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Words I Keep Forgetting Flashcards

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Querulous

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Meaning: complaining in a whiny manner

Sentence: SM is the most querulous person I know

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Petulant

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Meaning: easily irritated or annoyed

Sentence: Dad is the most petulant person I know

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Intransigent

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Meaning: unyielding (to change one’s beliefs)

Sentence: Revathi is intransigent to the fact that NAMO is doing a decent job

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Perfunctory

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Meaning 1: done in a routine manner

Sentence 1: this was the first time the people who auditioned for masque did not do the auditions in a perfunctory way

Meaning 2: lacking interest or care

Sentence 2: I became quite perfunctory when it came to watching football after SAF retired

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Punctilious

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Meaning: strict in the observance of formalities

Sentence: my mom is quite chilled but has these occasional moments of punctiliousness

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Insipid

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Meaning: bland, repetitive

Sentence: my humour beyond a point is quite insipid

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Esoteric

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Meaning: understood only by a few

Sentence: political economy is a very esoteric sub topic in the field of economics

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Transcend

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Meaning: to rise above/out do/ excel

Sentence: I’ve lost the desire to transcend my classmates after coming to DU

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Subvert

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Meaning: to ruin

Sentence: I subverted my chances with A by messaging her two months later

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Circumscribe

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Meaning: to restrict or confine

Sentence: my mom circumscribed my outing at night by yelling hysterically

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Embellish

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Meaning: to enhance or exaggerate

Sentence: out of my friends Kalli has the biggest tendency to embellish stories

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Tendentious

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Meaning: to promote a particular view

Sentence: Arnab Goswami doesn’t give anyone else the chance to make any sort of tendentious comments on his show

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Meteoric

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Meaning: very rapid

Sentence: inspite of its name the rapid metro is not meteoric

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Equitable

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Meaning: fair

Sentence: the equitable distribution of seats ensured no racism

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Impermeable

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Meaning: sealed

Sentence: the wall is an impermeable barrier between the crows and the wildlings

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Lucid

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Meaning: easy to understand

Sentence: my handwriting is not very lucid

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Inhibited

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Meaning: shy

Sentence: the new girl in the society was either inhibited or snooty

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Impertinent

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Meaning: being berry disrespectful/ bold

Sentence: showing the middle finger to another driver is impertinent

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Accretion

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Meaning: a gradual growth in size

Sentence: masque has undergone a substantial accretion this year

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Deferential

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Meaning: showing respect

Sentence: Shaurya was only deferential towards his seniors and no one else

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Omniscient

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Meaning: knowing everything

Sentence: I miss being omniscient before exams

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Recondite

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Meaning: difficult to penetrate

Sentence: I find most books recondite and hence don’t finish them

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Refractory

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Meaning: resistant towards authority

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Stymie

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Meaning: prevent

Sentence: I was convinced that something would stymie me from watching Coldplay live and hence didn’t tell anyone about the same

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Execrate

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Meaning: to express great loathing for

Sentence: I execrate the verbal section of the GRE

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Sedulously

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Meaning: great care and diligence

Sentence: Winston sedulously studied universities before choosing the one that suited him the most

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Wily

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Meaning: can fool easily

Sentence: RK thought she was quite wily until everything she was doing came out into the open

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Inscrutability

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Meaning: difficult

Sentence: getting a good score on the GRE vocabulary section is inscrutable for me

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Reticent

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Meaning: not saying much

Sentence: my dad is usually reticent in social situations but when he starts talking he says inappropriate stuff

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Derelict

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Meaning: neglectful of one’s duties

Sentence: Bitopan is the most derelict person I’ve ever met

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Inveterate

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Meaning: habitual

Sentence: I consider myself a habitual junkie

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Truculent

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Meaning: angry

Sentence: my dad with age has developed this inveterate habit of becoming truculent at the drop of a hat

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Spartan

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Meaning: austere

Sentence: I think that I can be quite Spartan living in the west if I want to be

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Pernicious

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Meaning: deadly

Sentence: AIDS is a pernicious risk of sex

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Placid

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Meaning: not easily irritated

Sentence: Snehal is quite placid in general except when she’s down

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Imprudent

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Meaning: not wise

Sentence: Hitler’s decision to delay the invasion of Russia was imprudent and cost him the war

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Denigrate

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Meaning: attack the good name of something

Sentence: if I were a lawyer I would denigrate the accused without getting all facts

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Trite

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Meaning: repeated too often

Sentence: I often get sick of a song when it becomes trite on my iPod

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Prolific

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Meaning: producing in large quantities, with great frequency; highly productive

Sentence: EY’s 24 billion dollar net worth makes it quite a prolific company to be at

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Profuse

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Meaning: abundance

Sentence: there are a profuse number of courses available but Eco is the one that people want

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Vilify

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Meaning: spread negative information about

Sentence: S & R in order to vindicate R vilified me

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Disaffected

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Meaning: discontented towards authority

Sentence: Revathi and the other liberals are immensely disaffected

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Provincial

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Meaning: characteristic of a limited perspective

Sentence: my dad may be very smart but in some fields his views are a bit provincial

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Cogent/ cogency

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Meaning: clear and persuasive/convincing

Sentence: the cogency of the argument was missing thus making him lose the debate

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Disparate

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Meaning: two things fundamentally different

Sentence: a beach and a hill are two disparate affaires

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Contrite

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Meaning: to be remorseful

Sentence: for the longest time I thought R was not even remotely contrite about what happened

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Recondite

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Meaning: difficult to penetrate

Sentence: most books I try and read are recondite and hence I don’t end up finishing them

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Impudent

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Meaning: improperly bold; IMPERTINENT

Sentence: showing the middle finger to a fellow driver is am impudent move

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Predilection

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Meaning: a strong liking

Sentence: I have a predilection for teen …

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Dissemble

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Meaning: conceal or disguise one’s true feelings

Sentence: I found it very hard to dissemble my feelings for people in my adolescent years

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Subterfuge

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Meaning: clever deception

Sentence: magicians use subterfuge to bewilder their audiences

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Dissemble

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Meaning: to conceal one’s feelings

Sentence: it’s hard to dissemble when you meet someone you really like

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Defeasible

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Meaning: open to annulment, objection or deception

Sentence: DU results are defeasible like how

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Apocryphal

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Meaning: being of questionable authenticity

Sentence: anything Parthiv says according to shiv is apocryphal

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Ostentatious

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Meaning: intended to impress others; vulgar

Sentence: Parthiv ostentatiously (vulgarly) for the sole purpose of being ostentatious (to impress)

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Discern

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Meaning: to distinguish

Sentence: it’s sometimes difficult to discern between Omair’s sisters

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