Vocabulary Lesson 6: English

A natural talent or ability; quickness in learning

1. without skill
2. inappropriate or out of place; foolish or absurd

an added part not essential to the whole

to give forms of verbs in a fixed order

an authoritative command or order

1. a serious state of affairs
2. the condition or point of being joined

to conquer; to dominate completely

1. harsh; severe
2. A substance that tightens tissues (in medicine, a substance constricting living tissue)

1. a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water
2. (usually plural) a difficulty or bad position

1. severe; constricted; tight
2. Pertaining to scarcity of money