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1.abate

to reduce in amount, degree, or severity Focus on 'ate' part of abate. (eat, ate, eaten). When you eat anything, you reduce it's quantity.
2.abscon

to run away, to leave secretly ab + scond. "Absent in a second." When you will absent in a second? When u HIDE, or when u DEPART secretly. Treat it like james bond, hiding from a villain.
3.abstain

to choose not to do something ab (meaning away) + stain : we generally tend to stay away from stain (dirt, dust etc)

4.abyss

an extremely deep hole abyss sounds similar to abuse. When you're seriously abused, you become depressed and feel like jumping into an abyss
5.adulterat

to make impure when a child becomes adult he loses his purity and innocence...so any thing adulterated is contaminated or has lost its purity.
6.advocate

to speak in favor of advocate: add+ur VOICE ...support

7.aesthetic

concerning the appreciation of beautyaes + thetic opposite of "pathetic"..means beauty

8.aggrandiz

to increase in power, influence, and reputationaggrandize ~ ag+grand+eyes = make someone seem grander/greater in others eyes by raising power etc.
9.alleviate

to make more bearableALL (all)+ EVI (evil)+ ATE (has been eaten up) so hence you are relieved of the pain and you feel relief
10.amalgamat

to combine; to mix togetherat+mall+game= There is a game at a mall. Hence people come together...Gather for the game!

11.ambiguous

doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several waysAmbi (am + bi) means 2 , while guous sounds like guess. So if 2 people guess on something, then it will make the subject doubtful or unclear.
12.ameliorate

to make better; to improveIn movie Amelie, Amelie tries to improve other people's lives.
13.anachronis

something out of place in timeana (out of order, negative sense) + chron (time).. so something not placed correctly with respect to time.

14.analogous

similar or alike in some way; equivalent toAnalogies are given by the lecturers while teaching which compares the example with the present subject
15.anomaly

derivation from what is normalAnomaly= A(means NO) + Nomaly = A(no) + Normality = ABNORMALITY, DEVIATION FROM NORMAL ORDER
16.antagoniz

to annoy or provoke to angerAUNTY+GONE(goes)+ON+ICE....when an aunty goes on ice bare footed,it provokes her hostility...

17.antipathy

extreme dislikeremember antipathy as anti party. in politics the people of anti-party are quite opposite in feeling
18.apathy

lack of interest or emotiona (negative) + pathy : root "pathy" means feeling as in sympathy; so apathy means lacking interest in something.
19.arbitrate

to judge a dispute between two opposing partiesarbitrate= (arbit=arbiter=judge)+(trate = treat= act as)
20.archaic

ancient, old-fashionedRemember with Archive. As we keep very old thing in archive- Archaic is related something very old.

21.ardor 22.articulate 23.assuage 24.attenuate 25.audacious 26.austere 27.banal 28.bolster 29.bombasti

intense and passionate feeling able to speak clearly and expressively to make something unpleasant less severe to reduce in force or degree; to weaken fearless and daring severe or stern in appearance, undecorated predictable, clichd, boring to support; to prop up pompous in speech and manner harsh, jarring noise impartial and honest in speech

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30.cacophon

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31.candid 32.capricious

changing one's mind quickly and often Ex:Employees have complained of being at the mercy of the manager's every whim and caprice.
33.castigate 34.catalyst 35.caustic 36.chaos 37.chauvinist 38.chicanery 39.cogent 40.condone 41.convoluted 42.corroborat

to punish or criticize harshly something that brings about a change in something else. Ex: She was proud to be a catalyst for reform in the government. biting in wit great disorder or confusion someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs deception by means of craft or guile convincing and well reasoned to overlook, pardon, or disregard intricate and complicated to provide supporting evidence too trusting; gullible steadily increasing volume or force appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety respect, courtesy to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock to dry out thoroughly

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43.credulous 44.crescendo 45.decorum 46.deference 47.deride 48.desiccate

