- Earthy – unrefined or coarse
- Ebb – reflux of tide, decline; the tide is on the ebb means the tide is going out
- Ebullience – a boiling over something; showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberance; effervescence
- Eccentric – unusual, peculiar, going beyond the center; eccentricity – idiosyncrasy
- Ecclesiastic – a clergyman; related to church
- Eddy – swirling current of water, air, etc. whirlpool
- Edict – decree, especially one issued by a sovereign
- Edify – instruct, or correct morally, enlighten
- Eerie – causing a feeling of mystery and fear; Dr. Seward felt an eerie silence in Lucy’s room.
- Efface – face deleted; rub out; we wanted to efface the logo of KU library in the book I had stolen
- Effectual – efficacy; able to produce desired effect
- Effeminate (adj.) – a man having feminine traits; opposite of virile; a man like a woman
- Effervescence – ebullience; exuberance; showing enthusiasm; excitement
- Effete – lack vigor
- Effluvium – noxious smell; due to air pollution, we have been experiencing effluvium
- Effrontery – impudence, shameless boldness, sheer nerve, presumptuousness, impertinence; “When the boss told Frank she was firing him for laziness and insubordination, he had the effrontery to ask her for a letter of recommendation”
- Effusion – pouring out especially liquids; pouring out of thoughts and feelings in words; “The critics objected to her literary effusion because it was too flowery.”
- Effusive – ebullient; enthusiastic; demonstrative; overflowing with emotions
- Egregious – notorious, badly famous
- Egress – exit, come out; the sun egressed after eclipse
- Ejaculation – exclamation
- Elixir (N) – panacea, alchemy
- Elusive – evasive; baffling; hard to grasp; “an elusive criminal is the one that can’t be captured easily”
- Elysium – the home of the blessed after death; a place for ideal happiness; utopia
- Emanate – produce; cornucopia emanated glut of food and drink
- Embargo – an official order that bans trade with another country; boycott; “an arms embargo”
- Embark – go on board; to get into a ship or plane; disembark (opposite)
- Embellish – decorate, ornate; enhance
- Emboss – to put a raised design or piece of writing on paper, leather, etc.
- Embroil – to be in difficult situation; “Why should I embroil myself in your internal problems”
- Embryonic – undeveloped
- Emend – correct errors to remove mistakes in a piece of writing before it goes to the press
- Emetic – substance causing vomit
- Emissary – agent or messenger
- Emollient – soothing substance, especially for skin
- Emolument – remuneration, salary
- Empathy – ability to understand other’s feelings
- Enamored – paramours are enamored due to clandestine
- Enclave – territory enclosed with alien lands
- Encomiastic – praising, eulogistic
- Encomium – speech or writing that praises somebody or something highly; paean; panegyric
- Encumber – cumber, cumbersome, burden; the police operation was encumbered due to the crowds or reporters
- Endemic – epidemic, pandemic; prevailing over a wide range of place or population
- Enervate - faze; weaken
- Engross – occupy fully; “after reading few pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula I plunged into the mystery and finally plunged into the miracle of Count”
- Enjoin – command, order, forbid
- Ennui – boredom
- Enrapture – enchant, to give somebody great pleasure or joy
- Ensconce – if you are ensconced or ensconce yourself somewhere, you are made or make yourself comfortable and safe in that place or position
- Ensue – to happen after or as a result of another event; result; follow
- Entail – require; necessitate; involve; “Building a college level vocabulary will entail some work on your part”
- Enterprising – full of initiatives
- Enthrall – enslave; capture
- Entrance – put into a trance; “Van Helsingr put Mina into a hypnotic trance – she was entranced”
- Entreat – plead; request; ask earnestly
- Entrée – entrance; a way in; right or privilege of admission or entry; “He enrolled Lions Club to get an entrée into the circle of aristocrats”
- Enunciate – pronounce a word or sound clearly; enunciation – pronunciation
- Epigram – witty thought or saying, usually short; quip
- Episodic – loosely connected; occurring irregularly; sporadic
- Epithet – adjective or descriptive phrase that refers to the character or most important quality of somebody or something
- Epitome – perfect example; cynosure; embodiment
- Equable – moderate; neither too cold nor too hot
- Equestrian – horse rider
- Equine – horse like
- Equipoise – equilibrium
- Errant – doing wrong; wandering in search of adventure
- Escapade – any carefree episode; childish escapade
