealousies among the players.
Invade:
Meaning: to enter an area of activity in a forceful and noticeable way
Sentence: Concentrations of troops near the border look set to invade within the next few days.
Attack:
Meaning: to try to hurt or defeat using violence
Sentence: He was attacked and seriously injured by a gang of youths.
Trifling:
Meaning: A trifling matter or amount of money is small or not important
Sentence: It was such a trifling sum of money to argue about!
Trivial:
Meaning: having little value or importance
Sentence: I don't know why he gets so upset about something that is utterly trivial.
Simulation:
Meaning: a model of a set of problems or events that can be used to teach someone how to do something
Sentence: The manager prepared a computer simulation of likely sales performance for the rest of the year.
Dissimulation:
Meaning: To conceal one's true feelings or intentions.
Sentence: As an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as
well.
Venal:
Meaning: A venal person is willing to behave in a way that is not honest or moral in exchange for money
Sentence: A venal ruler
Venial:
Meaning: describes a wrong action that is not serious and therefore easy to forgive
Sentence: Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin; generally a very venial one.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2005
Counsel:
Meaning: to give advice, especially on social or personal problems
Sentence: The police have provided experts to counsel local people affected by the tragedy.
Council:
Meaning: a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a
particular group of people, or to run a particular organization
Sentence: This play is supported by a grant from the local arts council.
Distinct:
Meaning: clearly noticeable; that certainly exists
Sentence: There's a distinct smell of cigarettes in here.
Distinctive:
Meaning: Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from other things
Sentence: She's got a very distinctive voice.
Apposite:
Meaning: suitable and right for the occasion
Sentence: It is, however, apposite to note that this process will continue in the year ahead.
Opposite:
Meaning: completely different
Sentence: You'd never know they're sisters - they're completely opposite to each other in every way.
Deprecate
Meaning: to not approve of something
Sentence: We deprecate this use of company funds for political purposes.
Depreciate:
Meaning: to (cause something to) lose value, especially over time
Sentence: Our car depreciated by $1500 in the first year we owned it.
Punctual:
Meaning: arriving, doing something or happening at the expected, correct time
Sentence: He's fairly punctual.
Punctilious:
Meaning: very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details
Sentence: He was always punctilious in his manners.
Judicial:
Meaning: involving a court of law
Sentence: The defense team will seek a judicial review of the sentence.
Judicious:
Meaning: having or showing reason and good judgment in making decisions
Sentence: We should make judicious use of the resources available to us.
Salutary:
Meaning: causing improvement of behavior or character
Sentence: It is however salutary to remember the genuine need for originality in the creation of a copyright
protectable database.
Salubrious:
Meaning: describes a place that is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in
Sentence: He doesn't live in a very salubrious part of town.
Canvas:
Meaning: a piece of cloth used by artists for painting on, usually with oil paints, or the painting itself
Sentence: These two canvases by Hockney would sell for £500 000.
Canvass:
Meaning: to try to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area
Sentence: I've been out canvassing for the Labor Party every evening this week.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2006
Voracity:
Meaning: excessive desire to eat
Sentence: On reaching the ship they were offered some bread, which they devoured with a voracious appetite.
Veracity:
Meaning: the quality of being true, honest or accurate
Sentence: The veracity of the second claim can be tested against the findings of archeology.
Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political
beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a
person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Moat:
Meaning: a long wide hole which is dug all the way around a place such as a castle, and usually filled with water, to
make it more difficult to attack
Sentence: The site of the manor house is surrounded by a narrow moat which is fed by water from the New River.
Mote:
Meaning: something, especially a bit of dust, that is so small it is almost impossible to see
Sentence: Dust motes swam alongside the gloomy corridor.
Loath:
Meaning: to be unwilling to do something
Sentence: I'm loath to spend it all at once.
Loathe:
Meaning: to hate someone or something
Sentence: From an early age the brothers have loathed each other.
Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skillful
Sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his luggage.
Fain:
Meaning: glad; ready
Sentence: He is fain to do all things himself.
Feign:
Meaning: to pretend to feel something, usually an emotion
Sentence: You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.
Immigrant:
Meaning: a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently
Sentence: Illegal immigrants are sent back across the border if they are caught.
Emigrant:
Meaning: a person who emigrates
Sentence: There was only a small number of emigrants on board.
Wreck:
Meaning: to destroy or badly damage something
Sentence: Our greenhouse was wrecked in last night's storm.
