Tuesday, September 3

Grouping of MCAT Vocabulary ( Part 2)



Weak

  1. craven (weak)
  2. debility( physical weakness)
  3. paper tiger (straw men)
  4. wan (weak)



Unimportant Things

  1. bauble (cheap piece of jewelry)
  2. deuce (draw)
  3. feckless (useless)
  4. litter (rubbish)
  5. otiose (useless)
  6. picayune (trivial)
  7. sediment (solid residue)
  8. Sisyphean (useless)
  9. tchotchkes (cheap jewelry)
  10. trifle (unimportant)



Botanical things

  1. arboreal (relating to trees)
  2. bonsai (art of growing small trees)
  3. bloom (flower)
  4. burgeoning (bud growing quickly)
  5. florid (rosy)
  6. botanical (relating to plants)
  7. sward (area of grass)
  8. 8.green (grassy)
  9. xyloid (relating to wood)
  10. bouquet (bunch of flowers)
  11. pampess (grass land)
  12. steppe (large plain)
  13. grapevine (climbing plant)
  14. viticulture (science of growing grapevines)


Unchangeable

  1. fait accompli (something which cant be changed)
  2. kismet (fate)


Building words

  1. cay ( small island)
  2. catacomb (underground tunnel)
  3. dam (safety wall)
  4. fascia (flat surface)
  5. funicular (a railway on steep slop)
  6. joist (support, pillar)
  7. undergrid (support)
  8. gable (peak of building side wall)
  9. mansard (gable roof)
  10. mausoleum (tomb)
  11. mesa (plain)
  12. pallazo (grand Italian building)
  13. pilaster (pillar)


Church

  1. basilica (a large church)
  2. seminary (school for priest training)
  3. behest (instruction ,order)
  4. prelate (priest)
  5. diocese ( a district for which a bishop is responsible)
  6. candelabrum (candle stand)
  7. laity (all members of a church)
  8. benediction (a christian prayer for blessing)
  9. importune (demand,beg)
  10. denomination (a branch of church)
  11. encyclical (statement issued by pope to bishop, letter)


credits: Taniya Sadia 

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