- Espionage – spying
- Espouse – give one’s support to a cause, theory etc. “Gutenberg espoused Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar”
- Essay – make an attempt at; test
- Estimable – having esteem, power or value
- Estrange – separated, alienated; cause somebody formerly loving or friendly to become unfriendly; I have never been estranged by my consort”
- Ethereal – ether is a medicine used to make people sleep; of heaven or spirit
- Ethnology – study or human kind; type of anthropology
- Eugenic – pertaining to the improvement of race
- Euphoria – intense feeling of happiness and pleasant excitement; “The euphoria of SAU was ephemeral”
- Euthanasia – mercy killing
- Evanescent – quickly fading; soon disappearing from memory; “evanescent beauty”
- Evasive – not frank, eluding; not giving direct answer; elusive “elusive criminal is difficult to capture”
- Evince – to show clearly that you have feeling or quality; “He evinced the feeling of reconciling with his family”
- Evenhanded – impartial; fair
- Evocative – pertaining to bring memory to once feeling, “The breeze outside was evocative of natural spring”
- Exalt – extol, praise; promote; make higher in rank or position
- Exceptional – objectionable; something that doesn’t follow rule of exceptions is exceptionable or objectionable
- Excise – (N) tax; (V) expurgates; censure; remove by cutting; “the surgeon excised the tumor”
- Exculpate – exonerate; clear from blame; acquit “She was exculpated from blame when the real criminal confessed”
- Execrable – very bad, terrible, diabolical
- Execrate – curse; express or feel hatred
- Exegesis – an explanation or critical interpretation of bible
- Exempt – free from an obligation, duty or payment; not liable
- Exertion – effort; expenditure of much physical work
- Exhilarating – invigorating and refreshing; cheering – hilarious
- Exhort – urge
- Exigency – emergency; urgent situation
- Exiguous – very small in amount; scanty; “an exiguous diet”
- Exodus – departure of many people at one time; “The mass exodus of people to the sea mountains during summer holidays”
- Exonerate – exculpate; free from blame
- Exorcise – drive out or expel an evil spirit by prayers or magic; “Van Helsingr tried to exorcise Dracula effect from Mina”
- Exotic – not native; strange; alien
- Expatiate – talk at length; elaborate; dilate; expound; exposit; “At this time, please give us a brief resume of your work, we shall permit you to expatiate later”
- Expatriate – a person who is voluntarily absent from a country or home
- Expedient – appropriate to a purpose or practical; suitable; politic; “She was guided by what was expedient rather than what was ethical”
- Expiate – make amends for a sin; “Noble prize was an expiated act”; kings try to expiate their atrocities by performing some acts or charity”
About me
You are welcome to my personal blog. I am Kapil Dev Regmi, a graduate in English Language Teaching, Education and Sociology. Now I am a student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. My area of research is lifelong learning in developing countries. This blog (ripples of my heart) is my personal inventory. It includes everything that comes in my mind. If any articles or notes in this blog impinge anyone that would only be a foible due to coincidence. Also visit my academic website (click here)
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Words starting with E
Thursday, March 25, 2010
From Disburse to Dyspepsia
- Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”
- Disclaim – stating publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something; to give up your right to something such as property or title; renounce “He disclaimed any responsibility”.
- Discomfit – to make somebody feel confused or embarrassed; discomfiture (N); “A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture”.
- Discompose – to disturb somebody and make them feel anxious; disconcert; disturb
- Discombobulated – discomposed; confused and a little annoyed
- Disconcert – to make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed; discomfit; “his answer rather discomfited her”
- Discretion – the freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation; prudence in speech or action; freedom to act on one’s own; “Discretion of Girija”
- Discursive – a style of writing or speaking moving from one point to another without any strict structures
- Disdain – contempt; the feeling that somebody is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention
- Disembark – opposite of embark; to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journey; “I disembarked Buddha Air at 5 PM”.
