Monday, 24 October 2011

UFS 201 vocabularly 10 new words more than three syllabus

Vocabulary English for specific purpose



Words
Means
IPA
Synonym
Antonym
Example of sentences
Widdershins
This obsolete adverb(used only facetiously and in some Scottish dialects)
Wid’er-shinz
counter clockwise
clockwise
I point out that the day may soon come when clockwise with hands are obsolete.
vilipend
Related to vile and vilification, vilipend is a word that implies disparagement, slander or critics, but usually with a fairly light and mocking tone.
Vil’i-pend
disparagement
praise
A particularly good term to refer to a certain style of literary and academic mockery and god knows there are enough people out there who need to be vilipend.
xenium
A gift made to guest or ambassador and any compulsory gift.
Zee’ni-um
Jewellery expensive
Artificial
jewellery
My gift of xenium to you is most definitely desired.
Tregetour
Someone who uses cunning deceive others (sometimes but not limited to stage performance magician.
Trej’e-ter
Huckster
customer
A useful poetic word for a magician, but also a more pleasant sounding name for a huckster.
Skeuomorph
Originally used in architecture and archaeology to refer to a feature whose origin was a functional, but whose only vestige was as a decorative ornament.
Skyoo’e-murf
artefact
Natural object
The scientist has found an artefact at the cave that have in Malaysia.





Nepenthe
Something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forgets suffering.
Ni-pen’thee
intoxicated
sober
The use of nepenthe today largely reflects the reputed powers of alcohol to get rid of the memory of one’s woes.
Peccavi
An admission of sin or silt, not only is this word’s meaning unique and its sound very interesting but it gave rise to the most witty multilingual pun of all time.  
Pek-ah-vee
Sinned
reward
Who make a sinned must be have forgiveness from the God.
Miasma
Foul vapours emitted from rotting matter, unwholesome air atmosphere.
mi-az’me
pollution
conservation
I can safely predict with the current state of the environment that miasma may become a much more common word in the next fifty years.
zetetic
A term originally used to refer to pyrhonists, a group of ancient greek sceptics; it has come to mean both the process of inquiry and one who so proceeds.
Ze-tet’ik
investigation
indifferent
A zetetic is thus a sort of intellectual agnostic who while seeking greater truths is always wary of falsehood.
tantivy
Tantivy is most often used today as an adverb but can also be used as a noun (a hunting cry) an adjective (swift, speedy) and an interjection (the sound of the horn of horses hooves. No one knows the origins of this peculiar.
Tan-tiv’ee
speedy
slowed
The driver was drive in high speedy that make all people in the bus was scared.


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