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The Hindu - 12/07/2006

S.no Word Sample sentence

The gove is already beset with other graver
1 beset embarassments.

A foreign national is required to be complainant rather

2 complainant than appear before the tribunal to prove his citizenship.
They believe that the ruling bodes no good for their
3 bode security and well being.
The glib formulations about the verdict being a setback
4 glib to "vote-bank-politics" make little sense.
5 rhetoric A return to the cold war rhetoric
The British police has been groping for clues in the
6 grope murder case.
Russia-bashers blissfully ignored the fact that Mr.Putin
7 bash would have nothing to gain by this murder.
He was a middle-ranked member of FSB tasked with
busting organised crimes. Nor was he a turncoat, as it
8 turncoat claimed.
His recent accusations against the Kremlin read like
9 raving madman's ravings
And his Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Hain, took a
political swipe at Mr.Putin accusing him of "attacks on
10 swipe individual liberty and democracy".
The commander promised that he will surrender the
11 usurp presidential powers he usurped.
With all significant sections of the Fijian people
opposed to its putsch, the military may soon find the
12 putsch costs of the coup unsustainable.
The panel has recommended maximum devolution of
13 devolution power with the province as the unit of devolution.
Diyala has become the microcosm of Iraq's 2 inter-
14 microcosm connecting wars.
The city is a jumble of different enclaves that people
15 peril from the other communities enter at their peril.
Parents who adopt children should divulge the truth
about their adoption at the earliest to avoid serious
psychological consequences on coming to know of
16 divulge their status in their adolescence.

The gove has adopted a cautious approach with

17 akin regards to the issue akin to a "double edged weapon".

18 legion Clearly, the differences in business culture are legion.

The Hindu - 12/08/2006

The SEBI's recent order of disgorgement against the 2
principal depositories, NSDL and CDSL for their role in
19 disgorgement the demat scam is unprecedented.
SEBI's case rests on its own findings of rampant
20 rampant malpractices indulged in by the rogue investors
 Multiple demant accounts were opened evidently with
21 connivance the active connivance of the depository participants.
Of more immediate concern is to ensure that its order
is upheld at the appellate level so that a valuable
22 appellate precedent is set.

The unscrupulous persons behind the benami/fictitious

23 benami accounts are the people who enriched themselves.

24 unscrupulous ditto
A rash of civil suits is imminent and that might
25 denouement postpone a just denouement.

Untouchability did not vanish. But they did fight it

26 stout stoutly.
Although money may not be the root of all evil, the love
27 cantankerous of it makes one more cantankerous.
The first purpose was to provide an alibi for the
28 alibi president ahead of the elections.
Critics could be told that the president was listening to
the people and that’s why the panel was set up to
29 taboo evaluate all options. Nothing was taboo.
Nor, unless he or she is yet to emerge, is there a
Eugene McCarthy or Robert Kennedy figure with the
authority to rally voters against a failed president, as
there was when Lyndon Johnson was mired in
30 mire Vietnam.
Mr.Bush should not duck the strategy for want of a
31 duck partner.

Fudging the end date or hoping it need never be

32 fudge promised will not put an end to the war.
33 fore Foreigners issue to the fore in Assam
While Mr.Rao created a record, his rivals were
34 relegate relegated to the second position.
This raises the tantalising possibility that the Red
35 tantalise planet is hospitable to life.
36 squirt This is a suirting gun for water on Mars.

The Hindu - 12/09/2006

37 caveat There are 3 caveats that India must not lose sight of.
A society that is bereft of, and represses, new ideas is
38 bereft a society doomed to stagnation.
A society that is bereft of, and represses, new ideas is
39 repress a society doomed to stagnation.
Universities are often under siege precisely because
they are often at the forefront of this struggle for social
40 siege and economic transformation.
The concomitant emphases on equitable and
affordable access to all social groups produced an
41 concomitant explosion in the number of tertiary students.
 rewarding talent through nimble market-responsive
42 nimble mechanisms.
Just a month after the American electorate delivered a
43 rebuff resounding rebuff to the Bush Iraq policy..
…the ISG have subjected the policy to a withering
44 wither critique
45 tenet Its foreign policy tenets have been shown to be false.
The rise of the neoconservatives was partly predicated
on a rejection of what they saw as American defeatism
46 predicate during and after the Vietnam war.
The interregnum after the cold war, far from being a
prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs
of what is now very visible: the emergence of a
47 interregnum multipolar world.
The ramifications of the Iraq moment will surely
48 ramification influence the US foreign policy for decades to come.
The July 2005 agreement envisaged the 123
49 tandem proceeding in tandem but this is not going to happen.
The commodore has signalled that he cannot brook the
50 brook rehabilitation of his opponents.

The prime minister baulked at saving democracy in Fiji

51 baulk after having sent soldiers to Iraq on a similar mission.

The Hindu - 12/08/2006

In the ensuing violence and repression, more than
3000 valiant chileans lost their lives in their dungeons
52 ensue of the dictatorship.
In the ensuing violence and repression, more than
3000 valiant chileans lost their lives in their dungeons
53 dungeon of the dictatorship.
The hangman is no more but those who supplied him
gallows ("gallow" does not the rope and gallows need to be exposed and held
54 seem to be a word) accountable to humanity.
The court's approach reflects the increasingly
observable shift in the discourse on caste-based
reservation, from the idea of discimination to
55 discourse deprivation.
discrimination is now regarded as a problem that the
56 grapple upper castes have to grapple with.
Simultaneous with this shift in emphasis from
discrimination to deprivation is the terminological
obfuscation of using "affirmative action" as an
57 obfuscate equivalent for "reservation".
58 intractable a solution to an otherwise intractable problem..
Reservation includes reserved constituencies, which
the detractors curiously do not seem much excercised
59 detractor about.
…also being mindful of the discursive split between
60 discursive discrimination and deprivation
 Reservation is justified by the persistence of caste-
based discrimination and the failure of the hegemonic
61 hegemonic project of producing an identity that transcends caste.
The company received a plaque from the department
62 plaque of transportation for its hurricane relief efforts.
63 abject Abject failure of the adminstration's efforts..
The resolve of the govt buffeted by a barrage of
64 barrage questions over the site selection, is on test.

It set the tenor for the CM's agenda of development in

65 tenor the state, epitomising his drive towards industrialisation

It set the tenor for the CM's agenda of development in

66 epitome the state, epitomising his drive towards industrialisation
There appears to be a thaw in the relationship between
67 thaw the Trainamool and NDA.
Following the assembly election debacle, when its
differences with the Trinamool over seat-sharing were
68 nadir aired oublicly and their relationships slid to a nadir…
69 forsaken It is now for the congress to feel forsaken
Both the parties are only too aware of the benefits of
having the Trinamool as an ally to serve their
70 ally respective interests.

The Hindu - 12/14/2006

The phenomenon of a burgeoning U.S. current account
deficit being funded by Asian countries cannot sustain
71 burgeon definitely.
The attempts to make the yuan dearer in dollar terms
so that imports from China become costlier will have
72 repercussion other repercussions.
Some sections of the Indian media have been euphoric
and advocated a rapid consummation of the deal and
large-scale import of reactors and nuclear fuel, also
73 euphoric involving the private sector.
Some sections of the Indian media have been euphoric
and advocated a rapid consummation of the deal and
large-scale import of reactors and nuclear fuel, also
74 consummation involving the private sector.
To assuage Indian concerns, the U.S. agreed that
India could maintain adequate stockpiles of nuclear
fuel so that its nuclear power stations could continue to
75 assuage operate.
Some exceptions to the embargo on enrichment and
reprocessing technologies are permitted in the Hyde
76 embargo act.
Isn't education all about exposing children to ideas and
letting them make up their minds, not force-feeding
77 dogma them dogma?
By framing the debate this way, they have pulled off an
78 rhetoric impressive rhetoric group.
 He asked his readers to find a qatch while walking on a
79 heath heath.
Why bother about trying to understand the natural
world when there is the cosy God-explanation in all-
80 cozy (cosy) too-easy reach?
Despite its scientific-sounding frills and baubles, ID is a
81 frill pure religion.
Despite its scientific-sounding frills and baubles, ID is a
82 bauble pure religion.
The acceptance of the paper hinges on the author's
83 hinge willingness to produce primary data when asked to.
It will determine the level of confidence people will
84 repose repose on such published work.
Cirrus clouds are wispy sheets of ice crytals six to ten
85 wispy miles above the Earth's surface.
It is something of a cliché to say that neither the
internal combustion engine nor smoking would ever
have been permitted if we knew then what we know
86 cliché now about their dangers.

It took no deep understanding of evolution to foresee

the emergence of anitbiotic-resistant bacteria, but that
87 profligate did not prevent profligate over-prescription of drugs.

The Hindu - 12/15/2006

President George Bush stubbornly refuses to
countenance a course of action that is the only
88 countenance sensible one in the circumstances.
Despite the rising clamour for a withdrawal from Iraq of
89 clamour the occupation troops led by the US…
Mr. Bush seems bent on badgering functionaries of the
90 badger various departments to come up with a plan.
There is no sense in deploying US soldiers in a country
caught up in a horrendous sectarian strife when they
91 strife can do nothing to stop it.
92 fiddle, contrivance Fiddling while Iraq burns
For them, Mohammed Ali Jinnah's statement that
Kashmir is the "jugular vein" of Pakistan is written in
93 jugular stone.
He added the rider that this would by no means be a
94 rider unilateral gesture..
They warn that the president has become so unpopular
95 transgression because of this and other transgressions.
Instead of responding enthusiastically to President
Musharraf's overtures, they believe, India smelt blood
and is waiting to see how much further can Pakistan's
traditionally held positions on Kashmir be whittled
96 overture down.
Instead of responding enthusiastically to President
Musharraf's overtures, they believe, India smelt blood
and is waiting to see how much further can Pakistan's
traditionally held positions on Kashmir be whittled
97 whittle down.
 Pakistan is disappointed by New Delhi's unwillingness
98 budge,nudge to budge from its stated position.

He also believes that a rapproachement between India

99 rapprochement and Pakistan is essential for peace in Afghanistan.
The Azad Kashmir People's party that owes allegiance
to Benazir Bhutto's party broadly supports the peace
100 allegiance process.
There is something deeply instructive about the
present tututting over how the authorities in Moscow
are restricting the access British detectives are allowed
101 tututting to key witnesses in the murder case.
an exceptionalism which posits that while it would be
unthinkable for Russian detectives to pursue an
102 posit investigation on British soil…
The dire state of Africa is the result at least in part of
103 dire Britain's colonial and post-colonial policies.
Recently there has been a resurgence across the
political spectrum of a culturally conservative and
ultimately hubristic belief in Britain's special role for
104 maraud good in the world.
It was this misplaced, at times almost evangelical
conviction, that in large part led Tony Blair to pursue
105 evangelical the invasion of Iraq…
It was this misplaced, at times almost evangelical
conviction, that in large part led Tony Blair to pursue
106 conviction the invasion of Iraq…
It is a lazy and complacent world view of the historical
anachronism of membership of the permanent five
107 anachronism members of the UN security council..
108 narcissism It is the narcissism of national obsession.
AMERICAN NEOCONS like to say that the only things
found in the middle of the road are "white lines and
109 armadillo dead armadillos".
110 injunction ..just to avoid a court injunction.
This last has raised howls of protest from those who
think they and their heirs should benefit indefinitely
111 howl from royalties.
Myanmar has the dubious distinction of running host to
112 dubious the longest running civil war..
..when the author became involved in the fledgling
113 fledgling democracy movement in Myanmar.
..in the hope that it might explain the present
114 predicament predicament.
115 choppy His marrative is choppy and often hard to follow
The defeat was bad enough to endure the slights and
the snubs, especially for the educated class that
revered British culture, but to be nothing more than a
116 slight, snub minor Indian province was truly upsetting.
Though a relic of another age, the rickshaw was very
117 vogue much in vogue and was not dying a slow death.

The Hindu - 12/17/2006

 female foeticide is prevalent among urban dwellers and
118 affluent affluent groups.
It seems that reports of the death of Bluetooth too
need to be contradicted with a Twain-like Barb: 2006
was the year when Bluetooth bounced back as a must-
119 barb have technology.

120 deterrence N.Korea to keep nuclear weapons as "deterrence"

121 apprehension
What ails the armed forces today is their faulty
122 ail grievance redress machinery.
As one who has labored in the media-academic
vineyard for over half a century, I find solace in these
123 solace pieces.
Criticism against journalism training came from some
of the most well known English language peddlers in
124 peddler the 1960s.

125 hogwash Journalism training is all hogwash

An inkling of reasearch notions was built into the
126 inkling courses.
That adage, "prevention is better than cure" holds
127 adage more relevance now than ever.
"It's something I'm probabaly a little more worried
about" than the electrical work that is the purpose of
128 mirth the spacewalk, he said with a mirthless laugh.
Santa has found himself penniless, unable to answer
the piles of missives that pour into the giant red
129 missive mailbox each year.

Today, however everyone involved recalls it as a

130 rife stunning moment, rife with danger and soul searching.
Both have been pushed, by the raging populist rhetoric
of the extreme right leaders, to take hardline on
131 delinquency immigration and juvenile delinquency.
A collective malaise, he says, appears to have gripped
132 malaise France.
Almost everything seen is in shades of black or grey:
the economy is in tatters and the job situation is
133 tatters dreadful.
They resolutely refuse to look at their own successes,
134 doldrums believing they are flat out, in the doldrums.
It is a grumpy, disillusioned, disgruntled lot that
presidential hopefuls will have to win over in order to
135 grumpy emerge victorious.

The possibility of Jean-Marie trouncing Nicolas to enter

a second round run-off against Royal is probably giving
the ambitious interior minister a combination of
136 trounce dyspepsia(indigestion) and nightmares.
 137 brazen He never forgave Sarkozy his brazen betrayal.

The Hindu - 12/18/2006

The machete-wielding gang attacked the panchayat
138 machete-wielding chief's car.
The Children's park at Guindy is getting a facelift, with
the smaller enclosures being pulled down to make way
139 moated for moated enclosures.
The visitors would be able to see the hoofed animals
and then move on to the enclosures of the small
140 hoof carnivores.
141 ticklish The ticklish issue could not be resolved by him alone.

142 retrograde The 3 steps being taken now are retrograde.

143 pelt A group of prisoners pelted stones at the policemen.
Litvinenko was murdered because he had a damaging
144 dossier dossier on a senior Kremlin official.
Italy to ban anorexic models - Italy will introduce rules
this week to keep very young and very thin models off
145 anorexic the catwalks.
One of the fastest growing economies in the world
finds its villages lurching perilously between murder
146 lurch and suicide.
One of the fastest growing economies in the world
finds its villages lurching perilously between murder
147 perilous and suicide.
We continue to follow a development paradigm that
pays no heed to the limits imposed by the eco-system
148 heed and the various tipping points of nature.
Such a unique farming is being practised in India by a
149 smattering smattering of farmers and NGOs.

Many gov't research centers in the hinterlands of India

150 hinterland are doing excellent but largely unrecognised work.
What has broken the back of farmers is the re-
151 usurious emergence of the usurious moneylender.
A pincer movement zeroing in from all sides, until the
farmers' capacity to hang on to dear life is irreparably
152 pincer broken, leaving only death as an alternative.
The gamut of change required to break this deadlock
153 gamut appears formidable (difficult).
A picture is worth a thousand words - journalists hear
154 tout and tout this often.
Not Iraq today, but the Phillipines a century ago, an
eerie parallel that might have provided valuable
155 eerie lessons.
fresh controversy brewing over the alledgedly murky
156 murky arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
his public image, irreparably damaged by his
subservient and poilitically suicidal relationsip with the
157 subservient US president.
 He effectively sold peerages for cash after nominating
four leading businessmen to the House of Lords after
158 peerage they gave secret loans to the Labor party.
159 sleaze A man who came to power vowing to clean up sleaze

160 incumbent Policemen questioned an incumbent prime minister

The Hindu - 12/20/2006

President issues three caveats to construe policy

161 caveat(36) statements as advisory.
President issues three caveats to construe policy
162 construe statements as advisory.

163 allude Alluding to the opposition's accusation of his betrayal..

164 writ The writ petitions have been dismissed as infractuous.

165 infract The writ petitions have been dismissed as infractuous.

While his mother was his muse, meeting with M.S.
166 muse Subbulakshmi was most memorable.
They ought to take international action that would be
commensurate with the action that the president and
167 commensurate congress have taken.

An escrow account has been opened by the financiers

to credit the matured deposits not claimed by
168 escrow depositors to protect their interests.

It seeks to prod the nation inti remembering the

169 prod sacrifices made by the freedom fighters over 90 years.

170 offing The Arab street saw no change in the offing

171 disconcert Both find the directions of events acutely disconcerting.

Israel, after thes sobering experience of Lebanon and
Gaza, is ostensibly reiterating terms unacceptable to
172 ostensible the Palestenians.
The emphatic assertion that the US cannot achieve its
173 emphatic goals in West Asia unless..
Mr.Prasad's journey from being an accused to being
174 exonerate exonerated is a long and arduous one.
A leader who came to power vowing to provide
squeaky clean governance finds himself embroiled in
scandals over cash-for-peerages and flagrant cover-up
175 squeaky for corruption.
 A leader who came to power vowing to provide
squeaky clean governance finds himself embroiled in
scandals over cash-for-peerages and flagrant cover-up
176 flagrant for corruption.
177 tart I was one of the bloggers who responded tartly.

178 moniker He might have understood my moniker for him.

…with voters evidently rebuking him for failing to
179 rebuke deliver on promises to improve the economy.
Presidential allies took a drubbing in important cities,
180 drubbing including the capital Tehran.

He visited Turkey last Friday at the beginning of his

latest forlorn, not to say fantastical, mission to bring
peace to the Middle East, intoning: "It is important that
181 forlorn we continue the process of accession with Turkey".

He visited Turkey last Friday at the beginning of his

latest forlorn, not to say fantastical, mission to bring
peace to the Middle East, intoning: "It is important that
182 intone we continue the process of accession with Turkey".
There has scarcely been a propitious moment for
183 propitious Turkish admission to EU these 40 years.

For all of Mr. Blair's high-sounding platitudes, that new

184 platitude mood has been caught by other European politicians.

The Hindu - 12/21/2006

The leader demands and is conceded - an almost total

sway over the institution in return for his or her capacity
185 sway to win votes for the party's electoral nominees.

186 rite rites of irresponsible populism

how to garner a semblance of public approval for those
187 garner transformative policies.
how to garner a semblance of public approval for those
188 semblance transformative policies.

189 shoddy shoddy and possibly prejudiced nature of investigation

The entry passes that were clandestinely obtained by
the entrepreneurial for cash were, in fact, a tactic
devised by the church to ensure that regular
parishioners were able to gain access on the night,
190 clandestine while the novelty seekers were kept at bay.
It was impossible to keep away the hordes of
191 horde onlookers.
The authorities have gradually come to recognise the
value of religion as a counter to the anomie and
192 anomie disaffection that economic reforms have wrought.
 The authorities have gradually come to recognise the
value of religion as a counter to the anomie and
193 wrought disaffection that economic reforms have wrought.

194 proselytise

A world away from the hipsters of China's big cities,

these people know next to nothing about the festival for
195 hipster which they spend their hours and days laboring.

196 squander

197 colossus History will judge Blair as a political colossus.

Ideological zealotry has helped destroy Iraq, revive the
198 zealotry Taliban, and increase the terror threat.

The Hindu - 12/23/2006

Federer was whisked by security personnel and left for
199 whisk Villupuram.

The Hindu - 12/25/2006

Mr. Vajpayee scotched speculation that the party's

200 scotch (v) political strategy was tied to that of the Smajwadi party.
Mr. Chidambaram missed a step, tripped and fell
201 trip down.
When the workd was hit by war mongering and
violence, the people should follow the message of
202 monger Christ.
Even as the other BJP leaders harped on Muslim
"appeasement" and strident "Hindutva," the former
Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, presented his
"moderate" face when he sought the cooperation of the
203 harp Muslims to usher in a political change in UP.

204 strident ditto

205 usher ditto

The party president accused the UPA gov't of
206 pander pandering to Muslim sentiments.
In the three years of his governance criminals and
207 thug thugs were ruling the roost.

208 roost ditto

Turky then unexpectedly offered an olive branch saying
it would open one port and one airport as a token
209 olive branch gesture.
 The despicable behaviour of the Greek Cypriot govt -
and electorate, when they voted against the
reunification of the island once EU membership could
not be revoked - has made Cyprus the least loved
210 despicable member state of the EU.

Those in favor of Turkish accession say that Turkey will

be a conduit to the gas and petroleum reserves in
211 conduit Central Asis.

212 caliphate
Straddling two continents, the country responds to a
213 Straddle dual identity.
Spurning overtures from the Union Government to hold
direct talks, the extremist organisation to hold direct
talks, the extremist organisation set off a series of
214 spurn bomb explosions.
A dependable marketing mechanism to secure
215 remunerate remunerative prices for farm produce.

216 charismatic
In a span of about three months, he has conferred with
217 confer with Chinese president twice.
But hurried, harried editors can trip up, even the most
218 harry conscientious of them.

219 conscientious ditto

220 trip up ditto
This was the kind of cruel folly of which Jesus was
221 folly witheringly critical.
Failure of two of the world's most prominent christians
to hazard this act of cultural imagination by reaching
222 hazard (v) out to their enemies.
hopefully people don't think the media just puffed him
223 puff up and he's a flash in the pan.

224 flash in the pan ditto

The Hindu - 12/26/2006

 The post of Chief Justice of India can also be brought
within the ambit of the Judicial Inquiry bill, which is
225 ambit more parliament.

226 haul Large haul of ammunition in Baramulla

227 gimmick BJP stand on the Ram temple issue a gimmick: Lalu
People continue to die of hunger and thirst, poevery
and disease, in this age of plenty and unbridled
228 unbridled consumerism.

229 protracted ..ending Bangladesh's protracted political stand-off

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "godfather
of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary
230 pompadour rhythms made him a founder of rap..

231 rasp ditto

232 slump Cricket: England hopes to arrest slump.

A powerful earthquake heaved the ocean floor off
northern Indonesia and sent vast quantities of water
233 heave racing across the Indian Ocean.
What such a lack of preparedness can do was grimly
underscored when the Indonesian Government failed
234 grim to issue a warning to the public in july this year.
The problem of overheating (of the economy) could
235 illusory prove illusory if investment continues to be buoyant.

Weak infrastructure continues to be the Achilles' heel

236 Achilles' heel of the economy.
Pucca houses replaced the thatched shacks by the
237 shack beach.
The gov't spent many crores on the rehabilitation of the
"Tsunami-affected" people. It’s not about grudging the
tsunami-affected what they have got. It's about what
can be done to reduce the inequities created by the
238 grudge (v) rehabilitation effort.
thatched shelters - these woebegone structures belong
239 woebegone to those who escaped Tsunami's wrath.
Highway roads are also being spruced up, as are the
240 spruce up hospitals that serve people from all over the district.

Britain's war on poverty has been led by Gordon

Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Blair's
241 heir apparent heir apparent.
What adds zing to the prime ministerial controversy is
the fact that only a day earlier Mr. Vaijapyee was the
shining star at the BJP's anit-congress slugfest at
242 zing Lucknow.
243 slugfest ditto
Mr. Vajpayee was excoriating the UPA gov't for the
244 excoriate benefit of the BJP faithful in Lucknow.
 During the 1971 Lok Sabha elections, Indira Gandhi
245 pit pitted her persona against the Syndicate.

