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Common III Flashcards

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Enmity

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Meaning: hostility

Sentence: I am always greeted with a sense of enmity when I talk about my friends doing well abroad

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Epigrams

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Meaning: clever statements

Sentence: Nikhil’s epigrams were the highlight of the Boston trip

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Ruminate

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Meaning: to ponder

Sentence: my dad is always ruminating about something or the other

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Cavalier

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Meaning: haughty

Sentence: in school I gave a very cavalier impression to my classmates due to all my attained success

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Abstemious

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Meaning: restrictive

Sentence: I wish I was a bit abstemious in my diet and my drinking

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Despondent

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Meaning: feeling or showing profound hopelessness

Sentence: my attitude towards the GRE verbal reasoning section can be described as despondent at best

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Surreptitious

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Meaning: secretly or in a hidden manner

Sentence: I surreptitiously jack off in the loo when parents are at home

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Lowly

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Meaning: humble

Sentence: the key to earning respect is to be humble

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Avant- garde

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Meaning: the advanced group in a field who’s methods are experimental and unorthodox

Sentence: suicide squad is based on a avant-garde military squad of criminals

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Palatable

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Meaning: easy

Sentence: I dissuade people from taking Econ because it is not palatable at all

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Penurious

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Meaning: having no money

Sentence: Tanveer was the most penurious person in school

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Protracted

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Meaning: lengthy

Sentence: the list of words we must learn for the GRE is protracted to say the least

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Raffish

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Meaning: mildly disreputable (having a bad reputation)

Sentence: Shivish came across as raffish after his first year antics with women

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Extirpate

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Meaning: destroyed completely

Sentence: the tornado extirpated the house such that only the foundations were left

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Aver

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Meaning: assert

Sentence: I continued to aver rk’s faithfulness despite all the rumours

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Disparage

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Meaning: to Belittle

Sentence: I’m tired of being friends with people who disparage me, thankfully none of my current friends do

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Perspicacious

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Meaning: having keen mental vision

Sentence: my dad is very perspicacious in almost any field

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Sagacious

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Meaning: showing keen practical sense

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Discern

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Meaning: to recognise as different; discriminate

Sentence: he is incapable of discerning right from wrong

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Mordant

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Meaning: sharply sarcastic

Sentence: chandler bing’s mordant wit was the highlight of friends

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Trenchant

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Meaning: (as a person) incisive, keen and caustic

Sentence: chandler was the most trenchant character in friends

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Beseeched

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Meaning: begged

Sentence: the prisoner beseeched the guard to change his cell

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Credence

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Meaning: belief as to the truth of something

Sentence: I was finally given credence about rk’s disloyalty when I read the emails with my own eyes.

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Sclerotic

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Meaning: largely unresponsive

Sentence: Hindu college admin office is the epitome of sclerotic behaviour

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Ossified

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Meaning: largely unresponsive

Sentence: Hindu college admin office is the epitome of ossified behaviour

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Provenance

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Meaning: origin

Sentence: the provenance of the rat that came to our house is still unknown

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Altruism

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Meaning: the practice of devotion to the welfare of others

Sentence: Kailash satyarthi has given his life to altruism

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Virulence

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Meaning: full of malice

Sentence: sometimes I feel that I’m still virulent about what happened with RK

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Raucous

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Meaning: very loud or harsh

Sentence: mom can be quite raucous when I don’t answer my phone

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Dear

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Meaning: expensive

Sentence: the US trip was indeed a dear one

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Pandering to

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Meaning: catering to

Sentence: I’m sick of pandering to the needs of females who I have no prospects with.

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Precarious

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Meaning 1: uncertain

Sentence 1: I am quite precarious about my future after listening to these placement talks

Meaning 2: having insufficient or no foundation

Sentence 2: I often make assumptions which even I think are precarious

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Enfeebled

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Meaning: weakened

Sentence: my GRE scores will surely enfeeble my application

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Invigorate

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Meaning: fill with life and energy

Sentence: Coldplay unique concert experience invigorates everyone who watches them

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Pejorative

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Meaning: having a belittling effect

Sentence: Pranay always has a pejorative effect in his words

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Misnomer

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Meaning: an inappropriate name or designation

Sentence: I have had a series of misnomers in school

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Disquietude

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Meaning: uneasiness

Sentence: I always feel a sense of disquietude around 1D

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Aplomb

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Meaning: self confidence or assurance

Sentence: Diana passed the test with aplomb

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Deft

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Meaning: skilful

Sentence: Karan Saini strikes me as a deft debater and conversationalist

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Presage

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Meaning: to forebode or foresee

Sentence: Raghu ram Rajan presaged the 2008’crash years before it hit

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Portend

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Meaning: to foreshadow or forebode

Sentence: Raghu ram Rajan portended the 2008 crash before it occurred

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Supplication/ entreaty

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Meaning: to pray humbly

Sentence: the dog’s appearance of supplication/entreaty got annoying after a while

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Monolithic

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Meaning: characterised by massiveness, uniformity or rigidity

Sentence: The monolithic nature of downtown Manhattan is an exemplar of the power of capitalism

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Immutable

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Meaning: not able to change

Sentence: the mentality of some Indian Families is immutable no matter how progressive the country is in general

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Promulgate

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Meaning: to make known by open declaration

Sentence: my obsession with RK at the pinnacle of our relationship was promulgated on all forms of social media

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Brandish

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Meaning: to shake or display a weapon

Sentence: brandishing his sword he rode into battle

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Errant

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Meaning: to be wandering

Sentence: academically Shivish is someone who’s always errant about his future

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Ordeal

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Meaning: a severe test

Sentence: the GRE is indeed an ordeal of one’s patience

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Chary of

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Meaning: cautious of

Sentence: I’m always chary of insects that might have crept into the bathroom

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Blithe

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Meaning: Menon is way too blithe sometimes in life

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