Vocabulary Words

 Myriad: countless or extremely great number

 Salient: most notable or important

 Asserts: state a fact or belief confidently or forcefully

 Galvanize: shock or excite, typically into taking action.

 Erroneous: wrong, incorrect

 Employs: to make use of

 Advantageous: providing an advantage

 Egregious: outstandingly bad, shocking

 Tenuous: very weak or fragile

 Engenders: to cause or give rise to

 Elucidate: To make clear

 Plight: bad condition

 Stench: foul smell

 Hassle free: without difficulties

 Bode: tell

 Diminish: lessen

 Woes: trouble
 Abrupt: very sudden or unpleasant
E.g. Rosie’s world came to an abrupt end when her parents died in a car accident.
 Absurd: something that is ridiculous or does not make sense.
E.g. The thought of being a fil star was absurd to her.
 Abysmal: very bad or poor in quality.
E.g. Standards of hygiene are abysmally low.
 Adept: something that is done skillfully
E.g. He is an adept guitar player.
 Arduous: difficult or involves lot of physical work
E.g. Long arduous journey.
 Atrocious: extremely bad r unpleasant
E.g. Atrocious weather conditions
 Aura: quality or feeling that appears or surrounds a person or place.
E.g. She had an aura of authority.
 Baffle: something which you cannot understand or explain.
E.g. Scientists are baffled by the find.
 Barbaric: behaviour which is extremely cruel
E.g. The most barbaric form of execution still in existence today.
 Bemused: slightly puzzled or confused
E.g. Mary looked at her with a bemused expression.
 Benevolent: kind, helpful and tolerant.

 Bias: prejudice against one group and favouritism towards another.

E.g. Allegations of bias against women
 Brink: a point at which something, typically something unwelcome, is about to
happen; the verge.
E.g. The country was on the brink of a constitutional crisis. 4