The Janata crowd's obsession with Indira Gandhi only

246 obsession garnered political respectability for her personality cult.

247 topical Bertlot Brecht's play Life of Galileo is sharply topical.

Galileo's recantation of the Copernican model of the

248 recant solar system.

249 depredation ..depredations of Stalinism.

Galileo was a hero and martyr (if a fallible one) to

250 fallible science.
251 pearly people in "a pearly haze of superstition".

252 haze ditto

Brecht is particularly good about the sophistries and

253 sophistry blandishments that keep power in place.

The Hindu - 12/27/2006

His comment drew criticism from human rights groups
for appearing to prejudge thr ruling of the appellate
254 appellate chamber.

255 mull Govt mulls formation of Coir Development Agency

…the initial difficulties they faced in weaning fisherfolk
256 wean away from their traditional occupations.

257 tardy tardy progress in the construction of the bridge

non-availability of encumbrance-free land a stumbling

258 encumbrance block
…with the attribute of being privileged to be eternally in
259 abode His divine abode after liberation.

Andal had underscored that servitude must be the

260 leitmotif leitmotif of a devotee's thoughts and actions.
261 dishevel disheveled hair bedecked with flowers…

262 bedecked ditto

The U.S. breached with impunity even a cast-iron
263 impunity guarantee it had furnished.
 How can India reconcile to the embargo from nuclear
advanced countries on the export of enrichment,
264 embargo reprocessing, and heavy water technologies?
(1) Even if the issue were to papered over now, it will
then look from India's point of view to have been a very
bad bargain.
(2) There should be no attempt to paper over
differences or to accept suggestions that these could
265 paper over be addressed in due course of time.
The Chinese were mockingly referred to as
"effeminate" and their habit of brewing barrels of tea
that were served all day long in tiny cups such as "
266 effeminate ladies see fit to use" was laughed at.

Some countries that had been waiting for the WTO to

forge an agreement have said they would begin
267 forge (refer to #417 also) negotiating bilateral accords with trading partners.

The Hindu - 12/28/2006

In an era where mobile technologies have ostensibly
268 ostensible rendered time-space differences meaningless..
There are three main reasons that account for the
269 paltry paltry numbers of Chinese travelling to India.
The Prime Minister showed no qualms of usurping the
prerogative of the judiciary when he demanded that Mr.
270 qualm Hussein's life be terminated before New Year.

The conduct of the trial was a travesty of justice on

271 travesty several counts.
It is shameful that his impending end should have been
engineered by western powers that colluded with him
in his heyday and have caused, through their illegal
invasion and occupation, the death of more than
272 collude 600,000 Iraqis.

273 heyday ditto

Democrats say they also want to revive an aura of
collegiality and civility in an institution that has been
274 collegial poisoned by partisanship in recent years.
…the Republicans who tool control in 1995 and saw
their mission as one of purging Democrats and
275 hobble hobbling government.
The House has been so egregiously run for a number
of years that it was seen as contributing both directly
276 egregious and indirectly to the election results.
Ths U.S. would like to keep the dollar as the reserce
277 seigniorage currency, and all the seigniorage.

The Hindu - 01/02/2007

Army personnel, including officers in uniform, went on
278 rampage the rampage inside the police station.

279 gaiety Gaiety and hopes mark New Year Celebrations

 The crowd attacked the house of a doctor alleging his
280 macabre involvement in the macabre killings.
..a multi-pronged plan to reduce the number of distress
281 prong deaths among the soldiers.

282 knack A knack for placing faces with names

283 ante Lessons for India as Russia ups ante

284 impeachment ..had to weather impeachment moves against her.

..in no position to declare victory over the insurgents

285 sundry and sundry terrorists on the prowl in her country.

286 prowl ditto

Analysts do not regard the JI as a monolitihic mirror-
287 purvey image of Al-Qaeda purveying terror.
Insurers often refuse to pay for preventive care, even
though such care saves a lot of money in the long-run,
because those long-run savings won't necessarily
288 redound redound to their benefit.
Most of his crimes were committed when he was a
staunch ally of those who are now occupying the
289 staunch country
Saddam's lynching might send a shiver down the
290 lynch spines of Arab elites.

As the debates around integration and multiculturalism

show no sign of flagging, both anniversaries will be
291 flag mined for their contemporary relevance.

292 parochial
293 dogged a dogged belief in common sense

Englishness is riven with huge national and class

294 rive divides.

The Hindu - 01/03/2007

295 draught (N) Center urged to increase draught at Tuticorin port

To help the people and protect their rights courts might
pass some orders, which the Government might think
296 tinge had a tinge of legislative character.
His Government's efforts to remove inequality had
297 irk irked his opponents.
The police were ready to assist the Army with its own
findings as and when necessary without rancour or
298 rancour partiality.

299 interment
 Nor are the internal dynamics of the Congress party
likely to be so totally transmogrified that he would be
300 transmogrify asked to make way for someone else.
Except Deve Gowda and gujral, all those who came to
the office had in one way or the other earned baptism
301 baptism through a long public life.
The Kolkata police would have done well to inform
those at the helm of the Eastern command about the
incident. But the germane issue here is not about the
302 germane procedure.
Anyone who ventures to enter Kenya will have to go
303 vet through a serious vetting process.
The new government was heading in the right direction
304 gingerly but had to step gingerly.

The Hindu - 01/04/2007

The enquiry would examine whether there were any
administrative failures or lacunae and suggest
305 lacunae preventive steps.

The govt and SIPCOT were taking steps in

306 surreptitious surreptitious manner.
..people whose contempt for consumerism is so
307 forage complete they eat foraged food from dumpsters.
Interspersing the pieces are luminous large-scale
photographs of India's top historical and archaelogical
308 intersperse sites.
While driven by "image consideration" glitzy,
impressive buildings may be going up across the
country, the contents housed inside are often of
309 glitz dubious value.
The interests of the competing clans will need to be
310 clan accommodated at different levels of administration.
This dependence is a big handicap for a country awash
311 awash with weapons.
The fact that this was the act of an Iraqi government
dominated by Saddam's Shia enemies made the final
312 forgone outcome a forgone conclusion.

Yet he was left to the mercies of a compaign of

313 masquerade revenge masquerading as legal process.

A new Iraq would not conform to the Western

314 stereotype stereotype.
Saddam's trial and mob execution reeked of Western
315 reek double standards.
Scientists hope to steer celebrities away from making
316 gaffe pseduo-scientific gaffes.

The Hindu - 01/05/2007

317 aficionado A boon for quiz aficionados..

 They demanded allotment of denuded forest land to
318 denude the displaced people.
He teetered back and forth on the edge of an
319 teeter underground railway platform.
It could be the ideal gadget for easing the guilt of gas-
320 guzzling guzzling motorists.
"Truth serums" could refer to one of many sedative or
hypnotic drugs that could lull a person into becoming
321 lull more uninhibited and talkative.

The term "Truth serum" is a misnomer as there is nor

322 misnomer guarantee those interrogated will speak only the truth.
It is not the size of the deficit as much as the causes
323 underpin underpinning it that should engage attention.
Until last year, when it was mothballed in a row over
324 mothball (v) funding…
Szymany, a remote airport in northeast Poland, has
been long suspected of having been used in the
325 rendition extraordinary rendition of terror suspects.
It is much, much worse - even without the extra
dimensions of pillage, corruption and the total ruin of
326 pillage the infrastructure.
Bill Clinton used a strong second-place finish in the
New Hampshire primary to vault his way to the
Democratic nomination and the White House 15 years
327 vault (v) ago.
Past seers gawped ino the glitzy future to envisage a
328 seer hi-tech world.

329 gawp ditto

But here we remain, plodding along somewhere
between Orwell and Huxley in a familiar world that is
330 plod neither utopia nor dystopia.

331 utopia ditto

332 dystopia ditto

What the futurologists did get right, however, were
333 prosaic some of the more prosaic details..

The Hindu - 01/06/2007

The limits of bipartisanship were made starkly apparent
when Ms Pelosi signalled that the president would face
334 stark new and energised opposition.
Parents go online to defend growth-stunting procedure
335 stunt on daughter.
The U.S. authorities transferred the first 'war on terror'
detainees - hooded and shackled - to Guantanamo
336 hooded Bay.
 The camp is condemning thousands of people across
the world to a life of suffering, torment and
337 stigmatise stigmatisation.

338 burke burking is a torture method.

The unbelievable chutzpah of these parties might not
339 chutzpah take them far.

The Hindu - 01/08/2007

340 diaspora Manmohan tells disapora to invest in new India

341 zest CM calls for a zestful pongal

The movement of the late 1960s petered out not just
because of the opportunism displayed by the leaders
of the movement or due to the repressive measures of
342 peter out the state, as is often made out.
The SRC had recommended the formation of
Telengana as a separate state in response to the
343 simmer simmering discontent in the region.

344 lopped off a makeshift shelter built from lopped off branches..
These refugees have congregated on this city, often at
huge expense and almost always at the mercy of venal
345 venal people smugglers.
The refugees have been living in unimaginable squalor
and misery in the midst of relative wealth and well
346 squalor being.
There are many people who see these people as scum
347 scum that needs clearing out.
The organisation aims at making Europe's borders
watertight through measures that include training
border guards, beefing up customs, coast guards and
348 beef up police services.

It is a major problem against which reader's

editors/ombudsmen the world over battle all the time
349 ombudsmen with the aim of improving quality.

350 supererogatory It was supererogatory of her to gloat.

351 gloat ditto

I am lost in admiration at how large swathes of
businessmen and government have taken advantage
352 swathe of technological innovations..
The Hindu - 01/09/2007
Court raps Government for delay in notifying
353 rap recruitment rules
The strike was tantamount to supporting bribery and
354 tantamount corruption in the medical profession.
Teaching in such an ethos becomes a fractured
activity, sustained by the drive to compete in national
or international markets where success is measured by
355 grit individual grit to pursue a narrow goal.
356 ironclad Saddam's internal control was ironclad.
U.S. intelligence agencies propped up dissidents and
357 prop actively encouraged the regime's opponents in exile.
The U.S. and its loyalists in the Iraqi government
tactically gave in as it was important at that time to get
the constitution passed and a semblance of and
358 semblance independent government installed.
If incessant resistance by the Sunni community
endangers oil suuplies to the U.S., a split of Iraq can
be engineered into three independent nations, using
359 leeway the leeway provided by the constitution.
A long queue has already huddled up under the
purpose-built sheds near the Jinnah Convention
360 huddle center.
Human perception about others, events and life in
361 predilection general vary according to one's predilection.

362 canary

The Hindu - 01/10/2007

U.S. minders from the RCLO oversaw the tenuous
evidence produced in the Dujail case against Saddam
as well as the deliberate scuttling of Saddam's right to
363 minder a proper defense.

364 tenuous ditto

365 scuttle ditto

None of the plaintiffs has stated that Saddam had
366 plaintiff, complainant personally tortured them.
ULFA's strategy is to signal a highly iffy willingness to
talk about demands such as 'sovereignity' while
stocking up weapons, resorting to terror, and eroding
the credibility of elected governments and the morale
367 iffy of ordinary folk.
The detenus are at the mercy of military tribunals that
do not need to apply the evidentiary standards followed
368 evidentiary by regular U.S. courts.
Only the squeaking of the boots of the military
pallbearers could be heard in the Calvary church as
369 squeak Chad Vollmer's coffin was wheeled to the front.
 370 pallbearer ditto
By the time the service was over their steps were
371 sniffle inaudible amid the chorus of sobs and sniffles.
To lend the inauguration the appearance of vitality the
party has dedicated itself to a raft of legislative
372 raft (n) changes over its first 100 hours in power.
In an attempt to intervene between the supine and the
stubborn, the Iraq Study Group last month offered
373 supine Mr.Bush a stern rebuke.
The campaign, aimed at inflamming passions by
stoking appregensions among the villagers over the
374 stoke fate of their lands as well as their future.
The leaders while fudging data and contradicting
official estimates pegged their protests to the demand
375 fudge that the land be returned.

376 peg ditto

The Hindu - 01/12/2007

The court has taken care to emphasise that the
privileges of Parliament are not absolute or
377 untrammelled untrammelled.

The Hindu - 01/30/2007

The Preseident-as-assassination-plotter went down
378 whimper without a whimper.
..the footage of the Iraqi leader going to the gallows
379 jeer taunted, jeered and humiliated by his captors.
Saddam's death also came at the end of a trial that
380 kangaroo court gives kangaroo courts a bad name.
No less dumb is the notion of the Americans wringing
their hands while the Iraqis - who cannot cough without
their permission - misbehaved in rushing through the
381 wring execution.
A B-grade Bollywood actor, who shed finely wrought
tears over racial slurs, has metamorphosed into an
382 slur international celebrity.
A splenetic dental curse, who became renowned for
her benightedness, has morphed into Miss Goody Two
383 splenetic Shoes

384 benighted ditto

A tacky soporific show, which was on the verge of
385 tacky being axed…

The Hindu - 02/21/2007

The coast guard was asked to tow the boat from the
Chennai port, where it has been moored, to a distance
386 moor of about 20 nautical miles into the Bay of Bengal.
 387 ingot Aluminium ingots
388 ravish A ravishingly rhythmic evening

389 accent Accent on off-site disaster management

The Hindu - 02/22/2007

India will not at any time resile from any international

390 resile aggreement.

In the Indian situation, this transition is indeed telling

given that an integral understanding of the chapters on
fundamental rights and directive principles of state
policy of the Constitution of India has been elaborated
over time through a progressive interpretation by the
391 telling Indian judiciary, in particular, the Supreme Court.
So that just leaves those pecky little green men to
392 pesky worry about.

393 ghettos Muslims have been pushed into ghettos.

394 pogrom Five years after Godhara and the pogrom

There are no gutters, no place to wash clothes, so

395 gutter fights break out often.
In Uttarakhand, the ruling party, which was leaderless
after Chief Minister Tiwari opted to stay out of the race,
has finished poorly behind the BJP, which has however
failed to capitalise fully on the negative factor and
396 capitalise score a convincing victory.
Combating inflation calls for a multi-pronged strategy,
397 tandem with the RBI working in tandem with the government.
A government's stability is one thing and its verve and
398 verve vitality another.
The poll results will generate a chemistry of their own,
399 fillip which in turn, could give a fillip to unhealthy impulses.

The BJP leadership cannot be faulted for wanting to

read into this outcome a revalidation of its aggressive
400 rejig strategy, based on a re-jigging of the Hindutva agenda.
The recently botched up "Project Mulayam" did no
credit to anyone; nor, has the Congress leadership
401 botch up come out looking pretty in the Quattrocchi mess.
There was glee in the AICC that the Prime Minister's
public meetings were poorly attended as compared
402 glee, gloat with Ms. Gandhi's rallies.
 Church officials have responded with warning saying
that he is " exposing himself to the punishment of
403 excommunication excommunication" unless he desists.
404 desist ditto
But he criticised Lugo, calling him a dangerous and
405 rabble divisive rabble-rouser.

406 logjam A way out of the logjam.

407 whammy He put the whammy on me.

408 confound These questions confound even the experts.

The Union budget is a hodge-podge of financial

409 hodge-podge allocations without any strategy.
What about PNs? Are they not used to launder the ill-
410 launder gotten funds of some high-raning politicians.

On the contrary, the semblance of autonomy that

411 semblance MSEB had has been eroded.
412 flak Musharaff draws flak.
413 diasporic
414 sheen
415 unflinching
416 gutsy
417 wriggle
418 forge (refer to #266 also) Forging ahead in space

419 swabbed …swabbed for DNA finger-printing

…that helps Fox impersonate a legitimate news

420 impersonate organisation.
The GOP's reversion to the Little Lie technique is a
symptom of political weakness, of a party reduced to
421 smear trivial smears because it has nothing else to offer.
The data from eczema patients in the UK and Ireland
suggest that genetic slip-ups in the gene are
responsible for around half of the most serious eczema
422 slip ups cases.
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424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
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Guessed meaning Correct meaning

Upset, occupied

give, provide

polished, political
era

dig out, serach

attack, criticize Hit hard.

Do things that one is not supposed to,

do things under disguise.

extreme accusations, fierce statements

criticize, make blunt

take over Take the place of.

unruly act

antonym of evolution

center stage

reveal

because of

vast

distribute the gains

worst of its kind

approval, knowledge

not to be given up

fake
Without scruples or
principles.

disposal of judgement
Having rugged physical
strength; inured to fatigue
strong, loud or hardships.

selfish

support

Excluded from use or

avoid mention.

oppose be unable to move further

thrash
lie; Avoid or try to avoid
fulfilling, answering, or
performing (duties,
questions, or issues).
front

push

interesting
shooting

trap

deprive

suppress, discourage

blockade, cordon

simultaneous
quick

rejection

become weak
rule

follow, consequence

interval

division

effect

support

refrain from Refuse to comply.

continue proceed, result, develop

prison

scaffold, gibbet

dialgoue

struggle

confuse
difficult

cynic, attacker, critic

ugly (dis-cursive)
 authoritative

commemorative inscription
miserable

torrent, stream

mood

maximise embodiment, personify

uneasiness

all-time low
forbidden

friend

mushrooming, multiply

consequence

vociferous excited

approval accomplish, complete

ease, allay

restriction

belief

oratory
 moorland

comfortable

decoration
trinket, trifle, costume
jewellry

center, crux

recline

translucent, delicate

formula, line

extravagant

stand for, allow

yell

pester, hassle

conflict
fraud

central, connected to heart, without

which there is no life

hint, statement criterion, requirement

misdemeanor,
misbehaviour

offer,suggestion

cut,shape
 dislodge

rapport

loyalty

widely talked about

require conjecture

terrible, dismal

arrogance, excessive self-

conceit
Marked by ardent or
zealous enthusiasm for a
excessive superiority cause.

confidence, assurance

survival, leftover
selfishness, egotism

a variety of animal species

ruling, sanction

wail, scream

doubtful

hatchling

dilemma, quandary
broken up, jerky

ignore, fail to
acknowledge,rebuff,rebuke

fashion
well off, wealthy

cutting remark, taunt

The act or process of
discouraging actions or
preventing occurrences by
instilling fear or doubt or
anxiety.
fear

sick

comfort, consolation

dealer, hawker
humbug, nonsense,
gibberish

hint, suspicion

proverb

amusement, glee

letter

ubiquitous

wrongdoing

depression, melancholy

scrap, bit

sadness, melancholy

irritable, cantankerous

thrash
 shameless, blatant

knife-using

deep wide trench around a

big, spacious castle

horny covering of the toes

big, horned? of some mammals
thorny, awkward

conservative, retrospective
bombard

report

being bony

sudden swaying

of peril danger

attention

small scattered number

remote regions
lending loan at a huge rate
of interest.

girpping tool with 2 jaws

entire range or series

publicise loudly

weird

darkness

obsequious (excessively
flattering )submission
of equal, nobleman
baseness, unpleasantness

holding an office, obligatory

(law) A formal notice filed

with a court or officer to
suspend a proceeding until
filer is given a hearing.
make sense of, assign a
meaning to.
Make a more or less
disguised reference to.

A legal document.

against law and rules.

The source of an artist's
inspiration.

corresponding in size or
degree or extent.
A written agreement (or
property or money)
delivered to a third party or
put in trust by one party to
a contract to be returned
after fulfillment of some
condition.

urge on; cause to act.

near or foreseeable future.

cause to feel
embarrassment.

pretend

with emphasis.
pronounce not guilty of
criminal charges.
Having or making a high-
pitched sound such as that
made by a mouse or a
rusty hinge.
Conspicuously and
outrageously bad or
reprehensible.
harsh
A familiar name for a
person.

censure severely or angrily.

A sound defeat.

Marked by or showing
hopelessness.

Speak carefully, as with

rising and falling pitch or in
a particular tone.
Presenting favorable
circumstances.

A trite (repeated too often)

or obvious remark.

controlling influence.
any customary observance
or practice.

assemble or get together.

picture
of inferior workmanship and
materials.

Conducted with or marked

by hidden aims or methods.

A vast multitude.

Lack of moral standards in

a society.
Shaped to fit by or as if by
altering the contours of a
pliable mass (as by work or
effort).
Convert to another faith or
religion.
Someone who rejects the
established culture;
advocates extreme
liberalism in politics and
lifestyle.
spend extravagantly;
Spend thoughtlessly; throw
away.

A person of exceptional
importance and reputation.
Excessive intolerance of
opposing views.

move quickly and nimbly;

brush or wipe off lightly

Hinder or prevent (the

efforts, plans, or desires)
of.
Miss a step and fall or
nearly fall.

Sell or offer for sale from

place to place.

Come back to.

blatant, Unpleasantly loud
and harsh.
Show (someone) to their
seats, as in theaters or
auditoriums.
Yield (to); give satisfaction
to.
An aggressive and violent
young criminal.
A perch on which domestic
fowl rest or sleep.
Something offered to an
adversary in the hope of
obtaining peace.
Morally reprehensible.

A passage (a pipe or
tunnel) through which water
or electric wires can pass.
[ Caliphate ] The era of
Islam's ascendancy from
the death of Mohammed
until the 13th century; some
Moslems still maintain that
the Moslem world must
always have a calif as head
of the community. (Calif -
The civil and religious
leader of a Muslim state
considered to be a
representative of Allah on
earth.)
Range or extend over;
occupy a certain area.

Reject with contempt.

Make payment to;
compensate.
Possessing an
extraordinary ability to
attract.

Get or ask advice from.

Annoy continually or
chronically.
Characterized by extreme
care and great effort.
make an error.
Foolish or senseless
behavior.

Put forward, of a guess, in

spite of possible refutation.

Praise extravagantly.
Someone who enjoys
transient success but then
fails.
An area in which something
acts or operates or has
power or control.
The quantity that was
caught.
Any clever (deceptive)
maneuver.

Not restrained or controlled.

Relatively long in duration;
tediously protracted.
A hair style in which the
front hair is swept up from
the forehead.
Utter in a grating (irritated)
voice.
A noticeable deterioration
in performance or quality.

Lift or elevate.

Shockingly repellent;
inspiring horror.
Based on or having the
nature of an illusion.
[ Achilles' heel ] A
seemingly small but actual
mortal weakness.
Small crude shelter used as
a dwelling.

Accept or admit unwillingly.

Affected by or full of grief or
woe.

Make neat, smart, or trim.

An heir whose right to an
inheritance cannot be
defeated if that person
outlives the ancestor.

A brief high-pitched buzzing

or humming sound.
A fight with bare fists.
Express strong disapproval
of.
Set into opposition or
rivalry.
An irrational motive for
performing trivial or
repetitive actions against
your will.
Of interest at the present
time.
Formally reject or disavow
a formerly held belief,
usually under pressure.
An act of plundering and
pillaging and marauding.
Having the attributes of
man as opposed to, e.g.,
divine beings.
A white the color of pearls.
Atmospheric moisture or
dust or smoke that causes
reduced visibility.
A deliberately invalid
argument displaying
ingenuity in reasoning in
the hope of deceiving
someone.

Of or relating to or taking
account of appeals (usually
legal appeals).

Reflect deeply on a subject.

