Word

Definition

Example

Synonyms

Short
Story/Novel

Ghastly

Causing great horror or fear

Living conditions there are

ghastly and affect the poorest,
especially children.

A Really Splendid Evening p

105

Hoarse

Of a persons voice)
sounding rough and harsh,
typically as the result of a
sore throat or of shouting
(Of a person) unable to
remain still, silent, or
submissive, especially
because of boredom or
dissatisfaction
Push suddenly or violently
in a specified direction

Mr President, excuse me if I
am a bit hoarse, but I have a
cold.

terrible, frightful, horrible,

grim, awful, dire;frightening,
terrifying, horrifying,
alarming;distressing, shocking,
appalling,
rough, harsh, croaky, croaking,
throaty, gruff, husky, guttural,
gravelly, growly, cracked,
grating, rasping, raucous

Canada's new Conservative

government faces restive
provinces

restless, fidgety, edgy, on edge,

tense, uneasy, ill at ease,
worked up, nervous, agitated,
anxious

105

she thrust her hands into her

pockets

shove, push, propel, impel;

send, press, drive, plunge, stick,
force,

105

Restive

Thrust
Stoutish

Rim

Perspiring

105

Having or marked by
boldness, bravery, or
determination; firm and
resolute

The upper or outer edge

of an object, typically
something circular or
approximately circular
Give out sweat through
the pores of the skin as a
result of heat, physical
exertion, or stress

105

she wore spectacles with

thin gold rims

brim, edge, lip

106

Always shower soon after

exercising or perspiring
heavily

sweat

106

Beverage
frail

Tinkering with

Grope

Drink
his small, frail body

Attempt to repair or
improve something in a
casual or desultory way/
To manipulate
unskillfully or
experimentally
Search blindly or
uncertainly by feeling
with the hands:

Vehement

Half-muffled s

Stifle

Cover or wrap up (a
source of sound) to
reduce its loudness

Make (someone) unable

to breathe properly;
suffocate

You should never tinker

with the dosage on your
own.

I never have to grope for

methods," he said.

We cannot approve such

relentlessness and we
express our most vehement
concerns regarding the
future third railway
package.
Anyone who disagrees with
the official line has their
voice muffled and is
deprived of access to the
public stage.
Eleanor stifled a giggle

drink

106

infirm, weak, weakened, feeble,

enfeebled, debilitated,
incapacitated, crippled, wasted;
delicate, slight, slender, puny;
interfere with, meddle with

107

umble, scrabble, fish, ferret

(about/around), rummage
(about/around/round), root
about/around, feel, cast
about/around/round, search,
hunt, look
passionate, forceful, ardent,
impassioned, heated, spirited,
urgent, fervent, fervid, strong,
forcible, powerful, emphatic,
vigorous, animated, intense,
violent, fierce, earnest, eager,
keen, enthusiastic,

107

107

108

indistinct, faint, muted, dull,

dim, soft, strangled, stifled,
smothered, suppressed

108

suffocate, choke, asphyxiate;

smother

108

Threshold

Bobbing about
Garish-looking r

Waft
/wft

Ordeal
dil

A strip of wood or stone

forming the bottom of a
doorway and crossed in
entering a house or room
Make a quick, short
movement up and down
Obtrusively bright and
showy; lurid

he stood on the threshold of

Sheilas bedroom

I could see his head

bobbing about
The garish, exaggerated,
and poorly written nature
of his labeling helped define
the characteristics of a
"snake oil" remedy.
With reference to a scent, And then the sweet
sound, etc.) pass or cause perfumes of past
to pass gently through the intoxications started to waft
air
once more down the
corridors in the City and
the 'world company'.
A very unpleasant and
the ordeal of having to give
prolonged experience
evidence

Muffler

A wrap or scarf worn

around the neck and face
for warmth./ A device
used to deaden the sound
of a drum, bell, piano, or
other instrument.

inanities

lack of substance :

Pushing his chin deeper

into the warmth of his
muffler and pulling his
jacket tighter around
himself, he walked out of
the house, and down the
street.
Her work displays a strong

doorstep, sill, doorsill,

doorway, entrance, entry, way
in, door, gate, gateway, portal,
approach

108

bounce, move up and down,

float,

108

gaudy, lurid, loud, over-bright,

harsh, glaring,

108

drift, float, glide, whirl, travel,

be carried, be borne, be
conveyed, be transported

109

painful/unpleasant experience,
trial, tribulation, test,
nightmare, trauma, baptism of
fire

109

111

vapid, pointless

112

emptiness

shabby

farthing

clenching

Segregated

In poor condition
through long use or lack
of care
A former monetary unit
and coin of the UK,
withdrawn in 1961, equal
to a quarter of an old
penny./ The least possible
amount
With reference to the
fingers or hand) close
into a tight ball,
especially as a
manifestation of extreme
anger/
Set apart from the rest or
from each other; isolate
or divide

Reprimand

Outcry

element of repetition -that

includes difference- in
order to emphasize inanity
and lethargy
a shabby fellow in slippers
and an undershirt

