Friday, 6 April 2012

7th Vocabulary Entry

1) Convenient:
    Meaning: Suitable or practical for for a particular purpose, not causing difficultly.

2) Scapegoat:
    Meaning: A person who is punished for things that are not his/her fault.

3) Buffer:
   Meaning: A person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is very interested in it.

4) Paved:
   Meaning: To cover an area of  ground with flat stones.

5) Grasslands:
    Meaning: An area such as a prairie or meadow of grass or grass like vegetation.

6) Gullies:
    Meaning: A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.

8) Drainage:
    Meaning: A system used for making water, etc flow away from a place.

9) Mother Nature:
   Meaning: The personification of nature as a powerful and nurturing women.

10) Widespread:
     Meaning: Found or happening over a large area, affecting a large number of people.

11) Destruction:
     Meaning: The action of destroying something.

12) Foreseen:
      Meaning: To know or guess that something is going to happen in the future.

13) Legitimate:
      Meaning: Reasonable or acceptable.

14) Meteorite:
      Meaning: A small piece of rock, etc in space.

15) Wiped Out:
     Meaning: Destroyed completely

16)  Man-made:
       Meaning: Made by humans rather than occurring in nature.

17) accurately:
      Meaning: Exact and correct without mistakes.

18) Short-sighted:
      Meaning: Lacking foresight.

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