Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-30

castle
A castle is a large building with thick, high walls. Castles were built by important people, such as kings, in former times, especially for protection during wars and battles.

In chess, a castle is a piece that can be moved forwards, backwards, or sideways.
= rook

troop
Troops are soldiers, especially when they are in a large organized group doing a particular task.

A troop is a group of soldiers within a cavalry or armoured regiment.

A troop of people or animals is a group of them.

If people troop somewhere, they walk there in a group, often in a sad or tired way.



coffin
A coffin is a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated.

If you say that one thing is a nail in the coffin of another thing, you mean that it will help bring about its end or failure.


rot
When food, wood, or another substance rots, or when something rots it, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed.

If there is rot in something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart.

You can use the rot to refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time when the rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse.

If you say that someone is being left to rot in a particular place, especially in a prison, you mean that they are being left there and their physical and mental condition is being allowed to get worse and worse.


peck
If a bird pecks at something or pecks something, it moves its beak forward quickly and bites at it.

If you peck someone on the cheek, you give them a quick, light kiss.

: usu a N
Peck is also a noun.