- Disfigure – deface; to spoil the appearance of a person or thing “the bulging front gum of my mouth has disfigured me”
- Disgorge – vomit; cause to flow solid
- Disgruntle – make discontented; the passengers were disgruntled by numerous delays
- Disingenuous- not ingenuous; not sincere; artful; “Students are required to give ingenuous answers as far as possible”
- Disinter – unearth a dead body; opposite of inter
- Disparate – basically different; unrelated
- Dispassionate – not influenced by emotion; “a dispassionate observer”
- Dispel – to make something, especially a feeling or belief go away or disappear; “His speech dispelled any fears about his health”
- Disport – disport yourself means “enjoy yourself” by doing something active.
- Disquiet – unease; feeling or unhappy or worry
- Disquisition – a long complicated speech of written report on a particular subject
- Dissection – to analyze by cutting into parts; “Dracula tried to dissect the dead body of Lucy pretending that he would know the real cause of her death”
- Dissemble – to hide real feelings or intention often pretending to have different one; disguise; dissimulate
- Dissent – disagree; opposite of consent; dissenter is the one who disagrees
- Dissident – rebellious; a person who disagrees with government
- Dissipate – to gradually become weaker until it disappears; to waste time or money, especially by not planning the best way of using; squander
- Dissolution – the act of officially ending a marriage, business agreement; dissolve
- Distend – to swell because of pressure from inside; “starving children with huge distend bellies”; distention of stomach during pregnancy
- Distraught – extremely upset or anxious so that cannot think clearly
- Diurnal – opposite or nocturnal
- Diva – prima donna; a famous woman singer
- Divest – to remove clothes; to get rid of something; to take something away from somebody or something; “after her illness she was divested of much of her responsibilities”
- Divulge – reveal; to leak out the secret information; nobody divulged the real identity of Dracula to Jonathan Hacker
- Docile – quiet and easy to control; obedient; easily managed; a docile child
- Docket – docket sheet; a list of cases to be dealt with in a particular court; agenda
- Doddering – senile walking; he was doddering with a help of cane
- Doff – to take off your hat, especially to show respect to somebody or something
- Dogged – stubborn; determined
- Doldrums – the state of feeling sad or depressed; a lack of activity or improvement; stagnation
- Dole – money paid by the state to unemployed people; alms is the money paid to poor
- Doleful – mournful;
- Dolorous – feeling or showing great sadness
- Domineer – rule over tyrannically (tyrannize)
- Don – a teacher at the university; the leader of a group of criminals; to put on clothes “he divested sweeter and donned shirts”
- Dormer – window projecting from roof
- Dossier – folder of documents on a subject “we have a dossier for filing case against violation of child rights”
- Dotage – be in your dotage; “the people in Nepal are consigned in their dotage”
- Dour – not pleasant; not lively; sullen; stubborn “the game became a dour struggling with both men determined to win”
- Douse – to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; plunge into water; drench; extinguish; “Boys doused girls with water balloons”
- Dowdy – unattractive; not fashionable woman; drab
- Drab – dull; uninteresting; “she was dressed in drab color
- Draconian – extremely severe; draconian punishment
- Dregs – sediment; worthless residue; “a lot of dregs remained after the wine was decanted”
- Drivel – silly, nonsense; don’t talk drivel
- Droll – queer and amusing; “he was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining”
- Drone – ideal person who does no good work; male bee; talk dully; “the chairman droned for an hour; an aircraft droned over head.
- Dross – waste matter, we can get dross when raw gold is assayed; “many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross”
- Drudgery – menial work, hard labor; work of servant; “Cinderella’s fairy grandmother rescued her from a life of drudgery”
- Ductile – malleable; flexible; pliable, docile
- Dulcet – mellifluous; sweet sounding
- Dupe – someone easily fooled
- Duress – forcible restraint, especially unlawful; threats or force used to make somebody do something; intimidate; bully
- Dyspepsia – indigestion
Monday, March 22, 2010
JANAKPUR VISIT
I went to Janakpur on 20 March, 2010 from Buddha Air flght at 9:45 PM. It was of 30 minutes distance. I reached at the Janakpur Airport at 10:30AM. Umesh Mandal from Asaman Nepal received me and took me to the Rama Hotel. As soon as reached Janakpur, I heard the news of the death of Girija Prasad Koirala, the president of Nepali Congress and ex-primeminister of Nepal. At 12:10 he was declared dead.
