Manhattan GRE Advanced and Essential Combo Word list-zaheer

bombastic

(Of speech or writing) far too showy or dramatic than is appropriate; pretentious

aspersions, asperity

Disparaging remarks, defamation, slander An aspersion is a disparaging remark. It almost invariably appears as a plural, following the word "cast" — when you cast aspersions on someone, you are questioning their abilities or doubting them. Finding out that a field-hockey coach had never played the sport might cast aspersions on her ability to coach it. Wendy's ads don't come out and say that McDonald's hamburgers are made out of cardboard, but through shot after shot of their own thick and juicy and oddly square offering, they cast aspersions on the quarter-pounder. These aspersions about Muslims seek to dehumanize them and cast them as a "foreign," menacing group unworthy of our sympathies. Asperity is the harsh tone or behavior people exhibit when they're angry, impatient, or just miserable. When your supervisor's "Late again!" greeting causes your entire future to pass before your eyes, he is speaking with asperity. The harshness that asperity implies can also apply to conditions, like "the asperities of life in a bomb shelter." Or even more literally to surfaces, like "the asperity of an unfinished edge." But, most often, you will see asperity used in reference to grumpy human beings.

declivity

Downward slope~~jhuk jana, liff jana The word declivity comes from the Latin words de, which means "down," and clivus, which means "slope." If you're at the bottom of the hill looking up, you'll see the opposite of a declivity. From that position you'll be looking at an acclivity, an upward slope.

adumbrate

Give a rough outline of; foreshadow=reveal only partially (about future event such an inkling). To adumbrate something is to outline it. In an English essay, you could adumbrate the themes in a novel; or, in a letter to Santa, you could adumbrate all the ways you have been behaving. Adumbrate is built on the Latin root umbra, "shade," and the image it evokes is of a shadow being cast around something. Your outline is like a shadow of something bigger — like the themes in that novel or the ways you have been behaving. You can also use adumbrate to mean "foreshadow": "The scene where the princess dreams of the vampire adumbrates her later discovery that her little brother is, in fact, a vampire." It reflects the fear that the evil adumbrated in the play cannot be contained, cannot be explained even within the structure of tragedy.I muttered that in fragments, but the lines only adumbrated the longing without revealinBut it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work. Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths. Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. The author of a mystery novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder.

accretion

Gradual increase; an added part or addition.~~Accretion sounds like Errection,,, so u r dik grows in size during an errection. She had grown weary and detached, and since she affected me as more impressed with the evil of the world than with the good, this was a gain; in other words her accretion of indifference, if not of cynicism, showed a softer surface than that of her old ambitions.

amortize

Gradually pay off a debt, or gradually write off an asset. ~~morti (made of gold), returning its debt will be gradual process. Liquidate comes from the Latin liquidare, meaning "to melt," or "to clarify." A recipe might ask you to liquefy the butter, not liquidate it, because liquidate has to do with assets. To liquidate is to convert stocks or goods into cash by selling them, to finish business neatly, and to clear debts. If you liquidate your old baseball card collection, you will have money to put in your college fund. The appropriate response to this environment is for Congress to provide an additional two years over which these companies can amortize their 2007 and 2008 losses, with the first two years of this extended amortization period requiring only interest payments on the obligation

bevy

Group of birds or other animals that stay close together; any large group~~wife A bevy can also describe a large gathering of people, usually of the same type (a bevy of schoolchildren; a bevy of tourists). Most often, however, bevy is used to refer to a gathering of women. At a family reunion, you may find your grandmother holding court in the kitchen with a bevy of female relations. Young, attractive women are sometimes referred to, somewhat poetically, as "a bevy of beauties."

apprise

Inform, give notice to To apprise someone about something is to fill them in, to give them the scoop. If someone in your immediate family wins the mega-bucks lottery, you want to be the first one to be apprised of that event!

blithe

Joyous, merry; excessively carefree (so as to ignore more important concerns)~~bliss the people , so that they live happy. ----The best approach to life, Highsmith seems to say, is a kind of blithe nonchalance.Sadly, Republicans—who have repeatedly slammed Obama for this kind of blithe incoherence—are not immune to the same disorder.

adulterate

Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients

apostate

Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc. not faithful or loyal to any party An apostate is someone who has deserted his cause. The word apostate originally comes from a Greek word that meant "runaway slave." Now, apostate has a religious or political tone to it, so someone might call you "a political apostate" if you ran for office as a Republican during one election and then ran as a Democrat in the following election Like the apostate Muslim zealots who hate America, they are at one not with the Christian god but with Trump in spewing hatred of Muslims. He disappeared early this year, and before his death he reportedly left behind an audio tape in which he denounced his own family as apostates

bent

Personal inclination or tendency If you have a knack or aptitude for doing something, you can say you have a bent for it. Perhaps you have a bent for woodworking, creating fabulous desserts, or writing poetry, you are good at it. The noun bent can also refer to a strong inclination to react to something in a specific manner. If you have a strong scientific bent, you won't be inclined to believe reports of alien spaceship landings and Loch Ness Monster sightings. As an adjective, bent describes someone very determined, and in this case, the word is usually followed by "on." You may be bent on the kids going to bed early, but they may have other ideas: party in the living room!

bucolic

Pertaining to shepherds; suggesting a peaceful and pleasant view of rural life As an adjective, bucolic refers to an ideal country life that many yearn for. If your parents wanted to raise you in a bucolic environment, you may find yourself living 45 minutes away from the nearest movie theater or person your age. Not ideal. You wouldn't know it to look at it, but bucolic is a distant relation of cow, and all bucolic's meanings can be connected to the bovine creature. Bucolic ultimately comes from the Greek boukolos, cowherd or herdsman. A bucolic could be a short poem about pastoral (cow) life or a country person, who is stereotyped as a cowherd. Used as an adjective, bucolic can refer to an idealized rural life (think life with cows) or to herdsmen (more cows). And that's no bull.

apostle

Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower Although an apostle might be a pioneering supporter of any new cause, the word is most often used to refer to the twelve original disciples of Jesus who went on to spread the gospel. When used as a title, it's capitalized. "messenger" referred to the followers of Jesus. The modern meaning can be more secular, with the word appropriately being applied to any leader breaking new ground or supporting an important new idea. As an apostle of the latest developments in good nutrition, you were outraged at the sight of french fries. Clearly, you had no choice but to make them disappear.

burnish

Polish, make smooth and lustrous -----This past week, Limbaugh insisted that the Obama White House would use the catastrophe in Haiti to "burnish" the president's standing and credibility "with the black community, in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community, in this country." You might polish your wooden coffee table with a cloth or polish beach stones until they gleam. Polish is also a noun, meaning either the spray you use to shine up your furniture or the shininess itself: "The polish on that desk is unbelievable — I can almost see my reflection in it!" There is also a figurative kind of polish, a sort of elegance or clarity you might see in well-edited writing or a fashionable woman sliding into a taxi. A caution about usage: burnish in the physical sense is usually reserved for inanimate objects — a woman will not be happy to hear that her appearance is "burnished to perfection." But your car will thank you. Also, one of the most common non-physical things to be burnished? A reputation. People are forever burnishing them — and its opposite, besmirching them (i.e., making them dirty).

analgesia

Reduce pain but you feel it. ~~anal sex If you've ever broken a bone or had a severe injury, you might have taken painkillers. A good painkiller can produce analgesia: a condition in which you're conscious but pain-free. If you suffer from headaches, stomachaches, bad knees, a sore back, or any other kind of pain, analgesia is a state you'd like to be in. People with chronic pain never get to experience analgesia. Anything that relieves pain can be called an analgesic. Women should be offered different treatment options and, for non-surgical approaches, they also must be given realistic information about what is involved, and have adequate analgesia and access to care should they run into problems

aerie

Residence or An aerie is the nest of a large bird of prey somewhere high up, such as the branch of a tree or a clifftop. confused with: eerie (mysterious, uncanny) Don't confuse aerie with airy, meaning spacious and well ventilated (though it's a safe bet that given their location most aeries are exactly that). The word also has the meaning of a human residence that's perched high up — particularly an artist's garret, for example, in the eaves of a building. But the mission hardly gets started: In the mountains of southern Spain, Awa and her mistress are captured by a necromancer and kept for years in an inaccessible aerie by him and his "bonemen" resurrected corpses. Sometime next month, the youngster will be ready for its first meal in the eagles' oak tree aerie 110 feet above the academy.

asperity

Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface

canard

Rumor, a false or baseless story

demur

Show reluctance or object, especially for moral reasons But strangely, when given an opportunity to be influential, many demur, backing away from the conversations that result in the making of decisions. Demur when a cute trucker invites you to an all-night rave if you want to be considered demure. Ladies love an e. Demur sounds like dee-mur, while demure sounds like a baby kitten: de-myure. Mew. Add an e to make demure, which describes a shy, polite, legs-crossed, hands-in-lap kinda gal: Demure? I think you need to read the definition of that word, because no one in hot pink shorts and red manic panic hair. demur is to show reluctance or to hesitate, like not quite getting in the car when someone opens the door, but demure isalways an adjective describing a modest, reserved, or shy person, and sounds like the mew of a tiny kitten.

acerbic, acidulous

Sour; harsh or severe, it can also be castic If you say something acerbic, or harshly bitter, to someone, it can leave a bitter taste in your own mouth that lingers, and the acerbic, or acidic, words can eat away at the person on the receiving end too. It is fitting that the first part of acerbic sounds like the first part of "acid," because the Latin source of acerbic is acerbus, "sour-tasting." Acerbic speech is like acid, because it is sour and corrodes, or weakens, relationships. There are ways to use sharp words for humor, and some comedians are known for their "acerbic wit," but just as you would take safety precautions in using acid in a science lab, you should be cautious using acerbic in conversation As a reader, she fell in love with the acerbic young protagonist and the allure of 1970s New York City. accidous, sour in taste or bitter in views In either usage, the word acidulous leaves a sour taste in your mouth, or a pursed expression on your face. You see the word acid in the word, which, in fact, can also be used in both senses. Someone's acid remarks will be just as hurtful as their acidulous ones. Lemons are an acidic fruit, as are most citrus fruits, but lemons are more acidulous than oranges Colin makes acidulous remarks about her morals; she snaps back at him to get a job. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous

brandish and firebrand

To brandish something is to wave it about aggressively, as one might brandish a sword or tennis racket (if it's a particularly intense game). ( brandish sounds like to and fro motion after drinking brandy) ot little girls on campus" would be far safer if they could brandish a weapon and make sure "these sexual predators get a bullet in their head." Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.As with his Harvard degree, Obama did not hesitate to brandish his pretty white wife with the Boston accent noun: someone who deliberately creates trouble, trouble maker Freddie is a firebrand: every time he walks into the office, he winds up at the center of heated argument.

rebut vs refute

To rebut is more than just "to deny," it's a serious attempt to prove something is false. If you rebut something, you haven't necessarily won the argument; you've only presented your side of it: A Jesuit priest has taken to YouTube and his blog to rebut arguments raised by British physicist Stephen Hawking. (Catholic News Service) Refute means to disprove something straight up. If you refute something, you successfully win the argument. The hearing was unfortunately based on hearsay evidence that we were not able to refute by cross-examining anyone. (Eagle Tribune)

cosset

Treat as a pet, pamper To cosset is to pamper or spoil. Your mom might cosset her beloved lap dog, feeding him homemade meals and singing him to sleep. If your parents used to cosset you when you were little, they may have protected you from injury and indulged your every whim. Your temptation might be to cosset small children or elderly relatives, pampering them and shielding them from difficulty. In the 17th century, cosset had the additional sense of "fondle and caress," as you might cuddle a baby or a puppy. Earlier, the word was a noun meaning "a lamb raised as a pet." Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

convoke

Call together, as to a meeting ~~convocations colleagues call all the students for a meeting

bilk vs balk

Cheat or defraud~~bilk actually comes from Bil-Klinton. The politician who "cheat" all the time. Ever paid a restaurant bill only to discover they charged you for stuff you never had? What they did was bilk you — cheat you out of money that was justly yours. Shady companies are forever bilking their investors. --It will be with extreme reluctance, and only in the last resort, that I shall muster in militia," he informed Call, further explaining that a desire to bilk the government "enters largely in to every panic." Balk: refuse to comply

coffer

Chest for storing valuables; financial resources, a treasury ~~kafin You can keep your heirlooms, jewels, and savings bonds in a coffer, a safe chest for tucking such things safely away. Coffer takes on a figurative meaning when you talk about the coffers of a large institution: "There's plenty of money in the government coffers — they just don't want to spend it on education!" Yet another meaning of the word is "decorative sunken panel in a ceiling," such as one you'd see in a mosque, museum, or cathedral ceiling.

arrogate

Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so To arrogate is to take over. When the teacher steps out of the classroom and some bossy girl marches up to the front chalkboard? What she's trying to do is arrogate the teacher's authority to herself. When someone takes control of something, often without permission, such as when a military general assumes the power of a country's government after getting rid of the previous leader, they arrogate power or control to themselves. Occasionally the verb arrogate means something like "assert one's right to," or take something that is deserved, but more often it implies a taking by force. Forgo or forfeit giving up intentionally, The word forgo can be traced back to the Old English word forgān, which meant to pass away or to die, which is sometimes referred to as "giving up the ghost." Perhaps it was this idea of relinquishing something that led to our modern-day use of the word forgo to mean to give up, waive, or forfeit something. For example, someone charged with a crime might decide to forgo the right to remain silent and instead confess. Forfeit means to lose or give up something, usually as a penalty. If you don't finish your homework and eat all your broccoli, you'll most likely forfeit your right to watch TV before going to bed. To forfeit is to lose or give up something as punishment for making an error. A forfeit is what is lost. You've probably heard of forfeiting a game or match — like when you don't show up with enough players or pick one too many fights with the opposing team.

clamber

Climb awkwardly or with difficulty, scramble To clamber is to climb awkwardly. Hamlet's Ophelia was said to have been clambering on a weak branch of a willow when she met her "muddy death." It's never a good idea to clamber, let alone on weak willow branches. We associate the word clamber far more often with toddlers (than Shakespearean tragedy). Toddlers are known for naturally clumsy, ill-coordinated movements we deem cute not foolish.

coterie

Close or exclusive group, clique ~~katorri makes group of children in one pregnancy term Our little coterie is the object of great envy; we live just as we like, without thinking of other people, which I am not sure here is prudent, but it is pleasant, which is a better thing.

abscission

Cutting off; sudden termination; the separation of leaves, petals, or other parts from a plant or animal

Offhand

Casual, informal; done without preparation or forethought; rude in a short way, brusque

Alienate

Cause to become unfriendly, hostile, or distant

Deflect

Cause to curve; turn aside, esp. from a sstraight course; avoid

precipitate

Cause to happen suddenly or prematurely; fling, plunge, or hurl down

Catalyst

Causer of change

hermetic

Airtight, sealed, isolated; ~~akhram in hudge If you want to keep cookies crisp for a long time, store them in a jar with a hermetic, or airtight, seal. Hermetic means sealed so that no air can get in. The word can be used metaphorically as well. A child who is completely protected from the outside world might be said to come from a hermetic environment. The word comes from the name of the Greek god, Hermes Trismegistus, who was a magician and alchemist and was credited with creating the process for making a completely airtight glass tube, a god-like feat if there ever was one --And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling. Singing can also be "bad" but not failed, thanks to cult followings, if it is sufficiently esoteric, hermetic, and poetically doomed

albeit

Although, even though

egress

An exit or the action of exiting If you want to leave a place, you need a means of egress, or a way to exit, such as a door or window. It was a beautiful old house, but without enough ways of egress, they needed outdoor fire-stairs for reaching the upper floors. Egress comes from a Latin word meaning "going out." An egress is basically the same thing as an exit. (Egress can also be used as a verb, "to exit," but less frequently than as a noun.) When buildings undergo inspection, one of the main safety features under review is the number and placement of doors and windows, the "means of egress," in case of fire or other emergency There are tons of things in place to handle traffic and ingress and egress.

Rescind

Annul, repeal, make void, cancel. abrogate, nullify, retract, countermand ~~rescind reminds us of "resign", where resign is to cancel your appointment and rescind is to cancel an agreement ----How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition?

Savor

Appreciate fully, taste or smell with pleasure

Concur

Approve, agree

Chronological

Arranged in or relating to time order

ersatz

Artificial, synthetic; being an inferior substitute The ersatz version of something is an inferior substitute or imitation. Instant coffee would be considered ersatz to a freshly brewed cup made from hand-ground Costa Rican beans. Used as a noun or adjective, ersatz stems from the German verb ersetzen, which means "to replace." Compared with regular Coke, Diet Coke may be considered an ersatz beverage because of its artificial sweeteners. Similarly, rich, creamy, full-fat ice cream is much better than the ersatz, fat-free version, or frozen yogurt. You would be in deep trouble if your fiancé found out that her engagement ring was an ersatz diamond.

Dormat

Asleep, inactive, on a break ~~he sleeps on a door mat

supposition

Assumption, hypothesis, something that has been supposed

Simultaneous

At the same time

impugn

Attack the truth or integrity of To impugn means to call into question or attack as wrong. If your usually grumpy brother is suddenly nice and sweet, you'll impugn his motives if you're smart — he probably just wants something from you. The root of impugn is the Latin pugnare which means "to fight," so when you impugn, you are fighting or attacking, but by saying that something is false or wrong. If a candidate has a record that cannot be impugned, his or her opponent might go for a character attack. If you take pride in your work, you will be especially insulted if someone impugns your professionalism or integrity. ..similar sound word. impregnable, not attackable.

assail

Attack violently, assault

iconoclast

Attacker of cherished beliefs or institutions

propitiate

Attempt to reconcile with, satisfy, or reduce the animosity of (a person who is angry, offended, etc.)

Canonical

Authorized, recognized; pertaining to the canon, or body of accepted rules, standards or artistic works "This is not a judgment of guilt, nor is it a suspension of any other canonical penalty," Canary wrote.

curmudgeon

Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch

surly

Bad-tempered, hostile, unfriendly, or rude

presumptive

Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable grounds for belied

Denote

Be a name or symbol for

antedate

Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date

Spearhead

Be the leader of ~~peer makes him Head

neophyte

Beginner, novice; person newly converted to a religion

Decorous

Behaving with propriety and good taste; polite

Credibility

Believability, trustworthiness

disparage

Belittle, put down; bring shame upon, discredit

Cosmopolitan

Belonging to the entire world, at home globally; free from local or national prejudices or attachements

Intrinsic

Belonging to the essential nature of a thing

Moreover

Besides; in addition to what was just stated

Optimal or Optimum

Best, most desirable or favorable

Partial

Biased, prejudiced, favoring one over others; having a special liking for something or someone (usually partial to)

Diatribe

Bitter, abusive attack or criticism; rant

Tirade

Bitter, abusive criticism or verbal attack

Reproach

Blame, disgrace (n); criticize, express disappointment in(v)

amalgamate

Blend, merge, or unite

Stymie or stymy

Block, hinder, or thwart (v); an obstacle (n) ~~stilmiss cream

Hardy

Bold, brave, capable of withstanding hardship, fatigue, cold, etc.

plucky

Brave, spirited

Onerous

Burdensome, oppressive, hard to endure;onerous duties.

Implode

Burst inward

Metamorphosis

A complete change or transformation (in biology, a change such as a caterpillar becoming a pupa and then a butterfly)

subpoena

A court order requiring a person to appear in court and give testimony ~~SABOOT POST KARNA"!!!

abyss

A deep and vast space or cavity; anything profound or infinite. Now, if the abyss is scary, what is scarier, what generates it, what you will find in it, or what comes from it?

dirge

A funeral or mourning song or poem

rift

A gap or fissure (such as in rock), a break in friendly relations ~~a rifle produce rift Rift sounds like rip, and it's helpful to think of it that way. When there is a rift in a political party over a particular policy, it is like a rip or tear in the fabric of the group. Rift has a slightly different sense than break. A group can have a rift without having fully broken apart. A rift can heal, though a break is permanent. A rift can arise between sisters over whose turn it is to do dishes; it can quickly heal when parents promise an ice cream trip when the dishes are done. The Earth's crust has rifts, where it's splitting apart, like in East Africa. The initiative underscores Schroeder's efforts to untangle a protracted reorganization plan that has met fierce resistance from financial creditors and revealed shareholder rifts The heated debate over immigration in the 2016 presidential campaign is part of a broader rift

sinecure

A job or position that pays while requiring little or no work

Slew

A large number or quantity ~~His typing was "slow", yet there were a slew of errors.

demagogue

A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions (fealings, not reasons) and especially prejudices of the people ~~demography (study on people)+ demo (people)+ agogue (leader) demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.

modicum

A little bit or limited quantity

sobriquet

A nickname

Hierarchy

A ranked series; a classification of people according to rank, ability, etc.; a ruling body

platitude

A shallow, overused statement; cliche

interregnum

A time in between two reigns or regimes during which there is no ruler; a period during which government does not function; any period of freedom from authority or break or interruption in a series ~~regime

fledgling

A young bird that has just recently gotten its feathers, an inexperienced person (noun); new or inexperienced (adj)

Malleable

Able to be bent, shaped, or adapted

Plastic

Able to be shaped or formed; easily influenced

Intelligible

Able to be understood, clear

pallid

Abnormally pale (as skin); lacking color or vitality ~~pale, lid (donkey shit) Santa looks a little pallid, meaning that he has a pale complexion, from spending too much time at the North Pole. A few days in Hawaii might do wonders to add color to his pale, bearded face. Pallid means pale, or lacking color. It's often used together with complexion to describe someone who has a pale face, either due to a lack of sunshine or some kind of emotional distress. A reclusive author could be pallid from spending too much time indoors. His books can also be called pallid if they're lacking in color and excitement.

Anarchy

Absence of law or government; chaos, disorder

Ascetic

Abstinent or austere in lifestyle; a person who leads an austere and simple life without material pleasures, esp. someone who does this for religious reasons

Lavish

Abundant or giving in abundance; marked by excess (adj.); give very generously (v)

Profuse

Abundant, extravagant, giving or given freely

dither

Act indecisively (verb); a state of fear or trembling excitement ~~tharr jana

Implication

Act of implying or that which is implied; close connection, esp. in a incrimination way

Capricious

Acting on impulse, erratic

Counterintuitive

Against what one would intuitively expect

proxy

Agent, substitute, person authorized to act on behalf of another

vicissitude

Changes or variations over time, esp. regular changes from one thing to another. vicissitude sounds like ...WISE ATTITUDE...... whenver there is variation in circumstances or fortune at diffrent times of life, only a WISE PERSON WHO POSSES WISE(good)ATTITUDE CAN HANDLE THE SITUATION PROPERLY

Alacrity

Cheerful or Speedy willingness

Sanguine

Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful; reddish, ruddy (as in rosy-red cheeks indicating health or vitality)

Pretentious

Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when unjustified; showing off, creating a deceptive, false show of worth

exonerate

Clear from blame or accusation; free from a responsibility

Exculpate

Clear from guilt or blame

Lucid

Clear, easy to understand; rational, sane

Guile

Clever deceit, cunning, craftiness

Levy

Collect tax from, wage war on, or enlist for military service (v); act of collecting tax or amount owed, or the drafting of troops into military service (n) ~~lay vi tax

Incorporate

Combine, unite; form a legal corporation; embody, give physical form to They planned to incorporate the Netherlands into a greater Germany after the war.

Coalesce

Come together, unite; fuse together

Succeeding

Coming after or following

Empirical

Coming from, based on, or able to be verified by experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory

Nascent

Coming into existence, still developing

Mundane

Common, ordinary, everyday

Analogous

Comparable, corresponding in some particular way (making a good analogy)

grouse

Complain or grumble (verb); a reason for complaint (noun) ~~when software use is grown, complains will be comming A grouse is a small game bird. But the verb to grouse is different. It means to gripe about how unhappy you are. It's not recommended for most people, because grousing is unattractive. People's excitement about the rise of the Internet has been largely replaced by disappointment that it's turned out to be essentially a forum for people to grouse. No disappointment is too small to grouse about on the Internet. Did you stub your toe? Grouse about it in your blog! Did your sister tattletale? Get online and start grousing. "I grouse, therefore I am," might be the motto of the Internet. Oh well: now I'm grousing too

Profligate

Completely and shamelessly immoral, or extremely wasteful

Exhaustive

Comprehensive, thorough, exhausting a topic or subject, accounting for all possibilities; draining, tending to exhaust

Solicitous

Concerned or anxious (about another person), expressing care; eager or desirous; very careful ^^solicitor means a lawyer so he always must be attentive and concerned (/solicitous ) towards his cases.

précis

Concise summary, abstract

terse

Concise, brief and to the point (sometimes to the point of rudeness)

Patronizing

Condescending, having a superior manner, treating as an inferior

Propriety

Conforming to good manners or appropriate behavior

Extrapolate

Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known; predict by projecting past experience

Sentient

Conscious; experiencing sensation or perceiving with the senses

Confer

Consult, compare views; bestow or give

Fallacious

Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound; deceptive

Speculate

Contemplate; make a guess or educated guess about; engage in a risky business transaction, gamble

Belie

Contradict or misrepresent

Contentious

Controversial; prone to causing arguments, especially gratuitous or petty ones

Enumerate

Count or list; specify one-by-one

Juncture

Critical point in time, such as a crises or a time when a decision in necessary; a place where two things are joined together ----Mixed messages are not welcome at this juncture in the campaign, from now until November.

squelch

Crush, squash; suppress or silence; ~~squeeze

Mores

Customs, manners, or morals of a particular group

Gainsay

Declare false, deny; oppose

Counterproductive

Defeating the purpose; preventing the intended goal

Negate

Deny or refute; make void or cause to be ineffective

Derivative

Derived from something else; not original

Abhor

Detest, regard with disgust

Anomaly

Deviation from what is common; inconsistency

Partisan

Devoted to a particular group, case, etc.(adj); fervent supported of a group, party, idea, etc. guerrilla fighter(b)

Pious

Devout; religiously reverent and dutiful

Discrepancy

Difference or inconsistency

Heterogenous

Different in type, incongruous; composed of different types of elements

intractable

Difficult to control, manage, or manipulate; hard to cure; stuborn

Unearth

Dig up, uncover, expose

antithetical

Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite one another for contrast, as in love me or hate me)

Dissent

Disagree or take an opposing view, esp. in relation to a formal body such as a government, political party, or church; such a view

discomfiting

Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating ~~Discomfort >>> when u r not comfortable, u tend to loose concentration, feel irritated and get confused in the work u r doing..

