English Vocabulary with Meanings — auditor … benny
Every English word from the Akshara word game with its everyday meaning — the same reviewed definitions players see at the end of each level. Part 3 of 36 · 8,882 words in total.
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- auditor
- a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
- aug
- the month following July and preceding September
- augment
- enlarge or increase
- august
- the month following July and preceding September
- augusta
- a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah
- aunt
- the sister of your father or mother
- auntie
- the sister of your father or mother
- aunty
- the sister of your father or mother
- aura
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- austen
- English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)
- austere
- practicing great self-denial
- austin
- state capital of Texas on the Colorado River
- austria
- a mountainous republic in central Europe
- author
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- autism
- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self
- auto
- a motor vehicle with four wheels
- autopsy
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- autumn
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- avail
- a means of serving
- avenge
- take revenge for a perceived wrong
- avenger
- someone who takes vengeance
- avenue
- a line of approach
- average
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- avert
- turn away or aside
- avian
- pertaining to or characteristic of birds
- avid
- marked by active interest and enthusiasm
- avoid
- stay clear from
- avon
- a county in southwestern England
- await
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- awake
- stop sleeping
- awaken
- stop sleeping
- award
- a grant made by a law court
- away
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
- awe
- an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- awesome
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
- awhile
- for a short time
- awkward
- socially uncomfortable
- ax
- a tool with a heavy blade for chopping wood
- axe
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
- axial
- situated on or along or in the direction of an axis
- axiom
- (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof
- axis
- the center around which something rotates
- axle
- a shaft on which a wheel rotates
- aztec
- a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
- azure
- a light shade of blue
- baba
- a small cake leavened with yeast
- babe
- (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women
- baby
- a project of personal concern to someone
- babylon
- the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
- bach
- the music of Bach
- back
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- backed
- having a back or backing, usually of a specified type
- backer
- invests in a theatrical production
- backing
- the act of providing approval and support
- backlog
- an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
- backup
- the act of providing approval and support
- bacon
- back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked
- bad
- that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- badge
- any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)
- badger
- sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws
- badly
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner
- baffled
- people who are frustrated and perplexed
- bag
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- bagel
- (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
- bahamas
- island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba
- bahrain
- an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia
- bai
- the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan
- bail
- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- bailey
- the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
- bait
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
- baiting
- harassment especially of a tethered animal
- bake
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- baked
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
- baker
- someone who bakes bread or cake
- bakery
- a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
- baking
- cooking by dry heat in an oven
- balance
- a scale for weighing
- balcony
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
- bald
- grow bald
- baldwin
- an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin
- bale
- a large bundle bound for storage or transport
- bali
- an island in Indonesia to the east of Java
- balkan
- an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
- balkans
- the Balkan countries collectively
- ball
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- ballad
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- ballast
- any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- ballet
- a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
- balloon
- large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
- ballot
- a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative
- balm
- semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- baltic
- a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages
- bam
- a sudden very loud noise
- bamboo
- woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems
- ban
- a decree that prohibits something
- band
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- bandage
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- banded
- identified with a band especially around a leg
- bandit
- an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
- bane
- something causing misery or death
- bang
- a conspicuous success
- banger
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- bangkok
- the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand
- bangor
- a town in southeastern Northern Ireland
- banish
- drive away
- banjo
- a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
- bank
- a flight maneuver
- banker
- the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
- banking
- transacting business with a bank
- banks
- English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
- banned
- forbidden by law
- banner
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
- banquet
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- banter
- light teasing repartee
- bantu
- a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
- baptism
- a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
- baptist
- follower of Baptistic doctrines
- bar
- the act of preventing
- barb
- one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
- bard
- an ornamental caparison for a horse
- bare
- lay bare
- barely
- only a very short time before
- bargain
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- barge
- a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- bark
- a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
- barker
- informal terms for dogs
- barkley
- United States politician and lawyer
- barley
- a grain of barley
- barn
- an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
- baron
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
- baroque
- elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
- barred
- marked with stripes or bands
- barrel
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- barrels
- the amount that many barrels might hold
- barren
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- barrie
- Scottish dramatist and novelist
- barrier
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- barrow
- a cart for carrying small loads
- bars
- gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
- bart
- a member of the British order of honor
- barter
- an equal exchange
- basal
- especially of leaves
- basalt
- the commonest type of solidified lava
- base
- a support or foundation
- based
- having a base of operations (often used as a combining form)
- basel
- a city in northwestern Switzerland
- bash
- a vigorous blow
- basic
- (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- basil
- leaves of the common basil
- basin
- a bowl-shaped vessel
- basis
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- basket
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
- basque
- the language of the Basque people
- bass
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- bassist
- a musician who play the bass viol
- bastion
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
- bat
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
- batch
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- bath
- you soak and wash your body in a bathtub
- bathe
- the act of swimming
- bathing
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- bathtub
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- batman
- an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
- baton
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- bats
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- batsman
- (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
- batter
- a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- battery
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- batting
- (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base
- battle
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
- bay
- a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color
- bayer
- the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid
- bayonet
- a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
- bayou
- a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
- bbl
- any of various units of capacity
- bce
- of the period before the Common Era
- be
- to exist, or to have a quality — 'to be happy'
- beach
- an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
- beacon
- a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
- bead
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- beads
- several beads threaded together on a string
- beak
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- beam
- a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts
- beaming
- radiating or as if radiating light
- bean
- informal terms for a human head
- bear
- massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
- beard
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- bearer
- someone whose employment involves carrying something
- bearing
- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- beast
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- beat
- the act of beating to windward
- beaten
- formed or made thin by hammering
- beater
- an implement for beating
- beating
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- beatles
- a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon)
- beats
- a United States youth subculture of the 1950s
- beau
- a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
- beauty
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- beaver
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail
- beck
- a beckoning gesture
- become
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- bed
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- bedrock
- principles from which other truths can be derived
- bedroom
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- bedtime
- the time you go to bed
- bee
- any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- beech
- any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs
- beef
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- beep
- a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
- beer
- a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
- beet
- round red root vegetable
- before
- earlier in time
- beg
- call upon in supplication
- beggar
- a pauper who lives by begging
- begin
- Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
- behalf
- as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as "on behalf of" rather than "in behalf of")
- behave
- behave in a certain manner
- behind
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- behold
- see with attention
- being
- a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- beirut
- capital and largest city of Lebanon
- bel
- Babylonian god of the earth
- belarus
- a landlocked republic in eastern Europe
- belfast
- capital and largest city of Northern Ireland
- belgian
- a native or inhabitant of Belgium
- belgium
- a monarchy in northwestern Europe
- belief
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- believe
- accept as true
- bell
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- belle
- a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
- bellows
- a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air
- belly
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- belmont
- a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island
- belong
- be owned by
- beloved
- a beloved person
- below
- at a later place
- belt
- the act of hitting vigorously
- ben
- a mountain or tall hill
- bench
- a long seat for more than one person
- bend
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- bender
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- bending
- the act of bending something
- bends
- pain resulting from rapid change in pressure
- beneath
- in or to a place that is lower
- benefit
- something that aids or promotes well-being
- bengal
- a region whose eastern part is now Bangladesh and whose western part is included in India
- bengali
- a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people
- benign
- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
- benin
- a country on western coast of Africa
- benny
- United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974)