7 Words A Day For MBA,CAT,GRE Aspirants

• Trounce (v): To beat, punish or rebuke.

         "I’ll trounce some of the members", cried the king.

• Frisson (n): Shudder, shiver, thrill; an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.

         The royal visit sent a frission of excitement through the city.

         A frission of surprise shot throught his heart.

• Amphibology (n): Ambiguous wording or doubt meaning; an ambiguous grammatical construction.

        Example: ‘They are flying planes’; can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes.

                     Our dog eats everything and loves children. 

• Antediluvian (v): Very old-fashioned. Literally, dating befor Noah’s flood.

         The students were exasperated by the principals’ antediluvian ideas.

• Vivify (v): To animate or bring to life.

         Her humurous speech vivified the boring meeting.

• Oxymoron (n): Figure of speech combining contradictory expressions.

         Example: It was a pretty ugly scene. (Here pretty and ugly are contradictory expressions).

                      A deafening silence.

• Temerity (n): Rashness, recklessness.

         The bloody accident was caused due to the young driver’s temerity.

• Adoins (n): A handsome young man.

         An adonis in the advertisement.

• Splenetic (adj): Irritable.

         The pupils grew wary of the splenetic teacher.

• Excoriate (v): To criticize harshly; express strong disapproval of.

         The recent hindi movie ‘Good Boy Bad Boy’ recieved excoriating reviews.

• Wax (v): To increase gradually in extent; become.

         Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

• Palmy (adj): Very profitable; flourishing; prosperous.

         The most palmy state in India.

         A palmy time for investors.

• Lacuna (n): Gap; missing portion.

         His inability to answer the question exposed a lacuna in his knowledge.

• Gobsmacked (adj): Astounded; speechless.

         On learning the price of the painting I was gobsmacked.

• Truculence (n): Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness.

         The prisoner showed extreme truculence when he was being taken to the gallows.

• Frazzle (n): A state of extreme exhaustion.

         He was worn to a frazzle.

• Ineffable (adj): Defying expression or description; too sacred to be uttered

         "Ineffable ecstasy".

         The ineffable name of the Deity.

• Whimsical (adj): Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason.

         The victim of whimsical persecutions.

• Forlorn (adj): Marked by or showing hopelessness.

         The last forlorn attempt. A forlorn cause.

• Scurrilous (adj): Characterised by obscene or vulgar humor; indecently abusive.

         There were very few takers for his scurrilous antics.

• Avow (v):To affirm; declare.

         The extremists avowed war on the present government.

GD Topic: Position Of  Women In India Compared To Other Nations.

• Atavistic (adj): Primitive; reverting to behaviour of primitive ancestors.

         The movie ‘Apocalypto’ is truely atavistic.

• Peccadillo (n): A minor offence.

         He did’nt deserve a harsh punishment for such a peccadillo.

• Insatiable (adj): Impossible to satisfy.

         Hitlers’ insatiable drive for power.

• Augur (v): To predict, portend.

         "This does’nt augur well for the future".

• Blethering (v): To talk in a foolish way and usually at length.

         The characters in the play are blethering idiots.

• Crescendo (v): A gradual increase in loudness or intensity.

         The crescendo of fierce winds.

• Blithe (adj): Joyous and carefree.

         The blithe young couple enjoyed their picnic.