Vocabulary - 1

1. Available: ready for use or service

2. Community: a group of people (social, religious or occupational)

3. Self-dependent: Dependent on one's self

4. Carry Out: put in effect, fulfill (He carried out the orders/task)

5. Achieve: to gain with effort, attain

6. Object: thing, aim, protest

7. Pat: hit lightly

8. Rush at: jump or leap at

9. Tender: gentle, soft, immature, offer, proposal

10. Frightful: fearful

11. Hoof: the horny covering of foot of an animal (as of horse)

12. Tendency: inclination

13. Round up: to assemble, to bring together

14. Make rounds: to go from one place to another

15. Ravine: a deep narrow valley

16. Orphan: a child who has lost his parents

17. Vow: to pledge, personal commitment

18. Cultivate: prepare for crops, produce, develop, form

19. Notorious: infamous

20. Ransack: to plunder