4000 Essential English Words 3 Unit 17: The Magic Cup
Word List
- affection [əˈfekʃən] n.
Affection is a feeling of liking someone or something.
→ Amanda has a lot of affection for her little sister Sarah.
- agency [ˈeɪdʒənsɪ] n.
An agency is a business or service set up to act for others.
→ I went to a travel agency to help me arrange a flight home.
- ash [æʃ] n.
Ash is the grey or black powder created when something is burned.
→ The end of his cigar was full of ashes.
- confine [kənˈfaɪn] v.
To confine something is to keep it in one place.
→ The elephant is confined to a cage in the zoo.
- dismiss [dɪsˈmɪs] v.
To dismiss something is to say it is not important.
→ He quickly dismissed my idea about a new project.
- erupt [ɪˈrʌpt] v.
To erupt is for a volcano or something to shoot a hot substance.
→ The volcano erupted for the first time in ten years.
- fate [feɪt] n.
Fate is a power that causes some things to happen.
→ Some people believe that a person’s hand can tell their fate.
- lava [ˈlɑːvə] n.
Lava is the hot substance made of melted rock that shoots from volcanoes.
→ The red hot lava poured from the volcano.
- miserable [ˈmɪzərəbəl] adj.
If someone is miserable, they are very unhappy.
→ He was miserable after his dog died.
- navigate [ˈnævəgeɪt] v.
To navigate something is to control the way it moves or goes.
→ She navigated the ship across the ocean.
- originate [əˈrɪdʒəneɪt] v.
To originate somewhere is to start there.
→ The idea of democracy originated in Ancient Greece.
- remainder [rɪˈmeɪndə:r] n.
The remainder of something is what is left.
→ He took a bite of the apple, then gave me the remainder of it.
- retrieve [rɪˈtriːv] v.
To retrieve something is to find it and get it back.
→ She retrieved her mail from the mail box.
- shallow [ˈʃælou] adj.
If something is shallow, it is not deep.
→ The kids were playing in the shallow water.
- slope [sloup] n.
A slope is ground that is not flat.
→ The slope to the top of the mountain was very steep.
- span [spæn] v.
To span a length of time is to last that long.
→ His work began in 1999. It has spanned many years since then.
- superstition [suːpərstiʃən] n.
A superstition is something magical that people believe is real.
→ It is a superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
- sympathy [ˈsɪmpəθɪ] n.
Sympathy is a feeling of being sad for another person.
→ I felt sympathy for my sister so I got her a balloon to cheer her up.
- vibrate [vaɪˈbreɪt] v.
To vibrate is to shake very hard.
→ The machine made his whole body vibrate as he broke up the ground.
- wander [ˈwɒndə:r] v.
To wander is to walk without going to a certain place.
→ The boys like to wander in the woods and look at birds.
