Pair of Words from CSS Year 2000

Pair of Words from CSS Year 2000

Need:

Meaning: require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable:

Sentence: I need your help now

Knead:

Meaning: work (moistened flour or clay) into dough or paste with the hands or massage or squeeze with the hands.

Sentence: She kneaded his back

Queue:

Meaning: a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something Sentence: There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.

Cue:

Meaning: a signal for someone to do something Sentence: They started washing up, so that was our cue to leave the party.

Quarts:

Meaning: a unit of liquid measure of capacity.

Sentence: You spilled a quart of water on my table.

Quartz:

Meaning: a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Sentence: The rocks i have used contain some quartz, which may help to create the effect we want.

Choral:

Meaning: of a chorus or a choir,

Sentence: Choral singing became a matter of national pride.

Coral:

Meaning: the hard, stony skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.

Sentence: What you will not find here are pristine corals.

Discrete:

Meaning: separate and distinct.

Sentence: These are discrete projects, and their funding records should be kept separate.

Discreet:

Meaning: careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential.

Sentence: Discreet silence over the matter.

Epic:

Meaning: An epic is a story or long poem telling the tale of a fictional or historical hero.

Sentence: Epic tale that favors the bizarre.

Epoch:

Meaning: a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events, developments, persons, etc Sentence: Epoch of the final decline of democracy.

Libel:

Meaning: Law a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.

Sentence: He was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes.

Liable:

Meaning: legally bound or obligated, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction; responsible.

Sentence: Chief Officer should be vicariously liable for the actions of their officers.

Mail:

Meaning: Postal material for a specific person or organization.

Sentence: I have send him a letter by air mail.

Male:

Meaning: Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex; masculine

Sentence: The king had no male descendant.

Banned:

Meaning: something that is prohibited.

Sentence: The death penalty is banned in New York and New Jersey.

Band:

Meaning: a group of people working together, particularly in the field of music.

Sentence: 9 zero Band's new album, i remember being instantly impressed.

Barred:

Meaning: provided with one or more bars

Sentence: Barred owls roosting by the side of the road!

Bard:

Meaning: an ancient person who composes and signs poems about heroes and epic events.

Sentence: Bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.