English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'W'

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Words Start from Letter 'W'

1. WAIVE: To give up (privileges, etc.); to do without.
   Sentence:
   * Waived his rights to the property.
   Synonyms: Relinquish, Forgo, Forsake>
   
   
2. WHIM (adj.: WHIMSICAL): A sudden notion or passing fancy.
   Sentence:
   * Frequently acted on the whim of the moment.
   Synonyms: Caprice, Vagary, Crotchet.
   
   
3. WRITHE: To twist about (usually with pain).
   Sentence:
   * Writhed in agony on the floor.
   Synonyms: contort, squirm

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'V'

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Words Start from Letter 'V'

1. VANQUISH: To subdue or conquer.
   Sentence:
   * An army vanquished with heavy losses.
   
   
2. VAUNT: To boast.
   Sentence:
   * Proudly vaunted his strength.
   Synonyms: Brag (Noun: braggadocio, braggart), Proclaim.
   
   
3. VENEER: A superficial appearance or show designed to impress one with superiority.
   Sentence:
   * Pierced beneath his thin veneer of elegance.
   Synonym: Gloss.
   
   
4. VENERABLE: Deserving respect or reverence because of age.
   Sentence:
   * A venerable leader.
   
   
5. VERNAL: Pertaining to spring.
   Sentence:
   * An array of vernal flowers.
   Antonym: Hibernal (wintry).
   
   
6. VERSATILE: Able to do many things skillfully.
   Sentence:
   * Versatile in all the arts.
   
   
7. VICARIOUS: Taking the place of another; felt, received, or done in place of another.
   Sentence:
   * Took vicarious pleasure in his brother's victory.
   
   
8. VICISSITUDE: A change from one condition to another, often unexpected.
   Sentence:
   * Suffered many vicissitudes of fortune.
   
   
9. VIRAGO: A scolding or ill-tempered woman.
   Sentence:
   * My neighbor's wife is a virago.
   Synonyms: Shrew, Termagant, Vixen.
   
   
10. VITUPERATE (noun: VITUPERATION; adj.: VITUPERATIVE): To scold or blame loudly, find fault in abusive language.
    Sentence:
    * An angry man, vituperating the world.
    Synonyms: Berate, Revile

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'U'

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Words Start from Letter 'U'

1. UBIQUITOUS: Existing everywhere.
   Sentence:
   * The common cold is a ubiquitous complaint.
   Synonyms: Omnipresent, Universal.
   
   
2. UNTENABLE: Incapable of being defended or held.
   Sentence:
   * Withdrew the argument as untenable.
   
   
3. UTILITARIAN (adj.): Materially or practically useful.
   Sentence:
   * Beautiful, but not utilitarian.

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'T'

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Words Start from Letter 'T'

1. TANGIBLE: Real; actual.
   Sentence:
   * Tangible gains which may be seen. and counted.
   Synonyms: Material, Veritable, Perceptible, Substantial.
   
   
2. TANTAMOUNT: Equivalent.
   Sentence:
   * An act that is tantamount to treason.
   
   
3. TAUNT:
   (Verb): To reproach with contempt.
   Sentence:
   * Taunted him with the charge of failure to act promptly.
   Synonyms: Mock, Twit, Gibe, Sneer, Deride.
   (Noun): An insulting, jeering, or bitter remark.
   Sentence:
   * Hurled taunts at his foes.
   
   
4. TEEMING: In abundance, fertile, highly productive.
   Sentence:
   * The teeming tropics, rank with vegetation.
   Synonyms: Swarming, Fruitful, Fecund, Abounding.
   
   
5. TEMERITY: Unwise or reckless boldness.
   Sentence:
   * Leaped into battle with thoughtless temerity.
   Synonyms: Audacity, Presumptuousness, Effrontery, Rashness;
   (adj.) Temerarious, Foolhardy, Venturesome.
   Antonyms: Prudence, Circumspection, Wariness.
   
   
6. TEMPORAL: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual; existing for a time only.
   Sentence:
   * A man preoccupied with temporal matters.
   Synonyms: Mundane, Secular, Civil.
   
   
7. TEMPORIZE: To delay or refuse to commit oneself in order to gain time.
   Sentence:
   * Temporized while his friends hurried to his aid.
   Synonym: Equivocate.
   
   
8. TENET: A principle of belief held as true.
   Sentence:
   * A tenet of religion which be maintained loyally.
   Synonyms: Creed, Doctrine, Dogma.
   
