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11 English Hornibill Prose Words Meaning

 

11 English Words Meaning 

The Portrait of a Lady

  • A veritable bedlam of chirrupings – refers to the noise and confusion caused by the chirrupings of the sparrows
  • Absurd – Illogical
  • Accepted her seclusion with resignation- the grandmother accepted a lonely life as she accepted the separation from her grandson without objection
  • An expanse of pure white serenity – refers to the calm, relaxed and peaceful character of the author’s grandmother
  • Beads – a small piece of glass or stone threaded with others to make a rosary or necklace
  • Bedlam – confusion
  • Blaze – a very large burning fire
  • Bothered- to be concerned
  • Cherished – hold something dear
  • Chirrupings – the noise of a small bird
  • Clasped – hold tightly
  • Contentment – a state of happiness and satisfaction
  • Corpse- dead body
  • Courtyard- verandah
  • Cremated – dispose of or burn a body after it is dead
  • Criss- cross – a pattern of intersecting straight lines
  • Crude – in a natural state, roughly made
  • Customary – traditional
  • Dilapidated – in a state of despair or ruin
  • Distressed – suffer from extremely sorrow, anxiety or pain
  • Earthen- made of baked or fired clay
  • Fables- fictitious stories with a moral teaching
  • Fetch – go for and then bring back something for someone
  • Frivolous – not having any serious purpose, light-hearted
  • Frivolous rebukes – light hearted scoldings
  • Gentlefolk – People of noble birth
  • Growling – making a low guttural sound in the throat
  • Harlots – Prostitutes
  • Hobbled – walked in an awkward way
  • Imprint – impression or stamp
  • Inaudible- unable to be heard
  • Lewd Association – Indecent or Obscene
  • Locks- hair
  • Mantelpiece- a structure of wood, marble, or stone above and around a fireplace.
  • Moist- wet
  • Monotonous – dull and boring
  • Omitted – leave out or exclude something
  • Overstraining- overdoing something
  • Pallor – an unhealthy pale appearance
  • Perched – alight or rest on something
  • Persuade – to talk someone into doing something, request
  • Plastered- covered with a layer of plaster
  • Portrait- painting or picture
  • Prophets- saints
  • Protested – express an objection against something or someone
  • Puckered – a face contract into wrinkles
  • Rebuke – disapproval of something or someone
  • Revolting – unpleasant
  • Rosary- a string of beads for keeping count of number of chants made of a religious prayer
  • Sagging – sinking downwards
  • Scattered – disorganized
  • Scriptures – the sacred writings of a religion
  • Seclusion – the state of being private and away from the people
  • Sentimental – a feeling of nostaglia, sadness or tenderness; an emotional feeling
  • Serenity – the state of being peaceful and calm
  • Shooed – make a person or animal go away by shouting or saying ‘shoo’
  • Shroud – a piece of cloth used to wrap a dead person
  • Slate- a flat plate of slate formerly used for writing on in schools
  • Snapped- break suddenly and completely
  • Spinning-wheel – a household machine with a wheel attached to it for spinning yarn
  • spotless white – she wore clean, white coloured dresses
  • Stale- no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.
  • Stoop – bend one’s body forward
  • The sagging skins of the dilapidated drum- The loose surface of the worn out drum
  • The thought was almost revolting- it was very hard for the author to believe
  • Thumped- hit
  • Undignified- disrespectful
  • Untidily – not neat
  • Veritable – use to describe something which is very interesting or unusual
  • Wrinkled- having lines or folds
  • Years rolled by- time passed

 

 

