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THE FIRST 30 WORDS WITH MEANINGS:


*Affluent *Colossal *Efface *Farcical
*Affable *Commence *Edify *Gentility
*Affinity *Commiserate *Edible *Genuine
*Affliction *Commodious *Eclectic *Genuflect
*Bedlam *Diabolical *Ebullient *Gentry
*Befuddle *Diaphanous *Fatuous
*Beguile *Diatribe *Fatal
*Behemoth *Dichotomy *Fastidious
With alphabet 'A'

*Affable*
adjecive
Meaning:
Diffusing warmth and friendliness
Example:
She is restless, irritable, out of sorts, censorious, complaining at
home; animated, gracious, affable, complaisant abroad.
*Affinity*
NOUN
Meaning:
A close connection marked by community of interests
Example:
Malaysia has a close affinity with many Middle Eastern
nations through their shared religion.
*Affliction*
NOUN
Meaning:
A cause of great suffering and distress
Example:
Firm and exceptional natures are thus moulded out of miseries, misfortunes
and afflictions.Leonard, Arthur Glyn
*Affluent*
ADJECTIVE
Meaning:
Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value.
Example:
Affluent families can afford guns, which are more efficient for
bagging some elusive animals than a poorer household’s typical snare
trap
With letter 'B'

*Bedlam*
Adjective -Clause
Meaning:
State of extreme confusion and disorder
Example:
With more than 190 people killed and hundreds wounded just
three days before the country’s general election, Spain was thrown
into political bedlam.
*Befuddle*
NOUN
Meaning:
Be confusing or perplexing to
Example:
But regulators are profiling data to help find patterns in
trading activity that previously would have left regulators befuddled
and scratching their heads.
*Beguile*
Adjective
Meaning:
Attract; cause to be enamored
Example:
This is such an entertaining, beguiling, charming and exciting picture.
*Behemoth*
NOUN
Meaning:
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Example:
Behemoths like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Morgan
Stanley Smith Barney and UBS have snapped up numerous small firms
to create industry giants.
'C'

*Colossal*
NOUN
Meaning:
So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Example:
In the galleries are colossal figures of dragons, gods,
goddesses, and heroes, groups being often carved out of one gigantic
monolith.
*Commence*

Meaning:
Set in motion, cause to start
 Meaning:
 Reaching this just at evening, he encamped there all
night, and the next morning commenced crossing.
*Commiserate*
NOUN
Meaning:
Feel or express sympathy or compassion
Example:
We had spent countless hours together drinking wine and
commiserating about child-rearing, long Wisconsin winters and
interrupted sleep.
*Commiserate*
Adverb
Meaning:
Feel or express sympathy or compassion
Example:
We had spent countless hours together drinking wine and
commiserating about child-rearing, long Wisconsin winters and
interrupted sleep.
*Diabolical*
Adjective
Meaning:
 Showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
 Example:
 He is ever hankering after forbidden arts, and many have
fallen the innocent victims to his diabolical intrigues.
*Diaphanous*
Verb
Meaning:
So thin as to transmit light
Example:
Watercolour, being transparent but visible, is made for the
insubstantial: for painting water, reflection, vapour, sky, the hazy,
diaphanous and remote.
*Diatribe*
NOUN
Meaning:
Thunderous verbal attack
Example:
The grotesquely violent diatribes that the characters
sometimes hurl at each other parody the vicious language Lear heaps
on his ungrateful daughters, for instance.
*Dichotomy*
Noun
Meaning:
A classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Example:
The stark dichotomy between their own lives and the
projections on the televisions in their living rooms becomes more
pronounced.
*Eclectic*
Noun
Meaning:
selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
Example:
A former student of fine art, Mr Scruff's eclectic selections are
accompanied by animations of the trademark "potato people" who
humorously narrate his musical journey.
WITH LETTER 'E'

*Ebullient*

Meaning:
Joyously unrestrained
Exapmle:
The piece opened with ebullient bursts of energy and color
that scampered over harmonica drones played by one or more
members.
*Edible*
NOUN
Meaning:
suitable for use as food
Example:
Nevertheless, hunger increased so much that many ventured
out into woods along the river seeking edible roots, and with some
success.
*Edify*
Noun
Meaning:
make understand
Exapmle:
Then Miss Fairbairn held one of her little discourses, with which
now and then she endeavoured to edify her pupils.
*Efface*
Verb
Meaning:
remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Example:
Her rich beauty was wiped out as an acid-soaked sponge
might efface a portrait.
WITH LETTER 'F'

