session-28

slave driver

• martinet: you make everyone tow the mark right down to the last centimeter demand the strictest conformity to rules. In short, you are the epitome of the army drill sergeant.

bootlicker

• sycophant: you toady to rich and influential people, catering to their vanity, flattering their ego. and on top of all these unpleasant characteristics, you are a complete hypocrite.

  All your servile attentions and unceasing adulation spring from your own selfish desire to get ahead, not out of any sincere admiration.

dabbler

• dilettante: often, though not necessarily, a person of independent income, you engage superficially in pursuit of one of the fine arts. Your artistic efforts are simply a means of passing time pleasantly.

battle-ax

• virago: You are a loud mouthed, shrewish, turbulent woman.

  you are quarrelsome and aggressive, possessing none of those gentle and tender qualities stereotypically associated with femininity.

  You are strong-minded, unyielding, sharp-tongued and dangerous.

  You can curse like stevedore and yell like a fishwife - and often do.

superpatriot

• chauvinist: Anything you own or belong to is better - simply because you own it, although you will be quick to find more justifiable explanation.

  In short you are exaggeratedly, aggressively , absurdly and excessively devoted to your own affiliations - and you make no bones about advertising such prejudice.

fanatic

• monomaniac: You have a one-track mind-and often when you are riding a particular hobby, you ride it hard.

  You talk, eat, sleep that one thing - to the point where you bore everyone to distraction.

attacker

• iconoclast: You are violently against established beliefs. revered tradition, cherished customs.

  Religion, family, marriage, ethics - you weren't there when these were started and you are not going to confirm simply because most unthinking people do.

skeptic

• atheist: there is no God - that's your position and you're not going to budge from it.

self-indulger

• lecher: You are, as a male, lascivious, libidinous, lustful, lewd, wanton, immoral - but more important, you promiscuously attempt to satisfy (and are more often successful in so doing). Your sexual desires with any woman within your arm's reach.

worrier

• hypochondriac: You are always sick, though no doctor can find an organic cause for you ailments.

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Helping Words

• imminent (adj): about to happen.

• futilely (adj): in a way that has no purpose because there is no chance of success; pointlessly.

• lascivious (adj): feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.

• libidinous (adj): showing excessive sexual drive; lustful

• lewd (adj): crude and offensive in a sexual way.

• conform (v): comply with rules, standards or laws.

• revere(d) (v): feel deep respect for admiration for something.

• prejudice (n,v): preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

• fishwife (n):

  • a coarse-mannered woman who is prone to shouting.

  • a woman who sell fish.

• stevedore (n): a person employed at a dock to load and unload ships.

• unyielding: not giving way to pressure; hard or solid (of a man or structure).

• turbulent (adj): characterized by conflict, disorders, or confusion; not stable or calm.

• shrewish: bad-tempered or aggressively assertive (typically used of a woman)

• monetary (adj): relating to money or currency.

• unceasing (adj): not coming to an end; continuos.

• toady:

  • (n): a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

  • (v): act in an obsequious way

• sergeant: hawaldar

• tyrannical (adj): exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.

• toe the mark: accept the authority, policies or principles of a particular group, especially unwillingly.

• fanatic:

  • (n): (कट्टर) a person filled with excessive and single minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

  • (v): (कट्टरपंथी) filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

• dabbler: one not deeply engaged in or concerned with something.

• overt (adj): done or shown openly, plainly apparent.

• crude:

  • (adj)

    • in a natural or raw state.

    • constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way.

    • offensively coarse or rude, especially in relationship to sexual matters.

  • (n): natural mineral oil.

• wanton:

  • (ajd)

    • (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

    • sexually unrestrained or having many casual sexual relationship (usually used of a woman)

    • growing profusely, luxuriant

  • (n): a sexually unrestrained woman

  • (v)

    • play, frolic

    • behave in a sexually unrestrained way

• futile (adj): pointless; incapable of producing any result.

• rudimentary (adj): elementary

• makeshift (adj): temporary

• salient:

  • (adj)

    • most noticeable or important

    • (of an angle) pointing outwards

  • (n)

    • a piece of land or section of fortification that juts (extend out) out to form an angle.

• nag:

  • (v): harass(someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to.

  • (n): a person who nags someone

• harridan: virago

• deity: a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion)

• polytheistic: worship of more than one God.

• blatant: (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly.

• scoff: speak to someone or about something in a mocking way.

• effacing:

  • erase (a mark) from a surface

  • cause (a memory or emotion) to disappear completely

  • make oneself appear insignificantly or inconspicuous

• self-effacing: not claiming attention for oneself; retiring and modest.