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COMMON WORDS :

COMMON WORDS 1 :

1)Prevaricate - to speak in an evasive manner

2)Aberration - unexpected. Deviate from normal

3)Upbraid - to scold

4)Impertinent - Disrespectful

5)Gregarious - likely to socialize

6)Ingenuous - to be naive and innocent

7)Veracious - truthful

8)Censure - to express strong disapproval

9)Restive - restless

10)Calumny - making a false statement to damage someone's reputation

11) Iconoclast - somebody who attacks beliefs and institutions

12) innocuous - harmless

13)disinterested - unbiased, neutral

14) amalgam - mixture of things

15) ambivalent - mixed or conflicting emotions/opinions

16) intimate - suggest subtly

17) equivocal - ambiguous/confusing

18) amenable - easily persuaded/flexible

19) enervate - sap energy from

20) commensurate - to be in proportion

21) demur - show reluctance or to object

22) egregious - stand out in a negative manner, shockingly bad

23) harangue - long speech/tirade

24)parochial - restricted in scope or Outlook

25) chastise - to reprimand harshly

26) prodigal - wastefully extravagant

27) profligate - spend resources recklessly

28) undermine - to put down

29) anomalous - not normal


30)venality - condition of being susceptible to bribes

31) mercurial - prone to unexpected changes in mood

32) castigate - to reprimand harshly

33) involved - complicated, difficult to comprehend

34) parsimonious - frugal, miserly

35) frugal - thrifty

36) auspicious - favorable

37) maintain - to assert

38) ambiguous - open to multiple interpretations

39) wanting - lacking

40) venerate - to respect deeply

41) acrimony - bitterness, ill will

42) amorphous - shapeless

43) vindicate - to clear suspicion

44) qualify - to make less severe, to limit

45) galvanize - to excite

46) laconic - of very few words

47) belie - misrepresent

48)artful - exhibiting artistic skill

49)extant - still in existence

COMMON WORDS 2 :

1) reticent - not inclined to talk or reveal one's thoughts

2) incisive - having clear thoughts and demonstrating intelligent analysis

3) decorous - good taste in manners and conduct

4) aesthetic - appreciation of beauty

5) lambast - criticize severely or angrily

6) aesthete - one who has great sensitivity to beauty of art and nature

7) audacious - willing to be bold and take risks

8) cryptic - mysterious or vague

9) dictatorial - expecting unquestioning obedience

10) vociferous - visibly and offensively loud


11) volubility - quality of talking or writing continuously

12) culminate - reach highest or most decisive point

13) fortuitous - occurring by happy chance

14) deferential - showing respect

15) mitigate - to make less severe or harsh

16) entrenched - fixed firmly or securely

17) conspicuous - clearly visible, completely obvious

18) frivolous - not serious in content or attitude or behaviour

19) chortle - to chuckle in a muffled manner

20) mawkish - overly sentimental to the point it is disgusting

21) concede - acknowledge defeat

22) prescience - power to foresee the future

23) culpability - State of guilt

24) obscure - to make unclear

25) meticulous - extreme care in treatment of details

26) superfluous - no useful purpose

27) eschew - avoid or stay away from deliberately

28) recondite - difficult to penetrate

29) preclude - keep from happening or arising

30) platitude - a trite or obvious remark

31) impudent - improperly forward or bold

32) bucolic - relating to pleasant aspects of country life

33) gossamer - a light, thin, delicate substance

34) didactic - excessively instructive

35) gainsay - take exception to

36) diffident - modest, shy

37) torpor - inactivity resulting from lethargy or lack of energy

38) glut - excessively abundant supply

39) exacerbate - make worse

40) engender - cause or give rise to

41) querulous - constant complaining and whining


42) dogmatic - inclined to accept a set of beliefs as undeniably true

43) rustic - aspect of rural/countryside

44) perfidy - act of deliberate betrayal

45) inexorable - impossible to stop or prevent

46) gall - rude or disrespectful behaviour

47) germane - relevant and appropriate

48) banal - cliche, repeated too often

49) predilection - a strong liking

50) apathetic - showing little or no emotion

COMMON WORDS 3 :

