Essential Vocabulary and Conjunctions for English Mastery

Essential Vocabulary List

• Ambiance: Atmosphere — Lure: Offer for something
• Abound: Exist in large quantities — Meticulously: Carefully kept
• Afflicting: Hurting — Perennial: Lasting for a long time
• Aboard: On board — Quest: Long search for something
• Backdrop: The scenery or landscape of a certain place
• Bid: Command — Ruthless: Showing no pity
• Biannual: Twice a year — Retrieve: Bring back
• Biennial: Once every 2 years
• Staggeringly: Overwhelming
• Bleak: Lacking vegetation — Starvation: Lack of food
• Breed: Species, reproduce — Set off: Begin a journey
• Bemused: Confused — Silver tongue: Ability to convince
• Cease: Stopped — Sanctuary: Safe place, refuge
• Come across: Look like — Turn something over: Think
• Cluster: Group of similar things close together
• Dismal: Lonely, empty, melancholy
• Subtle: Clever and indirect
• Doomed: Bound to have a negative result
• Dilemma: Argument
• Precipitous: Very steep or done quickly without thinking
• Enticing: Alluring — Muted: Soft in color or no sound
• Effectually: Useful, adequate
• Eerie: Scary, bizarre
• Zealously: Showing strong or energetic support
• Exult: Feel triumphant
• Chronology: Ordered series of events
• For want of food: Hunger — Permeate: Spread through
• Foolhardy: Not daring, stupid — Brink: Edge of something
• Fail by a whisker: Fail by very little
• Gauged: Appraise, judge
• Gloom: Despair
• Gully: Ravine formed by the action of water
• Habitation: Shelter
• Hindering: Cause delay or interruption
• Haste: Excessive speed
• Obliterate: Remove or destroy all traces

Grammar: Relative, Subordinate, and Coordinate