Words in Use-3

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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Absurdity: something senseless, illogical
Accusation: Imputation of guilt
Accused: charged with a crime or fault
Affidavit: a written declaration made before an authorized official
Agitation: urging of a cause before the public
Anachronism: Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Anemic: lacking power, vitality
Arbitration: settling of a dispute
Articulate: capable of speech
Barbaric: uncivilized
Barrack: large building for lodging soldiers
Bilateral: affecting two sides
Bilking: to fraud or cheat
Brazen: shameless
Callous: insensitive and indifferent
Cognizance: awareness
Cohesion: act of uniting
Compliance: cooperation or obedience
Conniving: to cooperate secretly
Coyness: shy or modest
Custodial: pertaining to custody
Daft: Informal or slang term for mentally irregular
Delineate: to trace the outline of
Demeanour: behaviour
Dissident: disagreeing in opinion
Dubious: doubtful
Dugout: a kind of a boat
Elite: best of something considered collectively
Embroiled: conflict
Encumbered: to hamper or hinder
Genome: a set of chromosomes
Herald: an official messenger
Imposition: the laying on of something as a burden or obligation
Inferior: lower in rank or degree
Irrevocable: Incapable of being retracted or revoked
Isolation: complete separation from others
Juggernaut: an overpowering force
Litigation: a lawsuit
Mephitic: poisonous
Nullifying: Declare invalid
Obscured: vague or uncertain
Outcry: a strong public expression of protest
Outrageous: grossly offensive
Pervasive: Spreading or spread throughout
Potshot: an aimless shot
Provoke: to anger, exasperate
Purportedly: reputed or claimed
Repentant: Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Seized: to grasp
Sobering: Tending to make sober or more serious
Sordid: Morally degraded
Spurious: not genuine
Suffice: Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
Summitry: the act of holding a meeting
Tainted: Touched by rot or decay
Undermining: Destroy property or hinder normal operations
Vacuousness: without any content