Word List 6

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Word List 6

• Dr. Geetha B

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Antiquated (adj.)

• Out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, obsolete,
  archaic, outmoded
• antediluvian (belonging to the time before the
  biblical flood)
• antiquated ideas/attitudes/valuesantiquated
  laws/machinery/technologyX modern ,
  contemporary

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Choleric (adj.)

• Easily angered, easily annoyed
• Bad tempered, irritable
• (choler- one of the four humors of ancient and
  medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and
  bad temper when present in excess from Greek
  khole-bile)
• Once a pleasing personality, now he has become
  choleric.

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Diorama (n)

• a model which shows a situation, such as a
  historical event or animals in their natural
  surroundings, in a way that looks real because
  the height, length and width of what is being
  shown are accurately represented in comparison
  with each other.
• a form of transparency painting, a scene
  reproduced on cloth transparencies with various
  lights shining through the cloths
• Birds eye view, overview
• At the museum there was a diorama of local
  wildlife.

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Diorama
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Fecund (adj.)

• Productive, prolific, lush, fruitful, luxuriant,
  rich, bountiful
• Capable of producing offspring or vegetation
  fruitful.
• His fecund imagination knew know barriers.
• A lush and fecund garden
• X barren

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Inebriated (adj.)

• Exhilarated or stupefied by or as if by alcohol
  intoxicated.
• Drunken, intoxicated
• In his inebriated state, he was ready to agree to
  anything.
• X sober

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Marshal

• (n) A military officer of the highest rank in
  some countries. a field marshal high ranking
  officer of the state
• (v) Assemble, collect, group, shepherd, organize,
  line up
• The company is marshalling its resources for a
  long court case.
• X dismiss, scatter

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Parity (n)

• Equality, par, uniformity, similarity,
  correspondence, equality of especially
  pay/position
• In Maths, the even or odd quality of an integer(2
  4 have parity 2 3 dont have)
• If the exchange rate for the dollar and Euro both
  approach 1, they are said to be at parity.
• X dissimilarity, disparity

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Servile

• Submissive, groveling, obsequious, sycophantic
• She found the servility of the hotel staff
  embarrassing.
• X assertive

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Usurp (v)

• Take someones position (usually by force)
• Appropriate, seize, take over, assume,
  commandeer, grab
• The powers of local councils are being usurped by
  central government.
• X surrender

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Apathetic (adj.)

• Indifferent, uninterested, listless, droopy,
  unconcerned, lethargic, lazy, bored
• Lacking interest/energy, lacking feeling
• (n) apathy
• Apathy breeds contempt!
• Dont be so apathetic we are trying too hard to
  make this interesting!!
• X concerned, interested

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Chronicler (n)

• a recorder of events in the order of time an
  historian.
• reporter, story teller, raconteur, describer
• Kalhan, a chronicler of Kashmir, wrote a famous
  chronicle of Kings of Kashmir, Rajatarangini.

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Finesse (n)

• Skill, flair, grace, elegance, poise, assurance
• Subtlety, delicacy, diplomacy, tact
• She finished her concert with a touch of finesse.
• X clumsiness, tactlessness, inability

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Dirge (n)

• A funeral hymn or lament.
• A slow, mournful musical composition.
• A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary
  work, requiem, lament, hymn
• The music piece played at the end sounded like a
  dirge.

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Felicitous (adj.)

• Apt, suitable and expressing well the intended
  thought or feeling
• He summed up Vikass achievements in one or two
  felicitous phrases.
• felicitous expression, a felicitous comparison
• X inappropriate, ill-fitting

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Ineffable (adj.)

• Incapable of being expressed
• Indescribable, beyond words, indefinable,
  unspeakable
• causing so much emotion, especially pleasure,
  that it cannot be described
• ineffable experience, ineffable joy,
• I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power.
• X expressible

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Marsupial (n)

• a mammal, such as a kangaroo or a koala, whose
  young are born incompletely developed and are
  carried and suckled in a pouch on the mothers
  belly.
• Marsupials include koalas, possums and kangaroos.

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Parochial (adj.)

• Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a
  parish (community, township)
• Narrow-minded, close-minded, provincial, insular,
  narrow, limited
• Having the restricted outlook often
  characteristic of geographic isolation
• Although it's just the local paper, it somehow
  manages not to be too parochial in its outlook.
• X broadminded, cosmopolitan

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Group

• Skeptical, erratic, obstreperous, vacillating,
  cantankerous, cynical, rude, boorish, whimsical,
  dubious, fickle

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Utilitarian (adj.)