112

112

she didnt care a farthing for

the woman

she clenched her fists,

struggling for control

squeeze together, press

together, clamp together, close
tightly, shut tightly

112

disabled people should not

be segregated from the rest
of society

separate, set apart, keep apart,

sort out;
isolate, quarantine, insulate,
exclude, closet, protect, shield,
partition;
rebuke, admonish, chastise,
chide, upbraid, reprove,
reproach, scold, remonstrate
with, berate, take to task, pull
up, castigate, lambaste
shout, exclamation, cry, yell,
howl, whoop, roar, scream,/
protest(s), protestation(s),

A Drink in the Passage 119

he was publicly
reprimanded for his
behaviour
An exclamation or shout/
A strong expression of

run down, down at heel,

scruffy, uncared-for, neglected,
dilapidated, in disrepair,
ramshackle, tumbledown;

an outcry of spontaneous
passion

119

119

public disapproval or
anger
Avert

Turn away (ones eyes or

thoughts): Prevent or
ward off (an undesirable
occurrence)

To cock

she averted her eyes while

we made stilted
conversation
he cocked his head towards
the sound

Constrained

stoep

South African
A veranda in front of a
house.

Earnestness
ns(t)ns
goodwill

Sit, lean, or fall heavily

and limply

Kait sighed and slumped

her shoulders, leaning her
forehead against the door

119

tilt, tip, angle, lean, slope, bank,

slant, incline,

120

unnatural, awkward, selfconscious, mannered, artificial,

wooden, stilted, strained,
forced, contrived, laboured;

121

122

In South Africa a stoep is a

raised veranda on which
you sit and watch the world
go by.
His problem was not lack of
earnestness or sincerity

inarticulateness

Slump

complaints, howls of protest,

objections, indignation, furore,
clamour, clamouring, fuss,
comm
turn aside, turn away, turn to
one side- prevent, stop, avoid,
nip in the bud;
stave off, head off, ward off;

123
benevolence, compassion,
kind-heartedness, bigheartedness, goodness,
kindness, kindliness,
consideration, charity;
tongue-tied, lost for words, at a
loss for words, unable to
express oneself, unable to get a
word out, poorly spoken;
sit heavily, flop, flump,
collapse, sink, fall, subside;
sag, slouch

123

124

125

frame
he took on a huge financial
burden

burden

Make amends

Compensate or make up
for a wrongdoing:

try to make amends for the

rude way you spoke to Lucy

Trickle

(Of a liquid) flow in a

small stream: [WITH
OBJECT AND
ADVERBIAL OF
DIRECTION] Cause (a
liquid) to flow in a small
stream

a solitary tear trickled down

her cheek/ Philip trickled a
line of sauce on his fish
fingers

Purring
Stab of longing
Blink off
Completeness
kmplitns
Dignity
War-shattered

splattering

rubble

load, cargo, freight, weight;

charge, pack, bundle, parcelresponsibility, onus, charge,
duty, obligation, liability
compensation, recompense,
reparation, restitution,
restoration, redress, indemnity,
indemnification,
drip, dribble, drizzle, flow,

125

125

The Soloist 214

214
Nostalgic

215
215

plenitude

worthy of honour or
respect:
Break or cause to break
suddenly and violently
into pieces:
Splash with a liquid,
typically a thick or
viscous one:
Waste or rough

215
215

smash, smash to smithereens,

break, break into pieces, burst,
blow ou

The Cellist of Sarajevo 2

she wiped the splattered

blood from her face

Soaking, moisten

two buildings collapsed,

debris, remains, ruins,

wreckage;

fragments of stone, brick,

concrete, etc., especially
as the debris from the
demolition of buildings

trapping scores of people in

the rubble

Carnage

Anguished

Midst

Experiencing or
expressing severe mental
or physical pain or
suffering
In the middle of

Mournful
Haunting

Poignant; evocative

ominous

Giving the worrying

impression that
something bad is going to
happen; threateningly
inauspicious:

there were ominous dark

clouds gathering overhead

shadowy
furor
Gripping

Take and keep a firm hold his knuckles were white as

broken bricks

slaughter, massacre, mass

murder, mass destruction,
butchery, bloodbath,
indiscriminate bloodshed,
bloodletting, annihilation,
agonized, tormented, racked
with pain/suffering, tortured,
harrowed;
miserable, unhappy, sad,
broken-hearted,

middle, centre, midpoint,

halfway point, kernel, nub,
focal point;
sad, sorrowful, sorrowing,
doleful, melancholy,
melancholic,
evocative, affecting, moving,
touching, emotive, expressive,
powerful, stirring, atmospheric,
soul-stirring;
threatening, menacing, baleful,
forbidding, sinister, doomy,
inauspicious, unpropitious,
portentous, unfavourable, dir

dark, dim, gloomy, murky;

shady, shaded, sunless
Agitation, commotion, fuss,
hysteria
grasp, clutch, hold, clasp,

of; grasp tightly

Slashing

he gripped the steering

wheel
she tried to kill herself by
slashing her wrists

hollow
rattle

Beckoning

Frenzy

Flawless

Make or cause to make a

rapid succession of short,
sharp knocking sounds
Make a gesture with the
hand, arm, or head to
encourage or instruct
someone to approach or
follow
A state or period of
uncontrolled excitement
or wild behaviour:
Without any
imperfections or defects;
perfect:

he rattled some change in

his pocket

Cause (someone) to be in
a specified state:
surprised/ (Of a thought
or idea) come into the
mind of (someone)
suddenly or

cut (open), gash, slit, split

open, lacerate, knife,
empty, not solid, void, unfilled,
vacant, hollowed out
clatter, bang, clang, clank,
clink, clunk

