...ripples of my heart...: 09/01/2008

Abate - subside or moderate
You are not supposed to go out until the weather abates otherwise you must suffer from cold. The abated discord of two lovers made it possible to reconcile the families

Aberrant – abnormal or deviant, anomalous
Why did you provide such aberrant data? Didn’t you know it would give invalid result? We had no other aberrant condition to mitigate the relationship
Abeyance – suspended action. The work didn’t start until the manager came. The work was in abeyance. I have to complete all of my abeyant work.
Caustic (CHEMICAL) adjective – sarcastic or scathing
Something that describes a chemical that burns or destroys things, especially

anything made of living cells.

A caustic substance, a caustic remark
Catalyst
1 SPECIALIZED something that makes a chemical reaction happen morewithout Capricious - a capricious child, impulsive, fickle, whimsical, changeable
He was a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Cacophony - an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds
What a cacophony!
As we entered the farmyard we were met with a cacophony of animal sounds.
Buttress - a structure made of stone or brick, which sticks out from and supports a wall of a building: scaffolding, bolster
Burnish 1 to rub metal until it is smooth and shiny
2 If you burnish something such as your public image, you take action to improve it and make it more attractive:
The company is currently trying to burnish its socially responsible image.
Burgeon - to develop or grow quickly: proliferate
Love burgeoned between them.
Boor - a person who is rude and does not consider other people's feelings
Boorish - I found king Gynendra rather boorish and aggressive
Bombastic - using long and difficult words, usually to make people think you know more than you do:
A bombastic preacher
A bombastic statement
Bolster (SUPPORT) - to support or improve something or make it stronger:
More money is needed to bolster the industry.
She tried to bolster my confidence/morale (= encourage me and make me feel stronger) by telling me that I had a special talent.
They need to do something to bolster their company.
Belie - belying, belied, belied
To show something to be false, or to hide something such as an emotion
How long will you play such hide and sick, its better get out of this belied plot.
Banal - boring, ordinary and not original:
He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.
Banal pop song
Aver - to state the truth of something strongly: avow, claim
The lawyer averred her client's innocence.
Austere - without comfort; plain and without decoration; severe:
An austere childhood during the war
The courtroom was a large dark chamber, an austere place.
He was a tall, austere
1. Simple and plain; without any decorations: her austere bedroom with its simple narrow bed
2. (Of a person) strict and serious in appearance and behaviour: My father was a distant, austere man.
3. Allowing nothing that gives pleasure; not comfortable: the monks' austere way of life
Audacious - showing a willingness to take risks or offend people, daring, impudent, foolhardy
He described the plan as ambitious and audacious.
An audacious remark/suggestion
Attenuate - to make something smaller, thinner or weaker:
Radiation from the sun is attenuated by the
Assuage - to make unpleasant feelings less strong:
Assiduous -showing hard work, care and attention to detail, diligent, industrious
Assiduous research/efforts
An assiduous student

Police couldn’t abate their anger, as the situation was getting aberrant. It was very difficult to start the work in abeyance until the inspector arrived. As soon as DSP roared from the police cordon some of the demonstrators started absconding The abstemious soldiers were getting weaker and attenuating gradually. The inspector didn’t admonish them for not getting active to control the demonstration rather asked the supplier to adulterate the foods to be supplied. On the other hand with their alacrity the rebellions tried to alleviate the pain of the police, who were ambiguous whether the government or the parties were correct, by showing their benevolence nature of help during the time of war.
The ambivalent king never thought to ameliorate the worsening anarchy. The country was in an austere chaos as there was no minister to assuage the violated people. No employees of the king were assiduous so they couldn’t provide audacious suggestion. Some of the courtiers averred that even the king was belying and depicting his boorish nature of monocracy. The home minister was giving his bombastic and banal expressions to burnish his false image. Nepali people had already tasted his burgeoning capricious nature.