   
9. TENUOUS: Slender; not substantial; of slight importance.
   Sentence:
   * Clung desperately to his tenuous hope.
   
   
10. TRANQUIL: Calm; peaceful.
    Sentence:
    * A tranquil summer night.
    Synonyms: Placid, Serene.
    Antonyms: Perturbed, Ruffled, Turbulent.
    
    
11. TRANSGRESS: To break a law or command; to violate a moral principle; to overstep a moral bound or limit.
    Sentence:
    * Transgressed the bounds of decency; transgressed the law.
    
    
12. TREMULOUS: Trembling.
    Sentence:
    * Tremulous with fright.
    Synonym: Quivering.
    
    
13. TRIVIAL: Of little.- importance.
    Sentence:
    * A trivial offense.
    Synonym: Paltry.
    Antonyms: Gross, Momentous.
    
    
14. TRUCULENT (noun: TRUCULENCE): Cruel, fierce; harsh; threatening or intimidating savagely.
    Sentence:
    * A dispute marked by a truculent attitude on both sides.
    
    
15. TURGID:
    (1) Swollen, inflated.
    Sentence:
    * Turgid rivers overflowing their banks.
    Synonyms: Bloated, Distended.
    (2) Using big or high-sounding words.
    Sentence:
    * A turgid prose style.
    Synonyms: Pompous, Bombastic, Prolix

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter S'

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Words Start from Letter 'S'

1. SACROSANCT: Very holy....
   Sentence:
   * A shrine. regarded as sacrosanct.
   Synonyms: Consecrated, Inviolable, Hallowed.
   
   
2. SAGACIOUS (noun: SAGACITY): Wise; shrewd.
   Sentence:
   * Proved to be sagacious in his judgment.
   Synonyms: Perspicacious, Astute, Sapient, Discerning, Sage.
   
   
3. SALLOW: Sick.
   Sentence:
   * A sallow complexion.
   Synonym: Pallid.
   Antonyms: Rubicund, Ruddy, Florid.
   
   
4. SALLY:
   (Verb): To rush forth suddenly.
   Sentence:
   * Sallied out to meet the enemy.
   (Noun): A Witty remark
   Sentence:
   * Amused the audience with his sallies against his opponent.
   Synonyms: Quip, Banter.
   
   
5. SANCTIMONIOUS: Pretending to be religious
   Sentence:
   * Showed his hypocrisy in a sanctimonious display of piety.
   
   
6. SANGUINARY: Bloody
   Sentence:
   * A sanguinary battle.
   Synonym: Gory
   
   
7. SANGUINE: Of a hopeful disposition; blood-red in color.
   Sentence:
   * A perennial optimist, sanguine in temperament.
   Synonyms: Buoyant, Ardent.
   
   
8. SARTORIAL: Pertaining to a tailor or clothes.
   Sentence:
   * A picture of sartorial perfection.
   
   
9. SATELLITE:
   (1) An attentive or flattering follower
   Sentence:
   * A prince surrounded by many satellites.
   Synonyms: Lackey, Toady, Disciple, Adherent; adj., fawning, obsequious, partisan.
   (2) A country influenced or controlled by another
   Sentence:
   * Freedom is conspicuously absent ,in the Soviet satellites.
   (3) A body (natural or artificial) which revolves around a larger body, generally a planet.
   Sentence:
    * The moon is the only natural satellite of the earth, but in recent years it has been joined by many artificial satellites.
   
   
10. SCINTILLA: A trace; a particle
    Sentence:
    * Not a scintilla of convincing evidence.
    Synonyms: Iota; Vestige.
    
    
11. SCOURGE:
    (Verb): To punish severely, to afflict, to whip
    Sentence:
    * A disease that scourged the country.
    Synonyms: Excoriate, Flay.
    (Noun): A whip or other means of punishment, a cause of affliction.
    Sentence:
    * The Black Plague was a dreadful scourge of the Middle Ages.
    Synonym: Tribulation.
    
    
12. SCRUTINIZE: To examine carefully
    Sentence:
    * Scrutinized the contents of the letter.
    
    
13. SHIBBOLETH: A party slogan.
    Sentence:
    * A shibboleth designed to attract votes.
    
    
14. SIMPER
    (Verb): To smile in a silly or affected way.
    Sentence:
    * Simpered as he greeted each guest.
    (Noun): An affected or silly smile
    Sentence:
    * Stood nervously, a simper on his face.
    Synonym: (verb and noun) smirk
    
    
15. SINECURE: Employment entailing little or no responsibility or labor
    Sentence:
    * His job was a sinecure.
    
    
16. SINISTER: Threatening or showing evil, dishonest
    Sentence:
    * The sinister look of a gangster.
    
    
17. SLEAZY: Flimsy and cheap
    Sentence:
    * Sleazy cloth which is used only in cheap garments.
    Synonym: Unsubstantial.
    