*Farcical*
NOUN
Meaning:
Broadly or extravagantly humorous
Example:
Mr. Sheldon's The Havoc seems also farcical in its type;
nevertheless it is a serious satiric thrust at certain extreme conceptions
of marital relations.
*Fastidious*
Adjective
Meaning:
Giving careful attention to detail
Example:
Clodagh bent her head, noting with the fastidious intolerance
of youth that his clothes were baggy and his hands unclean.Thurston,
Katherine Cecil
*Fatal*
NOUN
Meaning:
bringing death
Example:
It was a very fatal complication, death resulting in all but two
instances.Various
* Fatuous*
Meaning:
devoid of intelligence
Example:
Seth Meyers’s opening monologue: Background required to
understand jokes: Like other celebrities, professional athletes are
occasionally fatuous and commit embarrassing acts in their personal
lives.
WITH LETTER G'

*Gentility*
NOUN
Meaning:
Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
Example:
Obviously, that level of gentility and decorum is difficult to
maintain at regular tour events.
*Gentry*
VERB
Meaning:
The most powerful members of a society
Example:
In my young days the people with means were the landed
gentry and the nobility.Hine, Muriel
*Genuflect*
NOUN
Meaning:
Bend the knees and bow before a religious superior or image
Example:
When you enter, bless yourself with holy water and go quietly
to your seat, genuflect on your right knee and enter the
pew.Anonymous
*Genuine*
NOUN
Meaning:
Not fake or counterfeit
 While partial relief may be obtained through other channels, real,
genuine, and lasting redress can only be obtained by organized
action at the polls.Cloud, D. C.
LETTER WITH 'H':

Harangue
NOUN
Meaning:
Address forcefully
Example:
On that occasion, he harangued the West for more than 90
minutes, attacking its moral bankruptcy in an often nonsensical rant.
Harbinger
Noun
Meaning:
Something indicating the approach of something or someone
Example:
Even as villagers stared out at an ocean of detritus littered by
the tsunami, cherry blossoms, the harbinger of spring, bloomed.
Harmony
VERB
Meaning:
Compatibility in opinion and action
Example:
These fibres are so laid and connected, that a whole set of
muscles can be moved simultaneously, being made to work in perfect
harmony.Calderwood, Henry
Harried
noun
Meaning:
Troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances
Example:
Hours passed before Ann could sleep, and then her slumber
was broken, her rest harried by weird dreams, her half-waking periods
crammed with disturbing fantasies.
Imbroglio
Noun
Meaning:
An intricate and confusing interpersonal situation
Example:
And indeed his world is one huge imbroglio of Potentialities
and Diplomatic Intricacies, agitating to behold.
Imminent
NOun
Meaning:
Close in time; about to occur
Example:
He perceived the danger which he had so long warded off
now instant and imminent.
Impaired
NOUN
Meannig:
Diminished in strength, quality, or utility
Example:
Thinking could be slowed, attention dulled, judgement
impaired, memory muddled.
Impartial
Noun
Meaning:
Free from undue bias or preconceived opinions
Example:
We are looking for people who can serve as fair, objective
and impartial jurors.”
Jaunty
verb
Meaning:
Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
Example:
Yet his mood was jaunty and he cheerfully claimed to have
achieved his ambition, thus far, of getting through February without
touching alcohol.
Jeer
verb
Meaning:
Laugh at with contempt and derision
Example:
The mob jeered, and derided, and insulted her in every
conceivable way.Abbott,
Jejune
Adjective
Meaning:
Lacking interest or significance or impact
Example:
The works called good are dry and jejune, soon
consummated, often of questionable value, and leaving behind them
when finished a sense of vacuity.
Jeopardize
NOUN
Meaning:
Pose a threat to; present a danger to
Example:
Furthermore, Facebook could jeopardize Google’s online
dominance by developing its own search capabilities.
Keenly
Adverb
Meaning:
In a keen manner.