We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together Word Meaning

  • Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
  • Aft – near the stern of the ship
  • Anchored – moor a ship to the sea bottom
  • Ashore – on the shore of the land
  • Atrocious – bad; of a very poor quality
  • Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine used to board ships to operate a windlass in the ship
  • Bashed – strike hard; hit
  • Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation
  • Boom – pole that controls the angle and shape of the sail
  • Bulged – swell
  • Bunk – bed
  • Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
  • Capsizing – be overturned in the water
  • Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
  • Crest – reach the top of a wave
  • Debris – rubbish
  • Deck – a floor of a ship
  • Deflected: turned aside
  • Deteriorate – get worse
  • Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or sail
  • Donned – put on, wore
  • Dozed off – went off to sleep
  • Enormous – a very large size
  • Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
  • Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
  • Gales – A very strong wind
  • Gigantic – huge; of a big size
  • Hatch – door
  • Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
  • Honing – sharpen, improving
  • Honing our seafaring skills – improving the skills required to travel by sea
  • Hull – the framework of the vessel
  • Hurled – throw with a great force
  • Impending – about to happen
  • Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a ship
  • Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
  • Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
  • Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
  • Leisure – free time
  • Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses; bent
  • Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
  • Mayday calls –words used to signal ships stuck in a disastrous situation through radio
  • Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored
  • Offshore – situated at the sea some distance from the shore
  • Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil
  • Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
  • Optimistic – hopeful and confident
  • Paraffin – colorless flammable oil liquid
  • Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin
  • Pinpricks in the vast ocean – the two small islands in the vast ocean were very tiny like the prick caused by a pin
  • Respite – a short period of rest
  • Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure of the ship
  • Scrambled – climb; claw one’s way
  • Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
  • Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60 degrees for taking altitudes and navigation
  • Shook – past tense of shake (vibrate)
  • Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
  • Smashed – badly broken
  • Smashed – shattered or violently broken
  • Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side when one is facing forward
  • Stark – sharply defined
  • Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat
  • Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
  • Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
  • Torrent – a fast moving stream of water
  • Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son, Jonathan
  • Tremendous – very great in amount
  • Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
  • Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
  • Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed

 

Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues Word meaning

  • Adorned – decorated
  • Adornments – ornaments
  • Afterlife- life after death, based on the belief that the essential part of an individual’s identity continues to the next life after the death of the physical body
  • Aftermath – after-effects of an unpleasant event
  • Amulet – an ornament or small piece of jewellery thought to give protection against evil, danger, or disease.
  • Anatomy – the branch of science which deals with the bodily structure of humans, animals or other living beings
  • Antiquity – age, oldness
  • Apron – a protective garment worn over the front of one’s clothes and tied at the back.
  • Astonishing – amazing
  • Blazing – very hot
  • Budged – moved or shifted; a slight movement
  • Burial – burying the dead
  • Casket- a small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valued objects.
  • Casket grey – It means that the grey clouds were like a grey coloured casket which contained the stars. The stars are like jewels which are kept in a casket.
  • Cemetery- a large burial ground
  • Chiselled away – to cut something with a chisel
  • Circumvented – find a way around; thieves would have found a way to tackle the guards and remove the gold from the tomb
  • Computed Tomography – Also called a CT scan, it is a three-dimensional scan of a body with the help of hundreds of X-Rays in cross-section together
  • Concealed- hid
  • Cramped – very small to fit into
  • Dark-bellied – dark in colour
  • Death rattle – the gurgling sound produced in the throat of a person who is about to die
  • Demise – death
  • Descended – moved or gathered
  • Eerie detail – strange image of Tut’s head as visible with the help of CT scan
  • Forensic Reconstruction – the process of recreating the face of an individual
  • Forensics – the application of the scientific method to investigate a crime
  • Funerary Treasures – the valuable things with which the king was buried
  • Futile – pointless; incapable of producing the result of something
  • Garlands of willow – a wreath of flowers and leaves
  • Gazed – to look in surprise or in admiration
  • Ghostly – eerie and unnatural; unreal
  • Gilded – covered with a thin sheet or coating of gold
  • Glided – quite, continuous motion
  • Hastily – fast; swiftly
  • Heir – Inheritor, successor
  • Hydraulic lift – a lift that uses a machine to lift or move heavy objects with a pressure
  • Iconic – something or someone who is a symbol or it represents some other thing
  • Inlaid – a decorative pattern on a surface
  • Intervening – occur in the time between events
  • Intriguing – to arouse one’s curiosity
  • Laden – loaded
  • Legitimate – reasonable
  • Lingering – long-lasting
  • Mummy- a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment with natron and resin, and wrapping in bandages.
  • Murals – a painting or other artwork executed directly on the wall
  • Pallbearers – a person who helps to escort a coffin at a funeral
  • Pharaoh- a ruler in ancient Egypt
  • Pixels – a pixel is a single point in a graphic image
  • Pondering – think about something carefully
  • Probe – to investigate, find out
  • Ransacked – raid; go through a place to steal or damage something
  • Resins – a sticky flammable substance that is insoluble in water
  • Resting place- here, the grave
  • Resurrection – restoration to life
  • Ritual – here, the resins used in the ceremony of mummification
  • Rock-cut – made in a rock by cutting it
  • Scudded across – moving quickly; it refers to the movement of the dark-bellied clouds
  • Sheaths – a close-fitting cover
  • Shrine – holy place
  • Shroud – a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped
  • Speculated- form a theory without evidence
  • Sprinted – ran at a high speed
  • Spun – to turn around
  • Startling – unexpected or surprising
  • Stirred – move or cause to move slightly
  • Striking- prominent
  • Swirling – to spin or twist
  • Three nested coffin- three coffins placed one in another in order of decreasing size. The innermost coffin houses the body of the deceased.
  • Tomb- an enclosure to bury the dead
  • Veiling – to cover something
  • Vertebrae – series of small bones which form a backbone
  • Wacky –amusing in a slightly odd way
  • Whisper- to speak in a low voice

