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1) The document lists 55 words with their meanings and sample usages. The words cover a wide range of topics including emotions, behaviors, relationships, abilities, and more. 2) Many of the words are multisyllabic and less common, such as ubiquitous, sporadic, insalubrious, and temerity. 3) The words and their definitions provide helpful vocabulary for describing concepts precisely while their sample usages demonstrate how the words can be applied.

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Word List

1) The document lists 55 words with their meanings and sample usages. The words cover a wide range of topics including emotions, behaviors, relationships, abilities, and more. 2) Many of the words are multisyllabic and less common, such as ubiquitous, sporadic, insalubrious, and temerity. 3) The words and their definitions provide helpful vocabulary for describing concepts precisely while their sample usages demonstrate how the words can be applied.

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WORDS LIST

1) Ubiquitous (you-be-quit-us)
Meaning: Being everywhere at once, omnipresent
Usage: With such a striking talent, shes becoming ubiquitous
2) Propitious (pro-pe-shus)
Meaning: benevolent, advantageous, auspicious
Usage: It is only because of propitious conditions, we could achieve it.
3) Sporadic (spo-radic)
Meaning: Rare and scattered, pattern less
Usage: the stars appear sporadic tonight
4) Insalubrious (in-salu-briyuss)
Meaning: Unhealthy, not providing or promoting health
Usage: That restaurant is insalubrious. It serves only junk food.
5) Invigorating (invi-gorating)
Meaning: Giving strength, refreshing, energy or vitality
Usage: A sip of cool water can be so invigorating during summers
6) Erratic (E-rratik)/ Eccentric (ek-cent-rick)
Meaning: Round about, not a focal point, unusual, not the centre.
Usage: His notes were very helpful though his speech was eccentric.
7) Intimidate (In-timi-date)
Meaning: Fear, threat, dishearten, abash, daunt
Usage: He is trying to intimidate you by playing such tricks.
8) Decipher (de-sy-fur)
Meaning: To decode, cipher to plain text, to find a solution to a problem
Usage: It is difficult to decipher this letter in such conditions.

9) Remiss (re-miss)
Meaning: at fault, negligent, reprehensible
Usage: I would certainly be remiss if I fail to serve my country.
10)

Temerity (te-me-rity)/ Impudent (im-pyu-dence)

Meaning: Bold-faced, daring, Impertinent, without shame.


Usage: The impudent would not stop talking in the class.
11)

Trite (try-it)

Meaning: Outdated, hackneyed (hack-need), clichd, unoriginal


Usage: Everyone was coming up with trite ideas at the meeting.
12)

Extravagant (extra-vagant)

Meaning: excessive, exorbitant, profuse, prodigal


Usage: Extravagant man, extravagant life
13)

Loathe (lo-the)

Meaning: to hate, detest, revile


Use: Loathing the honeyed cakes, I longed for bread.
14)

Preeminent (Pree-min-ent)

Meaning: Important, notable, excellent, outstanding, notable


Use: What is preeminent about this structure is its dome.
15)

Humongous (hyu-mong-us)

Meaning: Enormous, massive, gigantic, immense and large.


Use: There needs to be a humongous improvement in the performance.
16)

Bleak (Bleek)

Meaning: Pale, dull, pallid, unhappy, cheerless, miserable, desolate


Use: he was feeling bleak after the fight.

17)

Timid (T-mid)

Meaning: lacking in courage or confidence, timorous, daunt


Use: John is a very timid person by nature.
18)

Mar (Maar)

Meaning: to spoil, to damage


Use: The area was totally marred, where the flight crashed.
19)

Confined (kun-fined)

Meaning: to stick to, reserved with


Use: He was confined to what his beliefs were.
20)

Primitive (pri-mitive)

Meaning: Primary, radical


Use: The primitive purpose of solving the issue was to avoid the crises.
21)

Identical (i-dentical)

Meaning: Similar characteristics, same features.


Use: Tony and his brother look so identical to each other.
22)

Piffle (pif-uh-l)

Meaning: nonsense, as trivial or senseless


Use: It is evil piffle to assert that he aimed not at me, but at the gray-locked
gentleman behind me.
23)

Rhapsodic (rap-sod-ik)

Meaning: extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic, pertaining to, characteristic of, or of


the nature or form of rhapsody
Use: If you should consume them, I would be more than just happy, perhaps even
rhapsodic, and I will personally get you another from my own personal cellar.
24)

Aver (eh-ver)

Meaning: to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory


manner
Use: Though he hardly got any sleep, he averred that hed slept extremely well.
25)

Extemporize (ik-stem-puh-rahyz)

