Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-7

peg
A peg is a small hook or knob that is attached to a wall or door and is used for hanging things on.

A peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.

A peg is a small piece of wood or metal that is used for fastening something to something else.

If you peg something somewhere or peg it down, you fix it there with pegs.

If a price or amount of something is pegged at a particular level, it is fixed at that level.

see also level-pegging
Off-the-peg clothes are made in large numbers and sent to shops, not made specially for a particular person.
made-to-measure

incessant
An incessant process or activity is one that continues without stopping.
= constant intermittent
incessantly

wretched
You describe someone as wretched when you feel sorry for them because they are in an unpleasant situation or have suffered unpleasant experiences.

You use wretched to describe someone or something that you dislike or feel angry with.

Someone who feels wretched feels very unhappy.
= miserable

Viagra

Viagra is a drug that is given to men with certain sexual problems in order to help them to have sexual intercourse.


sustain
If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time.

If you sustain something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you.
If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.


overrule
VERB: V n, V n
If someone in authority overrules a person or their decision, they officially decide that the decision is incorrect or not valid.
= override

dagger
A dagger is a weapon like a knife with two sharp edges.

If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.


adjourn
If a meeting or trial is adjourned or if it adjourns, it is stopped for a short time.


antics
Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.


keep
If someone keeps or is kept in a particular state, they remain in it.

If you keep or you are kept in a particular position or place, you remain in it.

If you keep off something or keep away from it, you avoid it. If you keep out of something, you avoid getting involved in it. You can also say that you keep someone off, away from or out of something.

If someone or something keeps you from a particular action, they prevent you from doing it.
= stop
If you try to keep from doing something, you try to stop yourself from doing it.

If you keep something from someone, you do not tell them about it.

If you keep doing something, you do it repeatedly or continue to do it.

PHRASAL VERB: V P -ing
Keep on means the same as keep.

Keep is used with some nouns to indicate that someone does something for a period of time or continues to do it. For example, if you keep a grip on something, you continue to hold or control it.

If you keep something, you continue to have it in your possession and do not throw it away, give it away, or sell it.

If you keep something in a particular place, you always have it or store it in that place so that you can use it whenever you need it.

When you keep something such as a promise or an appointment, you do what you said you would do.

If you keep a record of a series of events, you write down details of it so that they can be referred to later.

If you keep yourself or keep someone else, you support yourself or the other person by earning enough money to provide food, clothing, money, and other necessary things.

Someone's keep is the cost of food and other things that they need in their daily life.

If you keep animals, you own them and take care of them.

If someone or something keeps you, they delay you and make you late.

If food keeps for a certain length of time, it stays fresh and suitable to eat for that time.

You can say or ask how someone is keeping as a way of saying or asking whether they are well.

A keep is the main tower of a medieval castle, in which people lived.

If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.

If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.

If one thing is in keeping with another, it is suitable in relation to that thing. If one thing is out of keeping with another, it is not suitable in relation to that thing.

If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past.

If you keep something to yourself, you do not tell anyone else about it.

If you keep yourself to yourself or keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
socialize

to keep someone company: see company
to keep a straight face: see face
to keep your head: see head
to keep pace: see pace
to keep the peace: see peace
to keep a secret: see secret
to keep time: see time
to keep track: see track

mop
mop mops mopping mopped
A mop is a piece of equipment for washing floors. It consists of a sponge or many pieces of string attached to a long handle.


If you mop a surface such as a floor, you clean it with a mop.
There was a woman mopping the stairs.
If you mop sweat from your forehead or mop your forehead, you wipe it with a piece of cloth.
He mopped perspiration from his forehead...
The Inspector took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.
= wipe
If someone has a mop of hair, they have a lot of hair and it looks rather untidy.
He was long-limbed and dark-eyed, with a mop of tight, dark curls.