Barrons Word List 3

Question 1

Flippancy

N

Answer 1

Meaning: Lack of respect or seriousness, Irreverence
Form: n
Sentence: John’s flippant remarks during history class annoyed the teacher.
Synonyms: Impiety, Impudence
Antonyms:
Related Word: Flippant (adj), Flippantly (adv)

Question 2

Nirvana

N

Answer 2

Paradise

Going to school filled me to the brim with nirvana, that is, until we switched to online instruction.

Question 3

Irrepressible

Answer 3

Meaning: Unable to be restrained or held back
Form: adj
Sentence: The irrepressible Mr. Yadav, one of the most vocal members of Parliament, had started shouting slogans against the budgetary proposals even before the finance minister began his budget speech.
Synonyms:

Question 4

effeminate

Adj

Answer 4

مخنث

Question 5

browse

V

Answer 5

To browse is to look casually for whatever catches your eye, rather than searching for something specific. Window shopping and scanning the newspaper for interesting headlines are forms of browsing.

Question 6

licentious

Adj

Answer 6

Someone who is licentious behaves or speaks inappropriately, usually in regards to sex.

Immoral

Question 7

incinerate

V

Answer 7

See incinerate and think: “burn, baby, burn!” Whether it’s an old love letter that makes you sad or a terrible picture of yourself, it might be better just to incinerate it, meaning, you burn it.

Question 8

genealogy

V

Answer 8

Your genealogy is the story of your ancestry, sometimes referred to as your family tree. Most Americans can trace their genealogy back to Europe, Africa, and Asia, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.

Question 9

missive

N

Answer 9

A missive usually refers to the old-school style of hand-written communication on paper (remember that?), but these days you also might hear an email called a missive, too. No matter how you deliver it, a missive is a message.

Question 10

Parsimony

N

Answer 10

Parsimony is a noun to us when you are watching your money very carefully. So you’re not just saving your pennies for a rainy day — you’re clipping coupons, re-using dryer sheets, and refusing to pay full price for anything.

Thrift, fragul

Question 11

Abnegation

N

Answer 11

Meaning: Lack of concern for one’s own wishes
Form: Noun
Sentence: According to some religious preachers, self-abnegation is the only route to a state of unlimited happiness.
Synonyms: Abjure, Disavow

Question 12

sovereign

Ad

Answer 12

Sovereign is an adjective that means (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
I.e independent

Ruler
Dominant

Put simply, your sovereign is your king or queen. George III was the sovereign of Great Britain and her colonies — including the American ones. At least, he was until a little thing called the Revolutionary War upset everything.

Question 13

forthcoming

Adj

Answer 13

You know when you go to a movie and they show the previews under the heading “coming soon?” They could just as well say forthcoming, because it means the same thing. Only who would want to see that stuffy movie?

Question 14

Abject

Ad

Answer 14

Meaning: Sunk to a low condition, Degraded
Form: Adjective
Sentence: Within a space of five years, the Orchard family was transformed from a state of plentiful extravagance to one of abject poverty.
Synonyms: Sordid, Squalid

Question 15

Abolish

V

Answer 15

Meaning: Cancel, Put an end to
Form: Verb
Sentence: Abraham Lincoln was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Synonyms: Obliterate, Purge

Question 16

inquisitive

Adj

Answer 16

If you are inquisitive that means you love to inquire; you’re always asking questions. Don’t become a private detective if you don’t have an inquisitive personality.

Curious

Question 17

seamy

Adj

Answer 17

Things that are seamy have lost all morality. Your mother wouldn’t approve of you going to a seamy video arcade, especially not if you went with a group of seamy people.
وضيع

Question 18

Jaunty

Adj

Answer 18

مرح

Question 19

Materialism

N

Answer 19

a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

Question 20

lament

Adj

Answer 20

If you are really upset or sorry about something, you might lament it. A lament is full of regret and grief.

