- Conjure (v): summon a devil; practice magic; imagine or invent.
Use: Sorcerers conjure devils to appear.
- Coven (n): a meeting or group or witches
- Exorcise (v): to drive out or rid somebody of an evil spirit by prayers or magic
a priest exorcised the ghost from the houses
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Confusing words
- Amazon (n): female warrior
- Application (n): diligent attention
- August (adj): impressive; majestic
Syn: Majestic, Palatial, Stately, Splendid, Magnificient
Use: visiting the palace at Versailles, she was impressed by the august surrounding in which she found herself.
- Buffet (v): slap; batter; knack about
- Cataract (n): great waterfall
- Compact (n): agreement, contract
- Amorous (adj): openly showing or feeling love; relating to sexual love.
Use: love them and leave them, is the motto of the amorous boys.
- Platonic: (of love or a friendship between two people) close and deep but not sexual.
a platonic relationship
- Chaste (adj): not having sex except with the person to whom one is married.
Use: to ensure that his bride would stay chaste while he is off to the wars, the crusader had her fitted with a chastity belt.
: Not having had sex with anyone; pure, virgin.
- Celibate (adj): not married, esp. for religious reasons.
: Not having sexual relation
use: she decided to adopt a celibate lifestyle.
Celibacy (n): the state of not being married or of not having sexual relationships; esp. for a long time.
Use: catholic priests take a vow of celibacy.
Quote: Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures (Samuel Johnson).
- Arson (n): the deliberate criminal act of setting fire to a house or other buildings.
Arsonist (n): a person who commits arson
- Combustible (adj): that can catch fire and burn easily
Use: all combustible material should be keep in safe containers
- Conflagration (n): a great fire that destroys a lot of property etc.
- Flammable (adj): easily catching fire; that can burn easily
Inflammable (adj): that can very easily catch fire and burn
Nonflammable (adj): not catching fire easily
- Flint (n): a very hard grey stone that can produce a spark of fire when struck against steel.
Use: the layer of rock contains a lot of flint.
: prehistoric flint tools
- Ignite (v): to start of burn or make something start to burn
Use: petrol ignites very easily
- Incendiary (adj): designed to set buildings, etc on fire
Use: an incendiary bomb/ device/ attack
Incendiary (n): a bomb that causes a fire
- Inferno (n): a large dangerous fire that is out of control
Use: within minutes the shop was a blazing/ raging/ roaring inferno
Smolder (v): to burn slowly without flame
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Use: a cigarette smoldering in the ashtray
: she smoldered with jealousy
: smoldering heart (Nepali: Mutu Jali Rahe6)
- Pyromania (n): a mental illness that causes a strong desire to set fire to things
use: he is suffering from Pyromania
Pyromanic (n): a person who suffers from pyromania
- Pyre(n): a large pile of wood for burning a dead body as part of a funeral ceremony
Use: a funeral pyre
- Pall (n): a cloth spread over a coffin
: a dark or heavy covering
Use: a pall of smoke hung over the town
- Appropriate (v): to take something for one’s use, especially without permission or illegally
Use: he was accused of appropriating club funds
- Redress (n): remedy; compensation
Use: redress an injustice/ a grievance
: redress the damage done
- Redoubtable (adj): formidable; deserving to be feared and respected
Use: a redoubtable opponent/ fighter
- Shaving (n): very thin piece; esp. of wood
Use: the floor of the carpenter’s shop was covered with food shaving
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