    
18. SLOVENLY: Untidy.
    Sentence:
    * Severely criticized the student's slovenly appearance.
    Synonyms: Slipshod, Slatternly, Frowzy.
    
    
19. SOPORIFIC: Tending to induce sleep
    Sentence:
    * A poorly written novel, soporific in effect.
    
    
20. SORDID: Mean and base; filthy.
    Sentence:
    * Sordid motives breed selfish actions.
    Synonyms: Degraded, Vile, Ignoble.
    
    
21. SOVEREIGN: Supreme in power and authority; independent of the control of any other government
    Sentence:
    * Possessing sovereign powers; a sovereign state.
    Synonyms: Autonomous, Imperial, Majestic, Paramount.
    
    
22. SPORADIC: Occurring singly, at irregular intervals; scattered.
    Sentence:
    * Sporadic cases of illness.
    
    
23. SPURN: To refuse or reject with contempt.
    Sentence:
    * An offer that was spurned instantly.
    Synonyms: Repel, Snub.
    
    
24. STOIC: Indifferent, calm in bearing pain or pleasure; practising remarkable self-control over emotions.
    Sentence:
    * Maintained a stoic attitude despite all his trials.
    Synonyms: Stolid, Impassive.
    
    
25. STRINGENT: Strict; compelling, constraining.
    Sentence:
    * Stringent regulations; Stringent requirements.
    Synonyms: Exacting, Rigid
    Antonym: Lax.
    
    
26. STUPENDOUS: Amazing by, virtue of its immense size, force, or any quality in exceptional degree.
    Sentence:
    * The circus is a stupendous spectacle.
    Synonyms: Astounding, Prodigious, Monstrous, Marvelous, Colossal, Awful.
    
    
27. SUCCULENT: juicy.
    Sentence:
    * A succulent steak.
    Antonyms; Desiccated, Vapid
    
    
28. SULTRY: Close, hot, and moist
    Sentence:
    * Sultry tropical weather.
    
    
29. SUPINE:
    (1) Lying flat on the back
    Sentence:
    * Resting in a supine position.
    Antonym: Erect
    (2) Inert, inactive, averse to taking action
    Sentence:
    * A supine, ineffective administrator.
    Synonyms: Listless, Torpid.
    
    

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'R'

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Words Start from Letter 'R'

1. RACONTEUR: A skilled storyteller.
   Sentence:
   * Held spellbound by a superb raconteur.
   
   
2. RADICAL:
   (Noun): One who advocates extreme basic changes.
   Sentence:
   * The reform movement was led by a radical.
   (Adj.): Thorough, extreme.
   Sentence:
   * Radical measures adopted to meet the emergency.
   Antonym: (noun and adj.) Conservative.
   
   
3. RAMIFICATION: A branching; sub-division.
   Sentence:
   * Studied the subject in all its ramifications.
   
   
4. RAZE: To tear down completely.
   Sentence:
   * Razed the old building.
   Synonyms: Level.
   Antonym: Rear.
   
   
5. RECAPITULATE: To restate in a brief, concise form; to sum up.
   Sentence:
   * Recapitulated the main ideas.
   
   
6. RECIPROCAL: Mutual; done in return for something received.
   Sentence:
   * Held each other in reciprocal esteem.
   
   
7. RECUMBENT: Lying down; leaning back or down.
   Sentence:
   * Resting in a recumbent position.
   
   
8. REDOLENT:
   (1) Fragrant.
   Sentence:
   * A room redolent of roses.
   Synonym: aromatic.
   (2) Reminiscent of
   Sentence:
   * Redolent of olden times.
   
   
9. REDOUBTABLE: Commanding fear or respect.
   Sentence:
   * Cringing before a redoubtable enemy.
   Synonym: Formidable.
   
   
10. REFUTE: To prove incorrect or false.
    Sentence:
    * Refuted his opponent's argument.
    Synonyms: Rebut, Confute .
    Antonyms: Substantiate, Confirm, Corroborate.
    
