Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-27

dragon

In stories and legends, a dragon is an animal like a big lizard. It has wings and claws, and breathes out fire.


troll
In Scandinavian mythology, trolls are creatures who look like ugly people. They live in caves or on mountains and steal children.


spear
A spear is a weapon consisting of a long pole with a sharp metal point attached to the end.

If you spear something, you push or throw a pointed object into it.

Asparagus or broccoli spears are individual stalks of asparagus or broccoli.


bobbin
A bobbin is a small round object on which thread or wool is wound to hold it, for example on a sewing machine.


ooh
EXCLAM
People say `ooh' when they are surprised, looking forward to something, or find something pleasant or unpleasant.


move out

If you move out, you stop living in a particular house or place and go to live somewhere else.



bawl
If you bawl, you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you.
= yell
Bawl out means the same as bawl.

If you say that a child is bawling, you are annoyed because it is crying loudly.


groan
If you groan, you make a long, low sound because you are in pain, or because you are upset or unhappy about something.
If you groan something, you say it in a low, unhappy voice.

If you groan about something, you complain about it.


If wood or something made of wood groans, it makes a loud sound when it moves.

If you say that something such as a table groans under the weight of food, you are emphasizing that there is a lot of food on it.

If you say that someone or something is groaning under the weight of something, you think there is too much of that thing.


nursemaid
A nursemaid is a woman or girl who is paid to look after young children.
= nurse, nanny

backtrack
If you backtrack on a statement or decision you have made, you do or say something that shows that you no longer agree with it or support it.
= back-pedal

If you backtrack, you go back along a path or route you have just used.

If you backtrack in an account or explanation, you talk about things which happened before the ones you were previously talking about.


elude
If something that you want eludes you, you fail to obtain it.

If you elude someone or something, you avoid them or escape from them.

If a fact or idea eludes you, you do not succeed in understanding it, realizing it, or remembering it.
= escape







prophecy
A prophecy is a statement in which someone says they strongly believe that a particular thing will happen.


ritual
A ritual is a religious service or other ceremony which involves a series of actions performed in a fixed order.

Ritual activities happen as part of a ritual or tradition.


A ritual is a way of behaving or a series of actions which people regularly carry out in a particular situation, because it is their custom to do so.

You can describe something as a ritual action when it is done in exactly the same way whenever a particular situation occurs.



oblivion
Oblivion is the state of not being aware of what is happening around you, for example because you are asleep or unconscious.

Oblivion is the state of having been forgotten or of no longer being considered important.
If you say that something is bombed or blasted into oblivion, you are emphasizing that it is completely destroyed.