ARCHIMAGE : a great magician.
BABE : baby.
BLONDE : a woman or girl of fair complexion.
BONZE :a buddhist monk.
BAYADERE :a dancing girl.
BEANPOLE(informal) :a very tall thin person
BIBLIOPOLE : a bookseller, esp a dealer in rare or second-hand books.
CONFRERE :
CHARLIE :a foolish person.
CHORINE :a chorus girl.
CONVERTITE : a convert, a reformed prostitute.
CONCUBINE : a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married.
COOLIE :an unskilled and cheaply employed worker in Asia
CRONE :an unpleasant or ugly old woman
DUNCE :a person who is slow to learn or stupid, especially at school
EPICURE :a person who enjoys food and drink of a high quality;
GARGOYLE :an ugly creature or head cut from stone and fixed to the
roof of an old church, etc., often with an open mouth through which
rain water flows away
GENDARME :member of a military force employed in police duties.
GENIE :a magical spirit, originally in Arab traditional stories,
who does or provides whatever the person who controls it asks
HYPOCRITE : a pretender. He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing
other people on the environment but he drives around in a huge great
car.
JUVENILE :a young person below 18 years of age.
NAMESAKE :a person or thing having the same name as another person or thing
NOVICE :a person who is not experienced in a job or situation, a
person who is still training to be a monk or a nun.
OBLATE :person offered to the service of and living in a
monastery, but not under monastic vow or full monastic rule.
OGRE :a large frightening character in children's stories who
eats children
PARVENUE :someone from a low social position who has suddenly become
rich or successful.but has not yet developed the appropriate manners,
dress, surroundings etc.
RECLUSE-person who lives alone and avoids other people.
SPITFIRE :a person with a very fiery temper.
SPOUSE :a person's husband or wife.
SPRITE :a fairy (= small imaginary person with wings), especially
one connected with water
STOOGE :a person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to
do an unpleasant or secret job for them:
STUPE :a stupied person.
SUTTEE :the Hindu custom, which is no longer legal, of a woman
being burnt alive in the same fire as that in which her dead husband's
body is burnt
TORTOISE :an animal with a thick, hard shell that it can move its
head and legs into for protection. It eats plants, moves very slowly
and sleeps during the winter.
WISEACRE :one who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
WHORE :a female prostitute or a woman whose behaviour in her
sexual relationships is considered immoral.
BABE : baby.
BLONDE : a woman or girl of fair complexion.
BONZE :a buddhist monk.
BAYADERE :a dancing girl.
BEANPOLE(informal) :a very tall thin person
BIBLIOPOLE : a bookseller, esp a dealer in rare or second-hand books.
CONFRERE :
CHARLIE :a foolish person.
CHORINE :a chorus girl.
CONVERTITE : a convert, a reformed prostitute.
CONCUBINE : a woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married.
COOLIE :an unskilled and cheaply employed worker in Asia
CRONE :an unpleasant or ugly old woman
DUNCE :a person who is slow to learn or stupid, especially at school
EPICURE :a person who enjoys food and drink of a high quality;
GARGOYLE :an ugly creature or head cut from stone and fixed to the
roof of an old church, etc., often with an open mouth through which
rain water flows away
GENDARME :member of a military force employed in police duties.
GENIE :a magical spirit, originally in Arab traditional stories,
who does or provides whatever the person who controls it asks
HYPOCRITE : a pretender. He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing
other people on the environment but he drives around in a huge great
car.
JUVENILE :a young person below 18 years of age.
NAMESAKE :a person or thing having the same name as another person or thing
NOVICE :a person who is not experienced in a job or situation, a
person who is still training to be a monk or a nun.
OBLATE :person offered to the service of and living in a
monastery, but not under monastic vow or full monastic rule.
OGRE :a large frightening character in children's stories who
eats children
PARVENUE :someone from a low social position who has suddenly become
rich or successful.but has not yet developed the appropriate manners,
dress, surroundings etc.
RECLUSE-person who lives alone and avoids other people.
SPITFIRE :a person with a very fiery temper.
SPOUSE :a person's husband or wife.
SPRITE :a fairy (= small imaginary person with wings), especially
one connected with water
STOOGE :a person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to
do an unpleasant or secret job for them:
STUPE :a stupied person.
SUTTEE :the Hindu custom, which is no longer legal, of a woman
being burnt alive in the same fire as that in which her dead husband's
body is burnt
TORTOISE :an animal with a thick, hard shell that it can move its
head and legs into for protection. It eats plants, moves very slowly
and sleeps during the winter.
WISEACRE :one who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
WHORE :a female prostitute or a woman whose behaviour in her
sexual relationships is considered immoral.
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