    
11. REITERATE: Repeat (several times).
    Sentence:
    * Reiterated his story once more.
    
    
12. REMUNERATIVE: Profitable
    Sentence:
    * A remunerative job.
    Synonyms: Lucrative, Gainful.
    
    
13. RENEGADE: One who forsakes political or party principles or his religious faith.
    Sentence:
    * A renegade from his former allegiance.
    Synonyms: Turncoat, Apostate, Recreant, Traitor.
    
    
14. REPRISAL: Injury inflicted in turn for one received.
    Sentence:
    * Took action in reprisal against his neighbor.
    Synonym: Retaliation.
    
    
15. RESENTMENT: Feeling of displeasure or indignation resulting from mistreatment or abuse.
    Sentence:
    * Showed resentment at what he considered an unwarranted insult.
    Synonyms: Umbrage, Dudgeon, Animosity.
    
    
16. RESILIENT: Elastic; light-hearted; possessing power of recovery.
    Sentence:
    * A resilient Spirit, refusing to admit defeat.
    Synonyms: Flexible, Pliable, Supple, Limber.
    
    
17. RESPITE:
    (1) Temporary deferment or cessation of work or pain.
    Sentence:
    * A brief respite from labor.
    Synonym: Surcease.
    (2) A temporary delay in the execution of - a sentence
    Sentence:
    *  Granted the doom man a temporary respite.
    Synonym: Reprieve.
    
    
18. RETRIBUTION: The reward or punishment exacted for an injury, wickedness, or other action.
    Sentence:
    * Suffered just retribution for his folly.
    Synonyms: Requital, Nemesis.
    
    
19. RETRIEVE: Sail.
    (1) To make good.
    Sentence:
    * Retrieved a mistake.
    (2) To recover
    Sentence:
    * Retrieved the suitcase left at the station.
    (3) To restore.
    Sentence:
    * Retrieved his lost fortunes.
    
    
20. REVERBERATE: To echo.
    Sentence:
    * A shot reverberating through the valley.
    Synonym: Resound.
    
    
21. RUDIMENTARY: In an early stage of development.
    Sentence:
    * Possessing only a rudimentary, knowledge of physics.
    Synonym: Incipient.
    
    
22. RUE (adj.: RUEFUL): To be sorry for.
    Sentence:
    * He will rue the day he left home.
    Synonyms: Regret, Repent

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'Q'

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Words Start from Letter 'Q'

1. QUASH: To crush; to render void.
   Sentence:
   * Quashed a rebellion; quashed an indictment.
   Synonyms: Suppress, Extinguish, Quell; Annul.
   
   
2. QUERULOUS: Given to fault-finding and complaining.
   Sentence:
   * Her querulous nature estranged many people.
   Synonyms: Fretful, Whining, Captious, Carping, Peevish, Petulant
   Antonym: affable.
   
   
3. QUIXOTIC: Extravagantly romantic or idealistic; highly impractical.
   Sentence:
   * A quixotic scheme that can never materialize.
   Synonyms: Utopian; Visionary; Fantastic

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'P'

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1. PANACEA: A remedy for all ills.
   Sentence:
   * Seeking a panacea to cure our social troubles.
   Synonym: Nostrum.
   
   
2. PANEGYRIC: A speech or writing of extravagant praise.
   Sentence:
   * Delivered a panegyric at his friend's testimonial dinner.
   Synonyms: Eulogy, Adulation, Tribute, Laudation (adj. laudatory), Encomium.
   Antonyms: Censure, Disparagement, Derogation, Castigation, Depreciation.
   
   
3. PARADOX: A self -contradictory statement; something 'that appears to be absurd and yet may be true -"Life is too important a matter to he taken seriously."
   Sentence:
   * A paradox by Oscar Wilde.
   Synonym: Anomaly.
   
   
4. PARAPHRASE: To restate the meaning of a passage in other words.
   Sentence:
   * Paraphrased the poem in a few lines of prose.
   
   
5. PARODY:
   (Noun): A humorous imitation of an author's style and mannerisms.
   Sentence:
   * Wrote a parody on Kipling's "Gunga Din."
   Synonym: Burlesque.
   (Verb): To write a parody
   Sentence:
   * Parodied the popular authors of the (lay to his audience's amusement.
   Synonym: Mimic.
   
   
6. PECCADILLO: A petty fault.
   Sentence:
   * Possesses one peccadillo among his many virtues.
   Synonyms: Frailty, Foible, Flaw, Blemish.
   
   
7. PECUNIARY: Pertaining to money.
   Sentence:
   * Involved in pecuniary difficulties.
   Synonyms; Financial, Fiscal, Monetary.
   