Chicanery – trickery, deception
His chicanery made the people in mass movement to think once more whether he should be made the leader of revolution. He seemed to be a deceiver.
Coagulate – thicken, congeal, clot
Yesterday’s bloodshed left a heavy amount of blood coagulated on the road of
Kathmandu. The chicanery police’s heart didn’t melt by seeing such coagulation.
Coda – postscript, the concluding section of a musical composition
The article seems to be in the favor of democracy; however, by reading its coda everybody can infer the intention of the autocratic writer.
Cogent – convincing
There was no cogent reason in the speech of the king. His coda directly averred that he was no longer a ceremonial king.
Commensurate – corresponding in extent, proportionate
The outcome of the mass movement of 2046 couldn’t commensurate with the sacrifice made by innocent Nepali people.
Compendium – brief, comprehensive summary
The compendium of the Das Capital by Karl Marx was red by all the communists in the world.
Complaisant – trying to please, overly polite, ready to accept other people’s actions and opinions and to do what other people want
The so called complaisant remarks of the ambivalent home minister couldn’t appease the demonstrator as he was already recognized as a number one conspirator to resurrect the dead monarchical system.
Compliant – yielding, conforming to requirements, willing to do what other people want you to do, acquiescent, obedient, biddable, submissive, yielding, amenable
Many days witnessed the bloodbath but there was no complaint solution from the autocratic king.
Conciliatory – reconciling, soothing,
The audience of the king couldn’t be conciliatory; hence he is sure to be overthrown very soon.
Condone – excuse, overlook, forgive
How can Nepali people condone the tyrannical royal family? The monarchy in Nepal is ending with the assassination of the royal family.
Confound – confuse, puzzle
Neither chicanery speech nor any complaisant compendium could confound the democratic demand of the public.
Connoisseur – good judge of art
Now what the country needs is a connoisseur like Karl Marx in Nepal.
Contention – claim, thesis, argument, disputation, strife
It is the contention of all the wishers of the king that he should leave the palace; otherwise no divine figure can spare him from the potential castigation in the public court.
Contrite – penitent, remorseful, repentant, apologetic, ashamed feeling great regret and guilt for something bad that you have done
Nepali people can’t forgive the contrite apology of the king if he doesn’t realize on time
Conundrum – riddle, difficult problem, challenge, poser
“A great conundrum is burgeoning in the political scenario of peaceful Nepal because of the reconciliation between Maoist and constitutional parties”, said a conspirator.
Converge – approach, tend to meet, come together, congregate
The brutal attack of the police converged the entire tranquil demonstrator to be terrorist.
Convoluted – coiled around, involved, intricate, long-winded, tortuous, bombastic
His argument was extremely convoluted so few of the jurors wrote note of decent.
Craven – cowardly, pusillanimous, timorous
The craven expressions of the minister of information and communication couldn’t soothe the pressmen

Every nook and corner of the country has been witnessing massive uprising of the people chanting pro-democracy slogans. The chicaneries are trying to tie a false conciliatory with the demagogues but there is no sign of coagulating their boiling blood. There is no cogent solution from the king and it seems that none of the effort except the grant of constitutional assembly could commensurate with the sacrifice made by Nepali people. The compendium of the interview of the home minister on the BBC vividly revealed that he is not going to dwindle the on going brutality over the peaceful demonstration. His complaisant remark doesn’t seem to bring any compliant resolution. Nepali people cannot condone his convoluted action which is creating not only profound confound but also burgeoning conundrum from his craven act. All these activities are converging the country to a capricious political chaos. These belied activities results into a time when even the king couldn’t be forgiven for his contrite apology.

Daunt – intimidate; to make someone feel slightly frightened or worried about his or her ability to achieve something; to discourage:
She was not at all daunted by the size of the problem
They daunted the demonstrator. None of their daunting behaviour could prevent them from being eschewed from their delineated task.
Decorum- behaviour that is controlled, calm and polite, modesty, demureness, etiquette
How can they forget her? Her manner was so decorum, so deferent and all- powerful to infatuate the hearts of the boys.

