Vocabulary Glossary: Relationships, Animals, Law, and More

Posted on Aug 29, 2024 in English

Relationships

• Acquaintances: People you know but not really your friends.
• Advice: Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem.
• Ask Out: To invite (someone) to a social engagement.
• Argue: To put forth reasons for or against.
• Breaks his heart: Devastates.
• Break up: Split up.
• Cheat on: To be unfaithful.
• Clown: A buffoon or jester who entertains by jokes, antics, and tricks in a circus, play, or other presentation.
• Close friends: Best friends.
• Couple: A pair.
• Chat up: To talk informally with (someone), especially in a flirtatious manner.
• Classmates: People in your class.
• To date: Go out with a boy or girl.
• Discuss: To talk about a topic.
• Ex: A former spouse or partner.
• Fall out with: Argue with somebody, not be friends anymore.
• Gossip: Talk about private lives.
• Flirt with: To tease or trifle with someone alluringly.
• Get on with: Have a friendly relation.
• Getting my own way: Doing and having what I want.
• Get together: To have a relationship.
• Hit it off: Get on really well.
• Habits: Things you do every day.
• Love at first sight: An immediate and powerful attraction.
• Mature: Develop emotionally.
• Make up with: Return to being friends.
• Make up for: To compensate for something.
• Pop the question: Propose marriage.
• Pick on: Bully a person all the time.
• Plenty: More than enough.
• Row: To have an argument with somebody.
• Rely on: Depend on.
• Relatives: Members of your family.
• Struggle: Strife.
• Stand up for: Defend a person who is being attacked or criticized.
• Stand up: To jilt.
• Stand, tolerate: To endure.
• Survey: To consider or study in a general way.
• Siblings: A brother or sister.
• Warning, notice: Advice to be cautious.
• The love of her life: The partner of her dreams.
• Tie the knot: Get married.
• Trait: A characteristic feature or quality distinguishing a particular person or thing.
• Turn into: Become something.
• Trust: Believe that a person won’t disappoint you.
• Turn out: To develop in a certain kind of way.
• To make up: To put cosmetics on.
• To make up your mind: To decide something.
• To make something: To invent something.
• To make up for: To compensate.
• Underpaid: Not paid enough.
• Overeat: Eat too much.

Animals & Animal Welfare

• Breed: To develop by training or education.
• Captivity: The condition of being captive; imprisonment.
• Cages: A boxlike enclosure with wires or bars forming the sides, for keeping birds or animals.
• Extinct: No longer active.
• Ethical: In accordance with principles of conduct that are considered correct, especially those of a given profession or group.
• Free-range: Permitted to graze or forage for grain, etc., rather than being confined to a feedlot or a small enclosure.
• Factory farm: A large industrialized farm.
• Wildlife: Animals living in the wild.
• Endangered species: A species of plant or animal at risk of extinction because of human activity, changes in climate, etc., especially when it is officially designated as such by a governmental or international agency.

Law & Legal Terms

• Barge: A large flat boat without sails and pulled by a horse on a path beside the river.
• Cabin: A room on a ship where passengers sleep.
• Deputy-keeper: Assistant who helped the Lock-keeper in his work.
• Docks: Places on a river where large ships stop to unload goods or passengers.
• Lock-gates: Heavy, solid wooden gates built across a river.
• Lock-house: A house near the lock-gates where the Lock-keeper lived.
• Lock-keeper: The man in charge of opening and closing the lock-gates.
• Chambers: Rooms where lawyers lived near the Law Courts in London.
• Charge: When a policeman accuses someone of a crime, he charges that person with the crime.
• Client: A person who asks a lawyer to work for him or her becomes the lawyer’s client.
• Evidence: Information which helps to prove the innocence or guilt of someone who is accused of a crime.
• Identified: To identify a body is to look at it and to say who the dead man or woman is.
• Inherit: To receive the money or property of a will.
• Inquest: A court to decide who a dead person is and how they died.
• Oath: To swear an oath is to promise that what you have written down is the truth.
• Reward: A sum of money paid to a person who helps the police to find a criminal.
• Suspect: To think that someone has done something wrong.
• Swear: To promise.
• Will: Before a person dies, they write down and sign a paper. This paper is called a will and it says who is to receive their money when the person is dead. The person who gets the money inherits it from the person who has died.
• Witness: When someone signs their name to an agreement to say they know the other person’s signature is correct.

Other Vocabulary

• Awkward: Something that causes difficulty; hard to deal with.
• Awkwardly: Stiff and uneasy. Someone who does not speak easily, speaks awkwardly.
• Calm: Not made excited or angry easily.
• Desperate: A person so full of emotions like anger or jealousy that he or she is ready to do anything, even to kill.
• Firm: Determined and not easily persuaded to do anything you do not want to do.
• Idly: Not very interested.
• Lazy: Unwilling to work or use energy.
• Rough: To have an irregular surface.
• Spoilt: A person who has always been given what they want and believes that they will always get what they want, is spoilt.
• Cab: Nowadays is a taxi, but a cab in the nineteenth century was a small carriage pulled by a horse.
• Cheat: Someone who tricks someone else.
• Choke: Something that makes it difficult for you to breathe.
• Crutches: A thick stick which fits under the arm and helps someone to walk.
• Disguise himself: Dress himself in different clothes and wear false hair and a false beard so that no one knows who he is.
• Dolls’ Dressmaker: A person whose job is making doll’s clothes.
• Friend – Our Mutual Friend: A person who is well-known by two people is the mutual friend of both of these people.
• Gloomy: A dark evening which makes a person feel sad and miserable.
• Insults: Says rude and impolite things to someone.
• Neckerchief: A piece of cloth worn round the neck.
• Pupil-teacher: Someone who is learning, and teaching junior pupils, at the same school.
• Queer: Twisted, not straight.
• Rival: A person competing with another for the same objective.
• Ruin: A woman who attracts a man so much that he is almost mad because of his love for her, is the ruin of that man.
• Threatening: To threaten someone is to say that you will do harm to that person.