Words in Use-8

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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Accredited: officially recognised as meeting the essential requirements
Aerosol: collodial particles dispersed in smoke
Apparent: readily seen
Augment: enlarge in size
Bedlam: a state of wild uproar
Belching: to eject gas from the mouth noisily
Benign: gracious
Boulders: a large worn rock
Brutish: cruel
Conduit: a pipe or tube for conveying water
Culinary: used in cooking.
Cusp: a pointed end
Demise: death or decease
Denigrate: defame
Discern: recognise or apprehend
Discotheque: a kind of a night club
Eclectic: choosing from various sources
Elite: the best of anything taken collectively
Emanating: proceed
Envy: a feeling of discontent with regard’s to another’s advantages
Ethos: spirit of a culture
Euphoria: state of intense happiness
Exclusion: blocking the entrance
Expatriate: to withdraw from his own country
Explicit: clearly demonstrated
Fazed: to cause to be disturbed
Fervent: enthusiasm
Foment: to promote the development of something
Fragile: easily broken or damaged
Fudged: foolishness
Futile: ineffective
Grapple: to hold something fast
Heresy: accepted doctrine especially of a religious system
Incongruent: not agreeing
Lexicon: a dictionary
Litigant: person engaged in a lawsuit
Lucrative: profitable
Mural: a large picture painted directly on the wall
Nugget: a lump of a precious metal
Oblige: to bind morally or legally
Onerous: troublesome
Opacity: the state of being opaque
Panacea: a remedy for all diseases
Pedagogy: a function of a teacher
Plausible: having an apperance of truth or reason
Pragmatic: pertaining to a particular point of view
Precinct: a district or city marked out for governmental or administrative purposes
Precursors: a predecessor
Presage: a warning indication
Proponent: the person who puts forward the proposal
Rampant: violent in action
Raptors: a raptorial bird
Resonates: to resound
Restitution: reparation made by giving compensation for a loss
Retellings: updated version of a story
Savvy: to understand
Soothe: to relieve
Trump: a fine person
Vague: no clearly stated

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Words Help: Tips to learn some of the above words
Word Posters
Heresy
Foment
Eclectic
Discern
Incongruous
Pedagogue

Mnemonics
Pragmatic: Not problematic http://wordpandit.com/2012/pragmatic/
Lucrative: Look creative http://wordpandit.com/2013/lucrative/
Expatriate: EX-citizen-gets-PATTED AWAY ( to withdraw from his own country)

Happy Learning and Reading.

Sources for these words:
Articles for Daily Reads, June 23 to 30

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