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Vocab List of Window 4

Sr
No

Original
Word

Meaning

Salubrious

Pleasant to live in;


clean and healthy

Cacophony

Floccose

Infuriate

A harsh discordant
mizture of sounds
covered with or
consisting of wollen
stuff
make (someone)
extremely angry and
impatient

Synonyms
beneficial/good, healthful/healthy,
hygenic, salutary, wholesome,
invigorating, sanitary

Antonyms

noise, discord, harshness


flocculent, hairy, lanose, pilose, soft,
fluffy, hirsute, pileous, shaggy, whiskered
aggravate, exasperate, provoke, anger,
incense, rile, enrage, irritate, madden,
umbrage, ire

appease, comfort, help, placate,


soothe, calm, delight, make
happy, please

inexorible, uncompromising, intractable,


unforgiving, relentless, unrelenting,
compassionate, kind, remorseful,
Unable to be appeased
Implacable
ruthless, unyeilding, grim, inflexible,
yeilding, placable, flexible,
or placated
remorseless, unappeasable, unbending,
merciful, sympathetic, nice
unflinching, vindictive

Licentious

promiscuous and
unprincipled in sexual
matters

abandoned, amoral, unmoral, unruly,


reprobate, lecherous, lewd, lascivious,
dissolute, debauched, carnal, oversexed,
salacious, satyric, scabrous, sensual

chaste, good, innocent, moral,


controlled

Disdain

The feeling that


someone or something
is unworthy of one's
consideration or
respect

antipathy, dislike, arrogance, hatred,


aversion, pride, contempt, ridicule,
derision, scorn, snobbishness

admiration, flattery, liking, regard,


affection, humility, love, respect,
approval, like praise, sympathy

Feral

Resembling or a
characteristic of a wild
animal

ferocious, brutal, raging, animal, fierce,

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An abnormal amount
of uncontrolled
Hyperkinetic
muscular action; spasm
occuring in children

Intrepid

Fearless

hyper-critic, hypnotic, hyper

courageous, fearless, heroic, plucky,


spunky, audacious, bodacious, bold,
daring dauntless

afraid, fearful, meek timid,


cowardly

amazing, astonishing, astounding,


aweome, extraordinary, freakish,
Of the nature of a
average, credible, believable,
incredible, anomalous, fabulous,
Miraculous miracle; or having the
boring, common, familiar,
numinous, preternatural, prodigious,
power to work miracles
expected, dull, plausible, ordinary
staggering, stupefying, stupendous,
supermundane, thaumaturgic, unearthy
Bout

A short period of
intense activity of a
specific kind

round, session, spell, tour, course, fit,


shift, tear

stagnation

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Demure

(of a woman of
behaviour) reserved,
modest and shy

Wrong doing,
14 Malfeasance especially(US) by public
official
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16

Botch

Gaiety

Carry out (a task),


badly or carelessly

The state or quality of


being light hearted or
cheerful

A body of troops or
Phalanx(Ant police officers standing
17
onym)
of moving in close
formation

prim, reticent, timid, unassuming, coy,


blushing, decorous, backward, bashful,
skittish, strait-laced, sober, sedate,
solemn

bold, brave, aggressive,


extroverted, outgoing, shameless,
strong

impropriety, misbehaviour, miconduct

behaviour, obedience, manners

Bobble, bumble, bungle, Err, flub,


flumble, miscalculate, mishandle,
misjudge, muff, screw up

do well, succeed, create, build,


break, grow, help, repair,
accomplish, achieve

good humour, hilarity, joie de vivre,


depression, dicouragement,
animation, blitherness, brilliance, cheer,
dullness, gloom, sadness,
colour, conviviality, effervescence,
seriousness, sorrow, unhappiness,
elation, jollity, grins, mirth, shindig,
solemnity, work
vivacity, sprightliness

army, flock, throng, multitude, horde

In its original condition:


free from bacteria or
other microorganisms;
totally clean

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Pristine :
Sterile
(Relation)

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Having been overused;


Hackneyed
unoriginal and trite

banal, corny, stale, threadbare, timeworn,


trite, well-worn, antiquated, common,
fresh, new, original, uncommon
convnetional, familiar, obsolete, old

