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.
|
Friday, 13 February 2015
vocabulary week 4
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