Words in Use-7

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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Alacrity: willingness
Allegiance: loyalty of a citizen towards the government
Allots: to divide or distribute
Amputations: to cut off by surgery
Anarchic: lawless
Beacon: a warning signal
Biomass: organic matter that is converted into fuel
Canny: cautious
Chafing: to wear by rubbing
Chopper: a person or thing that chops
Chunks: a thick lump of anything
Contentious: quarrelsome
Corrugated: to draw or bend into folds
Covenants: a formal agreement
Crux: a vital point
Dalliance: a trifling away of time
Debilitating: to make weak
Dichotomy: dividing equally into two parts
Envisage: to visualize
Erotic: arousing sexual desire
Evacuate: vacate
Facade: The front side of a building
Ferry: a commercial service for transporting persons using boats and automobiles
Frosty: freezing
Haystack: a stack of hay
Hooked: hook-shaped
Imbecile: a blockhead
Intrepid: fearless
Litany: a ceremonial form of prayer
Lunacy: insanity
Mimic: to imitate
Monologues: comedic solo
Precarious: uncertain
Queenly: suggestive of a queen
Receding: to move away
Resonance: echoing
Scavenging: to gather from discarded material
Shtick: routine business inserted to gain attention to oneself
Shun: to keep away from something
Skein: a length of thread wound on a reel used in manufacturing
Sluggish: lacking in energy
Stack: orderly pile
Stumbled: to strike foot against something
Suffused: to overspread with something
Tactful: skill in dealing with situations
Unscathed: without suffering any injury or harm
Venerable: commanding respect
Wading: to walk in water
Wielding: to use as a weapon
Windfall: unexpected gain

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Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words
Word Posters
Venerable
Intrepid
Debilitate
Alacrity
Facade

Mnemonics
Contentious: Not content with anything (quarrelsome)
Envisage: Build a pretty visage (to visualize)
Monologues: (M) One log of speech )( A long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
Stumbled: To bumble here and there (strike foot against something)
Windfall: Money FALLING in the WIND (unexpected gain)

Happy Learning and Reading.

Sources for these words:
Articles for Daily Reads, June 16 to 22

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