Words in Use

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Anguish: Extreme mental distress

Complicity: the state of being in partnership or involvement in wrongdoing
Confection: the process of preparing something
Cravat: necktie
Deleterious: Injurious to health
Dereliction: the act of abandoning something
Despair: A state in which all hope is lost or absent
Desperation: A state in which all hope is lost or absent
Dismal: Lack of skill
Dived: to plunge into water
Elite: the best of things considered collectively, as of a group
Elusive: Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Emboldened: to make something bold
Endure: to hold out against something
Erroneous: containing errors, mistakes
Hawkish: threatening diplomatic policy
Hostile: characteristic of an enemy
Hysterical: uncontrollably emotional
Inebriated: to make drunk, intoxicate
Innate: In-born
Intrepid: Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Jingoism: the practice of jingoes
Lurch: an instance of swaying abruptly
Mallets: a wooden implement used for striking a surface
Mandible: bone of the lower jaw
Misnomer: misappropriate name or designation
Misogyny: hatred of women
Morph: a species that occurs in two or more forms
Mumbo-jumbo: Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
Nonchalance: lack of concern
Nugget: A lump of a precious metal
Petition: a formally drawn request to the person in authority for mercy
Placebo: An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group
in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
Pogrom: an organized massacre
Prognosis: a forecast
Punitive: inflicting punishment
Ratified: to confirm by expressing approval
Refinement: process of refining
Replicated: Reproduce or make an exact copy of
Riot: public disorder caused by a group of persons protesting against another
Sciatica: Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
Shire: the counties in the Midlands in which hunting is popular
Silos: a pit for storing grains
Sluggish: lacking energy
Sluggish: lacking energy in actions
Surge: a rushing forward movement
Thwart: to oppose successfully
Veered: to change the direction

Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words

Word Posters

Inebriation
Hostile
Intrepid
Innate
Misogyny

Mnemonics

Deleterious: DELETES HEALTH

Despair: RAISE MY HAIR
Anguish: OH FISH! EVERYTHING IS ROTTEN IN THIS DISH!

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Abatement: termination
Abysmal: extremely hopeless
Acumen: keen insight
Ambit: boundary or limit
Anonymity: the state or quality of being anonymous
Arid: extremely dry
Caveat: a warning or caution
Chicanery: deception by sophistry
Clemency: the act of showing mercy
Compliance: the tendency to yield
Consortium: combination of financial institutions working together
Contentious: quarrelsome
Curb: anything that controls
Custom duty: a tax levied on the imports
Deficit: Expenses minus incomes
Docile: easily managed
Erroneous: containing errors
Evoke: to call up or cause to appear
Exacerbated: aggravate
Exacerbates: to aggravate
Expedient: tending to promote some proposed object
Foisted: impose fraudulently
Formidable: causing fear
Hassle: a disorderly dispute
Herald: a royal or official messenger
Immediacy: the quality of being immediate
Incursion: invasion of a place or territory
Inevitable: that cannot be avoided
Intrusion: illegal act of entering
Jeopardize: hazard or risk
Lethal: deadly
Lust: Intense sexual desire
Murmur: a low continuous sound of distinct voices
Neonatal: pertaining to newborn children
Obviate: to prevent or eliminate
Orgy: wild, drunken activity
Pioneer: a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening
it for occupation and development by others.
Pivot: the end of a shaft
Plum: a fruit or a tree
Probation: the act of testing

Proficiency: skill or expertness

Rein: controlling or directing power
Ruse: a trick
Sacked: a large bag for storing grain
Shrink: to contract or lessen in size
Sordid: dirty or filthy
Stalling: shed for accommodation of an animal
Sympathy: sharing feelings of another person
Synapse: a region where impulses are received and transmitted
Torpedoed: s self propelled missile containing explosives
Untenable: incapable of being defended
Vague: not clearly stated
Verdict: a judgment
Whack: to strike with a smart blow
Wrath: fierce anger

Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words

Word Posters

Sordid
Inevitable
Wrath
Exacerbate
Chicanery

Mnemonics

Untenable: EVEN TEN PEOPLE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND

Vague: IN A HAZE!
Torpedoed: TOREDO ATTACK! EVERTHING IS DESTROYED

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Absurdity: something senseless, illogical

