Vocabulary Words | Meanings |
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cattle | cows, bulls and oxen |
cauliflower | a cabbage-like vegetable with a large white part in the middle that is good to eat |
cause | to make something happen |
caustic | cutting, burning, happen |
caustic | cutting, burning, corroding |
caution | carefulness; watchfulness |
cavalry | soldiers on horseback |
cave | a big hole in rocks or in the side of a hill |
cavern | a large cave |
caw | the loud hoarse cry of a crow |
cease | to stop |
cedar | a large coniferous tree |
ceiling | the top of a room |
celandine | a yellow wildflower |
celebration | a party on a special day like a birthday or a national holiday |
celery | a vegetable with long white stalks and pale green leaves |
cell | a room where prisoners are kept. The same word also means the small bare room a monk lives in |
cellar | an underground room where coal and wine and other things are kept |
cement | a greyish powdered clay mixture that hardness when it is mixed with sand and water. It is used to stick bricks and other building materials together |
cementery | a place where people who have died are buried |
censure | severe judgement, expression of disapproval |
centigrade | divided into a hundred degrees. On a centigrade thermometer freezing point is shown as zero and boiling point at 100 |
centimetre | a hundredth part of a metre |
centre | the middle part of anything |
century | a hundred years |
cereal | any kind of grain used as food |
ceremony | an important and special happening, like a wedding or a coronation |
certain | sure; without any doubt |
certificate | something written or printed which proves that something is true; written proof that you have passed and examination |
cessation | stoppage, pause, ceasing |
chaffinch | a small wild bird with a cheerful song |
chain | metal rings joined together |
chair | a single seat with a back to lean against |
chalk | a soft white stone which can be made into sticks for writing on the blackboard |
challenge | to invite someone to try to beat you at something, such as running, swimming or wrestling |
champion | someone who is better at a sport than anyone else. The same word also means to stick up for someone or defend him |
chance | something that happens without being planned. The same word also means an opportunity |
chancery | a court of public affairs, a division of court of justice |
change | to make something different from what is it was before |
channel | a deep narrow strip of sea-water between tow pieces of land. The same word also means a kind of path through the air used for television programs |
chant | to sing musically |
chaos | utter confusion, formless voice |
chap | a boy or a man |
chapel | a small church or a separate part of a large church |
chaplain | a clergy man of the army, navy, court |
chapter | a selection of a book divided off by numbers chapter1,chapter 2 |
character | what a person is like. Someone’s character may be good or bad, honest or dishonest, nice or nasty |
charade | (say sharahd) a game in which you cat out parts of a word and then the whole word |
charcoal | a hard blackened piece of burnt wood. You can draw pictures with it |
charge | the cost of something. The same word also means to rush at something. To be in charge is to be in control |
Non-defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already.
The adjective clause which does not define the noun before it but gives additional information about the noun is called the non-defining relative clause.