• Useful, practical, serviceable, down-to-earth,
  functional
• designed to be useful rather than decorative
• The new school building is more utilitarian and
  less decorative.

X useless, non-utilitarian
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Circuitous (adj.)

• Roundabout, indirect, twisty, meandering,
  oblique, tortuous
• (circumlocution long-windedness, using too many
  words)
• He took me through a circuitous path.
• X direct, straight

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Disapprobation (n)

• Moral disapproval, condemnation
• strong feelings of not approving of something
• She feared of their disapprobationof her choice.
  
• X acceptance, approval, approbation

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Fervor (n)

• Passion, dedication, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal,
  commitment, feeling, vehemence
• X indifference
• With fervor, he held it close to his heart.
• X indifference

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Inept (adj.)

• Incompetent, inexpert, clumsy, useless,
  ham-fisted, hopeless, bungling, unskilled
• He was criticized for his inept handling of the
  situation.
• inept remark inept handling of the finances
• X competent, adept, adroit, dexterous

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Martinet (n)

• A rigid military disciplinarian stickler, despot,
  tyrant, authoritarian
• One who demands absolute adherence to forms and
  rules. (After Jean Martinet, a French army
  officer who died in 1672)

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Parody

• (n) A literary/artistic work that imitates the
  characteristic style of an author or a work for
  comic effect or ridicule.
• Caricature, satire, burlesque, takeoff, spoof
• (v) copy, imitate
• a parody of the news, a parody of the truth
• The play was a clever parody of a Victorian
  novel.

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Proletarian (adj.)

• One who belonged to the property-less class of
  ancient Rome, constituting the lowest class of
  citizens.
• Amateur, blue-collar, manual, grassroots, working
  class, common
• He comes from a proletarian background.
• a representative of the proletarian class
• X aristocratic, rich

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Skirmish (n)

• Battle, fight, scuffle, clash, conflict, tussle,
  encounter, minor battle
• There was a short skirmish between the political
  party leaders when the government announced its
  new tax policies.
• X concord, truce, peace, harmony

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Utopian

• (Adj.) idealistic visionary
• Excellent or ideal but impracticable, impractical
  
• (n) an idealistic reformer
• a utopian vision a utopian scheme for equalizing
  wealth a utopian society
• X practical, pragmatic, realistic

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Apocryphal (adj.)

• describes a story that is probably not true
  although often told and believed by some people
  to have happened
• Mythical, legendary, fictional
• Related to the Old Testament
• The story of Noah and the flood is apocryphal.
• X authentic

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Discern (v)

• Distinguish, tell the difference, separate,
  differentiate, determine, recognize
• Perceive, distinguish, fathom, detect
• It is difficult to discern any pattern in these
  figures.
• X miss

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Inertia (n)

• Inactivity, apathy, torpor, lethargy,
  disinterest, inaction, sluggishness, indolence
• Unwillingness to make efforts of any kind.
• The organization is stifled by bureaucratic
  inertia.
• X activity, energy, animation

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Parry (v)

• Ward off, dodge, evade, sidestep, escape,
  deflect, elude, circumvent, avoid
• warding off of a thrust or blow, as in fencing
• to manage cleverly to avoid dealing with a
  difficult question or some criticism
• Predictably the president parried enquiries about
  the arms scandal.

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Sluggard

• Slow-moving, lethargic person
• A lazy sluggish person
• Resistant to exertion and activity
• X active, energetic

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Appease (v)

• To bring peace
• Mollify, soothe, calm down, make peace with,
  placate, conciliate
• Just before the elections, the government is sure
  to come up with new policies to appease the
  voters.
• X antagonize, irritate

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Circumscribe (v)

• To draw a line around
• Limit, restrict, define, demarcate, delineate,
  outline
• Their movements have been severely circumscribed
  since the laws came into effect.
• X liberate, release

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Discord (n)

• Disagreement, conflict, dispute, friction
• Dissonance, disharmony, cacophony
• (n) discordant
• A note of discord seems to have crept into their
  relationship.
• X harmony, accord

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Matriarchy

• a type of society in which women have most of the
  authority and power
• Matriarchy was the dominant form of family life
  and inheritance among the prominent caste groups
  of Kerala.
• There are very few matriarchal societies in our
  country.
• X Patriarchy

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Parsimonious (adj.)

