vocabulary+bank-Athena

=Vocabularies=

from The New Stories
// eg. I'm a novice at bridge. // || //   eg.   // || || of or relating to dogs. //eg. The city's canine population has grown dramatically over recent years. // ||   //eg. He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians. // || //   eg. We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays. // ||  //   eg. He defrauded them of their money. // ||  //eg. She split up w **ith** her boyfriend last week. //  ||  //eg. The missing child's distraught parents made an emotional appeal for information on TV. // ||   //eg. The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. // || // eg. He sat staring out of the window as if **in** a trance. //   ||   //eg. They've brought her out of the operating theatre, but she's not fully conscious yet. //  ||
 * 1. || novice (n.) ||   a person who is not experienced in a job or situation
 * 2. || venom (n.) ||  a poisonous liquid which some snakes, insects, etc. produce when biting or stinging
 * 3. || canine (adj.)
 * 4. || reveal (v.) || to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret
 * 5. || villa (n.) ||  a house usually in the countryside or near the sea, particularly in southern Europe, and often one which people can rent for a holiday
 * 6. || defraud (v.) ||  to take something illegally from a person, company, etc., or to prevent someone from having something that is legally theirs by deceiving them
 * 7. || split up (phr v.) || If two people split up, they end their relationship or marriage
 * 8. || distraught (adj.) ||   extremely worried, anxious or upset
 * 9. || hoax (n.) || a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick
 * 10. || trance (n.) ||  a temporary mental condition in which someone is not completely aware of and/or not in control of themselves and of what is happening to them
 * 11. || conscious (adj.) ||  awake, thinking and aware of what is happening around you