Single And General Words for Many Kinds of People (C) | Vocabulary Builder

Single And General Words for Many Kinds of People (C) | Vocabulary Builder

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1. A boy who carries the instruments used in playing golf = * caddie.

2. A youth learning to be an officer in the army or the king’s warships =  * cadet.

3. A judge among the Arabs or Turks =  * cadi.

4. A man who has no courage = * catiff.

5. Scottish = * caledonian.

6. (A title given to) descendants of Mahomat = * Caliph.

7.One who offers himself for an office= * candidate, (one who tries to be elected/one who sits for an examina- tion).

8.One who feeds on human flesh = * cannibal, (one who eats human meat).

9. One who tries to get votes for an election candidate = * canvasser; (canvass, canvas = 1. to examine care-fully / 2.to go from house to house asking people to buy, or to elect a person to the government // canvas, canvass = strong cloth used for ship’s sail, or tents,etc.).

10.One who control large amo- unts of money = * capitalist; (capitslism = private ownership of business  / * socialism = public owner- ship of business).

11. One who commands about 120 men in an army =  *captain; (the master of a ship/the leader of a group of players in a game).

12. A company of travellers across the desert = * caravan; (a covered cart on wheel in which one can live).

13. A high officer in the Rome=*cardinal,(chief,very impotant/a real col- our/cardinal numbers = 1,2,3,etc., the ordinals are 1st, 2nd, 3rd,etc ./  The cardinal points = north,south, east and west).

14.(English) One who remains in charge of an empty building; (Am.) One who has charge of a building and keeps it clean, warm, etc. = * caretaker.

15. One who works with a wood = * carpenter

16. The person in an office or shop who has charge of the money = * cashier; (to cashier = [an officer of the army], to send out of the army because of wrong-doing).

17. A person who has come to land from a wrecked ship = * castaway.

18. One who is killed or wounded in war or in an accident,etc.= * casualty; (casual = happening by accident;not planned;not regular; careless & rude in manner).

19. One who studies questions of right & wrong = * casuist; (a person who reasons to prove his point rather than to prove the truth).

20. A simple person used by a cleverer one to carry out a wrong act = * cat’s paw.

21. A soldier on a horse  = * cavalier; (a follower of the king; a knight).

22. Soldiers on horses = * cavalry.

23. An officer who exam- ines books and pictures to prevent bad ones from being sold = * censor;(in war, one who reads all letters and newspapers so that secret plans may not become known to the enemy/to censor=to examine books, as above/censorious = quick to find fault).

24.A person who is 100 years old= * centenarian.

25. The captain of a hundred men = * centurian.

26. One who has charge of a meeting = * chairman.

27. A group of persons who make laws = * chamber; (a room / a hollow space / A chamber, A chamber-pot = a pot kept under the bed for use during the night).

28. An officer in charge of the King’s palace = * chamber- lain.

29. A woman who takes care of the sleep- ing room in a hotel,  lodging-house = * chamber- maid.

30. One who defends or fights for some other person or for good cause / The best of all players at a certain game = * champion.

31. The chief man in the government = * chancellor; (a special officer look after the king’s business / the highest judge of law / The head of a university).

32. One who accompanies a young lady to public places =  * chaperon, (an older or unmarried person in charge of a young unmarried woman).

33. A person in a book or play = * character; (a printed or written letter [A,B,C,etc.] or another mark / one’s nature as shown by one’s acts / adj. characteristic).

34. One who pretends to know a great deal about everything = * charlatan, quack, mountebank; (a dishonest person who pretends to have know- ledge which he does not possess).

35. A ser- vant who is employed by the hour or day to do house-cleaning = * char-woman; (char = to blacken in the fire).

36. A person who talks a great deal = * chatterbox; (chatter = to talk quickly / foolish talk / to make a noise with the teeth when cold).

37.The paid driver of a motor-car = * chauffeur.

38.One who loves something (eg.his country) in a wild and unreasonable way, and has no respect for other countries = * chauvinist.

39. One who studies chemistry = * chemist; (one who keep a shop for selling medicines).

40. The head man of a large group = * chieftain; (chief = the most im- portant/the leader).

41. A young son or daugh-ter = child, (a baby).

42. A member of a group of singers in a church = * chorister.

43.A group of singers = * chorus;(part of a song which is repeated-ed / Chorus of praise = every one praising some- thing).

44. A good friend = * chum.

45. Soldiers to guard (protect) a person = * bodyguard

45 .Per- sons chosen each year to help and advise the priest of a church = * churchwarden(s); (a very long pipe used for smoking).

46.A bad-mann-ered fellow = * churl.

47. A guide who shows the interesting parts of a building or city = * cicerone.

48. One who lives in a city = * citizen; (one who has rights in a country).

49. A person employed by government = * Civil Servant, (not a member of an army or navy[king’s war-ships] ).

50. Any member of a country who is not a soldier = * civi- lian;(an officer of the government, not in the army).

51.A person(said to be)able to see distant or future events — usually by looking into a glass ball = * clairvoyant.

