Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-13

blast
A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.

If something is blasted into a particular place or state, an explosion causes it to be in that place or state. If a hole is blasted in something, it is created by an explosion.

If workers are blasting rock, they are using explosives to make holes in it or destroy it, for example so that a road or tunnel can be built.

blasting

To blast someone means to shoot them with a gun.

Blast is also a noun.

If someone blasts their way somewhere, they get there by shooting at people or causing an explosion.

If something blasts water or air somewhere, it sends out a sudden, powerful stream of it.

Blast is also a noun.

If you blast something such as a car horn, or if it blasts, it makes a sudden, loud sound. If something blasts music, or music blasts, the music is very loud.

Blast is also a noun.

If something such as a radio or a heater is on full blast, or on at full blast, it is producing as much sound or power as it is able to.


kinsman
Someone's kinsman is their male relative.

mirth

Mirth is amusement which you express by laughing.
= hilarity

feeble
If you describe someone or something as feeble, you mean that they are weak.

feebly
If you describe something that someone says as feeble, you mean that it is not very good or convincing.
= weak
feebly
= weakly

fowl

A fowl is a bird, especially one that can be eaten as food, such as a duck or a chicken.


pistachio
Pistachios or pistachio nuts are small, green, edible nuts.


speck
A speck is a very small stain, mark, or shape.

A speck is a very small piece of a powdery substance.


sly
A sly look, expression, or remark shows that you know something that other people do not know or that was meant to be a secret.


If you describe someone as sly, you disapprove of them because they keep their feelings or intentions hidden and are clever at deceiving people.
= cunning

swoon
If you swoon, you are strongly affected by your feelings for someone you love or admire very much.


soul mate

A soul mate is someone with whom you share a close friendship and deep personal understanding.


slither
If you slither somewhere, you slide along in an uneven way.

If an animal such as a snake slithers, it moves along in a curving way.