Disjointed

Disconnected, not coherent, jerky; having the joints separated

Daunt

Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of

Divine

Discover through divination or or supernatural means; perceive by insight

Perfidious

Disloyal, treacherous, violating one's trust

dissolution

Dissolving,death, disintegration; sinking into extreme hedonism(pleasure is the most important thing), vice, and degradation

disparate

Distinct, different

Pronounced

Distinct, strong, clearly indicated

Disquieting

Disturbing, cause anxiety

multifarious

Diverse, having a lot of variety

Polarized

Divided into sharply opposed groups ~~North pole , south pole

dichotomy

Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups

beneficent

Doing good

furtive

Done secretly; stealthy, sly, shifty

perfunctory

Done superficially, without much care, or merely as routine

Dubious

Doubtfull, questionable, suspect

Languid

Drooping from exhaustion. sluggish, slow; lacking in sprit

Prosaic

Dull, ordinary

insipid

Dull, stale, lacking taste or interest

complaisant

Eager to please; cheerfully complying

Tractable

Easily controlled or managed, docile; easily shaped or molded

voluble

Easily fluent in regards to speech Voluble describes someone who talks a lot, like your aunt who can't stop telling you to cut your hair or a political candidate who makes twenty speeches on the day before the election. Have you ever found it especially hard to interrupt someone who talks a lot when he or she gets on a roll? If so, it won't surprise you that the adjective voluble traces back to the Latin word volvere, meaning "to roll." The word voluble describes talking continuously, fluently, at great length, in a steady flow. You'll know it when you meet voluble talkers: they just keep rolling on and on.

Rudimentary

Elementary, relating to the basics; underdeveloped, primitive

Underscore

Emphasize (or, literally, to underline text)

Avid

Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous

travesty

Exaggerated, debased, or grotesque imitation ~~If u think Bra(tra) as vest then it is a travesty (humorous copy)

Surfeit vs counterfeit

Excess, excessive amount, overindulgence

plethora

Excess; excessive amount

jingoism

Excessive, loud patriotism and aggressive, warlike foreign policy

inordinate

Excessive, not within proper limits, unrestrained extreme, exorbitant, outrageous, unreasonable, disproportionate. ~~ordinance ( rule, law, limits) ----In its deliberations, the Court spent an inordinate amount of time—three years— meticulously investigating the case.

Officious

Excessively eager in giving unwanted advice or intruding where one is not wanted; meddlesome, pushy

Inherent

Existing as a permanent, essential quality; intrinsic

Ubiquitous

Existing everywhere at the same time

Virtual

Existing only in the mind or by means of a computer network; existence in results or in essence but not officially or in name

dovetail

Join or fit together

Jocular

Joking or given to joking all the time; jolly, playful

Facetious

Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things

mirth

Jollity, merriment; amusement or laughter ~~mirth sounds close to myth..which are usually unbelievable and hilarious and makes us laugh

peripatetic

Journeying from place to place; traveling on foot

Discriminating

Judicious, discerning, having good judgement or insight

Incipient

Just beginning; in a very early state, rudimentary, inchoate ( an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject) ~~in (inside) + sipi (sipi in canal) - not fully developed --Their inchoate fury(anger) lumped(togather) together anger at same-sex marriage, at foreigners and at "the system."

Inchoate

Just begun, underdeveloped, unorganized

Warranted

Justified, authorized (giving permission to do something) ~~Governments at all levels will face short-term costs, of course, but the economic fear of immigrants has never been warranted. The TV appearance was so brief that it hardly warranted(justified) comment. The way military man get punished for small mistakes in unwarranted.

acumen

Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment

Arcane

Known or understood by only a few; obscure, secret

diffident

Lacking confidence, shy

desultory

Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic ----Obviously, U.S. investigators will be part of the effort to determine what the source of cause of this is, but I think I'd rather not speculate, based on this point, very kind of desultory information

banal

Lacking freshness and originality; cliché

lax

Lacking in rigor or strictness, relatively relaxed Those parents who let their kids eat all their Halloween candy the night of October 31st? Their parenting style might be described as lax. A paperclip chain used as a bike lock? That's an example of lax security. While contemplating the word lax, you may note that it's the same as the first syllable in laxative. This is not a coincidence: lax entered English as a noun describing a substance taken or administered to relax the bowels. Interestingly, the modern definition of lax is closer to the Latin source word, laxus — an adjective meaning "loose." Now, lax can refer to any phenomenon that is insufficiently stringent or so slack as to be basically ineffectual. For example, "The entire class performed incredibly well on the test, largely due to the sleepy professor's lax supervision."

Ephemeral

Lasting only a short time, fleeting

perennial

Lasting through the years or indefinitely, enduring; recurring

Table

Lay aside to discuss later, ofter as a way to postpone discussion indefinitely ~~we will discuss after a tab (space, duration),

lethargic

Lazy, drowsy, or sluggish

indolent

Lazy, slothful Indolent is an adjective meaning slow or lazy. It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning. Often it's noon before he finally comes shuffling down to breakfast in his pajamas. An indolent person is slow and lazy — not the type of person you'd want running your corporation or competing with you in a relay race. Doctors use the word indolent to describe medical conditions that are slow to progress. If you're diagnosed with an illness, you'd prefer an indolent one over one that spreads quickly.

vanguard

Leading units at the front of an army; leaders in a trend or movement, people on the "cutting edge"; the forefront of a trend or movement

Console

Lessen the suffering or grief of (v) (condole); a control panel, or small table or cabinet (n)

Levity

Lightness (of mind, spirit, or mood) or lack of seriousness, sometimes in an inappropriate way

Mendacious

Lying, habitually dishonest

Gist

Main idea, essence ~~just tell me the main idea, don't beat about the bush

ingratiate

Make an effort to gain favor with INGRATIATE ~ in + grat(sounds like GREET) + ate (EAT) ... so when you greet somebody with both the hands and give something to eat......why do you do that ...you try to gain their favour .

Facilitate

Make easier, help the progress of

Clinch

Make final or settle conclusively; to fasten or hold together ( to clinch the corners of the frame) ~~clutch ---The Rabin government went on to clinch a first-ever peace deal with the Palestinians.If Romney and Santorum were to split the delegates going forward and each were to carry five of the 10 all-or-nothing contests, neither candidate would win enough delegates to clinch the nomination

Aggrandize

Make greater; exaggerate

Mitigate

Make less sever; lessen or moderate (damage, gried, pain, etc.)

annul

Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules) celebrity wakes up in Las Vegas with a mysterious wedding ring on her finger, the first thing she'll probably want to do is annul the marriage. That will declare it invalid and officially cancel the whole deal. celebrity wakes up in Las Vegas with a mysterious wedding ring on her finger, the first thing she'll probably want to do is annul the marriage. That will declare it invalid and officially cancel the whole deal.

Exacerbate

Make worse (more violent, severe, etc.), inflame; irritate or embitter (a person)

Impair

Make worse, weaken ~~opposite to repair

calumny

Malicious lie intended to hurt someone's reputation; the act of telling such lies

husband

Manage prudently, sparingly, or economically; conserve

Cartography

Map-making

Delineate

Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail

Whimsical

Marked or motivated by whims (odd, fanciful ideas); erratic, unpredictable

Fathom

Measure the depth of (usually of water)as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand

anodyne

Medicine that relieves pain (noun); soothing, relieving pain (adj)

Figurative

Metaphorical, base don figures of speech; containing many figures of speech (as fancy sounding writing); relayed to portraying human or animal figures

Admonish

Mildly scold; caution, advise, or remind to do something

stratagem

Military maneuver to deceive or surprise; crafty scheme

dissemble

Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of

Erroneous

Mistaken, in horror; improper, morally incorrect

Hodgepodge

Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble

paragon

Model of excellence, perfect example

Paradigm

Model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc.

Base

Morally low, mean, dishonorable; or little or no value; crude and unrefined; counterfeit

Libertine

Morally or sexually unrestrained personl freethinker (regarding religion)

Lament

Mourn; express grief, sorrow, or regret (v); an expression of grief esp. as a song or poem (n)

Converge

Move towards one another or towards a point; unite

symbiosis

Mutually dependent relationship between two organisms, people, groups, etc. ~~sym+bio+sis

bigotry

Narrow-mindedness, Three big O's in cricket; strictness or lack of generosity

endemic

Native, local; natural, specific to, or confined to a particular place

propensity

Natural inclination or tendency, proclivity ~~propelled+towards+city

Debunk

Expose, ridicule, or disprove false or exaggerated claims

Prodigious

Extraordinarily large, impressive, etc.

Egregious

Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad; glaring

Finesse

Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling a sensitive situation or in a performance or skill (n); use tact or diplomacy; employ a deceptive strategy (v) ~~Fine essay (finess in handling a situation)

Countenance

Facial expression or face (n); approve or tolerate (v), agree with somebody. ~~he counts nans and said yes, pooray hain --Heaven no doubt for the noblest purposes has blessed you with a firmness of mind, Steadiness of Countenance and patience in sufferings that give you infinite advantages over other men. The larger of the two government parties, Fine Gael, has said it will not countenance legal abortion in Ireland.That kind of smart person cannot countenance the idea of obscurity as a fate

Objective

Factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by emotions, unbiased

Default

Failure to act, neglect (n); fail to fulfill an obligation, especially a financial one (v) ----A default is declared if the taxes are not paid by April of the following year.

Equitable

Fair, equal, just syn. equinimity

Fidelity

Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image

Affectation

Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress) adopted to give a certain impression ~~'affection' is natural and true, but 'affectation' is artificial and pretentious. COMPARED with Baltimore, New York feels like a city-themed theme park. The difference between the two places is the difference between affectation and insanity(madness), the eccentric(strange and unusual, an eccentric aunt) and the grotesque(extremely ugly, When i GROW TUSK: how do i look: UGLY:abnormal....it is only a fantasy). Baltimore's cultural ambassador John Waters put it better than I can hope to: "New York is full of normal people who think they're crazy; Baltimore is full of crazy people who think they're normal."

Bogus

Fake, fraudulent

Chauvinism

Fanatical patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; undue or biased devotion to any group, cause, etc.

Liberal

Favorable to progress or reform; believing in maximum possible individual freedom; tolerant, open-minded; generous(adj.); a person with such beliefs or practices (n)

propitious vs propitiate

Favorable, giving good signs for the future, likely to work out; kind or forgiving ~~PROPITI....sounds like property-if you have got lot of property, you are FORTUNATE to get it..money is basically considered AUSPICIOUS and you can make any adverse situation FAVORABLE TO you if you posses money. confused with-propitiate ( propiti + ate .. propiti sounds very close to property.. + ate .. so just imagine if you elder brother ate (here it means encroach) all your property ....you will quarrel with him... your father will try to appease or pacify you) When the timing of something is propitious, it's likely to turn out well. A propitious time for taking a big test is when you've studied hard and had a good night's sleep. If you believe in astrology, you might check your horoscope to settle on a propitious day for your wedding. A propitious moment to ask your parents about that spring break trip to Cancun might be when you've just unveiled your straight-A report card

xenophobia

Fear or hatred of foreigners or that which is foreign Getting a job as a greeter with the United Nations is probably not the best career option for someone who suffers from xenophobia, a fear of foreigners or strangers

Timorous

Fearful, timid

Intrepid

Fearless, brave, enduring in the face of adversity

Reverent

Feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe

solidarity

Fellowship in interests, feelings, responsibilities, etc., such as among a group of people or among classes, nations, etc.

distaff

Female, esp. relating to the maternal side of the family; women or women's work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning Ethiopia claimed its sixth title in the men's race — including three of the last four — to go with six more in the distaff division.

noisome

Fetid, loathsome ( Nose) Annoy, anything unpleasant, you don't like ----It filled my head, that muttering (low voice) sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour(property of being smelly) of noisome decay. If you accidentally leave half a sandwich under your bed for a few days, cover your nose while you sleep because it will probably become quite noisome. This is a fancy way of saying that it will stink. Despite that first syllable, this adjective doesn't have root origins in the word noise, but is related to the word annoy. Noisome can refer to anything unpleasant or anything that makes you nauseous. However, it is most often used to describe bad smells. So spray some air freshener, open the windows, and clean out under your bed!

inconstancy

Fickleness, unreliability; the state of changing without good reason

truculent

Fierce, cruel, savage; belligerent

Resolve

Find a solution to; firmly decide to do something; decide by formal vote(v); firmness of purpose (n)

neologism

New word or phrase (or a new meaning applied to an existing word or phrase)

Novel

New, fresh, original

upbraid

Find fault with, criticize or scold severely No, upbraid isn't what girls get done at a salon before prom. When you upbraid people, you scold them, tell them off, and criticize them. (You could, however, upbraid your stylist after a bad haircut.) The word upbraid comes from the Old English word upbregdan, which literally means "bring up quickly." Although this word doesn't have anything to do with hair, upbraid and braid are, in fact, related. The original meaning of braid was "to move quickly from side to side," which is what you do with your fingers when you're braiding someone's hair. When you upbraid someone, you're quickly bringing up different reasons why you're mad at them

Ascertain

Find out with certainty

Static

Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality

inundate

Flood, cover with water, overwhelm

Glib

Fluent and easy in a way that suggests superficially or insincerity

vociferous

Noisily crying out, as in protest

dictum

Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb ~~~dictator(authoritive) , um used for statments

panegyric

Formal or lofty expression of praise. It is positive word A formal, high-minded speech can be described with a formal, high-minded word — the word panegyric, which is a very elaborate tribute to someone. You could consider most eulogies as panegyrics. In any case, the word today stands for high praise given in a speech or tribute as highfalutin as the word itself sounds.

erstwhile

Former, previous (adj); in the past, formerly (adv) ~~earliest If your dad used to play in a punk band, but is now a computer programmer, you could call him an erstwhile punk rocker. Erstwhile means "former." Erstwhile comes from Old English and is a formal way to say "former." You can go to your class reunion 20 years after you graduate high school and see your erstwhile friends. That means that they had been your friends, but you lost touch with them, so that they weren't friends of yours anymore. Can you think of some people that you wish were erstwhile classmates of yours

aseptic

Free from germs

Artless

Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured

Disabuse

Free someone from a mistake in thinking

fecund

Fruitful, fertile; capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work

droll

Funny in an odd way ~~troll

aggregate

Gather together, amount to (v); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj)

largess or largesse

Generosity, the giving of money or gifts (esp. with the implication that the giver is a bit superior to the recipient)

munificent

Generous, giving liberally

Ingenuous

Genuine, sincere, not holding back; naive

Flag

Get tired, lose enthusiasm hang limply or droop (de-roop) ~~lags behind

Concede

Give in, admit, yield; acknowledge reluctantly; grant or give up (such as giving up land after losing a war)

abjure

Give up, repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath). Abjure(away+jury(promise)). Pak has evidence about India's involvement in Balochistan' today said Government was willing to open talks with the Maoists provided they "abjure" violence which, he said, was the only hurdle to hold.

querulous

Given to complaining, grumbling

morose

Gloomy, sullen

Digress

Go off-topic when speaking or writing

Bureaucracy

Govt. characterized be many bureaus and petty administrators or by excessive, seemingly meaningless requirements

hand-wringing

Grasping, squeezing, etc. of the hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt, etc.; extend debate over what to do about an issue ~~These four perceptions, which have some basis in reality, are gaining strength and causing an overreaction, because the Democrats' hand- wringing fails to put the party's failures in proper political perspective. It doesn't take a skilled pollster to understand that we are dealing with a President who today could win a popularity contest even if the polling was limited to bankrupt farmers, ruined small-businessmen and women, and half-broke energy entrepreneurs.

Zeal

Great fervor or enthusiasm for a cause, person, etc., tireless diligence in furthering that cause; passion, ardor

cupidity

Greed, great or excessive desire

Burgeon

Grow or flourish rapidly; put forth buds or shoots (of a plant)

Surmise

Guess, infer, think or make an opinion with incomplete information ~~sur mice can guess where is the food, even if he can't see it

Credulous

Gullible; prone to believing or trusting too easily or without enough evidence

Synchronous

Happening at the same time; occurring at the same rate and thus happening together repeatedly

fortuitous

Happening by chance; lucky

Rife

Happening frequently, abundant, currently being reported ~~rife==> rifle which has abundant bullets

Posthumous

Happening or continuing after death, a posthumous award ~~ post + humous ~ post + human; after death ~ not considered as human ~ post human ----He is dying by inches now, dying of the most horrible persecution; and the emotion that his end will cause among a few individuals cannot be called posthumous fame.

Haven

Harbor or port; refuge, safe place

Deleterious

Harmful, unhealthful

Innocuous

Harmless, inoffensive

Benign

Harmless; favorable; kindle, gentle, or beneficial; not cancerous

discordant

Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous

Cacophony

Harsh, discordant, or meaningless mixture of sounds

misanthrope or misanthropist

Hater of humankind

militate

Have a great effect, weigh heavily (often as militate against) ~~militate - in pakistan military has many time ceased control by working against the government. ---His prison record militated against him. Mitigate, whose central meaning is "to lessen" or "to make less severe," is sometimes confused with militate, which means "to have effect or influence; weigh on." This mix-up often occurs in the use of the phrase mitigate against, as follows: This criticism in no way mitigates (read militates) against your going ahead with your research. Although this use of mitigate occasionally occurs in edited writing, it is rare and is widely regarded as an error.

resurgent

Having a revival, renewing, rising or surging again

pungent

Having a sharp taste or smell; biting, stimulating, sharp

prescient

Having foreknowledge or foresight, seeing the future

Discerning

Having good judgement or insight; able to distinguish mentally

Principled

Having high moral standards

perspicacious

Having penetrating insight or good discernment

verisimilar

Having the appearance of truth, probable

Entitlement

Having the right to certain privileges; believing, sometimes without cause, that one deserves or has a right to certain privileges

Salubrious

Healthful, promoting health ~SALLU and BRIOUS(brothers)....sallu and his brothers are healthy

Ponderous

Heavy, bulky and unwieldy; dull. labored

Zenith

High point, culmination

apposite

Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant~~a poon site Two of his aphorisms in particular - "The medium is the message" and "We shape our tools and later they shape us" - seem particularly apposite

Impede

Hold back, obstruct the progress of

Abstain

Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy); decline to vote

Probity

Honesty, integrity

homage

Honor or respect demonstrated publicly

Nevertheless or Nonetheless

However, even so, despite that

idolatry

Idol worship; excessive or unthinking devotion or adoration

Notoriety

Ill fame; the state of being well known for a disgraceful reason

normative

Implying or attempting to establish a norm; expressing value judgments or telling people what to do (rather than merely describing that which is happening)

nontrivial

Important or big enough to matter

ameliorate

Improve; make better or more bearable

searchingly

In a searching or penetrating manner; while examining closely or probing for answers

hotly

In an intense, fiery, or heated manner. Satellite camps became a hotly debated topic the past two offseasons, reaching a peak earlier this year when they were briefly banned by the NCAA.

Pristine

In an original, pure state; uncorrupted

attuned

In harmony; in sympathetic relationship How attuned is he to the Western media, and what are the chances that he would become aware of the existence of an article like this detailing all the things about him that he doesn't want anyone to know?

inasmuch

In like manner, considering that (contradiction of "in as much", generally followed by "as")

Respectively

In the order given

Foreshadow

Indicate or suggest beforehand, presage

avarice

Insatiable greed; a miserly desire to hoard wealth Do you want more and more money? Or cookies? Or video games? Or anything? Then your heart is full of avarice, which you probably know better as greed. When people talk about greed, it's clearly not a good thing, but avarice has an even worse flavor to it. Avarice is often looked upon as a sin, and it's always considered despicable and evil. Yet scientists studying the sites today say these cryptic features are anything but haphazard: Instead they represent colossal monuments to human ingenuity—and avarice.

graft

Insert part of a plant into another plant, where it continues to grow; join living tissue (such as skin) to part of the body where it will continue to live and grow; attach as if by grafting (verb); the part so grafted (as in a graft of skin); the act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means, esp. by abusing one's power (noun)

Didactic

Intended to instruct; teaching , or teaching a moral lessen

interplay

Interaction, reciprocal relationship or influencethe;;interplay of plot and character. --It is a direct result of the interplay between hate and the rise of hyper-partisan media.

Preamble

Introductory statement, preface

investiture

Investing; formally giving someone a right or title ~~investement Investiture is what happens when a government official, a judge, or a head of state is formally put into office or promoted to a higher rank. The investiture of a king is an elaborate, lengthy ceremony. The noun investiture is good for describing the process of naming a judge or a church bishop, for example, to office. Investitures tend to include ritual ceremony and the symbolic transfer of a position from one person to the next. In the US, Supreme Court justices are invested with the position — which literally means "clothed in the official robes of office." Both words stem from the Latin investire, "clothe in" or "cover."

irascible

Irritable, easily angered mnemonic: irritable

nettle

Irritate, sting, or annoy

Ambiguous

Not clear, hard to understand, open to having several meanings of interpretations

recondite

Not easily understood, hidden, dealing with an obscure topic

ignoble

Not noble; having mean, base, low motives; low quality

Secular

Not religious or holy; pertaining to worldly things

Lackluster

Not shiny; dull, mediocre; lacking brilliance or vitality

Taciturn

Not talking much, reserved; silent, holding back in conversation

Reticent

Not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved

untempered

Not toned down; not moderated, controlled, or counterbalanced

Opaque

Not translucent; not allowing light, heat, etc. to pass through; dark, dull, unclear or stupid

Compliant

Obeying, submissive; following the requirements

Landmark

Object (such as a building) that stands out and can be used to navigate by; a very important place, event, etc.

Patent

Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj.); a letter from a govt. guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (n)

salient

Obvious, standing out; projecting, protruding, jutting out ~~~salient feature

Sporadic

Occasional, happening irregularly or in scattered locations

diurnal

Occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night) ~~diyor naal, har roze x...

Apocryphal

Of questionable authenticity; false

somatic

Of the body, corporeal Somatic is a fancy word that just means dealing with the body. You may be tired of hearing your great-grandfather's somatic complaints, but give him a break - his body has been working for 80 years! Soma means body in Latin, so somatic means of the body and is most often used in connection with one's health. You may be more familiar with the related word, psychosomatic, which describes a physical condition or illness caused by the mind rather than a virus or a sprain. If you don't want to go to school so much that you begin to feel sick, that is psychosomatic. But sometimes, your somatic symptoms mean you really do have a cold! And because the germline mutation affects all somatic cells, these children are more prone to developing multiple tumours in both eyes

stratum

One of many layers (such as in a rock formation or in the classes of a society) ~~Stratum ~ stratosphere : A layer of earth ! A stratum is a layer of something, whether abstract, like a social stratum composed of only billionaires, or physical, like the different strata (that's the plural version) of clouds that an airplane passes through. Stratum comes from the Latin meaning "something that has been laid down," like asphalt or a bedsheet, but we generally use it to describe layers of something. If you go into geology, you will probably investigate different strata of the soil. If you start out in life poor and try to become rich, you are trying to get into a different social stratum

Tangential

Only slightly relevant, going off topic same as otrthogonal ( Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.)

Candid

Open, sincere, honest

Pedestrian

Ordinary, dull, commonplace

Obsolete

Out of date, no longer in use

Incongruous

Out of place, inappropriate, not harmonious

Condone

Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless

cloying

Overly sweet or flattery mnemonic: toying which is sweet and children cloy their mothers to have it If you're a cynic who favors dark, edgy humor and thrillers, you probably find romantic comedies with their hearts, flowers, and sappy happy endings cloying — so sweet and sentimental that they make you want to retch. figuratively. "Your incessant flattery and cloying way of hanging on my every word was charming at first, but now I wish you'd go away." ----Grant Robertson The Best Musical Album for Children category goes beyond the kind of cloying, saccharine(sweet chemical substance) sounds that please kids too young to know better but drive discerning parents batty.That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement.

Placid

Peaceful, calm, tranquil

Sanction

Permission or approval, something that gives support or authority to something else (n); to allow, confirm, ratify (v); OR a legal action by one or more countries against anther country to get it to comply (n); to place sanctions or penalties on (v)

Hedonist

Person devoted to pleasure ~~don head is.. hedonist.don enjoys all the pleasures of life so he believes in pleasure as the aim of life

Skeptic

Person inclined to doubting or questioning generally accepted beliefs

martinet

Person who adheres to rules extremely closely; strict disciplinarian

Recluse

Person who lives in seclusion

pedant

Person who pays excessive attention to book learning and rules, or who uses his or her learning to show off

dilettante

Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only or in a superficial way

kinetic

Pertaining to motion

Contextualize

Place in context, such as by giving the background or circumstances

juxtapose

Place side by side (either physically or in a metaphorical way, such as to make a comparison)

impecunious

Poor, without money

Feasible

Possible, logical or likely, suitable

Prospective

Potential, in the future

approbation

Praise or approval, especially formal approval

Kudos

Praise, honor, congratulations

Supplicate

Pray humbly; ask, beg, or seek in a humble way ~~supply cake, ask me nicely

Sedulous

Preserving, persistent, diligent in one's efforts

malinger

Pretend to be sick, esp. to get out of work, duties, etc.

ostentatious

Pretentious, boastful showiness

engender

Produce, give rise to, cause to exist; procreate

Remedial

Providing a remedy, curative; correcting a deficient skill

Distill

Purify; extract the essential elements of

quiescent

Quiet, still

Elevate

Raise, lift up; lift the spirits of; move up to a higher rank or status or raise up to a higher spiritual or intellectual plane

Culminate

Reach the highest point or final stage

Imminent

Ready to occur, impending

Maverick

Rebel, individualist, dissenter

contumacious

Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient ~~ Kaun Tu Ma Ki , one who says this is disobedient That ornery horse that keeps heading back to the barn, no matter how much you coax and kick and try and convince him to stay on the trail? He's showing you his contumacious side, meaning he's stubbornly resisting authority. You might hear the word contumacious used in a courtroom to describe an uncooperative witness or someone who willfully disobeys an order given by the court. If you have a glove compartment full of unpaid parking tickets, when you finally land in court your disobedient behavior may cause the judge to tell you that you're a contumacious lout. You'll not only have to pay the tickets, you'll also be slapped with a big fine, and you'll never be contumacious again. Africa's reform process has been stalled by contumacious chicanery, willful deception, and strong-arm tactics.

