Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-29

frustrate
If something frustrates you, it upsets or angers you because you are unable to do anything about the problems it creates.

frustration
If someone or something frustrates a plan or attempt to do something, they prevent it from succeeding.


acorn
An acorn is a pale oval nut that is the fruit of an oak tree.


oak
An oak or an oak tree is a large tree that often grows in woods and forests and has strong, hard wood.





twitter
When birds twitter, they make a lot of short high-pitched sounds.


If you say that someone is twittering about something, you mean that they are speaking about silly or unimportant things, usually rather fast or in a high-pitched voice.


grunt
If you grunt, you make a low sound, especially because you are annoyed or not interested in something.


When an animal grunts, it makes a low rough noise.


swordsman

A swordsman is a man who is skilled at fighting with a sword.


sob
When someone sobs, they cry in a noisy way, breathing in short breaths.

sobbing
If you sob something, you say it while you are crying.

A sob is one of the noises that you make when you are crying.


rumbling
A rumbling is a low continuous noise.

Rumblings are signs that a bad situation is developing or that people are becoming annoyed or unhappy.


wagon
A wagon is a strong vehicle with four wheels, usually pulled by horses or oxen and used for carrying heavy loads.
= cart
A wagon is a large container on wheels which is pulled by a train.

Someone who is on the wagon has stopped drinking alcohol.


herd
A herd is a large group of animals of one kind that live together.

If you say that someone has joined the herd or follows the herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves.
= pack
If you herd people somewhere, you make them move there in a group.

If you herd animals, you make them move along as a group.