Detach the affections of.

After the expected or usual
time; delayed.

Any obstruction that

impedes or is burdensome.
Housing that someone is
living in.
A melodic phrase that
accompanies the
reappearance of a person
or situation (as in Wagner's
operas).
disarrange, rumple
Clothed or adorned with
finery.
Exemption from
punishment or loss.
 Prevent commerce.

try and avoid putting it on paper.

Having unsuitable feminine

qualities.
Come up with (an idea,
plan, explanation, theory, or
principle) after a mental
effort.

Appearing as such but not

necessarily so; pretended.

Not worth considering.

Uneasiness about the

fitness of an action.
A composition that imitates
somebody's style in a
humorous way.

Act in unison or agreement

and in secret towards a
deceitful or illegal purpose.
The period of greatest
prosperity or productivity.
Characterized by or having
authority vested equally
among colleagues.

Hamper the action or

progress of.
Conspicuously and
outrageously bad or
reprehensible.
Charged by a government
for coining bullion.

Violently angry and

destructive behavior.
A festive merry (gay)
feeling.
Shockingly repellent;
inspiring horror.

.
A special way of doing
something.
(poker) The initial
contribution that each
player makes to the pot.
Charge with an offense or
misdemeanor.
Consisting of a haphazard
assortment of different
kinds (even to the point of
incongruity).
Loiter about, with no
apparent aim.

Supply with provisions.

Be added.

Firm and dependable

especially in loyalty.

Kill without legal sanction.

Become less intense.

Narrowly restricted in
outlook or scope.
Stubbornly unyielding.

Separate or cut with a tool,

such as a sharp instrument.

The depth of a vessel's

keel below the surface
(especially when loaded).

A pale or subdued color.

irritate or vex.

A feeling of deep and bitter

anger and ill-will.
The ritual placing of a
corpse in a grave.
Change completely the
nature or appearance of.
A Christian sacrament
signifying spiritual
cleansing and rebirth.

Having close kinship and

appropriateness.; related.

Examine carefully.
With extreme care or
delicacy.

A blank gap or missing

part.

Conducted with or marked

by hidden aims or methods.
Collect or look around for
(food).

Place at intervals in or
among.

Tasteless showiness.
Group of people related by
blood or marriage.

Covered with water.

Lose or lose the right to by
some error, offense, or
crime.

Pretend to be someone or
something that you are not.

A conventional or formulaic
conception or image.
Have an element
suggestive (of something).
A socially awkward or
tactless act.

A serious devotee of some

particular music genre or
musical performer.
lay bare.
Move unsteadily, with a
rocking motion.
The drinking of large
mouthfuls rapidly.

Calm by deception.

An incorrect or unsuitable
name.

Support from beneath.

Put into long-term storage.

An explanation of
something that is not
immediately obvious.

Goods or money obtained

illegally.

Jump across or leap over

(an obstacle).
An authoritative person
who divines the future.
Look with amazement; look
stupidly.
Walk heavily and firmly, as
when weary, or through
mud.
[ Utopia ] An imaginary
place considered to be
perfect or ideal.
A work of fiction describing
an imaginary place where
life is extremely bad
because of deprivation or
oppression or terror.

Not fanciful or imaginative.

Complete or extreme.
Check the growth or
development of.

A headdress that protects

the head and face.
To accuse or condemn or
openly or formally or brand
as disgraceful.
Murder without leaving a
trace on the body.
(Yiddish) Unbelievable gall;
insolence; audacity.

The dispersion or
spreading of something
that was originally localized
(as a people or language or
culture).
Vigorous and enthusiastic
enjoyment.

End weakly.

Boil slowly at low

temperature.
(of plants or trees) Having
the top or outer parts cut
off.

Capable of being corrupted.

Sordid dirtiness.

Worthless people.

Make strong or stronger.

A government appointee
who investigates
complaints by private
persons against the
government.
More than is needed,
desired, or required.
Gaze at or think about
something with great self-
satisfaction, gratification, or
joy.

An enveloping bandage.
Talk volubly; Strike sharply
Being essentially equal to
something.

Fortitude and
determination.
Without flaws or loopholes.
Support by placing against
something solid or rigid.

An outward or token
appearance or form that is
deliberately misleading.

A permissible difference;
allowing some freedom to
move within limits.

Crowd or draw together.

A predisposition in favor of
something.
Someone acting as an
informer or decoy for the
police.

A woman who looks after

babies in her own home
while their parents are
working.
Having little substance or
significance.
To move about or proceed
hurriedly.
A person who brings an
action in a court of law.

Subject to accident or
chance or change.

Serving as or based on
evidence.

Make a high-pitched,
screeching noise.
One of the mourners
carrying the coffin at a
funeral.

Cry or whine with snuffling.

(often followed by 'of') A
large number or amount or
extent.

Offering no resistance.

Stir up or tend; of a fire.

Fake or falsify.
Fasten or secure with a
wooden pin.

Not confined or limited.

A complaint uttered in a
plaintive whining way.
Laugh at with contempt and
derision.
An irregular unauthorized
court.

Twist and compress, as if in

pain or anguish.

A disparaging remark.

Very irritable.
Lacking enlightenment or
knowledge or culture.

Tastelessly showy.

Secure in or as if in a berth
or dock.
A block of metal that is cast
in a particular shape for
convenient handling.
Hold spellbound
Special importance or
significance.

Draw back from an

agreement, contract,
statement, etc.

Producing a strong effect.;

Powerfully persuasive.
Causing irritation or
annoyance.

Any segregated mode of

living or working that results
from bias or stereotyping.
Organized persecution of
an ethnic group (especially
Jews).
A channel along the eaves
or on the roof; collects and
carries away rainwater.

Draw advantages from.

One behind the other.

An energetic style.
Anything that tends to
arouse.

Re-equip a factory or plant.

Make a mess of, destroy or

ruin.

Malicious satisfaction.
The act of banishing a
member of the Church from
the communion of believers
and the privileges of the
Church; cutting a person off
from a religious society.
Choose no to consume.
A disorderly crowd of
people.
Any stoppage attributable
to unusual activity.
An evil spell.
Be confusing or perplexing
to; cause to be unable to
think clearly.
A theory or argument made
up of miscellaneous or
incongruous ideas.
Convert illegally obtained
funds into legal ones.
An outward or token
appearance or form that is
deliberately misleading.
Intense adverse criticism.

Move ahead steadily.

Apply (usually a liquid) to a
surface.
Pretend to be someone you
are not; sometimes with
fraudulent intentions.

Slanderous defamation.

Make an error.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

S.no Word Sample sentence

1 Delectable Delectable land
2 reposeful reposeful land, dreamy and inviting
3 skylark quarrelling, fighting and skylarking..
4 whack She whacks them over the head with her thimble
5 thimble She whacks them over the head with her thimble
He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent
over the toe with absorbing interest while the
6 alley bandage was being unwound.
He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent
over the toe with absorbing interest while the
7 pail bandage was being unwound.

The God of small things

I can effect my own punishmend on myself so Mom
1 rescind can rescind hers.

Robert Frost - A collection of critical essays

He is really nothing more than a cracker-barrel
versifier speaking with a pronounced New England
1 cracker-barrel accent.
Instead of attitudinizing about how true Frost's
poetry was, he tried to give an extended
2 attitudinize description of the body of Frost's poetry.
Whichever alternative he chooses, the human
situation as Frost presents it remains relatively
solitary, simple, and antisocial; its myth is
3 Edenic essentially regressive and Edenic.
The remoteness and calculated simplicity of the
rural world transforms Frost's New England into a
4 vista symbolic vista.
Frost has clearly moved toward comedy and wit -
from lyric through narrative toward sattire, and
5 masque finally to masque.
The secret of Frost's wide appeal seems to have
been that his poetry, from the beginning, caught
fresh vitality without recourse to the fads and
6 vitality limitations of modern techniques.

7 fad ditto

In Frost's theory of poetry, the self-imposed

restrictions of meter in form and coherence in
8 meter content stand not half way down the scale of grace.
With pleasant banter he has teased his
contemporaries by jesting about their desperate
9 jest "quest for new ways to be new".
 Wrong twice, I told him. Wrong twice and of theory
10 prepense prepense.
But there is danger of undue levity in teasing the
11 undue young.
They may seem like picketers, or members of the
12 picketer committee on rules, for the moment.
13 gob huge gobs of raw sincerety bellowing with pain
14 bellow ditto
I am well aware that this kind of metaphorical
extension is distasteful to some, and is frequently
15 impressionistic branded by others as impressionistic non-sense.

He has frequently suggested that he is particularly

16 platonic wary of hydra-headed platonic idealism..
To Frost the loss of balance was a part of what
Poe meant when he said that there was no such
thing as a long poem; that he could show any
reader of a long poem where the rider fell, and how
far he limped before he again managed to climb
17 limp astride his Pegasus.
18 astride ditto
19 helve, haft The Ax-helve

20 threnody ..threnodies of sorrow.

Such a solution to the problem through the
trappings of explanation invalidates the required
autonomy of the poem and delivers immediately
into the arms of the snobbish or academic readers
who may keep it limping about on flimsy crutches
21 snobbish of praise and elucidation.
22 flimsy ditto

23 crutch ditto
And this difference between that suggested and
that stated is the difference between connotation
24 connotation and denotation.

25 denotation ditto

26 stymie His brother stymied him at every turn.

27
28
29
Barron's/Kaplan/Others
Although the ambassador was usually amenable to
friendly suggestions, he balked when we hinted he
1 balk should pay his parking tickets.

2 disarming A disarming smile.

3 egalitarian
Extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the
4 prescient probable course of postwar relations-R.H.Rovere.
5 conflate The colors conflate well.

6 steep Steep the fruit in alcohol.

As docile as he seems today, that old lion was

7 snarl once a ferocious, snarling beast.
It took an extra-large cummerbund to fit around
8 cummerbund Andrew Carnegie's considerable girth.
Jabbing a minatory forefinger at Dorothy, the
Wicked Witch cried, "I'll get you, and your little dog,
9 jab too!"
The incongruity of his wearing sneakers with formal
10 sneakers attire amused the observers.
11 adumbrate I adumbrated that I did not like his wife.

12 jest He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest.

13 doughty
The customs agents impounded the illegal
14 impound shipment.
The gangrenous condition of the wound was
indicated by the putrid smell when the bandages
15 gangrene were removed.
The memory of having been jilted rankled him for
16 jilt years.
A coven of witches beside a tree is a possible
17 coven rebus for the town Coventry.
18 reconnoitering
19 ruffle ruffle somebody's composure
20 muffle Muffle one's anger.

21 polish (n) They performed with great polish.

22 ensnare The innocent man was ensnared by the police
23 slew A slew of trouble
24 rickety A rickety table

25 manifest (secondar meaning)

26 hack

27 delinquency (secondary meaning)

 His tonsure, even more than his monastic garb,
indicated that he was a member of the religious
28 garb order.

She approached the guillotine with unfaltering

29 guillotine steps.

30 rave A rave party.

31 spunk He kept fighting on pure spunk.
Someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing
32 resourceful with difficult situations.

33 hidebound
34 high-handed

Before the judge issues the injunction, you must

35 injunction convince her this action is warranted.
The tenement was a veritable warren, packed with
36 tenement people too poor to live elsewhere.
As a present for Aunt Polly, Tom whittled some
37 clothespin clothespins out of a chunk of wood.
A cocktail party given by some... raffish bachelors -
38 raffish Crary Moore.
39 bedeck Bedeck the halls with holly (a kind of tree).

40 cauline Cauline leaves.

41 floppy A dog with floppy ears.

42 smug A smug glow of self-congratulation.

43 tact A boor is a tactless person.

44 boor ditto
45 rapt Rapt with wonder.
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay a
minister as much to marry them as they have to
46 holler pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

47 osculate The newly married couple osculated.

48 wayward Wayward behavior.

49 repose Took his repose by the swimming pool.

50 singe
51 boggle This boggles my mind!
52 cognoscible
A skunk defends itself with its scent.;
53 skunk Only a skunk would do that.
 The child was so spoiled by her indulgent parents
that she pouted and became sullen when she did
54 pout not receive any attention.

Glendon provides a dark underside to Turner's

frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the
essence of American society - an individualism that
55 rugged she sees as degenerating into atomism.

56 grail Chatwin devoted his life to a kind of Grail quest.

57 accession The art collectin grew through accession.

58 recreant Some provinces had proved recreant.

59 mascot
60 pleonastic
61 pedigree
62 forage The animals forage in the woods.

63 cozy A cozy nook near the fire.

64 snug A snug little sailboat.

65 sessile Sessile marine animals and plants.

The government contends that the new laws are
necessary to prevent unscrupulous business
owners from siphoning off the profits while the
66 siphon workers are underpaid.
67 cuddly A cuddly teddybear.

68 abound The room abounded with screaming children.

69 deserts/comeuppance
70 nook
71 helpless As helpless as a baby.

72 helpless Helpless with laughter.

73 asseverate

74 dab

75 elf
The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax
76 float reform.

77 wanton (secondary meaning) wanton and dastardly attack.

78 sacred (secondary meaning) A private office sacred to the President.

79 nibble The woman tenderly nibbled at her baby's ear.
 80 gabble
81 barge She barged into the meeting room.

82 marginal Marginal land.

83 tramp A homeless tramp.

84 utilitarian Plain utilitarian kitchenware.

85 ossify (secondary) Ossified teaching methods.

86 doctor Sophisticate rose water with geraniol.

87 ennoble He was ennobled with a title.

88 fusty
89 vintage

90 frumpish Nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game.

91 sop Sop bread into the sauce.

92 bromidic Bromidic sermons.

93 threadbare Repeating threadbare jokes.

94 jejune Jejune novel.
95 orotund Orotund political prose.
96 fustian (n)
97 topsy turvy A disorderly pile of clothes.
98 hodge podge
99 pettifoggery

100 byzantine The Byzantine tax structure.

Byzantine methods for holding on to his

101 byzantine (second meaning) chairmanship.
The stories and claims were born out by the
102 bear out evidence.

103 arrant An arrant fool.

104 rally Rally the courage to do something.

105 jeremiad A jeremiad against any form of government.

106 spy, espy
107 cloak He cloaked his disappointment.
108 strife
The immigrant was taken in because he trusted
109 take in everyone.

110 catholic Catholic in one's tastes.

111 procreate The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly.
 Most people consider it ESTIMABLE that Mother
Teresa spent her life helping the poor of
112 estimable India.

113 whitewash Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin.

114 con He conned me out of my inheritance.

115 ornery An ornery and venomous-tongued old lady.

116 bewail We bewailed the loss of benefits.
My straitlaced (prissy) Aunt Anna doesn't approve
117 prissy, straight-laced of my miniskirts.
118 puritan, nonindulgent Puritanic distaste for alcohol.

119 graffiti
120 snit He was in a snit.

121 cadge He is always cadging cigarettes from his friends.

122 bent (secondary) He had a bent for it.
123 vim He seemed full of vim and vigor.
Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times
124 purge throughout his lifetime.
125 milk I am milking this for all it's worth.

126 smother Smother fires.

127 standoffish A standoffish manner.
128 slumberous Slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes.

129 blot He made a huge blot on his copybook.

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne was required
to wear the letter "A" on her clothes as a
130 stigma public STIGMA for her adultery.

131 sedate
132 adore He just adored his wife.
133 long-winded Long-winded (or windy) speakers.
That beautiful but temperamental instrument the
134 temperamental flute - Osbert Lancaster.

135 dither

136 downplay He played down his royal ancestry.

137 discommode Sorry to discommode you, but...

138 craft He represented the craft of brewers.

139 palter
Her big brother always hectored her when she was
140 hector young.
141 totter, teeter
142 ersatz Ersatz coffee.

143 compendium
144 periphrastic

145 amateur

146 slake The cold water slaked his thirst.

Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory

147 esurient enemy.

148 spartan A spartan diet.

149 riposte It brought a sharp riposte from the teacher.

150 raillery
151 rebarbative He became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful.

152 spiteful A truly spiteful child.

153 wraith He looked like he had seen a wraith.

154 abatement
155 interstice The interstices of a network.
156 scion A scion of royal stock.

157 distaff
The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl
158 sidle sitting on the log.
159 cloistered The cloistered academic world of books.
160 bias (v) You are biasing my choice by telling me yours.

161 airs Don't put on airs with me.

162 trump

163 jibe The two stories don't agree in many details.

164 cohort
They sandbagged (dragooned) him to make dinner
165 dragoon for everyone.
166 solicit
167 solicitous/solitude

168 formidable
169 smite Afflict(Smite) with the plague.

170 heartiness

171 disaffect (NOT disaffected)

172 sleight
173 amortize

174 cue

175 slumber Calm as a child in dreamless slumber.

176 slack
177 dodgy A dodgy scheme.
An extremely dicey(dodgy) future on a brave new
world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog - New
178 dodgy/dicey Yorker.

179 slime/goo The snake slimed his victim.

There were puddles of muddy water in the road
180 puddle after the rain.

181 snobbish
182 table Let's table the exam.
He grouched about anything that he thought was
183 grouch wrong.
184 tint
The most bodacious(brassy) display of tourism this
185 brassy/bodacious side of Anaheim - Los Angeles Times.

186 etch
187 syncopation

188 purlieu
The National archives contain information so
divisive that researchers have been known never to
publish because they cannot bear to bring their
189 divisive studies to an end.
190 scrappy A scrappy admiral.
191 indurate The cold hardened (indurated) the butter.

192 lucubration

193 rive Rive the bone

194 ornamentation

195 epitomize

196 lyrical The dancer's lyrical performance.

197 cosset Let's not mollycoddle (cosset) our students!.

198 abandon She danced with abandon.

199 unremitting Unremitting demands of hunger.

200 reconstitute to reconstitute a bouillon cube with hot water.

201 tame
202 racy A racy literary style.
203 gradation Subtle gradations in color.
Uproot (Deracinate) the vine that has spread all
204 deracinate over the garden.
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
Guessed meaning Correct meaning

calm

pat, beat
knuckle

Annul by recalling or rescinding.

Characteristic of country life.

Assume certain affected attitudes.

Any place of complete bliss and delight

and peace.

The visual percept of a region.

masquerade; A party of guests wearing

costumes and masks.

An energetic style.
An interest followed with exaggerated
zeal.

(prosody) The accent in a metrical foot

of verse.

Act in a funny or teasing way.

premediate; Think or reflect beforehand
or in advance.

Beyond normal limits.

A person employed to watch for
something to happen.
Informal terms for the mouth.
Shout loudly and without restraint.
Of or relating to or based on an
impression rather than on facts or
reasoning.

Free from physical desire.

Proceed slowly or with difficulty.

With one leg on each side.
The handle of a weapon or tool.
A song or hymn of mourning composed
or performed as a memorial to a dead
person.

Befitting or characteristic of those who

inclined to social exclusiveness and who
rebuff the advances of people
considered inferior.
Very thin and insubstantial.
A wooden or metal staff that fits under
the armpit and reaches to the ground;
used by disabled person while walking.

An idea that is implied or suggested.

The most direct or specific meaning of a
word or expression; the class of objects
that an expression refers to.
Hinder or prevent the progress or
accomplishment of.
Refuse to comply.
Capable of allaying suspicion or hostility
and inspiring confidence.
Favoring social equality.
Perceiving the significance of events
before they occur.
Mix together different elements.
Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to
cleanse.
n. A vicious angry growl.
v. Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt
tone.; Make more complicated or
confused through entanglements.
A broad pleated sash worn as formal
dress with a tuxedo.

Poke or thrust abruptly.

A canvas shoe with a pliable rubber
sole.
Give to understand.
A humorous anecdote or remark
intended to provoke laughter.
resolute and without fear.
Take temporary possession of as a
security, by legal authority.
The localized death of living cells (as
from infection or the interruption of
blood supply).

Cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly.

An assembly of witches; usually 13
witches.
reconnaissance
trouble or vex
Conceal or hide.

A highly developed state of perfection;

having a flawless or impeccable quality.
Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
many in number
shaky
A customs document listing the
contents put on a ship or plane.
A mediocre and disdained writer.
An antisocial misdeed in violation of the
law by a minor.
Clothing of a distinctive style or for a
particular occasion.
Instrument of execution that consists of
a weighted blade between two vertical
poles; used for beheading people.
A dance party that lasts all night and
electronically synthesized music is
played.
The courage to carry on.
Having inner resources; adroit or
imaginative.
Stubbornly conservative and narrow-
minded.
Given to haughty disregard of others.
(law) A judicial remedy issued in order
to prohibit a party from doing or
continuing to do a certain activity.
A rundown apartment house barely
meeting minimal standards.
Wood or plastic fastener; for holding
clothes on a clothesline.
Marked by a carefree unconventionality
or disreputableness.
decorate

Especially of leaves; growing on a stem

especially on the upper part of a stem.
Hanging limply (loosely).
Marked by excessive complacency or
self-satisfaction.
Consideration in dealing with others and
avoiding giving offence.
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking
culture or refinement.
Wholly absorbed as in thought.

A very loud utterance (like the sound of

an animal).
Touch with the lips or press the lips
(against someone's mouth or other body
part) as an expression of love, greeting,
etc.
Resistant to guidance or discipline.;
reckless
Freedom from activity (work or strain or
responsibility).
A surface burn.; scorch
Overcome with amazement.
Capable of being known.

`
Make a sad face and thrust out one's
lower lip.

Sturdy and strong in constitution or

construction; enduring.
(legend) Chalice used by Christ at the
last supper.
A process of increasing by addition (as
to a collection or group).
Having deserted a cause or principle.;
An abject coward.

The descendants of one individual.

Wander and feed.

Enjoying or affording comforting warmth

and shelter especially in a small space.
Fitting closely but comfortably.
Permanently attached to a substrate;
not free to move about.

Convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by

a siphon.
Inviting cuddling or hugging.
Be in a state of movement or action.;
ALSO - Be abundant or plentiful; exist in
large quantities.
An outcome (good or bad) that is well
deserved.
A sheltered and secluded place.
Unable to manage independently.
Lacking in or deprived of strength or
power.
State categorically.
Hit lightly; Apply (usually a liquid) to a
surface.
(folklore) Fairies that are somewhat
mischievous.
Circulate or discuss tentatively; test the
waters with.
Occurring without motivation or
provocation.
(often followed by 'to') Devoted
exclusively to a single use or purpose or
person.
Bite gently.
Speak (about unimportant matters)
rapidly and incessantly.
Push one's way.
Producing at a rate that barely covers
production costs.
A disreputable vagrant.
Having utility often to the exclusion of
values.
Make rigid and set into a conventional
pattern.
Alter and make impure, as with the
intention to deceive.
Confer dignity or honor upon.
Old-fashioned and out of date.; Stale
and unclean smelling.
The oldness of wines.

Primly out of date.; dowdy

Dip into liquid.

Dull and tiresome but with pretensions

of significance or originality.
Repeated too often; overfamiliar
through overuse.
Lacking interest or significance.
Ostentatiously lofty in style.
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
In utter disorder.
A motley assortment of things.
A quarrel about petty points.

[ Byzantine ] Highly involved or intricate.

[ Byzantine ] Characterized by elaborate

scheming and intrigue; devious.
Support with evidence or authority or
make more certain or confirm.
Without qualification; used informally as
(often pejorative) intensifiers.
Gather or bring together.

