Dictionary

• Constituent

  One of the parts that a substance or combination is made of
• Destitute

  Without money, food, a home, or possessions
• Deserted

  If a place is deserted, there are no people in it
• Predicament

  An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of
• Quirk

  An unusual habit or type of behavior, or something that is strange and unexpected
• Embark

  To go onto a ship
• Evade

  To avoid or escape from someone
• Pry

  To try to obtain private facts about a person
• Adjust

  To change something slightly, especially to make it more correct, effective, or suitable
• Ailing

  Sick
• Miscreants 


  A person who has done something wrong or unlawful
• Cavorts

  To jump or move around in a playful way, sometimes noisily, and often in a sexual way
• Verboten

  Not allowed
• Salutation

  A greeting used in written or spoken communication
• Catastrophic 


  Something is very bad, harmful, or disastrous
• Impart

  To communicate information to someone
• Ascertain 


  To discover something
• Malaise

  A general feeling of being ill or having no energy, or an uncomfortable feeling that something is wrong, especially with society, and that you cannot change the situation
• Endeavour

  to try or attempt to do something
• Profusely

  In large amounts
• Squiffy 


  Slightly drunk
• Wazz

  An act of urinating (= passing urine from the body)
• Vermin 


  Small, harmful animals or insects that are difficult to get rid of
• Thwart 


  To stop something from happening or someone from doing something
• Downwind

  In the direction in which the wind blows; with the wind behind
• Erode 


  Damage physically
• Tempestuous

  If something such as a relationship or time is tempestuous, it is full of strong emotions
• Staunchly

  in a very loyal and committed manner
• Opulently

  In an expensive and luxurious way
• Confined

  To keep someone closed in a place, often by force
• Thorough

  being careful and complete in your work, or paying close attention to detail
• Enmity

  Intense hostility
• Ardent 


  Very enthusiastic or passionate
• Intercede

  Intervene on behalf of another
• Diminished 


  To reduce or be reduced in size or importance
• Grandeur

  The quality of being very large and special or beautiful
• Indicative

  being or relating to a sign that something exists, is true, or is likely to happen
• Reintegrate

  Integrate (someone) back into society
• Precedence 


  The condition of being dealt with before other things or of being considered more important than other things
• Posit

  To suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed.

  • [ + that ] If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them.