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    WORDS LIST

    1) Ubiquitous (you-be-quit-us)
    Meaning: Being everywhere at once, omnipresent
    Usage: With such a striking talent, shes becoming ubiquitous
    2) Propitious (pro-pe-shus)
    Meaning: benevolent, advantageous, auspicious
    Usage: It is only because of propitious conditions, we could achieve it.
    3) Sporadic (spo-radic)
    Meaning: Rare and scattered, pattern less
    Usage: the stars appear sporadic tonight
    4) Insalubrious (in-salu-briyuss)
    Meaning: Unhealthy, not providing or promoting health
    Usage: That restaurant is insalubrious. It serves only junk food.
    5) Invigorating (invi-gorating)
    Meaning: Giving strength, refreshing, energy or vitality
    Usage: A sip of cool water can be so invigorating during summers
    6) Erratic (E-rratik)/ Eccentric (ek-cent-rick)
    Meaning: Round about, not a focal point, unusual, not the centre.
    Usage: His notes were very helpful though his speech was eccentric.
    7) Intimidate (In-timi-date)
    Meaning: Fear, threat, dishearten, abash, daunt
    Usage: He is trying to intimidate you by playing such tricks.
    8) Decipher (de-sy-fur)
    Meaning: To decode, cipher to plain text, to find a solution to a problem
    Usage: It is difficult to decipher this letter in such conditions.

    9) Remiss (re-miss)
    Meaning: at fault, negligent, reprehensible
    Usage: I would certainly be remiss if I fail to serve my country.
    10)

    Temerity (te-me-rity)/ Impudent (im-pyu-dence)

    Meaning: Bold-faced, daring, Impertinent, without shame.


    Usage: The impudent would not stop talking in the class.
    11)

    Trite (try-it)

    Meaning: Outdated, hackneyed (hack-need), clichd, unoriginal


    Usage: Everyone was coming up with trite ideas at the meeting.
    12)

    Extravagant (extra-vagant)

    Meaning: excessive, exorbitant, profuse, prodigal


    Usage: Extravagant man, extravagant life
    13)

    Loathe (lo-the)

    Meaning: to hate, detest, revile


    Use: Loathing the honeyed cakes, I longed for bread.
    14)

    Preeminent (Pree-min-ent)

    Meaning: Important, notable, excellent, outstanding, notable


    Use: What is preeminent about this structure is its dome.
    15)

    Humongous (hyu-mong-us)

    Meaning: Enormous, massive, gigantic, immense and large.


    Use: There needs to be a humongous improvement in the performance.
    16)

    Bleak (Bleek)

    Meaning: Pale, dull, pallid, unhappy, cheerless, miserable, desolate


    Use: he was feeling bleak after the fight.

    17)

    Timid (T-mid)

    Meaning: lacking in courage or confidence, timorous, daunt


    Use: John is a very timid person by nature.
    18)

    Mar (Maar)

    Meaning: to spoil, to damage


    Use: The area was totally marred, where the flight crashed.
    19)

    Confined (kun-fined)

    Meaning: to stick to, reserved with


    Use: He was confined to what his beliefs were.
    20)

    Primitive (pri-mitive)

    Meaning: Primary, radical


    Use: The primitive purpose of solving the issue was to avoid the crises.
    21)

    Identical (i-dentical)

    Meaning: Similar characteristics, same features.


    Use: Tony and his brother look so identical to each other.
    22)

    Piffle (pif-uh-l)

    Meaning: nonsense, as trivial or senseless


    Use: It is evil piffle to assert that he aimed not at me, but at the gray-locked
    gentleman behind me.
    23)

    Rhapsodic (rap-sod-ik)

    Meaning: extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic, pertaining to, characteristic of, or of


    the nature or form of rhapsody
    Use: If you should consume them, I would be more than just happy, perhaps even
    rhapsodic, and I will personally get you another from my own personal cellar.
    24)

    Aver (eh-ver)

    Meaning: to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory


    manner
    Use: Though he hardly got any sleep, he averred that hed slept extremely well.
    25)

    Extemporize (ik-stem-puh-rahyz)

    Meaning: to speak with little or no advance preparation, to do or manage something


    in a makeshift way
    Use: He can extemporize on nay of a number of subjects.
    26)

    Agog (uh-gog)

    Meaning: highly excited by eagerness, curiosity; in a state of eager desire, excitedly


    Use: She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was,
    but she was not sent to school.
    27)

    Middling (mid-ling)

    Meaning: mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian; medium; moderate