Default - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, which you legally have to do, non- payment
People who default on their mortgage repayments may have their home
Her default action defaulted all the activities. The action was aborted because the action in its core was desultory.
Deference - respect and politeness, reverence
He treats her with such deference.
She covered her head out of/in deference to (= because of a polite respect for) Muslims
Her decorum and deferent behaviour made me accept her proposal. I started delineating her beauty among my fellows who never daunted me until I found a discerning connoisseur to apprise her as a coquette.
Delineate – portray, to describe or mark the edge of something, demarcate
The main characters are clearly delineated in the first chapter of the book.
The boundary of the car park is delineated
Denigrate- blacken, to say that someone or something is not good or important, disparage, deride, put down
You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you. They may be right and you may be wrong. Who knows? Please don’t deride him like this because you are not an expert to discern his potential.

Deride – ridicule; to laugh at someone or something in a way, which shows you think they are ridiculous, or of no value:
He derided my singing as pathetic.
This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction. They derided at its colour and architect but they could never discern its hidden beauty.
Derivative- if something is derivative, it is not the result of new ideas, but has been developed from something else, plagiaristic, offshoot
His painting/style is terribly derivative. I can make this contention because I had observed the same painting while I had been in America.
Desiccate – dry up, dehydrate
The leaves were desiccated before sending them to the grinding machine.
Desultory - without a clear plan or purpose and showing little effort or interest, half-hearted, haphazard, aimless
She made a desultory attempt at conversation.
He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
All the desultory attempts were foiled by the massive participation of the people.
Deterrent – hindrance, prevention, disincentive, rein
Something, which deters people from doing something:
A nuclear deterrent
Tougher prison sentences may act/serve as (= be) a deterrent to other would-be offender
Does the threat of emergency serve as a deterrent to thwart egalitarianism?
Diatribe – denunciation, bitter scolding; an angry speech or piece of writing which severely criticizes something or someone, tirade, invective, harangue, rant, deride
He launched into a long diatribe against the government's policies when he was on the road but now he doesn’t make such contention because he is in the House.
Dichotomy – difference between two concepts
Diffidence – shyness, timidity, hesitancy, reserve, reticence
You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well. Don’t be pessimist like that. Better throw your diffidence. You can be the one to escalate the mass movement by digressing it to a desired height.
Diffuse – spread, strew
Digression - move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else, aside, parenthesis, detour, excursion, foray, deviation.
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory
Dirge - a slow sad song or piece of music, sometimes played because someone has died, requiem, hymn, chant, elegy
At least nine people died while the brutal government baton charged the demonstrators. There is dirge recitation to give tribute and express commiseration to all these courageous martyrs.
Disabuse - to cause someone no longer to have a wrong idea:
He thought that all women liked children, but she soon disabused him of that idea
Discerning - showing good judgment, especially about style and quality, astute, connoisseur, judicious, eagle-eyed, shrewd
A discerning customer always follows you. Don’t worry about your new business. Produce as much champagne as possible.
Discordant – not harmonious
Strike a discordant note to look or sound different or wrong compared with everything else:
The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note so the jury couldn’t produce a conclusive coda.
Discredit- defame; to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person, denounce, disgrace
Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the President.
Discredited theories of Nepali congress have worked as deterrent for the republican set up in the nation.
Discrepancy – inconsistency; incongruity. Difference between two things that should be the same:
There is some discrepancy between the two accounts.
The committee is reportedly unhappy about the discrepancy in numbers. What discrepancy should they burgeon in such a trifle matter?
Discrete – separate completely
Disingenuous – slightly dishonest, hypocritical, deceitful, devious, you can’t claim him a cruel, you know, he is just a disingenuous person. That’s all. Neither Volatile nor capricious
Disinterested- not involved for getting benefits, without prejudice
Disjointed- separated or not connected, rambling
Dismiss – remove, sack
Disparage - to criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them, belittle, mock, pour scorn on, sneer at, vilify
The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
Why are you disparaging me man? I am doing my level best to better the confound verdict of the court.
Disparate - different in every way:
The two cultures were so utterly disparate that she found it hard to adapt from one to the other.
Nepali congress and CPNUML are disparate parties. Their discrepancy is volatile. The tie can break any time in the immediate future.
Dissemble - to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts:
He accused the government of dissembling the act of suppressing the demonstration in peaceful act, where millions of people had to die in suffocation created by tear gas and baton charges.