1) juxtapose -place side by side for contrast or comparison

2) eminent - standing above others in quality or position

3) insidious - working in a subtle but destructive way

4) circumvent - cleverly find a way out to avoid one's duties

5) abstain - choose to not take part in

6) heretic - person who holds unorthodox views

7) avaricious - excessively greedy

8) elucidate - make clearer and easier to understand

9) contrive - to pull off a plan through trickery

10) belligerent - one who is eager to fight

11) ephemeral -very short lived

12) disaffected - discontented towards authority

13) forlorn - showing hopelessness, sad, lonely

14) spurious - plausible but false

15) fallacious - of a belief that is based on faulty reasoning

16) jingoism - fanatical patriotism

17) haughty - arrogantly superior

18) tantamount - being essentially equal to something

19) tenacious - stubbornly unyielding

20) apathy - absence of emotion or enthusiasm

21) quotidian - found in ordinary course of events


22) guileless - without deceit

23) supplant - to take the place of, move into position of

24) languid - not inclined towards physical exertion or effort

25) magnanimous - noble and generous in spirit

26) vehement - extreme intensity of emotions, showing strong feeling

27) panache - distinctive and showy elegance

28) derive - come from

29) derivative- unoriginal and based on something in existence

30) travesty - absurd presentation, mockery

31) precocious - characteristic of exceptional early development

32) vilify - spread negative info about

33) rudimentary - being in earliest stages of development, basic

34) frustrate - to hinder or prevent

35) incongruous - not in harmony, lacking compatibility

36) immutable - not able to be changed

37) negligible - insignificant, so small as to be meaningless

38) eclectic - comprised of a variety of styles

39) jubilant - high spirited

40) subsume - to contain or include

41) ameliorate - to make something that's bad better

42) ascetic - practicing great self denial

43) delineate - to describe in detail or portray precisely

44) guile - shrewdness or being skilled in deception

45) itinerant - traveling from place to place for work

46) mollify - to make someone less angry, placate

47) denote - be a sign or indication of

48) treacherous - dangerously unstable and unpredictable

49) staunch - firm and dependable especially in loyalty

50) refractory - stubbornly resistant to authority or control

COMMON WORDS 4 :

1) aberrant - considerably different from an accepted norm


2) abstruse - difficult to understand

3) acerbic - harsh or corrosive in tone, forthright

4) adamant - refusing to change one's mind

5) admonitory - giving reproof(blame) as a corrective, giving a warning

6) apocryphal - being of questionable authenticity

7) blatant - without any attempt at concealment, completely obvious

8) bumbling - lacking physical movement

9) burgeon - grow and flourish

10) confound - be confusing or perplexing to

11) construe - interpret in a particular way, make sense of

12) contingent - a gathering of people in a group (or) dependent on

13) copious - large in number or quantity

14) decorum - conforming to manners and conduct

15) denigrate - charge falsely or with malicious intent

16) discrete - constituting a separate entity

17) eradicate - to destroy completely

18) espouse - to adopt or support an idea or cause

19) exacting - requiring and demanding accuracy

20) exalt - praise, glorify or honour

21) exonerate - pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

22) expound - add details to an account or idea

23) forthcoming - at ease in talking to others (or) available when required

24) hackneyed - repeated too often, overused

25) iconoclastic - a person who attacks cherished beliefs and institutions

26) idiosyncrasy - a behavorial attribute peculiar to a person

27) ignoble - completely lacking nobility in character or purpose

28) implacable - incapable of being appeased or pacified

29) implausible - highly imaginative but unlikely

30) incorrigible - impervious to correction by punishment

31) indifference - trait of remaining calm and not caring

32) ingratiate - gain favour from somebody through deliberate efforts


33) intransigent - impervious to pleas, persuasion, reason, requests; unwilling to change one's
beliefs or course of action

34) largess -extreme generosity and giving

35) laudable - worthy of high praise

36) myopic - lacking foresight

37) opaque - not clearly understood or expressed

38) ostentatious - pretentious, intended to attract notice and impress hu

39) pedantic - marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, concerned by minor details