Miranda beckoned to Adam

gesture, signal, wave,

gesticulate

Doreen worked herself into

a frenzy of rage

hysteria, madness, mania,

insanity, derangement,
dementedness, delirium,
feverishness, fever,
perfect, without blemish,
unblemished, unmarked,
unimpaired;

Her flawless skin

Soaked

Struck(In this case)

grasp/take/lay hold of,

Lucy was struck by the

ethereal beauty of the scene

immerse, steep, submerge,

submerse, dip, sink, dunk,
bathe, wet, rinse, douse,
marinate, souse,
occur to, come to, dawn on
one, hit;
come to mind, spring to mind,
enter one's head,

croaking

shopworn

Dimming
soothe

Rouse
Drowsy

Barred
automaton

sameness

Wilt

unexpectedly/ Find
particularly interesting,
noticeable, or impressive:
A characteristic deep
hoarse sound made by a
frog or a crow:
shop-soiled.

Make or become less

bright or distinct
Gently calm (a person or
their feelings)

rasp, squawk, caw, crow,

wheeze, gasp, choke, hack,
hawk, bark, cough;

His bag of tricks is so small,

and so shopworn, it's
almost as if he's writing the
same column every week.
a smoky inferno that
dimmed the sun
a shot of brandy might
soothe his nerves

Cause to stop sleeping

Sleepy and lethargic; half
asleep

grow faint, grow feeble, grow

dim, fade, dull
calm, calm down, quiet, pacify,
subdue, settle, settle down,
comfort, hush, lull, tranquillize,
appease, win over, conciliate,
make peace with, mollify,
propitiate;
Waken, arouse
sleepy, half asleep, dozy,
dozing, heavy, heavy-eyed,
yawning, nodding, groggy,
somnolent,

The Bus People244

244

245

A moving mechanical
device made in imitation
of a human being
Lack of variety;
uniformity or monotony
Of a plant, leaf, or flower)

245

a collection of 19th century

French automata: acrobats,
clowns, and musicians
similarity, uniformity,
resemblance, likeness,
alikeness, similitude, closeness,
comparability,
droop, sag, become limp,

245

246

tucks

scourge

Coax

growl

Lambkins
Crumpled hunk
Lounge
Stallion
Shrug

become limp through

heat, loss of water, or
disease; droop
Push, fold, or turn (the
edges or ends of
something, especially a
garment or bedclothes) so
as to hide or secure them:
A whip used as an
instrument of
punishment.
Persuade (someone)
gradually or gently to do
something:
(Of an animal, especially
a dog) make a low
guttural sound of hostility
in the throat
A small or young lamb.

become flaccid, flop

he tucked his shirt into his

trousers

push, ease, insert, slip

247

Begone, or shall I be
required to chastise you
with the whip and the
scourge once more?
the trainees were coaxed
into doing boring work

whip, horsewhip, lash, strap,

birch,

247

persuade, wheedle, cajole, talk

into something,

247

247

251
251

Lie, sit, or stand in a

relaxed or lazy way:
An uncastrated adult
male horse
Raise (ones shoulders)
slightly and momentarily
to express doubt,

laze, lie, loll, lie back, lean

back, recline

251
251

Jimmy looked enquiringly

at Pete, who shrugged his
shoulders

251

Feasible

Unencumbered
concoctions

ignorance, or indifference
Possible and practical to
do easily or conveniently

Not having any burden or

impediment
A mixture of various
ingredients or elements/
An elaborate story,
especially a fabricated
one

propel

Drive or push something

forwards

Sprawl

Sit, lie, or fall with ones

arms and legs spread out
in an ungainly way
Wriggle or twist the body
from side to side,
especially as a result of
nervousness or
discomfort:
An ugly, twisted
expression on a persons
face, typically expressing

Squirming

Grimace

the Dutch have

demonstrated that it is
perfectly feasible to live
below sea level
he needed to travel light
and unencumbered
the facade is a strange
concoction of northern
Mannerism and Italian
Baroque/ her story is an
improbable concoction

practicable, practical, workable,

achievable, attainable,
realizable, viable,

fabrication, piece of fiction,

invention, falsification,
contrivance

255

But he found he could

propel himself forward by
pushing off against the
sides with his feet.
she lay sprawled on the bed

push/move forwards, move, set

in motion, get moving, drive

256

stretch out, lounge, loll, lie, lie

down,

256

he looked uncomfortable
and squirmed in his chair

wriggle, wiggle, writhe, twist,

slide,

257

she gave a grimace of pain

scowl, frown, sneer, pout,

257

252

255

Dustbin

To be out on parole

bowels

disgust, pain, or wry

amusement
A container for household
refuse, especially one kept
outside.
When someone is out on
parole, then he or she has
been incarcerated and has
gained release prior to his
or her maximum
sentence. People who are
released on parole are
subject to obedience to
the conditions of the
parole, and may not be
considered truly free
The part of the
alimentary canal below
the stomach; the intestine