If you lament something, then you feel sorry about it. You could lament a mistake you made, or you could lament a horrible thing that happened to a friend. Also, a lament is an expression of grief. So if you keep saying how sorry you are about something, someone could say, “Enough of your laments!” There’s also an old literary form called “a lament,” which expresses feelings of loss in a long dramatic poem.

Question 21

disengage

V

Answer 21

To disengage means to “free or disentangle” yourself or some object from another person or object. No, it doesn’t mean breaking off your engagement to your beloved — that’s “chickening out.”

Question 22

Revulsion

N

Answer 22

اشمئزاز

Question 23

blight

N

Answer 23

A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things

Question 24

puerile

Adj

Answer 24

Some people like their movies to have sophisticated humor and others prefer the more puerile humor of pratfalls or jokes about smelly underwear, inappropriate belching, and passing gas.

Question 25

contend

V

Answer 25

To defend a belief or keep affirming that it’s true is to contend. A lot of supporters would contend that the earth was flat, but eventually, when no one dropped off the edge no matter how far they traveled, the “round” theory won.

Question 26

foreshadow

V

Answer 26

To foreshadow is to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come. If you could take a stereo apart and put it back together at age five, it can foreshadow a successful career in electronics.

Question 27

sturdy

n

Answer 27

Describe something that is firmly constructed or strongly made as sturdy. That house you built was not sturdy at all. It blew down in the last wind storm. Fortunately, it was only a dog house and the dog wasn’t in it.

Question 28

intimidate

v

Answer 28

You can see “timid” in the middle of intimidate, and to be timid is to be frightened or to pull back from something. When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid. A pet rat might intimidate your sister’s friends, keeping them out of your fort.

Question 29

Torso

n

Answer 29

Torso is a noun that means the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

A torso is no more than the trunk of the human body — minus arms, legs, and heads. Joggers or early morning dog walkers frequently find torsos. And then the police are called.

Question 30

Monotheism

N

Answer 30

Monotheism is the belief in a single all-powerful god, as opposed to religions that believe in multiple gods. Judaism and Christianity are widely practiced forms of monotheism.

Question 31

rousing

Adj

Answer 31

If you’ve ever been “roused” out of your sleep by someone, then you’ll have no trouble seeing that rousing refers to anything that gets you going, up on your feet, energized.

Rousing is an adjective that means capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

Question 32

chassisn

Answer 32

A chassis is the frame of a car. If you warp the chassis of your mom’s car when you make a Dukes of Hazzard jump, she’s going to be mad. Pronounce chassis CHASS-ee (singular) and CHASS-eez (plural).

Question 33

disheveled

Adj

Answer 33

The meaning of disheveled hasn’t changed much from the 16th and 17th centuries, when it referred to disordered clothing or hair. If he were coming in from the snow, you could blame static and hat-hair for his disheveled look, but no, he just never uses a comb.

Disordered

Question 34

Ravel

V

Answer 34

Ravel is an interesting verb, in that it can mean both “tangle” and “untangle.” So if you work to ravel yarn into a neat ball, your cat may come along and try to ravel it again.
The first syllable in ravel is accented and gets the short a sound, as in apple: “RA-vle” How can a word mean both one thing and its opposite? In the case of ravel, the answer is sewing: As threads come unwoven from a cloth, they become tangled on each other. Since untangling is never far from tangling, ravel covers both meanings.

Question 35

snivel

V

Answer 35

Sometimes, when you really want something, you might resort to whining and blubbering to get it — in other words, you’ll snivel. It’s never pretty, so try to keep your dignity, and don’t snivel!

Question 36

denomination

N

Answer 36

A denomination is a way of classifying things — it names the type or value of something. Denomination often refers to money. For example, $20 bills are of the same denomination.

Question 37

Dolt

n

Answer 37

Dolt refers a person who isn’t very smart. You might be called a dolt if you do something dumb, like stand outside your car complaining that you locked your keys inside — even though the window is wide open.

Question 38

Decipher

v

Answer 38

Decipher means translate from code, or more generally, figure out. If you can’t decipher your teacher’s writing, it means you can’t read it. You might feel like you’re being asked to decipher a code.

