คำศัพท์แนะนำ ควรเรียนรู้

• A

  alter ego, achieve, Arctica, agate-ware, abreast of the times, almanac, alternative, auditiorium, availability, abruption, angle bar, Americanese, aphelion, autograph hunter, adhesive plaster, aloha, armlet, at his wit's end, ad rem, absolution

• B

  bacillus, bowstring, bequest, bawdy, brain wave, blue, boiled shirt, befittingly, bis, brickbat, bead, bit of muslin, broodmare, Bowring, Sir John, breech-loading firearm, blaze away, beseeching, bonds, bacon, bestrode

• C

  castor oil, cloud-kissing, calumnious, Chair!, circumspectness, closure, coachwork, cordially, cortisone, contemptible, creme, cowage, cutback, Common Bench, cut a figure (a swath), crack the bottle, conflict of laws, chimera, clerical, commandingly

• D

  dharma, dove-eyed, doss, digs, depilatory, dumdum bullet, diligently, dove, dogcart, denudation, dyke, douse, deodorant, disaffected, dope sheet, dining car, dung, divert, dumb friends, dislodgment

• E

  explorer, exceed, elegant, emery, even, extraneous, emolument, enslave, even money, expectorate, entirely, elongate, exit from life, execute, ether, eat humble pie, eyesore, exciting, exemplariness, entice

• F

  floral, fly off the bundle, fearlessly, fled, follow the sea, fall due, fruitfully, flurriedly, fatherhood, faintly, fleet captain, foliage plant, frozen assets, frambesia, flyfish, finikin, futurity, forelock, folksiness, faddism

• G

  gynaecologist, Gaul, good-humored, gag, granitic, galore, give in, gull-wing doors, globefish, Greenland, graven, go into the melting pot, grandisonian, get in on the ground floor, give a new lease of life, gorilla, great, gaiety, gumboil, get under way

• H

  hart, hydra, hain't, horseless traffic, hern, holy war, hefty, horticulturist, Harun-al-Rashid, hurry-scurry, highest, head-on collision, hydroelectric, horn of plenty, Hugo, heartlessly, hushaby, helio-, herbaceous, habitue

• I

  intestinal, India rubber, isolated, I'II, incorrectly, ipecac, interpose, ichneumon fly, incog, indolent, incorruptibility, immutably, income, innards, index finger, islander, immediate, interfuse, interdepartmental, intercalate

• J

  joyousness, jogtrot, jambu, jeopardy, jacket, Juggernaut, jury-rigged, judge, juvenility, Joyce, James, jazz, jump down his throat, jack towel, justly, Julian, joyfulness, Jew-baiting, jargon, junta, jaunty

• K

  kiosk, keep the pot boiling, kingship, Keltic, K-ration, Koh-i-noor, kampong, King's scholarship, Kublai Khan, Kaleidoscope, King's Bench, keep an open house, knowing, keep his own counsel, Kentish, kinetic, Kaiserism, Klan, Kiangsi, knock on the head

• L

  love-begotten, legume, Lady Bountiful, least, logarithm, Lancastrian, lockout, lawn tennis, lady of pleasure, lanoline, landed, loftily, let down, like blazes, lady-in-waiting, leniency, languishingly, low relief, Lao-tes, lamp-post

• M

  montage, minnie, Mesopotamian, merriment, Marble Arch, minister, misanthrope, masseur, Marryat, meagrely, martial law, motar, misty, mortgager, Midsummer Night's Dream, maintenance, Mediaeval, mews, massacre, Magadhi

• N

  namely, natural scale, nickel, National Industrial Recovery Act, never-to-be-forgotten, Newtonian, necessity, northwest passage, name day, nearest, neutralism, near, never-do-well, network, neither here nor there, not cricket, neurologist, navigable, nest of drawers, nor'easter

• O

  ode, out of number, overdone, outdid, on the fly, opportunism, odds-on, out of the way, opener, officer of the guard, odium, orthopedics, orchard, odds and ends, optical art, offront, off guard, one-tenth, odds, occlusion

• P

  permanent, permanent way, permanaganate of potash, prospect, plage, polarize, powder, piecrust, pond, parochial, paltry, Primrose League, pedant, pullet, perilously, price, pianist, pore, punkah, potence

• Q

  quizzical, quartz iodine lamp, Queen's Bench, quarry, quarter wind, queen mother, quick, qua, quadrille, quaver, quart, Queen's colors, quantitative analysis, qui vive, quick rice, queenly, quasi-, quixotic, quash, Queer Street

• R

  rigor mortis, red pepper, relief map, round up, reed mace, ruffle, rummy, residual, replacement part, remotely, reminiscent, rheumatoid, rice-miller, racial, resources, Roman numberals, Reign of Terror, royal flush, rebelliousness, rule out

• S

  saddlebacked, storekeeper, scholarly, smile like a cheshire cat, superheated, seclusion, sheep dog, salt mine, scotch, sky blue, strings, somberly, sweep the board, shake up, straw, submersion, speed limit, sandpaper, scoundrel, service stair

• T

  tank, tenth, trolley, tightfisted, tidy, thesaurus, trepang, ticklish, trombone, treasury note, tzar, tout ensemble, thoron, thermal equator, topgallant, transpire, tepidity, telly, tiptop, table

• U

  underline, unworthy, umpteen, urge, unprincipled, unfair, unused, underpin, uncongenial, upwards, unpromising, usurpation, undersigned, under guards, uremia, uncouple, uttermost, unchary, upbringing, unfaithful

• V

  virility, volte-face, vainly, valediction, via, voluptuary, voodoo, Virginian snakeroot, veal bird, velvet glove, vantage in, vitreous, voracious, vehicle, vivification, vendee, vinegary, ventilation, vapidly, venue

• W

  Warden of the Cinque Ports, window, wale, Wagnerian, walking beam, Wright brothers, wolverene, weightiness, watertight, wheel of life, wild rice, wherefore, west by south, working committee, waistless, weirdness, whey, war of nerves, windlass, West Point

• X

  xenon, x-in., Xerxes the Great, Xmas, xenophobe, x-div., Xmitter, X-, X, X-ray Photograph, Xaverian Brother, X rays, xenophobia, X.D., XC, Xm., xylophone, XI, X.I., XL

• Y

  Your Lordship, yokemate, young blood, Young, Brigham, yawningly, Young Men's Christian Association, yds., Yukon, yak, yen, yew, youngster, York, Yangtze-Kiang, yep, youth, Y.W.C.A., Yours sincerely, Your Majesty, Yunnanfu

• Z

  Zulu, zone, zoology, Zion, zebu, zany, zoological gardens, zebra, zoom, zealously, zip gun, Zeus, zirconium, zonal, Z-bend, zestful, Zolaesque, zodiac, zealotry, Zionist