Repudiate

258

258

desegregation, inclusion

Integration
Separate but equal
doctrine
Plaintiff

258

Beliefs of a political
system, principles.
In law, a person who
brings action against
someone in court
Refuse to accept; reject:

reject, renounce, abandon,

forswear, give up, turn one's
back on, have nothing more to
do with, wash one's hands of,

Reducing Inequality in
Education

Sue

Busing
Mainstream
Ironic

White flag

Ghettos

Resegregate
Role Models

Pushers
Mixed blessing

Institute legal
proceedings against (a
person or institution),
typically for redress
Transport of children to
achieve racial integration
The main way of thinking
or acting
Having the opposite
effect from what is
expected
symbol of surrender,
truce, or a desire to
parley:
Sections of towns lived in
by people who are
underprivileged or
discriminated against
People who can be
respected or admired for
what they do
Drug sellers
Something that has both

she is to sue the babys

father

have no more truck with,

abjure, disavow, recant, desert,
discard, disown, cast off, lay
aside, cut off, rebuff
take legal action against, take
to court, bring an action
against, bring a suit against,
proceed against;
charge, prosecute, prefer/bring
charges against, bring to trial,
summons, indict, arraign;

Vie over
complied

Imbalance of power
Coercion

Physical assault
Manipulation and
threat
Bothersome people
Harassment

Inflict injury upon

another person
Verbal or written abuse
Social aggression
Choking

advantages and
disadvantages
Compete for
Act in accordance with a
wish or command

we are unable to comply

with your request

abide by, act in accordance

with, observe, obey, adhere to,
conform to, follow, respect;

The action or practice of

persuading someone to
do something by using
force or threats:

it wasnt slavery because no

coercion was used

force, compulsion, constraint,

duress, oppression,
enforcement, harassment,
intimidation, threats,
insistence, demand, armtwisting, pressure,
pressurization, influence

Aggressive pressure or
intimidation

they face daily harassment

by the police

persecution, harrying,
pestering, badgering,
intimidation, bother,
annoyance, aggravation,
irritation, pressure,
pressurization, force, coercion,
molestation

Fill (a space) so as to
make movement difficult
or impossible

Bullying

Poking

Shoving
Long term emotional
problems
Suicide
Low self-esteem
Susceptibility

Military Bullying
Hazing
Initiation ritual
Workplace bullying
Cyberbullying
Disinter

Traumatized
News-gatherer

Disembowel

Jab or prod (someone or

something) with ones
finger or a sharp object:
Push (someone or
something) roughly

vulnerability, sensitivity,
openness, defencelessness,
receptiveness, responsiveness

The state or fact of being

likely or liable to be
influenced or harmed by
a particular thing

A Boy Called Grenade

Dig up (something that

has been buried,
especially a corpse
The activity of
researching news items
for broadcast or
publication
Cut open and remove the
internal organs of

the dinosaur used its claw

to disembowel prey

eviscerate, gut, draw, remove

the innards from

Shrapnel

wounds

Genocide

Summon up

Tutsis

Juxtaposition

Fragments of a bomb,
shell, or other object
thrown out by an
explosion
An injury to living tissue
caused by a cut, blow, or
other impact, typically
one in which the skin is
cut or broken:
The deliberate killing of a
large group of people,
especially those of a
particular nation or
ethnic group

he was killed by flying

shrapnel

(gather) [SUPPORT (call

up) [THOUGHTS]

he summoned up the
courage to ask her/ to
summon up memories

racial killing, massacre,

wholesale slaughter, mass
slaughter, wholesale killing,
indiscriminate killing;
mass murder, mass homicide,
mass destruction, annihilation,
extermination, elimination,
liquidation, eradication,
decimation, butchery,
bloodbath,

One of the native groups

of people in Rwanda. 77%
of the population were
killed during the 1994
genocide.
The fact of two things
the juxtaposition of these
being seen or placed close two images
together with contrasting
effect

comparison, contrast;
proximity,
nearness, closeness;

Key to Mona Lisas

Subject of Dispute
Sitter

A person who sits,

especially for a portrait or
examination
Infatuate
Be inspired with an
intense but short-lived
passion or admiration for
Knowledge
Facts, information, and
skills acquired through
experience or education;
the theoretical or
practical understanding
of a subject
Conservatism(Teaching the tendency to prefer an
Approach)
existing or traditional
situation to change
Progressivism(Teaching using or interested in new
Approach)
or modern ideas
especially in politics and
education/ of, relating to,
or constituting an
educational theory
marked by emphasis on
the individual child,
informality of classroom
procedure, and
encouragement of selfexpression

she is infatuated with a

handsome police chief

besotted, in love, love-struck,

head over heels in love,
hopelessly in love, obsessed, t

a thirst for knowledge

her considerable knowledge
of antiques

understanding, comprehension,
grasp, grip, command, mastery,
apprehension;
expertise, skill, proficiency,
expertness, accomplishment,
adeptness, capacity, capability

