Alphabetical
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A partner in crime |
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One who devotes his life to the welfare and interests of other people |
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One who engages in any pursuit for the love of it, and not for gain |
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One who can use both hands |
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One who fishes with a rod |
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A person who collects things belonging to ancient times |
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One who shoots with bows and arrows |
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One who kills secretly or by surprise |
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One who goes from place to place begging alms |
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One who steals books |
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A woman with light-coloured hair |
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A woman with dark hair |
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One who feeds on human flesh |
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One who tries to get votes for an election candidate |
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One who accompanies a young lady to public places |
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One who pretends to know a great deal about everything |
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One who works along with another |
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A person who dresses up women's hair |
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One who has special skill in judging art, music |
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One who is compelled by law to serve as a soldier |
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One living at the same lixue as another |
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An acrobat who bends his body into various shapes |
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A messenger sent in great haste |
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One who steers a boat |
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One who sneers at the aims and beliefs of his fellow men |
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A young lady who is being presented at Court |
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A young lady who is making her first appearance at a public dance |
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A leader of the people who can sway his followers by his oratory |
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One who has an irresistible desire for alcoholic drinks |
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One who listens to the conversation of others |
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One who delights to speak about himself or thinks only of his own welfare |
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A spy sent out on a secret mission |
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One devoted to the pleasures of eating and drinking |
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One who is banished from his home or his country |
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One who feeds on fruits |
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One who runs away from justice or the law |
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One who worries a candidate for election by interruption and awkward questions |
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One who entertains another |
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One who pretends to be what he is not |
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One who breaks images or church ornaments |
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One who maliciously sets fire to a building |
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An unthankful person |
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One who pretends to be what he is not |
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One who can enable people speaking different languages to understand each other |
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One who journeys from place to place |
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One who has an irresistible tendency to steal |
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One versed in many languages |
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One who dies for a noble cause |
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One who goes from place to place begging alms |
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One who has an irresistible desire for alcoholic drinks |
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One who imitates the voice, gestures etc. of another |
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One who becomes the favourite of a distinguished personage and serves him as a slave |
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A hater of mankind |
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A hater of mankind |
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A hater of marriage |
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A hater of women |
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One who pretends to know a great deal about everything |
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One new to anything |
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One new to anything |
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One who collects coins |
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One who is opposed to intellectual progress |
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One who looks on the bright side of things |
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An authority on pronunciation |
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One who eats all kinds of food |
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One who loves his country and serves it devotedly |