Disseminate – distribute, spread, scatter
Dissolution – disintegration, looseness in morals
Dissonance – discord, opposite of harmony, disagreement, discordant
Distend – expand, swell out,
Distill – purify, refine, concentrate
Diverge – vary, go on different directions from the same point
Divest – strip, deprive, get rid of, remove clothes, disinvest
Document – evidence
Dogmatic – opinionated, arbitrary, doctrinal, assertive, rigid
Dormant – sleeping, lethargic, latent, quiescent
Dupe – someone easily fooled, gullible

Kantipur was a distilled agency to disseminate news which distended that the political parties are neither in dissolution, dissonance nor dogmatic. There are some dupes who are in dormant state and they seem to be diverged but no cadres are divested to disseminate their dogma.
How do I recognize you when my opinions are diverged to disseminate my distilled thoughts? My soul has no evidence to disseminate my dogmatic feeling towards you. My soul is still alone because it divests you. I am not a dupe. It’s better not to play with my heart. If it turns to be dissonant nobody, even the omnipotent god’s grandeur, could mollify my tough decisions. Wait and see what the future would bring.

Ebullient – showing excitement, overflowing with enthusiasm,
Eclectic – selective, composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
Efficacy – power to produce desired effect
Effrontery – impudence, shameless boldness, sheer nerve, presumptuousness, extreme rudeness and lack of ability to understand that your behaviour is not acceptable to other people
Embellish – adorn, ornament,
Emulate – imitate, rival, compare with somebody’s work that is thought to be good
Endemic – prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area of a country
Enervate- weaken, debilitate
Engender – cause, produce
Ephemeral – short-lived, fleeting, temporary, momentary
Equanimity- calmness of temperament, composure, calmness
Equivocate – lie, mislead, attempt to conceal the truth
Erudite – learned, scholarly, astute, pedant, shrewd
Esoteric – hard to understand, tough, obscure
Eulogy – expression of praise, esp. after death, acclamation
Exacerbate – worsen, embitter, aggravate
Exculpate – clear from blame, pardon
Exigency – urgent situation, pressing needs or demands
Extrapolation – projection, conjecture, we can extrapolate the outcome of public movement 2 from 1
Extrapolate - to estimate sth or form an opinion about sth, using the facts that you have now and that are valid for one situation and supposing that they will be valid for the new one:[v] The figures were obtained by extrapolating from past trends. We have extrapolated these results from research done in other countries.

None of the demonstrators were dormant rather they were ebullient with full efficacy. No provision to be eclectic so many endemic people participated in the demonstration. In their great effrontery leaders went on bolster their volatile expression. The demonstration was embellished with erudite personals. Some of the demagogue tried to emulate the traditional way of demonstration that enervated the movement for few days. But such extrapolation couldn’t engender any exigency. Some ephemeral dupes equivocated the movement. There was much eulogy for the martyrs.

Facetious – joking, humorous
Fallacious – false, misleading
Fatuous – brainless, inane,
Fawning – trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, sycophantic
Felicitous – apt, suitably expressed
Fervor – glowing ardor, intensity of feeling
Flag – droop, grow feeble
Fledgling – inexperienced, tyro
Flout – reject, mock, show contempt for
Ferment – stir up, instigate
Frugality – thrift, economy, parsimony
Futile – useless, hopeless, ineffectual

How facetious you are my dear babe! Only I was to blame because I was fallacious. You know why? I never dared to say the truth. You can call me fatuous as well because I didn’t know that the truth was enough to win your heart. I fawned and fawned because felicitous talking was bitter. But my fervor didn’t flag when I knew you were mine and I was only yours. Actually I am still ambivalent why you didn’t flout my purpose. You fermented my heart in such a facetious way that I can never forget. My futile days have gone now. My frugality has got an ending.

