Which words should I study?
Wordlists feature a number of words, which ones are in use?
What kind of words appear in usage?

Troubled with these questions? Do not know which words you should learn? Well, I simply that problem for you: the words in use are featured on this page. These are words that are culled from daily newspapers columns, editorials, online magazines etc. Featuring about 50 words a week, this post gives you an in-depth look at the words floating around us. You would begin to see that in some time, words start making a repeat appearance.

How to use this list?
Well, the first step is going through this list and identifying the words you do know. For this culled list, explore exact dictionary definitions, word-roots and mnemonics. These tools would help you learn these words and make sure you use these words on a regular basis, else they would soon disappear from the shelves of your memory.

List for this week
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• Anguish: Extreme mental distress
• Complicity: the state of being in partnership or involvement in wrongdoing
• Confection: the process of preparing something
• Cravat: necktie
• Deleterious: Injurious to health
• Dereliction: the act of abandoning something
• Despair: A state in which all hope is lost or absent
• Desperation: A state in which all hope is lost or absent
• Dismal: Lack of skill
• Dived: to plunge into water
• Elite: the best of things considered collectively, as of a group
• Elusive: Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
• Emboldened: to make something bold
• Endure: to hold out against something
• Erroneous: containing errors, mistakes
• Hawkish: threatening diplomatic policy
• Hostile: characteristic of an enemy
• Hysterical: uncontrollably emotional
• Inebriated: to make drunk, intoxicate
• Innate: In-born
• Intrepid: Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
• Jingoism: the practice of jingoes
• Lurch: an instance of swaying abruptly
• Mallets: a wooden implement used for striking a surface
• Mandible: bone of the lower jaw
• Misnomer: misappropriate name or designation
• Misogyny: hatred of women
• Morph: a species that occurs in two or more forms
• Mumbo-jumbo: Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
• Nonchalance: lack of concern
• Nugget: A lump of a precious metal
• Petition: a formally drawn request to the person in authority for mercy
• Placebo: An innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
• Pogrom: an organized massacre
• Prognosis: a forecast
• Punitive: inflicting punishment
• Ratified: to confirm by expressing approval
• Refinement: process of refining
• Replicated: Reproduce or make an exact copy of
• Riot: public disorder caused by a group of persons protesting against another
• Sciatica: Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
• Shire: the counties in the Midlands in which hunting is popular
• Silos: a pit for storing grains
• Sluggish: lacking energy
• Sluggish: lacking energy in actions
• Surge: a rushing forward movement
• Thwart: to oppose successfully
• Veered: to change the direction

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Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words
Word Posters
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• Inebriation
• Hostile
• Intrepid
• Innate
• Misogyny

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Mnemonics
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• Deleterious: DELETES HEALTH
• Despair: RAISE MY HAIR
• Anguish: OH FISH! EVERYTHING IS ROTTEN IN THIS DISH!

Happy Learning and Reading.

Sources for these words:
Articles for Daily Reads, May 1 to 7

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