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COMMON WORDS 1 :
3)Upbraid - to scold
4)Impertinent - Disrespectful
7)Veracious - truthful
9)Restive - restless
COMMON WORDS 2 :
6) aesthete - one who has great sensitivity to beauty of art and nature
COMMON WORDS 3 :
COMMON WORDS 4 :
39) pedantic - marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, concerned by minor details
COMMON WORDS 5 :
8) inveterate - habitual
15) dilettante - an amateur who engages in activity without serious intentions and who pretends to
have knowledge
COMMON WORDS 6 :
17) contrition - feeling of remorse or guilt that comes from doing something bad
32) indecorous - not keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
49) furtive - marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
50) maverick - someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
ADVANCED WORDS :
ADVANCED WORDS 1 :
10) jingoist - a person who thinks that their country should be at war
16) arrant - complete and wholly (usually modifying a noun with negative connotation)
26) defray - to help pay the cost of, either in part of full
40) equivocate - to speak vaguely, usually with the intention to mislead or deceive
ADVANCED WORDS 2
1) quisling - a traitor
7) parvenu - a person who has suddenly become wealthy, but not socially accepted as part of a
higher class
25) pyrrhic - describing a victory that comes at such a great cost that the victory is not worthwhile
28) palimpsest - something that has been changed numerous times but on which traces of former
iterations can still be seen
29) gerrymander - to manipulate voting districts in order to favor a particular political party
36) arriviste - a person who has recently reached a position of power; a social climber
46) malapropism - the confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar
ADVANCED WORDS 3 :
14) duplicity - deceitfulness, pretending to want one thing but interested in something else
18) provident - careful in regard to your own interests; providing carefully for the future
19) anodyne - something that soothes or relieves pain
28) moribund - being on the point of death; declining rapidly losing all momentum in progress
30) effrontery - audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
34) charlatan - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
43) maunder - wander aimlessly, speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
ADVANCED WORDS 4 :
1) hobble - to hold back the progress of something; walk impeded by some physical limitation or
injury.
14) imperious - having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as
unworthy
32) spartan - unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; practicing great self-denial
35) denouement - the final resolution of the many strands of a literary or dramatic work; the
outcome of a complex sequence of events.
45) unflappable - not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure
50) unviable - not able to work, survive, or succeed (also spelled inviable).