Gainsay – deny, oppose, contradict, refute, negate
Garrulous – loquacious, wordy, talkative
Goad – urge on, provoke, push
Gouge – overcharge, cheat or swindle
Grandiloquent – pompous, bombastic, using high sounding language
Guileless – without deceit or dishonesty or disingenuous or hypocritical
Gullible – easily deceived

One thing you should realize I am not as gullible as you are thinking. I am garrulous but I am never a grandiloquent. Have you ever heard me talking such bombastically? Don’t try to gouge me since it’s sure that your importunity would be out of the bag. I am completely guileless and would try to be so. I am trying to goad myself up and up. I won’t gainsay it because I am dogmatic on that.

Harangue – long, passionate, and vehement speech
Iconoclastic – attacking cherished traditions
Iconoclast - a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions:
Rogers, an iconoclast in architecture, is sometimes described as putting the insides of buildings on the outside
Idolatry – worship of idols, excessive admiration
Immutable – unchangeable, fixed
Impair – injure, hurt
Impassive – without feeling, imperturbable, stoical
Impede – hinder, block, encumber, deter
Don’t try to harangue me because such harangue is an iconoclastic in this office and it doesn’t do anything. It’s idolatry for your promotion. You may be optimistic but it impedes here to go ahead. Be impassive because the rules are immutable.

