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Vocabulary : People IV (Word to Meaning)


What is the meaning of each word?

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1.

ruffian

  unprincipled person or one given to sin.

  uncultured lawless person or bully.

  brother or sister.

  person who receives.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

2.

wastrel

  person causing sabotage or intentional damage to property.

  teller of stories and anecdotes.

  profligate person.

  uncultured lawless person or bully.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

3.

sycophant

  servile person or one who flatters (his superiors).

  accomplished artist or art-connoisseur.

  person of wealth and prominence.

  abusive loud-mouthed woman or virago.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

4.

vassal

  person who derives pleasure in cruelty.

  person who makes a will.

  advocate of extending voting rights (to women).

  one who holds land (by feudal tenure).

  Half-n-half Clue
 

5.

vagrant

  person specializing in classification (of animals).

  wanderer or idle person.

  one who can make one's voice seem to come from elsewhere.

  substitute or authorized agent.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

6.

tycoon

  brother or sister.

  one who can make one's voice seem to come from elsewhere.

  person of wealth and prominence.

  traitor or person who changes sides.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

7.

waif

  learned man or authority on a topic.

  businessman who procures and supplies provisions.

  person who is helpless and homeless; abandoned child.

  boxer.

  Half-n-half Clue
 


 
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