• Thrifty, economical, frugal, saving, prudent,
  penurious, skimpy, sparing (not used often in a
  ve sense)
• She's too parsimonious to heat the house
  properly.
• Parsimony (noun)
• X spendthrift, extravagant

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Fill in

• 1. It's normal to feel a little ________before
  starting a new job.
• 2. He is one of the leading _____of capital
  punishment.
• 3. The choice of players for the team seems to be
  completely _______.
• 4. She is _______ cheerful and is a source of
  strength to all her friends.
• 5. I am taking more time to finish this book as
  the style is too _______ for my taste.
• 6. Do not waste your time over her ________
  remark.
• Proponents, vacuous, apprehensive, prosaic,
  arbitrary, infallibly

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Smelt (v)

• To melt or fuse (ores) in order to separate the
  metallic constituents, refine an ore
• A past tense and a past participle of smell.
• smelting techniques

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Circumspect (adj.)

• Cautious, prudent, careful, guarded, wary,
  judicious, vigilant
• Officials were circumspect about what the talks
  had achieved.
• This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme
  circumspection.
• X reckless, naive, dim-witted

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Fitful (adj.)

• Disturbed, broken, restless, sporadic, irregular,
  intermittent, erratic
• She is known for her fitful bursts of energy.
• X unbroken, continuous, constant

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Inexorable (adj.)

• Unalterable, unstoppable, unchangeable,
  inevitable, inescapable, relentless
• The events in the company are leading inexorably
  towards a crisis.
• X flexible, pliant

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Maverick (n)

• a person who thinks and acts in an independent
  way, often behaving differently from the expected
  or usual way
• Nonconformist, unconventional person, eccentric
• He was considered as something of a maverick in
  the publishing world.
• X conformist

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Vagrant

• Noun Tramp, drifter, beggar, person wandering
  without a home
• Adjective roaming
• The town has shelters for vagrants.
• X rich, wealthy, successful, unchanging, stiff

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Arable (adj.)

• Farming and farm land that is used for, or is
  suitable for, growing crops
• Land that is suitable for cultivation
• fecund
• arable farming/farmers/farms/land

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Circumvent (v)

• Avoid, evade, get around, dodge, skirt, get out
  of, outwit, thwart
• surround, entrap, checkmate, arrest (this usage
  is not very common)
• The items were registered abroad to circumvent
  employment and safety regulations
• X confront, head on, face

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Discrepancy (n)

• Inconsistency, difference, incongruity,
  divergence, disagreement, deviation
• difference between two things that should be the
  same
• There is some discrepancy between the two
  accounts.
• X consistency, concordance

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Flagrant (adj.)

• Blatant, obvious and unashamed, deliberate,
  glaring, conspicuous
• (applies to those that are unmistakably offensive
  or wrong)
• It was a case of flagrant misuse of power.
• She flagrantly refused to apologize.
• X veiled, concealed, disguised

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Inexpedient (adj.)

• not suitable or convenient, not advisable,
  adverse, inappropriate, impractical, unwise
• The government has decided that a raise in the
  interest rates would be politically inexpedient.
• an inexpedient tactic
• X expedient

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Menagerie

• a collection of wild animals which are kept
  privately or to show to the public
• Zoo, safari park
• It felt like they lived in a menagerie because
  they had so many pets in their home.

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Masochist (n)

• One who has a tendency to derive pleasure from
  ones own pain or humiliation.
• (compare with sadist)
• His masochist behavior is difficult to
  understand.
• X sadist (one who derives pleasure from
  inflicting pain to others)

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Flamboyant (adj.)

• Showy, ornate, colorful, loud, flashy, gaudy,
  lurid, resplendent
• His clothes were rather flamboyant for such a
  serious occasion.
• The writer was well known for his flamboyant
  lifestyle.
• X modest, quiet, reserved

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Variegated (adj.)

• Multicolored, spotted, dappled, flecked, freckled
  
• Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different
  color or colors
• Of different types, diversified
• The specimen is richly variegated in color.
• It is a variegated assortment of chocolates.
• X uniform

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Pathos (n)

• the power of a situation/piece of writing/work of
  art or person to cause feelings of sadness,
  especially because of sympathy
• Sorrow, sadness, suffering, tragedy
• ( bathos- a sudden change from a beautiful or
  important subject to a silly or very ordinary
  one an anticlimax)
• There is a pathos throughout the novel and it
  moves the reader.

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Fill in the blanks

• It is our duty to fight ________ against a girl
  child.
• The bright shades of the brickwork will
  ---------- over the years.
• The prisoners existed on a ------ diet of rice
  and fish.
• She is a ______ of many charity works in the
  locality.
• When his wife left him, he found _____in the
  bottle.
• She used the platform to ------ votes from the
  factory workers.
• Meager, solace, discrimination, solicit, mellow,
  patron