   
8. PEDANT (adj.: PEDANTIC): One who proudly shows off his learning or who overrates his knowledge.
   Sentence:
   * Like a pedant glorying in his scholarly trifles.
   
   
9. PENSIVE: Sadly thoughtful.
   Sentence:
   * Softly sang his pensive song.
   Synonyms: Reflective, Meditative, Contemplative, Musing.
   
   
10. PEREMPTORY: Positive in expressing an opinion.
    Sentence:
    * Gave a peremptory judgment.
    Synonyms: Decisive, Resolute, Imperious, Positive, Dogmatic.
    Antonyms: Indecisive, Tentative.
    
    
11. PERTINACIOUS: Clinging doggedly to an opinion or purpose.
    Sentence:
    * Pertinacious in his efforts.
    Synonyms: Obdurate, Tenacious, Persistent, Persevering, Intractable, Inflexible.
    
    
12. PERUSE: To read carefully.
    Sentence:
    * Perused the important letter.
    
    
13. PERVERSE: Willfully bent on doing the wrong thing.
    Sentence:
    * A perverse lad, always disobeying his parents.
    Synonyms: Headstrong, Forward, Refractory, Wayward, Fractious.
    
    
14. PETRIFY: To paralyze with horror, fear, or surprise.
    Sentence:
    * Petrified by the enemy bombardment.
    Synonyms: Stupefy, Stun, Bewilder, Amaze.
    
    
15. PLAGIARISM: Adopting and reproducing, without acknowledgment, the writings or ideas of another and passing them off as one's own.
    Sentence:
    * Denied the charge of deliberate plagiarism.
    
    
16. PLATITUDE: A dull and commonplace remark.
    Sentence:
    * Bored people by his pompous phrases and platitudes.
    Synonyms: Bromide, Truism, Axiom.
    
    
17. PLEBEIAN: Pertaining to the common people; hence, common or vulgar.
    Sentence:
    * Plebeian in his tastes and outlook.
    Antonyms: Patrician, Aristocratic.
    
    
18. PLEBISCITE: A direct vote by the people.
    Sentence:
    * The decision to confederate was ratified by plebiscite.
    
    
19. POIGNANT:
    (1) Gripping and moving the feelings powerfully
    Sentence:
    * A poignant grief.
    (2) Piercing, biting, pointed.
    Sentence:
    * A poignant cry; poignant wit.
    
    
20. PONDEROUS: Very heavy; clumsy; dull.
    Sentence:
    * A ponderous speech, extremely boring.
    
    
21. PRECARIOUS: Uncertain or risky.
    Sentence:
    * Earning a precarious livelihood, providing no luxuries.
    
    
22. PRECIPITOUS:
    (1) Very steep
    Sentence:
    * A precipitous cliff.
    (2) Descending rapidly
    Sentence:
    * A precipitous decline in popularity.
    
    
23. PRECOCIOUS: Remarkable for early mental development.
    Sentence:
    * A precocious genius.
    
    
24. PREDATORY:
    (1) Inclined to plunder or rob;
    Sentence:
    * Predatory bands roaming the countryside.
    (2) Preying on, others.
    Sentence:
    * Predatory animals prowling about.
    Synonyms: Predacious, Looting, Pillaging.
    
    
25. PREDILECTION: Partiality or preference for; a favorable opinion arrived at beforehand.
    Sentence:
    * A predilection for theatricals.
    Synonyms: Prepossession, Proclivity, Predisposition, Penchant.
    Antonyms: Aversion, Antipathy, Repugnance.
    
    
26. PRELUDE: An introduction, forerunner, or preliminary step.
    Sentence:
    * A short prelude to the play.
    Synonyms: Preface, Prologue, Preamble.
    Antonym: Epilogue.
    
    
27. PREROGATIVE: A privilege or power attaching to a position.
    Sentence:
    * It is a woman's prerogative to refuse to tell her age.
    Synonym: License.
    
    
28. PRESTIGE: Esteem or influence accorded for recognized achievements or reputation.
    Sentence:
    * As Senator he enjoyed great prestige.
    Synonym: Distinction.
    
    
29. PRESUMPTION:
    (1) Something taken for granted
    Sentence:
    * Acted on a reasonable presumption.
    (2) Going beyond proper bounds; impudent boldness
    Sentence:
    * His question was downright presumption.
    Synonyms: Effrontery, Forwardness, Arrogance.
    