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One who makes a display of his learning tastes, etc. |
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One who journeys on foot |
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One who looks on the dark side of things |
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One who devotes his service or wealth for the love of mankind |
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One who journeys to a Holy Place |
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One who has been before another in office or employment |
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One who foretells events |
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One who searches for minerals or mining sites |
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One under the protection of another |
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One who pretends to know a great deal about everything |
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An expert at story telling |
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A soldier or a sailor newly enlisted |
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One who retires from society to live a solitary life |
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One who takes refuge in a foreign country |
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One who walks in his sleep |
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One who talks in his sleep |
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One whose reasoning is clever yet false |
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One who hides away on a ship to obtain a free passage |
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One who takes over after another in office or employment |
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One given up to luxurious living |
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One who abstains from alcoholic drinks |
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A noisy abusive scolding woman |
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One new to anything |
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A person in a low state of health, or over-anxious about his health |
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One who eats no animal flesh |
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One who has the art of speaking in such a way that the sound seems to come from another person |
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One who offers his service of his own free will |
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One given to sensual pleasures and bodily enjoyment |
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One under the protection of another |
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A lover of animals |
Alphabetical by Character
| A leader of the people who can sway his followers by his oratory | demagogue |
| A hater of mankind | misanthrope, misanthropist |
| A hater of marriage | misogamist, misogynist |
| A hater of women | misogynist |
| A list of goods despatched with quantity and price to the purchaser | invoice |
| A list or table of duties payable on exports or imports | tariff |
| A lover of animals | zoophilist |
| A messenger sent in great haste | courier |
| A noisy abusive scolding woman | termagant |
| A partner in crime | accomplice |
| A person in a low state of health, or over-anxious about his health | valetudinarian |
| A person who collects things belonging to ancient times | antiquary |
| A person who dresses up women's hair | coiffeur |
| A soldier or a sailor newly enlisted | recruit |
| A spy sent out on a secret mission | emissary |
| A woman with dark hair | brunette |
| A woman with light-coloured hair | blonde |
| A young lady who is making her first appearance at a public dance, or being presented at Court | debutante |
| Able to read | literate |
| An acrobat who bends his body into various shapes | contortionist |
| An authority on pronunciation | orthoepist |
| An expert at story telling | raconteur |
| An unthankful person | ingrate |
| Born of married parents | legitimate |
| Born of unmarried parents | il-legitimate |
| Fit for food | edible |
| Fit to be chosen or selected | eligible |
| Goods brought into a country | imports |
| Goods carried out of a country | exports |
| Loud enough to be heard | audible |
| Love of one's country | patriotism |
| Not distinct enough to be heard | in-audible |
| Not having the qualities of being chosen | in-eligible |
| One devoted to the pleasures of eating and drinking | epicure |
| One given to sensual pleasures and bodily enjoyment everything | sybarite |
| One given up to luxurious living | voluptuary |
| One living at the same lixue as another | contemporary |
| One new to anything | novice, tyro, neophyte |
| One to whom goods are despatched | consignee |
| One under the protection of another | protege, ward |
| One versed in many languages | linguist |
| One who abstains from alcoholic drinks | teetotaller |
| One who accompanies a young lady to public places | chaperon |
| One who becomes the favourite of a distinguished personage and serves him as a slave | minion |
| One who breaks images or church ornaments | iconoclast |
| One who can enable people speaking different languages to understand each other | interpreter |
| One who can use both hands | ambidexter |
| One who takes over after another in office or employment | successor |
| One who collects coins | numismatist |
| One who comes into a foreign country to settle there | immigrant |
| One who delights to speak about himself or thinks only of his own welfare | egotist |
| One who devotes his life to the welfare and interests of other people | altruist |
| One who devotes his service or wealth for the love of mankind | philanthropist |
| One who dies for a noble cause | martyr |
| One who eats all kinds of food | pantophagist |
| One who eats no animal flesh | vegetarian |
| One who engages in any pursuit for the love of it, and not for gain | amateur |
| One who entertains another | host, hostess |
| One who feeds on fruits | fruitarian |
| One who feeds on human flesh | cannibal |
| One who fishes with a rod | angler |