Impermeable – impervious, waterproof, resistant
If your jacket is impermeable it doesn’t allow any water drops to penetrate.
Imperturbable – calm, placid, unflappable, serene
If you are an imperturbable person you will not be worried or upset in normal disorders and chaos.
Implacable – incapable of being pacified, merciless, pitiless, relentless
How implacable guy you have been? Forget all the enmities and try to make an imperturbable tie between you so that nobody can break your relationship.
Implode – opposite of explode, burst inward, if you break a vacuum tube, the glass tube implodes, implosion
He couldn’t say anything in front of the boss but imploded himself when he reached at home.
Inadvertently – unintentionally, by oversight
Condone me my babe. It happened inadvertently. Actually I had never imagined going with her, the circumstances compelled me to do so. I am only yours.
Inchoate – recently began, rudimentary, elementary,
Why did his father come to impede in our inchoate love? Actually we are not in deep feelings you know. We have just started to be intimate.
Inconsequential – insignificant, unimportant,
Incorporate – introduce something into a larger whole, combine, unite
Indeterminate – uncertain, not clearly fixed, indefinite
Indigence – poverty, penury, destitution
Everyone is trying to escape from such indigence, but why they remain indigent throughout their life.
Indolent – lazy, sluggish
I am indolent but not a brainless man.
Inert – inactive, lacking power to move
When a dozen of cops baton-charged him he was completely inert. A girl came across him and asked a pen. He gave. He started to move but stand inert when she untied her pant. They have had.
Ingenious – naïve and trusting, young, unsophisticated, nifty
If you are ingenious you would have a lot of new ideas to create new things
Inherent – firmly established by nature or habit, intrinsic
Innocuous – harmless, inoffensive, mild
What an innocuous attack he made over that cheesecake last night. You know she was just 16 and completely virgin.
Insensible – unconscious, unresponsive, anaesthetized
Insinuate – hint, imply, creep in,
When you said I looked robust, did you mean to insinuate that I’m getting far?
Insipid – lacking in flavor, dull, wishy-washy, tame
She was not a feminine actually. I left that insipid gal just touching her thighs.
Insularity - narrow-mindedness, isolation, blinkeredness,
In her great insularity she left the office thinking that she would get another job. But you see she is still jobless.
Intractable – unruly, stubborn, unyielding, obstinate, pig-headed, obdurate
What an intractable gal she was! I couldn’t imagine her divorce with Rahul.
Intransigence – refusal of any compromise, stubbornness, refute to be convinced
I am not intransigent. Her intransigence made us ruin that night. No we had contraceptive too. I don’t know who should be castigated.
Still the government seems to be intransigence after 8 agitators being killed.
Inundate – overwhelm, flood, submerge
When I was unmarried I was inundated with the hundreds of sex offers.
Inured – accustomed, hardened, habituated, trained
I am not inured with the things that you are trying to indicate.
Invective – abuse, diatribe, tirade, criticism, denounce
Such false invectives can do nothing in my life. Go on pulling my leg.
Irascible – irritable, easily angered, petulant, grumpy
On of the worries of Nepali a bachelor is whether they would get irascible girls.
Irresolute – uncertain how to act, weak, vacillating, indecisive
The government was irresolute on whether they should resign.
Itinerary – plan of a trip, schedule or programme
State your itinerary before going out.
Laconic – brief, to the point, concise, precise, terse, curt
Give me your laconic account soon, otherwise you wouldn’t get chance to be mine. How long would you play such hide and seek.
Lassitude – tiredness, weariness, exhaustion, fatigue, lethargic, inertia, disillusionment
I think my lassitude of getting a partner would come soon. I am being offered for several grounds.
Latent – dormant, hidden, underlying, concealed, embryonic, covert
Feelings that were dormant are being revealed. Feels vacillation has started only thing remained is determination.
Laud – praise, acclaim, extol,
How long would you be staying lauding in this way. You added life zeal on my faded days.
Lethargic – lazy, drowsy, dull, sluggish, lackluster, languid, indolent, latency
Now I shouldn’t be lethargic on getting married. Let’s find someone very soon.
Levee – earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
Hope that there wouldn’t be any levee in our life. What we are expecting all would come true and desired.
Levity – lack of seriousness or steadiness, frivolity, flippancy,
It was not my levity the circumstance made it like this. Forgive me I have made any mistake.
Log – record, chronicle,
Each of your calling would be put in a log. If you came in my life we will share it later on.
Loquacious – talkative, wordy, garrulous, voluble
You are a right person I think. Though you sound loquacious your talks are never boring.
Lucid – easily understood, clear, intelligible
You are not lucid, are you? Sorry I was just kidding.
Luminous – bright, twinkling, incandescent, radiant
Your face might be luminous. The only thing is that you don’t want brighten all of us in the world. I understood want to illuminate my life only.
Magnanimity – generosity of spirit, high-mindedness
It’s all our mutual magnanimity that kept our love secret.
Malingerer – timewaster, one who feigns illness to escape duty,
