25th Aug Gre verbal Que

Today's Words:


1. Ameliorate(v): to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve.
Synonyms: amend, advance, progress, promote, recuperate, reform, uplift.
Antonyms: worsen.


2. Paucity(n): smallness of quantity; scarcity; smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness; an insufficient quantity or number.
Synonyms: dearth, guilty, insufficiency, lack, poverty, scantiness,scarcity, shortage, sparsity.


3. Penurious(adj): extremely stingy; extremely poor; poorly or inadequately supplied; lacking in means or resources; Unwilling to spend money; stingy; Yielding little; barren.
Synonyms: avaricious, barren, destitute, frugal, grasping, indigent,
miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy.
Antonyms: generous.


4. Fastidiousness(adj): excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please; requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.


5. Modicum(n): A small or moderate quantity or token amount.
Synonyms: iota, tinge.


6. Flippant(adj): frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; showing inappropriate levity.
Synonyms: airy, bold, brassy, brazen, chatty, fluent, glib, irreverent, malapert, pert, sassy, saucy, smart-alecky, voluble.


7. Cardsharp(n): a person, esp. a professional gambler, who cheats at card games; a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games.


8. Masonry(n): work constructed by a mason, esp. stonework; structure built of stone or brick by a mason; the craft or occupation of a mason.
Synonyms: ashlar, brickwork, stonework, trade.


9. Pernickety(adj): characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details.


10. Obfuscate(v): to confuse, bewilder, to make obscure or unclear, to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand; to render indistinct or dim; darken.
Synonyms: bewilder, blur, cloud, confuse, darken, dim, garble, hide, muddle, obscure, perplex, puzzle.
Antonyms: clarify


11. Elucidate(v): to provide clarification; explain; to make clear or plain, especially by explanation; make free from confusion or ambiguity.
Synonyms: clarify, describe, detail, enlighten, explain, expound, illume, illustrate, interpret.


12. Rococo(adj): Immoderately elaborate or complicated; having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; noting or pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material; A very ornate style of speech or writing.
Synonyms: arty, extravagant, flamboyant, gaudy, ornate.


13. Transient(adj): not lasting, enduring, or permanent; lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary; staying only a short time;
remaining in a place only a brief time; passing swiftly away; not durable.
Synonyms: conveyance, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, itinerant, migratory, momentary, short-lived,
temporal, volatile.


14. Conniving(v): to cooperate secretly; conspire; to avoid noticing something that one is expected to oppose or condemn; give aid to
wrongdoing by forbearing to act or speak; to be indulgent toward something others oppose or criticize.
Synonyms: plot, collude.


15. Bucolic(adj): of or pertaining to shepherds; of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life; Of or characteristic of the countryside
or its people.


16. Tenterhooks(n): A hooked nail for securing cloth on a tenter; to be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen.


17. Sloven(n): a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc; a person who works, acts, speaks, etc, in a negligent, slipshod manner; One who is habitually careless in personal appearance or work.


18. Exacerbant(v): to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate; to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate;make worse.
Synonyms: aggravate, annoy, enrage, exasperate, infuriate, ire, irritate, provoke, tease, worsen, intensify, inflame.
Antonyms: relieve, soothe, alleviate.


19. Flagrant(adj): shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring; glowing; conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible; very obvious; easily seen.
Synonyms: disgraceful, monstrous, egregious, notorious; scandalous, arrant, glaring, gross.


20. Conceit(n): an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc; personal opinion or estimation.
Synonyms: arrogant, bumptious, conceited, egomaniac, egotistical, haughty, hubristic, pragmatic, presumptuous, priggish, self-esteem, vanity, egotism, complacency.
Antonyms: humility.


21. Lugubrious(adj): mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner; excessively mournful.
Synonyms: sorrowful, melancholy, bleak, depressing, dismal, doleful, dour, funeral, gloomy, morose, mournful, woebegone, woful.
Antonyms: cheerful


22. Innovation(n): something new or different introduced; introduction of new things or methods; the creation of something in the mind; the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.
Synonyms:change, departure, introduction, invention, novelty, vicissitude.



23. Virtual(adj): Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination; Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name.
Synonyms: essential, fundamental, implied, tacit.


24. Camouflage(v): to disguise, hide, or deceive by means of camouflage; to conceal, usually through misrepresentation or other artifice; to use protective coloring or garments for concealment.
Synonyms: cloak, conceal, cover, deceptive, disguise, fake, hide, masquerade, screen, mask, blind, front.


25. Malingerer(v): to pretend illness, esp. in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc; To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work.


26. Protract(v): to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of; prolong; to draw out or lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.
Synonyms: continue, defer, detract, drag, elongate, extend,procrastinate, prolong, stall, stretch.
Antonyms: curtail.


27. Silhouette(n): a dark image outlined against a lighter background; a dark image, especially a shadow, seen against the light; A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.
Synonyms: contour, figuration, outline, portrait, profile, shadow, shape.


28. Indiscrimination(n): an act or instance of not discriminating; the quality or condition of being indiscriminate or of not discriminating;
lack of discrimination.



Analogies:


1. Protract: length

2. Silhouette: shadow

3. Camoflage: Detect

4. Malingerer: Work



Issue Topic:

1. The laws should not be rigid, they should be flexible according to the circumstance, place, time etc.