Wreak:
Meaning: to cause something to happen in a violent and often uncontrolled way
Sentence: The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2007
Affluence:
Meaning: having a lot of money or owning a lot of things
Sentence: What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
Effluence:
Meaning: a thing that flows out or forth
Sentence: How can Reef Entertainment justify releasing this effluence on the general public?
Wretch:
Meaning: a person who experiences something unpleasant
Sentence: A gentleman said that a week ago he was the wretch in the county, but now saved.
Retch:
Meaning: to react in a way as if you are vomiting
Sentence: The sight of blood makes him retch.
Euphemistic:
Meaning: a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word
Sentence: 'Senior citizen' is a euphemism for 'old person'.
Euphuistic:
Meaning: Affected elegance of language.
Sentence: Euphuistic style has been used in many of his writings.
Amoral:
Meaning: without moral principles
Sentence: The spies are younger, less jaded but equally cynical and still operating in a wholly amoral world.
Immoral:
Meaning: morally wrong
Sentence: It's an immoral tax, because the poor will pay relatively more.
Imperial:
Meaning: belonging or relating to an empire or the person or country that rules it
Sentence: Delhi is a city of two centers, comprising imperial Lutyens architecture and numerous monuments to the
Moghul Empire.
Imperious:
Meaning: unpleasantly proud and expecting obedience
Sentence: He sent them away with an imperious wave of the hand.
Degrade:
Meaning: to lower in rank or status
Sentence: He likes to degrade people by calling them embarrassing names.
Denigrate:
Meaning: to say that someone or something is not good or important
Sentence: You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you.
Temporal:
Meaning: relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than spiritual ones
Sentence: Her starting point: 'The future is the only temporal area over which people have power’.
Temporary:
Meaning: not lasting or needed for very long
Sentence: The ceasefire will only provide a temporary solution to the crisis. (Pair Repeated: 1)
Precipitate:
Meaning: to make something happen suddenly or sooner than expected
Sentence: Fear of losing her job precipitated her into action.
Precipitous:
Meaning: sheer
Sentence: Precipitous slopes of Reid's Ridge are visible on the right.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2008
Mitigate:
Meaning: to make something less harmful, unpleasant or bad
Sentence: It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island.
Alleviate:
Meaning: to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe
Sentence: The drugs did nothing to alleviate her pain/suffering.
Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political
beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a
person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Popular:
Meaning: liked, enjoyed or supported by many people
Sentence: She's the most popular teacher in school.
Populace:
Meaning: the ordinary people who live in a particular country or place
Sentence: Some studies show that workers in the nuclear industry are more likely than the general populace to get cancer.
Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.
Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
Sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly.
Excite:
Meaning: to make someone have strong feelings of happiness and enthusiasm
Sentence: Nothing about my life excites me at present.
Incite:
Meaning: to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent
Sentence: She was expelled for inciting her classmates to rebel against their teachers.
Voracity:
Meaning: excessive desire to eat
Sentence: On reaching the ship they were offered some bread, which they devoured with a voracious appetite.
Veracity:
Meaning: the quality of being true, honest or accurate
Sentence: The veracity of the second claim can be tested against the findings of archeology.
Virtuous:
Meaning: having good moral qualities and behavior
Sentence: He described them as a virtuous and hard-working people.
Virtual:
Meaning: describes something that can be done or seen using a computer and therefore without going anywhere or
talking to anyone
Sentence: In tests, we have found the virtual machine runs at a reasonable speed.
Exceptional:
Meaning: much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc
Sentence: The Company has shown exceptional growth over the past two years.
Exceptionable:
Meaning: offensive or upsetting
Sentence: This action is normally only taken in exceptionable circumstances.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2009
Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political
beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a
person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Luxuriant:
Meaning: growing thickly, strongly and well
Sentence: This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
Luxurious:
Meaning: very comfortable and expensive
Sentence: They have a very luxurious house.
Mean:
Meaning: to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
Sentence: These figures mean that almost 7% of the working population is unemployed.
Mien:
Meaning: a person's appearance, especially the typical expression on their face
Sentence: His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out.
Observation:
Meaning: when you observe something or someone
Sentence: The police are keeping the suspect under observation.
Observance:
Meaning: when someone obeys a law or follows a religious custom
Sentence: The State must enforce the observance of human rights in its domestic legal order.
Naughty:
Meaning: not behaving properly; mischievous or disobedient
Sentence: Now that's naughty - you mustn't throw food on the floor!
Knotty:
Meaning: complicated and difficult to solve
Sentence: That's rather a knotty question.
