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Abrasive
showing little concern for others.
Abreast
up to date with the latest news, ideas and information.
Abstruse
difficult to understand.
Accentuate
to make something more prominent and noticeable.
Acerbic
very critical, ironic or sarcastic in temper.
Acumen
very shrewd in judgement and superior insights.
Adroit
clever or skillful
Adultation
extreme admiration or praise.
aloof
uninvolved or uninterested.
aghast
filled with horror or shock.
Ambivalent
Having mixed feelings for something or someone
Ameliorate
Make better
Anachronism
Being from another period or era than depicted
Antedate
Come before in time
Apathy
Showing lack of enthusiasm
Aplomb
self-assurance
apologist
a person who offers an argument in defense of somthing.
Arcane
understood by a few.
Assiduous
showing great care.
Astound
shock or greatly surprise.
Augment
make something great by adding something in it.
Austerity
extreme plainness or simplicity in style.
Avert
prevent or ward off.
Banal
so obviously boring and lacking in originality.
Beguile
- trick someone into doing something.
- charm or enchant in a deceptive way.
- help pass time pleasantly.
Belie
fail to give the true notion of something.
Bemuse
puzzled or confused
=> The teacher was bemused by the ward’s answer.
Benign
Harmless
=> Don’t worry, the dog is benign.
Blight
have severe or detrimental effect.
=> The coach blames the negative attitudes that several members of the team have been displaying on the field for the blight on their winning record.
Brandish
wave or flourish as a threat or in excitement.
=> I saw that he was brandishing his knife at me.
Brevity
concise and exact use of words in a speech.
=> J.K Rowling delivered the stories of Hogwarts with absolute brevity.
Bucolic
related to pleasantries of the country side.
=> Today the bucolic beauty of the region hides a deeply entrenched and long-standing poverty.
Buoyancy
an optimistic and cheerful disposition.
Callous
showing no care/sympathy for others.
=> Tommy Shelby was never a callous person.
Caprice
sudden and unaccountable change in mood or behavior.
=> her refusal to go to the party is merely a caprice.
Circumscribe
restrict something within limits.
=> The law circumscribed the defendant’s movements after the first hearing.
Clangor
loud banging sound.
=> Down the street from the heart of the city came a sudden clangor
Clerical
a routine administrative job in an office.
=> The receptionist job is clerical.
Coalesce
combine to form a whole.
=> the group coalesced when the leader delivered a powerful speech.
Cogent
clear, logical and convincing.
=> When the homebuilder did not provide me with a cogent answer to my question, I knew he was not the right person to build my family home.
commensurate
corresponding in size or degree, proportion.
=> we offer salary commensurate to the experience of the candidate.
complacent
showing uncritical satisfaction with oneself.
=> The worst thing to do in life is to be complacent with oneself.
Condone
continue(something that is illegal or offensive).
=> the college cannot condone any actions involving drugs or alcohol.
Contend
- struggle to surmount (a difficulty or danger).
- assert something as a position in an argument.
- compete.
=> Customers should not have to contend with the problems caused by these delays.
Conundrum
Difficult problem or question.
=> The use of protective clothing for farmers in Brazil presents a conundrum . For the fashionable female, it can prove quite a conundrum finding that perfect outfit.
Convoluted
extremely complex or difficult to follow.
corroborate
confirm or give support to.
=> the witness corroborated the boy’s statement about the crime.
Cow
cause to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation.
=> the intellectuals had been cowed into silence.
Crestfallen
sad and disappointed.
=> The man was crestfallen after discovering his spouse wanted to leave him.
Curtail
to make less by cutting some part off.
Daunt
make feel intimidated or apprehensive.
=> this assignment is daunting!
deferential
respectfully submissive to others opinions, desires or judgments.
=> the young are deferential to their elders.
decree
order that has the force of a law.
=> the committee tried to push his amendment by some decree.
Deleterious
something that is harmful, injurious as to health.
=> regularly smoking cigarettes is deleterious to our lungs.
Deft
dexterous.
=> Due to her young age, her movements were deft and agile.
clemency
mercy.
Delineate
to describe or portray in vivid detail.
Demur
raise doubts or objections
=> Sasuke Uchiha never demurred from a challenge and faced them head on without fear.
Denigrate
criticize unfairly.
=> Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.
Detrimental
causing harm, disadvantage or deterioration.
=> The new law will have detrimental influences on future tobacco use.
Didactic
in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way.
=> While the professor’s lectures were designed to be didactic, they only served to confuse the students.
Diffident
modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence.
=> he was diffident about his own successes.
Disapprobation
strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds.
Discern
to perceive, make out or detect.
=> As Kakashi says, a ninja should be able to discern between reality and illusions.
Disentangle
To be free of entanglement
Disgruntle
to make irritably discontent.
=> She needed to get out more if she found their disgruntled exchange entertaining.
Disparate
essentially distinct or different.
=> The shinobis are a disparate group of people amongst the village hidden in the leaves.
