Increase your Vocabulary :
1. Diaphanous :- Meaning : Transparent Usage : A diaphanous door. 2. Disport :- Meaning : to smile Usage : People disported themselves at the stage show. 3. Dulcet :- Meaning : Sweet sounding Usage : I thought I recognized your dulcet tone. 4. Despondency :- Meaning : hopeless, sad Usage : It is very difficult to come out from despondency after his father's death. 5. Didactic :- Meaning : a bitter; criticism in speck writing Usage : Launch a diatribe against the government. =======================================================
6. Exculpate :- Meaning : Prove guiltless Usage : The Supreme Court exculpated Sanjay Dutt from TADA Case. 7. Encumber :- Meaning : to become burden Usage : Travelling is difficult when you're encumbered with heavy suitcase s. 8. Extol :- Meaning : to praise highly Usage : He was extolled as a hero. 9. Effulgent :- Meaning : shinning brilliantly Usage : The effulgent beauty. 10. Ephemeral :- Meaning : short lived Usage : Ephemeral mosquitoes during the rainy season.
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11. VERNACULAR
Meaning : (used in) everyday speech Usage : The French I learnt in school is very different from the local vernacular of the village I'm now living in.
12. RECEDE
Meaning : move back, retreat Usage : As the boat picked up speed, the coastline receded into the distance until finally it became invisible
13. REMITTANCE (NOUN)
Meaning : payment sent to a party in another place Usage : He worked as a builder in Chicago and received remittances from his bank in Chicago.
14. DISPARAGE (VERB)
Meaning : express a negative opinion of Usage : The actor's work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity
15. OSTENSIBLE (ADJECTIVE)
Meaning : of motives or facts that are apparent but not necessarily real or true Usage : Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.
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16. SOPHISTRY (NOUN)
Meaning : elaborate, eloquent but logically invalid arguments intended to deceive Usage : Her argument that she wasn't being selfish was pure sophistry.
17. PROSCRIBE (VERB)
Meaning : command against Usage : The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against
good taste and decency.
18. ERSATZ (ADJECTIVE)
Meaning : artificial and inferior Usage : I'm allowed to eat ersatz chocolate made from carob beans, but it's a poor substitute for the real thing.
19. ENCAPSULATE (VERB)
Meaning : contain the essential truths in Usage : It was very difficult to encapsulate the story of the revolution in a single one-hour
documentary.
20. GUISE (NOUN)
Meaning : deceptive outward appearance Usage : The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police
officers.