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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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shepherd | n: a person who tends and guards sheep, especially in a rural area | |
bible | n: the sacred writings of the Christian religions, consisting of the Old and New Testaments; a book regarded as authoritative in its field | |
philistine | n: a person who is indifferent or actively hostile to culture and the arts | |
giant | adj: enormous; much bigger or more important than similar items usually are | |
estimate | v: to guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something | |
encounter | v: to face something, particularly something unpleasant or difficult, while attempting to do something else; to meet, especially unexpectedly | |
march | v: to walk militarily with stiff, regular steps | |
warrior | n: a person who engaged in or experienced warfare, especially in the past | |
defeat | v: to win against somebody in a fight, war, or attempt | |
battleground | n: a place where a battle is fought | |
occasion | n: a time or event that is suitable or appropriate for something to happen or be done; a particular event or circumstance that requires or allows for something to be done | |
amuse | v: to entertain or divert the mind; to make someone laugh | |
bravery | n: courage in the face of danger | |
refuse | v: to show that one is not willing to do or accept something | |
sling | v: to throw or drop something somewhere carelessly; to hang loosely or freely; (noun) a length of rope, fabric, or chain used to support or lift something | |
strike | v: to wallop somebody or something with the hand, fist, or weapon; to have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | |
seize | v: to catch or take hold of someone or something suddenly and forcibly; to capture the attention or imagination of something | |
decapitate | v: to cut off the head of someone; to behead | |
upset | adj: causing or marked by anxiety, uneasiness, trouble, or grief; (verb) to make someone anxious, unhappy, or angry | |
victory | n: success in a game, competition, election, or battle, or the knowledge that you have won | |
soar | v: to fly or rise very high or to a great height, often with great grace or ease | |
perceive | v: to become aware or conscious of something through the senses | |
heir | n: a person who has the legal right to receive someone’s money, property, or a title from another person when that person dies | |
befriend | v: to become a friend of someone, especially when in need | |
survive | v: to live or exist despite a dangerous event or period | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
unify | v: to bring or join something together so that they form a single unit | |
tribe | n: a social group made up of members who live together, sharing the same language, culture, religion, etc., especially those who do not live in towns or cities | |
approximately | adv: close to a specific number or time but not exactly that number or time | |
difficulty | n: a condition or state that causes problems | |
impregnate | v: to make a woman or female animal pregnant; to infuse or fill something completely | |
sin | n: the offense against a religious or moral law or against God | |
dispatch | v: to send someone or something somewhere for a particular purpose; to send a message or piece of information | |
prophet | n: a person believed to have an extraordinary power that can understand God’s will. | |
confront | v: to face, meet or deal with a problem or difficult situation or person | |
imperfectly | adv: in a faulty or incomplete way | |
lineage | n: the ancestry of a person, group, or species | |
messiah | n: the promised deliverer who God will send to save the Jewish people, as prophesied in the Hebrew Bible | |
tradition | n: a belief, custom, or way of doing something that has been passed down from generation to generation within a group or society | |
descendant | n: children or offspring of a specific person, plant, or animal | |
speculate | v: to form a theory or conjecture or guess about a subject without solid evidence | |
pituitary | n: a small, pea-sized gland located at the base of the brain that influences the growth and sexual development of the body by producing hormones | |
gland | n: a group of cells in an animal’s body that produce substances needed by the body and release them through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | |
defect | n: an imperfection, shortcoming, or lack of something or someone | |
abnormal | adj: not typical, usual, or regular, especially in a way that is bad | |
hypothesis | n: a proposed idea or explanation that is based on a few known facts but has not yet been proven to be true or accurate | |
symptom | n: any sensation or change in body or mind that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | |
tunnel | n: an underground or underwater passage, typically for trains or cars | |
vision | n: the ability to think about or see the future with imagination and intelligence; the faculty of being able to see | |
sneak | v: to go somewhere, or take someone or something somewhere secretly or stealthily; to steal or do something secretly or stealthily |