WORD LIST 5

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WORD LIST 5

• ANECDOTE (n) yarn, reminiscence
• CELERITY (n) Speed
• EXTRANEOUS (adj.) Alien, external, inapt,
  peripheral

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• INCOHERENT (Adj) disconnected, rambling,
  inarticulate, desultory.
• MALADROIT (adj) inept, ungainly, gauche,
  awkward
• PALLID (adj) anemic, lurid, bland, vapid

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• PRESUMPTUOUS (adj.) haughty, overweening,
  arrogant
• SCRUPLOUS (adj.) meticulous, punctilious,
  painstaking
• UNEQUIVOCAL (adj) Straightforward, direct,
  decisive

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GROUP 2

• ANIMOSITY (n) hatred, antagonism
• CENSORIOUS (adj) condemnatory, critical

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• DICHOTOMY (n) a division into two parts
• EXTRAPOLATE (v) extend, predict on the basis of
  known data
• INCONGRUOUS (adj) absurd, discordant, incomplete

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• MALADY (n) affliction, infirmity
• PALPABLE (adj.) conspicuous, blatant, glaring
• PRETENTIOUS (adj.) ostentatious, orotund,
  grandiose

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• SCRUTINIZE (v) scan, peruse, investigate
• UNFETTER (v) set free

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Group 3

• ANNEX (n) extension, wing, ell
• CENSURE (v) castigate, upbraid, chide, rebuke

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• DIDACTIC (adj.) pedantic, edifying, moralistic
• EXTRINSIC (adj.) inapposite, alien, external
• INCONSEQUENTIAL (adj.) trivial, petty
• MALEDICTION (n) anathema, execration

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• PANACEA (n) elixir, nostrum, universal remedy
• PREVARICATE (v) lie, quibble, equivocate
• SCUTTLE (v) sink
• UNFROCK (v) to remove priest from his position

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Group 4

• ANNEX (v) conquer, expropriate
• CEREBRAL (adj.) intellectual

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• DIFFIDENT (adj.) timid,
• timorous, unassuming
• FALLACIOUS (adj.) erroneous, illusory,
  spurious
• INCONSPICUOUS (adj.) unobtrusive, camouflaged

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• MALEFACTOR (n) miscreant, reprobate, delinquent
• PARADIGM (n) paragon, exemplar
• PRISTINE (adj.) immaculate, virgin, unblemished

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• SEMINARY (n) an institution where priest are
  trained
• UNPRECEDENTED (adj.) Unparalleled, atypical,
  unique

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Group 5

• ANOMOLY (n) aberration, rarity
• CERTITUTE (n) certainty

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• DIGRESS (v) ramble, wander, meander
• FALTER (v) oscillate, vacillate, stumble
• INDELIBLE (adj.) inerasable, unobliterable,
  ineffaceable

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• MALINGER (v) fake illness, pretend, shirk
• PARADOX (n) contradiction, incongruity, anomaly
• PROCLIVITY (n) propensity, penchant, proness

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• SENSUOUS (adj.) aesthetic, pleasing, gratifying
• UNSCATHED (adj.) unharmed, intact

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Group 6

• ANTAGONISM (n) animosity, friction, enmity
• CHARLATAN (n) imposter, swindle, quack, fraud
• DIKE (n) dam, embankment

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• FANATICAL (adj.) bigoted, frenetic
• INDIFFERENT (adj.) unconcerned, detached,
  callous
• MALINGERER (n) person who deliberately avoids
  work

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• PARAGON (n) nonpareil, exemplar, apotheosis
• PROCRASTINATE (v) defer action, be dilatory
• SENTINEL (n) watchman
• UNWITTING (adj,) unaware, ignorant / unplanned,
  inadvertent

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Group 7

• ANTOGONISTIC (adj.) antipathetic, inimical
• CHARY (adj.) careful. circumspect ant-
  heedless, unwary
• DILATORY (adj.) tardy, sluggish ant- fast
  ,prompt

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• FANATICISM (n) obsession, passion
• INDIGENOUS (adj.) native, endemic, aboriginal
• MALLEABLE (adj.) pliant, amenable

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• PARAMOUNT (adj.) predominant, outstanding
• PRODIGAL (adj.) spendthrift, improvident,
  profligate
• SEQUESTER (v) seclude, segregate, confiscate
• UPBRAID (v) chide, berate, censure

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Group 8

• ANTEDILUVIAN (adj.) antiquated, primeval
• CHASTISES (v) castigate, whip, flog, scourge
  ant-praise
• DILEMMA (n) predicament, catch22

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• FASTIDIOUS (adj.) hypercritical, fussy
• INDOLENCE (adj.) languid, torpidity, lethargy
• MALLET (n) wooden hammer, stick used for polo

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• PARASITE (n) scrounger
• PRODIGIOUS (adj.) astounding, colossal,
  stupendous ant ordinary
• SERENDIPITY (n) fortuity, lucky

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• UPROARIOUS (adj.) boisterous, unruly

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group 9

• ANTHOLOGY (n) compendium, compilation
• CHICANERY (n) fraudulence, hoodwinking
• DILENTTANTE (n) dabbler, amateur, connoisseur

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• FATUOUS (adj.) inane, vacuous, ludicrous
• INDUCTEE (n) novice, beginner
• PARCHED (adj.) desiccated, dehydrated ant-
  sodden, soaking

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• PROFANE (adj.) blasphemous, sacrilegious
• SERENE (adj.) tranquil, placid
• UPSHOT (n) conclusion, denouement, repercussion

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Group 10

• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM (n) putting man at the
  centre of ones philosophy
• CHIMERICAL (adj.) changeable
• DILIGENT (adj.) assiduous, industrious,
  tenacious

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• FEASIBLE (adj.) doable, viable
• INDULGENT (adj.) compassionate, tolerant
• SERRATED (adj.) saw-toothed
• URBANE (adj.) debonair, elegant ant uncouth,
  boorish

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• MARRED (v) mutilate, tarnish
• PARIAH (n) social outcast
• PROFANITY (n) blasphemy, sacrilege