A long and mournful complaint.; diatribe

Catch sight of.; descry
Hide under a false appearance.
Lack of agreement or harmony.

Fool or hoax.
Free from provincial prejudices or
attachments.
Have offspring or young.
Deserving of esteem and respect.

Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error.

Deprive of by deceit.
adj. Having a difficult and contrary
disposition.; ill-natured
Regret strongly.

Exaggeratedly proper.
Morally rigorous and strict.
A rude decoration inscribed on rocks or
walls.
A state of agitated irritation.
Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or
wheedling.
A special way of doing something.
A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.

Oust politically.
Exploit as much as possible.
Deprive of the oxygen necessary for
combustion.
Lacking cordiality; unfriendly.
Inclined to or marked by drowsiness.
An act that brings discredit to the
person who does it.

a mark of shame or discredit

adj. Characterized by dignity and
propriety.
love intensely.
Using or containing too many words.

Likely to perform unpredictably.

v. Act nervously; be undecided; be
uncertain.
Understate the importance or quality of.
(NOTE: It is NOT of some idea, as I had
previously thought)
To cause inconvenience or discomfort
to.
People who perform a particular kind of
skilled work.
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in
order to mislead or withhold
information.; equivocate

Be bossy towards.
Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.
Artificial and inferior.
A concise but comprehensive summary
of a larger work.; A publication
containing a variety of works.
Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
Someone who pursues a study or sport
as a pastime. NOTE: I had until now
been thinking that an amateur is just a
beginner.
Satisfy (thirst).; Make less active or
intense.; Cause to heat and crumble by
treatment with water.
adj. Devouring or craving food in great
quantities.; (often followed by 'for')
Ardently or excessively desirous.;
Extremely hungry.
Practicing great self-denial.; Unsparing
and uncompromising in discipline or
judgment.; Resolute in the face of pain
or danger or adversity.
A quick reply to a question or remark
(especially a witty or critical one).
Light teasing repartee.
Serving or tending to repel.
Showing malicious ill will and a
desire to hurt; motivated by spite.
A mental representation of some
haunting experience; ghost; spectre.
An interruption in the intensity or
amount of something.; respite; hiatus;
suspension.
Small opening between things.
A descendent or heir.
adj. Characteristic of or peculiar to a
woman.
Move unobtrusively or furtively.; Move
sideways.
Providing privacy or seclusion.
Influence in an unfair way.
Affected manners intended to impress
others.
v. Proclaim or announce with or as if
with a fanfare.
Be compatible, similar or consistent;
coincide in their characteristics.
A company of companions or
supporters.; A group people having
approximately the same age.
Compel by coercion, threats, or crude
means.
Make a solicitation or petition for
something desired.; Incite, move, or
persuade to some act of lawlessness or
insubordination.; Approach with an offer
of sexual favors.; Make a solicitation or
entreaty for something; request urgently
or persistently.; Make amorous
advances towards.
A feeling of excessive concern.
adj. Inspiring fear.; Extremely
impressive in strength or excellence.
Cause pain or suffering in.
adj. The quality of hearty sincerity. - IT
IS NOT HAPPINESS, AS I HAD
PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
v. Arouse hostility or indifference in
where there had formerly been love,
affection, or friendliness.
n. Adroitness in using the hands. -
NOTHING TO DO FUNDAMENTALLY
WITH MAGIC.
Liquidate gradually.
n. A stimulus that provides information
about what to do.; Evidence that helps
to solve a problem.
n. A natural and periodic state of rest
during which consciousness of the world
is suspended.
v. Avoid responsibilities and work, be
idle., malinger; Cause to heat and
crumble by treatment with water.
Marked by skill in deception.

Of uncertain outcome; especially

fraught with risk.
v. Cover or stain with slime.
N. Any thick messy substance.
A small body of standing water
(rainwater) or other liquid.
adj. Befitting or characteristic of those
who inclined to social exclusiveness and
who rebuff the advances of people
considered inferior.
Hold back to a later time.
v. Show one's unhappiness or critical
attitude.
v. color lightly.

Unrestrained by convention or propriety.

Making engraved or etched plates and
printing designs from them.
Modify the rhythm by stressing or
accenting a weak beat.;
Omit a sound or letter in a word.
n. environs or neighborhood.
2. a place where one may range at
large; confines or bounds.
3. a person's haunt or resort.
4. an outlying district or region, as of a
town or city.

adj. Dissenting (especially dissenting

with the majority opinion), factious.
Full of fighting spirit.
v. Become hard or harder.
n. Laborious cogitation.; A solemn
literary work that is the product of
laborious cogitation.
v. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a
sharp instrument.
n. The state of being ornamented.
v. Embody the essential
characteristics of or be a typical
example of (to instill brevity).

adj. Expressing deep personal emotion.;

Suitable for or suggestive of singing.
v. Treat with excessive indulgence.
n. The trait of lacking restraint or
control; freedom from inhibition or
worry.; A feeling of extreme emotional
intensity, wildness.
adj. Uninterrupted in time and
indefinitely long continuing.

to return (a dehydrated or concentrated

food) to the liquid state by adding water
adj. Flat and uninspiring.
adj. Full of zest or vigor.
n. Relative position in a graded series.

v. Pull up by or as if by the roots.

S.No Category Related words

1 criticize denounce
2 humiliate degrade
3 insane demented
4 protest demur
express disapproval
5 (mostly similar to (4)) decry
deplore
6 regret (strong)
deride
7 ridicule (Contemptuous)
8 skillful adroit
9 scold/abuse diatribe

10 saying aphorism
11 shy diffident
dull/gloomy/sad/mournful/
12 unwholesome dingy

13 confuse/dilemma/disturb disconcert

14 scorn/contempt disdain
15 pretend/artificial dissemble

16 irritate/annoy/vex fester
17 irritable/easily irritated peevish

18 hesitate falter

19 urge cajole (use gentle flattery)

20 deceive/trick/cheat delude

21 unyielding/stubborn monolithic
22 papmer mollycoddle
23 sarcastic mordant
24 spotted dappled
25 excessive pride narcissist

26 infamy/defame slander
presumptuous/arrogant/ overweening (NOT
27 rude complaining)
28 disloyal/betray perfidy

29 curse anathema
30 outdated antiquated
31 poise aplomb
32 ideal example apotheosis
33 alarm/shock dismay
34 appropriate (adj) apposite
35 secret/mysterious/hidden arcane
36 passion/heat ardor

37 adorn/trim/ornate array
38 cunning sly
39 stupid/foolish asinine
40 refer/attribute ascribe

41 ease/soothe/appease assuage
42 self-denial ascetic
43 wise astute

44 weak/weaken attenuate

45 harass/tease bait
46 threatening/causing fear baleful

compensate/pay back/bear
47 expenses/make amends atone
48 excessively exacting peremptory
49 wasteful prodigal
50 abundance plethora

51 inclination/strong liking proclivity

52 outlaw proscribe
difficult to please/
53 easily disgusted fastidious

54 vexed/complain fretful

55 tremble/vibrate/shaky quiver
56 teasing bantering

57 commonplace/boring trite
58 bad odor fetid
59 hate/hatred loathe
60 recover recuperate
61 harsh grating
62 plunder/plundering despoil
63 reject/drive back/insult rebuff
64 difficult to understand obscure
65 uprightness probity
66 disavow renounce
 67 supposed reputed
68 opening/split rent
69 engrossing rapt

70 treat unworthily/violate profane

71 indecent obscene

72 run down decrepit

73 untidy shabby
74 lively frisky

75 careless/aimless haphazard

76 lazy/depressed/yearn slothful
77 move hurriedly scurry

78 speak indistinctly/foolishly babble

79 filthy/neglected sordid
spat
80 minor act (dispute)
81 misleading sophistry
82 strong stalwart
83 pompous bombastic
acting at the spur of the
84 moment impromptu
behaving like a slave
85 (related to #95) servile
86 rich lavish

87 many/several/volume scad
88 excessive superfluous
89 replace supercede
90 soil/tarnish besmirch
91 flexible supple
92 plead beseech
satisfy fully/
93 indulge in excess/quench satiate
94 dark dusky
95 flatterer/flatter toady
96 tastelessly showy/cheap gaudy
97 concise terse
98 hard, painful work travail
99 harsh imitation travesty
100 aggressive ferocity
101 swollen tumid
102 violent unbridled
103 awkward,clumsy unwieldy
104 bravery/courage mettle
105 boast brag
106 shrink/decay wither
107 quarrel bicker
fault-finding/raise trivial
108 objections carping
109 unite amalgamate
110 muscular brawny
111 noise clamor
112 ridiculing imitation burlesque
113 arrange in order array
114 spendthrift/stingy/miser frugal
115 coward(ly) craven

shrink back (in fear/ordinary

116 reaction) cringe
117 greed avarice
118 debase oneself condescend
119 delay/waste time dawdle
120 move shakingly/unsteady dodder
121 embarrass disconcert
122 waste matter/worthless dross
123 overjoy/high spirits ebullient
124 thin and wasted emaciated
125 impartial/fair equity
126 short-lived/fleeting evanescent
127 explain (serving to) explicate
128 not continuos spasmodic
129 stir up instigate
130 fight brawl
131 sweet sound euphony
132 heavenly elysian
133 abrade flay
scowl (expression of
134 frown dislike/displeasure)
135 bless/blessed benison
136 cut into pieces dismember
137 small hill knoll
138 fill fraught

139 beg implore

140 hasty/rash precipitate
141 kinship propinquity
142 poor/poverty indigence
143 devilish demoniac
144 hint inkling
145 likely to change/unstable labile
146 corrupted/lustful lechery
147 gruesome grisly
148 injure maim
149 deep-rooted/habitual ingrained
150 clear limpid
151 curve/curvy/wind meander
152 money related mercenary
153 indifferent callous
154 of marriage conjugal
155 command fiat
156 lost in thought/thoughtful bemused
157 calm/unemotional halcyon
158 fat/stocky corpulent
159 bruise contusion
160 existing at the beginning primordial
161 stage dais
162 thrash flail
pretend to be
163 knowldegable/impostor charlatan
164 peculiarity of action caprice

purveyor
165 of food (caterer)
166 deny/challenge gainsay
167 cancel/rub out annul
168 impatient restive
169 traitor renegade
170 drink (alcohol) quaff
171 repeat/repetition reprise
172 sticking out/noticeable protruding
173 sink founder
persistent effort, hard
174 working diligent

175 shed/cast off molt

fallacious reasoning/play
176 with words quibble
177 loyal/loyalty staunch
178 check (the flow) stem
179 loud/harsh strident
180 painful labor toil
181 cheap/showy (jewelry esp) trinket
giving lots of importance to
182 properness/perfectionist punctilious
183 face countenance
184 fashion vogue
185 pale/sickly pallid
186 roll/indulge in wallow
187 speck mote
188 bit/tiny/small scintilla
189 deserving blame culpable
190 punish chasten
give an indication
191 beforehand/ warning foreshadow
192 accuse implicate
193 burden incubus
194 childish/immature puerile
195 disobedience/rebellious insubordinate
196 steal embezzle
collation
197 meal (light meal)
198 bias prejudice
199 unrestrained/uncontrolled wanton
200 unprincipled/dishonest unscrupulous
homeless
201 traveller/wanderer vagrant
202 produce/cause/bring about engender
203 absolute consummate
204 irritable/ill-natured cantankerous
205 loveable/sweet angelic
206 wordy verbose
207 express evil satisfaction gloat
208 wish ill/feel bitter about resent
209 hymn for the dead dirge
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
inveigh pan
demean belittle
deranged delirium

disparage deprecate

repent rue

lampoon mock
deft dextrous
fulminate rail

adage apothegm
coy (affectedly, evasive motive)

despondent doleful

discombobulate fluster

despise cynical (sneering disbelief)

dissimulate feign

rankle harry (annoy chronically)

petulant irascible

flinch stutter (speak haltingly)

goad (provoke by constant criticism) - used
mostly with a -ve connotation exhort (forcefully)
hoodwink artifice

obdurate obstinate
indulgent
acrimonious acerbity
mottled maculated
vanity conceit

obloquy denigrate
overbearing (Expecting unquestioning
obedience) haughty
treachery insidious

bane execrate
antediluvian archaic

quintessential
consternation appall

privy recondite
zeal fervent

preen (dress with elaborate care) primp (dress with elaborate care)
artful
vacuous dolt
assign impute

palliate alleviate
austere

extenuate
enervate (mitigate)

taunt (persistent carping) quip (minor)

baneful minatory
restitution (The act of restoring
something to its original state.;
indemnify compensation for loss/injury)
autocratic bossy
profligate
plenitude profuse
predispose (give an inclination
propensity toward)
ostracize banish

queasy squeamish

querulous (Habitually complaining) whining

palpitate (throb rapidly) throb

badinage quizzical

hackneyed quotidian
rancid stench
abominate rancor
rally
raspy raucous
ravage rapacious
snub slight
abstruse profound
rectitude
repudiate retract
purported putative
rift schism
enchanting (NOT chanting) entrancing

desecrate sacrilegious
scurrilous

disreputable seedy (Weak and feeble)

slipshod slovenly
skittish
slapdash
sloppy (in manner)

sluggish lethargy
scamper scuttle

mumble (Talk indistinctly; usually

blabber in a low voice)
base vile
squabble peccadillo
(dispute) (crime)
specious
sinewy
stilted strut (walk)

improvise offhand

subservient obsequious
sumptuous opulence
sundry (Consisting of a haphazard
assortment of different kinds (even to the
point of incongruity)) tome
supererogatory supernumerary
supplant usurp
sully defile
pliant limber
entreat suppliant

surfeit stuff
swarthy
bootlicker sycophant
tawdry meretricious
succinct pithy
drudgery
parody debased
truculence
turgid distended
impetuous
ungainly uncouth
valor pluck
vaunt braggadocio
shrivel wizen
tussle (disorderly) wrangle (verbal)

captious cavil

burly husky
clangor (resounding clamor) clarion
caricature
collate
parsimonious curmudgeon

quail flinch
cupidity avid
deign
demur dally
totter
abash discomfiture
chaff dregs
elated
cadaverous haggard
equitable evenhanded (NOT equivocating)
ephemeral fugacious
expository
intermittent fitful
foment provoke
melee fracas
dulcet
ethereal
excoriate

glower (expression of anger/sullenness)

beatific hallowed
hew
hummock
imbue
importune
(persistently)
foolhardy headlong
consanguinity
destitution
infernal diabolical
innuendo insinuation
fickle mercurial
debauch libertine
macabre ghastly
mutilate mar
inveterate
lucid pellucid
sinuous (NOT sinewy) wiggly
monetary pecuniary
nonchalance
connubial nubile
ordain behest
pensive muse
phlegmatic taciturn
portly
welt
inchoate
podium proscenium
pulverize

mountebank quack
whim quirk

larder refectory
(place of storage) (dining hall)
impugn renege
countermand expunge
fidget (Move restlessly, NOT complaining)
quisling turncoat
tipple (often) swill (drink greedily)
rote recapitulate
obtrusive
scuttle

assiduous sedulous
exfoliate (NOT just ridding off
slough leaves)

sophistry
steadfast unswerving
staunch
stentorian blatant
travail
bauble knickknack

prude stickler
visage physiognomy
fad
wan
welter
whit
iota
reprehensible
castigate

portend prefigure
incriminate
encumber
infantile callow
insurgent unruly
purloin

repast
tendentious
unbridled untrammeled
unconscionable
tramp
vagabond (disreputable)
beget procreate
arrant utter
crotchety ornery (adj)
cherubic seraphic
prolix long-winded
glee
begrudge
threnody requiem
animadversion rebuke (severe) reprove reprimand (extreme reproval)
mortify pejorative

reprobation objurgate (Censure

disapprobate (severe) deplore severely)
bewail
(strong) grieve mourn remorse

scoff gibe/jibe

rebuke reprimand upbraid vituperative

dictum (authoritative
declaration) maxim

downcast disheartened drab sullen

evasive elusive elliptical muddle

sardonic (disdainfully scurvy (most

sarcastic (hurting) humorous) contemptible) jeer (laugh at with derision)
sham shoddy subterfuge factitious
nettle (annoy by minor
torment irritations) fractious badger (Annoy persistently)
touchy testy nettlesome cranky
flounder (walking with
waver halting scruple difficulty)
wheedle (use gentle
hortatory importunate incite flattery)
bilk swindle chisel gull

pertinacious recalcitrant unruly refractory

trenchant
piebald
vainglorious hubris priggish
opprobrium (state of
calumny aspersion traducement dishonor)

insolent impertinent supercilious condescending

disaffected
imprecate (Wish harm
upon; invoke evil upon) malediction
fusty frumpish
runic sphinx-like furtive sneaky
fervid
prim (dress with
elaborate care; spruce (Exaggeratedly
Exaggeratedly proper) proper) dapper embellish

oaf obtuse inane fatuous

gruntle (Cause to be
more favorably inclined;
gain the good will of) mollify placate propitiate

decrepitude (due to
frailty debilitate (make weak) old age) infirmity
tantalize (persistent
carping) rally beset beleaguer
menacing redoubtable formidable

defray (Bear the expenses expiate (Make

alimony of) amends for)
hypercritical

penchant

repine snivel snuffle fuss

rickety (Inclined to
shake as from
weakness or
flutter tremulous defect)

jejune (Lacking interest or

banal bromidic threadbare significance)

repugnance

depredate fleece pillage flay

spurn
recondite
riveting
ribald (Humorously
vulgar) infraction infringe

musty (Covered with or

smelling of mold)

tatty (Tastelessly showy) threadbare mangy

unkempt disheveled dilettante frivolous

(in dress) (in dress) (of arts) (seriousness)

torpor indolent lackadaisical laggard

maunder (Talk indistinctly;

slur prate gibber usually in a low voice)
squalor
skirmish foible
(fight) (fault)

tumid consequential grandiloquent pontificial

slew
excessive

lithe

cloy slake

adulator fawn
flashy garish
brevity laconic sententious
quibble pettifoggery

niggardly penurious skinflint stint

wince
fawn (Show submission (ordinary/not in
or fear) cower fear)
esurient

dilatory fritter tarry tardy

o

husk

macerate

galvanize
fray

fiendish satanic
intimate
mutable capricious temperamental
roue lewd libidinous licentious
grim
mayhem
tortuous serpentine

nuptial

brood ponder ruminate

reticent stoical

rostrum

gourmand (excessive epicure (refined enjoyment

eating and drinking) of food and drinks) gluttonous viand

repeal rescind revoke efface

fealty

raucous vociferous raspy

foppish
martinet (about clothes)

foreboding premonition forewarning

unbridled dissipated

spawn
unmitigated

loquacious periphrastic garrulous

stricture tirade comeuppance - well invective
(severe) (extended criticism) deserved outcome (abusive)

compunction penitent contrite

chide lambaste

morose saturnine somber sober

faze (disturb the

obfuscate nonplus quandary composure of)

sneer (smile
deride scoff mordant contemptuously)
disingenuous ostensible hypocritical pharisaical
rile (annoy by minor huff (STATE of
irritations) tantrum irritation) beleaguer

inveigle (use gentle

flattery) adjure advocate prod
con mulct defraud

dour inexorable intractable intrasigence

vilification revile detraction libellous

surly cross boorish uncouth

surreptitious skulk stealth occult

flamboyant natty rococo baroque

drivel vapid dunce

irresolute

jeremiad
grouse (long and mournful)

insipid (Lacking taste or

flavor or tang)
insouciant levity
(attitude) lax (seriousness) desultory
languor lassitude
languid (depressed) (depressed) pine

prattle (Speak (about

unimportant matters) jabber (Rapid and
rapidly and incessantly) indistinct speech)

magniloquent rant rhapsodize inflated

skimp tightwad

wanton salacious voluptuous

victuals
reproach
(mild) flak

staid stolid stygian(hellish) murky insipid vapid

equivocate waffle (waver) confound

poseur façade ersatz

pesky (CAUSING snit (STATE of
exasperate irksome irritation, NOT irritable) ruffle irritation)

coax (use gentle

flattery)

froward
contumacious (disobedient), NOT
mutinous (unruly) untoward

slur discredit
gauche (Lacking
social polish) maraud (?)
inscrutable

prissy
(excessively
fastidious) straight-laced
 ramble (in
dabble discursive digress walking) feckless

yen

bloated orotund fustian

disconsolate dolorous dour funereal humdrum lackluster mawkish
morbid plaintive lugubrious forlorn
S.No Words
1 bedizen denizen
2 brusque burlesque baroque
3 cession cessation
carnage (excessive killing
4 of people) carnal cardinal
5 chaff chaffing chafe
6 alacrity celerity
7 clique cliché
8 cohorts exhort
9 coerce coalesce
10 concert consort concoct
11 condign consign condone
connive (Encourage or
assent to illegally or
12 contrite contrived criminally)
13 cognate cogitate
14 amble (leisure pace) ample
tenuous (Having little
15 strenuous substance or significance)

16 pusillanimous parsimonious pertinacious

cadge (Ask for and get free; be
17 badger a parasite)
18 carillon carrion (rotten flesh) clarion (shrill tone)
19 baulk (balk) caulk
clamber (An awkward
20 clangor clamor climb)
comity (mutual civility and
21 amity (cordiality) respect)
22 deprive deprave
23 brazen cozen craven
24 avid livid (ash-colored, enraged) vivid
25 cadence decadence (of decay)
26 coy decoy
27 demur demure immure (confine)
28 implore deplore (repent, diaparage)
29 retract detract infract
30 debilitate decrepitude dilapidated
31 din (strident noise) dint (means)
32 comport disport
33 docile domicile facile
34 crone drone
35 apothecary chicanery drudgery
36 dwindle swindle
effrontery (shameless
37 boldness) affront
amend/emend (make
38 changes/corrections to) edify (instruct/enlighten)
 errant (Uncontrolled
motion that is irregular or
39 unpredictable) escapade evanescent

40 convoke (call together) evoke (call forth) revoke

41 checkered exchequer

42 callow fallow hallow

43 facetious factitious fallacious

44 pester foster fester (generate pus)

fetid (Offensively rancid (Smelling of

45 malodorous) fermentation or staleness) tepid
fresco (Paint onto wet plaster
46 fiasco on a wall) fracas

47 flabby shabby mangy

48 conflagration flagrant
49 flaunt flout

50 fray foray defray

51 gaunt taunt
52 cower glower
53 demean demeanor
depose (dethrone; Make a repose (A disposition free
deposition; declare under from stress or emotion.; lie
54 oath) deposition when dead)
55 insane inane
56 dissidence diffidence

57 deprecate (belittle) depredation desecrate (violate sanctity)

58 despot despondent
59 dint stint
60 dilate dilatory
61 extant distant
disaffected (discontented,
62 disloyal) disinterested
63 emollient ebullient exorbitant
64 commandeer domineer (autocratic power)
equable (Not varying; equanimity (Steadiness of
65 calm) equitable (fairness) mind under stress)