52. A family group = * clan, (a group of people related by blood or marriage).

53. The priests of a church, eg.of the church of England = * clergy.

54. One who keeps accounts writes letters, etc  .in a business-house = * clerk..

55. One who gets advice, eg.from a doctor, lawyer, etc.= * client; (clientele = a group of clients).

56. A man who amuses people by acting in a foolish way = * clown.

57.One who works along with another = * coadjutor.

58.A person who dresses up a woman’s hair = * coiffeur, (a person who cuts, curls,etc., woman’s hair).

59. One who works with another in an office, school, etc. = * colleague.

60.One who brings coal from the ground = *Collier; (a ship for carrying coal/colliery = a place from which coal is obtained).

61. One who com-mands about 1,000 men in an army = * colonel.

62.An actor in light amusing part; a singer of amu-sing songs = * comedian.

63. A woman who acts in light amusing parts or sings amusing songs = * comedienne,

64. An officer in navy (=king’s war-ships) higher than a captain =  * com-modore.

65. One who has no title or rank as a nobleman = * commoner.

66. All the officers & men necessary for a ship = * complement; (that thing or the amount necessary to make up a whole).

67. One who sets up type(=metal letters from which books are printed =  * compositor.

68. A friend, a fellow-worker = * comrade.

69. A priest who hears others confess = * confessor; (confess = to tell one’s faults & wrong-doing; to tell one’s beliefs).

70. One who has a special skill in judging art, music, tastes,etc. = * connoisseur,(one who has a special taste in, and knowledge of
objects of art & beauty).

71. One who is compelled by law to serve as a soldier = * conscript; (one who is forced by law to become a soldier/n. conscription).

72. One who does not want any change in government = * conservative; (wishing to keep things as they are).

72. A member of a bureau-cracy; an officer who tries to center power in him-self = * bureaucrat; (bureaucracy = government by the paid officers of government rather than by persons elected by the people)

73. A policeman =  *constable; (constabulary = all the polices / adj. having to do with the police).

74. One living at the same time as another = * contemporary,(one who lives at the same time as another / A contem-porary account=the story of an event told by one who lived at that time).

75. An acrobat who bends his body into various shapes = * contor-tionist, (one who bends his (her) body into strange
shapes to amuse people / contort = to bend out of natural shape).

76. One who does rough work in India, China, etc.= * coolie.

77. One who makes barrel = * cooper; (barrel = a round wooden container with carved side/the long round pipe of a gun through which the shot passes / A barrel organ = a wind-instrument of music played by turning around a handle).

78. A member of a group elected by those already in the group = * co-opt (ed member).

79. A woman who amus-es herself by making men fall in love with her = * coquette.

80. An officer of the law who enqui-res into the cause of sudden death, fires, and judges the ownership of any money, gold, jewels,etc., found by accident,eg.hidden in the grown = * coroner.

82. One who sells fruit, plants,etc.on the street from a cart =* coster, cos-termonger.

83. One who makes and sells wo-man’s dress = * costumier.

84. One who is not of the town = * countryman, (one who is from the same country or nation).

85. A message sent in great haste  =* courier, (a runner who carries important messages/one who goes with travelers to help them and show them sights).

86. A person who attends at a king’s court = * courtier.

87. A child of the brother or sister of one’s parents = * cousin.

88. A child of one’s parent’s first cousin = * (second) cousin.

89. A man of no courage =  *coward.

90. A foolish fellow dressed in a foolish way = * coxcomb.

91. One who steers a boat = * coxswain, (coxswain, cockswain =t he per- son in command of steering[=guiding] a
small boat).

92. A thief who breaks into houses =*cracksman

93. A person with peculiar ideas, usually on one subject = * crank;(a handle used for turning a wheel/part of a machine which changes up & down movement into a circular movement).

94. A person born in the West Indies = * creole.

95.The men working together, eg.on a ship = * crew; (p.t of crow).

96. A person who catches men and puts them by force or tricks on the ship to serve as seamen = * crimp; (to put curves or curls into, eg.hair).

97.One whose body is not perfect, eg.with a useless arm or leg = * cripple; (to hurt and make useless).

98. One who judges works of art, or other work = * critic, (one who points out faults).

99. A very old woman = * crone.

100. An old friend, especially one with the same interests = * crony.

101. A person, (ani- mal or plant) come from parents of different races or kinds = * cross-bred.

102. A man who takes in and pays out the money at a game played for money = * croupier.

103. A large number of people = * crowd, (too many people in a small place / to crowd = to come together in large numbers / to press forward in numbers/to press in a small place).

104. Crowded gathering of guests = *(a) crush; (to crush = to press together and break with great force/to press out of shape, to press carelessly into fold [eg.a dress] as in done by care-less packing / to force the liquid out of [eg.fruit ]/ to make into powder / to beat an enemy complete-ly).

105. A wrong-doer = * culprit.

106. A pri-est who helps the priest in charge of a church = * curate.

107. One who has charge of — eg.a building — where objects of interest are kept = * curator.

108. A bad-tempered person,— usually old man = * curmudgeon.

109. One who cuts; person who cuts out (men’s) clothes = * cutter; (an instrument for cutting / a sailing boat).

110. One who sneers at the aim and beliefs of his fellow men = * cynic; (cynical = not believing in the goodness of people / always pointing out the bad/n.cynic).

111.The ruler of Russia before 1918 = Czer.

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