Kindly
Adverb
Meaning:
NaturallyAnd fitly.
Kindly
Adverb
Meaning:
In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a
disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.
Kingly
Adverb
Meaning:
In a kingly or kinglike manner.
Lacerate
verb
Meaning:
Tear the flesh or skin, It can be used to refer to someone's
feeling being hurt or wounded
Lackadaisical
adjective
Meaning:
Lacking enthusiasm and thoroughness
Laborious
adjective
Meaning:
Requiring or showing much effort
Labyrinth
noun
Meaning: A complicated network of passages
Magnetism
noun
Meaning:
The ability to attract and charm people
Magnitude
noun
Meaning
Great size or importance, size
Mammoth
noun
Meaning:

Huge
Mandarin
noun
Meaning:
A powerful official
Nepotism
noun
Meaning:
Favoritism showed to relatives or friends (Eg. by giving them jobs)
Neutralize
verb
Meaning:
Make ineffective
Niche
noun
Meaning:
A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests,
abilities, or nature; Job or role to which one is suited
Nimble
adjective
Meaning: Quick and agile
Obscure
Adjective
Meaning:
Not known about or well known, hard to understand or see,
hide or make unclear
Obsequious
Adjective
Meaning:
Excessively obedient or respectful
Obsess
verb
Meaning:
Preoccupy to a disturbing extent
 Obsolete
 Adjective
 Meaning:
 No longer produced or used, out of date
Parameter
noun
Meaning:
A limit defining the scope of a process or activity,
characteristic or distinguishing feature.
Paramount
adjective
Meaning:
More important than anything else
Paranoid
Adjective
Meaning:
Unjustified distrust of others, a mental condition in which a
person has delusions of persecution or grandeur
Pariah
noun
Meaning:
An outcast
Quirk
noun
Meaning:
A peculiar habit in a person's behavior, a strange thing
happening by chance, sudden turn or twist
Quisling
noun
Meaning:
A traitor
Quit
verb
Meaning;
Leave, resign from a job, informal-cease
Quits
Adjective
Meaning:
On equal terms because a debt or score has been settled
Rampant
Adjective
Meaning:
Flourishing or spreading uncontrollably, widespread, raging
Ramshackle
Adjective
Meaning:
In a very bad condition
Rancour
noun
Meaning:
Bitter feeling or resentment
Random
Adjective
Meaning:
Done or happening without order, purpose or planning
Temperamental
Adjective
Meaning:
Tending to change mood in an unreasonable way
Tempt
verb
Meaning:
Entice someone to do something against their better judgment
Tenacious
adjective
Meaning:'
Holding firmly to something, persistent, stubborn, perseverant
Tensile
Adjective
Meaning:
Of tension, able to be stretched
Schism
noun
Meaning:
A division into opposing groups through a deep difference
in belief or opinion, a split because of difference of opinion
Scot-free
adverb
Meaning:
Without punishment or injury
Scoff
verb
Meaning:
Speak about scornfully, disbelievingly, informal-eat greedily
Scorn
noun
Meaning:
Open contempt or disdain
Unprepossessing
Adjective
Meaning:
Unattractive, Not overtly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript:

Unruly
Adjective
Meaning:
Not easy to control
Unprompted
Adjective
Meaning:
Spontaneous, Proceeding from natural feeling or impulse
without external stimulus
Unremitting
Adjective
Meaning:
MeamonNot stopping or slackening
Vibe
Noun
Meaninng :
Informal the atmosphere produced by a place or a mood
passing between people
Vicarious
Adjective
Meaning:
Experienced in ones imagination rather than directly
Vice versa
Adverb
Meaning:
Reversing the order of the items just mentioned
Vicinity
noun
Meaning:
The surrounding area
Wet blanket
Adjective
Meaning:
A person who spoils others enjoyment by their lack of
enthusiasm
Whack
verb
Meaning:
Informal-strike with a sharp blow, whacked-exhausted
Whet
verb
Meaning:
Stimulate someone's interest or appetite
Wheedle
verb
Meaning:
Coax or cajole
Yes-man
Meaning:
Exclamation Informal-a person who always agrees
with his superiors
Yield
Verb
Meaning:
Give way to demands or pressure, give up possession of
Yes-man

Meaning:
Exclamation Informal-a person who always agrees with his
superiors
Yield
Verb
Meaning:
Give way to demands or pressure, give up possession of
Yob
Noun
Meaning:
Informal-rude and aggressive young man
Yokel
Noun
Meaning:
An unsophisticated country person
Zigzag
noun
Meaning:
Line or course having sharp alternate right and left turn
Zilch
noun
Meaning:
Informal-nothing
Zing
noun
Meaning:
Informal-energy or enthusiasm
Zombie
noun
Meaning:
A completely unresponsive person

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