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Vocabulary : People IV (Meaning to Word)


Given the WORD, identify the MEANING

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1.

waif

  person who is helpless and homeless; abandoned child.

  a person who sells goods.

  person with extraordinary powers or magician.

  boxer.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

2.

wastrel

  boxer.

  profligate person.

  teacher or pedant.

  person who derives pleasure in cruelty.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

3.

sadist

  adherents of a school of thought or religious faction.

  fanatic or person with extreme zeal.

  person who derives pleasure in cruelty.

  person with morbid tendency to set things on fire.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

4.

teetotaler

  person causing sabotage or intentional damage to property.

  one who can make one's voice seem to come from elsewhere.

  advocate of total abstinence (from alcohol).

  person who employs fallacious reasoning to deceive.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

5.

proxy

  person who converts animal hide to leather.

  lazy person.

  person without professional ethics or tricky lawyer.

  substitute or authorized agent.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

6.

stickler

  person who dreads and hates foreigners and strangers.

  person suffering from severe mental disorder.

  one who wastes money.

  perfectionist or one who insists on accuracy.

  Half-n-half Clue
 

7.

surrogate

  deputy or substitute.

  one bearing blame because of others.

  uncultured lawless person or bully.

  abusive loud-mouthed woman or virago.

  Half-n-half Clue
 


 
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