Words in Use-2

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 simplify 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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Abatement: termination
Abysmal: extremely hopeless
Acumen: keen insight
Ambit: boundary or limit
Anonymity: the state or quality of being anonymous
Arid: extremely dry
Caveat: a warning or caution
Chicanery: deception by sophistry
Clemency: the act of showing mercy
Compliance: the tendency to yield
Consortium: combination of financial institutions working together
Contentious: quarrelsome
Curb: anything that controls
Custom duty: a tax levied on the imports
Deficit: Expenses minus incomes
Docile: easily managed
Erroneous: containing errors
Evoke: to call up or cause to appear
Exacerbated: aggravate
Exacerbates: to aggravate
Expedient: tending to promote some proposed object
Foisted: impose fraudulently
Formidable: causing fear
Hassle: a disorderly dispute
Herald: a royal or official messenger
Immediacy: the quality of being immediate
Incursion: invasion of a place or territory
Inevitable: that cannot be avoided
Intrusion: illegal act of entering
Jeopardize: hazard or risk
Lethal: deadly
Lust: Intense sexual desire
Murmur: a low continuous sound of distinct voices
Neonatal: pertaining to newborn children
Obviate: to prevent or eliminate
Orgy: wild, drunken activity
Pioneer: a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
Pivot: the end of a shaft
Plum: a fruit or a tree
Probation: the act of testing
Proficiency: skill or expertness
Rein: controlling or directing power
Ruse: a trick
Sacked: a large bag for storing grain
Shrink: to contract or lessen in size
Sordid: dirty or filthy
Stalling: shed for accommodation of an animal
Sympathy: sharing feelings of another person
Synapse: a region where impulses are received and transmitted
Torpedoed: s self propelled missile containing explosives
Untenable: incapable of being defended
Vague: not clearly stated
Verdict: a judgment
Whack: to strike with a smart blow
Wrath: fierce anger