I tool lunch at Rama Hotel and went to visit Dr. Rajendra Bimal, a linguist or Maithili Language. I talked about the project I was going to carry out. He was so happy to hear so but he wanted to make his own contribution rather than helping to others which I took positively. He has done a comparative study between Nepali and Maithili language morphology. Then we decided that we will carry out the research jointly. He appreciated my concept paper on carrying out the research. Then I went to Rama Hotel and took rest.
Next day, 21st March, I went to the office of Aasman Nepal and visited Nawal Kishor Yadav, the director of the NGO. Then we three-Me, Nawal, Umesh went to visit Bimal sir. We made an oral agreement that the project will be carried out in team. Then from the flight of 4PM I came to Kathmandu.
I tool lunch at Rama Hotel and went to visit Dr. Rajendra Bimal, a linguist or Maithili Language. I talked about the project I was going to carry out. He was so happy to hear so but he wanted to make his own contribution rather than helping to others which I took positively. He has done a comparative study between Nepali and Maithili language morphology. Then we decided that we will carry out the research jointly. He appreciated my concept paper on carrying out the research. Then I went to Rama Hotel and took rest.
Next day, 21st March, I went to the office of Aasman Nepal and visited Nawal Kishor Yadav, the director of the NGO. Then we three-Me, Nawal, Umesh went to visit Bimal sir. We made an oral agreement that the project will be carried out in team. Then from the flight of 4PM I came to Kathmandu.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Some words to know
On Rebuttal
There are many words giveng the meaning argument. One of them is rebuttal which forms from the verb rebut that means refute an opinion. The word contend means to say something is true in an argument. When the argument turns into hot debate and the opposite parties are in the sate of anger then it is called contention. Sometimes, when two parties debate in the form of compitition then it is called rivalry. Another word is fence which is used when you start throwing words to each others.
Disclaim
It's a verb which means to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something. In this sense its synonym becomes deny. Similarly, the secondary meaning of disclaim is to give up your right to something such as proprty or title. In this sense it analoguous word becomes renounce.
Convalesce
To spend time getting your health and strength back after illness. She is convalescing at home after her operetion; Doctor had said that the convalescence period for Laxmi would be 18 months.
Discomfit
To make somebody feel confused or embarrassed. The noun form of discomfit is discomfiture. He was clearly taking delight in her discomfiture.
A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture.
Discompose
To disturb somebody and make them feel anxious. Synonyms for this is disconcert or disturb. It is also discombobulated, however, the slight nuance is that if one is discombobulated then he is not only confused but also annoyed.
Disconcert
To make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed. His answer rather disconcerted her.
Discretion
The word discretion means freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation. The synonymous phrases are prudence in speech, actions; ability to decide responsibility; and freedom to act on one's own. "I will leave it up to you to use your own discretion. How much to tell terminally ill patients is left to the discretion of the doctor. Nepali Congress leaves the decision of selecting CC members at the discretion of party president."
Discursive
A style of writing or speaking moving from one point to the other without any strict structures. "I remorsed for being discursive in the last meeting."
Synonym: digression, rembling
Disdain
Contempt. The feeling that somebody or something is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention. Disdainful - contemptuous
Disembark
To leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journery. Go ashorre; upload cargo from a ship. "Before the passengers could disembark they had to pick their passport from the ship's pursure.
Disfigure
To spoil the appereance of a person, thing or place. "Her face was disfigured by a long red scare; Kali's face was disfigured by poto but now the black patch of her face has been completely removed."
Disgorge
Cause or allow a solid substance; To flow or run out or over; vomit.
Disgruntle
Make discontented; "The passangers were disgruntled by numerous delays".