40) pragmatic - concerned with practical matters

41) provincial - characteristic of a limited perspective, not fashionable

42) pundit - person with special knowledge who performs skillfully

43) reconcile - make compatible with

44) soporific - inducing sleep

45) temperance - trait of avoiding excesses

46) tortuous - marked by repeated twists and turns

47) underscore - give extra weight to

48) unscrupulous - without principles

49) refute - overthrow by argument or evidence

50) petulant - easily irritated or annoyed

COMMON WORDS 5 :

1) foment - try to stir up public opinion

2) inscrutable - not easily understood, unfathomable

3) poignant - emotionally touching

4) tractable - readily reacting to suggestions, easily managed or controlled

5) arbitrary - based on a random, groundless decision

6) ravenous - extremely hungry, craving food in great quantities

7) arcane - requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

8) inveterate - habitual

9) obsequious - attempting to win favours from influential people by flattery

10) pernicious - exceedingly harmful

11) reverent - feeling or showing profound respect


12) sycophant - a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage

13) intrepid - fearless

14) myriad - a large indefinite number

15) dilettante - an amateur who engages in activity without serious intentions and who pretends to
have knowledge

16) accolade - an award or praise granted as a special honour

17) propitious - presenting favorable signs or circumstances

COMMON WORDS 6 :

1) deleterious - harmful to living things

2) economical - avoiding waste, efficient

3) harried - troubled persistently especially petty annoyances

4) antipathy - an intense feeling of dislike or aversion

5) mendacity - tendency to be untruthful

6) dilatory - wasting time

7) appease/assuage - pacify by accepting the demands of

8) erudite - having or showing profound knowledge

9) specious - based on pretense (or) plausible but false

10) duress - compulsory force or threat

11) craven - pathetically cowardly

12) flux - state of uncertainty about what should be done

13) stringent - demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

14) misconstrue - interpret in the wrong way

15) maladroit - clumsy

16) rebuke - criticize severely or angrily

17) contrition - feeling of remorse or guilt that comes from doing something bad

18) nonplussed - unsure how to act or respond

19) transient - lasting for a short time

20) truncate - reduce the length of something

21) sullen - showing a brooding ill humor, glum

22) imprudent - not wise

23) ignominious - bringing disgrace or shame


24) capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

25) anomaly - something that is not normal, standard, or expected

26) edifying - instructing or improving intellectually or morally

27) arduous - demanding considerable mental effort and skill

28) disseminate - cause to become widely known

29) esoteric - confined to and understood by only an enlightened inner circle

30) dispassionate - unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice

31) posit - assume as fact

32) indecorous - not keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

33) bolster - support and strengthen

34) polemic - strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

35) opulence - great wealth, luxuriousness

36) mundane - repetitive and boring; not spiritual

37) elicit -call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

38) timorous - timid by nature or revealing fear and nervousness

39) impartial - unbiased

40) reproach - to express criticism towards

41) nuance - subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

42) pejorative - expressing disapproval

43) askance - with a look of suspicion or disapproval

44) efficacious - producing the intended result

45) placate - cause to be more favorably inclined; make less angry

46) banality - trite or obvious remark

47) fastidious - overly concerned with details; fussy

48) jovial - showing high-spirited merriment

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 :

1) base - the lowest, class were without any moral principles

2) sedulous/assiduous - done diligently and carefully

3) fractious - irritable and is likely to cause disruption

4) contentious - likely to argue

5) choleric - prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered

6) beg - to evade or dodge (a question)

7) malfeasance - misconduct or wrongdoing (especially by a public official)

8) overweening - arrogant; presumptuous

9) lascivious - lecherous; sexually perverted

10) jingoist - a person who thinks that their country should be at war

11) factious - produced by, or characterized by internal dissension

12) kowtow - to bow or act in a subservient manner

13) chary - cautious, suspiciously reluctant to do something

14) expansive - communicative, and prone to talking in a sociable manner

15) insufferable - intolerable, difficult to endure

16) arrant - complete and wholly (usually modifying a noun with negative connotation)

17) feckless - lazy and irresponsible

18) perfunctory - done routinely and with little interest or care

19) byzantine - intricate and complex

20) indigent - poor; having very little

21) attenuate - to weaken (in terms of intensity); to taper off/become thinner.