 

The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role

  • Ailing – in poor health
  • Anguish – pain; suffering
  • Barren wastelands – barely inhabitable piece of land
  • Beget – give life to
  • Casteism – discrimination on the grounds of caste
  • Catalogued – classify; characterise
  • Catastrophic Depletion – a harmful reduction in a number of something
  • Coercion – force
  • Condemns – find guilty of something
  • Dawned – begin
  • Decimated – to reduce in number
  • Decisively – clear and definitive
  • Demise – death
  • Deprives – prevent a person from using something
  • Deteriorate – become progressively worse; decline
  • Distorting – deform; disfigure
  • Endeavour – trying hard to achieve something
  • Ethical Obligation – when someone is required to do something based on a righteous standard of rules
  • Felicitous – well-chosen
  • Freehold – permanent tenure of land or property
  • Green Movement – It is a movement which stresses people to follow environmentally friendly practices.
  • Gripped – clutch; hold
  • Holistic and Ecological View – It means a view for the preservation of the environment. It also refers to the understanding of importance of earth’s resources for the use of future generations
  • Hutments – collection of huts
  • Ignominious darkness – disgraced as no one has knowledge about them
  • Impaired – weakened or damaged
  • Impoverished – made poor
  • Inter Alia – among other things
  • Irrevocably – in a way that cannot be changed or reversed
  • Languish – lose or lack of vitality of a person or plant or animal; grow weak
  • Metabolic needs – needs of a living organism that enables them to have a chemical process that causes food to be used for growth and energy
  • Patrimony – property inherited from father or ancestor
  • Perpetuation – keep going
  • Precede – come before in order or position
  • Procure – obtain with care or effort
  • Reckon – calculate
  • Revolutionary – evolving a complete change
  • Scorched – burn the surface with heat of fire
  • Sterilised – make free from bacteria or other micro organisms
  • Stewards – manage or to look after
  • Sustainable Development – economic development without depletion of natural resources
  • Synthetics – artificial substance
  • Tenancy – possession of the land
  • Transcending Concern – a concern that existed for a very long time and has passed down from one generation to another
  • Ushered – guide someone somewhere
  • Voluntary – done or given of one’s free will

 

 

The Adventure difficult word meaning

  • Amok – to behave uncontrollably
  • Armour – shell
  • Assertion – a confident statement of a fact
  • Astute – smartness; quick-witted
  • Avidly – with great interest
  • Bifurcation – division
  • Blow – by – blow account – a detailed account
  • Catastrophe theory – it is a branch of mathematics concerned with systems displaying discontinuous changes
  • Converged – met
  • De facto – existing in fact with or without any lawful authority
  • Determinism – a doctrine that all the events are caused by the external will
  • Dismay – shock
  • Disparity – difference
  • Doctored accounts – manipulated accounts related to history
  • Dumbfounded – amazed
  • Emerged – developed; begin
  • Expansionist – a follower of the policy of territorial or economic expansion
  • Figurehead – a carving; image
  • Flourishing – to grow successfully
  • Frugal – less costly and simple
  • Gave vent to – to express one’s feelings
  • Grave – serious
  • Hostile – unfriendly
  • Ignoramus – an ignorant person
  • Impetus – the force with which body moves
  • Imposing – Impressive
  • Inadvertently – unintentionally
  • Manifestation – the action of showing something; demonstration
  • Marshall – to gather something
  • Melee – a confused fight
  • Morale booster – anything which boosts self- confidence
  • Outpost – a small military camp used as a guard
  • Permits – authorize to do something
  • Political acumen – political smartness
  • Precise – error-free; correct
  • Precise – exact; accurate
  • Proclaimed – to announce something officially
  • Quantum theory – a theory of matter and energy based on quantum mechanics.
  • Relegated to – assigned to a lower rank
  • Riddle – mystery or puzzle
  • Roared – to move at a high speed while making a loud noise
  • Rout – a defeat
  • Sacrilege – disrespect
  • Seldom – not often
  • Shoved – to push someone roughly
  • Smugly – to show excess satisfaction 
  • Speculating – wondering
  • Startling – surprising
  • Stroll – to wander
  • Suburban – residential area
  • Supremacy – the condition of being superior to others
  • Swarmed – move somewhere in a large number
  • Throng – a large pack of crowd
  • Townships – Towns or villages
  • Trajectory – the path followed by a projectile flying
  • Triumphant – Successful
  • Triumphantly – to win a battle
  • Valiantly – bravely
  • Valour – great courage in battle
  • Ventured – to say something that might be considered as an apology
  • Viable – practical