People like me at first, especially they are employers, and by the end of nearly a year or so they start being a bit bossy and officious. They blame me as a malingerer but I am not so. Actually I don’t want to bow my head down. It was high let it be held high forever.
Malleable – capable of being shaped by hammering, complaint, acquiescent, supple, pliable, flexible
Everyone is malleable but they don’t admit mostly. Actually their real strength can be evaluated when they in contact with opposite sex.
Maverick – rebel, nonconformist, unconventional person, eccentric
What my dogma is that everyone should be maverick in order to let new knowledge emerge.
Mendacious – habitually dishonest, lying, misleading, untruthful
Who is more mendacious? You can’t say now. Let the time revel the cat out of the bag very soon. You are not s mendacious. Don’t you know the help that you provided me?
Metamorphosis – transmutation, transformation, change of form, alteration
Let our relationship go through a kind of metamorphosis since we can no longer be limited on the phone calls.
Meticulous – scrupulous, painstaking, excessively careful,
Let’s take our relationship meticulously. The time is not on our favor.
Misanthrope – hatred of mankind
Rahul seemed to be misanthrope. Truly speaking he was just misogynist as he didn’t like to marry. For us he is really a philanthropist.
Mitigate – alleviate, lessen, appease, moderate, abate
Mollify – placate, pacify, appease, soothe, alleviate, assuage, allay
Morose – ill humored, sullen, melancholy, miserable, glum, gloomy,
Mundane – ordinary, humdrum
Negate – oppose, counteract, wipe out, cancel out, nullify, deny
Neophyte- apprentice, greenhorn, beginner, recent convert, tyro, novice
Obdurate –stubborn, intractable, obstinate, bolshie,
Obsequious – fawning, sycophantic, toadying, submissive, flattering
Obviate – make unnecessary, get rid of, prevent, preclude, avert, hinder
Occlude – shut, close,
Officious – bossy, intrusive, meddlesome, excessively pussy in offering, one’s services
Onerous – arduous, burdensome,
Opprobrium – infamy, vilification, disparagement, denigration, slander, libel, denunciation, defamation
Oscillate – waver, vibrate pendulum like, vacillate
Ostentatious – grandiose, showy, pretentious, flamboyant, brazen
Paragon – model of perfection, ideal, epitome, shinning example, archetype, quintessence
Partisan – one-sided, prejudiced, committed to a party, follower, adherent, enthusiast, sponsor, devotee,
Pathological – pertaining to disease
Paucity – scarcity, scantiness, dearth
Pedantic – showing of learning, bookish, finicky, plodding, obscure, arcane, supercilious
Penchant – liking, proclivity, affinity, predilection
Penury – poverty, destitution, indigence, stinginess
Perennial – continual, recurrent, perpetual, persistent
Perfidious- treacherous, disloyal, dishonest, deceitful, base,
Perfunctory – superficial, not through
Permeable – penetrable, porous, holey, leaky
Pbervasive – spread throughout, all encompassing, omnipresent, enveloping, invasive, insidious,
Phlegmatic – apathetic, indifferent, undemonstrative, placid, calm, not easily disturbed
Piety – devoutness, reverence for god, godliness, holiness, piousness
Placate – pacify, conciliate, soothe, appease, mollify
Plasticity – flexibility, smoothness, gracefulness, agility
Platitude – cliché, inanity, banality, insipidity, trite remark, commonplace statement
Plethora – excess, overabundance, surfeit, surplus, glut
Plummet – fall sharply, plunge, tumble
Porous – leaky, permeable, spongy, absorbent, full of pores
Pragmatic – practical,
Preamble – introductory statement, prelude, overture,
Precarious - uncertain, risky, wobbly, shaky,
Precipitate – rash, premature, hasty, sudden, impulsive, impetuous,
Precursor – forerunner, herald, ancestor
Presumptuous – arrogant, taking liberties, conceited, bigheaded, presuming, audacious, insolent, bold
Prevaricate – lie,
Pristine – primitive, characteristic of earlier time
Probity – uprightness, incorruptibility,
Problematic – doubtful, unsettled, questionable,
Prodigal – wasteful, reckless with money, profligate, extravagant
Profound – deep, complete, not superficial,
Prohibitive – unaffordable, exorbitant, tending to prevent the purchase of sth
Proliferate – grow rapidly, spread, multiply, propagate thrive
Propensity – natural inclination, tendency, predilection, penchant,
Propitiate – appease,
Propriety – fitness, correct conduct, politeness
Proscribe – ostracize, banish, outlaw, veto,
Pungent- stinging, sharp in taste or smell, caustic, spicy, heady,
Qualified – limited, restricted,
Quibble – minor objection or complaint, equivocate, hedge, split hairs, nitpick, cavil, be pedantic,
Quiescent – at rest, dormant, temporarily inactive
Rarefied- made less dense,
Recalcitrant – obstinately stubborn, determined to resist authority, unruly, intractable, refectory, wayward, headstrong, obstinate
Recant – disclaim, or disavow, retract a previous statement, openly confess error, take back, renounce, repudiate, revoke
Recluse – hermit, loner, disappointed in love, ascetic
Recondite – abstruse, profound, secret, obscure, abstruse, complex, esoteric, concealed,
Refractory – stubborn, unmanageable, noncompliant,
Refute – disprove, contest, rebut, counter,
Relegate – banish to an inferior position, delegate, assign, demote, downgrade, consign, reduce in importance,
Reproach – express disapproval or disagreement, reprimand, rebuke,
Reprobate – person hardened in sin, devoid of sense of decency, degenerate, rascal, troublemaker,
Repudiate – disown, disavow, reject, renounce, rebut,
Rescind – cancel, annul, repeal, quash, void,
Resolution – determination, decree, motion, pledge, oath, tenacity, doggedness
Resolve – determination, firmness of purpose
Reticent – reserved, uncommunicative, inclined to silence, restrained,

