Vocabulary - 15

1. Fortunate: lucky

2. Comfort: relief

3. To come across: meet

4. Expose: reveal, uncover

5. Ivory: tusk of elephant

6. Consist: include

7. Plunder: rob, take by force

8. Rejoice: make merry

9. Considerable: large, huge, substantial

10. Grieve: be sad, suffer

11. Demonstrate: display, show

12. Pursue: to follow, chase, (The police pursued the thief. She decided to pursue her study in management.)

13. Callousness: hard-heartedness

14. Tyrant: dictator, cruel

15. Potential: capacity for growth or development, possible

16. Virulent: bitterly hostile, extremely harmful or infectious

17. Detractor: critic, attacker, enemy

18. Raving: wild or irrational speaking

19. Tirade: angry speech, outburst

20. Sledge: a vehicle run by animals on snow

Vocabulary - 14

1. Migration: changing place of living

2. Hospitable: giving friendly and generous reception

3. Divert: deflect, redirect

4. Progressive: advancing

5. Contaminate: pollute

6. Stagger: move unsteadily

7. Crumble: fall down

8. Exertion: fatigue

9. Dispute: quarrel

10. Persecute: to treat unkindly

11. Uneventful: insignificant

12. Indeed: really

13. Captive: prisoner

14. Exhausting: tiring

15. Impulsively: without any thinking

16. Fascinating: attractive

17. Awful: terrifying

18. Gratify: satisfy

19. Ravine: narrow valley

20. Err: make mistake

Vocabulary - 13

1. Interim: meanwhile

2. Obvious: easily understood, clear

3. Overwhelming: overpower, vast, uncontrolable

4. Sanitary: relating to health

5. Epidemic: wide-spread disease

6. Campaign: movement, drive

7. Esteem: respect

8. Ensure: to make sure

9. Rubbish: dirt

10. Optimum: maximum

11. Ruffians: loafers

12. Uproot: to remove by root

13. Aggressive: full of action, full of force, insistent

14. Unhygienic: unclean, unhealthy

15. Engagement: commitmet, appointment, meeting

16. Precious: valuable

17. Marvellous: wonderful, excellent

18. Dampness: wetness

19. Demolition: destruction

20. Initiative: first step

Vocabulary - 12

1. Zest: zeal

2. Demonstrate: show

3. Obstruction: hindrance

4. Slanting: bending

5. Extinct: dead

6. Tremendous: very much, huge

7. Aspirations: intense desires

8. Evade: avoid, escape

9. Overhear: listen in

10. Pretend: make believe

11. Repeal: cancel, revoke

12. Owe: be indebted, be in debt

13. Slay: to kill violently

14. Lay: give

15. Deteriorate: get worse, go down

16. Intellectual: thinker, scholar

17. Redress: put right (from wrong), compensate for

18. Censure: codemn, criticise, blame

19. Vertex: the highest point, apex, the top

20. Deserve: to be worthy of

Vocabulary - 11

1. Argument: quarrel, disagreemet

2. Pretence: excuse

3. Provocate: incite

4. Monster: giant, huge, horrible

5. Confess: admit mistake

6. Affirm: say firmly

7. Gratify: please, satisfy

8. Vanish: disappear

9. Vague: not clear

10. Coincidence: taking place by chance

11. Trimming: cutting a little

12. Scoundrel: crook, villain

13. Perspiration: sweat

14. Get over: overcome

15. Supersticious: having blind faith

16. Humming: buzzing

17. Indulge in: take part in

18. Dumbfounded: speechless

19. Ridiculous: funny, silly

20. Despise: hate