Equivocate: Use
cavil, con, dodge, elude, escape, eschew,
ambiguous language so evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge,
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as to conceal the truth hedge, jive, lie, palter, parry, prevaricate,
or avoid committing
pussyfoot, quibble, shuck, shuffle,
Equivocate :
oneself
tergiversate, waffle
Ambiguous Ambiguous: Open to
(Relation)
more than one
cryptic, dubious, obsure, opaque,
interpretation; not
enigmatic, puzzling, equivocal,
having one obvious
questionable, inconclusive, uncertain,
meaning; not clear or
unclear, vague
decided

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Obdurate: Stubbornly
Obdurate :
refusing to change
Stubborn
one's opinion or course
(Relation)
of action

Souse

individual, one

Soaked in Liquid

be honest, confront, encounter,


face, meet, release, take on, tell
truth, speak on
certain, clear, determined,
known, definite, obvious, plain,
understandable, sure,
unquestionable, unambiguous,
explicit, lucid

adamant, bull head, callous, cold fish,


dogged, hanging tough, hard-hearted,
heartless, obstinate, perverse, mulish,
rigid, stiff-necked, inexorable

amenable, submissive,
susceptible, yielding, gentle

brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown,


duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate,
marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, sop,

dehydrate, dry

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Zeitgeist

The defining spirit or


mood of a particular climate, outlook, spirit, trend, ambience,
period of histor as
atmosphere, inclination, milieu,
shown by the ideas and
movement, tenor, tone
beliefs of the time

old-fashioned

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Gauche

clumsy, awkward, bumbling, illelegant, graceful, mannerly,


Socially awkward and mannered, inelegant, inept, ham-handed,
polished, refined, sophisticated,
unsophisticated
halting, ignorant, uncouth, maladroit,
tactful, tasteful
oafish, unpolished, uncultured

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Regicide

The act of killing a king

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Savant

A learned person; a
distinguished person

academic, bookworm, brain, egghead,


expert, intellect, learner, master,
philosopher, pundit, sage

amateur, ignoramus

The act of hiding the


intended meaning

baffle, becloud, befuddle, bewilder,


cloud. Complicate, conceal, confound,
darken, fog, fuddle, muddle, obscure
perplex, puzzle, rattle

clarify, enlighten, clear up,


explain, explicate, illuminate,
reveal

Resting authority; not


obedient;
troublemaker

fractious, obstinate, rebellious, unruly,


wayward

agreeable, manageable, yielding,


compliant, obedient

Impossible to defeat

impregnable, invincible, invulnerable,


obstinate, stubborn, unassailable,
unbeatable, willful

beatable, willing, flexible, yielding

Campanolog
y

Study of bells

carillon playing, peal ringing

Pique

A feeling of irritation or
resentment resulting
from ta slight, epecially
to one's pride

annoyance, displeasure, conniption,


dander, flare up

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Obfuscate

28 Recalcitrant

29 Indomitable
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damaging, dangerous, deadly,


Having a harmful
destructive, detrimental, lethal, harmful,
effect, especially in a
malicious, moxious, nefarious, virulent,
gradual and subtle way
toxic

delight, happiness, pleasure

advantageous, assissting,
beneficial, benevolent, good,
harmless, healthy, helpful, kind,
wholesome, non poisonous

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Pernicious

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Traduce

To speak badly to
damage someone's
reputation

Calumniate, defame, denigrate, disgrace,


malign, slander, slur, smear, vilify

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Sangfroid

collness, poise

aplomb, composure, soolness,


equanimity, calmness

Crescendo

Gradual increase in
loudness, intensity or
volume (to grow)

escalation, upsurge, apex, ascension,


building, climb, crest, culmination,
elevation, intensification, zenith, peak

base, decline, nadir, bottom

Having little or no
money

beggared, broke, penniless, destitute,


indigent, impoverished, homeless, needy,
necessitous, penurious, strapped,
unprosperous

moneyed, wealthy, rich

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Impecunious
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(Antonym)

compliment, flatter, honour,


praise, exalt

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