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Build Your Vocabulary for 1st November :

  1. Stencil (n) : a sheet of metal, card board etc, with a pattern cut out


  2. Stenographer (n) : a writer of shorthand


  3. Step (n) : the act of stepping once the distance covered by one step, a foot-step for ascending and descending


  4. Stepfather (n) : father by the second (or subsequent) marriage of the mother


  5. Stepmother (n) : mother by marriage with the father


  6. Steeping stone (n) : a stone affording a foot-rest, a means of advancement or achieving one’s aim


  7. Stereotype (n) : fixed immovable types


  8. Sterile (adj.) : batten, unfruitful


  9. Sterilize (v) : to destroy the reproductive power, disinfect


  10. Sterling (adj.) : genuine, of good quality


  11. Stern (adj.) : severe, harsh, unrelenting, strict


  12. Stern (n) : poop


  13. Sternum (n) : the breast-bone or chest-bone


  14. Stethoscope (n) an instrument used by doctors for listening to the beating of the heart


  15. Stew (v) : cook by boiling slowly


  16. Steward (n) : an officer who manages a household or estate, one in charge of stores and provisions in a ship


  17. Stick (n) : a switch, a staff, a rod


  18. Stick (v) : fix, adhere, stick in the mud


  19. Sticky (adj.) : that sticks or adheres to things, viscous




English Vocabulary Index



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