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June 9, 2008

Participate In Cluster Words

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                      From today at WordsEveryday we are introducing Cluster Words.
WordsEveryday encourages its users to submit one synonym, one antonym for that particular word along with a sentence; and then our team would select some of the best sentence usages and publish it on our blog along with your names. This would immensely help all the users of this blog to improvise on their vocabulary skills and excel in various competitive exams.
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Word For Today Is: 

  • Obsequious: Showing too great a willingness to serve or obey; fawning.

         His obsequious behavior toward our boss really irritated me.

 

Send in your synonyms & antonyms with a sentence usage to wordseveryday@gmail.com

May 17, 2008

Day 79 - Cluster Words

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  • Fustian - Pompous style of speech or writing; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.

         Fustian can’t disguise the author’s meager plot.

  • Sonorous - Characterized by language, speech that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style.

        A sonorous orator.  

  • Aureate - Elaborately or excessively ornamented; flamboyant (esp. writing or speech).

        The senator’s aureate speech.

  • Rhetoric - The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.

        His offers of compromise were pure rhetoric.

  • Declamatory - Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument.
        A pompous, declamatory manner of speech.
  • Grandiloquent/Magniloquent - Speaking in a lofty style; pompous.
        We were all ears for his grandiloquent/Magniloquent speech.               
  • Orotund - Pompous and bombastic; Full in sound

        Orotund talk.
       
Orotund tones.

  • Turgidity - Pompously embellished language; flatulence.

        Turgid language; turgid prose.

  • Claptrap/Rant- Pretentious, insincere, or empty language.
        Everyone is well aware of his claptrap/rant talk and hence do not pay any heed to it.
       
       

July 9, 2007

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Day 78

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  • Somnambulism (n): Walking by a person who is asleep.

         Somnambulism is often laughed away, but it is a serious disorder.

  • Rhapsodise (v): Say (something) with great enthusiasm.

         He rhapsodised the matches of the cricket world cup to all his friends.

  • Synoptic (adj): Providing a general view; summary.

         A synoptic talk had to be given by a child at the end of every class.

  • Vendetta (n): Blood feud.

         The rival gangs engaged in a harsh vendetta.

  • Grandiloquent (adj): Using high-sounding language; pompous;

         She hid her inferiority complex by using grandiloquence when she spoke.

  • Vacuous (adj): Stupid; empty; lacking in ideas.

         When the girl was asked about the math problem she gave a vacuous look.

  • Decreptitude (n): State of collapse caused by illness or old age.

         His state of decrepitude gave me a shock.

June 28, 2007

Day 77

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  • Grubbily (adv): In a dingy manner.

         The cook grubbily put the ingredients into the vessel with his bare hands.

  • Peckish (adj): Somewhat hungry; Easily irritated or annoyed.

         The peckish nature of the old woman.

  • Poignant (adj): Arousing affect; keenly distressing to the mind or feelings.

         Poignant grief cannot endure forever.

  • Rakish (adj): Stylish, sporty.

         The model wore an extremely rakish dress.

         The hat was worn in a very rakish position.

         Poignant anxiety.

  • Emollient (n): A softening or soothing remedy.

         The doctor applied an emollient to the inflamed knee. 

  • Machinations (n): Evil schemes or plots.

         The officer got to know about the machinations of the crook.

  • Sybarite (n): A person addicted to luxury; pertaining to luxury.

         His massive monthly income turned him into a sybarite.

June 26, 2007

Day 76

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  • Aeon: Eternity; a very long time.

         A moment in the aeon of creation.

  • Tardy: Late.

         The President apologised for his tardy arrival.

  • Riffle: To flip or thumb through rapily.

         To riffle through the pages of the book just before the exam.

  • Engaging: Charming, attractive.

         The engaging beauty of the Himalayas.

  • Succour: To help, give aid in times of difficulty.

         To succour the backward nations.

  • Ailurophile: Cat lover.

         My sister is an ailurophile.

         Ancient Egyptians were ailurophiles.

  • Feral: Untamed; resembling a wild animal.

         Feral dogs are often seen on the streets and they pose a threat to the passer-by.

June 25, 2007

Day 75

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  • Coddle: To pamper or protect attentively.

         Coddling children from a very young age weakens their self-reliance and confidence.

  • Rebuff: To reject something bluntly or rudely.

         The board rebuffed his new proposal.

  • Disputatious: Argumentative; belligerent.

         Two disputative countries.

         To become disputative over an issue.

  • Tenable: Practical; justifiable.

         To put forth a tenable a tenable business plan.

  • Trenchant: Vigorous; harsh.

         His trenchant style of writing was his strength.

  • Pander: To gratify another’s every desire.

         The parents pandered their childrens’ every whim and fancy.

  • Brio: Liveliness; vivacity.

         The drama had a lot of brio right from the beginning.

June 23, 2007

Day 73 (Back To Regular Posting !)

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  • Dicker : Haggle; to trade by bargaining.

         To dicker over the price of vegetables.

  • Acuity : Keenness in perception or thought; sharpness.

         Acuity of vision.

         Acuity to understand complex numerical problems.

  • Inveigle: To persuade or entice by guile.

         To inveigle someone into a bad habit.

  • Tinsel: Sparkling material.

         The christmas tree glittered with tinsel in the midst of the darkness.

  • Gamut: Complete range.

         The course runs the gamut from quants to vocab.

  • Parlous: Perilious; dangerous; risky.

         The Nandigram district is in a parlous condition.

  • Fritter: To waste something bit by bit.

         He fritted the money over trifle things until he realised he had nothing left.

May 26, 2007

Day 72

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  • Trounce (v): To beat, punish or rebuke.

         "I’ll trounce some of the members", cried the king.

  • Frisson (n): Shudder, shiver, thrill; an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.

         The royal visit sent a frission of excitement through the city.

         A frission of surprise shot throught his heart.

  • Amphibology (n): Ambiguous wording or doubt meaning; an ambiguous grammatical construction.

        Example: ‘They are flying planes’; can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes.

                     Our dog eats everything and loves children. 

  • Antediluvian (v): Very old-fashioned. Literally, dating befor Noah’s flood.

         The students were exasperated by the principals’ antediluvian ideas.

  • Vivify (v): To animate or bring to life.

         Her humurous speech vivified the boring meeting.

  • Oxymoron (n): Figure of speech combining contradictory expressions.

         Example: It was a pretty ugly scene. (Here pretty and ugly are contradictory expressions).

                      A deafening silence.

  • Temerity (n): Rashness, recklessness.

         The bloody accident was caused due to the young driver’s temerity.

        

May 25, 2007

Day 71

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  • Adoins (n): A handsome young man.

         An adonis in the advertisement.

  • Splenetic (adj): Irritable.

         The pupils grew wary of the splenetic teacher.

  • Excoriate (v): To criticize harshly; express strong disapproval of.

         The recent hindi movie ‘Good Boy Bad Boy’ recieved excoriating reviews.

  • Wax (v): To increase gradually in extent; become.

         Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

  • Palmy (adj): Very profitable; flourishing; prosperous.

         The most palmy state in India.

         A palmy time for investors.

  • Lacuna (n): Gap; missing portion.

         His inability to answer the question exposed a lacuna in his knowledge.

  • Gobsmacked (adj): Astounded; speechless.

         On learning the price of the painting I was gobsmacked.





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