Daily Vocab List 01-MARCH-2018

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1. Penurious 

Meaning:  lacking money; excessively unwilling to spend, not having enough money to pay for necessities.

Synonyms: parsimonious, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched

Sentence: Warren Buffett, famous multi-billionaire, still drives a cheap sedan, not because he is penurious, but because luxury cars are gaudy and impractical.

2. Ponderous 

 Meaning: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness

Synonyms: heavy, lumbering

Sentence: Laden with 20 kilograms of college textbooks, the freshman moved ponderously across the campus.

3. Expunge 

 Meaning: to eliminate completely; remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.

Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike

Sentence: When I turned 18, all of the shoplifting and jaywalking charges were expunged from my criminal record.

4. Interlocutor 

Meaning: a person who takes part in a conversation.

Synonyms: conversational partner

Sentence: The government’s interlocutor(middle man), R.N. Ravi, confirmed to a local daily that the August 3 agreement was indeed a ‘framework agreement’.

5. Hitherto 

Meaning: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time.

Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet

Sentence: Before John learned to fly an airplane, he had hitherto been afraid of heights. 

6. Diabolic 

Meaning: showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.

Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, 

Sentence: An idle mind is a Diabolic's workshop.

7. Rancour 

Meaning:  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.

Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment, reprisal.

Sentence:  Although my friend betrayed me, I have no rancor towards him.

8. Expatriate 

Meaning: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country.

Synonyms: exile, expat

Sentence: The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions.

9. chicanery 

Meaning:  the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Synonyms: chicane, guile, trickery, wile

Sentence: You can smell the chicanery from a dishonest politician like Lalu And Mulayam.

10. Retreat 

Meaning: the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

Sentence: the disorderly retreat of Pakistani troops in Kargil war.

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The HINDU E-Paper 01-03-2018

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Daily Vocab List 28-FEBRUARY-2018

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1.prelude

Meaning: an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.

Synonym: preliminary, overture, opening, preparation

Antonym:conclusion, postscript

Sentence: "a ceasefire had been agreed as a prelude to full peace negotiations"

2.premonition

Meaning: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.

Synonym: foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication

Sentence: "he had a premonition of imminent disaster"

3.preponderance

Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance.

Synonym: prevalence, predominance, dominance 

Sentence: "the preponderance of women among older people"

4.preposterous

Meaning: contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous.

Synonym: absurd, ridiculous, foolish, stupid, ludicrous

Antonym: reasonable, sensible

Sentence: "a preposterous suggestion"

5.prerogative

Meaning: a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.

Synonym:: entitlement, right, privilege, advantage

Sentence: "in some countries, higher education is predominantly the prerogative of the rich"

6.presage

Meaning: be a sign or warning of (an imminent event, typically an unwelcome one)., an omen or portent.

Synonym: augur, foreshadow, foretell, prophesy,

Sentence:"the heavy clouds above the moorland presaged snow"

7.prestige

Meaning: widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or quality.

Synonym: status, standing, stature

Sentence: "the firm has recently gained considerable prestige

8.presumptuous

Meaning:(of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.

Synonym: brazen, overconfident, arrogant, egotistical,

Antonym: timid, unassuming

Sentence: "I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I offer some advice"

9.pretentious

Meaning: attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Synonym: affected, ostentatious,

Antonym: natural, unaffected

Sentence: "pretentious art films"

10.prognostication

Meaning: the action of prophesying future events.

Synonym: prediction, forecast, prophecy, divination

Sentence:"an unprecedented amount of soul-searching and prognostication"

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Daily Vocab List 27-FEBRUARY-2018

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1.passé

Meaning: no longer fashionable; out of date.

Synonym: out of date, outdated, out, dated, unfashionable, out of fashion, old-fashioned

Antonym: fashionable

Sentence: "minis are passé—the best skirts are knee-length"

2.amicable

Meaning: characterized by friendliness and absence of discord.

Synonym: friendly, good-natured, cordial,

Antonym: unfriendly, hostile

Sentence: "an amicable settlement of the dispute"

3.partisan

Meaning: a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person

Synonym: supporter, follower, adherent, devotee,

Sentence: "partisans of the exiled Stuarts"

4.amnesty

Meaning: an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences.

Synonym: pardon, pardoning, reprieve;

Sentence: "an amnesty for political prisoners"

5.patrimony

Meaning: property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.

Synonym: heritage, inheritance, birthright;

Sentence: "owners refuse to part with their patrimony in the interests of agricultural development"

6.amorous

Meaning: showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

Synonym: lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent;

Antonym: unloving, cold

Sentence: "she rejected his amorous advances"

7.pecuniary

Meaning: relating to or consisting of money.

Synonym: financial, monetary, money,

Antonym: nonfinancial

Sentence: "he admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception"

8.amputate

Meaning: cut off (a limb) by surgical operation.

Synonym:  chop off, remove 

Sentence: "surgeons had to amputate her left hand"

9.pedant

Meaning: a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

Synonym: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire; 

Sentence: "the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)"

10.paucity

Meaning: the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.

Synonym: dearth, deficit, drought

Antonym:  bountifulness, copiousness; excess,

Sentence: "a paucity of information"

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