66 exalt/extol (praise, glorify) exult (To express great joy)

 exegesis (An explanation
or critical interpretation
67 expletive (interjection) explicate (especially of the Bible))
effete (lacking vigor; worn
68 out) fete
69 filch flinch
70 ferret fetter fret
71 feckless fleck (maculation, spot) speckless
gait (A person's manner of
72 bait walking)
73 filibuster gerrymander
74 germane germinal
gentility (Elegance by virtue of
fineness of manner and
75 geniality expression)
76 goad gloat gaudy
77 gratify gratis
hackles (A feeling of anger
78 and animosity) shackles heckler

grovel (Show submission growl (To utter or emit low dull

79 or fear) rumbling sounds) hovel (wretched house)
80 carping (petty criticism) harping (belabor)
faze (Disturb the
81 composure of) hazy raze
82 bolster holster
83 hegemony hedonism
cue (A stimulus that
provides information about
84 hew hue what to do)
85 improvident imprudent
86 deify indemnify
87 diligence indigence
88 indigenous ingenuous ingenious
89 ineffable (unutterable) ineluctable
90 inexorable execrable
ingrate (A person who shows
91 grate no gratitude) ingratiate
92 impuissance insouciant
interdict (command
93 against) interject
interpolate (Insert words into
texts, often falsifying it
94 extrapolate thereby)
95 desolate irresolute
96 conjecture juncture
97 haggard laggard
leery (cautious; unwilling
98 to confide) eerie
99 incite indite (write) indict
100 loath loathe
101 ludicrous lugubrious salubrious

102 cull lull loll (Be lazy or idle)

lacerate (Irregularly
slashed and jagged as if
103 torn) macerate
104 debacle shackle/manacle
105 gawk mawkish
106 mettle meddle nettle
107 mirth girth
108 morbid mordant moribund

109 appall gall palliate

musty (Stale and unclean
110 murky smelling) musky
111 gratuity gratuitous
112 impenitent impertinent
113 infidel (unbeliever) infernal
114 lassitude latitude
libido ((psychoanalysis) A
Freudian term for sexual urge limbo (place between
115 libidinous or desire) heaven and hell).
116 lout (stupid) clout
levity (Lightness of
117 manner) brevity
118 list listless
119 lineage (descendants) lineaments (features)
doughty
120 dough (resolute and without fear)
121 lucrative ludicrous
122 mercurial meretricious
123 mollify mortify
wreath (Flower arrangement wraith (A mental
consisting of a circular band representation of some
of foliage or flowers for haunting experience;
124 wrath ornamental purposes) specter)
125 denounce renounce
126 nemesis genesis exegesis
127 reprise reprisal (retaliation) apprise
128 queasy squeamish
129 obloquy obsequious obsequy
130 oblivion obsidian
131 niggle wiggle (move to and fro)
132 occlude occult

overwrought (Deeply agitated

133 fraught especially from emotion)
134 palpable palatable placable
135 passe impasse
 pecuniary (Relating to or
136 involving money) parsimonious penury
137 penance pedant
pastiche (A work of art that
imitates the style of some
138 previous work) panache
139 pedant pendant penchant
140 peremptory perfunctory preempt
141 perjury pejorative (disapproval) perfidy
piquant (Engagingly
142 pique stimulating or provocative)
143 yoke yokel
pretentious (Of a display that
144 pretend is tawdry or vulgar)
progeny (immediate
145 primogeniture progenitor (ancestor) descendants)
ponderous (Labored and
146 preponderance imponderable dull)
philistine (A person who is
uninterested in intellectual
147 pristine pursuits)
sundry (haphazard
148 gentry (nobility) paltry assortment)
149 promontory premonitory
150 savor valor
151 sanguine consanguinity sanguinary
propitiate (make peace propitious (Presenting
152 with) favorable circumstances) propinquity
impound (confiscate, propound (put forth for
153 seize) analysis) expound (elaborate)
154 odium podium
155 parody prosody threnody (dirge)
156 flail quail

157 rumble (Make a low noise) ramble shambles

imbecility (weakness of
158 febrile puerile mind)
159 poseur raconteur saboteur
160 impugn repugnance
161 ravage rave ravenous
162 retrograde reprobate
163 cant recant decant
careen (Walk as if unable
to control one's
164 movements) tureen
strew (Spread by
165 scattering) slew (large number)
166 tantamount commensurate

doldrums (A state of inactivity

167 tantrum (in business or art etc)) conundrum
168 capitulate recapitulate
169 indolent redolent insolent
170 rend render rendition

171 relegate renegade (turncoat, apostate) renege (back out)

172 deplete replete
reprehensible (deserving
173 apprehensive blame)
174 restitution destitution
175 extort retort
176 detraction retraction
resile (what a resilient revile (Spread negative
177 object does) information about) rife

178 ruffle muffle waffle (hesitate, waver)

179 rubric runic
180 salacious salubrious
181 sacrosanct sanctimonious sacrilegious
satyr (Man with strong sexual
182 satire desires) martyr
183 harry parry scurry
184 simper (affected smile) scamper
185 serenity serendipity
shabby (showing signs of
186 shoddy (tawdry) wear and tear)
187 sartorial sibylline (oracular)
188 smirk (simper) shirk quirk
189 epicure sinecure
slouch (Assume a
drooping posture or
190 slough dough carriage)
191 snivel drivel shrivel (wither)
192 slovenly sodden
solicitous (Full of anxiety and
193 solemnity (gravity) concern) solicit
194 sophomore soporific
195 spawn fawn
196 splice slice
197 spry preen
198 quibble squabble
199 spat squat (short and thick)
legato (antonymous to
200 regatta staccato staccato)

stalwart (dependable, having

201 bulwark rugged physical strength)
snicker (A disrespectful
202 laugh) stickler stifler
stipple/dapple (color with
203 stifle blotches)
204 squalid stolid staid
205 stultify stupefy
206 sublime subliminal
207 subterfuge subversive discomfiture
208 pander paltry
suborn (Incite to commit a
209 crime or an evil deed) supine
210 supple (lithe) supplant suppliant
211 burly surly sully
212 syllogism solecism (tactless act)
213 synoptic synaptic
214 taunt taint (contaminate) tout
215 stifle trifle
216 temporal temperate
217 tendentious sententious
218 timorous temerity
219 tipple stipple
220 tether tithe
snicker (disrespectful
221 laugh) titter (Laugh nervously)
222 toady gaudy goad
223 tutelary titular
224 brindled unbridled
225 opulence (sumptuous) corpulence
226 noisy noisome
oratorio (A musical
composition for voices and
orchestra based on a
227 oratory ovation religious text)
228 parochial parody
229 ordeal ordain
230 perquisite exquisite (intense, sharp) inquisitive
231 pertinacious pertinent

plaintiff (A person who brings

232 plaintive an action in a court of law)
233 precarious prevaricate precocious
platonic (Free from
234 physical desire) platitude
presentiment (A feeling of evil
235 predilection to come)
236 pulverize galvanize
237 tenacious (stubborn) tenable (untenable) tenuous
238 veer veneer
239 venal venial vernal
240 gambol gambit gamut
241 hilarity frivolity
242 taint quaint

incumbent (lying or recumbent (lying down, in

243 leaning on something else) rest)

244 vindicate (show to be right) vindictive vitiate

 virile (Characteristic of a
245 man) virulent
246 vital vitiate
247 versatile volatile
bovine (cow like, dull and
248 ursine (bear like) vulpine (fox like) slow-moving)
tenement (A rundown
apartment house barely
249 tenet meeting minimal standards)
swelter (Suffer from
250 intense heat) welt welter
251 whinny whining
252 leeway waylay
253 whirlpool whorl
254 slither (slip) wither
255 wangle (falsify) wrangle spangle
256 yesman yeoman
257 apotheosis apostate apostle
sedition (inciting
258 perdition rendition resistance)

259 repent (regret) repine pine

relegate (delegate to a lower
260 delegate position)
261 remiss remission
262 regime regimen
263 dabble dapple dapper (smart dressing)
264 canny uncanny
265 harbinger malingerer philanderer
266 sacrilegious sacred surreptitious
267 rote dote
sardonic (Disdainfully or
ironically humorous;
268 platonic histrionic scornful and mocking)
269 ruse muse
270 covert overt
271 decorum quorum
dainty (Of delicate
272 composition and artistry) tainted
273 defunct perfunctory
274 dross drab crass
275 enjoin rejoinder
276 ensue endue

277 entreat (request earnestly) endear (make loveable)

elucidate (explain, rid
278 enunciate (state clearly) confusion) elicit (deduce, evoke)
279 ephemeral ethereal
280 eulogistic eugenic
281 smug snub
282 fetter fester
283 forbearence forebears
284 frolicsome (sportive) frivolous
285 gait gaiety (of gay) laity
286 guffaw gaffe
287 elysian halcyon
288 incur incursion
interloper (Someone who
intrudes on the privacy or
property of another
289 without permission) elope
jab (Poke or thrust
290 abruptly) jabber
291 cloister boisterous
292 wanton wont/unwonted vaunted
gnome (pithy statement,
293 dwarf) gnaw (bite, chew)
abscess (Symptom
consisting of a localized
collection of pus
surrounded by inflamed
294 tissue) abscise
295 apposite apposition (side by side)
apprehensible (capable of
296 apprehensive being understood)
297 assiduous acidulous
298 discreet (prudence) discrete
snarl (angry growl, make more
complicated by
299 snare entanglements)
300 inexorable exonerate
301 sextant extant
302 surfeit counterfeit forfeit
303 castigate castrate
304 sardonic saturnine
305 secession recess (adjourn, pause) precession
306 roster rostrum
307 obstinate obdurate (stony, persistent)
308 privation privy
309 sinewy sinuous
310 supplicate implicate (imply, incriminate) explicate
311 babble bauble
312 palette pallet palate

entail (imply, Limit the

inheritance of property to a
313 specific class of heirs) entice

314 coda (conclusion) aria (operatic solo) libretto (text)

315 dolt molt dote
316 crabbed drab
317 eclectic eclesiastic (chruch related)
318 upbraid (reproach) braid
319 slight sleight (adroitness) plight
mumble (talk indistinctly, gabble (rapid and
320 in a low voice) prate (rapid and indistinct) indistinct)
321 tribulation tribunal
322 unwitting uncanny
323 fortuitous gratuitous
324 vitreous (of glass) vitriolic (harsh, corrosive)
exhaustive exhausting
325 (thorough) (tiring)
326 wane wan
yeoman (In former times
was free and cultivated his
327 own land) yesman
328 yen yore
329 wean glean
330 chasm chassis
331 sap sop (saturate)
fustian (n) (pompous
332 fusty (adj) (old-fashioned) talk/writing)
333 rife strife
334 erudite esoteric
335 impassioned impassive dispassion
336 ardor arduous
337 precipitate precipitous precipice
evangelical (ardent
338 enthusiasm) angelic
339 adore adorn
340 wither dither (be agitated)
skunk (contemptible
341 person) spunk (mettle, nerve)
342 chicanery chivalry
343 hyperbole hypercritical

344 rail raillery (Light teasing repartee)

345 cloister cloistered
disaffected (disloyal,
346 affected (sham) malcontent)
authoritative authoritarian
347 (established authority) (tyrannical, overbearing)
bigotry
348 (stubborn intolerance) tyranny (autocratic)
flounder (awkward, walk with
349 founder difficulty)
palter (be deliberately
350 ambiguous) paltry
bondage
(The state of being under the
351 bond (strong relationship) control of another person.)
disaffect (arouse hostility or
352 disaffected indifference)
353 slack (slake) slake (slack)
354 dodgy stodgy
355 presumptuous preposterous
356 reproach rapproachement
357 pandemonium compendium
358 pathos ethos
359 bluff ruffian
360 proscribe ostracize
361 fumble (handle clumsily) mumble
entrench (fix firmly; trenchant
362 infringe) retrench (economize) (cutting, sarcastic)
363
364
365
366
367
368
gaffe

deign feign

condone

punctilious (Marked by
precise accordance with
details) pugnacious

lumber (Move heavily or

clumsily) limber linger

fervid

inure

intractable
ephemeral erratic (fickle, wandering) arrant (absolute)
provoke (Provide the
needed stimulus for;
Annoy continually or
chronically) invoke

wallow (welter, roll around) sallow (unhealthy looking)

farce fastidious fatuous

fluster (Cause to be
nervous or upset) muster (gather)

insipid intrepid limpid

dingy (Depressing in
character or appearance;
Thickly covered with
ingrained dirt or soot) dinghy muggy (humid)

forage (The act of

searching for food and
defrock provisions) flay (strip off skin; plunder)

exuberant (ebullient)

iniquity (Morally
objectionable behavior)
 expostulation
expository (remonstrance)

reckless

haggle
gavel (A small
mallet/hammer used by a
presiding officer or a
judge)

rueful
mull (Reflect deeply on a
subject)

pall (Cause to become flat)

writhe (twisting motion)

petulant

pernicious pertinacious

quandary

rhapsody

accoutre coiffure

raze

humdrum
rile (annoy by minor
irritations) rail roil
snuffle (whine with
scuffle (struggle) snuffing)

tarry (dawdle)
supplicate

taut
feline (cat like) supine cauline (of leaves)

resent (feel bitter or

indignant about)

sanctimonious

laconic

dregs
tempo (speed) timbre (quality) legato
prattle (rapid and blabber (rapid and
indistinct) indistinct)

precipitation
fractious (Easily irritated or
annoyed; Stubbornly
resistant to authority or
control) factious impetuous (violent)

torpid (Slow and apathetic) lurid (Ghastly pale) putrid

flail
cantata (oratorio) canto (division of a poem)
 pallid (Lacking in vitality or sordid (Morally
lucid pellucid interest or effectiveness) degraded)
turgid (distended,
Ostentatiously lofty in
style) tumid viscid
turpitude
S.No Word Meaning Antonym

Make secure underneath.;

1 Undergird Lend moral support to. Undermine
2 aver deny
3 effrontery deference, shyness
4 chimerical fantastic, unreal prosaic
5 bevy large group clique
Lacking even the rudiments of
6 recreant courage; abjectly fearful. gallant
A controversy (especially over
7 polemic a belief or dogma). aggreement
8 turgid flaccid
9 livid purplish
10 unsullied tarnished
11 opprobrious commendatory
12 sallow ruddy
13 deft inept
14 quixotic pragmatic
15 gambol plod
16 defendant plaintiff
17 ephemeral persistent
Having utility often to the
18 utilitarian exclusion of values. artistic

19 viscid slick
20 convivial unsociable
21 jocose morose
22 euphoria discomfort
23 impolitic advisable
24 asset liability
25 factitious spontaneous
26 ensemble solo
27 blasé ardent
28 salubrious miasmic
29 proximate distant
30 obstreperous quiet
31 turgid flaccid
32 ossify transcend conventions
33 evasive frank
34 pillory venerate
35 quell foment
Your friends and
36 kith acquaintances. strangers
37 obligatory optional
38 gourmet epicurean glutton (gourmand)
39 sardonic sincere
40 arrant consummate partial
41 antithesis similarity
42 haggard plump
43 verdant faded
44 notorious angelic
45 avid loath

firmly grounded (for the

46 precarious meaning - unstable)
47 ethereal light, insubstantial; heavenly tangible
Ask for and get free; be a
48 cadge parasite. earn
49 supine vigilant
50 scurvy above reproach
51 goad curb

52 diabolical seraphic
53 phlegmatic effusive

54 tractable froward

55 decant slosh out

A special way of doing
56 bent (n) something. ineptitude
57 flinch extol? - doubtful
58 convoke adjourn
59 acquit convict
60 opportune awkward
61 acarpous producing no fruit fecund
62 sagacious stupid
63 cupidity altruism
64 vapid spirited
65 blithe grave
66 palatial humble
67 fatuous sensible
68 flamboyant restrained
69 tenuous substantial
when it means - Cool and
70 reticent formal in manner. brazen
71 parry discuss
72 paltry significant
73 relish dislike
74 lumber glide
75 gauche tactful
When it means - Take as a
given; assume as a
76 postulate postulate or axiom. verify
77 complaisance churlishness
78 cogent fatuous
79 incredulity gullibility
80 ethical/moral expedient
 81 chicanery aboveboard action
82 mince Make less severe or harsh. stride
83 flippant earnest
suddenly increase
84 amortize Liquidate gradually. one's indebtedness.
85 philistine aesthete

86 acerbity mellowness
87 mannered natural
88 revere profane
89 consider table
When it means - Of great
gravity or crucial import;
90 grievous requiring serious thought. slight

91 palliate exacerbate

92 diffident brassy
infrequently visited
93 purlieu place
94 absolute qualified
95 cosseted unspoiled
To strive with determination.;
96 buck to resist assent to
97 Real tests 19
98 bristle cower
99 abjure affirm
100 aggrandize disparage
101 vigilant oblivious
Giving and careful attention to
detail; hard to please;
excessively concerned with
102 fastidious cleanliness. coarse
103 tractable incorrigible
104 rescission enactment
105 Reciprocating moving unidirectionally
106 factional disinterested
107 facetious earnest

108 bungle bring off

109 apposite extraneous
110 Big Book tests (starting from test 10)
111 pique mollify
112 verisimilar implausible

113 teetotalism intemperance

114 exact forgive
115 clinch Settle conclusively. make more doubtful
116 rave pan
117 forestall precipitate
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
 Not an antonym/
Meaning Not the best antonym
Hollow out as if making a cave
or opening;
Destroy property or hinder
normal operations.
refuse

small group

Unflinching in battle or action.

eternal?

Having a smooth, gleaming

surface.

Showing a brooding ill humor.

appropriate

correct

demanding
 protagonist

flustered

Having a sweet nature befitting

an angel or cherub.

Habitually disposed to
disobedience and opposition.
Spill or splash copiously or
clumsily.

nonchalance
advance
eradicate
sentence

irrational
hate
premeditated
dim
disordered
terrible
old-fashioned
obdurate

thrust
myriad
avoid

fashionable

reject

belief, conviction
 Without concealment or
deception; honest. honest opinion

sane

The property of a sound that

has a rich and pleasing timbre. comfort
ignorant
disgrace
postpone deter

sparkling
Treat cruelly; hinder
irritate frustrate or prevent
Unrestrained by convention or
propriety.