| One who foretells events | prophet |
| One who goes from place to place begging alms | mendicant, beggar |
| One who has an irresistible desire for alcoholic drinks | dipsomaniac, methomaniac |
| One who has an irresistible tendency to steal | kleptomaniac |
| One who has been before another in office or employment | predecessor |
| One who has special skill in judging art, music | connoisseur |
| One who has the art of speaking in such a way that the sound seems to come from another person | ventriloquist |
| One who hides away on a ship to obtain a free passage | stowaway |
| One who imitates the voice, gestures etc. of another | mimic |
| One who is banished from his home or his country | exile |
| One who is compelled by law to serve as a soldier | conscript |
| One who is opposed to intellectual progress | obscurant |
| One who journeys from place to place | itinerant |
| One who journeys on foot | pedestrian |
| One who journeys to a Holy Place | pilgrim |
| One who kills secretly or by surprise | assassin |
| One who leaves his country to settle in another | emigrant |
| One who listens to the conversation of others | eavesdropper |
| One who looks on the bright side of things | optimist |
| One who looks on the dark side of things | pessimist |
| One who loves his country and serves it devotedly | patriot |
| One who makes a display of his learning tastes, etc. | pedant |
| One who maliciously sets fire to a building | incendiary |
| One who offers his service of his own free will | volunteer |
| One who pretends to be what he is not | hypocrite, impostor |
| One who pretends to know a great deal about | mountebank, charlatan, quack |
| One who retires from society to live a solitary life | recluse, hermit |
| One who runs away from justice or the law | fugitive |
| One who searches for minerals or mining sites | prospector |
| One who shoots with bows and arrows | archer |
| One who sneers at the aims and beliefs of his fellow men | cynic |
| One who steals books | biblioklept |
| One who steers a boat | coxswain |
| One who takes refuge in a foreign country | refugee, alien |
| One who talks in his sleep | somniloquist |
| One who tries to get votes for an election candidate | canvassei |
| One who walks in his sleep | somnambulist |
| One who works along with another | coadjutor |
| One who worries a candidate for election by interruption and awkward questions | heckler |
| One whose reasoning is clever yet false | sophist |
| To banish from one's country | expatriate |
| To remove from one country to another | migrate |
| To send back a person to his own country | repatriate |
| Unable to read | il-literate |
| Unfit for human consumption | in-edible |
| Writing that is difficult to decipher | il-legible |
| (Writing) that is easy to read | legible |
During my Digital Media, Multimedia and some AIT or VET courses I got my students to work on The S.T.E.A.M.E.R book of knowledge, especially advanced students that complete tasks ahead of time, this was my fall back lessons for those clever or advanced students, they were asked to pick one of the areas of study and create a cover page, find some interesting facts and put their findings into a chapter of the book The book was 138 pages long at my retirement from teaching.
STEAMER Stands for
Science, Technology, English, Arts, Mathematics, Enivironment and Religion
For those students that presented work on English we gathered a lot of useful reference information that became a STUDENT's COMPENDIUM here are some samples of student work
Explanation for Compendium File Includes SC007_Commonly_confused_words SC013 Death Words pertaining to Occurring after death - posthumous SC009_Diminutives SC010_Famous SC011_Figurative_Expressions SC012_Gender SC013_Geography The Circumference of the earth is approxinmately 24,800 miles. SC014_Gods War - Mars SC015_Government Australian Government SC016_Grammar Explains various uses of nouns verbs etc. SC017_Human_Relationships THE ART OF LIVING - Consideration for the feelings of others SC018_Inventions Clock (pendulum) - Christian Huygens SC019_Kings_Queens of UK EGBERT 827 - 839 SC020_Literary A book in which the events of each day are recorded - Diary SC021_Marriage A hater of marriage - misogamist SC022_Medical A disease confined to a particular district or place - endemic SC044_Metaphors Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated SC023_Miscellaneous All Fools' Day - 1st April - Aussie slang - sounds that things make etc. SC024_Nouns sit - seat (when to use Nouns) SC025_Names Boys & Girls names explained SC026_Nature A four-footed animal - quadruped SC027_Negatives That which cannot be pierced or penetrated - impenetrable SC028_Numbers A number of fish taken in a net - catch, haul SC029_Opposites Unable to read - il-literate SC030_Patron Saints St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland SC031_Places A place where fishes are kept - aquarium SC032_Possessive_Case Is the case which denotes the owner or possessor SC045_Phobias Noctiphobia - Fear of the night SC033_Professions The commander of a fleet - Admiral SC034_Similes Archates - a good friend * Belt = to hit below the belt SC035_Proverbs A bad beginning makes a good ending. SC048_Sayings as a drowned rat. - as ancient as the sun—as the stars. SC036_Science_and_Arts An instrument for detecting earthquakes - seismograph SC037_Scientific_Terms The science of land management - agronomics SC038_Seven_Wonders The Pyramids of Egypt SC039_Synonyms abandon....... desert, forsake, leave. SC040_War Nations carrying on warfare - belligerents SC041_Weddings 7th year—Copper or Brass SC042_Words_to_Verbs strong - strengthen SC043_Other Any other items that might be of interest SC044_Metaphors Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated SC045_Phobias Noctiphobia - Fear of the night SC046_Death SC047_Thesaurus Thesaurus - abandon = abandoned, abandoning, abandonment, abandons affluent =having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value,words explained and incorrect use of words
SC048_Sayings as afraid as a grasshopper. SC049_UrbanMyths The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." Please note there are some excellent links to assist with these pages
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