Daily Dose of Verbal Ability-27-06-2019

Vocabulary
Arrant (adj):
Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way = unmitigated,
That was arrant nonsense

Baleful (adj):
Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions = deadly, omnious
He disappeared into the night with a red eyes and a baleful look

Balmy (adj):
Balmy weather is fairly warm and pleasant = mild
A balmy winter morning is very pleasant

Boorish (adj):
Boorish behavior is rough, uneducated, and rude = insensitive
The villager’s boorish behaviour stunned the doctor.

Brash (adj):
If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they
are too confident and aggressive = rash
Beneath her brash exterior, she’s still a little girl inside

Captious (adj) :
A captious person is apt to find faults of others = faultfinding, carping
A captious friend would be the most hated one in the world

Comely (adj):
A comely woman is attractive = attractive, agreeable
She is not only comely but also very hardworking.

Dour (adj):
If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly = sullen, stubborn
Our normally dour boss looks quite friendly today

Dowdy (adj):
If you describe someone or their clothes as dowdy, you mean their clothes are dull and unfashionable
He tried to change his dowdy image by buying a new fashionable wardrobe

Exiguous (adj):
Exiguous amount or size is very small = paltry, meager, negligible
Sayali’s exiguous salary never discouraged her to go for higher studies.
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One Word Substitutions
1. A broad road bordered with trees –Boulevard

2. Animals who live in herds – Gregarious

3. The murder of parents or near relative – Parricide

4. A mild or indirect expression substituted for an offensive or harsh one –Euphemism

5. One who believes in no government and therefore incites disorder in a state –

Anarchist

6. One who secretly listens to talks of others-Eavesdropper

7. Science of diseases –Pathology

8. One who is beyond reforms –Incorrigible

9. Concluding part of a literary work – Epilogue

10. The act of killing whole group of people, especially a whole race –Genocide

Root Words
ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES

post after posthumous after death

pre before preamble introductory statement

premonition forewarning

prim first primordial existing at the dawn of time

primogeniture state of being the first born

pro forward, in propulsive driving forward

favor of proponent supporter

proto first prototype first of its kind

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