7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

• Expatiate (v): Speak or write at length in detail.

         The expatiated his project in the seminar hall for a very long time.

• Acclivity (n): An upward slope.

         The car’s engine revved up as it was in the acclivity.

• Assuage (v): Provide physical relief, from pain etc.

         The soilder poured liquor on his wound in an attempt to assuage the pain.

• Sleazy (adj): Cheap; shabby.

         A sleazy act.

         I could’nt look at that sleazy dress.

• Surmise (v): To imagine; infer from incomplete evidence.

         The detective surmised that the butler did it.

• Conjecture (n): Formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence.

         He dismissed his plea on the grounds of mere conjencture.

• Tepid (adj): Luke warm; showing lack of enthusiasm.

         His tepid effort to win the match made his team-mates hate him.

• Waylay (n): To lie in ambush for; to attack on the way.

         The techie got waylaid on his journey back home.

• Haughty (adj): Arrogantly self-admiring; disdainful.

         Some economists are haughty of their colleagues in their social behaviour.

         Haughty aristrocrats.

• Recondite (adj): Obscure; hidden; abstruse; incomprehensible.

         CAT quant problems are usually recondite to solve; but not impossible.

• Pulchritudinous (adj): Having great physical beauty; physical beauty esp. of women.

         The pulchritudinous Hollywood stars.

• Cleft (n): A split or indundation in something; a crack; an opening.

         The mountaineer put his fingers into a cleft to gain grip.

• Seemly (adj): According to custom or tradition.

         The bride showed seemly behaviour at the nuptial.

• Delible (adj): Which is capable of being deleted.

         All the files on this computer are delible and cannot be recovered if done so.

• Impervious (adj): Not easily influenced by ideas, arguments etc.

         The judge gave an impervious look to the argument of the defendant.

• Indite (v): To compose or write.

         Mozart used to indite great music even though he was deaf.

• Comely (adj): Pleasing; pretty or handsome.

         The comely sales girl could easily woo the customers to buy those expensive products.

• Quip (n): A sharp and quick clever remark.

         Einstein responded to the journalists questions with a quip and a smile.

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

         His massive monthly income turned him into a sybarite.

• August (adj): Profoundly honoured; majestic.

         The august presence of the monarch.

• Evince (v): To shoe clearly; to make evident.

         She evinced her anger and happiness to him.

• Perfidious (adj): Faithless; unfaithful.

         "Any perfidious act will not be endured in this kingdom", said the king.

• Verisimilitude (n): The quality of seeming real or true.

         A verisimilitude dream.

• Nugatory (adj): Of no real value; futile.

         All attempts to enforce the new law were nugatory.

• Tactile (adj): Relating to the sense of touch; perceptible by touch.

         The doctor injected a tactile stimulus.

• Misconstrue (v): To misinterpret.

         "Don’t misconstrue my comments as criticism".

• Guffaw (n/v): Laugh boisterously.

         The audience burst into a guffaw as soon as the clown entered the ring.

• Lull (v): Mournful; dismal.

         "Don’t let yourself be lulled due to failures".

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• Caustic (adj): Sarcastically biting; burning.

         The caustic remark on their cricket fan angered the crowd.

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

         The panel of judges elicited the final judgement.

• Iniquitous (adj): Wicked; immoral.

         The ‘Nithari killings was labeled as an iniquitous act.

• Immolate (v): Offer as a sacrifice.

         The man offered to immolate his cattle to the angry gods.

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

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

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

         The outlandish clothes of teenagers.

• Diffidence (n): Shyness.

         One must overcome diffidence to be successful in life.

• Nihilish (n): Denial of all reality or of all objective truth.

         He was an eternal nihilist and lived in his own starry world.

• Torpor : Inactivity; stupid.

         His boss considered him as a torpor person and refused to give him a salary hike.

• Duress (v): Compulsion; force; coersion.

         The project was not upto the mark because he had done it under the professor’s duress.

• Environ (v): To surround; encircle.

         The predators environed its prey.

• Unerring (adj): Making no error; infalliable; faultless.

         The unerring cover-drive of Sachin.

• Astute (adj): Bright; sagacious; intelligent.

         Einstein had an uncanny ability towards physics. He was truly astute.

• Misogamist (n): One who hates marriage.

         A misogamist had no social status in the village.

• Ennui (n): Boredom.

         Sundays induced a feeling of ennui in her as she had no one to speak to.

• Recalcitrant (adj): Obstinately stubborn.

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

• Demur (v): To oppose; hesitate about; to disagree.

         The young businessman would not get easily discouraged even though his ideas were frequently demured by the company.

• Palpitate (v): Flutter; throb.

         As she went to check her result, her heart began to palpitate.

• Bait (v): Harass, tease.

              The school bully baited the other smaller children.

• Canker(n): Any evil.