Wednesday 8 February 2012

Some Unknown Words from First Chapters [Analysis]

            I am reading the pdf version of the book. Due to this fact, I don’t know whether some of words from my new vocabulary are given at the bottom of some pages of other version. 

Word
Guess Meaning
Dictionary Meaning
Picture
tease (3rd chapter)
to annoy someone by mentioning one’s failures
to provoke or disturb by annoying remarks and other annoyances (verb)

despicable (6th chapter)
inferior
fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless (adjective)

pile ( 5th chapter)
accumulation of some substance
a mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot (noun)
wheelbarrow (15th chapter)
a means for transporting soil or this kind of stuffs
a small, one-wheeled (rarely two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads (noun)
buzzard (4th chapter)
rotten, decomposed
in North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture, also called American black buzzard (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) (noun)

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