Words I Keep Forgetting Flashcards
Querulous
Meaning: complaining in a whiny manner
Sentence: SM is the most querulous person I know
Petulant
Meaning: easily irritated or annoyed
Sentence: Dad is the most petulant person I know
Intransigent
Meaning: unyielding (to change one’s beliefs)
Sentence: Revathi is intransigent to the fact that NAMO is doing a decent job
Perfunctory
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
Punctilious
Meaning: strict in the observance of formalities
Sentence: my mom is quite chilled but has these occasional moments of punctiliousness
Insipid
Meaning: bland, repetitive
Sentence: my humour beyond a point is quite insipid
Esoteric
Meaning: understood only by a few
Sentence: political economy is a very esoteric sub topic in the field of economics
Transcend
Meaning: to rise above/out do/ excel
Sentence: I’ve lost the desire to transcend my classmates after coming to DU
Subvert
Meaning: to ruin
Sentence: I subverted my chances with A by messaging her two months later
Circumscribe
Meaning: to restrict or confine
Sentence: my mom circumscribed my outing at night by yelling hysterically
Embellish
Meaning: to enhance or exaggerate
Sentence: out of my friends Kalli has the biggest tendency to embellish stories
Tendentious
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
Meteoric
Meaning: very rapid
Sentence: inspite of its name the rapid metro is not meteoric
Equitable
Meaning: fair
Sentence: the equitable distribution of seats ensured no racism
Impermeable
Meaning: sealed
Sentence: the wall is an impermeable barrier between the crows and the wildlings
Lucid
Meaning: easy to understand
Sentence: my handwriting is not very lucid
Inhibited
Meaning: shy
Sentence: the new girl in the society was either inhibited or snooty
Impertinent
Meaning: being berry disrespectful/ bold
Sentence: showing the middle finger to another driver is impertinent
Accretion
Meaning: a gradual growth in size
Sentence: masque has undergone a substantial accretion this year
Deferential
Meaning: showing respect
Sentence: Shaurya was only deferential towards his seniors and no one else
Omniscient
Meaning: knowing everything
Sentence: I miss being omniscient before exams
Recondite
Meaning: difficult to penetrate
Sentence: I find most books recondite and hence don’t finish them
Refractory
Meaning: resistant towards authority
Stymie
Meaning: prevent
Sentence: I was convinced that something would stymie me from watching Coldplay live and hence didn’t tell anyone about the same
Execrate
Meaning: to express great loathing for
Sentence: I execrate the verbal section of the GRE
Sedulously
Meaning: great care and diligence
Sentence: Winston sedulously studied universities before choosing the one that suited him the most
Wily
Meaning: can fool easily
Sentence: RK thought she was quite wily until everything she was doing came out into the open
Inscrutability
Meaning: difficult
Sentence: getting a good score on the GRE vocabulary section is inscrutable for me
Reticent
Meaning: not saying much
Sentence: my dad is usually reticent in social situations but when he starts talking he says inappropriate stuff
Derelict
Meaning: neglectful of one’s duties
Sentence: Bitopan is the most derelict person I’ve ever met
Inveterate
Meaning: habitual
Sentence: I consider myself a habitual junkie
Truculent
Meaning: angry
Sentence: my dad with age has developed this inveterate habit of becoming truculent at the drop of a hat
Spartan
Meaning: austere
Sentence: I think that I can be quite Spartan living in the west if I want to be
Pernicious
Meaning: deadly
Sentence: AIDS is a pernicious risk of sex
Placid
Meaning: not easily irritated
Sentence: Snehal is quite placid in general except when she’s down
Imprudent
Meaning: not wise
Sentence: Hitler’s decision to delay the invasion of Russia was imprudent and cost him the war
Denigrate
Meaning: attack the good name of something
Sentence: if I were a lawyer I would denigrate the accused without getting all facts
Trite
Meaning: repeated too often
Sentence: I often get sick of a song when it becomes trite on my iPod
Prolific
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
Profuse
Meaning: abundance
Sentence: there are a profuse number of courses available but Eco is the one that people want
Vilify
Meaning: spread negative information about
Sentence: S & R in order to vindicate R vilified me
Disaffected
Meaning: discontented towards authority
Sentence: Revathi and the other liberals are immensely disaffected
Provincial
Meaning: characteristic of a limited perspective
Sentence: my dad may be very smart but in some fields his views are a bit provincial
Cogent/ cogency
Meaning: clear and persuasive/convincing
Sentence: the cogency of the argument was missing thus making him lose the debate
Disparate
Meaning: two things fundamentally different
Sentence: a beach and a hill are two disparate affaires
Contrite
Meaning: to be remorseful
Sentence: for the longest time I thought R was not even remotely contrite about what happened
Recondite
Meaning: difficult to penetrate
Sentence: most books I try and read are recondite and hence I don’t end up finishing them
Impudent
Meaning: improperly bold; IMPERTINENT
Sentence: showing the middle finger to a fellow driver is am impudent move
Predilection
Meaning: a strong liking
Sentence: I have a predilection for teen …
Dissemble
Meaning: conceal or disguise one’s true feelings
Sentence: I found it very hard to dissemble my feelings for people in my adolescent years
Subterfuge
Meaning: clever deception
Sentence: magicians use subterfuge to bewilder their audiences
Dissemble
Meaning: to conceal one’s feelings
Sentence: it’s hard to dissemble when you meet someone you really like
Defeasible
Meaning: open to annulment, objection or deception
Sentence: DU results are defeasible like how
Apocryphal
Meaning: being of questionable authenticity
Sentence: anything Parthiv says according to shiv is apocryphal
Ostentatious
Meaning: intended to impress others; vulgar
Sentence: Parthiv ostentatiously (vulgarly) for the sole purpose of being ostentatious (to impress)
Discern
Meaning: to distinguish
Sentence: it’s sometimes difficult to discern between Omair’s sisters