immeasurable

al tests 19
coerce
insist, pronounce
shun the company of
ignorant

willing
insatiable
stimulation
accepting provisionally
undistinguished
forbearing
v. Be successful; achieve a
goal. pull through
vicarious
(starting from test 10)
dissuade
digressing, unusual
n. Consumption of alcoholic
drinks.; Immoderate
indulgence of bodily appetites.;
The quality of being
intemperate. proclivity, liberalism
deny
loose sight of
snub, flak
prolong
abbess n. The lady superior of a nunnery.
abbey n. The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
abbot n. The superior of a community of monks.
abed adv. In bed; on a bed.
aboveboard adv. & adj. Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
abscess n. A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
accordion n. A portable free-reed (string) musical instrument.
accouter v. To dress.
accursed adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
Achillean adj. Invulnerable.
actionable adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
actuary n. An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
ado n. unnecessary activity or ceremony; A rapid bustling commotion.
adoration n. Profound devotion.
adumbrate v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem; insinuate
aerostat n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
affectation n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
afire adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
afoot adv. In progress.
aforesaid adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
afresh adv. Once more, after rest or interval.
afterthought n. A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
aggress v. To make the first attack.
aide-de-camp n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
airy adj. Delicate, ethereal
akin adj. Of similar nature or qualities.
alabaster n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
albino n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
alder n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
alderman n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
alluvion n. Flood.
altar n. Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
alto n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
amatory adj. Designed to excite love.
ambrosial adj. Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
amour n. A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
anemometer n. An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
anew adv. Once more.
Anglo-Saxon n. The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
anhydrous adj. Withered.
ante v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
antechamber n. A waiting room for those who seek audience;A large entrance or reception room or area.
antedate v. To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
antemundane adj. Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
antenatal adj. Occurring or existing before birth.
anterior adj. Prior.
anteroom n. A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
anthology n. A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
anthracite n. Hard coal.
antic n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
antilogy n. Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
antipathize v. To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
antiphon n. A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
antiphony n. An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
antipodes n. A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
antiquary n. One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
antiquate v. To make old or out of date.
antique adj. Pertaining to ancient times.
antistrophe n. The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
apogee n. The climax.
apostle n. Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
appellate adj. Capable of being appealed to.
appertain v. To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
apposition n. The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
apprehensible adj. Capable of being conceived.
aqueduct n. A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
arbor n. A tree.
arboreal adj. Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
arborescent adj. Having the nature of a tree.
archangel n. An angel of high rank.
archbishop n. The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
archdeacon n. A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
arrant adj. Notoriously bad.
arrogate v. To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
Artesian well n. A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
ascension n. The act of rising.
assignee n. One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
assonance n. Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
assonant adj. Having resemblance of sound.
assonate v. To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
athirst adj. Wanting water.
athwart adv. From side to side.
atomizer n. An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
attache n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
auburn adj. Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
audacious adj. Fearless.
audible adj. Loud enough to be heard.
audition n. The act or sensation of hearing.
aural adj. Of or pertaining to the ear.
auricle n. One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
auricular adj. Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
auriferous adj. Containing gold.
autarchy n. Unrestricted power.
autocracy n. Absolute government.
autocrat n. Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
avocation n. Diversion.
aye adv. An expression of assent.
azalea n. A flowering shrub.
azure n. The color of the sky.
Baconian adj. Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
bailiff n. An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
baize n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
bale n. A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
ballad n. Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
balsam n. A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
barcarole n. A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
barograph n. An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
barometer n. An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
barring prep. Apart from.
baritone adj. Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
baste v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
baton n. An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
battalion n. A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
batten n. A narrow strip of wood.
batter n. A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
bawl v. To proclaim by outcry.
beau n. An escort or lover.
becalm v. To make quiet.
beck v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
bedaub v. To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
bedeck v. To cover with ornament.
bedlam n. Madhouse.
befog v. To confuse.
begrudge v. To envy one of the possession of.
belate v. To delay past the proper hour.
belay v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
belie v. To misrepresent.
belle n. A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
benefice n. A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
bereave v. To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
berth n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
besmear v. To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
bestial adj. Animal.
bestrew v. To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
bestride v. To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
bethink v. To remind oneself.
betide v. To happen to or befall.
betimes adv. In good season or time.
bevel n. Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
bewilder v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
bibliomania n. The passion for collecting books.
bibliography n. A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
bibliophile n. One who loves books.
bibulous adj. Fond of drinking.
bide v. To await.
biennial n. A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
bier n. A horizontal framework with two handles at eac
bight n. A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
biped n. An animal having two feet.
blase adj. Sated with pleasure.
blaspheme v. To indulge in profane oaths.
blazon v. To make widely or generally known.
blemish n. A mark that mars beauty.
blithesome adj. Cheerful.
blockade n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
boatswain n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
bodice n. A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
bole n. The trunk or body of a tree.
bolero n. A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
boll n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
borough n. An incorporated village or town.
bosom n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
Bowdlerize v. To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
brae n. Hillside.
bray n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
braze v. To make of or ornament with brass.
brazier n. An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
breach n. The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
breaker n. One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
breech n. The buttocks.
brethren n. pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
brevity n. Shortness of duration.
bric-a-brac n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
bridle n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
brigade n. A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
brigadier n. General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
brigand n. One who lives by robbery and plunder.
brimstone n. Sulfur.
brine n. Water saturated with salt.
brogan n. A coarse, heavy shoe.
brogue n. Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
brooch n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
browbeat v. To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
bulbous adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
bullock n. An ox.
bulrush n. Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
bumper n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
bumptious adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
burgess n. In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
burgher n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
burnish v. To make brilliant or shining.
bursar n. A treasurer.
bustle v. To hurry.
butt v. To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
butte n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
cadenza n. An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
caitiff adj. Cowardly.
calculus n. A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
callosity n. The state of being hard and insensible.
Calvary n. The place where Christ was crucified.
Calvinism n. The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
Calvinize v. To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
came n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
Canaanite n. A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
canary adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow.
canon n. Any rule or law.
cant v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
cantonment n. The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
carouse v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
cartilage n. An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
cartridge n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
cession n. Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
chancery n. A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
chasm n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
chateau n. A castle or manor-house.
chattel n. Any article of personal property.
chiffon n. A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
chivalry n. The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
choral adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
cipher v. To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
claimant n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
clan n. A tribe.
close-hauled adj. Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
clothier n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
coalescence n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
coalition n. Combination in a body or mass.
collier n. One who works in a coal-mine.
colloquy n. Conversation.
commingle v. To blend.
commissariat n. The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
complaisance n. Politeness.
complaisant adj. Agreeable.
concussion n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
condescend v. To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
conduce v. To bring about.
confectionery n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
confederacy n. A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
confederate n. One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
confessor n. A spiritual advisor.
conformance n. The act or state or conforming.
conformable adj. Harmonious.
conformation n. General structure, form, or outline.
conformity n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
conjugate adj. Joined together in pairs.
conjugation n. The state or condition of being joined together.
consul n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
consumptive adj. Designed for gradual destruction.
contraposition n. A placing opposite.
contuse v. To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
convolve v. To move with a circling or winding motion.
convoy n. A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
coronet n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
cosmogony n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
countervail v. To offset.
counting-house n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
countryman n. A rustic.
courser n. A fleet and spirited horse.
covenant n. An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
covey n. A flock of quails or partridges.
coxswain n. One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
crag n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
cranium n. The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
creak n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
creamery n. A butter-making establishment.
crevasse n. A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
crockery n. Earthenware made from baked clay.
crucible n. A trying and purifying test or agency.
crusade n. Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
crustacean adj. Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
crustaceous adj. Having a crust-like shell.
cudgel n. A short thick stick used as a club.
curio n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
curt adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
curtail v. To cut off or cut short.
curtsy n. A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
cycloid adj. Like a circle.
cygnet n. A young swan.
darkling adv. Blindly.
dastard n. A base coward.
datum n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
day-man n. A day-laborer.
dead-heat n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
decalogue n. The ten commandments.
Decameron n. A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
decamp v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
decapitate v. To behead.
decapod adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
decasyllable n. A line of ten syllables.
declamation n. A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
declamatory adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
declension n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
defalcate v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
deist n. One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
delectable adj. Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
delectation n. Delight.
deliquesce v. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
delirious adj. Raving.
demulcent n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
demurrage n. the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
dendroid adj. Like a tree.
dendrology n. The natural history of trees.
denominate v. To give a name or epithet to.
denomination n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
dentifrice n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
deponent adj. Laying down.
depopulate v. To remove the inhabitants from.
deport v. To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
deportment n. Demeanor.
derrick n. An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
desist v. To cease from action.
desistance n. Cessation.
despond v. To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
detrude v. To push down forcibly.
deviate v. To take a different course.
devilry n. Malicious mischief.
deviltry n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
diacritical adj. Marking a difference.
dialectician n. A logician.
dictum n. A positive utterance.
digraph n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
diphthong n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
discountenance v. To look upon with disfavor.
discreet adj. Judicious.
discrepant adj. Opposite.
disfavor n. Disregard.
disfigure v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
dishabille n. Undress or negligent attire.
disillusion v. To disenchant.
dispensation n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
disreputable adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful.
disrepute n. A bad name or character.
disrobe v. To unclothe.
dissentient n. One who disagrees.
dissentious adj. Contentious.
disservice n. An ill turn.
dissever v. To divide.
distemper n. A disease or malady.
distensible adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
distention n. Expansion.
distrain v. To subject a person to distress.
distrainor n. One who subjects a person to distress.
divagation n. Digression.
doe n. The female of the deer.
dolor n. Lamentation.
drachma n. A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
dragnet n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
dragoon n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
dun v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
durance n. Confinement.
duteous adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
dutiable adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
dyne n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
edict n. That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action.
effulgence n. Splendor.
emblazon v. To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
embolism n. An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel.
emeritus adj. Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position.
enlist v. To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment.
ennoble v. To dignify.
enshrine v. To keep sacred.
ensnare v. To entrap.
entail v. To involve; necessitate.
entrails n. pl. The internal parts of an animal.
entreaty n. An earnest request.
entwine v. To interweave.
epicycle n. A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
epicycloid n. A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle.
epiphany n. Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
epizootic adj. Prevailing among animals.
epode n. A species of lyric poems.
espy v. To keep close watch.
esquire n. A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
evanesce v. To vanish gradually.
evangelical adj. Seeking the conversion of sinners.
evangelist n. A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
evert v. To turn inside out.
evict v. To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
excrescence n. Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
excruciate v. To inflict severe pain or agony upon.
excursion n. A journey.
expectorate v. To cough up and spit forth.
exposition n. Formal presentation.
expository adj. Pertaining to a formal presentation.
extensor n. A muscle that causes extension.
extenuate v. To diminish the gravity or importance of.
fabulous adj. Incredible.
famish v. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
fancier n. One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
faun n. One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
fawn n. A young deer.
fealty n. Loyalty.
fernery n. A place in which ferns are grown.
festal adj. Joyous.
fez n. A brimless felt (A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers.) cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usu
fiducial adj. Indicative of faith or trust.
fief n. A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
finery n. That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
fishmonger n. One who sells fish.
flatulence n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
flection n. The act of bending.
flue n. A smoke-duct in a chimney.
folio n. A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
folk-lore n. The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
fondle v. To handle tenderly and lovingly.
foolery n. Folly.
foot-note n. A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
foppery n. Dandyism.
forby adv. Besides.
forecourt n. A court opening directly from the street.
forejudge v. To judge of before hearing evidence.
forepeak n. The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
foreshore n. That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
forecastle n. That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
foreclose v. To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property.
foreman n. The head man.
foreordain v. To predetermine.
foreordination n. Predestination.
forerun v. To go before as introducing or ushering in.
foresail n. A square sail.
forfeit v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
forfend v. To ward off.
frankincense n. A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
fray v. To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
freemason n. A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
freethinker n. One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
free trade n. Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
frizz v. To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
frizzle v. To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
frowzy adj. Slovenly in appearance.
fugacious adj. Fleeting.
fumigate v. To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection.
fungible adj. That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
fungous adj. Spongy.
furlong n. A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
furlough n. A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
furrier n. A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
fusible adj. Capable of being melted by heat.
gaily adv. Merrily.
gait n. Carriage of the body in going.
gallant adj. Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
galore adj. Abundant.
gamester n. A gambler.
garrison n. The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
garrote v. To execute by strangling.
gendarme n. In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
genealogist n. A tracer of pedigrees.
genitive adj. Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
gentile adj. Belonging to a people not Jewish.
gladden v. To make joyous.
glazier n. One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
globose adj. Spherical.
gnash v. To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
Gordian knot n. Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
gosling n. A young goose.
gossamer adj. Flimsy.
gourd n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
gradient adj. Moving or advancing by steps.
grapple v. To take hold of.
gratification n. Satisfaction.
grenadier n. A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
guinea n. An English monetary unit.
gumption n. Common sense.
guzzle v. To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
gyrate v. To revolve.
gyroscope n. An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.
hanger-on n. A parasite.
happy-go-lucky adj. Improvident.
hard-hearted adj. Lacking pity or sympathy.
hardihood n. Foolish daring.
hawthorn n. A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
head first adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
head foremost adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
heartrending adj. Very depressing.
heathenish adj. Irreligious.
heedless adj. Thoughtless.
heifer n. A young cow.
henchman n. A servile assistant and subordinate.
henpeck v. To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
hoarse adj. Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue.
homonym n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
honorarium n. A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
hoodwink v. To deceive.
horde n. A gathered multitude of human beings.
hosiery n. A stocking.
huckster n. One who retails small wares.
humbug n. Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
hussar n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
hydrometer n. An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
hypercritical adj. Faultfinding.
ichthyic adj. Fish-like.
ichthyosaurs n. A fossil reptile.
icily adv. Frigidly.
iciness n. The state of being icy.
Iliad n. A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
illiberal adj. Stingy.
imbrue v. To wet or moisten.
immiscible adj. Separating, as oil and water.
impassable adj. That can not be passed through or over.
impassible adj. Not moved or affected by feeling.
imperil v. To endanger.
imperious adj. Insisting on obedience.
impersonal adj. Not relating to a particular person or thing.
impersonate v. To appear or act in the character of.
impliable adj. Capable of being inferred.
implicate v. To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
importation n. The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
impregnable adj. That can not be taken by assault.
impulsion n. Impetus.
inbred adj. Innate.
incandescence n. The state of being white or glowing with heat.
incandescent adj. White or glowing with heat.
inchmeal adv. Piecemeal.
inconsequential adj. Valueless.
indicant adj. That which points out.
indiscreet adj. Lacking wise judgment.
indulgence n. The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
infirmary n. A place for the reception or treatment of the sick.
infuse v. To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
infusion n. The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
ingenuity n. Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
inglorious adj. Shameful.
ingraft v. To set or implant deeply and firmly.
inhospitable adj. Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously.
inhume v. To place in the earth, as a dead body.
injunction n. Mandate.
inlet n. A small body of water leading into a larger.
inmost adj. Deepest within.
inroad n. Forcible encroachment or trespass.
insentient adj. Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
intemperance n. Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites.
intension n. The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
intercede v. To mediate between persons.
intercession n. Entreaty in behalf of others.
intercessor n. A mediator.
interlude n. An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
intervale n. A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
intestacy n. The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
intestate adj. Not having made a valid will.
intramural adj. Situated within the walls of a city.
introgression n. Entrance.
intromit v. To insert.
involution n. Complication.
inwardly adv. With no outward manifestation.
irradiance n. Luster.
irradiate v. To render clear and intelligible.
irrefragable adj. That can not be refuted or disproved.
irrefrangible adj. That can not be broken or violated.
irrigant adj. Serving to water lands by artificial means.
irruption n. Sudden invasion.
isle n. An island.
islet n. A little island.
isobar n. A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
isochronous adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
Jingo n. One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
joggle n. A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
journalize v. To keep a diary.
judicature n. Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
juggle v. To play tricks of sleight of hand.
jugglery n. The art or practice of sleight of hand.
jugular adj. Pertaining to the throat.
juridical adj. Assumed by law to exist.
keepsake n. Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
kerchief n. A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
kernel n. A grain or seed.
kiln n. An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
kimono n. A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
kingling n. A petty king.
kingship n. Royal state.
kinsfolk n. pl. Relatives.
knight errant n. One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
knighthood n. Chivalry.
lacteal adj. Milky.
lactic adj. Pertaining to milk.
laddie n. A lad.
ladle n. A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
lassie n. A little lass (A girl or young woman who is unmarried).
latish adj. Rather late.
lattice n. Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
laundress n. Washerwoman.
laureate adj. Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
lave v. To wash or bathe.
lawgiver n. A legislator.
lawmaker n. A legislator.
lea n. A field.
leaflet n. A little leaf or a booklet.
leeward n. That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
legacy n. A bequest.
legging n. A covering for the leg.
legionary n. A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
leviathan n. Any large animal, as a whale.
licit adj. Lawful.
liege adj. Sovereign.
ligament n. That which binds objects together.
ligature n. Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
linear adj. Of the nature of a line.
liner n. A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
lingo n. Language.
lingua n. The tongue.
liquefacient adj. Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
liqueur n. An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
lithesome adj. Nimble.
lithograph n. A print made by printing from stone.
lithotype n. In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
litigant n. A party to a lawsuit.
litigate v. To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
litigious adj. Quarrelsome.
littoral adj. Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
liturgy n. A ritual.
locative adj. Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
loch n. A lake.
lodgment n. The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
lordling n. A little lord.
lough n. A lake or loch.
louse n. A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
lunacy n. Mental unsoundness.
lune n. The moon.
lyre n. One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
macadamize v. To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
macrocosm n. The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
madden v. To inflame with passion.
Madonna n. A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
magician n. A sorcerer.
maleficent adj. Mischievous.
mallet n. A wooden hammer.
maltreat v. To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
man-trap n. A place or structure dangerous to human life.
mane n. The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
manor n. The landed estate of a lord or nobleman.
mantel n. The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
mantle n. A cloak.
maroon v. To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
masquerade n. A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
matinee n. An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the dayt
mead n. A meadow.
medial adj. Of or pertaining to the middle.
medley n. A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
messieurs n. pl. Gentlemen.
metempsychosis n. Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
metonymy n. A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
metronome n. An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
mien n. The external appearance or manner of a person.
millet n. A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.
missal n. The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
miter n. The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
moat n. A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
mobocracy n. Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
moccasin n. A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
mongrel n. The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
monition n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
monograph n. A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
monomania n. The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
monsieur n. A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
monstrosity n. Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
mordacious adj. Biting or giving to biting.
mordant adj. Biting.
muffle v. To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
mulatto n. The offspring of a white person and a black person.
muleteer n. A mule-driver.
muster n. An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
Narcissus n. The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
navel n. The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
necrology n. A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
necropolis n. A city of the dead.
necrosis n. the death of part of the body.
nectarine n. A variety of the peach.
needlework n. Embroidery.
negligee n. A loose gown worn by women.
Nemesis n. A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
neocracy n. Government administered by new or untried persons.
neo-Darwinsim n. Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
neo-Latin n. Modernized Latin.
neopaganism n. A new or revived paganism (Any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
nestle v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
nestling adj. Recently hatched.
neuter adj. Neither masculine nor feminine.
nit n. The egg of a louse or some other insect.
nomic adj. Usual or customary.
nonpareil n. One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
nugatory adj. Having no power or force.
oaken adj. Made of or from oak.
oakum n. Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
oblong adj. Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
obvert v. To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
octave n. A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
octavo n. A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
octogenarian adj. A person of between eighty and ninety years.
officiate v. To act as an officer or leader.
onrush n. Onset.
onset n. An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification.
onslaught n. A violent onset.
operetta n. A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
oratorio n. A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
orthopedic adj. Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
orthopedist n. One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
osculate v. To kiss.
out-and-out adv. Genuinely.
outride v. To ride faster than.
outrigger n. A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
outright adv. Entirely.
overture n. An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
pagan n. A worshiper of false gods.
pageant n. A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
palate n. The roof of the mouth.
palinode n. A retraction.
palsy n. Paralysis.
paly adj. Lacking color or brilliancy.
panoply n. A full set of armor.
pantheism n. The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
Pantheon n. A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
pantomime n. Sign-language.
pantoscope n. A very wide-angled photographic lens.
papacy n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
parable n. A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
parentage n. The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
parish n. The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
paronymous adj. Derived from the same root or primitive word.
parricide n. The murder of a parent.
partisan adj. Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
passible adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
patrician adj. Of senatorial or noble rank.
patrimony n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
patronymic adj. Formed after one's father's name.
patter v. To mumble something over and over.
pauper n. One without means of support.
pauperism n. Dependence on charity.
pavilion n. An open structure for temporary shelter.
peccable adj. Capable of sinning.
peccant adj. Guilty.
pectoral adj. Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
peddle v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
pedestal n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
peerage n. The nobility.
penitential adj. Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
pennant n. A small flag.
pentameter n. In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
pentathlon n. The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
perambulate v. To walk about.
percipience n. The act of perceiving.
percipient n. One who or that which perceives.
percolate v. To filter.
percolator n. A filter.
peremptory adj. Precluding question or appeal.
persiflage n. Banter.
personage n. A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
pervert n. One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
peter v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
pharmacopoeia n. A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists
philharmonic adj. Fond of music.
phonogram n. A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
physiocracy n. The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
physiography n. Description of nature.
picayune adj. Of small value.
piccolo n. A small flute.
piecemeal adv. Gradually.
pincers n. An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
pinchers n. An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
planisphere n. A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
plenipotentiary n. A person fully empowered to transact any business.
pluperfect adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action (past perfect).
pneumatic adj. Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
poesy n. Poetry.
poetaster n. An inferior poet.
pommel v. To beat with something thick or bulky.
ponderous adj. Unusually weighty or forcible.
pontiff n. The Pope.
populace n. The common people.
portfolio n. A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
posit v. To present in an orderly manner.
posse n. A force of men.
posterior n. The hinder part.
postscript n. Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
precedential adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
precession n. The act of going forward.
preemption n. The right or act of purchasing before others.
preferment n. Preference.
prelacy n. A system of church government.
prelate n. One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
prepossession n. A preconceived liking.
presentment n. Semblance.
pretentious adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
prickle v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
priggish adj. Conceited.
priory n. A monastic house.
privateer n. A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
probate adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
probation n. Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
proctor n. An agent acting for another.
proffer v. To offer to another for acceptance.
promenade v. To walk for amusement or exercise.
promissory adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
protomartyr n. The earliest victim in any cause.
proviso n. A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
prudery n. An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
pseudapostle n. A pretended or false apostle (apostle=An ardent early supporter of a cause or reform).
pudgy adj. Small and fat.
pupilage n. The state or period of being a student.
purl v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
purloin v. To steal.
putrescent adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
pyx n. A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
quadrate v. To divide into quarters.
quartet n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
quarto n. An eight-page newspaper of any size.
quietus n. A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
quintet n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
racy adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
radix n. That from or on which something is developed.
raillery n. Good-humored satire.
ramose adj. Branch-like.
rancor n. Malice.
rapine n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
ration v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
readjust v. To put in order after disarrangement.
reck v. To have a care or thought for.
reconnoiter v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
recreant n. A cowardly or faithless person.
recrudescence n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
recure v. To cure again.
redound n. Rebound.
refractory adj. Not amenable to control.
refragable adj. Capable of being refuted.
refringency n. Power to refract.
regale v. To give unusual pleasure.
regalia n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
regent n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
regnant adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
regress v. To return to a former place or condition.
rein n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
reliquary n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
Renaissance n. The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
repertory n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
reprehend v. To find fault with.
reproof n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
requital n. Adequate return for good or ill.
reseat v. To place in position of office again.
resplendent adj. Very bright.
retch v. To make an effort to vomit.
retouch v. To modify the details of.
retrogression n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
riddance n. The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
rigmarole n. Nonsense.
ripplet n. A small ripple, as of water.
risible adj. capable of exciting laughter.
rondo n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
rookery n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
rotary adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
ruth n. Sorrow for another's misery.
sanguineous adj. Consisting of blood.
sapid adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
sapience n. Deep wisdom or knowledge.
sapient adj. Possessing wisdom.
sapiential adj. Possessing wisdom.
saponaceous adj. Having the nature or quality of soap.
sarcophagus n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
satyr n. A very lascivious person.
scythe n. A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
seance n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
sebaceous adj. Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
secant adj. Cutting, especially into two parts.
seer n. A prophet.
seignior n. A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
sensorium n. The sensory apparatus.
sentience n. Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
sentient adj. Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
sepulcher n. A burial-place.
sequacious adj. Ready to be led.
sequestrate v. To confiscate.
sergeant-at-arms n. An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
sergeant-major n. The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
sergeant n. A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
serviceable adj. Durable.
sextet n. A band of six singers or players.
sextuple adj. Multiplied by six.
sheer adj. Absolute.
shiftless adj. Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
shriek n. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
sibilance n. A hissing sound.
sibilant adj. Made with a hissing sound.
sibilate v. To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
sidelong adj. Inclining or tending to one side.
signification n. The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
singe v. To burn slightly or superficially.
sinus n. An opening or cavity.
siren n. A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
sirocco n. hot winds from Africa.
sisterhood n. A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
Sol n. The sun.
solicitor n. One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
solicitude n. Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
solstice n. The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
sonata n. An instrumental composition.
sonnet n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
soothsayer n. One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
soprano n. A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
sorcery n. Witchcraft.
Spartan adj. Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
specie n. A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
specter n. Apparition.
speculate v. To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
spinous adj. Having spines.
spinster n. A woman who has never been married.
sprightly adj. Vivacious.
stagy adj. Having a theatrical manner.
stallion n. An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
stanchion n. A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
stanza n. A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
statecraft n. The art of conducting state affairs.
statuesque adj. Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
statuette n. A figurine (A small carved or molded figure).
stature n. The natural height of an animal body.
statute n. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
steppe n. One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
sterling adj. Genuine.
stifle v. To smother.
stiletto n. A small dagger.
Stoicism n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
stolid adj. Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
stripling n. A mere youth.
stupendous adj. Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
stupor n. Profound lethargy.
suasion n. The act of persuading.
subacid adj. Somewhat sharp or biting.
subjacent adj. Situated directly underneath.
subjection n. The act of bringing into a state of submission.
subjugate v. To conquer.
subliminal adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
sublingual adj. Situated beneath the tongue.
suffrage n. The right or privilege of voting.
supplicant n. One who asks humbly and earnestly.
supramundane adj. Supernatural.
sustenance n. Food.
swarthy adj. Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
sylph n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
syndicate n. An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
syneresis n. The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
synod n. An ecclesiastical council.
tableau n. An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
tack n. A small sharp-pointed nail.
tact n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
tactician n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
tangency n. The state of touching.
tangent adj. Touching.
tantalize v. To tease.
tapestry n. A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
taut adj. Stretched tight.
taxidermy n. The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
technography n. The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
teem v. To be full to overflowing.
telltale adj. That gives warning or information.
temporal adj. Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
tenor n. A settled course or manner of progress.
tercentenary adj. Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
termagant adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
testament n. A will.
testator n. The maker of a will.
theocracy n. A government administered by ecclesiastics.
theocrasy n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
thereabout adv. Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
therefor adv. For that or this.
thoroughbred adj. Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
thoroughfare n. A public street or road.
thrall n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
tilth n. Cultivation.
timbre n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
tinge n. A faint trace of color.
tipsy adj. Befuddled (Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly) with drinks.
torpor n. Apathy.
tortious adj. Wrongful.
tortuous adj. Abounding (Be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities) in irregular bends or turns.
trammel n. An impediment.
transalpine adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
transfigure v. To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
transpire v. To come to pass.
trestle n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
triad n. A group of three persons of things.
tribune n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
trinity n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
trio n. Three things grouped or associated together.
triumvir n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
twinge n. A darting momentary local pain.
typify v. To serve as a characteristic example of.
typographical adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
tyro n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
ultramundane adj. Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
ultramontane adj. Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
umbrage n. A sense of injury.
underman v. To equip with less than the full complement of men.
underling n. A subordinate.
underrate v. To undervalue.
underwrite v. To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
undue adj. More than sufficient.
undulous adj. Resembling waves.
unguent n. Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
unisonant adj. Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
Unitarian adj. Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
unsettle v. To put into confusion.
unyoke v. To separate.
up-keep n. Maintenance.
upcast n. A throwing upward.
upheave v. To raise or lift with effort.
upturn v. To throw into confusion.
utilitarianism n. The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
vale n. Level or low land between hills.
variant n. A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
vassal n. A slave or bondman.
vaudeville n. A variety show.
vegetal adj. Of or pertaining to plants.
velvety adj. Marked by lightness and softness.
vendible adj. Marketable.
vendition n. The act of selling.
venereal adj. Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
venial adj. That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
vermin n. A noxious or troublesome animal.
vestment n. Clothing or covering.
veto n. The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
viceroy n. A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
vicissitude n. A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
vignette n. A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
vindicate v. To prove true, right, or real.
vindicatory adj. Punitive.
vindicative adj. Revengeful.
viol n. A stringed instrument of the violin class.
viola n. A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
violoncello n. A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
virago n. A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
virile adj. Masculine.
virtu n. Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
viscount n. In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
vista n. A view or prospect.
vituperable adj. Deserving of censure.
vocable n. a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
vocative adj. Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
vociferance n. The quality of making a clamor.
vociferate v. To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
volant adj. Flying or able to fly.
volitive adj. Exercising the will.
voluptuous adj. having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
votary adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise.
votive adj. Dedicated by a vow.
wampum n. Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
wane v. To diminish in size and brilliancy.
wantonness n. Recklessness.
wavelet n. A ripple.
weak-kneed adj. Without resolute purpose or energy.
weal n. Well-being.
wee adj. Very small.
well-bred adj. Of good ancestry.
well-doer n. A performer of moral and social duties.
whet v. To make more keen or eager.
wholly adv. Completely.
wile n. An act or a means of cunning deception.
wiry adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
witless adj. Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
witling n. A person who has little understanding.
witticism n. A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
wittingly adv. With knowledge and by design.
wrangle v. To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
wry adj. Deviating from that which is proper or right.
yearling n. A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
zeitgeist n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
zodiac n. An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
monks or nuns.