  

Silk Road meaning of difficult words

  • Accumulated – gathered
  • Arid – having little or no rain
  • Ascent – climb on an upward slope
  • Billowed – filled with air; swelled out
  • Bounding – jump; hop; bounce
  • Brackish – slightly salty water
  • Brook – a small stream
  • Cairn of rocks – the pile of stone on the top of the mountain, especially where someone is buried.
  • Careered down – sinking the slope
  • Cavernous – vast
  • Clambered – move or climb in an awkward way
  • Clung – hold tightly onto something
  • Confinement – detention; captivity
  • Cosmology – science about the origin and development of the universe
  • Daubed – spread a thick sticky substance on a surface carelessly
  • Derelict – ruined
  • Devout – deep
  • Drokba – Shepherd
  • Ducking Back – going inside and then coming out
  • En masse – in a group
  • Encrusted – decorated with a hard surface layer
  • Envisaged – predicted
  • Evasive – slippery
  • Ferocious – cruel or violent
  • Festooned – decorated
  • Filthy – dirty
  • Flanks – sides
  • Fling – throw
  • Flocks – a group of birds
  • Forge – put together; build-up
  • Frown – to disapprove of something
  • Galloping – progressing in an uncontrollable manner
  • Gasping – breathlessness
  • Gazelles – an African or Asian mammal with large eyes that moves quickly and hoofs
  • Glinting – sparkle or twinkle 
  • Grim – ugly or grey
  • Heaps – loads
  • Herd – a large group of animal
  • Incongruous – strange
  • Kora – meditation performed by Buddhist believers
  • Laden – loaded
  • Lichen – a slow-growing plant which grows on walls, trees or rocks
  • Loaves – bread shaped and baked in one piece which is usually sliced before being eaten
  • Lurching – listing
  • Manoeuvres – military exercises
  • Mastiffs – a dog who is a strong breed with dropping ears saggy ears
  • Meanders – to follow a winding course of a river or road
  • Nibbling – take a small bite from
  • Nocturnal – night time
  • Paraphernalia – miscellaneous articles
  • Pastures – land covered with grass
  • Pellets – shots
  • Petered out – to diminish gradually and stop
  • Plumes – Trails
  • Pockmarked – disfigured with a scar
  • Pondering – thinking
  • Propping – to hold up
  • Prostrating – lying down
  • Rag – scrap cloth
  • Rickety – unstable
  • Rudimentary – basic or primary
  • Salt flats – thatched roof covered with snow
  • Sanctity – pure
  • Shaggy – bushy or hairy
  • Size me up – to look at someone attentively
  • Slither – to move smoothly over a surface
  • Solitary – private
  • Solitary – private
  • Stark – plain
  • Stout – firm
  • Swathe – a long strip of land
  • Swerve – change direction suddenly
  • Throb – pulsate
  • Tiresome – dull and boring
  • Transpired – leaked
  • Veering – to change direction suddenly
  • Venerated – respected
  • Vestiges – a trace of something that is disappearing
  • Well-trodden – much frequented by travellers
  • Wild ass – an animal who have ears shorter than a horse and smaller in size
  • Wilderness – wasteland
  • Wisp – a small amount of something
  • Wreathed – twisted
  •