1. Thrill (n): A feeling of extreme excitement usually caused by something pleasant.
E.g: The thrill of winning a competition.
2. Endeavour (v): To endeavour is to strive for something. The endeavor itself is the thing you’re striving for, the enterprise or undertaking. So if you endeavour something, you do it with earnestness and a fair amount of effort.
E.g: Engineers are endeavoring to locate the source of the problem.
3. Singe (v): To burn slightly on the surface, without producing flames.
E.g: My jumper started to singe when I leaned over a burning candle.
4. Scorch (v): To (cause to) change colour with dry heat, or to burn slightly.
E.g: The iron was too hot and it scorched the shirt.
5. Elm (n): A large tree which loses its leaves in winter, of the wood from his tree.
6. Devastate (v): If a storm devastates your town, it comes pretty close to destroying it. To devastate is to cause destruction.
Really bad news can devastate a person, or leave them devastated. They are so upset, they feel crushed.
7. Transfusion (n): The process of adding an amount of blood to the body of a person or animal, or the amount of the blood itself.
E.g: She suffered kidney failure and needed a blood transfusion.
8. Protest (v): A protest is a formal declaration of objection. When there are big meetings of powerful countries and corporations, there are often protests staged in front of the meeting building, by people who think that what’s happening inside is wrong.
E.g: A formal protest was made by the German team about their disqualification from the relay final.
9. Induce (v): To induce is to move or lead someone to action. A promise of lollipop can induce a toddler to do just about anything, even sit down and be polite to Aunt Edna. Older kids need something more substantial.
Some people believe that if you offer someone a large enough sum of money, you could induce them to do almost anything.
10. Prolong (v): I don’t want to prolong this definition, so I’ll keep it short. To prolong is to make something last longer or to stretch it out in time.
You see the word long in prolong and it’s no trick. If you prolong an argument with a sibling, you make it longer than it naturally would be. Prolong always has to do with time. When you stretch your neck or a piece of cloth to make it appear longer, you are elongating, not prolonging it.
11. Onslaught (n): It is a military term that refers to an attack against an enemy. It’s safe to say that no one wants to be caught on the receiving end of an onslaught, because there will be lots of danger, destruction and probably death.
E.g: Scotland’s onslaught on Wales in the second half of the match earned them a 1 – 4 victory.
12. Prescribe (v): To prescribe is make orders or give directions for something to be done. These days, the word is mainly used by doctors who prescribe medication to take.
Doctors do a lot of prescribing: they prescribe drugs, rest, exercise, and getting rid of bad habits like smoking. When a doctor prescribes something, he or she is saying, “You need to do this. You should do it.”
13 Steadily (adv): Gradually.
E.g: Prices have risen steadily.
14. Neglect (v): It is worse than ignoring something. It’s ignoring it, failing to create for it, and probably harming it in the process.
You can neglect to do your chores, meaning fail to do them, but this word is usually reserved for cases when you willingly refuse to care for something appropriately.
15. Intravenous (adj): If you are surely dehydrated, your nurse will rig up an intravenous drip to get liquid into you: she’ll skip your mouth and plug directly into your veins.
Often in hospitals you will be given water or nutrients from intravenous drips – you’ve surely seen these on TV if not in the hospital: plastic bags of liquid connected to a tube going into someone’s arm. It’s a way to get needed stuff into your body without waiting for the digestive system to handle it.
Compiled By: Chaudhary Amit V.
Source: Vocabulary.com, Cambridge Dictionary
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