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English Words Meanings
Agglomeration ---accumulation
Appendage------as a supplement
Allegedly------------apparently
Accursed------Under a curse
Allegation----statement
Assortment----Collection.
Adroit---alert, clever,dexterous
Amortization----depreciation –-
Accolades---award of honor
Arduous ----difficult,
Aesthete ---one who loves beauty of things. Devoted in the beauty of
Articulate ----clear
Adamantly ---stubornly
Analogous ---similar
Bourse====stock exchange
Benign----kind, gentle
Buoyant---floating up
Beguiling---charming, deceiving
Belabor ----criticise
Cohesive-----------------combine, gather
Consorsium--------Partnership
Capsized off-----accident
Castigated-----insult
Cumulonimbus---type of large dark grey rain cloud
Casings---frame
Cessation ---stopping
Contravene ---violate
Contamination ----pollution
Counteract ----prevention
Debarment---------Prevention.
Dessect----------to examine
Diaspora----out of country
Dwarf----reduce,minimize
Doldrums---depression,stagnation
Detection ----discovery
Deluge ----flood
Despotic ---tyranny
Escalation------------increase
Entrechment
Evacuation. process of clearing people out, act of removing (from a dangerous area, war
zone, etc.); withdrawal; discharge of contents
Embedded----inserted.
Emollient----softnening, smooth
Elicit ---extract
Enervate -----weaken
Exasperate ---enrage
Foray-----attack
Frivolous----silly, pitty
Filed ----arrange in
Frugal ----economical
Ferocity ----brutalness,
Fallacious ----false
G
Grab-----grasp firmly; snatch; seize forcefully or violently
Grosteque ---strange and unpleasant
Grudging ----unwilling
Glitches-----defect, fake
H
Hoisting-----increasing
Hoodwinked ----cheat
Horrendous –terrible
Insurgence-------uprising, rebellition
Inhale----draw in air
Ignominy
Innocuous ----
Idiosyncratically ----unusually
The litmus test for checking the confidence on reforms is to see how the large
Pakistani diaspora, having huge foreign savings, reacts to the country’s policies
Lacerate-----injured, damaged
Loutish ----illmannered
Enigmatic---mysterious, puzzle
Myopic===lacking sight
Meagre----deficiency
Nudge----push slightly
Notch-----cut
Neophyte—beginner
Nascent --beggner
Juggles------------tricks
Jockey—seriousness, frivolous
Overhaul----repair
Plummet------drop, fall
Peppered-----spicy
Procrastination---postponment, delay
Parleys------advice
Plaint ----flexible,
Ponderous ----
Pungency ---heat
Pungent ---spicy
Reminiscent-------memorable
Repurse-----back
Ruffle---irritate,annoy disturb
Roil ---muddy
Repulsion ---act of repelling, act of driving away; repugnance, disgust; force that causes
two bodies to move away from one another (Physics)
Rapacious -----greedy
Splendor ---brightness
Supplant-----------substitute, alternative
Sentiment-----feeling emotions
Spigots----a tap of
Sordid-----dirty
Shambles ----disorder
Trotting===move briskly
Tangenial
Tailspin ---destroy
Tantamount ---equal
Tirade ----rebuke
Tungsten ---metal
Toy ---
Vantage---advantage
Valor---intrepid, brave
Vex ---anger, irritate, exasperate; shake up, disturb; puzzle, confuse and concern; cause
mental suffering, afflict, cause suffering, torment ; debate, argue a question, discuss at
Vehemently----intesively, passionately
Throattle---------strange. Decrease
Whimsical--------determined by chance
Wringing---pressure
ANTONYMS
Waive----insist upon
Whimsical ----predictable
Boorish-----well-mannered
Revere---succumb
Asperity ===smoothness
Ignominious ----honoured
Evanescent ---permanent
Transient ---eternal
Evanescent ---eternal.
Transient ---permanent
Acarpous ----barren.
Sublimity ----baseness
Loutish ----sophisticated.
Enervate ----invigorate
Fringe ---center
Fallacious ---valid
Cryptic -----self-explanatory
Veneration ----derion