7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

      

March 29, 2007

Day 50

Filed under: Must Know Words.
  • 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.

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