Common II Flashcards
Impervious
Meaning: incapable of being influenced
Sentence: it seems Omair is impervious to having a party at his place this summer
Exculpate
Meaning: to clear of blame
Sentence: NAMO is still not exculpated for his role in the 2002 riots
Fettered / manacled
Meaning: to restrain
Sentence: Bauzer should be fettered sometimes when he gets too excited
Undergird
Meaning: strengthen
Sentence: Kalli thought that taking an unrequisite GRE will undergird her application which it probably won’t
Underpin
Meaning: strengthen
Sentence: Kalli thought that taking an unrequisite GRE will undergird her application which it probably won’t
Palliating
Meaning: to make less severe/ mitigate
Sentence: teenagers try and drink more to palliate the horror that is high school stress
Inter
Meaning: to place a dead body in a grave
Idolatry
Meaning: the religious worship of idols
Sentence: Hinduism is characterised by idolatry practices
Intractable
Meaning: difficult
Sentence: dealing with Z’s moods was quite an intractable task
Flummoxed
Meaning: confused
Sentence: reading comprehension in the GRE has always managed to flummox me
Verbosity
Meaning: using too many words
Sentence: Donald trump’s verbosity is a bad quality because he talks rubbish
Adroit
Meaning: cleverly skill full, expert
Sentence: even though I’ve never seen him debate, knowing Moulik I am confident that he is an adroit debater
Prolix
Meaning: long, tedious
Sentence: SM’s complaints about LSR were initially legitimate but then just became vexing prolix messages after a point
Panacea
Meaning: Universal remedy
Sentence: alcohol is a universal remedy for sadness (lol)
Encompassing
Meaning: to enclose or build a circle around
Sentence: in the battle of the bastards Ramsey’s army encompassed Jon Snow’s
Cogency
Meaning: the quality of being convincing
Sentence: the cogency of the argument was irrefutable
Bombastic
Meaning: high sounding, pretentious
Sentence: Varun sounds bombastic even though he’s a complete prick
Impecunious
Meaning: having little or no money
Sentence: I’m always impecunious since I’ve never earned a dollar in my life
Abnegation
Meaning: self denial
Sentence: Gandhi ji lived a life of abnegation and austerity
Stanched
Meaning: stop the flow of
Sentence: my semen gets stanched after three rounds of jerking off in a day
Loquacious
Meaning: talkative
Sentence: manika is a very loquacious person to say the least
Alacrity
Meaning: promptness, readiness
Sentence: Freshers in college always have this alacrity to take part in stuff
Rhapsody
Meaning: feeling of enthusiasm
Sentence: I have no rhapsody to go out now days
Novelty
Meaning: state of being new or unique
Sentence: Pokemon go is currently the biggest novelty factor in the world
Premonitory
Meaning: serving to warn before hand
Sentence: my mom always gives premonitory warnings about my female friends
Abase
Meaning: to disgrace
Sentence: Shivish thinks all I do is abase him
Approbation
Meaning: approval and praise
Sentence: getting approbation from Shan for any encounter with any girl is super hard
Anoint
Meaning: to apply or sprinkle on
Sentence: to protect yourself from mosquitos you anoint an ointment called Odomos
Base
Meaning: morally low
Sentence: Sid is the epitome of baseness
Debased
Meaning: lower in rank
Sentence: after the last couple of years masque is no longer debased compared to ibtida
Normative
Meaning: pertaining to a particular norm
Sentence: Modi ensures that all his policies and decisions are normative in nature
Jettison
Meaning: discard
Sentence: I’ll jettison all my fears of getting beaten up if I ever get to bang R
Distill
Meaning: to purify
Sentence: mom uses Ganga jal to distill our souls
Pernicious
Meaning: deadly
Sentence: even mrinal acknowledges the pernicious effects of heroin
Discomfit
Meaning 1: to confuse or deject
Sentence 1: it is very easy to discomfit SM because she’s stupid
Meaning 2: to thwart
Sentence 2: I discomfited any hopes of making up with SM after I made jokes on very sensitive subjects
Demagogue
Meaning: one who arouses support through negative sentiment that Taps into the prejudices and emotions of people
Sentence: Donald trump is the worst demagogue America has ever seen
Hirsute
Meaning: hairy
Sentence: Gautam was the most hirsute of us all during puberty
Belletristic
Meaning: literary works that are very aesthetic and fined; can mean pompous
Sentence: the Belletristic nature of the ESS books made me take pol Econ
Pith
Meaning: the crux of the issue
Sentence: I’m not someone who can ever get straight to the pith of the issue.
Monastic
Meaning: pertaining to monasteries
Sentence: the citadel in old town has the best monastic library in all of westeros
Immolate
Meaning: to sacrifice
Sentence: I’m having to immolate numerous parties for my stupid GRE
Proclivity
Meaning: habitual inclination towards
Sentence: I always have a sense of proclivity towards non veg times on any menu
Hankering
Meaning: craving
Sentence: I have a hankering for a relationship that hasn’t been satisfied for a while
Mimetic
Meaning: exhibiting mimicry or imitation
Sentence: Dhiren is good at the mimicry of politicians
Disdain/ contempt
Meaning: to regard as worthless or with scorn
Sentence: I look at Sid with a lot of disdain/contempt
Rue
Synonym: remorse
Meaning: feeling sorrow or regret
Sentence: I sometimes feel rue thinking back upon my last year of school
Truculent
Meaning: savage
Sentence: John Oliver’s attack on Donald trump was nothing short of truculent
Imperious
Meaning: domineering in a haughty manner
Sentence: Subhendu was the most domineering director I have ever worked with
Partisan
Meaning: biased
Sentence: the NDTV is the most partisan news agency we have
Exhaustive
Meaning: a very large number
Sentence: one has to learn an exhaustive number of words for the GRE
Ostentatious
Meaning: showing off and intending to impress
Sentence: MSVV people only throw ostentatious parties to display their opulence
