Pair of Words from CSS year 2009
1. Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone
Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
2. Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
3. Luxuriant:
Meaning: growing thickly, strongly and well
Sentence: This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
4. Luxurious:
Meaning: very comfortable and expensive
Sentence: They have a very luxurious house.
5. Mean:
Meaning: to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
Sentence: These figures mean that almost 7% of the working population is unemployed.
6. Mien:
Meaning: a person’s appearance, especially the typical expression on their face
Sentence: His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out.
7. Observation:
Meaning: when you observe something or someone
Sentence: The police are keeping the suspect under observation.
8. Observance:
Meaning: when someone obeys a law or follows a religious custom
Sentence: The State must enforce the observance of human rights in its domestic legal order.
9. Naughty:
Meaning: not behaving properly; mischievous or disobedient
Sentence: Now that’s naughty – you mustn’t throw food on the floor!
10. Knotty:
Meaning: complicated and difficult to solve
Sentence: That’s rather a knotty question.
11. Ghostly:
Meaning: pale and transparent
Sentence: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
12. Ghastly:
Meaning: unpleasant and shocking
Sentence: Today’s newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
13. Hew:
Meaning: to cut a large piece out of rock, stone or another hard material in a rough way Sentence: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
14. Hue:
Meaning: a particular shade or tint of a given color
Sentence: In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.
15. Hoard:
Meaning: to collect large amounts of something and keep it in a safe, often secret, place Sentence: During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.
16. Horde:
Meaning: a large group of people
Sentence: Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult.
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