Miscellaneous

1. Alms – money or other valuables given to charity or the poor
2. Auspices – kindly endorsement and guidance
3. Austerity – asceticism, no indulgence
4. Avowedly – acknowledge, declared, affirmed, verified, admitted
5. Calibrate – fine-tune
6. Dilatory – delaying, procrastinating, lingering, dawdling, lagging
7. Dour – inflexible, obstinate, sullen
8. Erratic – having no fixed course or purpose, irregular or random
9. Evasive – not straight forward
10. Excommunicated – excluded from the church of religious community
11. Expound – add details in idea or writing, dilate, elaborate, expatiate, exposit, lucubrate
12. Exquisite – intense or sharp
13. Finicky – overly particular in taste or standards
14. Flamboyant – showy, flashy, gaudy, ostentatious
15. Foment – to instigate, stir up, stimulate
16. Granulate – turn into grain
17. Greenback – notes produced by central bank
18. Imbibe – receive into the mind and receive
19. Impudent – bold and sassy, marked by disregard for others
20. Inert – very slow to act, sluggish, dull, inactive
21. Insinuate – imply in a subtle way
22. Intrepid – fearless, courageous, audacious, dauntless,
23. Inveigle – to persuade by flattery, entice, cajole, wheedle
24. Lampoon – written work using satire to belittle or attack
25. Maladroit – not adroit, bungling, awkward, clumsy, loutish, oafish, boorish, gauche, ungainly
26. Maudlin – overly sentimental and foolishly tearful
27. Maverick – an unbranched ranch animal, nonconformist
28. Mediocre – moderate to inferior in quality
29. Mortified – embarrassed, humiliated, chagrined, crucified
30. Muddled – confused
31. Mundane – found in the ordinary course
32. Overhauling – making repair, renovations, adjustments
33. Passion – a strong feeling or emotion, cacoethes, mania, rage, warmth
34. Propensity – bias, bent, tendency
35. Purdah – a state of social isolation
36. Rapporteur – a recorder of meeting
37. Ratcheting – move by degrees in one direction
38. Raucous – wild, crazy and boisterous
39. Refurbishing – making brighter and prettier
40. Repugnant – offensive to the mind
41. Requiem – dirge, lament, threnody
42. Ruffian – an uncultured, aggressive, rude, noise, troublemaker
43. Ruminate – to think about something repeatedly
44. Salvage – to save, to rescue from destruction or harm
45. Serendipity – the act of making fortunate discovery
46. Subaltern – inferior in rank or status
47. Surreptitious – clandestine
48. Swipe – to strike with swiping blow
49. Tangential – going off topic, diverging, digressing
50. Unfettered – not bound by shackles and chains
51. Vacuous – empty, inane, lacking in ideas, stupid
52. Vacuous lectures of Prof. Sharma made the class monotonous.
53. Vagary – whim, caprice
54. Vagrant – homeless wanderer
55. Vainglorious – boastful, excessively conceited, narcissist, bigheaded, feeling self-importance
56. Valor – bravery
57. Vanguard – forerunners, advance forces
58. Vehement - marked by extreme intensity, inclined to react violently
59. Veil – to obscure, conceal