49.desultory 50.diatribe 51.diffident 52.dilate 53.dilatory 54.dilettante 55.dirge 56.disabuse 57.discern 58.disparate 59. dissemble 60. dissonance 61. dogma 62. dogmatic 63. dupe 64. eclectic 65. efficacy 66. elegy 67. eloquent 68. emulate 69. enervate 70. engender 71. engima 72. enumerate 73. ephemeral 74. equivocate 75. erratic 76. erudite 77. esoteric 78. estimable 79. eulogy

jumping from one thing to another; disconnected an abusive, condemnatory speech lacking self-confidence to make larger; to expand intended to delay someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic a funeral hymn or mournful speech to set right; to free from error to perceive; to recognize fundamentally different; entirely unlike to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intention or character a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief dictatorial in one's opinions to deceive; a person who is easily deceived selecting from or made up from a variety of sources effectiveness a sorrowful poem or speech persuasive and moving, especially in speech to copy; to try to equal or excel to reduce in strength to produce, cause, or bring about a puzzle; a mystery to count, list, or itemize lasting a short time to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead wandering and unpredictable learned, scholarly, bookish known or understood by only a few admirable speech in praise of someone use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one to make worse to clear from blame; prove innocent urgent; requiring immediate action to clear of blame clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion to grovel intensely emotional; feverish excessively decorated or embellished to arouse or incite a tendency to be thrifty or cheap tending to talk a lot

80. euphemism 81. exacerbate 82. exculpate 83. exigent 84. exonerate 85. explicit 86. fanatical 87. fawn 88. fervid 89. florid 90. foment 91. frugality 92. garrulous

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outgoing, sociable deceit or trickery easily deceived of a similar kind one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions not capable of being disturbed impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected quick to act without thinking unable to be calmed down or made peaceful not fully formed; disorganized showing innocence or childlike simplicity hostile, unfriendly harmless lacking interest or flavor uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled to overwhelm; to cover with water easily made angry using few words to express sorrow; to grieve to give praise; to glorify to give unsparingly; or extremely generous or extravagant acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner talkative clear and easily understood bright, brilliant, glowing to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill capable of being shaped a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol extremely careful about details a person who dislikes others to soften; to lessen to calm or make less severe lack of variation lacking sophistication or experience hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion overly submissive and eager to please stubborn, unyielding to prevent; to make unnecessary to stop up; to prevent the passage of troublesome and oppressive; burdensome impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light public disgrace excessive slowness a contradiction or dilemma

homogenous iconoclast imperturbable impervious impetuous implacable inchoate ingenuous inimical innocuous insipid intransigent inundate irascible laconic lament laud lavish lethargic loquacious lucid luminous malinger malleable metaphor meticulous misanthrope mitigate mollify monotony nave obdurate obsequious obstinate obviate occlude onerous opaque opprobrium ostentation paradox

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paragon pedant perfidious perfunctory permeate philanthropy placate plastic plethora pragmatic precipitate prevaricate pristine prodigal proliferate propitiate propriety prudence pungent quiescent rarefy repudiate reticent rhetoric satiate soporific specious stigma stolid sublime tacit taciturn tirade torpor transitory vacillate venerate veracity verbose vex volatile waver whimsical zeal

a model of excellence or perfection someone who shows off learning willing to betray one's trust done in a routine way; indifferent to penetrate charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness to soothe or pacify able to be molded, altered, or bent excess practical as opposed to idealistic to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation to lie or deviate from the truth fresh and clean; uncorrupted lavish, wasteful to increase in number quickly to conciliate; to appease correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs wisdom, caution, or restraint sharp and irritating to the senses motionless to make thinner or sparser to reject the validity of silent, reserved effective writing or speaking to satisfy fully or overindulge causing sleep or lethargy deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious a mark of shame or discredit unemotional; lacking sensitivity lofty or grand done without using words silent, not talkative long, harsh speech or verbal attack extreme mental and physical sluggishness temporary, lasting a brief time to sway physically; to be indecisive to respect deeply filled with truth and accuracy wordy to annoy easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive to fluctuate between choices acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable passion, excitement