Requite

Reciprocate, repay, or revenge

wanton

Reckless, vicious, without regard for what is right; unjustifiable, deliberately done for no reason at all; sexually unrestrained or excessively luxurious

Conciliatory

Reconciling, appeasing, attempting to make the peace

Balk

Refuse to proceed or to do something ~~balkey aesy karo, aesy nai karo, refused

intransigent

Refusing to compromise, inflexible, having extreme attitudes

rue

Regret, remorse (noun); to feel regret or remorse (verb) ~~royi To rue is to feel regret or remorse for something. If that position at the deli ended up involving a reality TV show that made everyone famous, you may rue the day you turned down the job Shakespeare made famous the phrase "rue the day," meaning you bitterly regret a moment. For example, you might rue the day you had your first coffee if you become hopelessly addicted to it.

Repudiate

Reject, cast off, deny tat something has authority Canada must repudiate extremism on both sides of the conflict. Just as there are zombies who want to eat every human being on earth until the entire planet is reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland

Egalitarian

Related to belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social spheres. ~~for EAGLES, it does not matter which person's meat is that, ultimately they have to fill their stomach being scavengers. EAGLES are EGALitarians. ---The seventies were an anti-authoritarian or at least egalitarian period.

Vintage

Related to items of high quality from a previous era, old fashioned antique (adj.); the wine of a particular year (n) ~~when a wine (vinegar) is very old( aged) it becomes vintage.:P

synoptic

Relating to a synopsis or summary; giving a general view

Germane

Relevant and appropriate, on-topic

Net

Remaining after expenses or other factors have been deducted; ultimate (adj.); too bring in as profit, or to catch as in a net (v)

contrite

Remorseful; feeling sorry for one's offenses or sins

Supersede

Replace, take the position of, cause to be disregarded as void or obsolete

effigy

Representation or image of a person, esp. a crude facsimile(copy) used to mock a hated person ~~figure When the civilian President Maduro burns in effigy, soldiers can still warm their hands around the flames.

propagate

Reproduce, spread, increase

Venerate

Revere, regard with deep respect and awe

Conundrum

Riddle, the answer to which involves a play on words; a mystery

Anoint

Rub or sprinkle oil on; make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone ~~oin=oil On New Year's Eve, 1999, Janet Museveni, who had become born-again, convened(a gathering) a massive stadium revival (creating interesting in something, improve something) in Kampala to dedicate her country to the "lordship" of Jesus Christ. As midnight approached, the First Lady summoned(order) a local pastor(church minister) to the stage to anoint the nation. "We renounce idolatry, witchcraft(bad magic), and Satanism(devil) in our land!" he proclaimed(declare).

Boor

Rude, ill-mannered, or insensitive person a peasant or a country bumpkin

plutocracy

Rule by the wealthy ~~luto(rob) crazy

Sacrosanct

Sacred, inviolable, not to be trespassed on or violated; above any criticism

Monotony

Sameness or repetitiousness to the point of being boring; lack variation, uniformity, esp. repetition in sound

Placate

Satisfy or calm down (an angry or dissatisfied person), esp. by conciliatory gestures

Paucity

Scarcity, the state of being small in number

Disseminate

Scatter, spread about, broadcast

Covert

Secret, veiled, undercover ~~cover

Specious

Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive

Sycophant

Servile flatterer, parasitic person who fawns in order to get ahead

Obsequious

Servile, very compliant, fawning

appropriate

Set aside or authorize (such as money) for a particular purpose; take for one's own use

redress

Setting something right after a misdeed, compensation or relief for injury or wrongdoing (noun); correct, set right, remedy (verb)

Austere

Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious

Scathing

Severe, injurious; bitterly harsh or critical (as a remark) ~~sounds like SKATING...when I said I will do skating on highway, my mother started scathing

effrontery

Shameless boldness

Keen

Sharp, piercing; very perceptive or mentally sharp; intense (of a feeling), making intense of a feeling a keen mind.a keen razor.keen ambition; keen jealousy.keen competition.

trenchant

Sharp/ intelligent If you're trenchant, it means you think or say smart, sharply worded things that cut right to the heart of the matter. A trenchant observation is one that makes people scratch their chins thoughtfully, or wince with embarrassment for whomever you're talking about, or both. ~~rencho was sharp and effective The word trenchant originates from tranchant, which in French means "sharp" or "cutting," and it's related to the word trench, which originally meant a line carved in wood and later came to mean a ditch carved into the earth. The word is often used to describe political commentary or cultural criticism. One person known for her trenchant wit was the author and critic Mary McCarthy, who once said of the writer Lillian Hellman, "Every word she writes is a lie, including the 'and' and the 'the'." Doyle -- That's exactly the kind of trenchant analysis that's going to get you a column in the New York Times.

molt

Shed or cast off, esp. to regularly shed skin, feathers, etc. (as a snake)~~molti foam, is made of feathers. When an animal molts, it loses its feathers, fur, skin or maybe even outer skeleton. People don't molt, but plenty of animals do as a normal part of their life cycle.

refulgent

Shining, radiant ---He paused in his march toward the command-deck lift and regarded her with his eerie insectoid gaze, his eyes refulgent with their own internal light. ~~re full

fawn

Show affection or try to please in the manner of a dog; try to win favor through flattery and submissive behavior

Eschew

Shun, avoid, abstain from ~~chew (discussion)

Naive

Simple and unsophisticated, unsuspecting, lacking worldly experience and critical judgement

oblique

Slanting or sloping; indirect, misleading, or evasive

Slight

Small, not very important, slender or delicate (adj.); treat as though not very important; snub, ignore(v); an act of treating in this way; a discourtesy (n)

Hackneyed

So commonplace as to be stale; not fresh or original

Saturate

Soak or imbue thoroughly; cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

Pariah

Social outcast, untouchable

Gregarious

Social, pertaining to a flock or crowd

vitriol

Something highly caustic, such as criticism (literally, one of a number of chemicals including sulfuric acid)

Precursor

Something that comes before, esp. something that also announces or suggests something on its way. In fact, of all the precursor awards, the SAG is probably the best indicator of the eventual Oscar winner. ~~there should be something before the cursor. syn. herald (a person or thing that proclaims or announces: A good newspaper should be a herald of truth.)

Incentive

Something that encourages greater action or effort, such as a reward

Deterrent

Something that restrains or discourages

bane

Something that ruins or spoils, ~~his sister is raped His bane was a morbid(suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude, a morbid interest in death) temperament, which he could no more help than his sallow(hide your feelings) face and weedy(mysterious) person; even his vanity was directly traceable to the early influence of an eccentric and feckless father with experimental ideas on the upbringing of a child.It may be inevitable (or not), but whether it's a boon or a bane is very much a question.

Buffer

Something that shields, protects, absorbs shock, or cushions

elegy

Song or poem of sorrow, esp. for a deceased person

Lull

Soothe or cause to fall asleep (as in lullaby); quite down; make to feel secure, sometimes falsely (v); a period of calm o quite (n)

Advocate

Speak or argue in favor of (verb); a person who pleads for a cause or on behalf of another person (noun)

polyglot

Speaking or composed of many languages (of a person, book, etc.); a person who knows several languages ~~many -gla (gardan)

stipulate

Specify; make an open demand, esp. as a condition of agreement ~~staple+it-- Staple the documents To stipulate something means to demand that it be part of an agreement. So when you make a contract or deal, you can stipulate that a certain condition must be met. Anytime you draw up a legal agreement, you can stipulate a requirement that has to be met for that agreement to be complete. This stipulation might put some sort of limit on the agreement. For example, if you run a fencing company and offer a sale, you can stipulate that to get the sale price, the fence must be ordered by a certain date. Your customer, in turn, might stipulate that the work must be finished before the ground freezes.

Eulogy

Speech of praise or written work of praise, esp. a speech given at the funeral

Dispatch

Speed, promptness; send off or deal with in a speedy way

Permeate

Spread or penetrate throughout, diffuse ~~Cynicism permeated his report. Light is permeated in the room

diffuse

Spread widely, disseminate (verb); dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic (adj)

Constrict

Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of---strict usually restrict Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation's cultural life.I had saline(salt) mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb(no emotions) me so I could endure the zapping(erase).

Standing

Status, rank, reputation (n); existing indefinitely, not movable (adj.)

Crescendo

Steady increase in force, intensity, or the loudness of a musical passage; a climactic moment or peak

Adhere

Stick (to), such as with glue, or to a plan or belief

prevaricate

Stray from the truth, mislead, lie

Bolster

Strengthen or support

Fortify

Strengthen, invigorate, encourage

circumscribe

Strictly limit a role, range of activity, or area; in math, to be constructed around so as to touch as many points as possible

Censure

Strong disapproval or official reprimand (n); to issue such disapproval or reprimand (v)

Obstinate

Stubborn or hard to control

euphemism

Substitution of a mild, inoffensive, or indirect expression for one that is considered offensive or too direct the expression so substituted: "To pass away" is a euphemism for "to die.".

Spate

Sudden outpouring or rush; sudden flood ~~storm in belly

connote

Suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaning

palatial vs paliate

Suitable for or resembling a palace, magnificent Knowing that the adjective palatial is derived from the same Latin word as palace gives you a good sense of its meaning: magnificent, reminiscent of a home fit for a king. Palatium made its way into every Romance language and beyond: it became palazzo in Italian, palacio in Spanish, and palast in German. Palace entered English via the Old French palais. Power, affluence, extravagance: these are the qualities that should come to mind when you encounter the word palatial.

preternatural

Supernatural, exceptional

Substantiate

Support with evidence or proof; give a materiel existence to ~~provide substantial evidence. ----Substantiate his claim that even a single one of the people on this list had his or her vote challenged.

Corroborate

Support, add evidence to

Outstrip

Surpass, exceed; be larger or better than; leave behind ~~"to pass in running," from out + Middle English strip "move quickly,

Forfeit

Surrender or lose as a result of an error, crime, or failure to fulfill an obligation ~~four feet are locked confused with:surfeit ( excess in something) Forfeit means to lose or give up something, usually as a penalty. If you don't finish your homework and eat all your broccoli, you'll most likely forfeit your right to watch TV before going to bed. An adjective, noun, and verb all rolled into one, forfeit came into existence around 1300 meaning "to lose by misconduct." To forfeit is to lose or give up something as punishment for making an error. A forfeit is what is lost. You've probably heard of forfeiting a game or match — like when you don't show up with enough players or pick one too many fights with the opposing team

balloon

Swell or puff out; increase rapidly Drone and balloon projects require approvals from national governments to operate in their airspace. But Scott Opitz, FWP's Yellowstone River area biologist, said they stopped gathering the data because the estimates contained inherent biases that caused them to balloon.

Oscillate

Swing back and forth; waver, change one's mind

Gauche

Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward, crude

doff

Take off (such as clothes), put aside; remove one's hat as a gesture ~~do +off The word doff and its antonym don date to the mid-14th century. Doff is a contraction of "do (take) off," and don is short for "do (put) on." By 1755, these words were all but obsolete, but they came back into vogue thanks to Sir Walter Scott, author of works like Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake. The popular Scottish author used them frequently, and he and his readers kept doff and don alive. Use the verb doff to describe removing something. You probably always doff your cap before the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

supplant

Take the place of, displace, especially through sneaky tactics

Loquacious

Talkative, wordy

Garrulous

Talkative, wordy, rambling

inculcate

Teach persistent through frequent instructions, implant (an idea) in a person( to inculcate virtue in the young). ~~IN + CULCATE (calculate). IN school, teachers inculcate (teach) the students how to calculate. To inculcate is to teach through frequent instruction. If you repeatedly tell your brother how important it is to be responsible, then you're trying to inculcate in him a sense of responsibility. The word inculcate traces back to the Latin word inculcare, meaning "to force upon or to stamp in." If anyone has even tried to inculcate you with something, it may seem as if something is being stamped into your brain — over and over and over. A key thing to remember about this word is repetition: something, such as a value or a belief, is instilled in the brain by the persistent restating of its importance

lachrymose

Tearful, mournful A good place to see a display of lachrymose sorrow is at a funeral — people sobbing openly or sniffling quietly into their hankies. To be lachrymose, in other words, is to be tearful. Lachrymose is not a word used much in everyday speech; you wouldn't say, for example, "I feel a bit lachrymose today." No, you'd probably say, "I feel a bit weepy today." Lachrymose is generally confined to use as a written critical term, often meaning much the same as sentimental. Books and plays and films can all be lachrymose, if their intent is to induce shameless sniveling.

Transitory

Temporary, short-lived, not lasting

Prohibitive

Tending to forbid something, or serving to prevent

Pervasive

Tending to spread throughout ~~prevail

repose vs posit

The act or state of resting; peacefulness, tranquility; lying dead in a grave ~~repose = resting pose expose = externally pose depose = remove from a post, declare under oath. posit: postulate

Rhetoric

The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little

ethos

The character, personality, or moral values specific to a person, group, time period, etc.

Eclipse

The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (n); to obscure, darken, make less important (v)

Activism

The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations. Activism is working or campaigning for political or social change. Your activism as a college student might help you get a job with a human rights organization after you graduate. There are many different kinds of activism — advocating for environmental regulations is one type of activism, and marching in the streets to protest the closing of your town's library is another kind. Any controversial social issues you can think of involve activism on both sides. This sense of the word has been around since 1920, from activist. The Latin root of both words is actus, "a doing, a driving." ~~Still, the accusation of activism persists because it has too much cachet, too much historical valence to fade from view.

Resolution

The quality of being firmly determined; resolving to do something; a formal judgement, esp. decided by a vote

Commensurate

The same in size, extent, etc., equivalent; proportional

knell

The sound made by a bell for a funeral, or any sad sound or signal of a failure, death, ending, etc. (noun); to make such a sound (verb) ~~knell== k + (hell+bell) === when u die u wil be in hell... so knell means tolling of a bell to indicate funeral It certainly describes the slow, ominous sound of funeral bells, but isn't always used so literally: We often say that a final blow or action that will bring an end to something sounds or signals the death knell. And if you hear a bell knell in your dreams, look out — superstition says that's not a good sign.

primacy

The state of being first or most important

Occult

The supernatural (n); pertaining to magic, astrology, etc.; mysterious, secret or hidden (adj.); to hide, to shut off from view (v) ~~One engineering school is even promoting a fascinating course on the relationship between the occult and technology. ~~Occult, " occult " literally means "hidden from view," which is why we use it both in astronomy and to refer to secret knowledge.

viscid or viscous

Thick, adhesive, or covered in something sticky The adjective viscid is used to describe something that is sticky or a thick, slow-moving liquid. If you bake bread and you get flour all over your counters, clean it up carefully because adding water can turn the flour into a viscid paste, and then you'll really have a mess! The word viscid is from the Latin word viscum, or birdlime. Birdlime is a sticky substance made from sap and is smeared on branches. Small birds land on the branches and are trapped, allowing someone to easily catch them. The word viscous comes from the same root and has a similar meaning — think of lava and how it moves slowly and thickly down a mountain.

Aerial vs aerie

Things that are aerial are happening in the air: birds, planes, and missiles are all aerial things. Aerie ( residence) When talking about things that are literally up in the air, you can use the word aerial. If a country sends planes to bomb another country, that's an aerial attack. In football, the passing game is called the aerial game. Anything light and airy can also be called aerial, and an aerial is a device that picks up radio or TV signals: it plucks them out of the air. So when you see the word aerial, just think "air."

contraries

Things that are opposing; either of two opposite things

Cynical

Thinking the worst of others' motivations; bitterly pessimistic

Desiccate

Thoroughly dried up, dehydrated

Lassitude

Tiredness, weariness; lazy indifference

Presumptuous

Too bold of forward; going beyond that which is proper ~~one who presume

inure

Toughen up; accustom or habituate to pain, hardship, etc.

pellucid

Transparent, translucent; clear, easy to understand

peregrinate

Travel from place to place, esp. on foot or wandered ~~perepitate, feet (pere) People who peregrinate are constantly on the move, traveling from one location to another. You might peregrinate from Italy to Spain to France during your European backpacking trip. The most common way to peregrinate is on foot, wandering from place to place, as when you decide to peregrinate around your city's various neighborhoods pretending you're a tourist. The word is a bit old fashioned these days, and it was first used in the late 16th century, taken from the Latin peregrinatus, "traveled abroad," or figuratively "wandered or roamed," from peregrinus, "foreign." Perhaps the movable scene of this narrative is still peregrinating New England, and may enable the reader to test the accuracy of my description Who can fancy or feel so much as the shadow of a demur, when peregrinating Rome, that we might be losing our toil?

itinerary

Travel schedule; detailed plan for a journey

hoodwink

Trick, deceive

Trifling

Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow

nominal

Trivial, so small as to be unimportant; in name only, so-called

Veracity

Truthfulness, accuracy; habitual adherence to the truth

Convoluted

Twisted; very complicated

tortuous

Twisting, winding, complex; devious, not straightforward

Unequivocal

Unambiguous, clear, absolute; having only one possible meaning

Impartial

Unbiased, fair

Disinterested

Unbiased, impartial; not interested

Dispassionate

Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal motivation; calm, lacking emotion

Ambivalent

Uncertain; unable to decide, or wanting to do two contradictory things at once

Quandary

Uncertainty or confusion about what to do, dilemma

immutable

Unchangeable ~~which can be be muted

unconscionable vs unconscious

Unconscionable is Not guided by conscience; Having no idea between wrong or right Something that is almost unimaginably unacceptable is unconscionable. Think of it as being something that no reasonable person would even think of doing or saying — something unbelievable, outrageous, and often horrible Both words descend from the Old French conscience (inner knowledge), which in turn comes from the Latin conscientia, which means both inner knowledge and a knowledge of right and wrong. he word unconscionable is related to the word conscience. Add the un-, and you can see that it refers to something done without applying good moral judgment. The word first appeared in the mid-16th century — presumably everyone up until that time had high scruples and never did or said anything beyond the boundaries of conscience. Sadly, the antonym, conscionable, is rarely used, and, in fact has been obsolete since the 18th century, though unconscionable remains in frequent use. 1) It is unconscionable that the Obama Administration is gambling with American lives. 2) Attempting to fence them out of their home is unconscionable. Relative newcomer unconscious originated in 1712, meaning unaware. In the 1860s, it picked up the meaning to lose consciousness, to not be awake: 1) Fidgeting and Doodling Could Be Unconscious Focus Tools 2) Woman attacked and left unconscious under bridge in Edinburgh

Esoteric

Understood by or intended for only a few; secret

Consolidate

Unit, combine, solidify make coherent

catholic

Universal, broad-minded When capitalized, Catholic refers to the Catholic Church. With a lower-case "c," catholic means "universal" and "inclusive." If you listen to anything from hip-hop to Baroque, you have catholic taste in music. In recognition of the huge diversity of readers that shop at Amazon, book editors must be catholic in how they spend their reading time.

hapless

Unlucky, unfortunate ~~hap=lucky

edify

Uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way

goad

Urge on (as cattle) with a pointed or electrically charged stick; spur on, stimulate, encourage

equivocate

Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position

ribald

Using or relating to obscene or vulgar humor Ribald is an adjective you would use to describe someone who makes dirty sexual jokes. Vulgar, perverted, but still kind of funny — that's a ribald person. Remember the time Uncle Marvin told hilarious stories about his sex life? Everyone was rolling with laughter, except your grandmother, who thought Marvin's ribald tales were disgusting. People are conflicted about whether being ribald is good or bad, and the fact that its root means "indulge in licentious pleasure" and "prostitute" doesn't clear up the matter much. Should you feel like behaving in a ribald way, remember that your saucy sense of humor might be offensive to others.

Deface

Vandalize. mar (demage) the appearance of something by writing or drawing

august

Venerable, majestic; inspiring admiration August is not just the eighth month of the year; it also describes something esteemed or regal. The 200-year-old newspaper covering the royal wedding might be called an august institution. The month August was named for Augustus Caesar who was an important and regal person. This is an easy way to remember the two meanings For decades, presidential conferral of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal has been an august occasion, full of pomp and ceremony.

Vituperate

Verbally abuse, rebuke or criticize harshly

Audacious

Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way

Cogent

Very convincing, logical

diaphanous

Very sheer, fine, translucent, transparent ~~modern gowns are diaphanous Now, after weeks of delay, an airborne research campaign is getting started in this diaphanous natural laboratory. If you want a classic example of diaphanous clothing, check out all those nineteenth century Romantic paintings of goddesses clad in lightweight gowns flouncing around in the middle of forests at night. Those gowns are diaphanous, and so are the fluttery translucent muslin curtains in your kitchen window and the gauzy tutu your little sister loves to wear. The Greek root, diaphanes, "see-through," combines dia-, "through," and phainesthai, "to show."

Jargon

Vocabulary specific to a group or occupation; convoluted or unintelligible language

lumber

Walk in a heavy or clumsy(awkward) way, sometimes due to being weighed down ~~Lumber as lamba banda. Do you move clumsily, heavily and slowly, without a shred of grace? Then it sounds like you might lumber. Sorry to hear that. Lots of other words and phrases are associated with our friend lumber. Particularly large or tall people are almost inevitably said to lumber, as the common phrase "lumbering giant," attests. You never hear of a tip-toeing giant, but some of them must. Lumberjack, meaning someone who cuts down trees, is another. Often lumber, in the sense of planks of wood, is interchangeable with the word timber.

Affable

Warm and friendly, pleasant, approachable

encomium

Warm, glowing praise, esp. a formal expression of praise ~~INCOME - People of high INCOME are formally praised for their large donations An encomium is a fancy word for a formal speech or piece of writing that warmly praises someone or something.It used to refer to the song for the winner of the Olympic Games, sung at a victory celebration. You might hear an encomium at a retirement party, after you publish a fabulous book, or even at a funeral (a eulogy, or speech at a funeral about the person who died, is a kind of encomium). It's pronounced with a long O, en-CO-mium. ---Mrs. Robinson had afterwards the gratification of finding this offspring of her genius inserted in the Annual Register, with a flattering encomium from the pen of the eloquent and ingenious editor.

Prodigal

Wasteful, extravagant; giving abundantly, lavish

Wary

Watchful, motivated by caution, on guard against danger~~beaware Crowder is wary of journalists from outside the conservative world.

Vacilate

Waver in one's mind or opinions, be indecisive

irresolute

Wavering, not sure how to proceed, not firm in one's decision-making

attenuate

Weaken or thin out

Undermine

Weaken, cause to collapse by digging away at the foundation (of a building or an argument ); injure or attack in a secretive or underhanded way

Enervate

Weaken, tire

Timely

Well-timed, happening at a suitable time

Whereas

While on the contrary, considering that ----The boys prefer competitive sports and computer games, whereas/while the girls seem to enjoy more cooperative activities, such as shopping with friends.

Fanciful

Whimsical or capricious in appearance ( a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers) ; imaginary; freely imaginative rather than based on reason or reality (~fanciful mind) ~~Dubai is already home to a number of fanciful man-made islands, including one archipelago depicting a map of the world, as well as the world's tallest building, the 828-meter (2,717-foot) tall Burj Khalifa.

Prudent

Wise in practical matters, carefully providing for the future

Sagacious

Wise; showing good judgement and foresight

recant or recantation

Withdraw syn:abjure, forswear, resile, retract He later recanted, and at the first trial, his attorneys argued he had a history of mental illness, including hallucinations If you're someone who speaks before you think, you may need to recant, or take back, that overly honest assessment of your friend's new haircut. Recant comes from two Latin roots: the prefix re-, meaning "back," and the verb cantare, meaning "to sing." It has been suggested that recant was first used when someone reversed a charm, curse, or some other type of magical spell that would have been chanted or sung. Regardless of whether this is true or not, we suggest that you refrain from singing when you need to recant — unless you've been casting nasty spells on people. She was barred from competing and, when she refused to recant her political views, was denied employment as a coach.

raconteur

Witty storyteller ~~rock tour towards wrestling Raconteurs are gifted storytellers, able to spin amusing tales from everyday life. Who is the biggest raconteur in your group? He or she's the one who always tells the best stories — or jumps in when another storyteller isn't being vivid enough. Do you make going to the store to buy groceries a fascinating experience? Do you offer witty observations of the people you pass on the street? If so, you're a raconteur, someone who can regale his or her listeners with riveting stories, usually funny, sometimes dramatic. Raconteur comes from the French word "raconter," meaning "to recount." Note its "eur" ending, signaling its French origin

Verbose

Wordy

Estimable

Worthy of esteem, admirable; able to be estimated

Laudable

Worthy of praise

laudable

Worthy of praise

Eloquent

able to express well in public ~~eloquent speech.

Orthodox

adhering to a traditional, established faith, or to anything customary or commonly accepted ~~traditional, commonplace, routine, fixed. 8 opinions make things fixed, ortho+dox(opinion)

inquest

an inquiry(in+question) or investigation An inquest is when a court of law or a coroner investigates the circumstances of a person's death. If a person in your family dies suddenly, you might attend an inquest at the courthouse. A death doesn't always require an inquest — they are typically carried out when there is something unexplained or suspicious about the way someone died. The inquest might be a step before a murder investigation, for example. Like a trial, a court inquest typically has a verdict issued by a judge, which might be "natural death" or "accidental death." The Old French root word is enqueste, or "inquiry."

vex

annoy or bother; puzzle or distress

phalanx

any very close group of people --it has Lan in it (fala (kon)+ Lan is closed group of computers) A phalanx is a tightly knit group of people or things, like an army troop or a bunch of fans of the same band. Phalanx refers to any tightly formed group of soldiers or officers, and historically defines a body of Macedonian infantry whose shields overlapped. From that sense, it came to mean any close-knit group. Another definition of phalanx — any bone in a finger or toe — also came out of the military sense: these bones work together closely, just like a military phalanx. The plural for these bones is phalanges, while the plural for the other senses is phalanxes. -A phalanx of Israeli soldiers flanked on opposing hillsides by heavily armed troops blocked their path. She tearfully apologized before a phalanx of television cameras, while angry citizens demanded her arrest

Torrid

ardent; passionate: a torrid love story. Parching(hot weather), the torrid sands of the Sahara. Haiti and the United States have had a torrid, twisted relationship for more than two centuries.They look at each other meaningfully—and repair to the boiler room for some torrid sex. ~~tour +ID

wizened

become Withered or weak due to age or illness --wise people become weak with the age "You're looking quite wizened today," is a something you should never, ever say to your grandmother, no matter how shriveled with age she might be. Think of a caricature of a witch — not your beloved granny. The verb wizen has fallen out of usage, but the past participle, wizened, continues to function as an adjective meaning wrinkled and shrunken with age or disease. You will see lots of elderly, wizened faces at the park feeding the birds and watching the children play. Although you might expect that folks with lined faces have learned a thing or two, there is no etymological connection between wizened and wise. When members of this breed of mice remained sedentary, they rapidly grew wizened, frail, ill, demented, and graying or bald

pugilism

boxing, fighting with the fists

Phone

fake, counterfeit; insincere, not genuine ~~the girl phone all boys, she is fake

Detached

impartial, disinterested; unconcerned, distant, aloof

Implicit

implied, not stated directly; involbed in the very essence of something, unquestionable

panoply

impressive arrangement. A panoply is a collection or an assortment of things. You might be eager to show off your panoply of bobble-head dolls when friends come to your house. An array or display of things is a panoply, so you can show off your panoply of spooky clown paintings, but you can also display a panoply of dance moves or talk about the panoply of flags at the parade — as long as it's a complete or impressive display, it's a true panoply. In ancient Greece, the word was used exclusively to talk about military costumes which were always suits of armor. -Destination," meanwhile, presents a panoply of nightlife hotspots, serene beaches, and luscious vineyards. -A panoply of streaming services puts pressure on each to keep innovating.