Dead Poets and Education

Learning

Teaching
Tradition

Honor

study, studying, education,

schooling, tuition, teaching,
academic work, instruction,
training;
research, investigation

The acquisition of
knowledge or skills
through study,
experience, or being
taught
The transmission of
customs or beliefs from
generation to generation,
or the fact of being passed
on in this way:
respect that is given to
someone who is admired

members of different castes

have by tradition been
associated with specific
occupations

historical convention,
unwritten law, oral history,
heritage;
lore, folklore, old wives' tales

The team brought honor to

the school

honesty, integrity, probity,

rectitude, righteousness,
uprightness

: good reputation : good

quality or character as
judged by other people

Discipline

Excellence

: high moral standards of

behavior
The practice of training
people to obey rules or a
code of behaviour, using
punishment to correct
disobedience:
The quality of being
outstanding or extremely
good

self-control, self-discipline, selfgovernment, control,

controlled behaviour, selfrestraint;
good behaviour, orderliness,
obedience

Schools policy
Independent thought
Teaching Methods
The realm of education

Overemphasize
Pressure from parents
Functions of School
Sorority

Highly regarded school

Tawse

Experimental School
To make the school fit
the child
Complete belief in the
child
Innate ability
Snobbishly
Democratic school
Wisdom

A kingdom/ A field or
domain of activity or
interest

domain, sphere, area, field,

department, arena;

A society for female

students in a university or
college
A thong with a slit end,
formerly used in schools
for punishing children.
SummerHill

The quality of having

experience, knowledge,
and good judgement; the
quality of being wise:

Imagination

Selective
Opportunity
Inherent
Well-endowed

Better-off
Well -off
Comprehensive
schooling
League tables

Two-tier System

Special Needs
Education

The faculty or action of

forming new ideas, or
images or concepts of
external objects not
present to the senses:
Pupils take exams for
entry
When everyone has the
same chances
Existing as a basic part of
something
Receiving a ot of money
in grants, gifts from rich
people, etc
Richer
Poorer
Everyone enters without
exams
Lists of schools or
colleges from the best
down to the worst
A system with two
separate levels, one of
which is better than the
other.
Educatoin for those who
cannot learn in the
normal way, because they

Creative power

Debates and Issues.

Education

One-to-one
Curriculum Reform
Lifelong/Continuing
education
Mature Students
The three rs

Literacy and Numeracy

Perpetuate
Monotonous vault
Underscoring
Overshadowed
Inflexible
Dictatorial
Obstinate
Peremptorily

Nonsensical

have some dissability

One teacher and one
pupil, not a group
Changes to the
educational programme
Education for all ages
Adult students older than
the average students
Reading,writing,
arithmetic(The
traditional basic skills)
Ability to read and to
count
Make something continue
forever
Sowing
1

Underline/emphasize
Cast gloom over

1
1
1
2

Insisting on immediate
attention or obedience,
especially in a brusquely
imperious way:
Having no meaning;
making no sense:

meaningless, senseless,
illogical, unmeaning

Cannon
behoof
Profess

Pugilist
Phraseology

indignant

Benefit or advantage
Claim, often falsely, that
one has (a quality or
feeling)
A boxer, especially a
professional one.
A particular mode of
expression, especially one
characteristic of a
particular speaker or
subject area:
Feeling or showing anger
or annoyance at what is
perceived as unfair
treatmen

to make laws for the behoof

of the colony
he had professed his love
for her only to walk away

3
declare, announce, proclaim

Legal phraseology

wording, choice of words,

phrasing, usage,

aggrieved, resentful, affronted,

disgruntled, discontented,
dissatisfied, angry, distressed,

Head-breaking
questions

Too Many Universities

Laudable

Retail

(Of an action, idea, or

aim) deserving praise and
commendation:
The sale of goods to the
public in relatively small
quantities for use or
consumption rather than
for resale:

laudable though the aim

might be, the results have
been criticized

praiseworthy, commendable,
admirable, meritorious, worthy

Intellectual Matters
Scholarly Values
Civic University
Tolerant
Disadvantage
Cramming

Lured on
At the expense of
Ivory -tower

Completely fill (a place or

container) to the point of
overflowing:
Attracted to?

