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Occultism, Necromancy, Diabolism: black magic, supernatural beliefs, worshipping devil


2. Necrophobia, thahthanophobia: fear of dead bodies, conjure
3. Legerdemain, Prestidigtion: Skillfull use of hands to play tricks, deception, trickery
4. Leviate: to make someone float in air
5. Talisman, amulet: lucky charm
6. Omen, portent, augury: bad signs
7. Portend, augur, forbode, fortell, promosticate, presage, prophesy: advance warning, predict
8. Prescience, foreshadow: having knowledge of events before they take place, warn of
9. Sibyl, clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer, oracle, Cassandra, huruspex: a person who can see the future,
fortune teller
10. Minatory: Threatning
11. Smolder, seethe: Burn without flame, burn from inside , example “seething with anger”
12. Singe, scorch sear: Burn superficially, example she singed her finger with hot oven
13. Scald; Burn with hot liquid
14. Swelter: An uncomfortably hot atmosphere. example It would be foolish to wear sweater in swelter
atmosphere
15. Torrid: Very hot and dry
16. Scathe: to hurt, injure ‘scathing remarks’
17. Glower, scowl: to look angrily, having dark inflamed appearance, live angrily
18. Incense: Make very angry, to anger someone
19. Pique: a feeling of irritation
20. Indignation: Anger by annoyance, justified anger
21. Rabid: Extereme, fanatical
22. Discrete: disparate, separate, divided
23. Discreet: vice
24. Frigid: Very cold, “frigid response”
25. Glacial: Extremely cold or unfriendly
26. Didactic: Moralizing teacher, “Didactic pundit
27. Pedantic: Fault finding, interested in minor details “Pedantic always see half glass empty”
28. Mentor: an experienced and trusted advisor
29. Protégé: The one who is goided
30. Pedagogue: A teacher especially strict or pedantic one.”Pedagogue Grammar specialist”
31. Erudite: having or showing knowledge, scholarly
32. Limber, lithe, supple: Flexible
33. Nimble, agile: Able to move quickly and swiftly.
34. Adroit, prowess: Skillfull
35. Convoluted, tortuous, inter-wined, serpentine, winding, meandering, sinous, gnarled: Complex,
twisted, wavy, full of curves and turns
36. Affinity: Likeness, prone susceptible, vulnerable
37. Penchat, inclination, propensity, predilection: Liking towards something “Penchant towards diamond
pendants”
38. Dawdle, dillydally, procrastinate: Waste time, delay or postpone action
39. Linger: To stay behind, to stay a long time over.”Boys linger around girls”
40. Dilatory: slow
41. Laggard:slower than desired,a person who falls behing others
42. Malingerer: exaggerate or person who person who pretends to be ill to avoid or work
43. Goldbrick: event excuses to avoid tasks
44. Morbid, macabre: deathly
45. Gruesome, ghastly, grissly, gross, horrendous: fear or horror
46. Hideous, grotesque, teratoid: extremely ugly
47. Heinous, egregious, appalling: shockingly bad (for crime)
48. Segregate: separate
49. Polarize, dichotemy: separate into two contrast groups
50. Disjointed: lacking coherence
51. Prodigy: born talented, wonder kid   “Sachin Tendulkar”
52. Precocious: having developed certain skills or inclination at an earlier age than usual
53. Prattle, babble, gibber, glib, drivel, jabber, prate: to talk nonsense in speedy way “Rakhi Sawant is
famous for her Prattle talks”
54. Drawl: To speak in slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel songs; one who stops between talking. “Atal
bihari Vajpayee way of delivering speechesJ”
55. Inundate: flood, Mumbai was inundated by rain water.
56. Parry, shrirk, evade, circumvent, elude, dodge: avoid, bypass
57. Avert: prevent, ward off, turn away
58. Shunt: slow push or pull to less important place “Shunt resistance in potentiometer (Class XII Current
Electricity)”
59. Swerve: To take a sharp turn, abruptly change from straight course.
60. Maladroit: Ineffective, unskilled
61. Inept: clumsy, incompetent
62. Gauche, lummox, ungainly: Unsophisticated, socially awkward.
63. Dilerium: not in presence of mind, incoherence of thought and speech, an acutely state of mind
characterized by restlessness. “Kangana Ranaut in her many films”
64. Chimera:Female ghost
65. Bonny: fasionable
66. Limpid: easy to understand, transparent, clear

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