Meaning: to speak with little or no advance preparation, to do or manage something


in a makeshift way
Use: He can extemporize on nay of a number of subjects.
26)

Agog (uh-gog)

Meaning: highly excited by eagerness, curiosity; in a state of eager desire, excitedly


Use: She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was,
but she was not sent to school.
27)

Middling (mid-ling)

Meaning: mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian; medium; moderate


Use: Belle had a little education, played the piano fair to middling, and paid Mama
to tutor her in this and that.
28)

Cynosure (sahy-nuh-shoor)

Meaning: something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest etc.;
something serving for guidance or direction
Use: Currently the cynosure in the space programme is the Moon landing.
29)

Legerity (luh-jer-i-tee)

Meaning: physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility


Use: His own tricky legerity discourages solemn praise.
30)

Maudlin (mawd-lin)

Meaning: tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental


Use: It was a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
31)

Gauche (gohsh)

Meaning: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude, tactless


Use: Their exquisite manners always made me feel gauche.
32)

Brume (broom)

Meaning: mist; fog


Use: The silver brume swirled around the hedge in the early morning.
33)

Emblem (em-bluh-em)

Meaning: an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, or class of


persons; symbol
Use: The olive branch is an emblem of peace.
34)

Magniloquent (mag-nil-uh-kwuh-nt)

Meaning: Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of


discourse; bombastic
Use: It was his magniloquent manner due to which people did not notice his
financial problem.
35)

Indemnify (in-dem-nuh-fahy)

Meaning: to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred; to guard


or secure against anticipated loss; security against
Use: After the hardships and toil during the day, I was expecting that hospitable
reception at home would indemnify me.
36)

Sodality (soh-dal-i-tee)

Meaning: fellowship; comradeship; an association or society


Use: There was a sodality of investors working just down the block.
37)

Astir (uh-stur)

Meaning: moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement; up and


about; out of bed
Use: The field was astir with small animals, birds, and insects.
38)

Interosculate (in-ter-os-kyuh-leyt)

Meaning: to form a connecting link; to interpenetrate


Use: We need to use certain words that interosculate the incomplete sentences.
39)

Speculate (Spey-q-late)

Meaning: to predict, forecast


Use: They speculated the changes in the weather, September onwards.
40)

Lethargy (le-thaar-gee)

Meaning: to feel sleepy

Use: I usually feel very lethargic during the day if I dont get adequate sleep at
night.
41)

Yearn (ye-urn)

Meaning: to want; to wish for; require


Use: She yearned to come first in class so as to make her parents proud.
42)

Rummage (rum-age)

Meaning: to look for; hunt for


Use: He rummaged around the attic to find the old photo albums.
43)

Divulge (dee-vuhl-jh)

Meaning: to say to; to disclose


Use: Cathy warned her younger sister to not divulge their secrets to anybody else.
44)

Aesthetic (es-thet-ik)

Meaning: artistic; visual


Use: The painting made by the amateur artist had aesthetic value.
45)

Affiliate (eh-fill-e-yate)

Meaning: to associate with; to be a member of


Use: My college is affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
46)

Ascertain (uh-cer-tin)

Meaning: to find out; to discover


Use: Kate went to the library to ascertain some facts about Stonehenge.
47)

Edify (eh-dee-fy)

Meaning: to teach; educate


Use: It is not only the responsibility of the parents but also the teachers to edify a
child about manners.
48)

Predicament (pre-dee-ka-ment)

Meaning: Problem; trouble

Use: She pondered while eating her lunch on how to escape her current
predicament.

49)

Hindrance (hin-dr-ence)

Meaning: drawback; obstruction


Use: The only hindrances in her career were her interfering friends.
50)

Liaison (lee-yeh-zon)

Meaning: relationship; link; bond


Use: This group of men is the liaison between the people and the Government.
51)

Contemporary (con-temp-po-rary)

Meaning: modern; new


Use: The new choreographer was well-versed with contemporary dance forms.
52)

Grapple (graa-pple)

Meaning: struggle; come to grips with


Use: The mother grappled to accept the fact that her daughter got married without
informing her.
53)

Jurisdiction (jew-ris-dik-shun)

Meaning: control; power


Use: The officer had to stop investigating the case as the criminal fled to a region
outside his jurisdiction.
54)

Prodigy (pro-dee-jee)

Meaning: genius; sensation


Use: Robert was famous as a cricketing child prodigy.
55)

Ambivalent (am-bee-va-lent)

Meaning: unsure; in two minds; undecided


Use: The society has an ambivalent attitude towards gifted individuals.

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