7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

      

April 30, 2007

Day 68

Filed under: Must Know Words.
  • 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.

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