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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- 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
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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
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