the ashtray by the bed was

crammed with cigarette
butts

stuff, pack, jam, fill

Place or situation where

people retreat from the
unpleasant realities of
everyday life and pretend
they do not exist
Moral Issues

yahoos
Elites
Squalor

blemish

Vermin

The state of being

extremely dirty and
unpleasant, especially as a
result of poverty or
neglect
A small mark or flaw
which spoils the
appearance of something
Wild animals which are
believed to be harmful to

dirt, dirtiness, squalidness,

filth, filthiness, grubbiness,
grime,

the girls hands were

without a blemish
killed as vermin or game,
the pumas have gone

imperfection, fault, flaw, defect,

deformity, discoloration,
disfigurement;

crops, farm animals, or

game, or which carry
disease, e.g. rodents:
Satanic
righteous

Corrupt
Sinful
outlaw

Desist
Obliterate

Iconoclastic

Obscene

Slippery-slope

Morally right or
justifiable:

feelings of righteous
indignation about pay and
conditions

A person who has broken

the law, especially one
who remains at large or is
a fugitive:

bands of outlaws held up

trains

fugitive, wanted criminal,

outcast, exile, pariah, bandit,

Destroy utterly; wipe out:

the memory was so painful

that he obliterated it from
his mind
an iconoclastic filmmaker
who has pushed the
boundaries with every film
hes made

destroy, wipe out, annihilate,

exterminate, extirpate,
demolish, eliminate, eradicate,
kill, decimate,
critical, sceptical, questioning;
heretical,

Criticizing or attacking
cherished beliefs or
institutions
(Of the portrayal or
description of sexual
matters) offensive or
disgusting by accepted
standards of morality and
decency:
A course of action likely

he is on the slippery slope

Political arena

to lead to something bad

or disastrous:

towards a life of crime

A place or scene of
activity, debate, or
conflict

he has re-entered the

political arena

area, scene, sphere, realm,

province, domain, sector,
forum, territory, theatre, stage,
world;
battleground, battlefield,
area/field of conflict, sphere of
action/activity, list
caustic, corroding, eroding,
erosive, abrasive, biting,
mordant, burning, stinging;

Corrosive
Shades of gray
Antagonistic

Seamless web

Showing or feeling active

opposition or hostility
towards someone or
something:
(Of a fabric or surface)
smooth and without
seams or obvious joins:
Miranda

Remorse

Deep regret or guilt for a

wrong committed:

they were filled with

remorse and shame

contrition, deep regret,

repentance, penitence, guilt,
feelings of guilt

Numb

(Of a part of the body)

deprived of the power of
physical sensation:

my feet were numb with

cold

deprived of sensation,
without feeling,
numbed, benumbed,
dead, deadened,
desensitized,

Stationary

Not moving or not

motionless, parked, halted,

Contraceptive methods
To get an abortion
Subsidiary

Papoose

vulpine
Regrettable
Resuscitate
Premature
Revive
Resuscitation
Paediatrician
Life-support systems
Brain damage
Quality of life
Severe abnormalities
Chance of survival
Right to life
Prolonging life
Legally disputed issue

intended to be moved

stopped, immobilized,
immobile, unmoving, still,
static

Less important than but

related or supplementary
to something:
offensive A young North
American Indian child.
2A type of bag used to
carry a child on ones
back.
Relating to a fox or foxes
Crafty; cunning:

subordinate, secondary,
ancillary, auxiliary,

Misjudged:When a Life
should end

Medical interventions
The Right to die vs the right
to life

Withdraw the feeding

tube/turning off a
respirator
Euthanasia

Ethics

Moral

Persistent vegetative
state
Coma
Petition the court
Prognosis

Right-to-life

To stop life/ to
disconnect
The painless killing of a
patient suffering from an
incurable and painful
disease or in an
irreversible coma.
Moral principles that
govern a persons
behaviour or the
conducting of an activity:

mercy killing, assisted suicide,

physician-assisted suicide;

medical ethics also enter

into the question

Moral code

Concerned with the

principles of right and
wrong behaviour:

the moral dimensions of

medical intervention
a moral judgement

virtuous, good, righteous,

upright, upstanding, highminded, right-minded,
principled

The likely course of a

medical condition:

the disease has a poor

prognosis

forecast, prediction, projection

activists/Right to die
activists
Living wills
Unhook

Massive heart attack

Stratagem

Insensate
Collude

Unfasten or detach
(something that is held or
caught by a hook):
Plan, tactic

A plan or scheme,
especially one used to
outwit an opponent or
achieve an end:
Come to a secret
understanding; conspire:

the president accused his

opponents of colluding with
foreigners

Chronic
Torments
torture
To manage death
barbiturate

Ostracized

Assist death

Any of a class of sedative

and sleep-inducing drugs
derived from barbituric
acid
Exclude from a society or
group:

she was declared a witch

and ostracized by the
villagers

conspire

Hippocratic Oath

Prosecution

An oath stating the

obligations and proper
conduct of doctors,
formerly taken by those
beginning medical
practice. Parts of the oath
are still used in some
medical schools.
The institution and
conducting of legal
proceedings against
someone in respect of a
criminal charge:

Humanitarian
Suicide machine
terminally ill
Immoral
Opponents
Continuum

Embryo

A defense of Abortion

A continuous sequence in
which adjacent elements
are not perceptibly
different from each other,
but the extremes are
quite distinct:
An unborn human,
especially in the first
eight weeks from

Fetus

conception, after
implantation but before
all the organs are
developed. Compare with
fetus.
An unborn or unhatched
offspring of a mammal, in
particular, an unborn
human more than eight
weeks after conception.

