Vocabulary

1.Contraband
Meaning: goods that have been imported or exported illegally.
Synonym: smuggled, black-market, bootleg
Sentence: “customs men had searched the carriages for contraband”

2.throttle
Meaning: a device controlling the flow of fuel or power to an engine.
Synonym: choke, strangle, strangulate,
Sentence: “the engines were at full throttle”
“it has two engines that can be throttled”

3.throng
Meaning: a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.
Synonym: host, mob, assemblage, gathering, congregation,
Sentence: “he pushed his way through the throng”

4.tiara
Meaning: 1.a jeweled ornamental band worn on the front of a woman’s hair.
2.a high diadem encircled with three crowns and worn by a pope.
Synonym: headband, headdress, chaplet
Sentence: she brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.

5. Vitiate
Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
Synonym: poison, spoil, stain, tarnish, touch, taint
Sentence: “development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population”