Vocabulary Work

Astonish: To fill with sudden wonder or amazement

Assort:  To separate into groups according to kind; classify.

Atop: To, on, or at the top.

Attitude: A position of the body or manner of carrying oneself

Atypical: Not conforming to type; unusual or irregular.

Augur: To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell

Avert: To ward off (something about to happen); prevent

Awe: The power to inspire dread.

Backing: Support or aid

Backbone:  The vertebrate spine or spinal column.

Balcony:  A platform that projects from the wall of a building and is surrounded by a railing, balustrade, or parapet

Baptize: To admit into Christianity by means of baptism

Barrage: An artificial obstruction, such as a dam or irrigation channel, built in a watercourse to increase its depth or to divert its flow

Barricade: A structure set up across a route of access to obstruct the passage of an enemy

Basement: The substructure or foundation of a building

Bash: To strike with a heavy, crushing blow, strike hard

Basket:  A container made of interwoven material, such as rushes or twigs

Batsman: a person who bats or whose turn it is to bat

Seal: The design or emblem itself, belonging exclusively to the user,

Beard:  the hair growing on the lower parts of a man's face

Behave: To conduct oneself in a specified way

Belong: To be a part of something else

Benign: Of a kind and gentle disposition

Bet: An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

Beverage: Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water

Blind:  Without seeing; blindly

Birch: To throb aggressively

Bitter:  Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh

Blackbeetle:  dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

Blanket:  A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.

Bleb: An air bubble

Bleed: To emit or lose blood

Bless: is the infusion of something with holiness,

Bliss: a state of profound satisfaction, happiness and joy

Bloat: is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched by excessive gas content

Bony: Adjective related to bone

Bore: the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine

Bowel: is the segment of the alimentary canal extending from the mouth via stomach to the anus

Brandy: Alcoholic beverage

Brazing: is a metal-joining process whereby a filler metal is heated above and distributed between two or more close-fitting parts by capillary action

Law: is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical sense

Maid: female employed in domestic service.

Malicious: characterized by malice

Mammal: are a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterized by the possession of hair, three middle ear bones, a neocortex, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young

Manacle: restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together

Matter:  is a general term for the substance of which all physical objects consist

Measure: a unit or standard of measurement

Mellow: to make or become mellow

Mealting:  is a physical process that results in the phase change of a substance from a solid to a liquid

Memoir: a biography or historical account, ESP one based on personal knowledge

Mendicant:  refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely exclusively on charity to survive

Merge: union of two things

Mew: an onomatopoeia associated with cats

Miss:  is an English language honorific traditionally used only for an unmarried woman

Mist: is a phenomenon of small droplets suspended in air. It can occur as part of natural weather or volcanic activity, and is common in cold air above warmer water, in exhaled air in the cold, and in a steam room of asauna

Mitre:  is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church

Mixed: composed of different elements, races, sexes, etc.

Moat: is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence

Mob: a lot of people or persons

Mole: are the majority of the members of the mammal family Talpidae in the order Soricomorpha

Monk: a male member of a religious community bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Monocle: is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the vision in only one eye

Moor: a tract of unenclosed ground, usually having peaty soil covered with heather, coarse grass, bracken, and moss

Mortar: fires shells at a much lower velocity and higher ballistic arc than other ordnance

Mourn:  in the simplest sense, synonymous with grief over the death of someone

Murder: is the unlawful killing of another human being with "malice aforethought", and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide

Muse: to reflect about something, usually in silence

Mutilate:  is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body, usually without causing death

Mutt: an inept, ignorant or stupid person

Mutter: to utter (something) in a low and indistinct tone

Nap: to sleep for a short while

Nark: an informer or spy, usually work for the police in sometimes

Near: at or to a place or time not far away from

Native: relating or belonging to a person or thing by virtue of conditions existing at the time of birth

Node: is a localised swelling (a "knot") or a point of intersection (a vertex)

Nit: a person with severe mental retardation