7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

• Flippant (adv): Showing inappropriate levity.

         He answered the reporters’ questions flippantly.

• Levity (n): Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.

         He faced the interview with levity; as he had nothin to lose.

• Podge (n): (informal) somebody who is fat, or their excess fat.

         He was called a podge by his classmates and this irked him.

• Hoodwink (v): Influence by slyness.

         He was a true hoodwink in his business, and would do anything to earn a profit.

• Ineffable (adj): Defying expression or description; too sacred to be uttered

         "Ineffable ecstasy".

         The ineffable name of the Deity.

• Plaudit (n): Enthusiastic approval.

         He acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd.

• Scurrilous (adj): Expressing offensive reproach.

         One paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally.

• Cull (v): Remove something that has been rejected.

       Cull the sick members of the herd.

• Fulgurant (adj): Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning.

         These great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did…when…his fulgurant popularity was in full growth.

• Filigree (n): Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire).

         A gold filigree necklace was worn by the queen.

• Terse (adj): Brief and to the point; effectively cut short.

         A short and terse and easy to understand talk given by the President.

• Julienne (v): Cut into long thin strips.

         Julienne the potatoes to make a french-fry.

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

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

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

         Poignant grief cannot endure forever.

         Poignant anxiety.

• Frazzle (n): A state of extreme exhaustion.

         He was worn to a frazzle.

• Chafe (v): Feel extreme irritation or anger.

         He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation.

• Juvenile (adj): Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity.

         Their behaviour at the dinner was very juvenile.

• Brimful (v): Filled to capacity.

        I had a brimful cup of cold coffee.

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

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

• Outlandish (adj): Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.

         The outlandish clothes of teenagers.

• Truculence (n): Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.

         The prisoner showed extreme truculence when he was being taken to the gallows.

• Writhe (v): To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling).

         The prisoner writhed in discomfort.

• Riotousness (n): Rowdy behaviour.

         The riotousness of the gang was put to an end by the cops.

• Effeminate (n): Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

         The students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy.

• Yabber (v): Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

         The girl irritated everyone by her constant yabbering.

• Ignominy (n): A state of dishonour.

        He suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison.

• Tenability (n): The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person.

         He questioned the tenability of my claims.

• Knavery (n): Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing.

         Knavery is a part of life in the Mumbai markets.

• Grubbily (adv): In a dingy manner.

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

• Inquorate (adj): (of a meeting) not having enough people to make a quorum.

         Ward and branch meetings are regularly inquorate in some areas.

• Delectable (adj): Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste; Capable of arousing desire.

         The road-side chat shops in Mumbai are very delectable.

         The delectable Miss Haynes.

• Flannel (v): Talk evasively; blather evasively.

         When asked about the wherabouts of his companion, the suspect flannelled.

• Huskily (adv): In a hoarse or husky voice.

         The old man replied in a husky voice.

• Grotesque (adj): Ludicrously odd; Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.

         A grotesque reflection in the mirror.

         Tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas.

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

         The peckish nature of the old woman.

• Utilitarian (adj): Having a useful function; Having utility often to the exclusion of values.

         Utilitarian steel tables have been placed in the room.

• Vacillant (adj): Uncertain in purpose or action.

         After the failure, he thought his life had become vacillant.

• Waddle (v): Walk unsteadily.

         The doctor said that he would waddle throught her life due to the injury on her leg.

• Yardage (n): Distance measured in the aggregate number of yards.

         What is the yardage of this golf course?

• Zilch (n): A quantity of no importance.

         I didn’t hear zilch about it.

• Cachinnate (v): Laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way.

         The stand-up comedian could cachinnate even the most arrogant of people.

• Faineance (n): The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work.

         His faineance cost him his job.

• Mawkish (adj): Effusively or insincerely emotional.

         They were called the perfect couple; but neither if them had ture feelings towards each other.Their behaviour was mawkish.

• Opportune (adj): Suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose.

         "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival".

• Dereliction (n): A tendency to be negligent and uncaring;wilful negligence.

         His derelictions were not really intended as crimes.

• Satchel (n): Luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap.

         Many tourists are seen carrying satchels at the airport.

• Trudge (n): A long difficult walk.

         We had to trudge all the way to the village since there were no vehicles.

• Ubiquity (n): The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once).

         His ubiquity was admired by everyone. But all he did was to remain active.

• Vege out (v): Engage in passive relaxation.

         The lazy man veged out frequently.

Indian movies greatly effect our youth. Some of them have a positive effect and some a drastic effect. The question is: Do these movies have a positive effect on the youth.

• Apogee (n): Highest point.

         He was at the apogee of his career; he had worked very hard for it.

• Ascetic (adj): Austere; practising self-denial.

         An ascetic life led by the monks. (Asceticism)

• Caustic (adj): Sarcastically biting; burning.

         The caustic remark on their cricket fan angered the crowd.

• Cogent (adj): Convincing.

         The selectors had several cogent reasons for not selecting him.

• Coercion (n): Use of force to get someone to obey.

         The CBI used physical and psychological coercion to get the truth of him.

• Deify (v): Turn into god; idolize.

         Bollywood actors deify as soon as their movie is a hit.

• Elicit (v): Discuss to give a summary.

         The panel of judges elicited the final judgement.

• Proliferate (v): Grow rapidly; arise from offspring.

         The 80’s saw the nuclear proliferation which brought the world on the brink of disaster.

• Puerile (adj): Childish.

         He looked matured but was puerile at heart.

• Recalcitrant (adj): Obstinately stubborn.

         The accused got even more recalcitrant when he was being taken to the court. 

• Solicitous (adj): Worried; concerned.

         The solicitous mother asked the well being of the child.

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

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

• Traverse (v): To go across or through.

         He traversed the desert with great difficulty.

• Visage (n): Face; appearence.

         The stern visage of the judge indicated that he had decided to impose a severe punishment.