Words in Use-6

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
[list style=”list5″ color=”black”]

Allegiance: loyalty or devotion of a person
Amok: a psychic disturbance characterized by depression
Anodyne: a medicine which relieves pain
Anonymity: the state of being unknown
Anthropogenic: Of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings
Awash: covered or crowded
Balustrade: a railing with supporting balusters
Bawdy: indecent
Benign: Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
Boasted: to speak with pride
Brandished: Exhibit aggressively
Bristles: short, coarse hairs of animals
Clamour: any loud, continued noise
Clergy: group of ordained persons in a religion
Cognitive: perception
Collegial: involving shared responsibility
Comatose: lacking alertness or energy
Compassion: feeling of deep sympathy
Conundrum: anything that puzzles
Debunking: expose the falseness of something
Despotism: absolute power or control
Distortion: something that is distorted
Ensconced: hide securely
Enshrined: to cherish as scared
Existential: Derived from experience or the experience of existence
Extolling: praise enthusiastically
Fragility: easily broken or damaged
Harping: talking about something persistently
Hindrance: Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
Horrifically: To an appalling extent
Iconoclasm: action of iconoclasts
Inflicting: to impose something
Islamophobia: Prejudice against Muslims
Kneejerk: A reflex extension of the leg resulting from a sharp tap on the patellar tendon
Legitimate: according to the established law
Loftily: arrogant
Lopsided: leaning to one side
Magniloquent: expressed in a lofty style
Minaret: tower attached to a mosque
Mired: wet, swampy ground
Orthodox: customary
Paranoia: excessive suspicion of the motives of others
Plenary: Full in all respects
Posterity: descendants of a person
Pow-wow: a quick private conference
Predatory: preying upon other animals for food
Profusion: abundance
Putatively: supposed
Relented: become less severe
Reluctance: unwillingness
Reluctance: unwillingness
Replicate: an exact copy
Resilience: power to recover
Rigor: harshness
Sanctity: scared
Scarcity: A small and inadequate amount
Scuttling: to run with hasty steps
Sneak: to act in furtive manner
Stagnant: dull and inactive
Statute: enactment made by formal legislature
Trumped: to excel
Ungrudgingly: In a generous and ungrudging manner
Veracity: truthfulness
Vicious: unpleasantly severe
Wracking: damage or destruction

[/list]

Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words
Word Posters
Profuse
Cognition
Clamorous
Iconoclast
Compassion

Mnemonics
Enshrined: Safe in a shrine
Horrifically: Horrible
Kneejerk: Too many jerks too soon ( reacting according to a certain habitual manner; unthinking; instinctual)
Legitimate: Legal (according to the established law)
Loftily: Place yourself on a LOFT above others) (arrogant)

Happy Learning and Reading.

Sources for these words:
Articles for Daily Reads, June 8 to 15

[styled_table]