Friday, 13 February 2015

vocabulary week 4

No.
word
Types of word
meaning
example
1
ambience
noun
Environment,atmosphere of a place
We are trying to create the ambience of a French bistro.
2
salubrious
adjective
Health-giving climate
The salubrious mountain air.
3
refute
verb
Prove a  statement,opinion , or a person to be wrong.
He refute his opponent.
4
dispute
verb
Argue,debate
Some people love to dispute with everyone.
5
paltry
adjective
Very small,unimportant
A paltry amount
6
judicious
adjective
Showing or having  good sense.
A judicious choice.
7
wisdom
noun
Experience and knowledge (shown in making judgement and decisions)
She had acquired much wisdom during her long life.
8
trepidation
noun
Great worry or fear about something unpleasant that way happen
The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and trepitation.
9
temerity
noun
Audacity (keberanian), rashness (terburu-buru)
He had the temerity to call me liar.
10
pellucid
adjective
Transparent or translucent , very clear
The waer of the lake is very pellucid.
11
dwindle
verb
Become gradually less or smaller
Their saving have dwindled to nothing.
12
trite
adjective
Not new / original because often used
His poem is trite.
13
sublime
adjective
The greatest , most  admirable
Sublime beauty/ scenery
14
inane
adjective
Without meaning,silly or stupid
Inane conversation
15
paucity
noun
Smallness of a number  or quantity
A pauncity of evidence
16
intact
adjctive
Undamaged,complete
The box in the caris intact.
17
hidebound
adjective
Not willing to consider new ideas ,methods ,too conventional and narrow-minded.
He has hidebound views on his country.
18
raconteur
noun
Person who tells stories skillfully and wittily
She is a brilliant raconteur.
19
vegale
verb
Amuse or entertain with stories ,jokes
She vegaled us with an account of her schooldays.
20
curmudgeon
noun
Bad-tempered person
He is curmudgeon as he always hits his wife.
21
celerity
noun
quickness
She has celerity in her work.
22
ubiquitous
adjective
Present everywhere or in several places at the same time.
There is ubiquitous traffic wardens.
23
oblivion
noun
State of forgetting ,state of being unaware
Alcoholics often suffer from periods of oblivion.
24
escalate
verb
Cause something to increase or develop by successive stages.
House prices have escalated rapidly.
25
veracity
noun
Truthfulness,truth
I do not doubt the veracity of your report.


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