Common III Flashcards
Enmity
Meaning: hostility
Sentence: I am always greeted with a sense of enmity when I talk about my friends doing well abroad
Epigrams
Meaning: clever statements
Sentence: Nikhil’s epigrams were the highlight of the Boston trip
Ruminate
Meaning: to ponder
Sentence: my dad is always ruminating about something or the other
Cavalier
Meaning: haughty
Sentence: in school I gave a very cavalier impression to my classmates due to all my attained success
Abstemious
Meaning: restrictive
Sentence: I wish I was a bit abstemious in my diet and my drinking
Despondent
Meaning: feeling or showing profound hopelessness
Sentence: my attitude towards the GRE verbal reasoning section can be described as despondent at best
Surreptitious
Meaning: secretly or in a hidden manner
Sentence: I surreptitiously jack off in the loo when parents are at home
Lowly
Meaning: humble
Sentence: the key to earning respect is to be humble
Avant- garde
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
Palatable
Meaning: easy
Sentence: I dissuade people from taking Econ because it is not palatable at all
Penurious
Meaning: having no money
Sentence: Tanveer was the most penurious person in school
Protracted
Meaning: lengthy
Sentence: the list of words we must learn for the GRE is protracted to say the least
Raffish
Meaning: mildly disreputable (having a bad reputation)
Sentence: Shivish came across as raffish after his first year antics with women
Extirpate
Meaning: destroyed completely
Sentence: the tornado extirpated the house such that only the foundations were left
Aver
Meaning: assert
Sentence: I continued to aver rk’s faithfulness despite all the rumours
Disparage
Meaning: to Belittle
Sentence: I’m tired of being friends with people who disparage me, thankfully none of my current friends do
Perspicacious
Meaning: having keen mental vision
Sentence: my dad is very perspicacious in almost any field
Sagacious
Meaning: showing keen practical sense
Discern
Meaning: to recognise as different; discriminate
Sentence: he is incapable of discerning right from wrong
Mordant
Meaning: sharply sarcastic
Sentence: chandler bing’s mordant wit was the highlight of friends
Trenchant
Meaning: (as a person) incisive, keen and caustic
Sentence: chandler was the most trenchant character in friends
Beseeched
Meaning: begged
Sentence: the prisoner beseeched the guard to change his cell
Credence
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.
Sclerotic
Meaning: largely unresponsive
Sentence: Hindu college admin office is the epitome of sclerotic behaviour
Ossified
Meaning: largely unresponsive
Sentence: Hindu college admin office is the epitome of ossified behaviour
Provenance
Meaning: origin
Sentence: the provenance of the rat that came to our house is still unknown
Altruism
Meaning: the practice of devotion to the welfare of others
Sentence: Kailash satyarthi has given his life to altruism
Virulence
Meaning: full of malice
Sentence: sometimes I feel that I’m still virulent about what happened with RK
Raucous
Meaning: very loud or harsh
Sentence: mom can be quite raucous when I don’t answer my phone
Dear
Meaning: expensive
Sentence: the US trip was indeed a dear one
Pandering to
Meaning: catering to
Sentence: I’m sick of pandering to the needs of females who I have no prospects with.
Precarious
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
Enfeebled
Meaning: weakened
Sentence: my GRE scores will surely enfeeble my application
Invigorate
Meaning: fill with life and energy
Sentence: Coldplay unique concert experience invigorates everyone who watches them
Pejorative
Meaning: having a belittling effect
Sentence: Pranay always has a pejorative effect in his words
Misnomer
Meaning: an inappropriate name or designation
Sentence: I have had a series of misnomers in school
Disquietude
Meaning: uneasiness
Sentence: I always feel a sense of disquietude around 1D
Aplomb
Meaning: self confidence or assurance
Sentence: Diana passed the test with aplomb
Deft
Meaning: skilful
Sentence: Karan Saini strikes me as a deft debater and conversationalist
Presage
Meaning: to forebode or foresee
Sentence: Raghu ram Rajan presaged the 2008’crash years before it hit
Portend
Meaning: to foreshadow or forebode
Sentence: Raghu ram Rajan portended the 2008 crash before it occurred
Supplication/ entreaty
Meaning: to pray humbly
Sentence: the dog’s appearance of supplication/entreaty got annoying after a while
Monolithic
Meaning: characterised by massiveness, uniformity or rigidity
Sentence: The monolithic nature of downtown Manhattan is an exemplar of the power of capitalism
Immutable
Meaning: not able to change
Sentence: the mentality of some Indian Families is immutable no matter how progressive the country is in general
Promulgate
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
Brandish
Meaning: to shake or display a weapon
Sentence: brandishing his sword he rode into battle
Errant
Meaning: to be wandering
Sentence: academically Shivish is someone who’s always errant about his future
Ordeal
Meaning: a severe test
Sentence: the GRE is indeed an ordeal of one’s patience
Chary of
Meaning: cautious of
Sentence: I’m always chary of insects that might have crept into the bathroom
Blithe
Meaning: Menon is way too blithe sometimes in life