    
30. PREVARICATE: To disguise or conceal the truth to lie
    Sentence:
    * Prevaricated in order to avoid detection.
    Synonyms: Quibble, Equivocate; (adj.) mendacious.
    Antonyms: (noun) veracity, verity; (adj.) forthright.
    
    
31. PROCRASTINATE: To postpone or put off to another time.
    Sentence:
    * Missed his opportunity by procrastinating too long.
    Synonyms: Defer, Delay.
    
    
32. PROGNOSTICATE (noun: PROGNOSIS): To forecast.
    Sentence:
    * The Weather Bureau prognosticates daily.
    Synonyms: Presage, Portend, Augur, Forebode .
    
    
33. PROLETARIAT: The wage-earning class.
    Sentence:
    * A truckman, humble member of the proletariat.
    
    
34. PROMONTORY: A cliff
    Sentence:
    * An imposing promontory along the coast.
    Synonyms: Headland, Precipice..
    
    
35. PROMULGATE: To publish or proclaim; to spread abroad.
    Sentence:
    * The President promulgated a decree.
    Synonym: Disseminate.
    
    
36. PROTUBERANT: Bulging or swelling out
    Sentence:
    * A protuberant jaw.
    Antonyms: Receding, Recessive
    
    
37. PROVISIONAL: Temporary; for the time being.
    Sentence:
    * A provisional plan until a permanent decision is reached.
    Synonym: Tentative.
    
    
38. PROXIMITY: Nearness.
    Sentence:
    * Worked in close proximity to his home.
    Synonyms: Propinquity, Vicinity.
    Antonym: Remoteness.
    
    
39. PSEUDONYM: A false name assumed by a writer.
    Sentence:
    * Concealed his identity by a pseudonym.
    Synonyms: Alias, Pen name, Nom de plume.
    
    
40. PUNITIVE: Inflicting, or concerned with, punishment.
    Sentence:
    * Took punitive measures against deserters

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'O'

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Words Start from Letter 'O'

1. OBDURATE: Hard-hearted; stubborn
   Sentence:
   * An obdurate, unrepentant criminal.
   Synonyms: Adamant, Unyielding, Inflexible.
   Antonyms: Submissive, Docile, Compliant.
   
   
2. OBLIVIOUS (noun: OBLIVION): Forgetful; absent-minded.
   Sentence:
   * Walking oblivious of his surroundings.
   Synonyms: Unmindful, Heedless, Abstracted.
   
   
3. OBSESSION: A persistent feeling, idea, activity, etc., which dominates a person; the state of being exclusively preoccupied by a fixed idea.
   Sentence:
   * Now that he has learned bowling, it has become his obsession.
   Synonyms: Mania, Infatuation (a foolish passion), monomania.
   
   
4. OBSOLETE: No longer in use.
   Sentence:
   * An obsolete word, not even included by most dictionaries.
   Synonyms: Archaic, Antiquated
   
   
5. OBTRUSIVE (verb: OBTRUDE): Thrusting oneself or itself into undue prominence.
   Sentence:
   * Made himself obnoxiously obtrusive.
   Synonyms: Intrusive, Aggressive
   
   
6. OBVIATE: To prevent, dispose of, or make unnecessary by appropriate actions.
   Sentence:
   * An act which obviated all objections.
   Synonyms: Preclude, Forestall.
   
   
7. OMNIPOTENT: All-powerful
   Sentence:
   * An omnipotent despot.
   
   
8. ONUS: Burden; duty; obligation.
   Sentence:
   * Bore the onus of his difficult office creditably.
   
   
9. OSTENSIBLE: Apparent; pretended.
   Sentence:
   * His ostensible, though not actual, purpose.
   Synonyms: Professed, Plausible (that is, appearing true, reasonable, or fair), Specious.
   
   
10. OSTRACIZE: To banish; to exclude from public favor or privileges.
    Sentence:
    * A former premier ostracized by popular vote.
    Synonym: Outlaw

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'N'

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Words Start from Letter 'N'

1. NAUTICAL: Pertaining to ships or navigation
   Sentence:
   * A nautical career.
   Synonyms: Marine, Naval, Maritime.
   
   
2. NETTLE: To irritate or provoke.
   Sentence:
   * Nettled by his critics.
   Synonyms: Vex, Pique, Goad.
   
   
3. NOCTURNAL: Pertaining to, or occurring in, the night
   Sentence:
   * Awakened by the sounds of a nocturnal prowler.
   Antonym: Diurnal.
   