Disingenuous
Not ingenuous; not sincere, especially when you pretend to know less about something than you really do. "It would be disingeneus of me to claim I had never seen it"
Disinter
To dig up something, especially from the dead from the ground. Opposite - inter
Many cadavers intered in different parts of the counter were disintered after democracy"
Disparate
Basically different or unrelated
Dispassionate
Not influenced by emotion. " A dispassionate observer" Synonym - impartial
Dispel
To make something, especially a feeling or belief, go away or disappear. "His speech dispelled any fears about his health". ''
There are many words giveng the meaning argument. One of them is rebuttal which forms from the verb rebut that means refute an opinion. The word contend means to say something is true in an argument. When the argument turns into hot debate and the opposite parties are in the sate of anger then it is called contention. Sometimes, when two parties debate in the form of compitition then it is called rivalry. Another word is fence which is used when you start throwing words to each others.
Disclaim
It's a verb which means to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something. In this sense its synonym becomes deny. Similarly, the secondary meaning of disclaim is to give up your right to something such as proprty or title. In this sense it analoguous word becomes renounce.
Convalesce
To spend time getting your health and strength back after illness. She is convalescing at home after her operetion; Doctor had said that the convalescence period for Laxmi would be 18 months.
Discomfit
To make somebody feel confused or embarrassed. The noun form of discomfit is discomfiture. He was clearly taking delight in her discomfiture.
A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture.
Discompose
To disturb somebody and make them feel anxious. Synonyms for this is disconcert or disturb. It is also discombobulated, however, the slight nuance is that if one is discombobulated then he is not only confused but also annoyed.
Disconcert
To make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed. His answer rather disconcerted her.
Discretion
The word discretion means freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation. The synonymous phrases are prudence in speech, actions; ability to decide responsibility; and freedom to act on one's own. "I will leave it up to you to use your own discretion. How much to tell terminally ill patients is left to the discretion of the doctor. Nepali Congress leaves the decision of selecting CC members at the discretion of party president."
Discursive
A style of writing or speaking moving from one point to the other without any strict structures. "I remorsed for being discursive in the last meeting."
Synonym: digression, rembling
Disdain
Contempt. The feeling that somebody or something is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention. Disdainful - contemptuous
Disembark
To leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journery. Go ashorre; upload cargo from a ship. "Before the passengers could disembark they had to pick their passport from the ship's pursure.
Disfigure
To spoil the appereance of a person, thing or place. "Her face was disfigured by a long red scare; Kali's face was disfigured by poto but now the black patch of her face has been completely removed."
Disgorge
Cause or allow a solid substance; To flow or run out or over; vomit.
Disgruntle
Make discontented; "The passangers were disgruntled by numerous delays".
Disingenuous
Not ingenuous; not sincere, especially when you pretend to know less about something than you really do. "It would be disingeneus of me to claim I had never seen it"
Disinter
To dig up something, especially from the dead from the ground. Opposite - inter
Many cadavers intered in different parts of the counter were disintered after democracy"
Disparate
Basically different or unrelated
Dispassionate
Not influenced by emotion. " A dispassionate observer" Synonym - impartial
Dispel
To make something, especially a feeling or belief, go away or disappear. "His speech dispelled any fears about his health". ''
Monday, March 15, 2010
From Desultory to Disburse
- Desultory – aimless, haphazard; showing that you have no plan; “desultory meeting”
- Detraction – petty criticism, carping, slandering, aspersion, “one who detracts is detractor”
- Detrimental – harmful, or damaging
- Devise – think, cogitate, plan, cerebrate, invent; “Devise your lesson carefully”
- Devolve – delegate your duty to your deputy; “when Nepal becomes federal republic powers need to be devolved to provinces”
- Diabolical – terrible, devilish; extremely bad or pestering; “The traffic was diabolical”
- Diadem – crown
- Diaphanous – transparent, sheer; (of cloth) so light and fine that you can almost see through; “her décolleté was enough diaphanous to attract amorous Adonis”.
- Diffidence – lack of confidence; shyness
- Dilation – expansion, especially of pupil – verb is dilate
- Dilettante – dabbler; amateur; a dilettante “let it go in the same way, what matters”– and debutante says, “No, be meticulous, you know, I have just started and I should let the crest of my family fall”.
- Din – long sound; children were making din while the drum was making clangor
- Dinghy – a small ship boat – Adjective – dull, not fresh or cheerless
- Dint – means; effort; “By dint of much hard work you can score a better logogram is GRE”
- Diorama – a model representing a scene with figures, especially in museum.