Conversely

in opposite way; on the other hand

foment

incite, instigate ( I am always motivated whenever I see the Institute gate (relate to instigate) of "MIT"), stir up, promote the growth of; apple medicated liquid to a body part

Construe

interpret or translate

inexorable

it can not be stopped, like x-ray, unyielding, relentless When a person is inexorable, they're stubborn. When a thing or process is inexorable, it can't be stopped. This is a word for people and things that will not change direction. An inexorable person is hard-headed and cannot be convinced to change their mind, no matter what. You can also say that a process, like the progress of a deadly illness, is inexorable because it can't be stopped. A speeding train with no brakes is inexorable; it's not stopping till it crashes. When you see the word inexorable, think "No one's stopping that."

Deem

judge; consider~~dean is judge

listless

lacking interest or energy, showing no enthusiasm. ( who does not have lust) To be listless is to be lethargic, low spirited, and limp. If a fever has made you feel listless, you might also feel like you are melting into the sofa. If you went to the supermarket without your shopping list, that doesn't mean you're listless. The word originates from the Middle English word liste which meant desire (and is related to our word lust). Oddly enough, listen comes from the same origin. If you're too lethargic and out of it to listen, you're listless. It's not just laziness, it's not just fatigue; an utter indifference to whatever is going on around you makes you listless. The infusion of youth gave the Yankees a jolt that unexpectedly carried a disappointing, listless team back into playoff contention by early September The tech-driven, 21st century sexual realm they inhabit instead is endlessly confusing, the men "listless dilettantes, the women gym-toned and frantically successful." In one of the few wards that can can still be used, a young child lies listless on the bed, his mother by his side

licentious

lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained Someone who is licentious behaves or speaks inappropriately, usually in regards to sex. What some might call a licentious senior citizen, others would simply refer to as "a dirty old man" (or woman). We usually talk about licentious behavior, but there also can be licentious photographs. Besides being inappropriate, licentious behavior is also usually regarded as immoral. If at all possible, therefore, licentious is a description you should seek to .Nately's father was a sober, philosophical and responsible man; this old man was fickle and licentious.

Subside

lessen. ~~Just at that point, however, the din(noise) began to subside, and with it the sense of a nightmare.

mar

make imperfect, a negative experience (scratch) who ruin something good. ( mar pharne se scratch aata hy A mar is a flaw, mark, or blemish, like a deep scratch on a wooden table. As a verb, to mar is to make such an imperfection — like the pen mark that mars your crisp, white shirt. We often think of things that mar as immediately noticeable, like scratches, scars, and blemishes, but sometimes mar describes other ways of ruining something. For example, an unexpected run-in with a difficult person can mar your relaxing day at the beach, just as an unpleasant memory can mar a peaceful state of mind. The thing to remember is, it only takes one scratch, one mean comment, or one negative experience to mar something that is otherwise fine It was wonderful show, though badly marred by quirky opening act Valerie June, who sang horribly out of tune on every son

Aberrant

markedly different from an accepted norm, it is not accepted in society Abnormal or deviant, one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group Use the adjective aberrant to describe unusual conduct. Sitting in a bathtub and singing show tunes all day long might be considered aberrant behavior The Latin root aberrare means "to go astray," from the prefix ab- "off, away" plus errare "to wander." Other descendants of errare in English, like error and errant, have that double -r- and also refer to something that's either not wanted or not expected.

Deride

mock. scoff at laugh at contemptuously

insular

narrow-minded view, provincial or you live alone Insular means "having a narrow view of the world," like insular people who never leave their small town, which enables them to believe that every place in the world is the same and the people are all just like them. The adjective insular comes from the Latin word insula, which means "island." Perhaps less so in our current age of technological and relatively easy travel, island life can still be separated from the rest. That's why insular can mean "isolated from," like if you grew up in a big city then visited a rural place, you may be surprised that stores close early. Such an experience will help you expand your insular views.

skittish

nervous (due to excited or haunting event) ~~sky has If you're skittish, you're unpredictable and excitable. You've probably seen skittish horses in parades — the loud noises and crowds of people make them very nervous and jumpy. The adjective skittish isn't just for animals — humans can be skittish too. If you're sleeping in a haunted house, for example, you're likely to be skittish, jumping at every moving shadow. Skittish can also mean flighty in thought — like your boss who's skittish about giving you a raise and avoids discussing it. The word is thought to have come from the Scandinavian word skyt, meaning "very lively, frivolous."

ingrate vs ingratiate

not grateful to other acts. If your kind act of buying a donut for your friend gets you nothing but a complaint that the chocolate icing looks runny, then it sounds like your pal is an ingrate, someone who is not thankful for others' kindness. The noun ingrate comes for the Latin word ingratus, a combination of in-, meaning "not," and gratus, or "grateful." That pretty much sums up an ingrate: not grateful. It describes someone who tends to act this way in general, rarely acknowledging others' generosity, or even worse, seeming to expect special treatment. You can tell someone is an ingrate by what isn't said: "thank you" and "I appreciate what you've done for me." Make an effort to gain favor with INGRATIATE ~ in + grat(sounds like GREET) + ate (EAT) ... so when you greet somebody with both the hands and give something to eat......why do you do that ...you try to gain their favour .

token

of very little or merely symbolic value, trick people. The government has made only a token gesture towards helping the unemployed

harrow

painfully disturbing or frightening such as shark story in the film shallow. ~~every row will have a harrowing ( harror) story to tell. --He wrote all those poems about his schoolboy days at harrow.A footnote to the Senate report described a harrowing interrogation plan for Najjar that called for the use of sleep deprivation and other techniques. Being attacked by a hungry shark or being chased by an unruly mob on the streets can be described as harrowing, which means "provoking feelings of fear or horror." The adjective harrowing is often used to describe a firsthand experience that is terrifying, such as a harrowing drive home in icy weather, but it can also refer to a secondhand experience, such as reading or watching something that is very frightening or disturbing. If you read someone's account of being shipwrecked in Antarctica, you might describe that as a harrowing story. A harrowing experience typically unfolds over a period of time. For example, if you bump into a shark while swimming, that's merely scary. If the shark attacks you, then it becomes a harrowing ordeal.

Subjective

personal opinions opp. objective ~~Every one's opinion bounds to be subjective( based on your own ideas) [Objective] impartial neutral disinterested non-partisan unbiased/unbiassed It is hard to be objective about your own child.

ruminate

ponder, think or reflect ~~while eating, i lost in thoughts ( ruminate) When you ruminate, it means you are thinking very deeply about something. You're likely to be so lost in thought that you stare off into space and don't hear people when they call your name In it he ruminates on his life and his thoughts, often in excruciating detail. A man ruminated that things seemed to go off track after 9/11 and "never quite recovered."

Sound

reliable, opp. unsound (unreliable) Examples, 1. a sound heart (free from damage, robust, reliable) 2. a sound business(robust, strong); a person of sound(reliable) judgement. This gives the design team a sound(reliable) basis for their work. The use of disposable products is considered ecological unsound (not valid or acceptable)

penumbra

shadow... ~~umbra ---Gradually I emerged from the penumbra of that experience with a mind made clearer by trial and with a truer knowledge of life.

scurvy

someone in miserable condition ( contemptible in looks) --scurve is opposite of cure If you are a pirate who doesn't get to shore very often to shop for fresh fruits and veggies, you might suffer from scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency. Scurvy has some alarming symptoms: your gums become soft and tender and your teeth fall out. Scurvy has become a rarity in most parts of the world, but in regions where food is scarce and malnutrition common, it's still a problem. The unpleasant associations of the word also make it a colorful (and archaic) way to describe something low-down and miserable, as in "that was a scurvy trick you played on me, you dastardly cur!"

repertorial

the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices ~repository, repertory Relationships take work and two people can mature and expand and improve their repertoire There are certain tricks in the repertoire of any good doorman, and Mr. Sykes is an enthusiastic practitioner.

Ranks

the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. ~~Anything that will get more people in our ranks is a good thing and is not to be discouraged.

Efficacy

the quality of being able to produce the intended effect

assiduous

Persevering, diligent, constant

Abdicate

(v) Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility), give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations Sometimes someone in power might decide to give up that power and step down from his or her position. When they do that, they abdicate their authority, giving up all duties and perks of the job. ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to give-up power

Abate

(v) Reduce, Diminish, become less in amount or intensity; Something that abates becomes fewer or less intense. Your enthusiasm for skiing might abate after falling off a ski lift and getting a mouthful of snow. Abate comes from the Old French verb abattre, "to beat down," and means to reduce or become less intense or numerous. As an intransitive verb, it is often used with something physically, emotionally, or figuratively violent, as in "the flood of fan mail began to abate." Using it transitively, if you take measures to abate pollution or noise, you reduce them. Pronounce abate with the stress on the second syllable (uh-BATE).

unsparing

1) Generous, lavish (unsparing generosity ); 2) unmerciful, harsh (as in not sparing any criticism) 1) Considered as historical snapshots of our recently departed Gilded(rich) Age, Spoiled(robbery) is incisive(decisive) and unsparing.The report of his anguish(pain) at that absence is unsparing, and brutally convincing. 2) In a matter of four to five weeks this summer, Indian troops, with a clear mandate to be unsparing, wounded over 10,000 people. 3) Today, she pulls into the employee parking lot of the gold hotel, set aglow now by the unsparing morning sun. 4) But Gibson's attitude toward the killing he shows us goes beyond the usual parameters of unsparing realism; it's positively exultant( happy due to success) 5) The late Eileen Heckart gave an unsparing performance, repeatedly shuffling across the stage in a nightgown to ring her sleeping grandson's doorbell.

verdant

1) Green.; 2) inexperienced --verdan( Bhagwan se verdan lena wala inexperienced hota hy) Figuratively, it could also mean fresh ( as green things are fresh) or young and inexperienced. such as "verdant college freshmen". When something is green with plant life it's verdant, a word often used to idealize the countryside with its verdant pastures or verdant hills This bed and breakfast is centrally located with a verdant backyard garden that, in nice weather, makes for an idyllic spot for breakfast One must be eager, verdant, to write happily the story of travel.

kindle

1) arouse passion 2) set a fire When you start a fire burning, you can say you kindle the fire. Knowing how to kindle a campfire is an important survival skill. It can help keep you warm at night, and keep you from eating cold beans for dinner. The verb kindle not only means to start a fire, but also to catch fire. Another meaning for kindle is to arouse interest or passion. A dynamic music teacher could kindle the students' interest in learning an instrument. Or, romance can also be kindled: "As they danced together, a spark of romance kindled between them." ------Downloading an e-book on the kindle has always felt somewhat restricting, more akin to renting a movie than buying a book.

hedge

1) not revealing yourself to avoid 2) minimize the risk or loss or cutting it ( same as plant) it all meanings it has a sense of cut. A hedge is a living fence made of closely planted bushes, which, as they grow and get trimmed and shaped, form a wall of green. Hedge can also be used as a verb. If you someone asks you a question and you hedge, you're avoiding a straight answer. If you hedge your bets, you're trying to minimize risk or loss — that is, you're trying to cover yourself no matter what happens. If you're not sure, for instance, what your boss's political views are, you can hedge your bets by not revealing yours. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal hedged when asked if the GOP standard-bearer should withdraw. He also believes that the government had hedged its bets by also implying a soft Brexit

secrete

1) release in drops ( lemon juice) 2) hide ( save the lemon juice) Secrete is all about secrets. It means both "to hide" and "to release." When you squeeze a lemon, it secretes juice. When you stuff your money in a mattress, you secrete it there. It's easy to remember that secrete's all about secrets when you see the word secret inside secrete. Imagine the first person who squeezed a lemon and secreted the juice. Probably felt like he'd discovered a secret stash of citrus goodness. If he was greedy, maybe he gathered all the lemons he could find and secreted them away in a box so no one else would learn the secret of the juice-secretion. As they collapsed, they burst bags of fake blood secreted in their shirts. When a hookworm crawls into a human, it secretes chemicals that turn off the immune alarm bells and repair the tissue around it To narrow down the search, sensitive scientific instruments will sniff out biosignatures—minerals and molecules secreted by ancient life. You can hardly find them by day, for they are cunning and secrete themselves

steeped

1) soak in 2) exorbitant changes in 3) steep learning curve an incident steeped in mystery.But unlike most workaday reporters, Lepore is steeped in the history of the city nd the American Revolution. Richard's ancestral roots were steeped in white southern patriarchal tradition The famous Franciscan basilica, constructed in 1296, was steeped in nearly three metres of water after the Arno busted through the riverbank Steep means sharply angled. When hiking trails lead straight up mountainsides, they've got a steep incline. Steep also means "to soak in," as in steeping a tea bag in boiling water. You often hear steep used as an adjective to describe cliffs, hills, or even water park slides that have a perilous slope. Steep can apply to curves on a chart--you might say when someone who has a lot to learn that their learning curve is going to be steep. Steep also comes up to describe exorbitant changes in costs or spending. Everyone would love to travel more, but sometimes plane fare is too steep.

hew

1) sticking to purpose 2) hew ( cut) with axe If you're a lumberjack, the word hew is nothing new. You hew things every day with one swift swing of the axe, chopping and shaping wood. It's said that Paul Bunyan hewed the Grand Canyon by dragging his giant mythical axe behind him. But usually things are hewn with a little more purpose — with each chop and cut designed to shape, sculpt, or craft a final product. Take the axe out of the picture though, and this word takes on a different meaning. If you're trying to adhere to rules, stick to a budget, or conform to a certain tradition, you can use hew, too ---Behind all the finger-wagging is the idea that movies about history need to hew to facts. ( cut the facts or stick to facts) That's a sharp turn from the balanced-budget promise of his Conservative predecessor, who hewed the austerity path Mr. Trudeau is now shunning. Still, the views of the two major party candidates seem to hew closely to those of their supporters

yoke

1) the act of connecting two things together as with a yoke or support 2) oppressive power ~~The U.S. is actually holding up its end of the bargain quite well, and assuming the yoke of economic leadership. ~~When the state acts wrongly, the yoke of that sin falls upon all who do not protest. ever seen a picture of a farm girl carrying two buckets of water hanging from ropes attached to a stick she's balancing across her shoulders? That stick on her shoulders is a yoke. Yoke also can mean the stick that connects two work animals together, or the act of connecting two things together as with a yoke. A classic tool of farmers for centuries, the yoke has also become a symbol of oppression — no one wants to live under the yoke of a tyrant's rule. Do not confuse yoke with yolk, the yellow part of an egg. And: "Christ is casting off(get rid) his yoke. Virginia is awash in her own sin' The Purpose album, which effectively yoked those breathy vocals to trap, tropical house and EDM beats, won some of the best reviews of his career. When something's awash, it's doused or covered with water. If your canoe is awash with seawater, it's time to start bailing. A beach might be awash during high tide, and your beach cottage could be awash after a tropical rain. The decks of a boat are often described as being awash during a storm, flooded with water. Things can be figuratively awash, too: "The movie premiere was awash with photographers and fans." Awash was originally a nautical word meaning "flush with," from the 15th century meaning of wash, "land alternately covered and exposed by the sea."

Disposition

1) to behave somebody to behave in a particular way/tendency,arrangement, person's characteristics, inclination 2) get rid of~~this pose,, 1 The wild and inaccessible character of the country, the fierce and lawless disposition of the people, the difficulties presented by their language and their complex social institutions, and the inability of the Turkish authorities to afford a safe conduct in the remoter districts, combine to render Albania almost unknown to the foreign traveller, and many of its geographical problems still remain unsolved. Her disposition was to always think negatively 2. Radioactive waste must be disposed of (get rid off) safely.

malediction

A curse ~~mal ( bad)+diction(words) "Darn you!" "Go bury your head in the sand." "You ugly nincompoop!" Each of those nasty curses is a malediction (and, I'm sure, nothing you would ever say to another human being). A malediction is a curse. Not like the kind a witch puts on someone, but close. More like what the schoolyard bully says to hurt someone's feelings. On purpose. Malediction has male in it, but it's not a slur against men or boys. Mal comes from the Latin for "evil" and "diction," and as you may remember, has to do with what we say. So a malediction is an evil statement directed at someone else. Pretty nasty, if you ask me.

maxim

A general truth or fundamental principle, esp. expressed as a proverb or saying

Lampoon

A harsh satire( Remeber like set fire..his sarcasm set fire on his opponents); ridicule or satirize (v)

echelon

A level, rank or grade; the people at that level An echelon is a stepped formation with objects arranged in a diagonal. Birds flying in a V shape create echelons so that they can draft behind each other and conserve energy — except for the guy up front, who's super tired. Echelon patterns are often used by the military, with rows of tanks, troops, or aircraft arranged behind and to the left or behind and to the right of the row ahead. Echelon can also refer to a particular level or rank in a group or society. If you win the Olympics, you've reached the upper echelon of athletics. If you win a hot dog eating contest . . . Well, you reached a pretty low echelon of athletics. Th upper echelon is almost deserted, the slums are just as uncongested, and the middle tier is overpopulated and rancid.

hallmark

A mark indicating quality, purity, genuineness, etc.; any distinguishing characteristic ~~By yesterday, he had reopened the sites for his users to resume the snarky(irritation), anonymous barbs(to hurt somebody feelings) that are the company's hallmark.Sudarshana Band: "What happen to Sri Lanka's tight bowling which was the hallmark of new attack

repast

A meal (noun); to eat or feast (verb)

Layperson

A person who is not a member of the clergy or not a member of a particular profession (such as medicine, law, etc.)

Gradation

A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages ~~gradual

strut

A structural support or brace or proudly and pompous talk ~~there is struts framework in Java, it provides SUPPORT n help to programmers to program with quality When you strut, you walk with a proud swagger that has a little arrogance thrown in, like the prance of a running back who has just flown past the 250-pound linebackers and planted the ball in the end zone. You can't strut and be shy about it — when you strut, you know people are watching you. The big boss in a gangster film, a model on the runway, and the rap artist whose album has just gone platinum all know how to strut. The noun form of strut has a little less flash and refers to a vertical or horizontal support that holds something up, like the long steel bars holding up a building. They strutted around the neighborhood in groups, joking, laughing loudly, sometimes even calling after girls, with identical stupid, self-satisfied grins on their faces Instead, the 30-foot-wide sculpture simply shows the world's land masses silhouetted on a spherical framework of latitudinal and longitudinal struts

Nuance

A subtle difference in tone, meaning, expression, etc.

Dogma

A system of principles laid down by an authority; established belief

Makeshift

A temporary, often improvised, substitute (n); improvised for temporary use (adj.)

coagulate

Cause a liquid to become solid or semisolid When liquid starts to thicken and become solid, it coagulates. When you get a cut, the blood flowing from the wound will coagulate: it will start to clot and form a solid scab so you will stop bleeding. Many liquids have the potential to coagulate. If the cream you just poured into your coffee is spoiled, you'll see the cream coagulate as it curdles into little floating chunks. If someone has a heart condition that may result in a heart attack, he or she might take medication that keep the blood in the arteries from coagulating, or dangerously thickening. Figuratively, it means change

grievous

Causing grief or suffering; very serious, grave; flagrant, outrageous

larceny

Act of Physical things Stealing ~~larna for centy(money) Larceny is the legal term for stealing. Grand larceny is when you take something worth a lot of money, petty larceny when the stolen item is worth relatively little. Larceny is used when talking about stealing someone's property in regards to the law. If you illegally download music or plagiarize a text, that may be theft, but it is not larceny because there was no physical property involved. If you take a friend's yoyo and don't give it back, it's stealing — unless your friend calls the police and has you arrested on charges of larceny.

felicitous

Admirably appropriate, very well-suited for the occasion; pleasant, fortunate, marked by happiness ~~The Latin root of felicitous is felix ( feel Lux), "happy or lucky. Felicitous describes something that's pleasantly apt or fitting. Felicitous words you write on your friend's birthday card are the ones that perfectly suit the occasion and make her happy when she reads them. Felicitous can mean "appropriate," but it also describes something that's lucky. When you plan a trip to the amusement park and it turns out that the sun is shining, that's felicitous. If you need to mail a package by a certain date and you make it to the post office just in time, that's also felicitous.

accede

Agree, give consent; assume power (usually as "accede to")

Dismiss

Allow to disperse or leave; fire from a job; put aside or reject, especially after only a brief consideration

Likewise

Also, in addition to; similarly, in the same way

Artifact

Any object made by humans, especially those form an earlier time, such as those excavated bu archeologists

ascribe

Assign or credit to a certain cause or source Ascribe means to give credit to, like if you ascribe the A you got on your group project to the hard work of your partners! Many a quirky quote, like "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter," is ascribed to that famous scribe Mark Twain. It can also be a way of blaming something — you might ascribe your bad attitude to your mom because she won't let you have cupcakes for dinner.

besiege

Attack, overwhelm, crowd in on or surround~~be sized when you besiged You will either welcome me into your city or I will besiege it

Soporific

Causing sleep; sleepy, drowsy (adj.); something that causes sleep (n)

circumspect

Cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences to avoid mistakes If you are circumspect, you think carefully before doing or saying anything. A good quality in someone entrusted with responsibility, though sometimes boring in a friend. If you've been following The Upshot's coverage of polling over the last two years, you know that we're pretty circumspect about shifts in the polls.

forestall

Delay, hinder, prevent by taking action beforehand ~~Fore means before. Stall means to stop. Hence Forestall == Before Stop. i.e to stop something before it happens.

Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration for effect

abscond

Depart suddenly and secretively. Officially, immigration detention is not supposed to be used as punishment; the immigration agency can only detain immigrants in order to more easily deport them, so that they don't "abscond" and evade removal.

Diverge

Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from a path

ossify

Become bony or become inflexible in attitudes, opinions From the literal "to become bony" meaning of ossify, we get the more figurative meaning: to become rigid or hardened. Although you and other young people may be willing to effect social changes, many older voters have ossified in their opinions. Convincing these rigid thinkers that these changes are good for the country will be quite the challenge. If your kids sneak food to their rooms, you may find ossified cheese under the beds. Even mice won't touch that!

mendicant

Beggar, or religious follower who lives by begging

tyro

Beginner

Plausible

Believable; having the appearance of truth

Denigrate

Belittle, attack the reputation of

incarnadine

Blood red or flesh-colored. The verb incarnadine literally means "to make the color of flesh," although it's more commonly used to mean "to redden." Their paths cross, there's a string of corpses, the snow-covered landscape is incarnadined, and much redemption ensues.Instantly quenched: distress and affronted modesty incarnadined her face, veiled her eyes

Skirt

Border, lie along the edge of, go around; evade ~~skirts are worn by girls to attract boys, so girls can persuade boys easily and can AVOID CLEVERLY their problems she tactfully skirted the issue where they would alive.

inter

Bury (a dead body) or place in a tomb Inter means to bury, usually in a tomb or grave. If you loved your cat a lot, you might want to inter her remains in the back yard and make a nice little memorial. Most of the time, the word inter is going to be about burying someone or something. Often times, a family owns a plot of land in a cemetery where all family members are interred when they die. Occasionally, you might see it in the phrase "inter alia," a literary Latin expression meaning "among other things." Your professor is probably a poet and a scholar, inter alia. The only French king buried outside France, Charles X was interred here 180 years ago, not long after he lost the throne to a revolution.

Elicit

Call forth ( to bring to light), bring out, evoke to elicit the truth; to elicit a response with a question. ¨---Not bad, if Sediuk's intentions really were to elicit an authentic response from the original Material Girl.

halcyon

Calm and peaceful, carefree; prosperous, successful, happy

Molify

Calm or soothe (an angry person); lessen or soften

Caustic

Capable of corroding metal or burning the skin; very bitter sarcastic -----Life at Versailles was apparently a protracted battle of wits. You gained status if you showed "esprit" — clever, erudite and often caustic wit, aimed at making rivals look ridiculous. The king himself kept abreast of the sharpest remarks, and granted audiences to those who made them. "Wit opens every door," one courtier explained. The New York Times published a caustic diatribe against American Airlines by the novelist Gary Shteyngart. Shteyngart had an unpleasant experience on American while returning from Paris, and decided that, as he put it, the airline "should no longer be flying across the Atlantic."

