Monday, 26 January 2015

Having a great time learning new words

COMPASSION
Sympathetic pity and concern for sufferings
v The victim should be treated with compassion
v The compassion in me towards those homeless woke me up on doing fund raising in order to minimize their burden.

SCOUNDREL
A dishonest/unscrupulous person
v The scoundrel sets a bad example for the other young men
v Scroundrelism should be avert in each of the citizans in order to reach our goal.

HEIRLOOM
A valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations
v The gold bracelet is an heirloom from my mother’s family.

DISDAIN
Refuse to do something from feelings of pride or superiority
v Arif disdained to talk about the matter that hurts him.
v She remained standing.pointedly disdaining his invitation to sit down.
v They disdained to clean up the dirt that would dirty their shirts.

INDIGENOUS
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place;native
v He must fulfil the requirement orderd to obtain the indigenity of Thailand.

v The indigenous peoples of Siberia.

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