List of Words

Ethnic (adj)

Relating to a particular race, nation, or tribe and their customs and

traditions

Subsistence (n)

The condition of only just have enough money or food to stay alive
o Many of the families are forced to live at the subsistence level

Missionary (n)

Someone who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people

about Christianity and persuaded them to become Christians

Enclave (n)

A small area that is within a larger area where people of a different

kind of nationality live

Nurture (v, n)

To help a plan, idea, feeling etc. to develop

Mere (adj)

Used to emphasise how small or unimportant something or someone is

o It cannot be a mere coincidence that they left at the same time

Dwarf (v, n)

To be so big that other things are made to seem very small

Guru (n)

Someone who knows a lot about a particular subject, and gives advice
to other people

Behest (n) at the behest of somebody

Someone has asked for something or ordered something to happen

o The committee was set up at the behest of the president

Imperil (v)

To put something or someone in danger

Instinctive (adj)

Based on instinct and not involved thought

vent (v, n)

To do something violent or harmful to express feeling of anger, hatred

etc.

Scold (v) = tell off

To angrily criticise someone, especially a child, about something they

have done

Forestry (n)

The science or skill of looking after large areas of trees

Daunt (v)

To make someone feel afraid or less confident about something

Brisk (adj)

Quick and full of energy

Errand (n)

A short journey in order to do something for someone, for example

delivering or collecting something for them.
o I seemed to spent my life running errands for people

Decay (v) = rot (v)

To be slowly destroyed by a natural chemical process, or to make

something do this

Mould (n)

A soft green, grey, or black substance that grows on foods which has
been kept too long, and on object that are in warm wet air

Deprive (v)

To prevent someone from having something, especially something that

they need or should have.

Fraction (n)

A very small number of something

Jot something down (ph v)

To write a short piece of information quickly

Scrutiny (n)

Careful and thorough examination of someone or something

o Their activities have come under police scrutiny

Bob (v) bobbing, bobbed

To move up and down when floating on the surface of water

Splinter (v, n)

If something such as wood splinters, or you splinter it, it breaks into

thin sharp pieces

Exhaust (v)

To make someone fell extremely tired

To use all of something = use up

o We are in danger of exhausting the worlds oil supply.

Pristine (adj)

Extremely fresh or clean or in the same condition as when it was first

made

Aesthetic (adj)

Connected with beauty and the study of beauty

Mulberry (n)

A dark purple fruit that can be eaten, or the three on which this fruit
grows

Intricate (adj) = complex

Containing many small parts or details that all work for fit together

Ceremony (n)

An important social or religious event, when a traditional set of actions

in performed in a formal way

Cloak (n)

A warm piece of clothing like an coat without sleeves that hangs

loosely from your shoulders

Dye (v, n)

To give something a different colour using a dye

Cord (n)

A piece of thick string or thin rope

Figurative (adj) = literal, abstract

A figurative word or phrase is used in a different way from its usual

meaning, to give you a particular idea or picture in your mind

Precipitation (n)

Rain, snow etc.

The act of doing something too quickly in a way that in not sensible

Utmost (adj) the utmost importance/respect/concern/ care

The greatest possible importance

Supple (adj) stiff

Something soft and bend easily

Suppleness (n) stiffness

Incentive (n) = motivation

Something to encourage you work harder, start new activity etc.

Conviction (n)
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