- Dirge – requiem, threnody, lament with music; “Jackson got his dirge”
- Disabuse – to say somebody that what they think is true is, in fact, not true; correct a false impression; undeceive; “Let me disabuse him first so that we can forge consensus”, said Girija to Nepal.
- Disaffected – no longer satisfied with your situation, organization, belief, etc. and therefore not loyal to it; when children are disaffected for a long time with your principles they start being disaffected; “I believe conflict is begotten due to long standing disaffection”
- Disapprobation – disapproval of somebody or something that you think is morally wrong
- Disarray – disorderly or untidy state; a state of confusion; dismay
- Disavow – disclaim, deny; to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or you are not responsible for something or somebody; “they disavowed claims of split in the party”
- Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”
Sunday, March 14, 2010
From Dabble to Desuetude
- Dabble – work in a nonsense fashion; play hands in water
- Damp – lessen intensity; diminish; to make something such as feeling or hope less strong
- Dank – dark and damp
- Dapper – a small man wearing attractive clothes, well dressed
- Dappled – spotted
- Daub – to spread a wet substance such as paint on a surface in a careless way
- Dawdle – loiter, waste time; to do something slowly that annoys others ‘stop dawdling’
- Deadpan – impassive, wooden
- Dearth – scarcity
- Debacle – disaster, catastrophe, fiasco, devastation, misfortune, calamity, deluge
- Debase – degrade, defile, demean, disgrace
- Debauch – corrupt, seduce from virtue; did Socrates debauch young people by enticing them to question as iconoclasts?
- Debauched (adj) – a debauched person is immoral in their sexual behavior, drinks a lot of alcohol, takes drugs etc. – bacchanalian
- Debilitate – week or enfeeble; to make somebody physically or mentally ill
- Debonair – urbane and suave, amiable, cheerful and carefree; a man with debonair character wears fashionable clothes, and is attractive, relaxed and confident.
- Debunk – exposed as false, exaggerated, worthless, ridicule; to prove that something such as an idea or belief is false and silly
- Debutante – a young woman just entering into fashion society
- Decadence – the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- Decant – to pour wine carefully in decanter (wine container); to move people from one place to another
- Decipher – to understand code or cipher; to understand confusing things
- Décolleté – a piece of woman cloth which is very low at the top so that you can see part of her shoulders and breasts
- Decorum – polite behavior or propriety
- Decoy – a bird used by hunter to attract other birds; lure or bait (insect used in fishing hook)
- Decrepitude – the state of being old and no longer in good condition or good health; dilapidation
- Decry – to strongly criticize somebody or something especially publicly; condemn, disparage; deprecate
- Deface – mar, disfigure, to damage the appearance of something especially by drawing or writing on it. If you deface library books you have to pay fine.
- Defeatist – behaving is a way that shows that you think you will fail or lose
- Defection – abandon a party and join another, desertion, “She was deserted or defected by her husband”
- Deference – courtesy, respect
- Launder – money laundering is to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal business.
- Defiance – refusal to obey a person or rule; “Nuclear testing was resumed in defiance of an international ban.”