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 and singing.

major-general.

stern Palestine.
on, or product.

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ess than sovereign.

ondence, etc.
rew under an officer.
ning together the sounds.

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another circle.

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man is related.
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contestants.

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the presiding officer.
ess and failure.
historic development.

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eneficial tendency.

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S.No Word Meaning
An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's
1 easel canvas).
Any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly
2 trout smaller than typical salmons.
A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually
wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or
3 mallet for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing.
4 splinter A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal.
5 gander Mature male goose.
6 drake Adult male of a wild or domestic duck.
7 kennel Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog.
Headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to
give the rider or driver control.; Now think how the word
8 bridle "unbridled" was coined.
9 seamstress Someone who makes or mends dresses.
10 sneakers A canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole.
n. A stretch of shallow water.; A large group of fish.; A sandbank
11 shoal in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide.
12 antler Deciduous horn of a member of the deer family.
13 knapsack A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.
14 truancy Failure to attend (especially school).
A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive
15 shale layers of clay.
An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried
16 catacomb (as in ancient Rome).
Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster
17 aster with showy daisy-like flowers.
18 auger Hand tool for boring holes.
19 cygnet A young swan.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely
malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a
20 skunk separate subfamily Mephitinae.
21 muster A gathering of military personnel for duty.
A person who receives support and protection from an influential
22 protégé patron who furthers the protege's career.
23 aboveboard Without concealment or deception; honest.
A small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for
24 trowel scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials.
A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move
25 rake leaves or loosen soil.
A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for
26 aside others on the stage.
27 by-line A line giving the name of the writer of a story or article.
A short moral story (often with animal characters) - didatic in
28 fable nature.
Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and
29 elision the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
30 detritus up.
31 thaw Become or cause to become soft or liquid. Ex - The ice thawed.
32 corral A pen (An enclosure for confining livestock) for cattle.
A pen for swine (Stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals,
33 sty Ex- pig).
A leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout
(especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or
34 muzzle biting.
A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20
35 ream quires.
36 cord A unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet.
37 hobble The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.
A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine
(usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the
38 masthead publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
39 frazzle Wear away by rubbing. Syn - fray
An ordered reference standard. Ex - Judging on a scale of 1 to
40 scales 10.
Noun - Large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a
broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges.
41 beaver Verb - Work hard on something.
42 Fox Verb - Deceive somebody.
A young male horse under the age of four.
43 colt [ Colt ] A kind of revolver.
44 filly young female horse
45 gaggle A flock of geese.
46 lair The habitation of wild animals; den.
47 prairie A treeless grassy plain.

48 reflection A calm lengthy intent consideration. Antonym of being impulsive.

49 deadbeat Someone who fails to meet a financial obligation.
50 chortle A soft partly suppressed laugh. - Generally followed by a glee.
51 sneer Express through a scornful smile.
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal
52 glower disapproval.
53 moonshiner Someone who makes or sells illegal liquor.
54 epigram A witty saying.
55 school A large group of fish.
56 ewe female sheep
57 ram male sheep
trudge,
58 plod Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
59 drey The nest of a squirrel.
60 vomitory An entrance to an amphitheater or stadium.
61 limp The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg.
62 rubescent red
63 cerulean A light shade of blue.
64 mare Female equine animal.
A measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice
65 proof the percentage of alcohol present (by volume).
66 bolt A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length.
 67 sound Financially secure and safe.
68 impanel Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
69 bystander A nonparticipant spectator.
Holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion
70 last or repair shoes.
Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around
71 cuff the wrist; usually used in pairs.
72 ricochet Spring back; spring away from an impact.
73 carom Rebound after hitting.
74 tryst A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers).
75 canonize In the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint.
Acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the
76 cartwheel arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel.
An adult male with a tenor (Of or close in range to the highest
77 tenor natural adult male voice) voice.
78 atelier A studio especially for an artist or designer.
The faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the
79 conservatory fine arts.
Uncastrated (not deprived of sexual capacity or sexual
80 stallion attributes) adult male horse.
81 pan Make a sweeping movement.
82 fret Decorate with an interlaced design.
83 gnaw Bite or chew on with the teeth.
84 annex An addition that extends a main building.
85 minaret Slender tower with balconies.
86 campanile A bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building.
The Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to
87 muezzin prayer from a minaret five times a day.
[ Minotaur ] (Greek mythology) A mythical monster with the head
88 minotaur of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus.
[ Chimera ] (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a
lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
89 chimera Typhon.; chimerical means unreal, fantastic.
90 plaque (pathology) A small abnormal patch on or inside the body.
91 mole A spy who works against enemy espionage.
92 sonnet A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
93 flounder Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish.
A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle -
94 hoe used by a farmer.
A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by
wheels) - hinders free vehicle movement on the road, an
95 rut obstacle.
96 hide body covering of a living animal
97 hie v. rush, hasten
98 aphid Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their
99 lark singing.
The natural outer covering of food (usually removed before
100 rind eating).
101 lynch Kill without legal sanction.
102 podium A small platform
103 prowl, slink The act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner).
104 trot Run at a moderately swift pace (Similar to the word canter).
105 caterwaul Utter shrieks, as of cats.
A cupola is a small structure built or resting on a roof
106 cupola (sometimes used as a belfry or lookout point)
scheme (relation to A schematic or preliminary plan.; An elaborate and systematic
107 "plan") plan of action.
108 empyreal adj. Of or relating to the sky or heavens, ethereal
109 bantam Very small.
110 pink v. Cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing.
n. Art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an
111 triptych altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together).
112 veldt n. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
n. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of
113 chime different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
114 jar v. Affect in a disagreeable way.
n. A mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for
115 domino the eyes.
116 miserly adj. excessively frugal
117 stygian adj. excessively dark
118 arrogant adj. excessively confident
119 bewail v. regret strongly
adj. Unrestrained in especially feelings.; Produced or growing in
extreme abundance.; Joyously unrestrained. - usually used with
120 exuberant positive connotation (Ex: exuberant praise)
adj. Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation. -
121 exorbitant usually used in negative connotation (Ex: exorbitant rent)
n. A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
122 faucet (NOT the resevoir itself).
123 millinery n. Hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner.
124 prohibitive Tending to discourage (especially of prices), exorbitant
adj. Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
125 compliant compliant. - the word is quite harsh (in the other direction).
adj. Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or
126 mulish attack.; intransigent, unyielding - tone is quite harsh
127 scrawl n. Poor handwriting.
128 epistle n. Especially a long, formal letter.
129 stench adj. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
130 sommelier A waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant.
131 homily A homily is a long and moralistic sermon.
132 milk v. Exploit as much as possible.
133 foreman n. A man who is foreperson of a jury.
v. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
134 parry (duties, questions, or issues)., avoid a blow
135 standoffish adj. Lacking cordiality; unfriendly.; similar to reticent
136 rhetoric effective writing or speaking

137 harangue A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.

138 whimsical unpredictable, fanciful - related to flippant, frivolous.
A legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a
139 deed transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it.
140 swatch A sample piece of cloth.
141 teeter, totter Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.
142 turbid muddy, unclear - similar to arcane, esoteric..
143 gainsay can be categorized as under "criticism"
144 compendium characterised by being terse
dependable; having rugged physical strength, but NEED NOT
145 stalwart be daring.
fault-finding. It is similar to the word critical, but more used with
a negative connotation as in "An excessively demanding and
146 captious captious tutor."
A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or
critical one). - Characterised by being funny like rejoinder,
147 riposte retort.
148 distaff adj. Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.
An enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the
Orient). - NOT the Indian meaning of "compound wall"; A
compound is made of buildings, not just a wall that surrounds
149 compound a building.
Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms.; A series of gun-
150 salvo shots.
151 zest Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment.
A leisurely walk (usually in some public place). - Analogous to
152 promenade prattling (speak idly, casually).
Go through in search of something; search through someone's
belongings in an unauthorized way. - Analogous to Plummet
153 rifle (plunging, falling without restraint).
inspid bad taste
154 noisome bad odor
A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to
make money (to boil the pot). - Analogous to doggerel by a
155 potboiler poet.
adj. Characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part. - NOT of all
156 herbaceous plants in general.
v. seize; take the place of (DOES NOT exactly mean replace,
157 usurp goes more with "seize" than "replace").
158 austral adj. Relating to or coming from the south.
159 bias (v) Influence in an unfair way. Analogous to "inspire".

160 aphoristic pithy maxim, which is self-evident - antonymous to "esoteric".

161 dragoon Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means.
The PURLIEU is the outlying area (outskirts) of a METROPOLIS
162 purlieu (city) or region.
n. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move
163 leeway within limits.; (of a ship or plane) Sideways drift.
164 famished Extremely hungry.
165 tart adj. of taste
166 flounder v. Walk with great difficulty.

167 fusillade v. simultaneous firing or outburst (of missiles, questions, etc.)

n. Orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or
oratorio.; Something that serves as a preceding event or
168 overture introduces what follows.
 n. opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed - NOT always
169 gambit an opening move, just a type of an opening move.
170 sleight n. Adroitness in using the hands.
adj. Characterized by reverberation. - Should be visualised as
171 resound "filled" with sound.
adj. Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind;
especially capable of being handled or touched or felt. - Should
172 palpable also be visualised as believable.
173 smite v. An act of a wrathful person.
n. An actor able to replace a regular performer when required. -
174 understudy ANALOGUS to deputy:sheriff
n. A basket usually with a cover (to contain things like clothes).;
A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially
175 hamper something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner).
176 declamation n. Vehement oratory. - marked by grandiloquence.
177 roe n. The eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish.
178 clam n. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
n. A bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats
179 drawbridge or ships to pass beneath it.
n. A temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside
180 gangway (Analogous to drawbridge above).
n. A person used as a cover for some questionable activity
181 figurehead (characterised by being nominal).
182 puddle n. A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid.
adj. Befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social
exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people
considered inferior (Excessively refined in an offensive
183 snobbish manner).
n. The legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the
184 foreclosure collateral for loan that is in default.
185 spelunker n. A person who explores caves (caverns).
n. Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear
186 fang its prey (type of tooth).
187 gripe n. Informal terms for objecting (due to discontent).
n. a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings,
188 discography typically of one composer, performer, or conductor
n. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded
189 glade area (like an oasis of a desert).
n. A short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be
190 ditty sung).
n. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a
191 oratorio religious text.
n. A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments (like
192 Impresario a broker for trade).

193 inveigle,coax, wheedle v. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.

194 Rustle v. Take illegally (esp cattle)
v. Arrest the motion (of something) abruptly (analogous to
195 check jolt:move).

196 nitpick v. Be overly critical; criticize minor details (analogous to cavil).

 n. A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work.; A
musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other
197 pastiche musical pieces from various sources.
198 honorarium n. A fee paid for a nominally free service.
199 slouch v. Assume a drooping posture or carriage.; Walk slovenly.
200 pullet n. Young hen usually less than a year old.
adj. (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) Pressed
201 serried together.
202 bravura adj. Brilliant and showy technical skill.
n. Gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and
203 tackle sails.
n. Powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when
mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and
204 spackle holes in plaster.
205 DAGUERREOTYPE n. A type of photograph
206 musket n. A type of firearm.
207 quirky adj. Informal terms; strikingly unconventional.
208 quirk v. Twist or curve abruptly.
n. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored
209 mosaic stone or glass.
210 linoleum n. A floor covering
211 unlettered adj. Lacking general education or knowledge.
212 indict v. accuse formally.
213
214
215
S.No Words Meanings
adj. Disposed or willing to comply.; Liable
1 amenable to answer to a higher authority.

n.The elevation of a person (as to the

status of a god).; Model of excellence or
2 apotheosis perfection of a kind; one having no equal.
3 apropos adv. At an opportune time.; By the way.
n. An ornament that interlaces simulated
foliage in an intricate design.; Position in
which the dancer has one leg raised
behind and arms outstretched in a
4 arabesque conventional pose.
n. Especially fine or decorative clothing.;
An impressive display.; An orderly
5 array arrangement.
n. promise or pledge; certainty; self-
6 assurance confidence.
adj. Tending to draw together or constrict
soft organic tissue.; Sour or bitter in
7 astringent taste.
adj. Practicing great self-denial.; Of a
stern or strict bearing or demeanor;
8 austere forbidding in aspect.; Severely simple.
v. stop short, as if faced with an obstacle
9 balk and refuse to continue; foil.
v. Discuss lightly.; Exchange blows.
Adj. Have legs that curve outward at the
10 bandy knees.
n. The pointed part of barbed wire.; An
aggressive remark directed at a person
like a missile and intended to have a
11 barb telling effect.
n. The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an
area rather than hit a specific target.; The
rapid and continuous delivery of
linguistic communication (spoken or
12 barrage written).
v. Make wet and dirty, as from rain.
bedraggle Adj. Limp and soiled as if dragged in the
13 bedraggled mud; In deplorable condition.
v. To work at or to absurd length.; Attack
14 belabor verbally with harsh criticism.
v. Annoy persistently.; Surround so as to
15 beleaguer, besiege force to give up (ALSO - hem in).
n. A special way of doing something.; A
relatively permanent inclination to react in
16 bent a particular way.
v. Assail or attack on all sides.; Annoy
continually or chronically.; hem in
(Surround in a restrictive manner).;
17 beset Decorate or cover lavishly with gems.
 v. Deliver to an enemy by treachery.;
Reveal unintentionally.; Give away
18 betray information about somebody.
adj. Irritable as if suffering from
19 bilious indigestion.; peevishly ill-humored.
adj. Lacking stimulating characteristics;
uninteresting (soothing or mild);
20 bland agreeable.
n. loud, harsh roar or screechh; dazzling
21 blare blaze of light.
adj. Conspicuously and offensively loud;
given to vehement outcry (-ve
connotation); Without any attempt at
concealment; completely obvious (both
22 blatant -ve and +ve)
adj. Carefree and happy and lighthearted.;
Lacking or showing a lack of due
23 blithe concern.
adj. Bluntly direct and outspoken but
good-natured.; Very steep; having a
prominent and almost vertical front.
N. Pretense that your position is stronger
24 bluff than it really is.
n. A swaggering show of courage.; A
violent gusty wind.; Noisy confusion and
25 bluster turbulence.
v. Secure or lock with a bolt.; Eat hastily
without proper chewing.; Move or jump
26 bolt suddenly.
v. Strike, beat repeatedly.; Strike against
27 buffet forcefully (to rough it up).
adj. Characterized by liveliness and light-
heartedness.; Tending to float on a liquid
28 buoyant or rise in air or gas.
n. Engraving or carving in low relief on a
stone (as in a brooch or ring).; star's
special appearance in a minor role or a
29 cameo film.
n. An ulceration (especially of the lips or
30 canker lining of the mouth).; an evil.
31 canny adj. shrewd; thrifty

n. A collection of books accepted as

holy scripture especially the books of the
Bible recognized by any Christian church
as genuine and inspired.; A rule or
especially body of rules or principles
generally established as valid and
32 canon fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
n. A large waterfall; violent rush of water
33 cataract over a precipice.; eye abnormality
v. Warm by rubbing, as with the hands.;
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially
34 chafe by minor irritations.
 v. Carve with a chisel.; Deprive
35 chisel somebody of something by deceit.
36 chivalrous adj. courteous; failthful; brave
37 cleave v. split or sever; remain faithful to
38 codify v. arrange as a code; classify
v. Compare critically; of texts.; To
39 collate assemble in proper sequence.
n. A security pledged for the repayment of
a loan.
Adj. Situated or running side by side.;
Descended from a common ancestor but
through different lines.; Serving to support
40 collateral or corroborate.
41 comeuppance n. rebuke; deserts (outcome)
n. A signed written agreement between
two or more parties (nations) to perform
some action.
42 compact Adj. Closely crowded together.
adj. The act of submitting; usually
surrendering power to another.; Acting
43 compliance according to certain accepted standards.
v. Make more intense, stronger, or more
marked.; Calculate principal and
44 compound interest.
n. The trait of being vain and conceited.;
45 conceit whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor.

v. bestow with superior air; do something

46 condescend that one considers to be below his dignity.
v. meld or fuse, combine into one;
47 conflate confuse one thing for another.
v. Evoke or call forth, with or as if by
magic.; Ask for or request earnestly.;
Engage in plotting or enter into a
48 conjure conspiracy, swear together.
adj. Having important issues or results.;
49 consequential pompous
n. The husband or wife of a reigning
monarch.;
50 consort v. Go together.
adj. Without qualification; used informally
as (often pejorative) intensifiers.; Perfect
and complete in every respect; having all
necessary qualities.; Having or revealing
51 consummate supreme mastery or skill.
v. Have an argument about something.;
52 contend (contention) Maintain or assert.
adj. Determined by conditions or
circumstances not yet established.
N. A gathering of persons representative
53 contingent of some larger group.
 n. (criminal law) A final judgment of guilty
in a criminal case and the punishment that
is imposed.; An unshakable belief in
something without need for proof or
54 conviction evidence.
adj. Modestly or warily rejecting
approaches or overtures; Showing
marked and often playful or irritating
evasiveness or reluctance to make a
55 coy definite or committing statement.
56 countenance n. Formal and explicit approval.; face
57 cull v. pick out; reject
adj. miserly; churlish, stubborn (A crusty
irascible cantankerous old person full of
58 curmudgeon stubborn ideas.)
v. work at in a non-serious fashion;
59 dabble splash around.
60 debauch v. corrupt - morally; sensually
adj. cheerful, lively; having a sophisticated
61 debonair charm
v. delay till later; give in respectfully,
62 defer submit.
v. regret strongly;
63 deplore express strong disapproval of
adj. joyless
64 desolate v. rob off joy, forsake.
65 determination n. resolve; decision
66 discomfit v. defeat; disconcert
v. cause to lose one's composure;
67 disconcert cause to feel embarassment
v. make unclear; cause to feel
68 confuse embarassment
n. prudence in speech, action; ability to
69 discretion decide responsibly
n. speediness; message sent with due
70 dispatch speed.
71 dissolution n. looseness in morals; disintegration
72 distill v. condense, concentrate; purify
v. be excessively fond of; be foolish or
73 dote senile due to old age.

74 dour adj. sullen, dark; stubbornly unyielding

75 drone n. an idle person; a male bee

76 drivel n. saliva spilling from mouth; foolishness

77 elliptical adj. oval; ambiguous
78 emulate v. imitate; rival

79 enjoin v. command; forbid (command against)

80 entrance v. put under a spell; attract
v. make an attempt at, test
81 essay n. composition
 v. scold with biting harshness; strip the
82 excoriate skin off
n. urgent situation; pressing needs or
83 exigency demands
adj. outgoing and sociable; broad and
84 expansive extensive
n. front of building; superficial or false
85 façade appearance
86 faction n. party, clique; dissension
n. mental or bodily powers; teaching
87 faculty staff
adj. feeble and ineffective; careless and
88 feckless irresponsible
v. strip off skin; whip; attack with harsh
89 flay criticism
n. wool coat of a sheep
90 fleece v. rob, plunder
n. contrast (Anything that serves by
contrast to call attention to another
thing's good qualities). Ex - Pretty girls
like plain friends as foils.
91 foil v. defeat, frustrate
n. something just done for form's sake;
92 formality ceremonial quality
93 founder v. fail completely; sink
n. brawl
94 fray v. wear away by rubbing
95 gale n. windstrom; emotional outburst
n. rude and impertinent; deep and bitter
anger
96 gall v. annoy; chafe
97 germinal adj. pertainin to a germ; creative
98 gouge v. tear out; overcharge
99 impertinent adj. insolent; irrelevant
100 inaugurate v. being formally; install in office
n. burden; nightmare
ALSO - A male demon believed to lie on
sleeping persons and to have sexual
101 incubus intercourse with sleeping women!
102 inflated adj. pompous; enlarged
103 insensible adj. unconscious; unresponsive
104 insularity n. narrow-mindedness; isolation
105 inundate v. overwhelm; flood
v. contract into wrinkles; grow together
106 knit (entwine)
v. Take in food or milk with one's tongue;
107 lap splash gently
n. contact that keeps parties in
108 liasion communication; secret love affair
109 linger v. loiter or dawdle; continue or persist
110 livid adj. lead-colored, ashen; enraged
111 marked adj. noticeable; targeted for vengeance
 adj. evidencing little courage; cowed
112 meek submissiveness
113 mete v. measure; distribute
n. swamp gas; pervasive corrupting
114 miasma influence
115 milieu n. environment; means of expression
116 monolithic adj. solidly uniform; unyielding
v. cut off; stop something's growth; make
117 nip numb with cold

118 nonentity n. person of no importance; nonexistence

119 notable adj. conspicuous; important, distinguished

120 oblique adj. indirect; slanting
adj. bossy, arrogant; decisively
121 overbearing important
122 palate n. roof of mouth; sense of taste
v. criticize harshly; make a sweeping
123 pan movement
v. support, act superior toward; be a
124 patronize customer of
125 pellucid adj. transparent; easy to understand
126 pliant adj. flexible; easily influenced
n. bad condition, predicament; troth,
127 plight solemn pledge of fidelity
v. examine critically; measure depth
128 plumb adj. vertical
n. A controversy (especially over a belief
or dogma).;
A writer who argues in opposition to
129 polemic others (especially in theology).
adj. pertaining to bishop or pope;
130 pontificial pompous or pretentious
131 precipice n. cliff; dangerous position
132 precipitous adj. steep; overhasty
v. give an inclination toward; make
133 predispose susceptible to
v. forestall by acting first; appropriate for
134 preempt oneself
135 pretentious adj. pompous; overambitious
adj. Immaculately clean and unused.;
Completely free from dirt or
136 pristine contamination.
137 profligate adj. dissipated, wasteful; widly immoral
138 prone adj. inclined to; prostrate
adj. pertaining to a province;
139 provincial unsophisticated (rustic, bumpkinly)
v. inquire impertinently; use leverage to
140 pry raise or open something
n. soft, wet, boggy land; complex
141 quagmire predicament
 v. call up or summon; revive or
recuperate; Harass with persistent
criticism or carping.
n. The feat of mustering strength for a
renewed effort.; (sports) An unbroken
sequence of several successive strokes.;
An automobile race run over public
142 rally roads.;
n. talk excitedly, scold, make a
143 rant grandiloquent speech
144 recount v. narrate or tell; count over again
n. a temporary moderation of disease
symptoms; cancellation of a debt;
145 remission forgiveness or pardon
n. patient submissiveness; statement that
146 resingation one's quitting a job.

n. art of effective communication;

147 rhetoric insincere and grandiloquent language
v. pierce with holes; permeate or spread
148 riddle throughout
149 rife adj. abundant; current, prevailing
adj. roundness; sonorousness of
150 rotundity speech
n. title or heading (in red paint); directions
151 rubric for religious ceremony.
152 ruminate v. chew over; mull over, ponder
n. temporary platform for workers;
153 scaffold platform for execution.
154 scourge n. lash, whip; severe punishment.
155 scruple v. fret about; hesitate for ethical reasons.
adj. conscientious, principled; extremely
156 scrupulous thorough
v. struggle confusedly; move off in a
157 scuffle confused hurry
v. hide away or cache; produce and
158 secrete release a substance into an organism.
ad. Germinal, influencing future
159 seminal developments; related to seed or semen.
160 shoddy adj. sham, not genuine; inferior
161 sinuous adj. winding; not morally honest
n. slander
162 slur v. mumble
v. burn without flame; be liable to break
163 smolder out at any moment
n. teacher of philosophy; quibbler;
164 sophist employer of fallacious reasoning
v. be thrifty
165 stint n. assigned portion of work
adj. typical; standard; kept regularly in
166 stock supply
 n. wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line
167 stockade of posts used as defensive barrier
v. Deprive of strength or efficiency;
make useless or worthless; Cause to
appear foolish; Prove to be of unsound
mind or demonstrate someone's
168 stultify incompetence.
v. make numb, Make senseless or dizzy
169 stupefy by or as if by a blow; stun, amaze
n. state of apathy; daze; lack of
170 stupor awareness
171 sublime adj. Lifted up or set high; Inspiring awe.
172 subtlety n. perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy.

