Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
36 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
|
a steward |
1. a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others. 2. a person who has charge of the household of another, buying or obtaining food, directing the servants, etc. 3. an employee who has charge of the table, wine, servants, etc., in a club, restaurant, or the like. 4. a person who attends to the domestic concerns of persons on board a vessel, as in overseeing maids and waiters. |
|
|
|
a podiatrist |
a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders. |
|
|
|
a psychologist |
a specialist in psychology. |
|
|
|
a chiropractor |
a therapeutic system based primarily upon the interactions of the spine and nervous system, the method of treatment usually being to adjust the segments of the spinal column. |
|
|
|
a retailer |
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale |
|
|
|
an astrologist |
the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs. |
|
|
|
a cryptologist |
a person who studies the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. |
|
|
|
ornithologist |
the branch of zoology that deals with birds. |
|
|
|
an anthropologist |
the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind. |
anthropo- (related to humans) |
|
|
a herpetologist |
the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians. |
|
|
|
a bursar |
a treasurer or business officer, especially of a college or university. |
|
|
|
a cardiologist |
a person who studies the heart and its functions in health and disease. |
|
|
|
a teller |
2. a person employed in a bank to receive or pay out money over the counter. 3. a person who tells, counts, or enumerates, as one appointed to count votes in a legislative body. |
|
|
|
a vendor |
1. a person or agency that sells. 2. vending machine. |
|
|
|
a verger |
1. Chiefly British. a church official who serves as sacristan, caretaker, usher, and general attendant. 2. British. an official who carries the verge or other symbol of office before a bishop, dean, or other dignitary. |
|
|
|
a replica |
1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision. 2. any close or exact copy or reproduction. |
|
|
|
picturesque |
visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village. 2. (of writing, speech, etc.) strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images: a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle. |
|
|
|
to endure |
1. to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo: to endure great financial pressures with equanimity. 2. to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate: I cannot endure your insults any longer. |
|
|
|
imposing |
causing admiration, impressive |
|
|
|
to create havoc |
mess, panic |
|
|
|
to ebb |
to gradually die away, disappear |
|
|
|
magnitude |
2. great importance or consequence: affairs of magnitude. 3. greatness of size or amount. 4. moral greatness: |
|
|
|
to domesticate |
to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild. |
|
|
|
diminutive |
small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout. |
|
|
|
a barrister |
Informal. any lawyer. |
|
|
|
a midwife |
a nurse who helps with child delivery |
|
|
|
a coroner |
a medic who determines a cause of death by dissecting the corpses |
|
|
|
an exporter/ an importer |
a person/organisation who delivers goods from the country or into the country |
|
|
|
demise |
death |
sorry demise |
|
|
tatty |
shabby |
|
|
|
petulant |
irritable |
with a petulant expression on her face |
|
|
to suggest |
to propose |
what do you suggest? |
|
|
regatta |
a marine race, a boat race |
|
|
|
ghetto |
a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships. |
|
|
|
grotto |
a cave |
|
|
|
a desperado |
a desperate person, a bold, reckless criminal or outlaw, especially in the early days of the American West. |
|
