Vocabulary - 15

1. Fortunate: lucky

2. Comfort: relief

3. To come across: meet

4. Expose: reveal, uncover

5. Ivory: tusk of elephant

6. Consist: include

7. Plunder: rob, take by force

8. Rejoice: make merry

9. Considerable: large, huge, substantial

10. Grieve: be sad, suffer

11. Demonstrate: display, show

12. Pursue: to follow, chase, (The police pursued the thief. She decided to pursue her study in management.)

13. Callousness: hard-heartedness

14. Tyrant: dictator, cruel

15. Potential: capacity for growth or development, possible

16. Virulent: bitterly hostile, extremely harmful or infectious

17. Detractor: critic, attacker, enemy

18. Raving: wild or irrational speaking

19. Tirade: angry speech, outburst

20. Sledge: a vehicle run by animals on snow