| sodden | soaked | The path was clotted with sodden leaves. |
| desolately | gloomily | The desolate cabin deep in the mountains left him depressed. |
| Dravidian | an ethnic group in India | The suspect was a member of a Dravidian cult. |
| magistrates | law-enforcing officials | The magistrate supervised the execution. |
| pariah | member of an outcast group | A rape victim may become a pariah in her home villiage. |
| aghast | shock | We were aghast that she would be so disrespectful toward the Queen. |
| gambolled | leaping playfully | The dog gambolled and played near the corpse. |
| Eurasian | one of mixed European and Asian descent | He could tell that the beautiful girl was of Eurasian descent. |
| gait | way of walking | His crippled gait made him look like an old man. |
| servile | like an obedient servant | His servile obdedience to his boss made everyone feel contempt toward him. |
| reiterated | repeated | He reiterated the answer. |
| abominable | awful | The abominable dictator was defeated in a palace coup. |
| timorous | shy | The timorous mouse fled when the light went on. |
| oscillated | moved back and forth | She oscillated back and forth in trying to decide to take the job or not. |
| lathis | clubs | The staff did not trust the interns with guns, so they were given lathis as weapons. |
| pannikin | small pan or cup | The prisoners were each given a scoop of rice on their pannikins. |
| boxwallah | peddler | The boxwallah's wares were mostly pirated cd's. |
| rupees | monetary unit of India | The entire software collection was only 2,000 rupees. |
| garrulously | talking in a confused, babbling, rambling mannner | His garrulous jokes annoyed the teacher. |
| genially | pleasantly | His genial expression masked the anger below. |
| spade | shovel. | He broke open the hard soil with the old spade. |
| turf | peat, a type of soft coal. | The smell of the turf-fire reminds me that I am home in Ireland. |
| bog | soft, wet, mucky land, a peat bog | The bog has swallowed many a tool. |
| sod | chunks of peat. | He threw the sod onto a pile to dry. |
| curt | short, abrupt, rude | His curt reply signalled that the conversation was over. |