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*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