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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- Askance: with suspicion
- Bizarre: weird, unusual
- Breach: violation
- Brutal: cruel or inhuman
- Clutch: to hold tightly
- Codification: the process of arranging in a systematic form
- Commemorative: to honor the memory of someone
- Console: to lessen the grief
- De facto: in fact
- Decelerated: to decrease the velocity of something
- Dichotomy: division into parts
- Dismantle: to disassemble
- Egress: an exit
- Emulate: to try to equal or excel
- Entrenched: establish firmly
- Enunciate: to pronounce in a particular manner
- Expulsion: the act of expelling
- Extremist: supporter of extreme doctrines
- Fragile: delicate
- Frill: affectation of manner, style
- Fumbling: to fell about clumsily
- Glumly: dejected
- Hordes: a large group
- Hostile: not friendly or generous
- Ideologues: a person who zealously advocates an ideology
- Impede: hindrances, obstruction
- Imponderable: that cannot be precisely determined
- Indicted: to charge with an offence
- Innumerate: unfamiliar with mathematical concepts
- Legitimate: according to the law
- Lethal: causing death
- Misdemeanour: instance of misbehaviour
- Mortal: deadly
- Mourning: period of grieving
- Naysayer: person who habitually expresses negative views
- Ominous: threatening
- Perpetual: continuing forever
- Perversely: persistent in what is wrong
- Plead: to use arguments
- Prodded: to poke with something pointed
- Reminiscent: suggestive
- Repatriation: to return to one’s own country
- Resilient: rebounding
- Retrospective: directed backwards
- Robust: vigorous
- Sabotaged: interference as by enemy agents
- Scandal: an offence caused by fault
- Scion: a descendant
- Sheer: unqualified, utter
- Skimpily: lacking in size, fullness
- Slaughter: brutal killing
- Sleuths: private investigator
- Solidarity: community of feelings and interests
- Tantalise: tease by arousing expectations
- Tumultuous: highly agitated
- Tycoon: a businessperson with great power and wealth
- Unleash: set loose
- Venture: a business undertaking
- Vexing: to irritate or annoy
- Vigilant: alert
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Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words
Word Posters
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Mnemonics
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- Slaughter: I WILL KILL EVERYONE’S DAUGHTER
- Unleash: BROKE AWAY FROM ALL LEASHES
- Tycoon: I BRING MONEY-TYPHOONS
- Plead: WHY DID YOU DO THIS DEED?
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Happy Learning and Reading.
Sources for these words:
Articles for Daily Reads, May 24 to 31
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very helpful..could we also have a list of phrasal words like fend off, meted out etc.??