7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

      

April 29, 2007

Day 67

Filed under: Must Know Words.
  • 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.

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