Viable

Capable of living (or growing, developing, etc.); practical, workable via+able, to be able to take path which possible, workable. No one has ever made a viable independent business out of providing quality content for free.

pathogenic

Capable of producing disease

Overshadow

Cast a shadow over, darken; dominate, make to seem less important

expurgate and expunge

Censor; remove objectionable or offensive parts ~~ex gate par ho, he will be removed To expurgate is to censor. Usually, people talk about expurgating bad words from something written or on TV. On TV, if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been expurgated. In print, we can expurgate by using dashes ( — — ) or random characters like %&$#. Sometimes we can expurgate just by rewriting something so that the entire sentence with the naughty parts is gone, or by putting it into mild words. When it comes to things children read or watch, there's often the difficult question of what to expurgate and what to leave alone expunge: To expunge is to cross out or eliminate. After Nicholas proved he had been in school on the day in question, the absence was expunged from his record. Expunge is often something you do to a document. When government censors block out text in documents before making them public, they are expunging the text. You can also use the word in a more metaphorical sense. The principal tried to expunge all traces of bullying from the school by implementing a kindness initiative and treating all complaints as serious

Archaic

Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive

Idiosyncrasy

Characteristic or habit peculiar to an individual; peculiar quality, quirk. eccentricity. --What is amusing about Alidoro is the quirkiness of the menu, forty sandwiches with names like the Pacino, the Fellini, the Vivaldi, the Galileo, as though the owners were graduates of the Shopsin School of Culinary Idiosyncrasy. ~~his teaching methods are idiosyncratic but successful.

winsome

Charming, engaging, esp. in a sweet and innocent way

Complementary

Completing; fitting together well; filling mutual needs

equanimity

Composure, evenness of mind; mental or emotional stability, esp. under stress "equal or even in mind under stress". If you take the news of your parakeet's death with equanimity, it means you take it calmly without breaking down. Equanimity refers to emotional calmness and balance in times of stress. If equanimity reminds you of equal, that's because the words have a lot in common. The noun equanimity was borrowed from Latin aequanimitās, from aequanimus "even-tempered, fair," formed from aequus "even, level, equal" plus animus "mind." The archaic phrase to bear with equal mind means "to bear with a calm mind," and is a translation from the Latin. The phrase a level mind also refers to calmness. A near synonym is composure.

turpitude

Depravity, baseness of character, corrupt or depraved acts If you are guilty of turpitude, you should be ashamed of yourself. Turpitude is a word that represents depraved behavior. Prisons are filled with criminals who have engaged in acts of moral turpitude. Turpitude comes from the Latin word turpitudo, which means "repulsiveness." Corrupt politicians get booted out of office for acts of turpitude, like taking bribes in exchange for lucrative government contracts. Turpitude often follows the word moral, and acts of moral turpitude are usually crimes that are unusually sick or corrupt

metaphysical

Concerned with abstract thought, related to metaphysics (branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of being and of the world); very subtle or abstruse while "Metaphysics" dealt with more abstract questions about the reality beyond what we perceive with our senses. Look at a physical object, say an apple. At what exact point did that apple come into existence? If you eat it, does it cease to exist, or does it still exist but in a changed way? These are metaphysical questions. Add the Greek prefix "meta-" (beyond) to the base "physical" (nature), and you get metaphysical — a near synonym to the Latin-based word "supernatural." Both concern phenomena that are outside everyday experience or knowledge. Rather, it arrives like a metaphysical gift, showing up when it is least expected to conquer logic and haunt the imagination. There's no story except for the elemental marveling and metaphysical quest that make the backbone of the director's other films

Aesthetic

Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun)

compendium

Concise but complete summary; a list or collection

confound

Confuse, frustrate; mix up or make worse

collude

Conspire; cooperate for illegal or fraudulent purposes, collusion ~~ollu- resembles ullu(owl) ,,ullu banaya..vo fraud nikala.. ----I argued that when markets are free, and when government does not collude with business, greed is useful.After a year and a half long investigation, prosecutors have been unable to provide an estimate of the alleged(to state something without proof) "illegal profits" that Chen was supposed to have gained or show how Chen could meaningfully "collude" with other defendants to alter county government documents.

Paradox

Contradiction that is actually true

Counterpoint

Contrasting item, opposite; a complement; the use of contrast or interplay in a work of art

polemic

Controversial argument, esp. one attacking a specific idea A polemic is something that stirs up controversy by having a negative opinion, usually aimed at a particular group. A piece of writing can be a polemic, as long as it gets someone's goat. Polemic comes from the Greek polemikos meaning "warlike, belligerent." It's like challenging someone to a duel of ideas. These days a polemic is usually a piece of writing, such as if the Grinch published a powerful polemic against Christmas. It's like a debate, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Voltaire are known for theirs. The British philosopher John Stuart Mill had this to say about it: "The worst offense that can be committed by a polemic is to stigmatize those who hold a contrary opinion as bad and immoral men." "It was a statement about the polemic about the veils in Switzerland: Should we ban them from public institutions or not?" he said

Emulate

Copy in an attempt to equal or be better than

Pith

Core, essence; significance or weight

Divest

Deprive or strip of a rank, title, etc., or of clothing or gear; to sell off holdings (ant: invest) ~~ di+vest.....making two of it. ---Mitt Romney has tried politically to divest (deprive) himself of the health-care reform bill he signed into law as Massachusetts governor. But the blind trusts he and his wife, Ann, share have kept a healthy hand in health-care-industry stocks, which have helped sustain their multimillion-dollar fortune

Offset

Counteract, compensate for (v); a counterbalance(n) ~~The wealthy want to be seen as even more parsimonious, to offset the incriminating millions in their bank accounts.

pusillanimous

Cowardly, timid ~pussy guy is timid one You can describe someone who lacks courage as pusillanimous, such as a pusillanimous student who is too afraid to speak out against someone who is bullying others.The pusillanimous person stays quiet, doesn't get involved, waits for someone else to take a stand — not out of laziness, but out of fear. But it is important to realize that just as pusillanimous media perform no service, misanthropic ones may not perform a service either In a contemporary intellectual culture that is often pusillanimous in its evenhandedness, a dash of unreasonable invective is sometimes just what the doctor ordered His honesty offered a bracing counterpoint to the pusillanimous Republican leaders who continue to insist that the reality-television star would be different once in office

machination or machinations

Crafty schemes or plots

Wily

Crafty, cunning, characterized by tricks or artifice ~~.villy means villain, artful, cunning

impute

Credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for (sometimes falsely) Imputation is the attributing of actions to a source: often, imputation involves actions that are criminal. Imputation takes words or actions and ties them to a person or a cause. An imputation is when you say "He did it!" Imputations are therefore similar to accusations. Often, this word relates to imputations of dirty deeds, especially illegal deeds. "My brother stole the car" is an imputation. "The butler killed the maid" is an imputation. Imputations place blame, usually for something very wrong indeed. This word is often used in legal situations, when imputations are part of testimony. The Jew is innately driven to "mix facts and imputations topsy-turvy in the endeavor to secure the court decision he desires".

Castigate

Criticize severely; punish in order to correct

Crafty

Cunning, skillful in deception or underhandled schemes

imprecation

Curse; prayer for harm to come to someone, execrate, denunciate, anathematize ~~precare=pray If you really don't like someone you can shout out an imprecation at them. More than simply the use of bad language (although that can be involved, too), an imprecation is a damning curse wishing them nothing but ill. Originally from a Latin word meaning to "invoke evil" or "bring down bad spirits upon." Amidst their grumbles and imprecations, one could hear the sound of cracks spreading through the dream of an integrated Europe.But many fans had already turned, amid numbing techno music and inane electronic imprecations to "GET LOUD!"

Quotidian

Daily; everyday, ordinary

duplicity

Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception

Aver

Declare or affirm with confidence

Embellish

Decorate, add ornamentation; enhance (a story) with fictional or fanciful details. "Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles" (Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post) We all do it on our resumes, so what's the harm in a presidential candidate doing it as well?

Ingrained

Deep-rooted, forming part of the very essence; worked into the fiber

overwrought

Deeply agitated by emotions ( Overly nervous or excited; too ornate, elaborate, or fussy; overdone) ~~sounds like OVER HOT ~~Amid(during the middle) corporate intrigue and overwrought shows, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, and Miu Miu deliver subtle delights. Say your favorite soap star gets killed off in episode 12. If you sob uncontrollably, tear at your hair, and refuse to leave the couch for a week, most would say your response was overwrought — in other words, a bit much. But it's not just emotions that can go over the top. The gaudy, golden McMansion covered in ornate Italian statuary where your soap star lives in real life? Totally overdone, or overwrought, with details.

invidious

Defamatory remarks The adjective invidious is used to describe an act, thought, opinion or critique that is full of ill will or prejudice. It comes from a Latin word that means "hostile." When the captain of a cheerleading squad says nasty things about an opposing cheer captain's new party dress, those are invidious comments. Something can be described as invidious when it is resentful, discriminatory or envious, as in: "Fred was angered by the invidious gossip about his divorce being spread by his ex-wife's allies." insidious describes something that lies in wait to get you, and invidious is something offensive or defamatory. Cancer can be insidious, lurking in your body without your knowing it. Invidious doesn't hide; it's hateful right away. Rather, it is the insidious silence and insensitivity that surrounds so many of the most excruciating diseases of the mind that so often trigger suicide. (CNN) "After an old-fashioned, all-round team performance ... it might seem invidious to single out one player," admits the paper before singling out one player. (Guardian)

Debase

Degrade; lower in quality, value, rank, etc.; lower in moral quality

distend

Dilate, Swell, expand, stretch, bloat ~~distant, balloon A soda and pizza binge might make your stomach distend, meaning your stomach will swell as a result of pressure from the inside.if you've ever eaten too much food it won't surprise you to learn that the verb distend traces back to the Latin words dis-, meaning "apart," and tendere, meaning "to stretch." Your stomach will certainly feel stretched out if you do something — like overeat — that causes it to distend. The word distend often applies to stomachs — a pregnancy would also cause a stomach to distend — but it can also refer to anything that is stretched out as a result of internal pressure. It's a reminder that our smallness is sometimes petty, the unwelcome gravity of others' suffering distending her grief. It is possible only through a habit of hatred so distended that it no longer has any reference to reality at all.

Explicit

Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity

parley

Discussion, negotiation, esp. between enemies (noun); to have such a discussion (verb) ~~parliament, where CONFERENCE is held between opponents formal discussion between enemies or opponents is called a parley. A British drummer called for a parley between the British and American armies in 1781, and officers from both sides then discussed the terms of Britain's surrender. Parley can also be used as a verb, meaning to discuss or negotiate, such as between enemies or opponents. If your siblings are fighting, you may need to encourage them to parley in another room in order to discuss their differences and hopefully settle the problem once and for all.

opprobrium

Disgrace and disapproval that result from outrageously shameful actions If you go against or oppose what's good, you might earn opprobrium — the opposite of getting attention for something good. Bad behavior leads to opprobrium. If you throw a soft drink off the theater balcony, the opprobrium might keep you from getting dates to the movies. Even though the words aren't related, the "opp-" of the word opprobrium sounds a bit like the "app" part of "inappropriate." Opprobrium isn't an action that leads to disgrace, it's something that comes from the inappropriate thing that was done. A very inappropriate act leads to opprobrium for the person who did the act. "Infamy" — extreme dishonor, often with lasting consequences — is a synonym for opprobrium. Others are psychic: the opprobrium we would face if we act against what's accepted as appropriate in our society. Her glamorous transformation has aroused suspicion and opprobrium among the Party's rank and file, but many forgive it.

squalid

Disgusting, filthy, foul, extremely neglected ~~ghaday ki lid Squalid things appear neglected, or morally repulsive in nature, like a frat house after a semester of hard partying and zero cleanup. Squalid comes from the Latin word squalare, meaning to "be covered with a rough, scaly layer." A few word evolutions later and we have squalid, a word that describes something distasteful, dirty, unattractive, and as unkempt in appearance as the dry, scaly skin of an armadillo, or a room filled with pizza boxes, flickering light bulbs, and stained wallpaper. Squalid behavior is dirty, too, like cheating on a test and lying about it ~~One family barricades itself inside a squalid apartment hoping to ride it out.THE "Jungle" camp in Calais—squalid, ramshackle and lawless—was no place for children Monkeys were regularly housed in squalid facilities and mixed in unsuitable groups, causing fights and injuries

reprobate

Disreputable, unprincipled, or damned person (noun); shameless, depraved (adj) ~~one "reinstated in probation". i.e., morally corrupt person. confused with: probity, probate (approval)

aloof

Distant physically or emotionally; reserved; indifferent In the US, scientists have been aloof from the political process.

ridden

Dominated or burdened by ~~ride renders to burden ~~In contrast, the core Obama constituencies appear to have ridden out the recession in fine shape.

hegemony

Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc. Hegemony is political or cultural dominance or authority over others. The hegemony of the popular kids over the other students means that they determine what is and is not cool. Hegemony comes from the Greek hegemon "leader." Wealthy lender nations hoping to determine political outcomes and trade decisions have established hegemony over the debtor nations they lend to. As well as the dominance of one group or nation over others, hegemony is also the term for the leading group or nation itself. During the American Revolution, colonists fought to throw off the British hegemony

extemporaneous

Done without preparation (esp. of a speech), or with some preparation but no notes; improvised, done on the spur of the moment ( extemporaneous lectures/notes), impromptu ( just remember prompt of in[promptu] that's it) ~~which is done temporary in fast way. ant:remembered But extemporaneous speech is not his strongest suit; Kanye expresses himself much better creatively than he does in conversation. Spontaneity, innovation, the kind of extemporaneous flourish that Springsteen, Bono, or Chris Martin have mastered, and that grants those idols access to a stratosphere ( a high height/degree) the Killers are yet to pierce ( pierce = piracy, we must CUT down piracy. So pierce means cutting sth).

Frugal

Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive

Philanthropy

Efforts to improve the well-being of humankind, generally through giving money

milieu

Environment, atmosphere; the environmental setting in which something happens or develops ~~mile+Eu(Europe) :miles(distance) surrounding the Europe;that illustrates surrounding and environment

stasis

Equilibrium, a state of balance or inactivity ~~static ----Unfortunately for him he does not understand that the economy whether america's or India's or of the whole world for that matter does not exist in stasis, things change, there is a such a thing as technological development.

Fanatical

Excessively enthusiastic, or zealous in a uncritical way ~~fanta kal, but he is very fanatical

prolix

Excessively long and wordy (of a person, piece of writing, etc.)

fastidious

Excessively particular, difficult to please; painstaking, meticulous, requiring excessive attention to detail

maudlin

Excessively sentimental, showing sadness or some other emotion in a foolish or silly way

Status quo

Existing state of affairs That, he says, would yield a just as successful class as the status quo and would be significantly more objective.

expedient

Expedient describes a politically advantageous choice. Expedient also describes something that's good for you or something that's useful. It dates back to the 1400s and has its roots in Old French (expedient) and Latin (expedientem). The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it's not necessarily a moral solution. Politically expedient means something you do to advance yourself politically. Use expedient when you want to hint that a particular solution or strategy has certain benefits and advantages but is not completely fair. However, expedient can also be used as a noun to describe something practical for a particular purpose Antonyms. disadvantageous. ~~ expedient : Expedia airplane service ---It was the result of a chain of good decisions—wise, prudent, long-sighted, or, at the least, expedient choices. Should the government, which promised to protect airline passengers last year, do the expedient thing — or the right thing? (Seattle Times) But Mr. Kim's defiance, at times unshakeable, has been known to soften when politically expedient. (New York Times) Something expedient is helpful to you. If you vote your friend in for student body president just because you know she'll hook you up — that's an expedient choice. But expeditious is speedy, like your expeditious exit from the voting booth because you know didn't do the right thing Mr. Fine remains hopeful of a credible and expeditious review of the relevant issues by law enforcement authorities Although expedient and expeditious come from the same Latin root word for "to make ready or to prompt," they parted ways by the 1600s, when expedient became self-serving. Use expedient for "advantageous" and expeditious for "speedy," like how fast you plan for an expedition to Antarctica, or across the street

Connoisseur

Expert, especially in the fine arts; person or educated, redefined tastes

fulminate

Explode, detonate; attack verbally in a vehement, thunderous way ~~fuel+ illuminate

opine

Express an opinion

indigence

Extreme poverty

penury

Extreme poverty or scarcity

frenetic

Extremely Frightened, Frantic(syn), Frenzied (when someone get in freezer, it gets frenczed) ~~Let's go back. Your parents must be getting frantic by now.They began a frantic search for the missing child.

quixotic

Extremely impractical but very romantic, chivalrous, or idealistic; impulsive

virulent

Extremely infectious, poisonous, etc.; hateful, bitterly hostile ~~virus

coda

Final part of a musical composition; an ending, esp. one that sums up what has come before

arbiter

Judge, umpire, person empowered to decide matters at hand Arbiter, from the Latin, means "one who goes somewhere as witness or judge." The arbiter of a baseball game is called an umpire. In football and basketball, the arbiter is a referee. Arbitration is a type of conflict resolution in which a neutral person — the arbiter — hears the details of a dispute and makes a legally-binding decision about its resolution.

delimit

Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of, circumscribe It needed more than four centuries to establish and to delimitate the New Testament.

panache

Flair, style, swagger; a flamboyant or grand way of acting

fatuous, facetious, factious

Foolish, silly, esp. in a smug or complacent manner It sounds like it should have something to do with being fat, but it actually has no relation to size. Fatuus itself comes from a root that also gave us "debate" and this might be a good way to remember it. You want to debate someone who's fatuous, because they are unintelligent, silly and even a bit conceited, so they probably won't be very persuasive debaters. Just don't call them fatuous to their face. Even if they don't know what it means, it's just not nice! The word facetious describes something you don't take seriously. Remove the middle "e," and factious describes a dissenting group. And finally there's fatuous, which is a fancy way to say dumb

e.g.

For example, such as

shard

Fragment of some brittle substance, esp. a sharp fragment of pottery, glass, etc. ~~hard like glass If you break a mirror, the thin sharp pieces you want to avoid are shards. A shard is simply a broken piece of metal, glass, stone, or pottery with sharp edges. Don't confuse shard with shred, meaning to cut into strips, or chard, a leafy green vegetable. You could use a shard of metal to shred chard into salad, but be careful that you don't cut your hands to shreds!

gambol

Frolic; skip or leap playfully, marrymaking, jumping His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm." Jimmy is navigating his numbered days in a law firm, and Mike is gamboling with miscreants, trying to subsidize his daughter-in-law and granddaughter To gambol is to run around playing excitedly. Although the word sounds like "gamble," when you gambol you never lose — you just have a great time! If you've ever sprinted around, jumping up and down, yelling "woo-hoo!," you already know how to gambol. Being really excited or even just slap-happy makes people gambol, and it's so energizing that animals do it too. Dogs gambol when they rise on two legs to greet each other, and squirrels gambol when they chase each other up and down trees. And when springtime comes after a long winter, it seems to make every living thing gambol with extra life.

orotund

Full, rich, and clear (of the voice or speaking); pompous, bombastic ~~ORE+TON....a person having tons of gold is either pompous or attractive. On the other hand, if you've just given a speech and the TV commentators ridicule it as orotund, moralistic, and meaningless, you might want to drop out of sight for a few weeks. You've been called out for your pompous, self-important style. Orotund comes from the Latin word ore, "mouth," and rotundo, "make round." So orotund sounds are what you make with a rounded mouth, which is good if you're singing, but pretentious if you're not.

Log

Keep a record of, write down; travel for or at a certain distance or speed (v); a written record (n)

Conversant

Knowledge about or experienced with ~~conversations gives us knowledge and experience

faction, fractious

Group or clique within a larger organization; party strife and dissension ~~facts divides people since they are cruel Fractions are smaller parts of whole numbers: one-quarter, one-tenth, one-half, and a faction is a smaller portion of a larger group that breaks away from it. A faction might take a fraction of the people from a large group and start a new group. The Latin source of the word faction means to "do" or "make," though a faction can seem to be a taking away or un-doing. Politics is one area where faction gets a lot of use, because a political party often starts with a large group but has some members who disagree with a belief or direction. These members separate from the larger party and become a faction of their own, with many of the same beliefs as the original group but with a few new differences, too If you're prone to picking fights, making snarky comments, and being frustratingly stubborn, you're fractious. And odds are you're not invited to too many parties. Someone who is fractious is cranky, rebellious and inclined to cause problems. Tempers and children are commonly described as such.

lurid

Gruesome or excessively vivid; sensational, shocking, unrestrained. the lurid details of an accident. --lurid ( you face color changed, making you yellow , it will be due to some shocking scene) An expression used to avoid hearing or seeing disturbing things is "spare me the lurid details" or "spare me the gory details," and people say that so they won't have shocking or ugly images put into their imaginations. The word lurid, which entered English in the 17th century, comes from Latin lūridis, "ghastly, pale yellow." All of the synonyms for the adjective lurid describe qualities that can turn a person pale: dreadful, nightmarish, and horrific, among others. Lurid is just a uniquely dark and gruesome word. When people are lured into looking at something, they may be drawn to it because it's a shocking, graphic, or horrible scene, something lurid and very vivid that pulls them in. Your mother might complain that she hates lurid TV shows — ones that are overly sensationalized and meant to shock. --When my house got broken into, my political convictions were instantly replaced with lurid revenge fantasies.

dyspeptic

Grumpy (Py and peptic both related to body, hence irritated), irritable It describes someone who is irritable due to depression or indigestion. ~~sounds like THIS PEPSI...I wont drink this pepsi because it may create indigestion to me. ~~When voters think things are going wrong, they figure out—rightly or wrongly—which party to blame. In every midterm with a dyspeptic(negativity) electorate, their anger has been aimed in one direction. Nowadays we separate people who are depressed from people who are cranky because of indigestion, but dyspeptic rolls both these conditions into one ball of fun. A common dyspeptic type would be an old man shouting "Get off my lawn!" to kids playing on the street. When your friend suggests a restaurant but you're in a bad mood so you say "That's a stupid restaurant" — even though you don't really mind it — then you're being grumpy, meaning irritable or grouchy (a chee, related to body, A grouch is a cranky person who complains a lot. You could describe your grumpy old Grandpa as a grouch. Use the noun grouch when you're talking about someone who's habitually in a terrible mood. If your usual bus driver is a grouch, he's probably always yelling at his passengers).

Dissonance

Harsh, inharmonious sound; cacophony; disagreement

Reap

Harvest, such as by cutting; gather; get as a result of one's effort

mannered

Having a particular manner, esp. an artificial one If someone calls you mannered, it's really not a compliment. It means that the way you act seems artificial or exaggerated. Chill out. Manners are the way we behave in society, how we speak and act with other people. Use mannered to say that someone has exaggerated or unnatural manners. In combination with other words — as in well-mannered or mild-mannered — mannered can take a positive meaning, but when it's used by itself, it's a criticism. Your pretentious classmate is mannered, and an actor's stilted, phony performance is also mannered

insinuate

Hint, suggest slyly; introduce (an idea) into someone's mind in a subtle, artful way

inimical

Hostile, adverse, harmful

Restive

Impatient or uneasy under the control of another; resisting being controlled

Unseemly

Improper, inappropriate, against the rules of taste or politeness ~~see mely (pussy)

inert

Inactive; having little or no power to move ~~ in + earth Something that's unable to move or moving without much energy can be described as inert. Wind up in a body cast and you'll find yourself not only itchy, but totally inert. When motion is restricted or sluggish, or when something or someone appears lifeless, the adjective to use is inert. A dog who's playing dead is inert, as is a really boring movie. Or for those of you paying attention in chemistry class, you may have heard of inert gases — those elements that won't react with other elements or form chemical compounds Ocean plastics were not inert, they realized, nor did they disintegrate and disperse as harmless water dust

infallible

Incapable of error; certain ~~IN(not)+FALL...A person who doesn't fall is a person who doesn't make mistakes...

insensible

Incapable of feeling anything The adjective insensible describes a lack of emotional response or being indifferent. If your friend says that the roller coaster was so scary it nearly made him vomit and you shrug and say, "Eh, it was okay," he may think you are insensible to fear. A lack of physical sensation can also be described as insensible. If your nerve endings are not acute and you don't feel much pain, you are insensible to pain. This can be dangerous, though, because you might not notice if you get hurt skateboarding. They don't lurch but become uptight and narrow-minded, stuck on their talking points, implacable in their dopey, damaging, dronelike opinions, insensible to compromise.

Trite

Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliche

sedition

Inciting rebellion against a government, esp. speech or writing that does this ~~ an act of sedition, from the movie ( moses) Sedition is the illegal act of inciting people to resist or rebel against the government in power. It's what the southern states did at the start of the Civil War. Sedition is the rebellious talk and encouragement that might lead to a mutiny, and can be charged as a crime, like treason. The Alien and Sedition Acts passed into law in the late 1700s were challenged by none other than Thomas Jefferson as a violation of Americans' First Amendment rights to free speech. The Sedition Act quietly expired a few years later but was essentially replaced in the early 1900s by what is called the Espionage Act, which was later repealed as well. Proving sedition can become a murky business. When should the expression of one's activism be considered "free speech" and when should it be considered sedition?

proclivity

Inclination, natural tendency confused with: acclivity (upward slope), declivity (downward slope

Pugnacious

Inclined to fight, combative

Erratic

Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course

Proliferate

Increase or spread rapidly or excessively

Stoic or stoical

Indifferent to pleasure or pain, enduring without complaint; person indifferent to pleasure or pain (n) ~~stone like ( do not feel pain)

Discredit

Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in

iniquity

Injustice, wickedness, sin ~~Iniquity sounds like inequality;lack of justice. hence iniquity is injustice An iniquity is a really unfair or really immoral act. If you're a journalist, you may uncover a terrible iniquity that forces a famous politician to step down. Iniquity comes from Latin, combining the prefix in-, which means "not," and aequus, which means "equal" or "just." So iniquity literally means "not just." Iniquity can also be used to say that something lacks moral or spiritual principles. Some would call Las Vegas a "den of iniquity," implying that sinful or wicked behavior occurs there. Others would just call it a vacation. But if enough athletes continue to draw attention to the racial iniquities present in every strata in American life, they cannot be silenced forever.

Inconsequential

Insignificant, unimportant; illogical, irrelevant ~~Mario Chalmers, an inconsequential guy on the team, is often hungry and thinks Elf is one of the funniest movies in the world.