- Defile – tarnish; to spoil something important, pure or holy
- Deflect – to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else; avert, distract, ward off, turn away
- Defoliate – to remove the leaves from a plant or tree using defoliant – a chemical
- Defray – to give somebody back the money that they have spent on something
- Defrock – divest, to remove a priest from their job because they have done something wrong
- Deft – dexterous
- Deify – to treat somebody as god or deity
- Deign – condescend stoop
- Delirium – a mental state where somebody becomes delirious, usually because of illness,
- Delirious – talking or thinking in a confused way
- Delude – to make somebody believe something that is not true; deceive, cozen
- Delusion – false belief, hallucination, a belief that you are more important than you really are
- Delusive – deception, raising vain hopes
- Delve – dig, investigate; delving into old books and manuscripts is a part of researcher’s job
- Demean – degrade; humiliate, to make people have less respect to someone
- Demented – affected by dementia; senile dementia, having mental illness, insane
- Demolition – destruction of a building
- Demoniac – like a demon
- Demure – to object to do something
- Denigrate - to criticize in a way that has no value; blacken
- Denizen – inhabitant, resident, regular visitor, dweller
- Denouement – the end of a book, play or series of events, final development of a play
- Deposition – a formal written statement by a witness that is read out in a court because the witness cannot be present at the court
- Deprecate – express disapproval of; protest against; belittle
- Depredation – plundering, damage or harm that is dine to something
- Deranged – disarrange; behaving in an uncontrolled or dangerous way because of mental illness
- Derelict (adj) – abandoned, negligent; something such as building or piece of land that is derelict is empty, not used, and in a bad condition
- Deride – mock, ridicule, make fun of
- Descry – to suddenly see somebody on the way
- Desiccate – to make dry “desiccated tomato”
- Desolate – a place empty and without people; forlorn
- Desperado – a person who does dangerous and criminal things without caring himself or other people
- Despise – hate; to dislike or have no respect for somebody or something
- Despoil – plunder, loot; to steal something valuable from a place
- Despondent – depressed, gloomy, hopeless
- Desuetude – inaction, state of disuse, state of inactivity
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Miscellaneous
- Alms – money or other valuables given to charity or the poor
- Auspices – kindly endorsement and guidance
- Austerity – asceticism, no indulgence
- Avowedly – acknowledge, declared, affirmed, verified, admitted
- Calibrate – fine-tune
- Dilatory – delaying, procrastinating, lingering, dawdling, lagging
- Dour – inflexible, obstinate, sullen
- Erratic – having no fixed course or purpose, irregular or random
- Evasive – not straight forward
- Excommunicated – excluded from the church of religious community
- Expound – add details in idea or writing, dilate, elaborate, expatiate, exposit, lucubrate
- Exquisite – intense or sharp
- Finicky – overly particular in taste or standards
- Flamboyant – showy, flashy, gaudy, ostentatious
- Foment – to instigate, stir up, stimulate
- Granulate – turn into grain
- Greenback – notes produced by central bank
- Imbibe – receive into the mind and receive
- Impudent – bold and sassy, marked by disregard for others
- Inert – very slow to act, sluggish, dull, inactive
- Insinuate – imply in a subtle way
- Intrepid – fearless, courageous, audacious, dauntless,
- Inveigle – to persuade by flattery, entice, cajole, wheedle
- Lampoon – written work using satire to belittle or attack
- Maladroit – not adroit, bungling, awkward, clumsy, loutish, oafish, boorish, gauche, ungainly
- Maudlin – overly sentimental and foolishly tearful
- Maverick – an unbranched ranch animal, nonconformist
- Mediocre – moderate to inferior in quality
- Mortified – embarrassed, humiliated, chagrined, crucified
- Muddled – confused
- Mundane – found in the ordinary course
- Overhauling – making repair, renovations, adjustments
- Passion – a strong feeling or emotion, cacoethes, mania, rage, warmth
- Propensity – bias, bent, tendency
- Purdah – a state of social isolation
- Rapporteur – a recorder of meeting
- Ratcheting – move by degrees in one direction
- Raucous – wild, crazy and boisterous
- Refurbishing – making brighter and prettier
- Repugnant – offensive to the mind
- Requiem – dirge, lament, threnody
- Ruffian – an uncultured, aggressive, rude, noise, troublemaker
- Ruminate – to think about something repeatedly
- Salvage – to save, to rescue from destruction or harm
- Serendipity – the act of making fortunate discovery
- Subaltern – inferior in rank or status
- Surreptitious – clandestine
- Swipe – to strike with swiping blow
- Tangential – going off topic, diverging, digressing
- Unfettered – not bound by shackles and chains
- Vacuous – empty, inane, lacking in ideas, stupid
- Vacuous lectures of Prof. Sharma made the class monotonous.
- Vagary – whim, caprice
- Vagrant – homeless wanderer
- Vainglorious – boastful, excessively conceited, narcissist, bigheaded, feeling self-importance
- Valor – bravery
- Vanguard – forerunners, advance forces
- Vehement - marked by extreme intensity, inclined to react violently
- Veil – to obscure, conceal
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