Dispassionate
without strong feeling or bias.
=> Naruto never trained dispassionately for becoming a hokage.
disquiet
lack of mental calm, peace; anxiety.
=> There is increasing public disquiet about the number of violent crimes in the city.
Dissemble
- conceal the true nature or state of.
- to disguise or hide behind a false semblance.
=> Sakura never dissembled her feelings for Sasuke and was open about it from the moment she met him.
Disseminate
spread over a large area.
=> The Naruto fandom has disseminated over the whole world in the last few years.
Dissolution
- dissipation
- debauched living
=> A dissolution was the only escape.
Doctrinaire
dogmatically adhering to a theory or a school of thought.
=> The BJP follows an extremely Hindu centric doctrinaire.
Dogmatic
asserting beliefs and opinions as they are proven facts.
=> In India, all the political parties dogmatically try to impose statements about past traditions and beliefs.
Dubious
having or showing doubt; skeptical.
=> Kakashi got dubious of Tazuna after the first ninja attack.
Eclectic
deriving ideas from wide range of sources.
=> She has very eclectic tastes in literature.
Eclipse
overshadow
Efficacy
the ability to produce desired results.
=> Fortunately, the medicine had the efficacy to reduce the amount of pain John was feeling.
Egotist
braggart
Eloquence
the skill or ability to use language that impresses people.
=> The con man’s eloquence was beyond imaginable and he used that to get out of tough places.
Elusive
Hard to perceive, remember.
=> Scientists of the 19th century proposed very advanced theories relating to thermodynamics, elusive to the common mind.
Enfeeble
make feeble, to take away the strength.
=> The COVID-19 virus enfeebles the body and makes it prone to many other deadly diseases.
Entreaty
Humble request.
Ephemeral
lasting only for a short period.
Equitable
characterized by fairness.
Equivocal
ambiguous.
=> He responded the reporters questions equivocally.
Erratic
unpredictable.
=> Naruto is the most erratic shinobi of the leaf village.
erstwhile
of a former time.
Estrange
to no longer be affectionate with someone; alienate.
Euphoric
having or exhibiting a strong feeling of well-being or elation.
Evanescent
tending to disappear like vapor.
Evasive
tending to avoid self-revelation or commitment.
exacerbate
make worse.
=> He wanted desperately to put his arms around her but knew he’d just exacerbate the situation.
Exigent
requiring immediate action or attention.
=> I try not to be exigent with my students, but as a teacher I have to press them to get their work done.
Expedient
a means of attaining an end.
Extant
still in existence.
=> Kurama is still extant in Naruto’s body.
Extraneous
coming from outside.
Feckless
weak or incompetent.
=> he regarded the young man as feckless and weak.
Fester
becoming worse or more intense.
Florid
excessively complicated and intricate.
Flout
openly disregard.
=> Some companies flout the rules and employ kids as young as seven.
Foreground
make something prominent or important.
=> Mark Ruffalo often times try to foreground the Hulk in acting out as Bruce Banner.
Forestall
to prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand.
=> Yamato forestalled the danger that the Nine-Tails’ Cloak possessed on the body of Naruto.
Forgo
go without
=> She is planning to forgo her right to a trial and simply plead guilty
Fortuitous
happening or appearing by chance.
=> He got into the trade in Algiers through “a fortuitous accident “.
Fractious
irritable and quarrelsome.
=> Indeed, the game was as fractious as the one before.
Frivolous
unworthy of serious consideration; trivial or silly.
=> I thought that I was too frivolous to become a doctor.
Galvanise
to stimulate into awareness or activity.
=> The teacher tried to galvanize his pupils to do the hard work.
Gawky
ungainly; clumsy.
=> idk.
Germane
having relevance to a given matter; pertinent.
=> People don’t mind being sold to as long as it’s germane to the conversation.
Gloom
to feel or act sullen or despondent.
=> The Lord gloomed over the passing of his wife for several weeks.
Gratify
to give pleasure or satisfaction to someone.
=> The phenomenal performance of the team gratified the coach.
Hackneyed
made trite or commonplace by overuse.
=> However, George Harrison loses points for taking James Ray’s original 1960s rock song and turning it into something a bit hackneyed.
Harbinger
a person who announces the approach of another.
=> The people seemed to regard the American flag as the harbinger of a new era.
Harmonious
characterized by agreement or accord.
=> the g6 summit went harmoniously without any nuisances.
Herald
a sign that something is about to happen.
=> The clouds heralded the arrival of the mighty Thor, Son of Odin.
Heterodox
deviating from a particular doctrine or belief.
Hidebound
unable to change because of tradition or convention.
=> the economy of this country was once hidebound by public spending and monopolies.
Hortatory
urging to some course of action with strong arguments.
=> The coach gave his players a hortatory speech to inspire them to play well.
Humdrum
dull and monotonous.
=> People have to go through the same humdrum environment while doing a 9-5 job.