Reverent – respectful, worshipful, deferential, reverential, worshipful, groveling, awed,
Sage – person celebrated for wisdom, erudite, astute,
Salubrious – healthful, wholesome, decent, hygienic,
Sanction – approve, ratify, endorse, consent to,
Satiate – satisfy fully, sate, quench, slake,
Saturate – soak thoroughly, inundate, oversupply,
Savor – enjoy, have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
Secrete – hide away or cache, produce and release a substance into an organism, ooze, emit, squirt,
Shard – fragment, generally of pottery
Skeptic – doubter, cynic, doubting Thomas,
Solicitous – worried, concerned,
Soporific – Sleep causing, marked by sleepiness, hypnotic, monotonous,
Specious – seemingly reasonable but incorrect, misleading, fallacious, phony,
Spectrum – colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism,
Sporadic – occurring irregularly, intermittent, erratic, patchy,
Stigma – token of disgrace, brand
Stint – be thrifty, set limits,
Stipulate – make express conditions, specify,
Stolid – dull, impassive,
Striated – marked with parallel bands, grooved, wavy
Strut – pompous walk, supporting bar, swagger, March, parade, prance,
Subpoena – writ summoning a witness to appear,
Subside – settle down, descend, grow quiet, abate,
Substantiate – establish by evidence, verify, support, corroborate,
Supersede – cause to be set aside, replace, make obsolete, supplant, surpass,
Supposition – hypothesis, surmise,
Tacit – understood, not put into words, unspoken, implicit, inferred, unstated,
Tbangential – peripheral, only slightly connected, digressing, lateral, divergent,
Tenuous – thin, rare, slim, tenancy, unsubstantiated, fragile, feeble,
Tirade – extended scolding, denunciation, harangue, diatribe, rant, invective, outburst,
Torpor – lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy, inactivity, inertia, indolence, languor,
Tortuous – winding, full of curves, meandering, convoluted, circuitous, indirect,
Tractable – docile, easily managed, not stubborn, biddable
Transgression – violation of law, sin, lapse, contravention, misdemeanor, indiscretion,
Truculence – aggressiveness, ferocity
Vacillate – waver, fluctuate, dither,
Venerate – revere, idolize, esteem, hold in the highest regard
Veracious – truthful,
Verbose – wordy, rambling, garrulous, loquacious,
Viscous – sticky, gluey, gelatinous, gooey, gummy
Vituperative – abusive, scolding, insulting, malicious, slanderous, scathing,
Volatile – changeable, explosive, evaporating rapidly, fickle
Warranted – justified, authorized,
Wary – very cautious, suspicious, cagey, distrustful, chary,
Welter – turmoil, bewildering jumble, flurry, jumble, spate, muddle,
Whimsical – capricious, fanciful, quirky, unpredictable, volatile
Zealot – fanatic, person who shows excessive zeal, devotee, aficionado,

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Learning new words

Longing for happiness

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Words starting with the alphabet 'V'

Friday, September 5, 2008

A Path to Destiny

Useful Words To Know

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Waiting for welter (Word practice through poem)