Ghostly:
Meaning: pale and transparent
Sentence: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
Ghastly:
Meaning: unpleasant and shocking
Sentence: Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
Hew:
Meaning: to cut a large piece out of rock, stone or another hard material in a rough way
Sentence: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
Hue:
Meaning: a particular shade or tint of a given color
Sentence: In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.
Hoard:
Meaning: to collect large amounts of something and keep it in a safe, often secret, place
Sentence: During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.
Horde:
Meaning: a large group of people
Sentence: Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2010
Adverse:
Meaning: having a negative or harmful effect on something
Sentence: The match has been canceled due to adverse weather conditions.
Averse:
Meaning: strongly disliking or opposed to
Sentence: Few MPs are averse to the attention of the media.
Maize:
Meaning: a tall plant grown in many parts of the world for its yellow seeds which are eaten as food, made into flour
or fed to animals
Sentence: Some of our foods may contain ingredients produced from genetically modified maize.
Maze:
Meaning: An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways
Sentence: The old part of the town was a maze of narrow passages.
Medal:
Meaning: a small, flat piece of metal with a design or inscription stamped or inscribed on it, made to commemorate
some event, or awarded for some distinguished action
Sentence: She won three Olympic gold medals.
Meddle:
Meaning: to concern oneself with or take part in other people's affairs without being asked or needed
Sentence: People shouldn't meddle with things they don't understand.
Imperial:
Meaning: belonging or relating to an empire or the person or country that rules it
Sentence: Delhi is a city of two centers, comprising imperial Lutyens architecture and numerous monuments to the
Moghul Empire.
Imperious:
Meaning: unpleasantly proud and expecting obedience
Sentence: He sent them away with an imperious wave of the hand.
Voracity:
Meaning: excessive desire to eat
Sentence: On reaching the ship they were offered some bread, which they devoured with a voracious appetite.
Veracity:
Meaning: the quality of being true, honest or accurate
Sentence: The veracity of the second claim can be tested against the findings of archeology.
Illusion:
Meaning: an idea or belief which is not true
Sentence: He had no illusions about his talents as a singer.
Allusion:
Meaning: something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person
Sentence: Her novels are packed with literary allusions.
Ordinance:
Meaning: a law or rule made by a government or authority
Sentence: City Ordinance 126 forbids car parking in this area.
Ordnance:
Meaning: all military weapons together with ammunition, combat vehicles, etc. and the equipment and supplies used
in servicing these
Sentence: Do not touch any military ordnance that may be found lying around this area.
Willing:
Meaning: to be happy to do something if it is needed
Sentence: You said you needed a volunteer - well, I'm willing.
Willful:
Meaning: said or done deliberately or intentionally
Sentence: Willful killing is a grave breach.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2011
Capital:
Meaning: a city which is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area
Sentence: Australia's capital city is Canberra.
Capitol:
Meaning: the building in which a state legislature meets
Sentence: A state legislature will meet in a capitol building.
Assay:
Meaning: an examination or testing
Sentence: A positive result has been obtained in a mouse lymphoma assay.
Essay:
Meaning: attempt/ a short piece of writing on a particular subject
Sentence: The Diploma is assessed by three essays of 3,000 words each.
Envelop:
Meaning: to cover or surround something completely
Sentence: The graveyard looked ghostly, enveloped in mist.
Envelope:
Meaning: a flat, usually square or rectangular, paper container for a letter
Sentence: A stamped, addressed envelope should be enclosed for reply.
Decree:
Meaning: an official statement that something must happen
Sentence: More than 200 people were freed by military decree.
Degree:
Meaning: amount or level of something
Sentence: This job demands a high degree of skill.
Desolate:
Meaning: describes a place that is empty and not attractive
Sentence: The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.
Dissolute:
Meaning: immoral
Sentence: He led a dissolute life.
Species:
Meaning: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other
Sentence: Over a hundred species of insect are found in this area.
Specie:
Meaning: Coined money
Sentence: The next insinuation is that the Bank has refused specie payments.
Tortuous:
Meaning: not direct or simple
Sentence: He took a tortuous route through back streets.
Torturous:
Meaning: causing torture
Sentence: It was torturous to think that he could have stopped the boy from running into the road.
Wet:
Meaning: covered in water or another liquid
Sentence: My bike got wet in the rain.
Whet:
Meaning: to increase someone's interest in and wish for something
Sentence: I've read an excerpt of the book on the Web and it's whetted my appetite.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2013
Adjoin:
Meaning: To be next to; be contiguous to
Sentence: A waiting room for friends of patients immediately adjoins.
Adjourn:
Meaning: To end something either temporarily or permanently or to postpone it to another time or place.
Sentence: Adjourn to consider its decision.
