A castaway | someone who has been shipwrecked |
A gossip | is a person who enjoys talking about other people's private lives |
A midwife | nurse who has been specially trained to advise pregnant women and to assist them to giving birth |
A shop steward | member of a trade union elected to represent other members |
A tycoon | is a rich and powerful businessman or industrialist |
A culprit | is someone who has committed a crime or done sth wrong |
An accomplice | person who helps another person to commit a crime |
A conscript | someone who is made to serve in one of the armed forces of a country whether he likes it or not |
A hooligan | is a noisy, rough young person who causes damage or disturbances in public places |
A registrar | is a person responsible for keeping official records |
A sibling | is a brother or a sister |
A picket | is a person who during a strike is outside a factory by his trade union |
An alien | is foreigner who has not yet become a citizien of the country in which he is living |
An artisan | is a skilled manual worker or craftsman |
A ward | is a young person who is in the care of a quardian or law-court |
A hermit | sb who has withdrawn from society and lives alone |
A predecessor | is the former occupant of an office, position, etc |
An underwriter | is a person who makes insurance contracts |
An agnostic | is a person who holds that it is not possible to know whether God exist or not |
A bursar | is a person in charge of a college or school who is responsible for the accounts |
A copywriter | is a person who writes the words for advertisements |
A peer | is a person of the same age, rank or status as oneself |
A swindler | is a person who deceives others, usually to get money illegally |
An arbitrator | sb who is called in to settle a dispute between two people usually at the request of both sides |
A compatriot | is a fellow countryman or countrywomen |
A despot | is a ruler who uses his power unfairly or cruelly |
A beneficiary | is a person who is entitled to receive money or property from a will or insurance |
A toddler | is a small child who has just learnt to walk |
An assessor | is a person whose job is to calculate the value of a property or the amount of income or taxes |
An envoy | is a special messenger sent by one government to do business with another government |
A delinquent | a young person who has broken the law |
An invigilator | sb who supervises the people taking an examination make sure they do not cheat |
An oculist | a doctor who specialises in treating eye defects or disease |
A prude | sb who is easily shocked by things relating to nudity or sex |
A stalwart | is a loyal, dependable and strong supporter of an organisation or political party |
A vandal | sb who deliberately damages or destroys public property |
An actuary | sb who advises insurance companies on how much to charge for insurance |
A boor | sb who behaves in a coarse , bad mannered way |
An expatriate | sb who is living in foreign country |
A magnate | sb who is very wealthy and powerful esp. in business or industry |
A pallbearer | sb who walks beside or helps to carry a coffin at a funeral |
A punter | sb who bets money on horse races |
A vagrant | sb who has no home or job and who lives by going from place to place , begging or stealing |
A taxidermist | sb who prepares the skin of animals and the stuffs and mounts them so that they look lifelike |
A adjudicator | sb who is appointed to act as a judge in a competition |
A conscientious objector | sb who refuses to serve in the armed forces or fight in a war on moral or religious grounds |
An interloper | sb who enters a place when he has no right to be there |
A misogynist | sb who hates woman |
A teetotaller | sb who never drinks alcohol |
A bigot | sb who has strong and unreasonable opinions about religion, politics, is intolerant |
A executor | sb who carries out the orders in a will |
A pathologist | is a doctor who examines a dead body to find out how the person died |
A spouse | in one's husband or wife |
A tyrant | is a ruler who has absolute power and who rules cruelly and unjustly |
A charlatan | sb who deceives others by pretending to have special skills or knowledge esp. about medicine |
A lackey | sb who follows another person's orders completely without ever questioning them |
A pawnbroker | sb who will lend you money in return for an article you possess |
A squatter | sb who enters and lives in unoccupied property without permission and without paying any rent |
A convalescent | sb who is spending time getting well after an illness |
A recidivist | sb who keeps going back to a life of a crime even after being punished |