Impermissibility

Rape
Hysterectomy

Unjustly
Self-defense
Indecent
Sanctity of Human Life

Hideous

forcing a woman to
continue a pregnancy that
will almost certainly kill her
is impermissible
A surgical operation to
remove all or part of the
womb:

The state or quality of

being holy, sacred, or
saintly:
the site of the tomb was a
place of sanctity for the
ancient Egyptians
Extremely ugly

holiness, godliness, sacredness,

blessedness, saintliness,
sanctitude, spirituality

Shooting an elephant

Flabby

Futility/Hollowness
Stricken

Shrunken
Slobber
Moguls

Intelligentsia

censor
Outrage

Sodom and Gomorrah

Propaganda

(Of a part of a persons

body) soft, loose,
and fleshy:
Pointlessness or
uselessness
Seriously affected by an
undesirable condition or
unpleasant feeling
Become or make smaller
in size or amount(Shrink)
Have saliva dripping
copiously from the mouth
An important or powerful
person, especially in the
film or media industry
Intellectuals or highly
educated people as a
group, especially when
regarded as possessing
culture and political
influence:
An extremely strong
reaction of anger, shock,
or indignation
Any media text whose

troubled, affected, deeply

affected, afflicted,

magnate, tycoon, VIP, notable,

notability, personage, baron,
captain, king, lord, grandee,
mandarin, nabob

Media radio, television,

newspapers, the Internet,
and magazines, considered
as a group: can be followed
by a singular or plural verb

primary purpose is to
openly persuade an
audience of the validity of
a particular point of view.
Racist language
Tabloid

Censorship

A newspaper having
pages half the size of
those of a standard
newspaper, typically
popular in style and
dominated by headlines,
photographs, and
sensational stories.
the removal of
information from a media
text, on the basis that
that information is
undesirable. For
example, governments
have been known to
censor information which
may be a threat to
national security, or
television companies may
censor footage for reasons
of decency. Protestors
like Mary Whitehouse
and Jack Thompson are

Globalisation

Media Imperialism

podcast

Hegemony/hegemonic

known for requesting the

censorship of sex and
violence from media
texts.
the way that global media
results in world wide
cultures becoming more
and more similar to one
another.
the strong influence
exerted by Western
media upon developing
countries, which may
result in the
Westernisation of those
countries. This is what
the term globalisation
usually describes
a web media file that is
syndicated over the
Internet. Basically the
online equivalent to
radio, although podcasts
have a variety of other
uses. Video podcasts also
exist.
When dominant groups

Ideology

thrive

persuade subordinate
groups that the dominant
ideology is in their own
best interests. The
media's function in this
process is to encourage
maintenance of the status
quo
How we as individuals
understand the world in
which we live. This
understanding involves
an interaction between
our individual
psychologies and the
social structures that
surround us. Mediating
between these are the
individual processes of
communication as well as
the technological
processes of the mass
media. These ideas are
usually related to the
distribution of power.
(Of a child, animal, or
plant) grow or develop
well or vigorously:

Violence/Crime

Erode

Profundity
Ravaged
Criminal impulses
Deter

Offences
Vantage

Cling to
Well-deployed
Judiciary
Law-abiding
rehabilitate
Borstals

Probation

(Of wind, water, or other

natural agents) gradually
wear away (soil, rock, or
land):
Spoilt suffering
Discourage (someone)
from doing something by
instilling doubt or fear of
the consequences:
crimes
Lit position from which
one can see clearly or a
long way
Go on believing in
Spread out in the most
effective way
Legal system
Who dont break the law
Restore to a useful and
socially acceptable state
Prisons which are like
schools, for young
criminals
Suspension from a prison
sentence on condition
that the guilty person is

Parole

idiosyncratic
Trial

Convicted

Arrested

Pardon

Suspect

supervised by social
workers
Release of a prisoner from
jail before the end of his
sentence on condition of
future good behaviour
Peculiar to an individual
A formal examination of
evidence by a judge,
typically before a jury, in
order to decide guilt in a
case of criminal or civil
proceedings:
the newspaper accounts
of the trial
a person who has been
found guilty of a crime
and sent to prison
Seize (someone) by legal
authority and take them
into custody:
A cancellation of the legal
consequences of an
offence or conviction:
he offered a full pardon to
five convicted men
A person thought to be
guilty of a crime or

offence
Confessed
enquiry

Innocent
Judges
Tried
Court

Custody

Sentenced

An act of asking for

information:
the police were making
enquiries in all the
neighbouring pubs

(also court of law) A body

of people presided over
by a judge, judges, or
magistrate, and acting as
a tribunal in civil and
criminal cases
: Parental responsibility,
especially as allocated to
one of two divorcing
parents: Imprisonment:
my father was being
taken into custody
The punishment assigned
to a defendant found
guilty by a court, or fixed
by law for a particular
offence:
her husband is serving a

