7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

      

March 25, 2007

Day 47

Filed under: Must Know Words.
  • 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.

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