Accusation: Imputation of guilt
Accused: charged with a crime or fault
Affidavit: a written declaration made before an authorized official
Agitation: urging of a cause before the public
Anachronism: Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anemic: lacking power, vitality
Arbitration: settling of a dispute
Articulate: capable of speech
Barbaric: uncivilized
Barrack: large building for lodging soldiers
Bilateral: affecting two sides
Bilking: to fraud or cheat
Brazen: shameless
Callous: insensitive and indifferent
Cognizance: awareness
Cohesion: act of uniting
Compliance: cooperation or obedience
Conniving: to cooperate secretly
Coyness: shy or modest
Custodial: pertaining to custody
Daft: Informal or slang term for mentally irregular

Delineate: to trace the outline of

Demeanour: behaviour
Dissident: disagreeing in opinion
Dubious: doubtful
Dugout: a kind of a boat
Elite: best of something considered collectively
Embroiled: conflict
Encumbered: to hamper or hinder
Genome: a set of chromosomes
Herald: an official messenger
Imposition: the laying on of something as a burden or obligation
Inferior: lower in rank or degree
Irrevocable: Incapable of being retracted or revoked
Isolation: complete separation from others
Juggernaut: an overpowering force
Litigation: a lawsuit
Mephitic: poisonous
Nullifying: Declare invalid
Obscured: vague or uncertain
Outcry: a strong public expression of protest
Outrageous: grossly offensive
Pervasive: Spreading or spread throughout
Potshot: an aimless shot
Provoke: to anger, exasperate
Purportedly: reputed or claimed
Repentant: Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Seized: to grasp
Sobering: Tending to make sober or more serious
Sordid: Morally degraded
Spurious: not genuine
Suffice: Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
Summitry: the act of holding a meeting
Tainted: Touched by rot or decay
Undermining: Destroy property or hinder normal operations
Vacuousness: without any content

Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words

Word Posters

Sordid
Spurious
Articulate
Undermine
Spurious

Mnemonics

Coyness: SHYNESS
Undermine: YOU ARE UNDER-MY (MINE) COMMAND
Spurious: SPURIOUS GOODS MAKE YOU FURIOUS
Tainted: PAINTED WITH BADNESS
Potshot: SHOT SOME POTS AT YOUR ENEMY

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Askance: with suspicion

Bizarre: weird, unusual
Breach: violation
Brutal: cruel or inhuman
Clutch: to hold tightly
Codification: the process of arranging in a systematic form
Commemorative: to honor the memory of someone
Console: to lessen the grief
De facto: in fact
Decelerated: to decrease the velocity of something
Dichotomy: division into parts
Dismantle: to disassemble
Egress: an exit
Emulate: to try to equal or excel
Entrenched: establish firmly
Enunciate: to pronounce in a particular manner
Expulsion: the act of expelling
Extremist: supporter of extreme doctrines
Fragile: delicate
Frill: affectation of manner, style
Fumbling: to fell about clumsily
Glumly: dejected
Hordes: a large group
Hostile: not friendly or generous
Ideologues: a person who zealously advocates an ideology
Impede: hindrances, obstruction
Imponderable: that cannot be precisely determined
Indicted: to charge with an offence
Innumerate: unfamiliar with mathematical concepts
Legitimate: according to the law
Lethal: causing death
Misdemeanour: instance of misbehaviour
Mortal: deadly
Mourning: period of grieving
Naysayer: person who habitually expresses negative views
Ominous: threatening
Perpetual: continuing forever
Perversely: persistent in what is wrong
Plead: to use arguments
Prodded: to poke with something pointed
Reminiscent: suggestive
Repatriation: to return to ones own country
Resilient: rebounding
Retrospective: directed backwards
Robust: vigorous
Sabotaged: interference as by enemy agents
Scandal: an offence caused by fault
Scion: a descendant
Sheer: unqualified, utter
Skimpily: lacking in size, fullness
Slaughter: brutal killing
Sleuths: private investigator
Solidarity: community of feelings and interests
Tantalise: tease by arousing expectations
Tumultuous: highly agitated

Tycoon: a businessperson with great power and wealth

Unleash: set loose
Venture: a business undertaking
Vexing: to irritate or annoy
Vigilant: alert

Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words

Word Posters

Vexatious (related to Vexing)

Scion
Retrospect
Reminiscent
Ominous
Hostile
Mortal
Enunciate

Mnemonics

Slaughter: I WILL KILL EVERYONES DAUGHTER

Unleash: BROKE AWAY FROM ALL LEASHES
Tycoon: I BRING MONEY-TYPHOONS
Plead: WHY DID YOU DO THIS DEED?

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