22) apostate - a person who has abandoned a religious faith or cause

23) precipitate - hasty or rash

24) turpitude - depravity; a depraved act

25) expunge - to eliminate completely

26) defray - to help pay the cost of, either in part of full

27) penurious - lacking money; poor

28) truculent - having a fierce, savage nature

29) artless - without cunning or deceit


30) alacrity - an eager willingness to do something

31) diatribe - a strong verbal attack against a person or institution

32) cow - to intimidate

33) untoward - unfavorable; inconvenient

34) pariah - an outcast

35) exegesis - critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text

36) conciliate - to make peace with

37) churlish - lacking manners or refinement

38) imbibe - to drink or absorb as if drinking

39) vicissitude - change in one's circumstances, usually for the worse

40) equivocate - to speak vaguely, usually with the intention to mislead or deceive

41) zeitgeist - spirit of the times

42) prosaic - dull and lacking imagination

43) ponderous - weighed-down; moving slowly

44) apogee - the highest point

45) nadir - the lowest point

46) anathema - a detested person; the source of somebody's hate

47) saturnine - morose or gloomy

48) supercilious - haughty and disdainful; looking down on others

49) catholic - of broad scope; universal

50) hector - to bully or intimidate

ADVANCED WORDS 2

1) quisling - a traitor

2) bilious - irritable; always angry

3) excoriate - to criticize very harshly

4) venial - easily excused or forgiven; pardonable

5) mettlesome - filled with courage or valor

6) arch - to be deliberately teasing

7) parvenu - a person who has suddenly become wealthy, but not socially accepted as part of a
higher class

8) limpid - clarity in terms of expression


9) curmudgeon - a grouchy, surly personlascivious - lecherous; sexually perverted

10) jaundice - to be biased against due to envy or prejudice

11) apotheosis - exaltation to divine status; the highest point of development

12) tendentious - likely to lean towards a controversial view

13) sartorial - related to fashion or clothes

14) maudlin - overly emotional and sad

15) peremptory - bossy and domineering

16) remonstrate - to make objections while pleading

17) mellifluous - smooth and sweet-sounding

18) fell - terribly evil

19) histrionic - to be overly theatrical

20) picayune - trifling or petty (a person)

21) quixotic - wildly idealistic; impractical

22) hedge - to limit or qualify a statement; to avoid making a direct statement

23) factitious - artificial; not natural

24) sententious - to be moralizing, usually in a pompous sense

25) pyrrhic - describing a victory that comes at such a great cost that the victory is not worthwhile

26) martinet - a strict disciplinarian

27) execrate - to curse and hiss at

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

30) jejune - dull; lacking flavor

31) invective - abusive or denunciatory language

32) imbroglio - a confusing and potentially embarrassing situation

33) sangfroid - calmness or poise in difficult situations

34) cupidity - greed for money

35) sybarite - a person who indulges in luxury

36) arriviste - a person who has recently reached a position of power; a social climber

37) disabuse - to persuade somebody that his/her belief is not valid

38) mulct - to defraud or swindle


39) Pollyannaish - extremely optimistic, even on sad or disappointing things

40) blinkered - to have a limited outlook or understanding

41) impecunious - lacking money; poor

42) propitiate - to placate or appease

43) schadenfreude - joy from watching the suffering of others

44) protean - readily taking on different roles; versatile

45) benighted - fallen into a state of ignorance

46) malapropism - the confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar

47) vituperate - to criticize harshly; to berate

48) phantasmagorical - illusive; unreal

49) juggernaut - a force that cannot be stopped

50) expurgate - to remove objectionable material

ADVANCED WORDS 3 :

1) insouciance - lack of concern

2) derelict - (of a person) not doing one's duties

3) prognostication - a statement made about the future

4) prolixity - boring verbosity

5) enthrall - hold spellbound

6) raconteur - a person skilled in telling anecdotes

7) hail - enthusiastically acclaim or celebrate something

8) mordant - biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style

9) recapitulation - a summary (think of recap)