173 supine adj. lying on back; offering no resistance

174 sustain n. experience; support; nourish
v. moderate, tone-down or restrain;
175 temper toughen
176 tempestuous adj. stormy; impassionate, violent
177 temporal adj. not lasting forever; secular
178 torrid adj. passionate; hot or scorching
n. A bundle of mylenated nerve fibers
following a path through the brain.; A
system of body parts that together serve
some particular purpose.; A brief treatise
on a subject of interest; published in
the form of a booklet.; An extended
179 tract area of land.
180 tribute n. tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect
n. container for feeding farm animals;
181 trough lowest point
182 tumid adj. swollen; pompous

adj. Coming at a subsequent time or

stage, future; Beyond or outside an area
of immediate interest; remote; Lying
beyond what is openly revealed or
avowed (especially being kept in the
183 ulterior background or deliberately concealed).
adj. not open to question; not subject to
184 unassailable attack
185 unconscionable adj. unscrupulous; excessive
186 unctuous adj. oily, bland; insincerely suave
187 undermine v. weaken; sap
adj. unrelieved or immoderate; absolute
188 unmitigated (as in unmitigated jerk)
189 unpalatable adj. distasteful; disagreeable
190 unravel v. disentangle; solve
191 unwarranted adj. unjustified; undeserved
192 uproarious adj. extremely funny; very noisy
193 vacuous adj. empty; stupid
 adj. practicable, workable; capable of
194 viable maintaining life
v. clear from blame, exonerate; justify,
195 vindicate support
196 virulent adj. extremely poisonous; hostile, bitter
197 vixen n. female fox; ill-tempered woman
adj. changeable; explosive, bursting out;
198 volatile evaporating rapidly
n. whirlwind, whirlpool; complex
199 vortex predicament
200 wallow v. roll in; indulge in; become helpless
adj. unrestrained; willfully malicious;
201 wanton unchaste
n. A colony of rabbits; An overcrowded
202 warren residential area.
n. turmoil
v. roll in; Toss, roll, or rise and fall in an
203 welter uncontrolled way; wallow
204 whimsical adj. capricious; fanciful
205 willful adj. intentional; headstrong
206 windfall n. fallen fruit; unexpected lucky event
207 writhe v. twist in coils; contort in pain
adj. Beyond normal limits; Lacking
208 undue justification or authorization.
v. slip; To pass or move unobtrusively or
209 slither smoothly.
v. make bone; Make rigid and set into a
210 ossify conventional pattern.
adj. Lacking clarity or distinctness.; Thin
211 wispy and weak.

n. A break or intermission in the

occurrence of something.; A mistake
resulting from inattention (a minor
error).; Drop to a lower level, as in
212 lapse one's morals or standards (backslide).;

n. A person from whom you are

213 forbear descended.; Not do something (refrain).
v. Decide with authority.; Exercise
214 rule authority over; as of nations.
Adj. Primly out of date (frumpish).;
215 dowdy Lacking in smartness or taste.
adj. Having rugged physical strength;
inured to fatigue or hardships.;
216 stout Euphemisms for 'fat'.
v. Utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt
tone.; Make more complicated or
217 snarl confused through entanglements.
v. Win approval or support for.; Move
218 sway back and forth or sideways.
 adj. Affording no ease or reassurance,
219 precarious unstable; Fraught with danger.
adj. Deserving of esteem and respect.;
220 estimable May be computed or estimated.
n. The act of deposing someone;
removing a powerful person from a
position or office.; (law) A pretrial
interrogation of a witness; usually done
in a lawyer's office.; The natural process
of laying down a deposit of something
221 deposition (of deposit)
222 inchoate adj. not fully formed; disorganized
to give unsparingly (v.); extremely
223 lavish generous or extravagant (adj.)
n. A special way of doing something.
224 bent Adj. determined
v. Get the meaning of something.; Take
225 apprehend into custody.
226 purge v. Oust politically.; Rid of impurities.
v. Cause to be calm or quiet as by
administering a sedative to.;
adj. Characterized by dignity and
227 sedate propriety.
n. A person who exercises control over
workers.; A man who is foreperson of a
228 foreman jury.
adj. Lacking significance or liveliness or
spirit or zest.; Lacking taste or flavor or
229 vapid tang.; inane (lacking sense, spirit)
American musteline mammal typically
ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid
when startled; in some classifications put
in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.;
A person who is deemed to be
230 skunk despicable or contemptible.
adj. Preoccupied with the pursuit of
pleasure and especially games of
chance.; Unrestrained by convention or
morality.; Live a life or pleasure,
especially with respect to alcoholic
231 dissipated consumption.

v. Take away the legal force of or render

ineffective.; Make imperfect.; Corrupt
232 vitiate morally or by intemperance or sensuality.

adj. dependable; Having rugged physical

233 stalwart strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
v. Cause to heat and crumble by
treatment with water.; Make less active
234 slake or intense.; Satisfy (thirst).
adj. Cool and formal in manner.;
235 reticent Temperamentally disinclined to talk.
 adj. Devouring or craving food in great
quantities.; (often followed by 'for')
Ardently or excessively desirous.;
236 esurient Extremely hungry.
adj. Practicing great self-denial.;
Unsparing and uncompromising in
discipline or judgment.; Resolute in the
237 spartan face of pain or danger or adversity.
v. burden; restrain, hold back - Not sure
if these are two different meanings of the
238 encumber word.
239 tart adj. Harsh.; Tasting sour like a lemon.
adj. Characteristic of false pride; having
an exaggerated sense of self-importance
(vanity).; Unproductive of success (in
240 vain vain).

adj. Inspiring fear.; Extremely impressive

241 formidable in strength or excellence.

n. An aggressive remark directed at a

person like a missile and intended to have
a telling effect.;
v. Be compatible, similar or consistent;
242 jibe, gibe coincide in their characteristics.
n. An ornamental embellishment in
writing.; A showy gesture.; The act of
243 flourish waving (brandish).

v. Expect, believe, or suppose.; Make a

mathematical calculation or computation.;
Deem to be.; Judge to be probable.; Take
244 reckon account of.; Have faith or confidence in.
n. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or
admiration.; A profound emotion
inspired by a deity, fear (Ex: Awe of
245 awe death).
n. Taking advantage of opportunities
without regard for the consequences
for others.; The quality of being suited to
246 expedience the end in view.
ad. Cut into small pieces.; Walk daintily.;
247 mince Make less severe or harsh.
adj. Not distracted by anything unrelated
to the goal (Antonymous to flippant).;
Characterized by a firm and humorless
belief in the validity of your opinions.;
248 earnest dearest.
v. check flow of blood
adj. Firm and dependable especially in
249 stanch loyalty.
adj. Marked by skill in deception.; Of
uncertain outcome, especially fraught
250 dodgy with risk (dicey).
 v. Attract; cause to be enamored.;
251 beguile Influence by slyness, swindle
v. Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or
wheedling.; Ask for and get free; be a
252 cadge parasite (antonymous to "earn").

adj. Causing fear or anxiety by

threatening great harm.; Of great
gravity or crucial import; requiring
serious thought (Antonymous to slight).;
253 grievous Causing or marked by grief or anguish.
v. To give an often deceptively attractive
or improved appearance to. ; To cover
254 gild with or as if with a thin layer of gold.
adj. Having great mass and weight and
255 ponderous unwieldiness.; Labored and dull.
n. An arrangement of branching parts.;
A development that complicates a
256 ramification situation.
adj. insipid;
257 mawkish effusively sentimental, maudlin
n. The act of influencing by exciting hope
or desire (temptation).;
Qualities that attract by seeming to
258 enticement promise some kind of reward.
n. A stretch of shallow water.; A large
group of fish.; A sandbank in a stretch of
259 shoal water that is visible at low tide.

v. Diminish or abate.; Make slack as by

lessening tension or firmness.; forgive;
Refer (a matter or legal case) to
another committee or authority or court
for decision.; Release from (claims,
debts, or taxes).; Send (money) in
260 remit payment.; Hold back to a later time.
v. Bring to an end; settle conclusively.;
Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the
261 adjudicate judge at the trial of.

v. to return (a dehydrated or
concentrated food) to the liquid state
by adding water; Construct or form anew
262 reconstitute or provide with a new structure.
n. A tentative suggestion designed to
elicit the reactions of others.
Something that serves as a preceding
event or introduces what follows.
Orchestral music played at the
263 overture beginning of an opera or oratorio.
adj. Filled with or attended with.; Marked
264 fraught by distress.
adj. Unnecessary and unwarranted.;
265 gratuitous Costing nothing, free.
 adj. Currently holding an office.; Lying or
leaning on something else
266 incumbent (recumbent).
adj. Perplexed (as if being expected to
know something that you do not know).;
267 quizzical Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule).
v. Refer to another person for decision or
judgment.; Expel, as if by official
decree.; Assign to a lower position;
268 relegate reduce in rank.
v. Defeat disastrously.; Make a groove in
269 rout (gouge).
adj. Resembling or characteristic of a
prophet or prophecy.; Having a secret or
270 sibylline hidden meaning.
v. Give off (water) through the skin.; Come
271 transpire about, happen, or occur.
n. A high tight collar.
V. Disturb the smoothness of.;
272 ruffle Discompose.
v. Remove by passing through a filter.;
273 strain To exert much effort or energy.
v. Try to gain favor by cringing or
274 fawn flattering.; Show submission or fear.
n. An evasion of the point of an
argument by raising irrelevant distinctions
or objections.
V. Argue over petty things.; Evade the
truth of a point or question by raising
275 quibble irrelevant objections.

n. Maintaining something at the most

favorable temperature for its
development.; (pathology) The phase in
the development of an infection
between the time a pathogen enters the
body and the time the first symptoms
276 Incubation appear (like latency is to response).
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278
279
280
281
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Vocaboly Set 1 Vocaboly Set 2 Vocaboly Set 3
Pages 1-110 Pages 111-220 Pages 221-330
agog cringe halcyon
credulity
(Very similar to "gulliblity"
which has the extra attribute of
tending to get deceived too
alcove readily). grovel

alliteration craven hallowed

amble cozen hedonism

array dapper - smartness in manners gouge

askew crabbed gossamer

awry crotchety harbinger

avid (NOT vivid) debauch guffaw

gusto - vigorous enjoyment,
behoove crass NOT gust
canker curmudgeon gloat
desultory - purposeless, NOT
cantankerous dabbling grovel
cant deft gratuitous
detraction - to discredit thru
canter slander, NOT slander itself glower
cadence demure hue
brevity diatribe impecunious
brooch demur homily
despise - lack of respect,
intense dislike, disdain, scorn,
callow contempt hoary
bungle deposition immolate

bivouac despondent hue

chaffing dissimulate - hide feelings horde - Not hoard

hovel (wretched house, NOT
pallet which means small,
chafe divine wretched bed)
cavil disconsolate imbecility

chagrin dissemble impeccable

distrait - diverted attention due
catechism to anxiety impale
chasm disingenuous hubris

caulk disband importunate

circumscribe disgorge impetuous
disaffected - discontended,
carrion disloyal incorrigible
caucus discredit implacable
chase - to ornament discomfit impugn
chivalrous disdain incubus
caricature - exaggeration doctrinaire ingenuous
cavalcade emendation inchoate

cavalier drab import

choleric dormer imponderable
censorious effluvium incursion
cloying drone ingrained
coda - concluding dogmatic insidious - NOT insipid
cognate elysian infidel
effrontery - inappropriately
collation audacious internecine
complicity doldrums interdict - Not interject
edify - enlighten, NOT emend (to
complaisant correct) infernal
cloister dote ingratiate
compendium -
NOT pandemonium dour indulgent
clique dulcet labile
clemency droll - comically odd/whimsical jaded
codify drudgery larder
comport effete largess
clout duress lechery
compact domicile knavery
cogent dogged latitude
consternation -
fear, NOT surprise dolt lacerate

contusion dross libido

dregs - deposits, NEED NOT BE
concoct worthless like dross. lambaste
convoke doggerel loath
concomitant encomium limber
condign (NOT consign) enjoin leery
conviction endue lithe
conundrum evince labile
contingent escapade laity - Antonymous to clergy
ethereal - impalpable, of heaven,
contumacious NOT ephemeral levee
conjure endearment libelous
expunge limbo

expedient - opportune lode

faculty maul - injure badly by beating
exude - release, NOT
necessarily with force mealymouthed
fatuous mendacious
expostulation - remonstrance,
reproof, NOT expository maudlin
ferret mangy - worn, threadbare
farce malingerer
expository meek
feint martinet
fell lull
facetious manumit - fre from slavery
faze malapropism

felon lurid
exiguous luscious
expiate - make amends for, NOT
pardon mawkish

fancier mulct - deprive of by deceit

morbid - unhealthy mental
factotum state
expletive mordant
exegesis milieu
mollify - soothe, NOT
extirpate penance or mortify
exotic millinery
fete molt
foist mincing
fraught minatory
flit (dart) musty - smelling of mold
fracas nether
foible muster
foray
flaccid
flail
fleece (v)
foppish
forebearence
filibuster
fester (2nd)
gibe
gall
garish

gentry - upper class

gauche
gambol
fulsome
fritter
frond
gaunt
fulminate
gadfly
funereal

fastidious - hard to please,

giving careful attention to detail,
NOTHING to do with stubborn
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obviate sibylline overt

nostrum skiff yokel

opprobrium - state of
dishonor, NOT a manner of
talking like slander. shoddy tutelary
officious slake adumbrate

nonplus slough (molt) seine

obloquy slacken pert
nugatory - fruitless, NOT
nubile sophistry odium, repugnance
nihilism - ALSO: a delusion
that everything including the
self is unreal stint reprobate

opus spry tribulation

noncommittal staccato throes
noisome - malodorous, NOT
noisy stolid tilter
noxious stygian putrid

pall - feeble, weak spruce purveyor

panache tainted warble
parquet sully oaf
patois sumptuous unrequited

ovation subliminal sinewy

pallid supplicate stygian
tipple - drink modestly but
parochial regularly rebus
patrician - belonging to
nobility, NOT patriarchy tribulation proviso

passe tract poultice

pastiche torso trough
transpire - 2nd meaning: be
pantomime revealred, happen cataract

paltry tendentious foible

ordination tome tumid
overwrought - deeply
agitated transport parquet
pathos - feeling of sympathy
and sorrow for others, NOT
ethos uncanny phlegmatic

paramount tyro scurillous

pine viscid reprise
pestilential venial pecuniary
perquisite venison veneer
penance vituperative requite
peremptory vaunted pastiche
plaintive - expressing
sorrow, NOT calm volition impetuous
preclude vitreous effete
platonic waggish perfunctory
prelate - clergyman zany regatta
pontifical wistful solicitous
privy whittle peroration

privation welt chafe

portly obsidian

prestige unwieldy
proletarian - working class rummage

provender skulduggery
puissant skiff
puerile sedition
propound drone
pummel pan
punctilious tesselated
prolix welt
prude trappings

purchase puissant
provenance - source of
origin yoke

putative treatise
protean savor
quaint staid
raconteur squalid
reek - smell badly tureen
recumbent strew
recondite tantamount

quay rant
quizzical surreptitious
recant vent
quip - witty, NOT necessarily
slanderous wrath
quaff apostate

refectory consternation
quarry torpor

rakish interdict
ramble entreat
ramshackle occult
rant chasten
rebus windfall
quibble decorum
rancor visage
qualms fastidious

reprehensible - deserving
censure, NOT apprehensive slight
rendition mincing

rent expostulation
repine - complain, express
discontent, NOT pine succor
repartee - always a clever
reply. seethe
requiem travail
relegate yore
rejoinder - retort, but not
always a witty one dispatch
renege lank
remission tract 33
remiss taut 34
restitution regale
revile cloister 35
runic blighted
riveting pretentious
sacrilegious wanton
rig artless
rout 40
rococo
ruffian
rote
ruminate
roil
roster
ruse
salacious - NOT salubrious
revulsion - intense aversion,
NOT flinch
rhapsodize
scoff
rostrum
ruse
scurvy - most contemptible
rivulet
sardonic
secession
Elegant words and phrases
S.No Word/phrase
1 Well-orchestrated plan
2 shred of solid evidence
3 The govt is all set to crack down on the mushrooming advertisement menace in the city.
4 The kingside's threats seemed nebulous.
5 A second laser pulse fires electrons like a slingshot into the plasma wave.
6 The supreme court has removed a major obstacle that prevented the guilty from being brought
7 The great adventure will still unfold, but don’t hold your breath.
8 The literature and policy on the free movement of people remains scanty and patchy.
9 The likes of Richard Perle are confined to the sidelines.
10 After he assumed office, economic chaos was orchestrated and the army encouraged to take o
11 It more clearly than ever legitimises the grievances of the upper castes even if it seeks to chec
12 Reservation includes reserved constituencies, which the detractors curiously do not seem muc
13 Statues and idols are quite capable of surviving vandalism - after all, the Bamiyan Buddhas ha
14 The presumption that private sector can do no wrong and the gov't can do nothing right preven
15 A flurry of activity has followed.
16 These actions India is obliged to take are not consistent with what a "strategic partner" should
17 The destruction of rain forests round the world on account of logging,mining and expansion of
18 Dense rain forests contain the highest number of species, many of them endemic(found nowhe
19 Why bother about trying to understand the natural world when there is the cosy God-explanatio
20 It is something of a cliché to say that neither the internal combustion engine nor smoking would
21 In their eyes, President Musharraf has jumped through hoops hoping to elicit the smallest of re
22 President Musharraf appears to have hacked away on the Kashmiri cause and while he has m
23 Europe follows suit, and the world matches to the beat of the Disney drum.
24 The rickshaw was introduced in Simla in 1880. The death knell for this archaic mode of transpo
25 Monaco eyes Indian tourists.
26 We continue to follow a development paradigm that pays no heed to the limits imposed by the
27 In Tamil Nadu, fishermen are an informed lot these days.
28 The institute's involvement in the planning process and for strengthening the statistical system
29 Weak infrastructure continues to be the Achilles' heel of the economy.
30 Hopefully people don't think the media just puffed him up and he's a flash in the pan.
31 But hurried, harried editors can trip up, even the most conscientious of them.
32 Turky then unexpectedly offered an olive branch saying it would open one port and one airport
33 The primary reason for all this boils down, no pun intended, to boiled water.
34 Its existence menaces the liberties of people ruled by governments that are willing to toe Wash
35 Each American death falls like a pebble into a still pool. It makes an impact where it lands and
36 Because somewhere in the huge controversy over Celebrity Big Brother - one in which a Prime
37 Four years into a war fought to eliminate a non-existant threat, we all have renewed
38 The media coverage of this on CNN and elsewhere are abysmal.
39 The Ramayana is a compendium of subtle truths of life and human nature, and there are fine
40 Her physical deformity becomes symbolic of her angular thinking that sought revenge.
41 The harmful effects of revenge can easily lead one nursing a grouse against an injustice of h

Random notes
1 abstinence -- refrain from eating/dringling
abstemious -- sparing in eating/drinking
2 embarrasment -- extreme excess (Ex: An embarrassment of riches.)
slacken - abate
3 slack - malinger
 sement menace in the city.

plasma wave.
nted the guilty from being brought to book.

mains scanty and patchy.

and the army encouraged to take over

per castes even if it seeks to checkmate the pro-backward caste moves of the parliament.
actors curiously do not seem much excercised about.
after all, the Bamiyan Buddhas have a life, in folk memory and affection, beyond the Taliban - but damage done to human lif, limb and welfa
e gov't can do nothing right prevents us from coming to grips with some of America's biggest problems.

what a "strategic partner" should be taking.

logging,mining and expansion of agriculture to feed a global market is a matter of deep concern.
any of them endemic(found nowhere else).
n there is the cosy God-explanation in all-too-easy reach?
bustion engine nor smoking would ever have been permitted if we knew then what we know now about their dangers.
s hoping to elicit the smallest of rewards but has got nothing in return except and arched eyebrow.
ashmiri cause and while he has made "unilateral proposals", India has shown no flexibility.
Disney drum.
ell for this archaic mode of transport has been sounded.

heed to the limits imposed by the eco-system and the various tipping points of nature.

rengthening the statistical system of the country has, in recent years, "been on the wane".

d he's a flash in the pan.

entious of them.
uld open one port and one airport as a token gesture.
o boiled water.
ments that are willing to toe Washington's line.
kes an impact where it lands and sends out a small ripple that soon fades.
Big Brother - one in which a Prime Minister weighed in, sundry Ministers held forth, academics vented spleen, celebrities frothed at the mou
t, we all have renewed appreciation for the power of the Big Lie: people tend to believe false official claims about big issues, because they

human nature, and there are finely etched episodes and characters to reinforce these subtleties.
nking that sought revenge.
a grouse against an injustice of hurt experienced at some point of time to any length to hit back when an opportune moment comes up.
ge done to human lif, limb and welfare cannot be undone.

their dangers.

pleen, celebrities frothed at the mouth, and television anchors crammed the airwaves with al man ner of bits and bytes - something seems t
aims about big issues, because they can't picture their leaders being dishonest about such things.

n opportune moment comes up.

bytes - something seems to have been forgotten.