Vocabulary Recitation 2020/05/15

enervate adj./vt.

1. to make you feel tired and weak.

consecrate v./adj.

1. VERB When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.

mysterious adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED Someone or something that is mysterious is strange and is not known about or understood.
2. ADJ-GRADED If someone is mysterious about something, they deliberately do not talk much about it, sometimes because they want to make people more interested in it.

obligatory adj.

1. ADJ If something is obligatory, you must do it because of a rule or a law.
2. ADJ If you describe something as obligatory, you mean that it is done from habit or custom and not because the person involved has thought carefully about it or really means it.

accustomed adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
2. ADJ When your eyes become accustomed to darkness or bright light, they adjust so that you start to be able to see things, after not being able to see properly at first.
3. ADJ You can use a accustomed to describe can action that someone usually does, a quality that they usually show, or an object that they usually use.

pumpkin n.

1. N-VAR A pumpkin is a large, round, orange vegetable with a thick skin.

gorgeous adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED If you say that something is gorgeous, you mean that it gives you a lot of pleasure or is very attractive.
2. ADJ-GRADED If you describe someone as gorgeous, you mean that you find them very sexually attractive.
3. ADJ-GRADED If you describe things such as clothes and colours as gorgeous, you mean they are bright, rich, and impressive.

stratum n.

1. N-COUNT A stratum of society is a group of people in it who are similar in their education, income, or social status.
2. N-COUNT Strata are different layers of rock.

Paleolithic

botanical n./adj.

1. ADJ Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
2. N-COUNT Botanicals are drugs which are made from plants.