   
4. NOISOME: Foul-smelling; harmful.
   Sentence:
   * The swamp gave off a noisome odor.
   Synonyms: Malodorous, Fetid, Disgusting; Noxious, Deleterious.
   Antonym: Salubrious.
   
   
5. NONCHALANT: Unmoved or indifferent; casual.
   Sentence:
   * Reacted to the news in a nonchalant manner;
   Synonym: apathetic
   Antonyms: Enthusiastic, Zealous
   
   
6. NOSTALGIA: Homesickness
   Sentence:
   * Felt nostalgia for the old homestead.
   
   
7. NOTORIOUS: Widely known (in a bad sense)
   Sentence:
   * A noforious gambler.
   
   
   
8. NOVICE: A beginner
   Sentence:
   * Conducted himself in politics like a novice.
   Synonyms: Tyro, Neophyte
   Antonym: Virtuoso

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'M'

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Words Start from Letter 'M'

1. MACHIAVELLIAN: Sacrificing moral principles in order to attain power; politically cunning; crafty.
   Sentence:
   * A Machiavellian design, wickedly contrived.
   Synonym: Unscrupulous.
   
   
2. MALICIOUS (noun: MALICE): Bearing, or acting with, deliberate ill-will or spite
   Sentence:
   * Hurting with malicious intent.
   Synonyms: Rancorous, Malignant, Malevolent, Virulent, Vindictive.
   Antonym: benign.
   
   
3. MASQUERADE:
   (verb): To assume a deceptive appearance or character.
   Sentence:
   * A thief masquerading as an honest man.
   Synonyms: Dissemble, Feign.
   (noun): A disguise; a group of people in disguise or fancy costumes.
   Sentence:
   * A masquerade so perfect no one could guess his identity.
   
   
4. MAUDLIN: Sentimental to the point of tears.
   Sentence:
   * Turned maudlin at the mention of his lost dog.
   Synonym: Mawkish, Lachrymose.
   
   
5. MEANDER: To walk about (or talk) aimlessly; to wind about (as a stream).
   Sentence:
   * Meandered through the town, looking into shop windows.
   Synonym: Ramble.
   
   
6. MEDIOCRE: Average in quality.
   Sentence:
   * A mediocre performance, unworthy of his talents.
   
   
7. MERCENARY: Acting solely from a consideration of reward or profit
   Sentence:
   * Actuated by a mercenary motive.
   Synonym: Venal.
   
   
8. MERETRICIOUS: Attracting in a false, cheap, or showy manner.
   Sentence:
   * A meretricious beauty that is too flashy to be real.
   Synonyms: Tawdry, Specious.
   
   
9. METICULOUS: Fussy about minute details.
   Sentence:
   * Took meticulous pains with his composition.
   Synonyms: Fastidious, Punctilious, Overscrupulous, Finical, Methodical.
   Antonyms: Desultory, Perfunctory, Slovenly.
   
   
10. METTLE (adj. METTLESOME: high-spirited ): Disposition; spirit; courage
    Sentence:
    * His mettle was tried in battle.
    Idiom: to be on one's mettle (meaning, “ready to do one's best”)
    Synonyms: Temperament, Ardor.
    
    
11. MICROCOSM: A little world, or a universe in miniature.
    Sentence:
    * This village, a microcosm of the great outside world.
    Antonym: Macrocosm (world on a large scale).
    
    
12. MIMIC: To make fun of or copy by imitating.
    Sentence:
    * Mimicked the comedian's gestures.
    
    
13. MISANTHROPIC (noun: MISANTHROPE): Hating or distrusting mankind.
    Sentence:
    * Condemned for his misanthropic views.
    Antonyms: Philanthropic, Altruistic.
    
    
14. MISNOMER: A name or term that describes wrongly
    Sentence:
    * To call him a brave man is really a misnomer.
    
    
15. MONOLOGUE: A speech by one person.
    Sentence:
    * The actor gave his views in a dramatic monologue.
    Synonym: Soliloquy.
    Antonyms: Colloquy (adj. colloquial): conversation between two or more persons; dialogue: conversation between two persons.
    
    
16. MOROSE: Gloomy; ill-humoured.
    Sentence:
    *  Shunned because of his morose temper.
    Synonyms: Sulky, Crabbed, Sullen, Splenetic, Saturnine.
    Antonyms: Blithe, Genial.
    
