(GK) General English - 2

(GK) General English  - 2

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1. A large room equipped for physical exercise or training of various kindsGymnasium

2. A hall or a building with a hall that is used for lectures, concerts etcAuditorium

3. A building where objects of artistic, historical, or scientific importance and value are kept, studied, and put on displayMuseum

4. A park where live wild animals from different parts of the world are kept in cages or enclosures for people to come and seeZoo

5. A large cage or enclosure where birds are keptAviary

6. A water-filled transparent container, in which fish and other aquatic animals and plants are keptAquarium

7. A place where beehives are kept and bees are raised for their honeyApiary

8. A period of 1,000 yearsMillennium

9. At least a hundred years of ageCentenarian

10. One who is 90 years of age or between 90 and 100 years oldNonagenarian

11. Somebody who is between 80 and 89 years oldOctogenarian

12. Person who is between 70 and 79 years oldSeptuagenarian

13. A boy or girl between the ages of 13 and 19Teenager

14. Somebody who moves from one region or country to another, often in search of work or other economic opportunitiesMigrant

15. The act or process of moving from one region or country to anotherMigration

16. To enter a new country for the purpose of settling thereImmigrate

17. Somebody who has come to a country and settled thereImmigrant

18. Person who leaves a place, especially his or her native country, to go and live in another countryEmigrant

19. The act of leaving a native country to live in another countryEmigration

20. A being from another planet or another part of the universe / One who does not belong to, is not accepted in or does not feel part of a particular group or society
Alien

21. A person, animal or plant that has lived in an area from the earliest known timesAborigines

22. Person who is excessively concerned with his or her own healthValetudinarian

23. One who believes that pleasure should be the only aim in lifeHedonist

24. A philosophical theory that holds that pleasure is the highest good or the source of moral valuesHedonism

25. Emotional indifference, especially admirable patience and endurance shown in the face of misfortuneStoicism

26. Person who appears unaffected by emotions, especially somebody admired for showing patience and endurance in the face of adversityStoic

27. One who has the habit of sleepwalkingSomnambulist

28. SleepwalkingSomnambulism

29. A base or support for a column or statuePedestal

30. Person who is traveling on foot, especially in an area also used by vehiclesPedestrain

31. Somebody who believes that all events are decided by fateFatalist

32. The belief that people are powerless against fateFatalism

33. The tendency to speak or write too much about the self / Selfishness or self-centerednessEgotism

34. Person who is selfish, self-absorbed, and self-centered / Person who tends to speak or write about himself or herself all the timeEgotist

35. One who believes that the correct basis for a moral code is every person’s concern for his or her own best interestsEgoist

36. Making personal welfare and interests onlyEgoism

37. The belief that it is impossible to know whether or not God existsAgnosticsm

38. Person who believes that it is impossible to know whether or not God existsAgnostic

39. One who believes in and worship of all or many deitiesPantheist

40. The belief that God and the material world are one and that God is present in everythingPantheism

41. One who believes in several deitiesPolytheist

42. Worshiping of or believing in more than one gods.Polytheism

43. The belief that there is only one GodMonotheism

44. One who believes that there is only one GodMonotheist

45. Disbelief in the existence of God or deitiesAtheism

46. One who does not believe in God or deitiesAtheist

47. Belief in the existence of a god or godsTheism

48. One who believes in the existence of a god or godsTheist

49. Somebody who is excessively preoccupied with health and persistently believes that he or she is ill or in danger of becoming ill. (somebody with imaginary illness)
Hypochondriac

50. An extreme fondness for books, or an obsessive urge to collect themBibliomania

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