Disingenuous

Insincere, not genuine

Inform

Inspire, animate; give substance, essence or context to; be the characteristic quality of ~~It was a generally unpleasant experience, but one that continues to inform and inspire nearly every facet of my life.It is this brash, backroom sensibility that informs his work as a novelist"

per se

Intrinsically or with respect to its inherent nature; in itself Per se is the phrase to use when you want to refer to a particular thing on its own. It is not this Latin phrase, per se, that is important, but rather the concept it represents. Per se is handy when you need to single out a particular element of a bigger thing. So you might say, "The song, per se, wasn't a bad choice; it was your singing voice that was atrocious." In Latin it means "by itself." When you want to sound a little smart, inject a per se into what you're saying. It's one of those phrases, like "insomuch" or "as it were," that helps win arguments. Devlin's sets function not as scenery per se, but as support for the psychological and emotional narrative of a performance

Prologue

Introductory part to a book, play, etc. ~~~log as in listing down

inveigle

Inveigh: complain bitterly or protest. Picture an old man banging his fist on the dinner table, inveighing against the evils of teenagers being allowed to listen to music and dance. Inveigh means to rail against something with hostility and passion. Inveigle: Use charm to coax someone to do something When you tell your boyfriend he's not just the best boyfriend ever but also the world's best driver, and this makes him offer to drive the whole way on your upcoming road trip, then congratulations. You know how to inveigle. If you successfully inveigle your sister to doing something for you, she must be so caught up in your flattering that she is blind to your true intention. In fact, inveigle comes from the Middle French word aveugler, meaning "delude, make blind," which can be traced back to the Medieval Latin word ab oculis, or "lacking eyes." The people you inveigle don't see what you are really up to.

grating

Irritating; harsh or discordant (of a noise); scraping if you listen a discordant music, you will be irritated. When you grate something you rip it to shreds, like a pound of solid cheese that you shred for a recipe. The verb grate entered the English language in the fourteenth century by way of the French word grater, meaning "to scrape." Using grate in this sense, you might grate your teeth or grate a carrot, meaning rub or pulverize. By the sixteenth century the word had taken on the additional meaning of "sound harshly" and "annoy." This evolution makes sense if you think about it: If you've ever had anything really annoy you — "grate on your nerves" — it can almost seem as if a cheese grater has been applied to your nerves and is slowly ripping them to shreds. ---It is, no doubt, troublesome to make the oil so frequently, for the grating is tedious, and it must be slowly boiled; still, Kobez was not so oppressed by many duties that he could not find time to make it himself. Garnish with freshly grated cheese, drizzle with olive oil and serve with warm, olive-oil-rubbed toast. Our guess is that his endless interruptions grated on millions of viewers. It grated all the more, he said, because the housekeeping staff forgot to provide the water and coffee some days

stint

It means little, as little Period of time or limited amount of work (noun); to be frugal. ~~'stin't is moderately 'stin'gy

tome

Large or scholarly book; one of the volumes in a set of several books ~~tomb is mentioned in several books If you generally carry more than one tome to class, invest in a bag with wheels so you don't hurt your back. A tome is big and heavy. "Wow! This tome weighs a ton!" Whatever you do, don't leave your tome at home—you'll wind up in detention! You can also use tome sarcastically to describe a book that clearly isn't large or important. But sarcasm is for advanced users only.

savant

Learned person, scholar, someone admitted to membership in a scholarly field; a person with amazing mental abilities despite having a cognitive difference or disability ~~we call one who is SAVVY a savant

fallow

Left unplanted (of land) during a cultivated season; not in use ~~fall is as low as it can be picked , can not be used. Something that is fallow is left unused. If you're smart but lazy, someone might say you have a fallow mind. We use the word to talk about any unused resource, it started as a work about land. Fallow comes from the old English word for plowing, and refers to the practice of leaving fields unplowed in rotation--when a field lies fallow, the soil regains nutrients that are sucked up by over-planting.

missive

Letter, written message~~~i miss you, it is written message A missive usually refers to the old-school style of hand-written communication on paper (remember that?), but these days you also might hear an email called a missive, too. No matter how you deliver it, a missive is a message. The noun missive comes from the Latin word missus, meaning "to send." You may have heard the phrase, "fire off a missive," meaning a note, memo or dispatch that was written and sent with urgency and conveyed an important message. It might have been a missive sent from a commander to the troops, telling them of a change in the battle plan. Or, maybe it was an urgent love letter to the commander's wife back home, telling her to tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree...

seraphic

Like an angel; serene, spiritually carried off or transported ~~seerap(sharbat) like person Something that's seraphic resembles an angel. A seraphic smile is sweet and angelic. The adjective seraphic means "like a seraph," or similar to a high-ranking angel. People with gentle, innocent faces are often said to be seraphic, and any kind of dreamy music or art can be described the same way. he quartet's sorrowful air at times felt strikingly morose, but it took a more seraphic turn with time, and ultimately beguiled

Penchant

Liking or inclination (usually penchant for) ~~pen(friend)+chahna(liking)

Hearken

Listen, pay attention to

sublime

Lofty or elevated, inspiring reverence or awe; excellent, majestic; complete, utter

rarefied

Lofty, very high up or elevated (in a metaphorical way); exclusive, select; thin, pure, or less dense (as air at the top of a mountain)

Tenuous

Long and thin, slender; slimsy, having little substance

harangue

Long, intense verbal attack, esp. when delivered publicly

Retrospective

Looking to the past or backward; ~~Retro: past and spect : is to see so retrospective is to look ack in past Every day we not only have the new news but old news, with a handy, retrospective round number attached to it.

Slack

Loose, negligent, lazy, weak (adj.); neglect to do one's duties; loosen up, relax (v); period of little work (n) ~~lack of duties

Din

Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time ---DIN (morning) mein you will hear the loud noises of the traffic etc, but at night its very quiet.

nadir

Lowest point

providential vs provident

Lucky-fortunate(a providential event) If your best friend pulls up beside you in her convertible just as your bike gets a flat tire, you could call it providential, or magically lucky. capital P. Providential, likewise, has another meaning that's purely religious, "resulting from God's intervention." Whether you're talking about God or not, if something is providential, it feels a little miraculous. ''To return to his present day, his flux capacitor needed a providential shaft of lightning. If you are provident, that means you plan carefully for the future. You have your Christmas lights up in early December, you have a well-stocked pantry, and you have some savings tucked away just in case

Augment

Make Larger

emaciate

Make abnormally thin, cause to physically waste away ~~when the mass is out, u become thin. its emassiate=emaciate Someone who is dangerously skinny and skeletal-looking can be described as emaciated. It's probably how you'd start to look after a few weeks in the wilderness with only berries and bugs for dinner. The adjective emaciated evolved from the Latin emaciatus, meaning to "make lean, waste away." An emaciated person or animal isn't just thin. They're bony, gaunt, and most likely undernourished, often from illness. So if an emaciated stray cat shows up on your doorstep, give it a bowl of milk and maybe pay a visit to the vet. In January, images of emaciated children and starved bodies in the city sparked international outrage. The ribs were emaciated bones with barely any meat hanging on them, the kind of aggressively butchered "shiner" ribs that knowledgable pitmasters avoid.

sully vs surely vs sulleness

Make dirty, stain, tarnish, defile confused with:sullen (bad tempered) and surley ( bad tempered) By cheating the sullied the good name of their country. she wondered if she dared the risk of gleaming (shinning) sink To sully is to attack someone's good name and to try to ruin his reputation. If you spread false rumors that there's chicken stock in the vegetarian entree at Joe's Diner, you would sully Joe's good reputation. Sully can also mean to tarnish or make spotty. It's easy to remember this meaning when you know that sully comes from the Middle French word souiller, meaning, "make dirty." For example, dripping chocolate sauce onto the table will sully your mother's new white tablecloth. Another meaning of sully is to corrupt or cast suspicion on. If an automaker recalls millions of vehicles due to safety problems, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence — in fact, it may sully their brand.

Antagonize

Make hostile or unfriendly

Assuage

Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, or calm

Quibble

Make trivial arguments or criticism, petty or carping criticism; a minor objection, find faults in a petty way, esp. to evade something more important ~~mnemonic in hindi.. read it as qui(kyun)+bble(bill)..KYUN BILL ITNA ZYADA HAI?, you OBJECT to reading of meter & COMPLAIN to the authorities..

stigma

Mark of disgrace, a figurative, stain or mark on someone's reputation --a stick from Ma(mother) , leave a mark which is mark of disgrace If something has a negative association attached to it, call this a stigma. Bed-wetting can lead to a social stigma for a six year old, while chewing tobacco might have the same effect for a sixty year old. Stigma, from the Greek word of the same spelling meaning "mark, puncture," came into English through Latin to mean a mark burned into the skin to signify disgrace. It did not take long for stigma to be used figuratively, as it is commonly used today, for the negative stereotype or reputation attached to something such as "the stigma of divorce."

mired vs dire

Mire (mudd)=Stuck or entangled in a mud, a difficult or unpleasant situation. ~~Mired= M+Wired.. when you are wired, you are entangled..! ----But she let us film her journey back from the mire of scandal and the brink of despair for OWN. A mire is mushy ground like quicksand, so if you feel yourself trapped in a sticky situation, consider yourself mired. One gets mired IN something — like in a dispute or in a love triangle. Mire still has its original, though less-used, sense of a slushy, muddy bit of land that gives way underfoot, also known as a quagmire. One of the most famous mires in literary history was the one haunted by the Hound of the Baskervilles in Conan Doyle's classic. Have the fibs you told your beloved come back to haunt you? You're stuck in a mire then, a treacherous situation it's going to be pretty hard to squirm out of.

pastiche

Mix of incongruous parts; artistic work imitating the work of other artists, often satirically ~~PASTE The next time you see a movie that you think is a cheap imitation of an older, better movie, you can sound like a film critic by dismissing the picture as a thoughtless pastiche. There's no big romance clichés and pastiches and declarations of undying love. It's very simple. Simple, but intimate and truthful." The show's stylistic pastiche is less blatant than those in "Stranger Things," but it even more forcefully wrestles with the popular conception of its setting.

Temparence

Moderation, self-control, esp. regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol

Qualified

Modified, limited, conditional on something else

lugubrious

Mournful and sad(gloomy). So, the word has a negative association, Funerals are lugubrious. So are rainy days and Mondays. Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called lugubrious. Lugubrious comes from the Latin verb lūgēre, "to mourn." You can also listen to the sound of the word: lugubrious sounds slow, heavy, and sad. Sometimes, just the "feel" of a word is enough to clue you in to its meaning, and lugubrious is one of those words. I was feeling great when I got to the concert, but the lugubrious music left me in a terrible mood. After so many lugubrious turns, "Breaking Bad" came to an end on Sunday on an almost uplifting note. "Lugubrious?" you might ask yourself. Sounds bad. But "Breaking Bad" is my favorite show! "Could lugubrious be...a good thing?" Before you rush to the Dictionary to find out, take a minute to look at Stanley's lede one more time. It's a test-writer's dream, the kind of opportunity for finding meaning through context clues we're being told we'll see on the new SAT. And right off the bat, you'll notice Stanley's sentence contrasts lugubrious with uplifting. Aha! A clue. Since we know that uplifting means making you feel "up" or just "good," we can infer that lugubrious falls into the category of things that make you feel bad, or are depressing.

myopic

Near-sighted; lacking long-term thinking, short-sighted Myopic is an adjective meaning shortsighted in every sense. Whether you need glasses or a new attitude, if you can't see the forest for the trees, you're myopic. It has optician in it. Myopic began as a description of the condition that made people squint and was easily cured with a pair of pink cat-eye glasses, but it came to include people or plans with a lack of foresight. Although it's good to live in the moment, it's not a compliment to be called myopic — a myopic party host might have festive decorations but no food for hungry guests, and myopic students have no interest in anything beyond what's on the test.

Unprecedented

Never before known or seen, without having happened previously

tumultuous

Noisy disturbance ( people get out of control and become violent) syn: disorderly, chaotic, and loud, roit ~~tumult ( rifle it is symbol of chaos) If a principal steps into a classroom and is greeted by a tumult of voices, with the teacher shouting for his kids' attention, she will not be pleased. A tumult is a state of noisy confusion. Very often a crowd of people will cause a tumult. But your mind can also be in tumult, when you're confused and overwhelmed by strong emotions. If you want an adjective to describe these types of bewildering situations, use tumultuous. Tumult is from the Latin tumultus "an uproar," which is related to the Latin verb tumēre "to be excited." Anything riotous is disorderly, chaotic, and loud. Riotous things can also be abundant. Since a riot is a disturbance where people get out of control and become violent, riotous things are also loud, disruptive, and out of hand. If everyone in class speaks at once to answer a question, that's a riotous response. Chaos is always riotous. The opposite of riotous would be calm, civilized, and peaceful. Also, you can say that lush, abundant things are riotous. If an apple tree is producing an unusually large amount of apples, it's riotous. ---Otherwise, these two peoples are bound to be swept away by the tumultuous and unpredictable Arab Spring.

fracas

Noisy disturbance or fight; brawl , as in france( a fight by franceesi) If your marching band gets into a fight with another school's pep squad, your principal might say the fracas was uncalled for and undignified. A fracas is a noisy quarrel.Fracas comes from an Italian word meaning uproar or crash. Two people in a quiet little spat is not a fracas, but a schoolyard rumble definitely qualifies as one! Sometimes fracas means the large amount of outraged discussion that an event causes. Imagine the fracas if your school decided to ban sneakers! A Man You Don't Want to Meet in a "Fracas". But the BBC chose to use fracas in describing the event that led to the the suspension of Top Gear( a movie) host Jeremy Clarkson.Fracas means Clarkson punched someone

Relegate

Send or commit to an inferior place, rank, condition, etc.; exile, banish; assign (task) to someone else ~~divide it like rail+gate. Earlier station Master is now appointed as a watcher of rail gate. so, in worse position.

Clamor

Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise~~CLAIM+MORE: So when you claim for more or demand more there is a loud noise or complain ----Bill and Chelsea arrived and schmoozed, surrounded by their respective entourages. At one point, they made eye contact across the crowded room and managed a private moment. A fellow guest watched him blow a kiss at her. In response, amid the clamor, Chelsea mouthed, "I love you."

implacable

Not able to be appeased, calmed, or satisfied

Indifferent

Not caring, having no interest; unbiased, impartial

Apathy

Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern

Scant

Not enough or barely enough ~~a scant cup of sugar

Indeterminate

Not fixed or determined, indefinite; vague

Stingy

Not generous with money, reluctant to spend or give

recalcitrant

Not obedient, resisting authority, hard to manage

plebian vs patrician

Of the common people:Such recreational activities were an essential part of plebeian culture --public In Roman times, the lower class of people was the plebeian class. Today, if something is plebeian, it is of the common people. When you hear the word plebeian used to describe a form of art or taste, it means that while something is liked by a lot of people, it may not be of the highest quality or taste. Both soap operas and reality television shows have been described as plebeian forms of entertainment. A member of the plebeian class is known as a pleb, which is pronounced "pleeb." Silverton has always shunned ostentation, celebrating her love of plebeian ingredients such as iceberg lettuce and popcorn, not to mention her passion for burgers Patricians in the core, plebeians on the fringes - it's happening to major cities globally That refined gentleman over there with the excellent manners, the elegant suit, and the beautiful home on Park Avenue? He's a patrician, a member of the upper classes

Homogenous

Of the same kind; uniform throughout

umbrage

Offense or annoyance (usually as take umbrage, meaning become offended or annoyed)

Fringe

On the margin, periphery (adj.); the people in a group who hold the most extreme views ~~fighting ring We're talking-to ourselves—or rather, to a fringe constituency within ourselves.

Fleeting

Passing quickly, transitory

Bygone

Past, former (adj.); that which is in the past (usually plural noun)

Peripheral

Relating to or making up an outer boundary or region; not of primary importance, minor importance, fringe( an outside boundary) ---Then I saw something in my peripheral vision, close to my back. I turned around. A tall man in a yellow track suit was looking over my head at the game. The peripheral object was his knee

Eccentric

Peculiar, odd, deviating from the norm esp. in a whimsical way, strange, weird, bizarre. Ant; normal, regular, ordinary, customary, conventional. Aijo started his Ukrainian adventures in Crimea participating in the occupation of Ukrainian government buildings. The Latvian government deprived him of citizenship for such activity. After that the eccentric activist set out to Eastern Ukraine. People were astonished by his impassioned speeches at separatist meetings. "We must save Ukrainian people from the neo-Nazis who made fools of them," he'd declare. He called for Ukraine to be annexed by Russia as soon as possible or "Europeans will turn Ukrainians into their slaves." Recently Aijo was arrested in Latvia by local court for his participation in illegal military squads in Ukraine

vim

Pep, enthusiasm, vitality, lively spirit ~~vim bar Vim is energy and enthusiasm. If you've got vim, then you probably pack a little extra oomph in your life! Vim is an odd-looking word, but it stands for a simple concept: being ready for activity, especially vigorous activity. Someone who is always playing sports or going on trips is full of vim. Someone who lies on the couch watching TV all day shows very little vim. This word often appears in the phrase "vim and vigor." If you have vim, you have energy and you're ready to put that energy into all sorts of activities; you're up for anything.

sybarite

Person devoted to pleasure and luxury If you know someone who's totally addicted to luxurious things and all of life's pleasures, call her a sybarite. Unless she's inviting you over for champagne brunches and showering you with gifts — in which case you should keep your mouth shut.

doctrinaire

Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and close-minded way (noun); merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one's ideas (adj)

Exponent

Person who expounds or explains; champion, advocate, or representative ~~A^2 , 2 is up as compared to A, chapmion

dupe

Person who is easily fooled or used (noun); to fool or exploit (verb)

epicure

Person with cultivated, refined tastes, esp. in food and wine ~~who picks best things We call a person who truly loves food—food at the highest levels—an epicure. Occasionally, you might find the word epicure used for a person who loves something else, but an epicure is usually someone who delights in fine food. Epicurus was the Greek philosopher whom we credit with thinking the most about cooking and food. So any time you see the word epicure, remember that that person follows the philosopher Epicurus and therefore loves food. Being an epicure ain't cheap. Most fine restaurants these days will charge you an arm and a leg for a meal good enough to satisfy a real epicure: a good bottle of wine alone could cost the choosy epicure a couple of Benjamins ($100 bills). For adventurous epicures with the wherewithal, the chef's counter feels like a relaxed dinner party.

pulchritude

Physical beauty ~~phul chirri If someone comments on the pulchritude of your face, you shouldn't be offended. It may sound like quite the opposite, but pulchritude actually means "beauty." Pulchritude is one of those words that is more often commented upon for its oddness than actually used in its intended meaning. Many people dislike the sound of this word or are surprised to find that it is a synonym of beauty. These days pulchritude is considered outdated and is usually only used in highly literary writing or, in more common writing, to achieve a witty effect But if "Game of Thrones" actually depended on its torture festivals and its showrooms of naked pulchritude, it would have been "Caligula." Imperious, perverse, remote and radiant, Catherine Deneuve is a monument to French poise and pulchritude.

Gawky

Physically awkward (esp. of a tall, skinny person, often used to describe teenagers) ~~awkward

discrete

Separate, distinct, detached, existing as individual parts ~~discreet (hiding)=discretion

ford

Place where a river or similar body of water is shallow enough to walk or ride a vehicle across (noun); to cross at such a place (verb) ~~ford car....you crossed the ford in your ford. When you're out hiking in the wilderness, you may have to ford a river if there's no bridge. Roll up your pant legs because you'll have to wade through the water at a shallow point.The verb ford describes crossing a body of water on foot at a shallow point or driving across it in a vehicle. The idea is that you're not using a bridge or a boat to cross the water. Ford also has a noun form, meaning a shallow point in a river or stream. So if you ever have to ford a river, make sure you cross at the ford — the shallow point — or you could get very wet. Most of them forded the Rio Grande - wading if it was shallow, or paddling across in inflatable boats - and arrived in Texas

Sportive

Playful, merry, joking around, done "in sport" (rather than intended seriously)

euphony

Pleasing or sweet sound, especially as formed by a harmonious use of words

Copious

Plentiful, bountiful

Plummet

Plunge( sound like "put lung in (water)), fall straight down ~~plumb--plumber who tests depth of the pipe ---Wind chills will plummet to around -20ºF on Friday for Hartford, Providence, and western Massachusetts.

transgression, egress

Violation of a law, moral rule, order, etc.; sin ~~who change the path, violator

latent

Potential; existing but not visible or active

puissance

Power, might ~~police + sons = sons of people in police department will have power

Pragmatic

Practical; dealing with actual facts

predilection

Preference, tendency or favorability towards ~~pre(before)+dialect(local language); you generally become partial when you are taking an interview and you meet someone who speaks your language ( :) assume the interview is in the US)

gestation

Pregnancy; the period from conception until birth of an animal or (metaphorically) of an idea or plan ~~when we pronounce gestation, we have guest in the name. so a guest is about to come permanently which implies pregnancy

Obviate

Prevent, eliminate, or make unnecessary ~~ab vi ate, he is reluctant to do so

Preempt

Prevent; take the place of, supplant; take before someone else can

Futile

Producing no useful result, ineffective, trivial or unimportant

ostensible or ostensive

Professed, evident, or pretended; outwardly appearing in a certain way When something is ostensible it appears to be the case but might not be. Research for a role is the ostensible reason for Nat's drinking. But I think it's because he just likes to drink. Just because something is ostensible doesn't necessarily mean that it's not as it appears to be, only that there's a possibility of another reason. My ostensible reason for calling Brent was to ask about work. The real reason was that I was hoping he might ask me out. Turns out both the ostensible reason and the real reason were true!

Proscribe

Prohibit, outlaw; denounce; exile or banish

Eminent

Prominent, distinguished, of high rank confused with: imminent (happen soon)

Refute

Prove to be false

Enigma

Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person

Mercurial

Quickly and unpredictable changing moods; fickle, flighty

Enhance

Raise to a higher value, desirability, etc.

insurrection

Rebellion or revolt against a government or similarly established authority ~~In+sur (head/ government) + reaction ( action/ rebel), so reaction/ rebel against the head/government. Insurrection is an uprising against a larger force that's in power. An insurrection can lead to revolution, but it is just as likely to be put down. Other words for insurrection include rebellion, revolt and uprising, the last of which is the translation of insurrection's Latin roots. The Boston Tea Party is probably the most famous American act of insurrection. One who rises up in insurrection is called an insurgent by the force they are rising against. Like Paul Revere, insurgents are often called heroes by the people they are rising up to support.

florid

Reddish or rosy; flowery, showy, or excessively fancy, flamboyant, grandiloquent, rococo; flash, gaudy. ~~flowered --The florid brushwork of a Constable gets hypertrophied in Freud( a france painter), into a kind of gross exaggeration of what unleashed(uncontrolled, leash=control,leash a dog) paint can do.

Abridge

Reduce or lessen; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea

penitent

Regretful, feeling remorse for one's sins or misdeeds (adj); a person who feels this way (noun) ~~NO Peny in the tent

rejoinder vs enjoin

Rejoinder: Response or reply, esp. a witty comeback A rejoinder usually means a witty comeback. If someone asks you a silly question like, "Are you painting?" when you are holding a paint can and a brush, your rejoinder could be, "No, I'm just doing my nails." The word rejoinder comes from the Middle French word rejoindre, which meant to answer a legal charge. The meaning of a witty retort developed from the legal meaning. You often think of the best rejoinders long after the crucial moments have passed, which can be really frustrating enjoin: To enjoin is to issue an urgent and official order. If the government tells loggers to stop cutting down trees, they are enjoining the loggers to stop

Rustic

Relating to country life, unsophisticated; primitive; made of rough wood (adj.); a rural or uncultured person (n)

Pathological

Relating to or caused be disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior

monastic

Relating to or resembling a monastery (where monks or nuns live), esp. by being quiet, secluded, contemplative, strict, and/or lacking luxuries Monastic means like in a monastery. So what is it like in a monastery? Well, it's solitary, somewhat isolated, plain, and disciplined. If you take monastic vows, you promise to live this way. Being monastic might sound like a strange or a hard thing to be, but you can compare it to student life very well. Both monks and students spend a lot of time studying books. Monks like quiet, and students need quiet to get work done. Monks live in a community devoted to religion, and students study in a community devoted to learning. The stereotypical party lifestyle of a student isn't very monastic though. Once the preserve of monastic retreats and hardcore meditators( focus for spiritual things) , simply being quiet is growing in appeal. The business is part of the nascent "workday sleep industry," which banks on dragging workers out of their offices to meditate and, yes, power nap.

prophetic

Relating to prophesy, predicting, ominous

terrestrial

Relating to the Earth or to land; worldly ~~Terrestrial which is pertaining to the earth is the opposite of Celestial or Astral which refer to the stars and the constellation. Not straying far from its Latin root terra meaning "earth," terrestrial means "of the earth." If it's terrestrial, you'll find it on earth. If it's extraterrestrial, you'll find it emerging from a UFO. The adjective terrestrial can also be used to describe something that lives on land (as opposed to living in water, for example). "On their trip to the rain forest, the scientists were charged with cataloging terrestrial animals. Another group was going to be in charge of cataloging the aquatic animals." The adjective can also be used to describe something that is mundane in character. The teenager cried, "My life is boring and full of terrestrial events like going to band practice and to class!"

semantic

Relating to the different meanings of words or other symbols

vernal

Relating to the spring; fresh, youthful ~~Ver( bacha, spring)+(naal ( milk plane wali naal)) If you enjoy the vernal lushness of the landscape, that's a kind of fancy way to say you like the way nature looks in the springtime. The word vernal entered English in the sixteenth century, tracing all the way back to the Latin word ver, meaning spring. Use the adjective vernal to describe something that occurs in springtime or is related to springtime. You might be familiar with the vernal equinox, which indicates the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The word vernal can also be used more broadly to describe something youthful or fresh — springlike.

revamp

Renovate, redo, revise (verb); a restructuring, upgrade, etc. (noun) ~~re amplify If you revamp something, you renovate or remake it. You'll have to revamp your vacation plans if the hotel where you were planning to stay has closed for repairs and renovations. The vamp of a shoe or boot is the front part that covers the top of the foot. If that part of your shoe needed repair or replacement, then you would have to revamp it. From this sense, we get the more common meaning of revamp — to restore or fix up. Your favorite hotel might be trying to revamp its image, to reinvent its reputation as a family resort.

exigent

Requiring immediate attention, action, or aid; excessively demanding When you describe something as exigent, you are saying it requires attention: it can't be ignored. Exigent, which means "demanding attention," comes from the Latin for "driving out." If there's a runaway train driving straight at you, that's an exigent situation — not a good time to stop and write a poem. When circumstances become exigent, it's time to act. When exigent questions arise, an answer is necessary. You can also use exigent for a person who demands attention, usually by complaining. If you've ever worked as a waiter, you've surely dealt with an exigent customer.