Allay
Meaning: To make better or decrease something that is unpleasant.
Sentence: During health questions the health secretary did not allay my fears.
Ally
Meaning: To join another in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Sentence: During times of war, Britain was Poland's closest ally.
Click
Meaning: To make or cause a slight, sharp sound, or to be suddenly clear
Sentence: Please click here to view the found desired web site.
Clique
Meaning: A small, closed off group of people.
Sentence: A big society exists in order to form cliques.
Distract
Meaning: T o draw someone's attention away from something and on to something else.
Sentence: You might want to even keep yourself slightly distracted.
Detract:
Meaning: Reduce or take away the worth or value
Sentence: Your foolish action had detracted my main idea.
Liable
Meaning: Being likely to do or experience something or to having legal responsibility for something.
Sentence: Chief Officers should be vicariously liable for the actions of their officers.
Libel
Meaning: A written and published false statement about someone that damages their reputation.
Sentence: he following year his attacks on the governor of new york led to him being arrested for seditious libel.
Other Important Pair of words
All:
Meaning: every one (of), or the complete amount or number (of), or the whole (of)
Sentence: All animals have to eat in order to live.
Awl:
Meaning: a small, pointed tool for making holes in wood, leather, etc.
Sentence: That awl causes loud noise.
Boy:
Meaning: a male child
Sentence: As a young boy, my father used to walk three miles to school.
Buoy:
Meaning: a floating object on the top of the sea, which is used for directing ships and warning them of possible
danger
Sentence: The zones for swimming and the zones for water sports are clearly marked by buoys.
Fallow:
Meaning: describes land that is not planted with crops, in order to improve the quality of the soil
Sentence: Farmers are eligible for government support if they let a certain amount of land lie fallow.
Fellow:
Meaning: describes someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation as you
Sentence: She introduced me to some of her fellow students.
Jewry:
Meaning: all the Jews
Sentence: Dr. Lisa is an expert of Latin American Jewry.
Jury:
Meaning: a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide
whether a person is guilty or not guilty
Sentence: Police officers aren't usually allowed to be on a jury.
Functional:
Meaning: designed to be practical and useful rather than attractive
Sentence: Project work is used to integrate material and make knowledge functional.
Dysfunctional:
Meaning: not behaving or working normally
Sentence: The craftsman is likely to seem dysfunctional in a culture of innovation and change.
Yew:
Meaning: an evergreen tree with flat leaves like needles and small red cones, or the wood from this tree
Sentence: There is little sound except for the breeze stirring in the churchyard yew trees.
Eue:
Meaning: Unable to find this word in dictionaries
Sentence: An eue passed in his life which made him dull for an year.
Allusive:
Meaning: containing a lot of allusions
Sentence: Her music is allusive.
Elusive:
Meaning: difficult to describe, find, achieve or remember
Sentence: The answers to these questions remain as elusive as ever.
Ladylike:
Meaning: graceful, controlled and behaving in a way that is socially acceptable for a woman
Sentence: Laura is very ladylike and elegant.
Ladyship:
Meaning: a respectful way of referring to or talking to a woman or girl who has the rank of a peer or knight without
using her title
Sentence: We are honored to welcome your ladyship here tonight.
Differ:
Meaning: to be not like something or someone else, either physically or in another way
Sentence: The twins look alike, but they differ in temperament.
Defer:
Meaning: to delay something until a later time; to postpone
Sentence: My bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan while I'm still a student.
Conscious:
Meaning: to notice that a particular thing or person exists or is present
Sentence: I think she's very conscious of being the only person in the office who didn't have a university education.
Conscience:
Meaning: the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things
that you have done
Sentence: You didn't do anything wrong - you should have a clear conscience.
Confidant:
Meaning: a person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with
Sentence: Within a few short years he was a trusted confidant.
Confidante:
Meaning: a woman or girl confidant
Sentence: Within a few short years he was a trusted confidant.
Atheist:
Meaning: someone who believes that God or gods do not exist
Sentence: I know an atheist who says ' Oh god!
Agnostic:
Meaning: someone who does not know, or believes that it is impossible to know, whether a god exists
Sentence: Although he was raised a Catholic, he was an agnostic for most of his adult life.
Loose:
Meaning: not firmly fixed in place
Sentence: There were some loose wires hanging out of the wall.
Lose:
Meaning: to no longer have something because you do not know where it is, or because it has been taken away from
you
Sentence: I've lost my ticket.
Briefing:
Meaning: information that is given to someone just before they do something or a meeting where this happens
Sentence: They received thorough briefing before they left the country.
