Comprehensive Vocabulary List: Definitions and Terms

Posted on Jan 21, 2025 in Physics

Comprehensive Vocabulary List

General Terms

  • Mournful: Very sad
  • Farther: From a great distance
  • Fleeting: Happening for only a moment
  • Muffled: Quiet or not clear sound
  • Dumb: Not able to speak
  • Sublime: Extremely beautiful
  • Hastens: To make something happen faster
  • Steeds: Horses that are ridden
  • Stalls: Components in a stable
  • Stamp: Small piece of paper with a picture or pattern on it that is stuck onto a letter or package before it is posted
  • Neigh: Long, loud, high call that is produced by a horse when it is excited
  • Carols: Happy or religious songs
  • Blithe: Happy and without worry
  • Plank: A line of light that shines from a bright object
  • Ruthless: Not thinking or worrying about any pain caused to others; cruel
  • Ploughing: A large farming tool with blades that digs the soil in fields so that seeds can be planted
  • Whirr: To make a low, soft, continuous sound (machines)
  • Bugles: A musical instrument like a simple trumpet, used especially in the army
  • Rumble: To make a continuous loud sound

Architectural and Household Terms

  • Abode: A place in which a person stays
  • Plaster: Concrete light mixture to apply on walls
  • Chimney: Structure that rises above the roof as an escape route for smoke
  • Chinks: A crack, break, fissure, or narrow opening
  • Hewn: Handmade, with physical effort
  • Stud: Holds things together
  • Casing: Framework around a window

Nature and Environment

  • Dew: Moisture in small drops on a surface
  • Exude: To come out gradually in drops
  • Midst: Airborne visible vapor
  • Ripple: Small undulation or soft waves
  • Sturdily: Strongly built; firm
  • Rout: To defeat decisively
  • Swath: Path cut or formed in grass
  • Mean: (In the story: how simple is life) To have as its sense
  • Hastily: Unduly quick; precipitate
  • Clout: Hit, punch strongly
  • Unfathomed: Unreachable
  • Vessel: Tubular container
  • Pebbly: Surface covered with small stones
  • Cleaver: Knife for cutting meat into pieces
  • Discern: To distinguish between good and bad
  • Rifts: Tearing apart something that used to be together, separation
  • Fore-paws: Front paws
  • Burrow: A hole or tunnel in the ground made by animals
  • Gouged: Pushing to pop something out
  • Frittered: To break or tear into small pieces, waste little by little
  • Wretched: Miserable, horrid
  • Reckon: To judge, to count
  • Parish: A local church
  • Forsake: Give up, leave, abandon