Vocabulary Words | Meanings |
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pace | a step or the length of a step, as when you say something is six paces away, speed |
pacify | to console, embalm, appease, give peace to |
pack | to put things into a container. You pack clothes into a trunk or suitcase when you go away. The same word also means a bundle |
package | a parcel or bundle |
packet | a small parcel or package |
pad | a lot of sheets of paper glued or sewn together at the top. The same word also means a piece of thick, soft material, usually to protect a part of your body from harm |
paddle | to walk around in water up to our ankles. The same word also means a pole with a broad part at the end, which you use to move a canoe through the water |
padestrain | someone who is walking |
page | one side of sheet of paper in a book. Newspaper, magazine or notebook. The same word also means a young boy who attends a bride at her wedding, or who runs errands in a hotel |
pageant | a who in costume, usually about things that happened long ago |
pail | another word for bucket |
pain | the feeling when something hurts you |
paint | to colour something with a brush and coloured liquid is called paint |
painting | a coloured picture painted on paper or canvas |
pair | two things which are meant to be used together, like a pair of shoes |
palace | the house where a king or queen lives |
palatable | savoury, tasteful, tasty |
pale | not having too much colour or brightness; looking washed out |
paling | one of the pieces of wood in a special kind of fence |
palm | the inside of your hand between your fingers and your wrist. The same word also means a tall tree with large fan-shaped leaves at the top. It grows in hot countries |
palmistry | the art of foretelling one’s fortune by seeing his hand |
pan | a metal container with a handle, used for cooking |
pancake | a thin round cake eaten hot. You cook it in a frying pan |
panda | a large black and white wild animal, something like a bear. Some pandas are much smaller and look rather like a large cat with a bushy tail and a pointed nose |
panic | sudden fear or terror that keeps people from thinking reasonably |
pansy | a small garden plant with velvety, brightly coloured flowers |
pant | to gasp for breath |
panther | a kind of leopard |
pantomime | a musical play for children, usually a fairy tale. The same word also means a play in which the actors do not speak |
pantry | a small room or cupboard where food is kept |
pants | trousers |
paper | the material used to write on or wrap parcels in |
parable | a fable or story that is meant to show you how to behave towards others |
parachute | a large piece of strong cloth which is fastened to a man who is going to jump from an aeroplane. It opens like an umbrella, and brings him safely and slowly to the ground |
parade | a lot of people walking or marching together, sometimes in costume |
paraffin | a kind of oil that is burned in stoves and lamps |
parallel | going in the same direction the same distance apart and never meeting, like a pair of railway lines |
parallelism | comparison, resemblance, state of being parallel |
paralysis | a numb and lifeless state of body for making any action, no sensation |
parcel | a bundle of things, usually tied up in paper |
parchment | the skin of a goat, sheep or other animal, cleaned and dried. In olden days, before paper was invented, it was used to write on |
pardon | to forgive |
parent | a mother or a father |
parish | a part of a county with its won church |
park | an open space with grass and trees and playgrounds for children. The same word also means to stop a car and leave it at the side of the street or in a parking space |
parliament | a group of men and women who are chosen to make the laws for the people in a country |
parlour | another word for living-room |
parrot | a brightly-coloured bird often kept as a pet in a cage. Some parrots can imitate talking |
parsnip | a vegetable with a thick whitish root shaped rather like a carrot |
part | a piece of something. The same word also means to have someone |
Non-defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already.
The adjective clause which does not define the noun before it but gives additional information about the noun is called the non-defining relative clause.