Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-17

geology
Geology is the study of the Earth's structure, surface, and origins.
He was visiting professor of geology at the University of Jordan.

The geology of an area is the structure of its land, together with the types of rocks and minerals that exist within it.


nagging
nagging
A nagging pain is not very severe but is difficult to cure.

trash
trash trashes trashing trashed
Trash consists of unwanted things or waste material such as used paper, empty containers and bottles, and waste food.

If you say that something such as a book, painting, or film is trash, you mean that it is of very poor quality.
If someone trashes a place or vehicle, they deliberately destroy it or make it very dirty.
If you trash people or their ideas, you criticize them very strongly and say that they are worthless



coupling
coupling couplings
A coupling is a device which is used to join two vehicles or pieces of equipment together.

An act of sexual intercourse is sometimes referred to as a coupling.

yearn
If someone yearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much.

blossom
Blossom is the flowers that appear on a tree before the fruit.

If someone or something blossoms, they develop good, attractive, or successful qualities.

When a tree blossoms, it produces blossom.


rap
Rap is a type of music in which the words are not sung but are spoken in a rapid, rhythmic way.

Someone who raps performs rap music.

A rap is a piece of music performed in rap style, or the words that are used in it.

If you rap on something or rap it, you hit it with a series of quick blows.

Rap is also a noun.

A rap is a statement in a court of law that someone has committed a particular crime, or the punishment for committing it.

A rap is an act of criticizing or blaming someone.

If you rap someone for something, you criticize or blame them for it.
The rap about someone or something is their reputation, often a bad reputation which they do not deserve.

If someone in authority raps your knuckles or raps you on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.

If someone in authority gives you a rap on the knuckles, they criticize you or blame you for doing something they think is wrong.

If you take the rap, you are blamed or punished for something, especially something that is not your fault or for which other people are equally guilty.


dynasty
A dynasty is a series of rulers of a country who all belong to the same family.

A dynasty is a period of time during which a country is ruled by members of the same family.

A dynasty is a family which has members from two or more generations who are important in a particular field of activity, for example in business or politics.


peasant
A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used of people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life.


slog
If you slog through something, you work hard and steadily through it.

Slog away means the same as slog.

If you describe a task as a slog, you mean that it is tiring and requires a lot of effort.