Friday, November 20, 2009

Word List

1. Physiognomy Countenance
2. Repudiate Refuse, deny, disown
3. Translucent Transparent
4. Mitigate To Moderate, To calm Down
5. Inundate Overwhelm, Swamp
6. Bilk Cheat
7. Nettle To pester, To annoy
8. Impugn To express doubt about something
9. Mulch Protected layer
10. Tenacity Assiduousness
11. Sobriety Soberness
12. Degrade To do less in quality
13. Misanthrope hated to mankind
14. Waif Orphan
15. Hamper To obstruct
16. Retrograde To see backward
17. Despondent Very sad
18. Debacle
19. Tarry Leave slowly and hesitantly, linger
20. Bilk Cheat
21. Incontinent Not having control over oneself
22. Nebulous hazy, vague
23. Paradox self contradiction
24. Hidebound Narrow minded
25. Lacklustre Dull, vapid
26. Moribund. Dying

1. dwindle To become gradually less and smaller
2. efface Eradicate, obliterate
3. indignity
4. inept Clumsy
5. candid Frank
6. dangle Hang freely, to linger
7. restiveness jitteriness, nervousness
8. Irksome Annoying, irritating
9. Jaunty lively
10. Nebulous Hazy, vague
11. Misapprehension a wrong idea about something
12. Obese fat
13. Obloquy To slender, to criticize, calumny
14. harbinger forerunner, a sign of something
15. Cacophony mixture of harsh souns
16. Divulge To reveal
17. Clutch To hold
18. Acronym First letter of the words
19. Illustrious Very famous and admired
20. Prolific Productive
21. Divergent Scattered
22. Jaded To become Tire and bore of something very much
23. Mite A very small creature
24. Mitigate To moderate
25. Ambitious Having ambitions
26. Aberration not usual
27. Transient Momentary (antonym) permanence
28. Buxom Euphemisms for slightly fat
29. Foray Attack
30. Denounce Speak out against
31. Admonish usurp
32. Meager scanty
33. Alienate Estrange
34. Merry Gay
35. Brim Border
36. Obstinate Stubborn
37. Pretensions Pretentious
38. Tranquil serene
39. Solicit urge
40. Subside Wane
41. Furtive Stealthy
42. Misery Distress
43. Volume Quantity
44. Veer Diverge
45. Stifle Muffle
46. Belief Conviction
47. Lament Wail
48. to merit to deserve
49. Incentive Provocation
50. Inert Passive
51. Baffle Frustrate
52. Confiscate Appropriate
53. Covet Crave
54. Caprice Whim
55. Concur Acquiesce
56. Cargo Freight
57. Dispel Scatter
58. Discretion Prudence
59. Emancipate Liberate
60. Hover Linger
61. Instigate Incite
62. Latitude Scope
63. Latent Potential
64. Lethargy Stupor
65. Ponderous Slow and laborious because of weight
66. Mundane Not interesting or exciting
67. Brackish Salty water
68. Gist The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
69. Gaudy tasteless
70. Coltish Given to merry frolicking
71. Frugality Economy
72. Repartee Clever and amusing comments in return
73. Boisterous Noisy full of life and energy
74. Ungainly Awkward
75. Asperity Something hard to endure
76. Cavil To make unnecessary complaints about, Quibble
77. Quixotic Visionary
78. Profound Deep
79. Incorrigible Intractable
80. Musty Covered with or smelling of mold
81. Interdict Prohibit
82. Rupture Break, Breach
83. Décolleté Low necked
84. Callow Youthful, naïve, novice
85. Compose ant Disturb
86. Pristine ant Sullied
87. Turbid ant Limpid
88. Precipitate ant Dilatory/contradictory
89. Revere Ant Threaten
90. Hamper ant Facilitate
91. Slur ant Praise
92. Protean ant stable
93. Fascinate ant Mundane
94. Fickle ant Loyal
95. CIRCUMSPECT CAUTIOUS
96. ABYSMAL DEEP
97. ILLUSTRIOUS FAMOUS
98. DILIGENT INTELLIGENT
99. VEHEMENT NOISY
100. IMPETUOS STIMULUS
101. ACRONYM ABBREVIATION
102. DISSEMINATE SPREAD



Timid Lack of self confidence
Voracious Ravenous, gluttonous, insatiable, avid, hungry
Remonstrate Protest
Glib Fluent
Rubble Broken stone.
Ameliorate Improve
Foray Raid, incursion, venture, sortie, attack, assault
Arid Dry
Cognizant Knowledge
Latitude Freedom from narrow limitations
Inimical Adverse, hostile


Syno:

Aloofness unfriendliness, remoteness
Ambiguity unknown
Antithesis opposite
Awry skewed, twisted, crooked
Baleful threatening, malevolent
Brazen bold, shameless
Callow inexperience, naive
Chimerical illusion
Claustrophobia fear in small place
Cleft split, crack
Contraband illegal trade
Corpulent fat, pump
Defection desertion
Diatribe attack, criticism
Ensue follow
Extraneous irrelevant, unrelated
Felicitous fortunate, luck
Foil frustrate, halt
Gambol skip
Gauche clumsy, vulgar
Gaudy flashy, showy
Genuflect kneel, bow
Hidebound narrow minded
High handed dominant, imperious
Intermittent irregular, broken
Intrinsic essential
Menial unskilled, boring
Odium hatred, disgust
Omniscience knowing all
Pillage steal , loot , plunder
Relish enjoy, savor
Remiss careless, negligent
Retrospection perception
Repudiate reject, deny
Seedy sleazy, seamy



ANTONYMS:

1. TRACTABLE OBSTINATE
2. COVERT MANIFEST
3. PENSIVE CARELESS
4. MITIGATE AGGRAVATE
5. DIVERGENT COMING TOGETHER
6. DOGMATIC RESILIENT
7. CLUTCH RELEASE
8. MOTLEY HOMOGENEOUS
9. RELINQUISH PURSUE
10. TRANSIENT PERMANENT

Antonym:

Chide * praise
Consensus * disagreement
Depravity * goodness, righteousness
Galleon * small
Levity * gravity
Paradox * consistency
Retrograde * forward looking
Stilted *natural

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