21. Confidante:
Meaning: a woman or girl confidant
Sentence: Within a few short years he was a trusted confidant.
22. Atheist:
Meaning: someone who believes that God or gods do not exist
Sentence: I know an atheist who says ‘ Oh god!
23. Agnostic:
Meaning: someone who does not know, or believes that it is impossible to know, whether a god exists
Sentence: Although he was raised a Catholic, he was an agnostic for most of his adult life.
24. Loose:
Meaning: not firmly fixed in place
Sentence: There were some loose wires hanging out of the wall.
25. Lose:
Meaning: to no longer have something because you do not know where it is, or because it has been taken away from you
Sentence: I’ve lost my ticket.
26. Briefing:
Meaning: information that is given to someone just before they do something or a meeting where this happens
Sentence: They received thorough briefing before they left the country.
27. Debriefing:
Meaning: to question someone in detail about work they have done for you
Sentence: The pilots were thoroughly debriefed after every mission.
28. Dual:
Meaning: with two parts, or combining two things
Sentence: This room has a dual purpose, serving as both a study and a dining room.
29. Duel:
Meaning: a formal fight in the past, using guns or swords, arranged between two people as a way of deciding an argument
Sentence: The composer Strauss was once challenged to a duel.
30. Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.
31. Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it Sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly.
32. Altogether:
Meaning: completely or in total
Sentence: The government ought to abolish the tax altogether.
33. All together:
Meaning: all at the same time
Sentence: The last time we were all together was in 1999.
34. Ambiguous:
Meaning: having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally Sentence: His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.
35. Ambivalent:
Meaning: having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel
Sentence: I felt very ambivalent about leaving home.
36. Appraise:
Meaning: to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success or needs
Sentence: At the end of each teaching practice, trainee teachers are asked to appraise their own performance.
37. Apprise:
Meaning: to tell someone about something
Sentence: The President has been apprised of the situation.
38. Bad:
Meaning: unpleasant; causing difficulties or harm
Sentence: Our holiday was spoiled by bad weather.
39. Badly:
Meaning: in a severe and harmful way
Sentence: She was badly affected by the events in her childhood.
40. Compare:
Meaning: to examine or look for the difference between two or more things
Sentence: If you compare house prices in the two areas, it’s quite amazing how different they are.
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