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    This document defines and provides examples for 15 high-frequency words: [1] castigate, [2] capricious, [3] catalyst, [4] caustic, [5] chaos, [6] catalyst, [7] capricious, [8] caustic, [9] castigate, [10] chaos, [11] castigate, [12] caustic, [13] capricious, [14] catalyst, [15] entropy. For each word, it identifies related words and words with similar meanings to help explain the word's definition in context.

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    This document defines and provides examples for 15 high-frequency words: [1] castigate, [2] capricious, [3] catalyst, [4] caustic, [5] chaos, [6] catalyst, [7] capricious, [8] caustic, [9] castigate, [10] chaos, [11] castigate, [12] caustic, [13] capricious, [14] catalyst, [15] entropy. For each word, it identifies related words and words with similar meanings to help explain the word's definition in context.

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    5 Words A Day: High Frequency Words For Competitive Exams

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    This document defines and provides examples for 15 high-frequency words: [1] castigate, [2] capricious, [3] catalyst, [4] caustic, [5] chaos, [6] catalyst, [7] capricious, [8] caustic, [9] castigate, [10] chaos, [11] castigate, [12] caustic, [13] capricious, [14] catalyst, [15] entropy. For each word, it identifies related words and words with similar meanings to help explain the word's definition in context.

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    5 WORDS A DAY
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    CAPRICIOUS
    ◦ Meaning: changing one's mind quickly and often
    ◦ Example:Queen Elizabeth I was quite CAPRICIOUS; her courtiers could
    never be sure which of their number would catch her fancy.
    ◦ Related words:
    ◦ CAPRICE: whim, sudden fancy
    ◦ Words with similar meanings:
    ARBITRARY CHANCE CHANGEABLE
    ERRATIC FICKLE INCONSTANT
    MERCURIAL RANDOM WHIMSICAL
    WILLFUL
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    CASTIGATE
    ◦ Meaning: to punish or criticize harshly
    ◦ Example: Americans are amazed at how harshly the authorities in
    Singapore CASTIGATE perpetrators of what would be considered minor
    crimes in the united States.
    ◦ Words with similar meanings:
    ADMONISH CHASTISE CHIDE
    REBUKE REPRIMAND REPROACH
    REPROVE SCOLD TAX
    UPBRAID
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    CATALYST
    ◦ Meaning: something that brings about a change in something else
    ◦ Example: The imposition of harsh taxes was the CATALYST that finally
    brought on the revolution.
    ◦ Related words:
    CATALYZE: to bring about a change in something else
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    CAUSTIC
    ◦ Meaning: biting in wit
    ◦ Example: Dorothy Parker gained her reputation for CAUSTIC wit from
    her cutting, yet clever, insults.
    ◦ Words with similar meanings:
    ACERBIC BITING TRENCHANT
    MORDANT
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    CHAOS
    ◦ Meaning: great disorder or confusion
    ◦ Example: In most religious traditions, God created an ordered universe
    from CHAOS.
    ◦ Related Words:
    ◦ CHAOTIC: jumbled, confused
    ◦ Words with similar meanings:
    CLUTTER CONFUSION DISARRANGEMENT
    DISARRAY DISORDER DISORDERLINESS
    DISORGANIZATION JUMBLE MESS
    MUDDLE SCRAMBLE SNARL
    TOPSY-TURVINESS TURMOIL
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    What is the one word for the given


    meaning?
    1
    to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism…

    a. Austere
    b. Critique
    c. Castigate
    d. Lunate
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Fill in the Blank


    2
    Every balloon voyage is a race between ____________ winds and the
    amount of fuel on board.

    a. Irreverent
    b. Conspicuous
    c. Capricious
    d. Cautious
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Which of the following is not the


    antonym of “Caustic”?
    3
    a. Bland
    b. Serene
    c. Pacifying
    d. Placebo
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    What is the one word for the given


    meaning?
    4
    an agent or compound that is added to a process to make a
    chemical reaction happen more quickly…

    a. Solution
    b. Intrusion
    c. Component
    d. Catalyst
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Which of the following is not the


    synonym of “Chaos”?
    5
    a. Anarchy
    b. Tumult
    c. Cognizant
    d. Entropy
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Fill in the Blank


    6
    Jake’s termination from his job was the ___________ for his
    uncontrollable anger.

    a. Hindrance
    b. Catalyst
    c. Responsive
    d. Carsen
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Which of the following is not the


    synonym of “Capricious”?
    7
    a. Vagarious
    b. Picky
    c. Wantonness
    d. Staid
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Fill in the Blank


    8
    Being _____________ to the receptionist is not going to get you in the
    doctor’s office any sooner.

    a. Sadistic
    b. Caustic
    c. Tenacious
    d. Ardent
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Fill in the Blank


    9
    When the police chief discovers his officers let the criminal escape,
    he is sure to _____________ them.

    a. Appraise
    b. Apprehend
    c. Castigate
    d. Truncate
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Fill in the Blank


    10
    If the police go on strike, our crime-ridden city will drown in _________.

    a. Echt
    b. Chaos
    c. Normality
    d. Fustian
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Which of the following is not the


    antonym of “Castigate”?
    11
    a. Laud
    b. Pummel
    c. Extol
    d. Endorse
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    What is the one word for the given


    meaning?
    12
    marked by the use of humor that is intended to cause hurt feelings…

    a. Comedy
    b. Caustic
    c. Acoustic
    d. Holocaustic
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    What is the one word for the given


    meaning?
    13
    governed or characterized by impulse

    a. Implosive
    b. Coercion
    c. Capricious
    d. Tut corn
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    Which of the following is not the


    synonym of “Catalyst”?
    14
    a. Synergist
    b. Stimulator
    c. Goad
    d. Queer
    High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

    What is the one word for the given


    meaning?
    15
    the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an
    ultimate state of inert uniformity

    a. Fortune
    b. Chaos
    c. Surreptitiousness
    d. Synergic

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