Decode

Question 39

Discursive

adj

Answer 39

Discursive is an adjective that means (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.

If people accuse you of rambling from topic to topic in your speech or writing, they may say you have a discursive style — with changes in subject that are hard to follow. But it’s okay because unicorns are shiny

Question 40

Unbridled

adj

Answer 40

Unbridled means unrestrained. When you find out that you just won the lottery, feel free to jump up and down with unbridled joy. Go ahead, most people would probably let loose in the same way.

unrestrained and uncontroled

Question 41

Delve

v

Answer 41

Delve is a verb that means to turn up, loosen, or remove earth.

The verb delve means to dig into, loosen, or investigate.
She delved into her family’s history and discovered an inventor, a checkers champion, and a circus equestrian in her ancestry

Question 42

Hermitage

n

Answer 42

Hermitage is a noun that means the abode of a hermit

Your summer cabin deep in the woods where you go to think about how funny life is sometimes? If you want to sound fancy, it could be called a hermitage, a dwelling removed from civilization.

Question 43

Cognizance

n

Answer 43

When you have cognizance, you have knowledge of something. Your cognizance of the English language is growing with every new vocabulary word you learn. Just don’t flaunt your cognizance too much, or your friends might call you a “know-it-all.”
Cognizance can be used to refer to more than just school-based learning (like vocabulary words). It can also mean that you have awareness, or notice certain things. Your cognizance of where the exits are located in the movie theater could save your life in a fire. The noun cognizance can also refer to your state of consciousness: “You passed out from the smoke, but when you woke up you had the cognizance to know who you were and where you were.”

Question 44

drudgery

Answer 44

Drudgery is a noun that means hard monotonous routine work

If you’ve ever had to do the laundry, wash the dishes, make the meals, change the bedding, vacuum the house, and clean the bathrooms day after day, you’ve experienced drudgery. Drudgery is hard, mindless, backbreaking work.
S: plodding

Question 45

gape

v

Answer 45

If Bigfoot walked down your street wearing a tutu, you might gape or stare at the man-ape with your mouth open. You’d really gape if the tutu had a gaping, or wide open, hole

Question 46

Discord

n

Answer 46

Discord is the strife and tension that arises when two sides disagree on something, like the high pitched screaming of two kids fighting over the front seat of the car.

Question 47

Oblivion

n

Answer 47

Oblivion is the state of being forgotten. If you slip into oblivion after selling one record, then your only hope is becoming a “VH1 one-hit wonder.”
Oblivion can also mean “total forgetfulness” — like what patients with dementia or new parents feel. If you find yourself putting the crackers in the fridge and milk in the cupboards, or forgetting your own phone number, you might be experiencing oblivion. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Limbo

Question 48

misnomer

n

Answer 48

A misnomer is a wrong or unsuitable name. It’s a misnomer to call your grandmother “Grandfather,” the same way it’s a misnomer to call a chair with four legs that doesn’t move unless you drag it across the floor, a rocking chair.

Question 49

Amnesty

n, v

Answer 49

Amnesty
Meaning: 1) General Pardon esp. for political offence 2) Given amnesty to
Form: Noun & Verb
Sentence: As a gesture of peace and goodwill, the President has decided to grant amnesty to the prisoners of the 1998 war.
Synonyms: Acquittal, Liberation

Question 50

Carping

n,adj

Answer 50

Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just won’t stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping. Enough already. Ie captious

Carping can also be used as an adjective, to describe someone who is overly critical and impossible to please — like that carping food critic who ruined the debut of your new restaurant

Question 51

Predate

V

Answer 51

Exist or occur at a date earlier than something

Ex. This letter predates her illness

Question 52

unanimous

Answer 52

Fully in agreement
United
Uniform

Question 53

exasperating

N

Answer 53

Annoying

Question 54

Vicissitudes

N

Answer 54

Change

Question 55

Mischievous

Adj

Answer 55

شقي

مؤذي