10) gaffe - a socially awkward or tactless act

11) umbrage - a feeling of anger caused by being offended

12) temerity - fearless daring

13) cede - relinquish possession or control over

14) duplicity - deceitfulness, pretending to want one thing but interested in something else

15) flummox - be a mystery or bewildering to

16) plucky - marked by courage and determination

17) anemic - lacking energy and vigor

18) provident - careful in regard to your own interests; providing carefully for the future
19) anodyne - something that soothes or relieves pain

20) lugubrious - excessively mournful

21) epiphany - a sudden revelation or moment of insight

22) portentous - ominously prophetic

23) grandiloquent - puffed up with vanity

24) redoubtable - inspiring fear or awe

25) semblance - an outward appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

26) litany - any long and tedious account of something

27) enjoin - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

28) moribund - being on the point of death; declining rapidly losing all momentum in progress

29) lampoon - ridicule with satire

30) effrontery - audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

31) quail - draw back, as with fear or pain

32) approbatory - expressing praise or approval

33) perspicacious - acutely insightful and wise

34) charlatan - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

35) probity - integrity, strong moral principles

36) bowdlerize - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

37) sagacious - having good judgement and acute insight

38) unforthcoming - uncooperative, not willing to give up information

39) artlessness - the quality of innocence

40) solecism - a socially awkward or tactless act

41) illustrious - widely known and esteemed; having or conferring glory

42) vitriolic - harsh or corrosive in tone

43) maunder - wander aimlessly, speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

44) sinecure - an office that involves minimal duties

45) pecuniary - relating to or involving money

46) punctilious - marked by precise accordance with details

47) hagiographic - excessively flattering toward someone's life or work

48) primacy - the state of being first in importance

49) impute - attribute (responsibility or fault) to something


50) importuned - beg persistently and urgently

ADVANCED WORDS 4 :

1) hobble - to hold back the progress of something; walk impeded by some physical limitation or
injury.

2) dovetail - fit together tightly, as if by means of a interlocking joint

3) asperity - harshness of manner

4) lacerate - deeply hurt the feelings of; distress.

5) inviolate - must be kept sacred.

6) crestfallen - brought low in spirit.

7) firebrand - someone who deliberately creates trouble.

8) magisterial - offensively self-assured or given to exercising unwarranted power.

9) patent - glaringly obvious

10) corollary - a practical consequence that follows naturally

11) intimation - an indirect suggestion.

12) decry - express strong disapproval of

13) flippant - showing inappropriate levity

14) imperious - having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as
unworthy

15) incontrovertible - necessarily or demonstrably true; impossible to deny or disprove

16) hubris - overbearing pride or presumption.

17) ossify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

18) celerity - speed, rapidity

19) ribald - humorously vulgar

20) irrefutable - impossible to deny or disprove

21) inure - to make accustomed to something unpleasant; harden

22) rarefied - make more subtle or refined

23) recrimination - mutual accusations

24) invidious - likely to cause resentment

25) presentiment - a feeling of evil to come.

26) crystallize - cause to take on a definite and clear shape

27) dispensation - an exemption from a rule or obligation.


28) tempestuous - as if driven by turbulent or conflicting emotions; highly energetic and wildly
changing or fluctuating.

29) encumber - hold back

30) equitable - fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience

31) subterfuge - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.

32) spartan - unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; practicing great self-denial

33) inimitable - defying imitation; matchless.

34) unpropitious - (of a circumstance) with little chance of success

35) denouement - the final resolution of the many strands of a literary or dramatic work; the
outcome of a complex sequence of events.

36) puissant - powerful

37) surreptitious - stealthy, taking pains not to be caught or detected.

38) immure - to enclose, usually in walls

39) untenable - (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified.

40) machinate - engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

41) stalwart - dependable; inured to fatigue or hardships.

42) obstreperous - noisily and stubbornly defiant; willfully difficult to control

43) nonchalant - coming across as uninterested or unconcerned; overly casual.

44) puerile - of or characteristic of a child; displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

45) unflappable - not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure

46) improvident - not given careful consideration.

47) impetuous - characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.

48) peripatetic - traveling by foot

49) cosseted - treat with excessive indulgence

50) unviable - not able to work, survive, or succeed (also spelled inviable).

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