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5 WORDS A DAY
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams
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AMELIORATE
◦ Meaning: to make better; to improve
◦ Example: The doctor was able to AMELIORATE the patient's suffering
using painkillers.
◦ Words with similar meanings:
AMEND BETTER IMPROVE
PACIFY UPGRADE
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ANACHRONISM
◦ Meaning: something out of place in time
◦ Example: The aged hippie used ANACHRONISTIC phrases like groovy
and far out that had not been popular for years.
◦ Words with similar meanings:
ARCHAISM INCONGRUITY
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ANALOGOUS
◦ Meaning: similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
◦ Example: In a famous argument for the existence of God, the universe is
ANALOGOUS to a mechanical timepiece, the creation of a divinely intelligent
‘Clockmaker’
◦ Related words
◦ ANALOGY: a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar
◦ ANALOGUE: something that is similar in some way to something else
◦ Words with similar meanings:
ALIKE COMPARABLE CORRESPONDING
EQUIVALENT HOMOGENEOUS PARALLEL
SIMILAR.
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ANOMALY
◦ Meaning: deviation from what is normal
◦ Example: Albino animals may display too great an ANOMALY in their
coloring to attract normally colored mates.
◦ Related words:
◦ ANOMALOUS: deviating from what is normal
◦ Words with similar meanings:
ABERRANCE ABERRATION ABNORMALITY
DEVIANCE DEVIATION IRREGULARITY
PRETERNATURALNESS.
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ANTAGONIZE
◦ Meaning: to annoy or provoke to anger
◦ Example: The child discovered that he could ANTAGONIZE the cat by
pulling its tail.
◦ Related Words:
◦ ANTAGONISTIC: tending to provoke conflict
◦ ANTAGONIST: someone who fights another
◦ Words with similar meanings
◦ CLASH CONFLICT IRRITATE
OPPOSE PROVOKE VEX
INCITE PESTER
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There is one variable that many childhood experts agree can
___________ the uncertainty in the lives of 'at risk' youths.

a. Aggravate
b. Social
c. Spoil
d. Ameliorate
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What is the one word for the given

meaning?
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the pleasant, positive or artful appearance of a person or a thing.

a. Revolutionalise
b. Ameliorate
c. Jeopardise
d. Alleviate
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Which of the following is not the

Synonym of “Ameliorate”?
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a. Disconnect
b. Alleviate
c. Lighten
d. Step up
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4
It is an ___ to say that dinosaurs and cavemen roamed the earth at
the same time.

a. Anthropomorphic
b. Anachronism
c. Analogous
d. Aggravate
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What is the one word for the given

meaning?
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an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is
assigned a date or period other than the correct one:

a. Lynchpin
b. Anachronism
c. Annihilation
d. Predatory
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Which of the following is not the

Antonym of “Anachronism”?
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a. Synchronal
b. Contemporary
c. Winy
d. Survival
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An airplane's joystick is somewhat _________ to the reins on a horse.

a. Anthropomorphic
b. Anachronism
c. Analogous
d. Aggravate
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meaning?
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similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some
specific detail

a. Antipathy
b. Anointed
c. Mingled
d. Analogous
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Which of the following is not the

Synonym of “Analogous”?
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a. Cognate
b. Connate
c. Akin
d. Disparate
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10
Although the _______ appeared in the sky thirty days ago, no one is
certain when it will appear again.

a. Anthropology
b. Trident
c. Anomaly
d. Ante
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meaning?
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the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen
from the sun

a. Claustrophobic
b. Diagonal
c. Vertices
d. Anomaly
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Which of the following is not the

Synonym of “Anomaly”?
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a. Oddment
b. Oddity
c. Aberration
d. Norm
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He didn't mean to _________ you.

a. Titrate
b. Trident
c. Serendipity
d. Antagonize
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meaning?
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to incur or provoke the hostility of

a. Jeopardize
b. Assuage
c. Antagonize
d. Make Precise
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Which of the following is not the

Synonym of “Antagonize”?
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a. Embitter
b. Provoke
c. Empoison
d. Assuage