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Meanings of difficult words from the lesson "Sir Isaac Newton - The Ingenious Scientist":
No. | Words | Meanings |
1 | destined | preordained, bound |
2 | remarkable | worthy of attention; striking |
3 | ingenuity | the quality of being clever, original, and inventive |
4 | contrived | deliberately created rather than arising naturally |
5 | weary | feeling or showing extreme tiredness |
6 | capital | excellent |
7 | apprentice | employ (someone) as a trainee to a skilled employer |
8 | faculty | an inherent mental or physical power |
9 | gale | very strong wind |
10 | tempest | violent windy storm |
11 | whirled | moved rapidly round and round |
12 | draught | a current of cool air in a room or other confined space |
13 | bellows | a device with an air bag that emits a stream of air when squeezed together |
14 | hoppers | funnel shaped bins for feeding grains into mills |
15 | enchanted | charmed, filled with delight |
16 | reverential | with a deep respect to |
17 | presentiment | an intuitive feeling about the future |
18 | quadruped | four-legged animal |
19 | scholar | a specialist in a specific branch of study |
20 | accustomed | usual, habitual |
21 | lofty | great height, tall |
22 | renowned | famous, known or talked about |
23 | knight | a man awarded a non-hereditary title in recognition of merit and entitled to use the honorific ‘Sir’ in front of his name |
24 | knighthood | the title, rank, or status of a knight |
25 | earnestly | with sincere and intense conviction |
26 | endurable | able to be endured; bearable |
27 | contrivance | a clever device or object that has been invented for a particular purpose |
28 | ceased | stopped |
29 | trifle | a thing of little value or importance |
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