Debriefing:
Meaning: to question someone in detail about work they have done for you
Sentence: The pilots were thoroughly debriefed after every mission.
Dual:
Meaning: with two parts, or combining two things
Sentence: This room has a dual purpose, serving as both a study and a dining room.
Duel:
Meaning: a formal fight in the past, using guns or swords, arranged between two people as a way of deciding an
argument
Sentence: The composer Strauss was once challenged to a duel.
Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.
Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
Sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly.
Altogether:
Meaning: completely or in total
Sentence: The government ought to abolish the tax altogether.
All together:
Meaning: all at the same time
Sentence: The last time we were all together was in 1999.
Ambiguous:
Meaning: having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally
Sentence: His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.
Ambivalent:
Meaning: having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel
Sentence: I felt very ambivalent about leaving home.
Appraise:
Meaning: to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success or needs
Sentence: At the end of each teaching practice, trainee teachers are asked to appraise their own performance.
Apprise:
Meaning: to tell someone about something
Sentence: The President has been apprised of the situation.
Bad:
Meaning: unpleasant; causing difficulties or harm
Sentence: Our holiday was spoiled by bad weather.
Badly:
Meaning: in a severe and harmful way
Sentence: She was badly affected by the events in her childhood.
Compare:
Meaning: to examine or look for the difference between two or more things
Sentence: If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are.
Contrast:
Meaning: an obvious difference between two or more things
Sentence: The antique furnishing provides an unusual contrast to the modernity of the building.
Deduce:
Meaning: to reach an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the known facts
Sentence: We cannot deduce very much from these figures.
Imply:
Meaning: to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
Sentence: I detected an implied criticism of the way he was treated.
Differ from:
Meaning: to be not like something or someone else, either physically or in another way
Sentence: His views differ considerably from those of his parents.
Differ with:
Meaning: to disagree
Sentence: I beg to differ with you on that point.
Farther:
Meaning: to a greater distance
Sentence: The fog's so thick, I can't see farther than about ten meters.
Further:
Meaning: to a greater distance or degree; at a more advanced level
Sentence: We discussed the problem but we didn't get much further in actually solving it.
Occlude:
Meaning: to close, shut, or block
Sentence: I try to set the end distance (at which the fog totally occludes everything) no lower than 4000.
Occult:
Meaning: relating to magical powers and activities, such as those of witchcraft and astrology
Sentence: She claims to have occult powers, given to her by some mysterious spirit.
Practical:
Meaning: relating to experience, real situations or actions rather than ideas or imagination
Sentence: Qualifications are important but practical experience is always an advantage.
Practicable:
Meaning: able to be done or put into action
Sentence: The troops will be brought home as soon as practicable.
Raze:
Meaning: to completely destroy a city, building, etc
Sentence: The town was razed to the ground in the bombing raid - not a building was left standing.
Raise:
Meaning: to lift something to a higher position
Sentence: Would all those in favor please raise their hands?
Canon:
Meaning: a Christian priest with special duties in a cathedral
Sentence: He was first appointed as a residentiary canon and only became Chancellor after several years with us.
Cannon:
Meaning: a large, mounted piece of artillery; sometimes, specif., a large gun with a relatively short barrel, as a
howitzer
Sentence: Instead of eight machine guns, it now had twelve, or four 20mm cannon.
Avenge:
Meaning: to do harm to or punish the person responsible for something bad done to you
Sentence: He swore he would avenge his brother's death.
Revenge:
Meaning: harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else
Sentence: He is believed to have been shot by a rival gang in revenge for the shootings last week.
Caret:
Meaning: a mark (‸) used in writing or in correcting proof, to show where something is to be inserted
Sentence: Some screen readers use the system caret to determine which area of the screen to read or magnify.
Carat:
Meaning: a unit for measuring the weight of jewels
Sentence: 24-carat gold is the purest.
Revel:
Meaning: to separate the parts, esp. threads
Sentence: The road raveled rapidly and became merely a pile of loose stones.
Reveal:
Meaning: to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret
Sentence: He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians.
Aviary:
Meaning: a large cage or closed space in which birds are kept as pets
Sentence: I have an aviary with 17 birds.
Apiary:
Meaning: a place where people keep bees, especially a collection of hives kept to provide honey
Sentence: I once visited an apiary where there were numerous cardboard boxes scattered around.
Demeane:
Meaning: Unable to find in dictionaries
Sentence: Unable to find in dictionaries
Demean:
Meaning: to cause someone to become less respected
Sentence: The entire family was demeaned by his behavio