Deference

Respectful submission; yielding to the authority or opinionj of another

Potentate

Ruler, person of great power ~~potent=powerful=potential ---Money became a potentate whose power is greater even than that of the president, controlling and outlasting any political fortune.

slake

Satisfy (esp. thirst), cool, or refresh; make less active ~~lake is cool When you slake something, such as a desire or a thirst, you satisfy it. A big glass of lemonade on a hot summer day will slake your thirst. The word slake traces back to the Old English word slacian, meaning to "become less eager." If you slake something, like thirst, you become less eager to drink. In other words, you are less thirsty. Like satisfy and quench, close relatives of slake in meaning, the word is used to indicate that a craving is made less intense by getting whatever it is that you crave.

Disperse

Scatter, spread widely, cause to vanish

Erudite

Scholarly, knowledgeable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge

Eclectic

Selecting the best of everything or from many diverse sources

axiom

Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle

Autonomous

Self-governing, independent

Complacent

Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy, neglectful, or some other bad quality)

abreast

Side-by-side.~~breast are side by side But at that point, the picture began to change so rapidly that the symposium papers had to be revised for publication to remain abreast of international political developments.

acidulous

Slightly acid or sour; sharp or caustic

dilatory

Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time Something dilatory creates a delay. If you are a high school student, once in a while you might have used dilatory tactics if you forgot to do your homework. It comes from the Latin root word dilator, a noun that means someone who puts off things, or a procrastinator. If you are always late to appointments, people may accuse you of being dilatory, especially if they think you don't have a good excuse

Torpor

Sluggishness, lethargy, apathy; a period of inactivity

Peccadillo

Small sin or fault

anachronism

Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period

reactant

Something that reacts; a substance that undergoes a change in a chemical reaction

glower, grovel

Stare in an angry, sullen way ~~ glow, a person that glowers seems to glow with anger If you see someone glower at you, you might consider glowering back, but no one likes an angry staring contest. To glower is not only to stare, it's to stare angrily, as if you're going to throttle someone ---Other than that, Harrison-philes can check off his acting oeuvre(work of the writer): surprise, smirk(smile in silly way), fury, glower, and repeat. "If you refer to them as a beat outfit, they frown. If you venture to suggest that they play rock 'n' roll, they positively glower." To grovel is to beg like a hungry dog. You don't have to be a canine though; you might grovel for a better grade (please don't). If you grovel you risk getting the opposite of what you want, because people (like teachers) don't like people down at their feet begging for something. But if you cheat on your date, you may have to grovel to get him or her back. Grovel also means to crawl around on your belly — you could grovel on gravel, but that might really hurt. ~~ One who wants to "grow well" needs to grovel before his manager.

whet

Stimulate, make keen or eager (esp. of an appetite) ~~making a girl wet To whet is to sharpen. You could whet a knife's blade with a whetting stone, or you could whet your appetite by having some Doritos. The verb whet can mean "to stimulate or make more acute," and the word is often used in the phrase "whet [your] appetite," which can be used literally or figuratively. You could serve light appetizers to whet everyone's appetite for dinner or you could whet an actor's appetite by giving him a small role that inspires him for greater roles. You can whet other things in this sense as well — such as curiosity, fear, or pleasure Since then, planetarium visits and TV science programs on celestial marvels had only whetted our appetites But lately European MBA courses have included search-fund case studies that have whetted the appetite of some intrepid would-be entrepreneurs

fetid

Stinking; having an offensive smell~~ Feet smells bad If you want to understand the true meaning of fetid, leave your sweaty gym clothes in your locker for a few days. Fetid is a fancy way of saying that something smells really bad. From the Latin word meaning "stinking," this adjective has been in use since the early 15th century, which was a particularly fetid time in history — showers, laundry detergent, and deodorant had not yet been invented. Here's an easy way to remember it: "the fe(e)t (d)id stink." It's sometimes spelled foetid. Served in a large outer leaf ripped from a head of iceberg lettuce, the salad radiates heat, sourness and the fetid funk of fish sauce

occlude, occult Accolde

Stop up, close, shut in or shut off Occult: noun referring to black magic and an adjective meaning "difficult to see." Accolade: A knight being honored with the tap of a sword-blade was the earliest form of accolade. Today, an accolade is more than a way to bestow knighthood, it is a form of praise or an award. Occlude: block the passage of any thing or anyone Occlude means to obstruct, as with an opening. You hear this a lot in a medical context. Heart surgeons are looking for occlusions in blood vessels--things that occlude the flow of blood. Occlude does not exist only in a medical context. If you close the bathroom door so your little brother won't come in while you're trying out makeup with your friends, you're occluding the bathroom. Meanwhile, your makeup occludes your pores.

fluke

Stroke of luck, something accidentally successful ~~luck A fluke is an unexpected stroke of good luck. It was a fluke to find that fifty dollar bill on the ground, and it made you smile for the rest of the day. The word fluke was first used in 1857 in reference to a lucky shot at billiards. If something good happens to you by chance when you're not expecting it, that's a fluke. The word fluke can also be used in a negative or insulting way. For example, if your favorite sports team loses an important game, you could complain that it was just a fluke that the other team won — meaning they didn't deserve to win and somehow got lucky

obdurate

Stubborn, hardhearted, hardened in wrongdoing

modish

Stylish, contemporary ~~It feels bizarrely(strange) out of place, and the horde(crowd) of modish Angelenos decide to capture it on their iPhones and Androids.

surrogate

Substitute, person who acts for another (noun); acting as a replacement (adj) ~~Sir+ro+gate: Sir rokar gate se bahar chale gaye and so we need to call someone lese for teaching Someone who acts as a surrogate takes the place of another person. If a celebrity leaves her seat to use the restroom in the middle of a big Hollywood awards ceremony, a surrogate will take his or her place until she returns. Surrogate comes from the Latin word surrogare, which means "to put in another's place," or "to substitute." An uncle might refer to his niece as a surrogate child if they are very close, especially if he doesn't have his own biological children. Since 1978, surrogate has also been used to describe a woman who carries and delivers a baby for another person or couple

recapitulate

Summarize, repeat in a concise way ~~recapture will help recapitulate ~~confused with: capitulate (surrender) Social historians like Clare Graves and Jean Gebser have developed developmental models that show how human individuals and cultures recapitulate individual growth through archaic, magical, mythical-tribal, modernist, post-modernist and onto integral value structures.

Acme

Summit, peak, highest point

Replete

Supplied in abundance, filled gorged (used with with)

Buttress

Support or encourage (v); a support or prop, esp. projecting from and supporting the wall of a building (n)

Document

Support with evidence, cite sources in a detailed way, create documentary evidence of

leery

Suspicious or wary Being leery is being distrustful. If you're leery, it will probably show on your face and in your posture. You may squint and wrinkle your brows or take a few steps back. If you're leery that someone won't keep a secret, you won't confide in them, and if you're leery about whether they'll keep a promise to you, you won't count on them. Sometimes people are leery because of some proof, but often, just having a bad feeling or instinct is enough to make a person leery.

turgid

Swollen, inflated; or, metaphorically "inflated," such as in overblown, pompous speech --tarjama

Meticulous

Taking extreme care in regards to details; precise, fussy

augury

Telling the future, such as through supernatural means ~~augura ka future. Is your team losing 15-0? Has your girlfriend just slapped your face? Dude, these are auguries — signs of how things are going to work out in the future. And these two examples don't look good. This is a kind of augury, which consists of an enquiry whether the god allows them to request welfare for the State, as if it were unholy even to make a request for it until the action received sanction

abeyance

Temporary suspension, inactivity

Sap

The inner fluid of a plant or any essential body fluid; energy; vitality; a person taken advantage of (n); undermine, weaken, tire out (v)

via

Through, by means of, by way of (by a route that goes through or touches)

invective

Violent denunciation; accusations, insults, or verbal abuse Invective comes from the Latin for "abusive." It kind of sounds like a harsh word, actually, with those sharp, dagger-like V's. People usually put a colorful verb or phrase before it. Some examples: "She spewed invective," "She hurled invective," "She burst forth into invective." You can follow it with a phrase like, "picking up her plate and throwing it across the room."

dilate

To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon ~~dilate=expand. confused with: dilatory( lazy, wasting time) A statement was made and Mr. Herman requested him to dilate upon that statement. To dilate something is to make it wider. When the light fades, the pupil of your eye will dilate, meaning it looks bigger. The verb dilate comes from the Latin word dilatare, which means "enlarge" or "spread out." When something stretches, expands, or becomes wider, it is said to dilate. Usually the word dilate is used when the opening of something circular becomes larger, but every so often you might hear someone refer to the need to dilate someone's understanding of quantum physics, global warming, livestock breeding, or any other topic. Clearing a topic , adding details to it or elucidate

bifurcate

To fork into two branches or divide into two halves ~~bikhar cake Voices are also emerging from Balochistan to bifurcate the province on ethnic lines.

Satiate or Sate

To fully satisfy; to go beyond satisfying to the point of excess (possibly inducing disgust, tiredness, etc.) ~~sat

redound

To have a good or bad effect, esp. as a result of a person's efforts or actions (usually used with to, on, or upon) ~~re doing a thing upto end, will have good affect. Use the verb redound in formal situations to mean "contribute" or "have an effect." You could tell your friend that his patience with unruly children will redound to his reputation as a good school bus driver. Redound shows up only in the most formal speech and writing, but it's a good way to describe an effect on someone's good name or prestige. Your travels around Asia will redound to your fame as an adventurous traveler, while your unwillingness to talk to your neighbors could redound to your unfriendly reputation. Originally, redound described something that overflows which is the meaning of the Latin root word, redundare. To the contrary, dairy does not make the cut of "active ingredients" to which the benefits of that dietary pattern redound If he should say something brilliant and wise it will not redound to the benefit of the GOP

vestige

Trace or sign of something that once existed ~~think of in + vestigate, where we look for traces or remains of something Vestige is an elegant word. It's all about shadows, and gives us a way to talk about traces or reminders of something that has disappeared or is disappearing. Vestige derives from the Latin vestigium "footprint," and that is a good way to think of it--footprints in the sand. Sometimes vestige is used to emphasize the complete lack of something. She told me she took the money from my wallet without the least vestige of remorse in her voice or facial expression.

limpid

Transparent as water Clearly understood The adjective limpid describes something (often liquid) that is clear, serene and bright. Nature calendars often feature glamour shots of a limpid stream or a limpid lake. The adjective limpid may also describe language that is easily understandable. Your teacher might ask you to give an answer in a single limpid sentence. But he probably won't because limpid is a word that's fallen out of use. Maybe because it sounds too much like limp. Or maybe because it's associated with the king of all clichés: "Her eyes were like limpid pools."

peddle

Travel around while selling; sell illegally;disseminate When you peddle something, you go out and try to sell it. It's cute when a little kid peddles his homemade birthday cards around the neighborhood, but if an adult did that it might be annoying The classic image of someone who peddles is an old-fashioned "peddler" or "tinker" traveling from village to village selling goods. The verb peddle, in fact, comes from the word "peddler," whose origin is a mystery. Any time you sell something by going from place to place, like selling Girl Scout cookies to all your neighbors, you peddle. There's a proud Northern real-estate agent who wields her fingernails like talons and a crazy-eyed Irish entrepreneur who peddles twee, overpriced ceramics. The pseudo-visionaries that peddle invasive technologies as brave new worlds? The Democratic party is happy to back Wall Street supported candidates who are willing to peddle American power to the highest bidders. It may also help to diminish the nativism being peddled by some leaders who prefer to vilify newcomers Remember that pedal is related to foot through the Latin pēs and that someone who peddles goods goes from door to door. If you don't want either of those, then you can choose the flower's petal

itinerant

Traveling from place to place, esp. as part of a job

flout

Treat with disdain, contempt, or scorn (usually of rules) ~~it comes from flowten which means "to play the flute." or , reverse it, it becomes , contempt to play it." To flout is to scorn or show contempt for. "I flout the law and the concept of civilian safety by making a concerted effort to jaywalk every time I cross a street."Oddly enough, when flout came into existence in the 1550s, it had a much different sense to it than it does now; it's believed that it evolved from the Middle English flowten "to play the flute." As a verb, it means to scorn, as in, for example, to scorn a law, person, or social norm by defying it. Flout, on the other hand, means to show a blatant disregard or contempt for. If you scoff when told what to do, you flout the rules. Here are some rules being flouted in the news: In other words, the euro zone is based on a gentleman's agreement that's widely flouted. (Salon) Baseball's rulebook is routinely ignored, flouted and evaded. (New York Times) The problem is that people use flout to mean flaunt. If you mix up the words in the sentences above, the meaning changes. It would be weird to flout your wealth or your golden color. Garner's Modern American Usage identifies this error at widespread: it can be seen in the writing of well-educated people. However, Garner advises (and we concur) that the distinction between flaunt and flout be preserved. Flaunt is to show off, but flout is to ignore the rules. Rebels do both — they flaunt their new pink motorcycles by popping a wheelie, and flout the law by running a red light

chicanery

Trickery, deception by knowingly false arguments ~~This sort of constitutional chicanery is really not how we ought to conduct our Parliamentary affairs and I am quite sure that we need no lessons in democracy and the parliamentary process from a country like Germany whose democracy is but sixty years old.

Tacit

Understood without being said; implied, not stated directly; silent

Inadvertent

Unintentional; characterized by a lack of attention, careless

wan

Unnaturally pale, or showing some other indication of sickness, unhappiness, etc.; weak, lacking forcefulness ~~VAN...AMBULANCE.... your friend got PALE and hence you called an ambulance

treacherous

Unpredictable or dangerous Not trustworthy Treacherous means either not trusted or dangerous. A treacherous road might be icy or otherwise likely to cause a car accident. A treacherous friend will betray you. Treachery refers to harmful acts you might do to someone who trusts you. It can also refer to being disloyal to your native country, but the word treason is more common in this sense. Treachery is from Middle English trecherie, from Old French, from trichier "to trick or cheat." The English word trick is from trikier, a slightly different spelling that was used in some dialects of Old French.

Precarious

Unstable, insecure, dangerous

indefatigable

Untiring, not able to become fatigued ~~in means not..and fatigue means tiredness.. so indefatigable wud be tireless.. Richard Ben Cramer explores the abduction of Olympic athlete Kari Swenson and the indefatigable sheriff who hunted her abductor.

Laconic

Using few words, concise

Judicious

Using good judgement; wise, sensible

Articulate

Using language in a clear, fluent way (adj.); speak distinctly or give clarity to an idea (v)

variegated

Varied in color, having multicolored patches or spots; diverse Something variegated has many different colors, as in the trees of autumn or the feathers of a peacock. Whenever you see "vari" at the beginning of a word, you know that the idea of difference or change is involved. Using vari is a good way to start thinking about this word. It's the same root as in various, variable, varied, and variety. All these words mean something similar: lots of different versions of something. The scales of a fish can appear quite variegated from one angle and then strangely uniform from another. A tiger's variegated coat helps it stay hidden.

Volatile

Varying, inconsistent, fleeting; tending to violence, explosive;

Craven

Very cowardly, lacking courage

Arduous

Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure

Spartan

Very disciplined and stern; frugal, living simply; austere; suggestive or the ancient Spartans

rococo

Very elaborate and ornate (in decorating or metaphorically, as in speech and writing); relating to a highly ornate style of art and architecture in 18th-century France

ebullient

Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as though being boiled

Elated

Very happy, in high spirits ~~exam late, he is happy

pernicious

Very harmful or destructive, deadly

fervid

Very hot; heated in passion or enthusiasm e.g. a fervid orator. ~~hAVING fever of passion, want to see the same movie ~~Now that the wedding is on, all of the fervid speculation of the last few years seems justified. Forget any dreamy notions, though, as organizing a royal wedding is like preparing for a battle, all about planning.But our current fervid post-boom angst(anxiety) and rage (anger) has fueled most of the bad reviews.

magnate

Very important or influential person, esp. in business If you're a hugely successful businessman, particularly if you've cornered the market in a particular area, you're a magnate. Magnates are often larger than life characters. Donald Trump, he of the hair, is a classic real estate magnate. Historically, a magnate was a man of noble birth (from the Latin magnus, meaning "a nobleman," or at least someone distinguished by his achievements. In the twentieth century, the stock of a magnate has rather fallen. If you're vulgar and loud-spoken as well as rich, you're probably a magnate. Thanks to the legendary movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, all film studio heads are now "studio magnates."

Profound

Very insightful, penetrating deeply into a subject; pervasive, intense, "down to the very bottom"; at the very bottom

stentorian

Very loud and powerful (generally of a human voice) ~~tent torr deny wali awaz The adjective stentorian describes a booming voice. If you're teaching a group of unruly kids, you'll need to practice a stentorian voice to be heard above the din. The adjective stentorian comes from Greek mythology. Stentor was a herald in the Trojan War, mentioned in Homer's "Iliad." Homer wrote of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together. So anyone with a stentorian voice has a voice like the mythic Stentor. You can also use stentorian to describe a style of speaking that emphasizes boom and power. Newspapers inveighed against Milo with glaring headlines, and Congressmen denounced the atrocity in stentorian wrath and clamored for punishment.

hoary

Very old, gray or white as from old age. Use the adjective hoary to describe something that is old and worn out — like the hoary jokes your great uncle Albert clings to. The word hoary can also be used to describe something that is white or gray with age. Santa is usually depicted with a hoary beard and hoary hair, although sometimes mall Santas have to fake this with wigs and artificial beards. Hoary can also mean covered with white down — "The hoary leaves felt like velvet to the touch." But amid the hoary conventions are agreeable inklings of an alternate sensibility."Disruption" is just about the hoariest cliche in contemporary culture, but few artists can better claim the term than David Lynch.In the popular imagination, cocktail-lounge pianists wear a wrinkled tux, play a hoary repertoire and are even a bit sleazy.

ardent

Very passionate, devoted, or enthusiastic If you are ardent, you are passionate about something. A pop star's ardent admirers might go so crazy at his concert that they faint from excitement. Ardent love

Exacting

Very severe in making demands; requiring precise attention

Spectrum

View, a set of related activities. ~~The newspaper covers a broad spectrum of opinion ~~These thinkers represent a wide spectrum of political perspectives ~~I asked mom about the other end of the spectrum(view) : what was the best thing she remembers a customer doing?

maelstrom

Violent whirlpool; any chaotic, turbulent situation A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool. A luckless ship might go down in one, conflicting ocean currents might cause one. You hear it more often metaphorically, to describe disasters where many competing forces are at play. When an economy or a government fails, the situation is often described as a maelstrom. Following some precipitous event, all the forces at play--banks, governments, consumers--are trying as hard as they can to protect themselves. This creates a maelstrom — a perfect storm, so to speak — that drags any potential for rescue down with it. Maelstrom comes from an obsolete Dutch phrase meaning "whirling stream." "I'm told I had the best seats in the house," Ms. Erivo marveled, not yet accustomed to the maelstrom of attention. A maelstrom is the kind of "whirlpool" in which sailors and ships famously disappear. Over time, its meaning has stretched to include non-acquatic, but similarly dire, confused, or not-looking-good-for-our-hero situations, such that maelstrom can now describe a sinking economy, a devolving dinner party, or a classroom gone feral under the guidance of a substitute teacher. Amid that chronological and ontological maelstrom, Moore's characters must reckon with the occasional slippage between their town and a shadowy parallel realm known as Mansoul.

baying, at bay

Voice of anything such as dog, horse, hound or water --bow bow, kuttey ki awaz A bay is an inlet along the shoreline of a body of water. A bay window occupies a similar inlet in a room. When you keep someone "at bay" you hold them off. at bay To keep someone or something at a safe distance. The phrase derives from stag hunting, from a French word that also is the source of the English word for the baying howl that hounds make during a chance. A tired and cornered stag that turns to face the pursuing hounds is, for the moment, at a safe distance from its attackers. I have to keep the bill collectors at bay until I get my paycheck. The mosquitoes will not remain at bay for very long. With that said, however, Sandusky has yet to be put on trial, yet the media are baying for his blood—sans a conviction.

forage

Wander in search of; rummage, hunt, make a raid ~~he is searching for food for ages. To forage is to wander around looking for food. When it's cold and snowy outside, birds may forage for food in your backyard, digging around for whatever they can find. The verb forage often describes animals searching for food, but it can also be applied to people. In those circumstances it retains the slightly desperate sense of coming up with whatever is available. For example, if you want to cook dinner but have no time to go to the grocery store, you might forage your refrigerator and cabinets to find good substitutes for ingredients in your recipe. He decided to replicate his foraging goat model with the foraging Ossabaw, turning the terroir of his overrun farm into an asset.

recrudescent vs resurgent

a bad thing appears again ( becoming raw again. When something that's bad comes back to haunt you, call it a recrudescence. It's not a word you'll hear often, but it's useful. As a bonus, it lets you say "crud" while sounding really smart.Don't confuse recrudescence with resurgence, which is neutral and could be used just as easily to describe a new growth of pimples as to describe the return of warm weather in the spring. is bad. Use it to talk about those pimples, the return of the symptoms of a disease, or an underground crime ring Because of a recrudescent nativism(nativeness), we send home thousands upon thousands of foreign students who have gotten masters and doctoral degrees in the hard sciences at American universities Something resurgent comes back to life or is reinvigorated. An old song's popularity might be resurgent after it's featured on the soundtrack of a popular new movie. When things fall out of favor or stop being active and then experience a burst of energy or interest, they're resurgent. After a period of very conservative political control, resurgent liberal beliefs could lead to a progressive president being elected. And if people get bored with new technology and gadgets, there may be a resurgent interest in hardcover books and Polaroid cameras. In Latin, resurgere means "rise again."

syntax

a systematic orderly arrangement ( such as syntax of c language) or figuratively it means something planned with thoughts ~~Butler's syntax(logic) sometimes gets in the way of understanding what she's asserting as fact.

impetuous

acts too hastily or carelessly ~~hasty motions, like you got patchus and run towards bathroom Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous. If you're a careful person who thinks everything through and doesn't act rashly, then you're not very impetuous. Impetuous has to do with doing things on the spur of the moment — and not good things. Being impetuous usually goes along with being impatient and easily angered. If you're impetuous, you act quickly and thoughtlessly when you should just take a deep breath, relax, and think about the best thing to do

pejorative

adj and noun, expressing disapproval syn: Disparaging, derogatory, belittling (adj); Call a word or phrase pejorative if it is used as a disapproving expression or a term of abuse. Tree-hugger is a pejorative term for an environmentalist. Coming from the Latin word for "worse," pejorative is both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective, it means disapproving or disparaging. Hack is a pejorative term for a bad writer. If you call someone a politician in the pejorative sense, you mean that they are scheming and out for personal gain. Terms of abuse such as jerk and negative euphemisms such as bottom feeder are pejoratives, words you use when you want to call someone a bad name.