    Use: Belle had a little education, played the piano fair to middling, and paid Mama
    to tutor her in this and that.
    28)

    Cynosure (sahy-nuh-shoor)

    Meaning: something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest etc.;
    something serving for guidance or direction
    Use: Currently the cynosure in the space programme is the Moon landing.
    29)

    Legerity (luh-jer-i-tee)

    Meaning: physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility


    Use: His own tricky legerity discourages solemn praise.
    30)

    Maudlin (mawd-lin)

    Meaning: tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental


    Use: It was a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
    31)

    Gauche (gohsh)

    Meaning: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude, tactless


    Use: Their exquisite manners always made me feel gauche.
    32)

    Brume (broom)

    Meaning: mist; fog


    Use: The silver brume swirled around the hedge in the early morning.
    33)

    Emblem (em-bluh-em)

    Meaning: an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, or class of


    persons; symbol
    Use: The olive branch is an emblem of peace.
    34)

    Magniloquent (mag-nil-uh-kwuh-nt)

    Meaning: Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of


    discourse; bombastic
    Use: It was his magniloquent manner due to which people did not notice his
    financial problem.
    35)

    Indemnify (in-dem-nuh-fahy)

    Meaning: to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred; to guard


    or secure against anticipated loss; security against
    Use: After the hardships and toil during the day, I was expecting that hospitable
    reception at home would indemnify me.
    36)

    Sodality (soh-dal-i-tee)

    Meaning: fellowship; comradeship; an association or society


    Use: There was a sodality of investors working just down the block.
    37)

    Astir (uh-stur)

    Meaning: moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement; up and


    about; out of bed
    Use: The field was astir with small animals, birds, and insects.
    38)

    Interosculate (in-ter-os-kyuh-leyt)

    Meaning: to form a connecting link; to interpenetrate


    Use: We need to use certain words that interosculate the incomplete sentences.
    39)

    Speculate (Spey-q-late)

    Meaning: to predict, forecast


    Use: They speculated the changes in the weather, September onwards.
    40)

    Lethargy (le-thaar-gee)

    Meaning: to feel sleepy

    Use: I usually feel very lethargic during the day if I dont get adequate sleep at
    night.
    41)

    Yearn (ye-urn)

    Meaning: to want; to wish for; require


    Use: She yearned to come first in class so as to make her parents proud.
    42)

    Rummage (rum-age)

    Meaning: to look for; hunt for


    Use: He rummaged around the attic to find the old photo albums.
    43)

    Divulge (dee-vuhl-jh)

    Meaning: to say to; to disclose


    Use: Cathy warned her younger sister to not divulge their secrets to anybody else.
    44)

    Aesthetic (es-thet-ik)

    Meaning: artistic; visual


    Use: The painting made by the amateur artist had aesthetic value.
    45)

    Affiliate (eh-fill-e-yate)

    Meaning: to associate with; to be a member of


    Use: My college is affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
    46)

    Ascertain (uh-cer-tin)

    Meaning: to find out; to discover


    Use: Kate went to the library to ascertain some facts about Stonehenge.
    47)

    Edify (eh-dee-fy)

    Meaning: to teach; educate


    Use: It is not only the responsibility of the parents but also the teachers to edify a
    child about manners.
    48)

    Predicament (pre-dee-ka-ment)

    Meaning: Problem; trouble

    Use: She pondered while eating her lunch on how to escape her current
    predicament.

    49)

    Hindrance (hin-dr-ence)

    Meaning: drawback; obstruction


    Use: The only hindrances in her career were her interfering friends.
    50)

    Liaison (lee-yeh-zon)

    Meaning: relationship; link; bond


    Use: This group of men is the liaison between the people and the Government.
    51)

    Contemporary (con-temp-po-rary)

    Meaning: modern; new


    Use: The new choreographer was well-versed with contemporary dance forms.
    52)

    Grapple (graa-pple)

    Meaning: struggle; come to grips with


    Use: The mother grappled to accept the fact that her daughter got married without
    informing her.
    53)

    Jurisdiction (jew-ris-dik-shun)

    Meaning: control; power


    Use: The officer had to stop investigating the case as the criminal fled to a region
    outside his jurisdiction.
    54)

    Prodigy (pro-dee-jee)

    Meaning: genius; sensation


    Use: Robert was famous as a cricketing child prodigy.
    55)

    Ambivalent (am-bee-va-lent)

    Meaning: unsure; in two minds; undecided


    Use: The society has an ambivalent attitude towards gifted individuals.

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