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Native American Vocabulary for 5th November :

  1. Strainer (n) : a sieve, filter


  2. Strait (adj.) : narrow, strick, limited


  3. Straiten (n) : contract, confine, distress, press with poverty


  4. Strand (n) : sea shore, any of the threads twisted together in rope


  5. Strand (v) : ground, be wrecked, leave helpless


  6. Strange (adj.) : wonderful, unusual, new


  7. Stranger (n) : a foreigner, one unknown


  8. Strangle (v) : choke by pressure round the throat


  9. Strap (n) : a strip of leather


  10. Strata (n & pl) : of ‘stratum’ layers


  11. Stratagem (n) : a trick, a ruse


  12. Strategy (n) : artifice in war


  13. Stratocracy (n) : government by the military


  14. Stratum (n) : bed, layer, course


  15. Straw (n) : dry cut stalks of grain or pulse, straw coloured, last straw


  16. Strawberry (n) : a low growing plant bearing juicy red fruit


  17. Strawboard (n) : a kind of thick paper board made of straw pulp


  18. Stray (v) : wander away from the right path, err


  19. Streak (n) : a line, a stripe, a ray


  20. Streak (v) : mark with streaks


  21. Stream (n) : a flow of water, air or light, a small river


  22. Streamer (n) : a long narrow flag or pennon, a beam of light shooting up from the horizon


  23. Street (n) : a road lined with houses


  24. Strengthen (v) : make strong


  25. Strenuous (adj.) : resolute, energetic, zealous


  26. Strenuous (adv.) : strenuously


  27. Stress (n) : force, importance, pressure, strain, exertion


  28. Stress (v) : put emphasis on


  29. Stretch (v) : extend, expand, spread


  30. Stretcher (n) : a carrier for transporting the sick and wounded


  31. Strew (v) : scatter, sprinkle


  32. Stricken (v) : past participle of STRIKE


  33. Stricken (adj.) : affected, very much frightened


  34. Strict (adj.) : stern, severe, exact, accurate


  35. Stricture (n) : censure, constricted, state (of a passage) in the body


  36. Stride (n) : a long step


  37. Stride (v) : walk with long steps, pass over ditch etc, with one step


  38. Strident (adj.) : loud and harsh in sound


  39. Strife (n) : struggle, contest, quarrel, war


  40. Strike (v) : to refuse to work in order to enforce demands, to hit with force, to print


  41. Strike (n) : cessation from work


  42. Stringent (adj.) : strict, severe, rigid


  43. Stringy (adj.) : consisting of strings, ropy, fibrous, sinewy


Native American Vocabulary for 5th November :

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