Adverse vs averse

adverse: (adj) Opposing, harmful Steer clear of anything adverse. If it's adverse, it's working against you — like adverse weather conditions or the adverse effects of eating too much sugar.Think of the related word, adversary, which means enemy or opponent, so that if something is adverse, it acts as if it were the enemy. Often you can find expressions such as "he is risk adverse" as a way to say that someone doesn't like taking risks Adverse and averse are both turn-offs, but adverse is something harmful, and averse is a strong feeling of dislike. Rainstorms can cause adverse conditions, and many people are averse to rain

lionize

assign great social importance to The lion is the king of beasts. To lionize someone is to see them as important as a lion. Republicans continue to lionize Ronald Reagan as their ultimate hero. The lion is a symbol of pride, strength, courage, and nobility, so when you lionize someone, you attribute to them all those marvelous traits. Many people are uncomfortable with being lionized, since being made to seem important comes with responsibilities that are sometimes a burden. After the shooting, the bystander resisted people's efforts to lionize him. He was only doing what any person would do, he protested. "Don't make me into a hero. I don't want to be lionized." Yet, the manner in which Mr. Khan was lionized in the American media also aroused discomfort and debate among other American Muslims

tendentious

biased towards controversial issues, partison ....Rearrange the words to make - Tend or Tendency + ious or bias. So, TENDENTIOUS is a TENDENcy towards one viewpoint over another. V I have called, or half-called, this book tendencious; but in a certain larger view it is not so. Bereft of serious arguments, anti-Obama types resort to tendentious claims about symbolic slights. "Somewhat misleading and tendentious," the New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, said about the study. "Somewhat misleading and tendentious," the New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, said about the study.

abase

cause to feel shame. To abase something or someone is to humiliate them — no, more than just humiliate them. If you abase another person you are bringing them low, humbling them in a mean, base manner. Not nice at all. Abase means to bring someone down, often either in their job or their self-esteem. The early Latin bassus, which meant "thick, low," evolved into the Old French abaissier, meaning "to make lower in value or status." The important clue to the word is "base." Consider that the base of anything is the bottom, and you get an idea as to the meaning of the word abase, which means to make someone feel low. But as a race we have always found methods that enable us to mildly abase ourselves with generally harmless ignobility, mischievous dishonesty, venial duplicity

Abrasive

causing irritation or annoyance. What does an obnoxious person have in common with sandpaper? Both are abrasive. Anything that grates or irritates — physically or metaphorically — can be described using this adjective.Some 200 years later, the adjective form of the word — abrasive — came into use to describe a type of grinding tool. By the 1920s, abrasive had acquired the more figurative sense of annoying and infuriating. If you find someone abrasive, he or she grinds away at your nerves. Abrasive period brass conferred greater intimations of menace throughout, while leaner strings and darker woodwind added to the sense of melancholy, in Mark's monologue above all. brass(boldness) menace (threathining men-ace )

usury

charging excessive amount to customers ~~US urry after charging too much Usury means lending money at exorbitant interest rates. Credit-card companies charging annual interest rates of 29% are guilty of usury, as far as I'm concerned. A good way to remember the meaning of usury is that you can hear the word use in there. Think of charging too much interest as a way of "using" someone. The sad thing about high interest is that it's always the people who can least afford it who are charged rates so high that it amounts to usury. In the old days, if someone was found guilty of usury, they'd be flogged in the town square. Too bad the credit-card companies can't be dragged out of their holes, because they'd surely get a similar beating

glacial

cold hearted person or slow "The direction of the battle is glacial, but it is only going in one direction." ( cold) "This glacial process, if you can call it a process, is not effective," Owings said before the latest proposal arrived.The phrase "moving at a glacial pace" is supposed to mean going slow. When a company is in the middle of being disrupted, the process can seem to move at glacial speed. ( slow)

Incendiary

controversial ( insin diary) An incendiary device is a bomb. An incendiary statement is, "You're ugly and stupid." Both are likely to produce an explosion of one kind or another. Incendiary means more than flammable. It means explosive, in both a literal and figurative way. If you're a radical who changes the world by exciting people and makes as many enemies as followers, you're an incendiary figure. The speeches you give that rile people up are incendiary. The fires you set are also incendiary, and by setting them you are also likely to be called an incendiary — someone who burns things, more commonly known as an arsonist. I know women's rights in Afghanistan have become an incendiary issue. I guess those who make their living with incendiary language tend to stick together.

livid

fury( desribe anger) ~~where is your living ID, he become angry If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea. Livid, even when it means "bluish-gray," has the sense of something not quite right. If the sky is livid, there's something ominous about it. Similarly, if your skin is livid, there's something wrong — you're either covered with bruises or you're at death's door, anemic and ashen. But livid is used most often to describe fury. What if you waited in line 15 hours and the person in front of you got the last seat for the hottest concert of the summer? You'd be livid!

puerile

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity --poo wala oil is an immature comment Some people like their movies to have sophisticated humor and others prefer the more puerile humor of pratfalls or jokes about smelly underwear, inappropriate belching, and passing gas. Although the adjective, puerile can be used to describe anything related to childhood, more often than not, it is used in a derisive manner to comment on the immaturity, silliness, or juvenile nature of something or someone. So if you hear someone talk about puerile toys, they may merely be remarking on the toys of childhood, but it is more likely they are discussing whoopee cushions, fake dog poo, and the like. Unfortunately, Lanier's expressed concern about the justice system led to a war of words among city officials that descended to the puerile

Predisposed

disposed ( a man disposed to like other)-Having an inclination or tendency beforehand; subscribe ~~This pose (please incline to me), predisposition. Koh's view was that only those militants who were predisposed to attacking America could be killed.Sometime during the flood, it seems, God came to peace with the idea that his creation was predisposed toward evil.

bonhomie

disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) ( bonless, gosht banana with friends, friendly and approachable) If you are known for your bonhomie, that's a good thing. It means that you are a cheerful friendly sort of person. Keep it up. However, a woman can exude a spirit of bonhomie as well, as long as she is cheery and kind. If you are looking to infuse a depressing setting with bonhomie, try cracking a joke or setting your beret at a rakish angle. A national security conference in Canada brings out the bonhomie among U.S. senators.

rend

divide, Tear violently, esp. to tear one's clothing or hair out of grief; pull apart, split, or tear away ~~rundy, bewa, roti bht

phlegmatic

do not show emotion intentionally or unintensionally Yes, phlegmatic has roots in that colorless, mucousy stuff called phlegm, but people who are phlegmatic aren't called that because they have lots of mucus. They are just a little dull in expressing feelings or showing emotion. It may be their training more than their natural behavior, but those palace guards who wear the red coats and big hats and show absolutely no expression on their faces are phlegmatic. Attempts to make them laugh, smile, or twist their faces in irritation won't work, because being phlegmatic is important to their role as stone-faced keepers of the palace. Phlegmatic people show less emotion on the outside — but who knows, they may be jumping up and down on the inside. Bumgarner put his hands on his knees and cursed, a rare show of frustration for this phlegmatic and competitive man Nerdy in aspect and phlegmatic in manner, Edward never takes a drink or chases a skirt

whitewash

errors, misdeeds, etc. (verb)

imbue

fill up/saturated/Absorbed To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. One visit to Africa might be enough to imbue ambitions in a medical student to return to heal the sick. You can use imbue in a similar way as "saturate," or "soak through," to describe a filling or absorbing. A "hue" is a color, and it rhymes with imbue. When you're imbued with something, you are, in a way, colored by it. If you imbue a dish sponge with oily orange water from a spaghetti bowl, the color and the oil soak in. To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism. ~~They had hoped for a younger man with more manifest energy and charisma to imbue the church with a new spirit. ~~ i am boo, boo is saturated everywhere

toady

flatters for getting favour In the meantime, the junta's toadies have continued to tinker with the text of the constitution, even after the voters signed off on it. You can call the kid who is always really nice to the teacher in hopes of getting a good grade a brown-noser or, if you want to sound clever, a toady. The word toady has a gross, yet engaging history. Back when medicine was more trickery than science, traveling medicine men would come to a town. Their assistant would eat a toad (you read that right) that was assumed poisonous so that the medicine man could "heal" him. Who would want that job, right? So toad-eater, later shortened to toady, came to mean a person who would do anything to please his boss

refractory

fractious ( fractious(FRACTURE TO US) - one who causes fracture to others is unruly) Stubbornly disobedient, hard to manage ~~repeated fractures=re fracture are difficult to manage or cure syn: obstinate, mulish, intractable, disobedient, recalcitrant, unruly. fractious has two meanings. 1. stubborn 2. unruly

resentment

full of deep anger and ill will ( lasted for a long time due to unfairness) and opposite of magnanimous: generous in forgiving others, free of resentment the strong and painful bitterness you feel when someone does something wrong to you, doesn't have actual physical weight, but it feels very heavy and can last a long time. Forgiveness is one way to get rid of resentment. Sometimes resentment lasts for years. It can be strong and hard to pull out, like an old, gnarled tree root. While resentment over being wronged can come from just one act against you, it also can get stronger over time, as in "your growing resentment might just come from the fact that the team captain always picks you last." It also comes from misunderstandings, like feeling resentment over a dirty look you thought was directed at you but really wasn't. It's usually best to root out resentment early

garner

glean(clean), Gather and store; amass, collect ~~garner ( gather grain) To garner means to gather or earn. If you want to run for office without belonging to a political party, you must garner enough signatures — usually a few thousand — to get onto the ballot. The word garner comes from the Latin granarium which means "store-house," usually for grain. The current use of the word carries with it the sense of something being stored up. It's not only that you can gather enough yes-votes to overcome the opposition, there is the sense that all the things you have garnered have some weight of their own. In its other use, garner means "earn" or "merit." Think of movie stars garnering Oscar nominations for their excellent work At the time, Trump's rhetoric on illegal immigration was garnering extensive coverage on Univision's news programs

grandiloquent, grandstand

grandiloquent: Relating to lofty speech, esp. to the point of being pompous, overblown, bombastic. Grandiloquent is a fancy term for, well, being fancy or pretentious. In fact, you might say grandiloquent is itself a pretty grandiloquent word. The word grandiloquent generally refers to the way a person behaves or speaks. Politicians and schoolteachers are the usual suspects of this manner of behavior, known as grandiloquence, but it can refer to anything that's overbearing or pompous in style or manner. Architecture, especially, is highly guilty of being grandiloquent — if you check out just about anything built in the Baroque style, you could describe it as grandiloquent. A pompous( puffed up with vanity) person is arrogant or conceited. He'll walk into a party with an inflated ego, ready to tell anyone who will listen that "I'm kind of a big deal." Today we associate the adjective pompous with self-important jerks. But it's actually derived from the Old French pompeux, which meant "stately." And that's why you can also use pompous to describe something with a lot of ceremonial or stately display — in other words, something surrounded by "pomp and circumstance. grandstand: Perform showily in an attempt to impress onlookers A grandstander is a performerwho performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand And many of the ensemble members have the grandstanding panache to solicit not only entrance but also regular exit applause

Modest

humble; simple rather than showy; decent (esp. "covering up" in terms of dress); small, limited

posit

hypothesis , assume , presume or say something firmly ( deposit) To posit something is to assume or suggest that it is true. You can posit an idea or opinion. When you posit, you submit an idea or give an opinion. Scientists posit many ideas — called hypotheses — that they then try to prove or disprove through experimentation and research. In science, you hear about positing a lot, and the same is true in math and logic. When you say "If X, then Y" you're positing a proposition. Positing can also mean to put something somewhere firmly — this means to deposit, fix, or situate. -She is a reported fan of our book Sextrology wherein we posit these very theories. -OK, sure — one could posit a world where a leader's secretive nature and hawkish tendencies lead us down a dark and regrettable path

impasse, impassive

impasse: Position or road from which there is no escape; deadlock When two huge semi trailers met face-to-face on a one-lane mountain road, the drivers jumped out of their cabs and exclaimed, "We're at an impasse! We can't move forward — we can only reverse and go back in the direction from which we came." If you investigate impasse a little more closely, you'll discover passer, the French word for to pass. The im- prefix is a negative, meaning that there's no way any passing is going to occur. It's impossible. An impasse is any situation in which the parties involved can't, or won't, move forward or make any sort of progress. Either they are literally stuck, like two big trucks trying to pass each other on a narrow road, or they are figuratively stuck, as in two politicians who are unable to reach an agreement on a new policy. Not having or not showing physical feeling or emotion ~~jiss k mind/dill se koe cheaz nah ghuzray, unaffected, impasse Someone who doesn't seem to react — who is always "taking a pass" in the conversation of life can be described as impassive.Impassive is tricky, as it sounds it should be the opposite of passive. It's not, though. The fact is you can be passive and impassive at the same time. When a passive person gets passed over for a promotion at work, their face might remain impassive upon hearing the news. In the break after five games, McEnroe, agitated, stretched his legs; Lendl remained seated and impassive. This typically impassive structure here serves as a meeting point where the impulse to reduce everything to numbers meets the irreducible physicality of the body.

impervious, imperious, imperturbable, impermeable

impervious: Impenetrable, not able to be harmed or emotionally disturbed, ~~impervious to criticism imperturbable, Calm, not able to be upset or agitated. If you're imperturbable you are not easily upset. If your goal is to be imperturbable, then you can't let things bother you or get you stressed, confused, or angry. The adjective imperturbable is the flip side of perturbable, which comes from perturb, which in turn traces back to the Latin word perturbare, meaning "to confuse" or "to disturb." If something really annoying is going on, like one neighbor is jack-hammering his driveway and another has a dog that's barking while you're trying to sleep because you were up all night studying and you really really need a nap, but you stay calm and don't get upset, you are imperturbable. imperious: Commanding, domineering; acting like a high-ranking person; urgent Impermeable: If you have a waterproof raincoat, you could say that your coat is impermeable to the rain. Something that is impermeable does not allow water or liquid to pass through it. Made up of the prefix im-, meaning "not," and the adjective permeable, meaning "allowing to pass through," impermeable is used in much the same way as impervious or impenetrable. However, more so than these words, impermeable is especially associated with liquids and is often used in a scientific or technical context. Some gadgets, like waterproof watches and underwater cameras, are designed to be impermeable. Until recently, companies typically adopted a defensive strategy of trying to make their networks as impermeable as possible in hopes of repelling attacks

Stolid

unemotional, showing little emotion, not easily moved

lissome

moving and bending with ease or flexible person. ~~lift some ( lifting pepsi using straw) Lissome describes people or things that are slender, flexible, light, and graceful. If you watch long, thin blades of grass swishing in the breeze, they look like lissome dancers with swaying arms and torsos, or like a bunch of lissome preying-mantis bugs sword-fighting. Some examples of lissome bodies are those of mermaids twisting through the water, small snakes squiggling into sand piles, and men and women who bound up stairs as if they're light as air. A straw is thin and bendy, and you can use it to lift some liquid from a glass. Lissome sounds a little like "lift some," and it's an adjective for thin and flexible people, like a lissome ballerina with a gracefully arched back. Light, lean, liquid in movement — lissome.Have you ever seen people who can bend so easily, they can touch their heels to the back of their heads? That person is, in a word, lithe This Sherlock is also lissome, spirited and briskly energetic; most important, the famous detective isn't turned inside out to suit current, navel-gazing fashions. There was too much lissome grace in the sinuous figure, and too much unearthly wisdom in the dark mysterious face

corporeal

physical form, relating to body as in somatic. Use the adjective corporeal to describe something that has to do with the body, like when your teacher catches you daydreaming and says you need to bring your mental sharpness, not just your corporeal presence to the classroom. Corporeal describes something that has a physical form. It is the opposite of spiritual or emotional. Something that is corporeal exists in the real world. It's sort of a fancy way of saying bodily or physical. So when you crave double-cheese pizza with sausage and pepperoni, you could blame it on a corporeal need. (It's a way to make junk-food cravings sound a little bit grand!)

Render

provide, cause, surrender; to rend (making parts) ~~to render(cause)someone helpless, to render(provide) aid. ----One of the greatest services it can render(provide) is to take hold of this unusual talent, no matter what its property qualifications or its social condition may be; for wherever talent is found, it should be developed and put to the use of the state. Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend (apart)and devour(eat) for themselves.Citizens/non-combatants, do not render(provide) medical aid to downed officers/enemy combatants.

Goosebumps

raised spots on the skin due to fear or cold. ~~goose pimples ----Even the non Elvis fan gets a run of goose bumps listening to that song because --- it reaches into your heart and drags out the deepest wishes of your soul. I was so inspired by the speech that I had a tingling sensation(goose bumps) run across my body.

derisive

ridicule with contempt, derisive, sardonic Use the adjective derisive to describe something or someone that mocks, expresses contempt, or ridicules. You may sometimes catch your kids making derisive comments — especially if you ask them to do chores instead of whatever they think is more important. Derisive comes from the Latin word deridere, meaning "to ridicule," and is from the roots de-, which means "down," and ridere, which means "to laugh." The adjective derisory comes from the same Latin word, but it has a different sense. If you say something derisive, you show contempt or ridicule, as in a derisive glare at your noisy neighbors. If you say something is derisory, you mean it invites or deserves ridicule or contempt, especially if it is laughably small, such as a derisory diamond chip in an engagement ring

scintilla and scintilating

scintilla: A tiny bit or trace It might take more than a scintilla of English vocabulary knowledge to know that scintilla means a tiny bit of something. Scintilla is a long word for describing a tiny thing. It comes sandwiched between the words a and of in phrases like "a scintilla of doubt" or "not a single scintilla of evidence." If you're uncertain of the pronunciation, remember: it rhymes with chinchilla and the c is silent, just like in science. Similar words you can use to talk about tiny bits of something are iota, smidgen, speck, and whit scintillating: Something scintillating is flashing briefly and sharply with light. Scintillating conversations are smart and captivating. To be scintillating is to be sharp. Things that are scintillating are exciting: they grab your attention with sparkles, flashes of light, or sheer brilliance. Most often, we talk about scintillating conversations and speakers. If you say someone is scintillating, then they are clever — people want to listen to them. This is a word often used sarcastically. If someone is boring, you might say "Well, that was scintillating," while rolling your eyes

winnow

separate the useful part from the worthless part or analyze critically --if you want to win+now, choose best players To winnow is to blow something away until you are left with what you want, like grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite people to attend your party, you will need to winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30. To winnow is to use air to "separate the wheat from the chaff" — literally or figuratively. If a coach winnows down the top NBA draft picks to his number one choice, then he'll focus his negotiations on that player. Chances are, if you encounter the word winnow on a given day, it is probably not in the literal context of grain We are constantly looking at the wide world of streaming and TV content and winnowing out everything that's not worth your time

idyllic

simple and serene, perfect in all respects ~~idyllic= ideal, what is ideal life for you ( simple and serene ( and perfect too) A week at the beach that goes perfectly is an idyllic vacation. Idyllic means so wonderful it seems almost magical. Are you having an idyllic childhood? You may not think so now, but in your old age, you may remember your days as a youngster as simple and carefree. The clear, blue water of the Caribbean Sea, the beautiful village perched on a cliffside, the sunny grassy field of wildflowers, these are all Idylls — simple peaceful scenes — that you may or may not find idyllic. At first glance, it is the perfect image of newlywed bliss: the husband and wife pressing their heads together, enjoying a moment of idyllic calm

parry

skilfully evade (a question, attack, person) The word parry is often used to describe blocking or evading a movement, like parrying a punch, but it can also refer to an evasion that is verbal rather than physical. For example, if you are put on the spot and asked about something you'd rather avoid, you can parry to get out of it — change the subject or ask a question in return. When used in this way parry retains its sense of defending yourself through evasion. Here comes someone who only ever talks to you when he needs a favor. Quick, parry! When you parry, you avoid doing things. As the needy friend approaches, say, "I wish I had time to catch up!" and hurry off. Or, hide under a table.

philistine vs pristine

smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values A philistine is a person who doesn't think a lot and isn't interested in learning. Your uncle Marvin, who's only interested in eating, sleeping, and watching game shows, could be considered a philistine. In the late 17th century, during a conflict in Jena, Germany, between townspeople and students, someone referred to the townspeople as "Philistines." Since then, philistine has described someone who stands against learning and the arts. And if you don't start reading the great Russian authors, someone might suggest that you have a philistine attitude toward literature — the word can also be used as an adjective describing a person or thing that displays indifference to the arts and intellectual pursuits pristine: pristine If something is pristine it's immaculately clean or has never been used. So please check your shoes before walking on a pristine white carpet. Ecologists strive to preserve pristine rain forests, just as vacationers are always looking for a pristine strip of beach to lounge on. A new car should arrive to you in pristine condition, and hopefully you'll do your best to keep it that way

prattle

speak incessantly ( about unimportant matters) ~~prate: pee-rate, some guys were talking about the rate at which they pee *such a foolish talk, these people are really idle. If your little sister won't stop talking about her latest crush and you don't want to hear it, you might say, "Stop prattling on about that loser!" To prattle is go on and on about something unimportant. Prattle can also be a noun. If your sister tattles about your comment regarding her prattling, you could defend yourself to your mother with: "I didn't mean to call Sophie's crush a loser, but she had driven me mad with her constant prattle." There are a lot of funny-sounding words with a meaning similar to prattle - chatter, blether, blather, jabber, gabble, blabber, and babble, to name a few. All the more so that these are the folks who prattle on and on about how the sacrosanct Constitution Many companies unconsciously identify leadership skills with extroversion—that is, a willingness to project the ego, press the flesh and prattle on in public.

politic

tactful or diplomatic If you are politic, you are smooth and diplomatic. You'd probably make a good politician. Being politic is being polite and agreeable. Screaming and yelling is not politic. Speaking quietly, making apologies, and giving compliments are all politic things to do. When you want something, being politic is the way to go. It can definitely help to remember that politicians are good at getting what they want — they are shrewd and very politic. It can be "a politic decision", "a politic manager" or "a shrewd and politic reply" it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage" The goal apparently remains the elimination of Israel, but it is not politic to say so publicly She, too, had a political end to gain, and was too politic to give way to anger and reproaches.

meretricious

tastelessly showy, tawdry; deceptive ( Mere a trash, it is not showy) Have you ever heard the phrase "fake it until you make it"? That is advice that encourages you to be meretricious, pretending to be something you aren't, like the meretricious flaunting of gigantic fake diamond earrings, pretending they are real — and that you can afford them. To correctly pronounce meretricious, accent the third syllable: "mer-uh-TRISH-us." Don't mistake something that is meretricious for having merit. In fact, it is just the opposite. From an expensive restaurant that looks expensively furnished but when the lights are turned up, you can see that "leather" chairs are just cheap vinyl or a woman who pretends her counterfeit handbags are designer originals, meretricious actions are meant to deceive.

tawdry (gaudy), flashy, showy

tawdry (tatry), gaudy ( god) , Gaudy tasteless, showy(sounds like god[l]y when god appears we can see flash lights at back of his head so it is flashy) , showy but cheap or cheap-looking; indecent ---Yet another victim keeps getting dragged through the muck(dire) of these tawdry confessions or tawdry thinking. For them, as for the Puritans, Christmas is a gaudy distortion of the original message of Jesus. FLASHY vs GAUDY vs Showy ( three of them has the idea of conspicuousness) Gaudy (flashy, garish) negative and not good to eyes ( a gaudy hat or garish decorations) Flashy (suggests insistent and vulgar display, in rather a sporty manner: a flashy necktie) Showy ( it is neutral word)

jettison

throw items in order to survival ~~jatt throw his son out (dafa hoja) Jettison means to push to the side or toss away. If a boat is leaking or an airplane is running out of fuel, you can buy more time by jettisoning cargo, or throwing it overboard. The word jettison — dating, in its nautical meaning, from the 15th century in English — is commonly used figuratively as well as literally. You can jettison a friendship or an attitude. During the month that the Winter Olympics are aired on TV, figure-skating fans across the country jettison homework and other responsibilities in order to watch

legerdemain

trickery or deception ~~legerdemain: legendary man When a magician waves his hands over a hat and pulls out a rabbit, he is performing an act of legerdemain or trickery. Legerdemain can be used literally to describe a magic trick, or figuratively to describe some other kind of trickery or deceit. If you and some friends cook up a scheme that involves telling complicated lies so that you can stay out all night, you are guilty of legerdemain. The word comes from the French léger de main which means dexterous, or light of hand. Antidumping cases are dubious even without this statistical legerdemain, and U.S. unions and companies will lobby the next President to renege on the WTO accord. Maybe the masterminds of this legerdemain figure that people will answer the phone out of curiosity.

pare

trim as if cutting off the outer parts ~~parenthesis( trim a mathematical expression) Think of peeling potatoes, which you might do with a paring knife, or paring your nails so you'll make a neat appearance. In each case, you are trimming something gradually. If you pare down your expectations, you might be pleasantly surprised. To pare is to trim — like when you pare branches on a tree or pare down your expenses to save money.

welter

turmoil, a large and confusing amount of something, a welter of information --world tour makes him "confused" which country does she go Use the noun welter to describe an enormous, messy pile, like the jumble of papers, coffee mugs, pens, and food wrappers on the desk of the messiest person in the office. Welter can also be a verb — the items in the pile on the messy desk welter every time someone tries to pull something out. This means they roll and get tossed around. Maybe the person isn't as messy as you think. Possibly his projects keep him so weltered — meaning "deeply involved" — that he doesn't have the time or energy to deal with the mess. ~~The welter of emotions arising out of the dictates of Iranian faith, justice, honour, pride and fear here is alarming and compelling.

gouge

v.to pay unfair price. mnemonic: grue g, a denter, who fill holes or dent and also overcharge the car dent To gouge can mean to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging. If your local gas station raises prices because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner is gouging you — and that's illegal. The verb gouge means to cut or carve. You can use special chisels to gouge linoleum for interesting design in printing. As a noun, a gouge is the tool you would use — instead of a flat-head chisel, a gouge has a trough — to make the gouge marks of the design. Another meaning of the verb gouge is an indentation in the surface of something. If you're not careful with the screwdriver, you'll accidentally gouge a hole in the wall The city is imploring business people not to price gouge, which is happening in some cases. n. hole with the help of tool) ----The spine of the Appalachian Mountains is being obliterated to gouge(hole) out the seams of black coal.

solecism

violation of the good manners in writing or speech Ever snore at the opera? Burp at the dinner table? Forget your mom's birthday? Probably all three, right? Well, don't worry. Instead of just screwing up, what you did was commit a solecism. Sounds kinda neat that way, huh? The origin of solecism comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "speaking incorrectly," and solecism does have another meaning that's more specifically verbal. If you say something incorrectly, or make a grammatical error in writing, that's also a solecism. It can be just as mortifying as burping at the dinner table. Well, almost.

manifest

what is apparent to the senses, obvious Choose the verb manifest when someone shows something for everyone to notice. You might manifest your dislike of school food by stirring it around into a big pile of slop on your tray. Coming from the Latin manifestus "caught in the act," manifest can be used as an adjective or a noun as well as a verb. As an adjective, manifest is a formal way to say that something is apparent to the senses and is synonymous with evident, apparent, or clear. If you have strong feelings about something, they will be manifest on your face. A ship or plane's manifest is the list of cargo or passengers on a particular trip.

impious

who does not follow order of god or institution, lacking respect of God or institution ~~not pious To be impious is to be disrespectful of god or duty. When someone is being impious they are doing things that their church, synagogue, temple, mosque, school principal, government or parents would find unacceptable. When you don't show reverence for religion or god, you are impious. The adjective impious is related to the word piety, which means religious reverence. To be impious is to be without piety. Being impious is similar to being blasphemous, but it's a little more passive to be impious, while blasphemy is more actively insulting. Also, when you act out against tradition or dutifulness, you could be considered impious. If you dodge a military draft, you will likely be considered impious.

Stark

~~stark is opp of star who are embellished even when not needed Complete, total, utter ( stark madness); harsh or grim ( a stark landscape) ; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or pain The stark(harsh) fact of the delegate math means that there is no easy way around this problem for the party faithful. ~~The fun of the episode, however, stands in stark(harsh) contrast to its conclusion.

cardinal

Chief, most important

declaim

Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; give a formal speech Use the verb declaim when someone is speaking very passionately against something, like when you declaim having to be home at an early hour. Declaim can also describe reciting words aloud for practice. If you're learning a new language, you might declaim a sentence until it sounds clear and natural when you say it. Declaim was originally spelled declame, similar to the Latin word declamare, meaning "to practice public speaking," but later became declaim as its other meaning came into greater use.

brook or brook no

1. continue accept a bad situation or tolerate 2. brook no ( to not allow something) " my wife lives in brooklynn and i am suffering" A brook is a small stream. On a hot day, you might enjoy wading in a babbling brook. As a verb, brook is a rather stuffy word for "put up with." the phrase "put up with" means to continue accept a bad or unpleasant situation. For instance, I don't know how he puts up with their constant complaining and I don't know how he puts up with their constant complaining. The lord of the manor might say, "I will brook no trespassing on my land. Brook is tailor-made for talking about what you won't stand for—it's always "brook no..." If you brook no criticism of your friend, it means you won't let people speak ill of her While she was at the chalkboard, the teacher did not brook any form of talking--even a tiny peep resulted in afternoon detention

blight

Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction (noun); ruin or cause to wither (verb) --The blight is not due to the presence of a strip clube, but to the combination and sheer density of strip clubs, tattoo parlors, army surplus stores, fast food joints, and hourly rate motels. A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things are falling apart. Blight rhymes with bright, but it's the opposite of sunshine; instead of making plants grow, it cripples them. The Irish Potato Famine was an example of a blight. In 1845, more than a third of the potato crops were ruined. The plants turned black and their leaves dried up and people who relied on potatoes for most of their meals also withered and experienced extreme hardship and hunger. You might want to think of it this way: a blight makes people — or plants — fight for their lives.