Pesticide definition in context with images in the visual dictionary from the book, Vocabulary for the College-Bound Student used in a real or authentic context. Learn the word, pesticide, in a scientific context and improve your reading comprehension as well. /ˈpes.tɪ.saɪd/ (noun) Pesticide definition a chemical substance that is used to terminate or kill unwantedRead…
Regicide definition and meaning from the book, 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam, used in authentic and short passages. Learn the meaning of the word, regicide, and improve your vocabulary in real context with illustrations. /ˈredʒ.ɪ.saɪd/ (noun) Regicide definition the act of killing a king or a person who kills aRead…
Definition of Immolate from 601 Words You Need to Know in visual dictionary and thesaurus and in authentic context with real examples for advanced English learners /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ (verb) Definition to sacrifice or kill someone including yourself especially through burning, victimize, slaughter, commit suicide as a protest, kill someone or yourself as a ritual sacrifice, offerRead…
Euthanasia 601 Words You Need to Know /ˌjuː.θəˈneɪ.ʒə/ (noun) Definition the act of painlessly putting an end to someone’s life who is too old or ill and there’s no hope for them so that the afflicted person would not suffer any more, mercy killing, coup de grâce, assisted suicide Example Euthanasia is the practice ofRead…
Vendetta 601 Words You Need to Know /venˈdet.ə/ (noun) Definition deep-rooted and prolonged feud or quarrel between families in which members try to kill each other to take revenge, blood feud, grudge, dispute, hostility Example Vendetta, feud, also called blood feud is a continuing state of conflict between two groups within a society (typically kinshipRead…
Genocide 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 4 Genocide 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 4 /ˈdʒen.ə.saɪd/ (noun) murder or killing of the entire ethnic group, slaughter, bloodshed, carnage, mass homicide, mass murder, massacre, annihilation, extermination, eradication, elimination, liquidation, bloodletting, butchery, ethnic cleansing, decimation Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime and theirRead…
Decapitate 1100 Words You Need Week 45 Day 4 Decapitate 1100 Words You Need Week 45 Day 4 /dɪˈkæp.ɪ.teɪt/ (verb) to cut off the head of a person, behead, guillotine, decollate, execute, amputate, truncate, kill Man whose remains were mysteriously discovered at the edge of a creek was ‘brutally decapitated’ – as police charge ‘closeRead…
Carnage 1100 Words You Need Week 44 Day 1 Carnage 1100 Words You Need Week 44 Day 1 /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ (noun) widespread slaughter of people, the violent act of killing a lot of people, killing, bloodshed, mass murder, massacre, bloodbath, butchery, too many casualties, genocide AT LEAST 27 people – including four children and an 18-month-oldRead…
Fatal 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 Fatal 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 2 /ˈfeɪ.təl/ US /-ţəl/ (adj) too dangerous and deadly, lethal, mortal, leading to failure or disaster, disastrous, killing, terminal, mortal, incurable, untreatable, inoperable, malignant, destructive, ruinous For more than a decade, heart disease and cancer, two fatal diseases,Read…
A Horseman in the Sky A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ I One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road in western Virginia. He lay at full length upon hisRead…