Charged with(rape)

Plea

Executed
Jury

Appeal

three-year sentence for

fraud
slander of an official
carried an eight-year
prison sentence
Formally accuse someone
of (an offence):
they filed a lawsuit
charging fraud and
breach of contract
A formal statement by or
on behalf of a defendant
or prisoner, stating guilt
or innocence in response
to a charge, offering an
allegation of fact, or
claiming that a point of
law should apply:
A body of people
(typically twelve in
number) sworn to give a
verdict in a legal case on
the basis of evidence
submitted to them in
court:
Apply to a higher court
for a reversal of the

Apprehend
Statements

Guilty
Execution
Dropped
Denied
Hunt
Alimony

accomplice

defendant

Blackmail

decision of a lower court

Arrest (someone) for a
crime:
A formal account of
events given by a witness,
defendant, or other party
to the police or in a court
of law:

A husbands (or wifes)

provision for a spouse
after separation or
divorce; maintenance
A person who helps
another commit a crime:
An individual, company,
or institution sued or
accused in a court of law:
The action, treated as a
criminal offence, of
demanding money from
someone in return for not
revealing compromising

abetter, accessory, partner in

crime, associate, confederate,
collaborator, fellow
conspirator, co-

extortion, demanding money

with menaces, exaction,
intimidation;

information which one

has about them:
Kidnapping
Arson

Trespassing

Manslaughter

Smuggling
Forgery

Bigamy
Baby-or wife-battering
Conspiracy
Fraud

Driving without due

care

The criminal act of

deliberately setting fire to
property:
Enter someones land or
property without
permission:
The crime of killing a
human being without
malice aforethought, or in
circumstances not
amounting to murder:

unlawful entry, intrusion,

encroachment, invasion,
infringement, impingement

The action of forging a

copy or imitation of a
document, signature,
banknote, or work of art

Wrongful or criminal
deception intended to
result in financial or
personal gain:

he was convicted of fraud

fraudulence, sharp practice,

cheating, swindling, trickery,
artifice, deceit, deception,
double-dealing, duplicity,
treachery, chicanery,
skulduggery,

Mugging-robbery with
violence
Drug peddling
Espionage-spying
Treason

Hijacking

Obscenity
Bribery and corruption
Petty theft
Death Penalty
Life imprisonment
Corporal punishment
Community service
Suspended sentence
Dismiss a case

Sell (an illegal drug or

stolen item):
The crime of betraying
ones country, especially
by attempting to kill or
overthrow the sovereign
or government:
they were convicted of
treason
Illegally seize (an aircraft,
ship, or vehicle) while in
transit and force it to go
to a different destination
or use it for ones own
purposes:

Of little importance;
trivial:

Refuse further hearing to

the judge dismissed the

(a case):

case for lack of evidence

In possession of drugs
Break into a house
Speeding in your car
The Case for the defense

Crown Counsel

Verdict

A barrister (lawyer)
appointed by the
government to conduct
the case for the
prosecution
A decision on an issue of
fact in a civil or criminal
case or an inquest:

Witness

Mistaken identity

a defense in criminal law

which claims the actual
innocence of the criminal
defendant, and attempts
to undermine evidence of
guilt by asserting that any
eyewitness to the crime
incorrectly thought that
they saw the defendant,
when in fact the person
seen by the witness was
someone else.

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judgement, adjudication,
adjudgement, decision, finding,
ruling, resolution,
pronouncement, decree
observer, onlooker, looker-on,
eyewitness, spectator, viewer,
watcher;
bystander, passer-by;

Pekingese
Cross-examine

A small dog dog

the victim did not wish to
be cross-examined by the
police

interrogate, question, crossquestion, quiz, catechize;

interview, examine, probe,
sound out, debrief;
put questions to, ask questions
of

Evidence
A Glowing Future

Smashed in the face

Trodden on
Shudder

Set ones foot down on

top oftread on)
(Of a person) tremble
convulsively, typically as
a result of fear or
revulsion:

throw, toss, fling, pitch, cast,

lob, launch, flip,

Hurl
Laconically

Trash about
Hammer

Shook

Swollen eyes

the youth stumbled and

trod on Harrys shoe

Of a person, speech, or
style of writing) using
very few words
Hit or beat (something)
repeatedly with a
hammer or similar object:
Move (an object) up and
down or from side to side
with rapid, forceful, jerky
movementsshake)
Rounded in seize

intensely affected or filled

with a particular emotion:
Barrenness
Bric-a-brac
Chain-smoking
Needle

Curse floridly
Manhandle

Slam
Strike

Stagger
Tear off
Weeping
rocking

Miscellaneous objects and

ornaments of little value:
Provoke or annoy
(someone) by continual
criticism or questioning
Handle (someone)
roughly by dragging or
pushing:
Shut (a door, window, or
lid) forcefully and loudly
Hit forcibly and
deliberately with ones
hand or a weapon or
other implement:
Walk or move unsteadily,
as if about to fall

Move gently to and fro or

from side to side

jostle, shove, hustle, handle

roughly, push, pull;