    
17. MOTLEY: Of various colors; of mixed ingredients.
    Sentence:
    * A motley costume; a motley crowd.
    Synonyms: Checkered (referring to a varied career), Piebald, Variegated, Diverse, Heterogeneous Antonym: Homogeneous.
    
    
18. MOTTLED: Spotted or streaked with varied colors.
    Sentence:
    * A mottled pony.
    Synonyms: Blotched, Dappled.
    
    
19. MUNDANE: Of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted with the spirit.
    Sentence:
    * Mundane affairs.
    Synonyms: Earthly, Terrestrial, Secular, Temporal.
    
    
20. MURKY: Dark; cloudy.
    Sentence:
    * A murky cavern.
    Synonyms: Dismal, Tenebrous, Fuliginous.
    Antonyms: Resplendent, Glowing, Lustrous, Luminous, Fulgent, Coruscating.
    
    
21. MUTABLE: Given to frequent change in nature, mood, or form.
    Sentence:
    * Mutable in mood as a spring wind.
    Synonyms: Vacillating, Fickle, Inconstant, Fitful, Mercurial, Wavering, Capricious
    Antonyms: Constant, Steady.
    
    
22. MYRIAD: Innumerable.
    Sentence:
    * The myriad stars in the heavens.

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'L'

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Words Start from Letter 'L'

1. LABYRINTH (adj: LABYRINTHINE): A structure or intricate passage out of which it is difficult to find one's way (also applied to spiritual and intellectual complexities)
   Sentence:
   * Confused by a labyrinth of intellectual discussions.
   Synonym: maze
   
   
2. LACHRYMOSE: Causing or given to shedding tears
   Sentence:
   * A lachrymose tragedy.
   
   
3. LACONIC: Saying much in few words.
   Sentence:
   * A laconic reply that spoke volumes.
   Synonyms: Concise, Pithy, Terse, Succinct, Taciturn, Reticent.
   Antonyms: Verbose, Prolix, Redundant, Diffuse, Tautological, Turgid, Garrulous, Voluble
   
   
4. LARCENY: Theft
   Sentence:
   * Indicted for grand larceny.
   
   
5. LATENT: Hidden; present but not fully developed
   Sentence:
   * Latent talent that time will reveal.
   Synonyms: Dormant, Quiescent, Covert, Potential.
   Antonyms: Apparent, Patent.
   
   
6. LAVISH:
   (1) Profuse or generous
   Sentence:
   * Lavish in praise.
   Synonyms: Ample, Superabundant
   
   (2) Given to extravagance
   Sentence:
   * A lavish spender.
   Synonyms: Prodigal, Munificent, Magnanimous.
   Antonyms: Parsimonious, Niggardly, Frugal, Penurious.
   
   
7. LETHAL: Deadly
   Sentence:
   * A lethal weapon.
   Synonyms: Mortal, Fatal.
   
   
8. LONGEVITY: Prolonged duration of life.
   Sentence:
   * A country remarkable for the longevity of its inhabitants.
   
   
9. LOW: To bellow softly like cattle.
   Sentence:
   * The lowing herd in the meadow.
   Synonym: Moo
   
   
10. LUCID: Clear; transparent; easily understood.
    Sentence:
    * A lucid explanation of a difficult text.
    Synonyms: Pellucid, Perspicuous, Intelligible, limpid, luminous, translucent.
    Antonyms: Abstruse, Obscure
    
    
11. LUDICROUS: Ridiculous; producing laughter.
    Sentence:
    * A ludicrous remark that set them all to roaring.
    Synonyms: Mirthful, Droll, Comical, Absurd.
    Antonyms: Doleful, Lugubrious, Dismal.
    
    
12. LUMINARY: An eminent person; a celestial body.
    Sentence:
    * The platform graced by a number of luminaries.

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'K'

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Words Start from Letter 'K'

1. KALEIDOSCOPIC: Constantly changing or varying in pattern or scenes
   Sentence:
   * Kaleidoscopic views of New York.
   
   
2. KEN: Range of sight or understanding
   Sentence:
   * Something beyond our ken.
   Synonym: insight

IDIOMS

IDIOMS

"A"

• A bad apple / egg: A bad influence, Some one who bring trouble.
• A couch potato: An idle person
• A hard nut to crack: A difficult person to understand, A difficult problem to solve
• A piece of cake: Easy
• A smart cookie: A clever person
  
  

"B"

• Big cheese: An important person
• Bread and butter: The necessities

"C"

• Caught red handed: catch some one in the act.
  Sentence:
  * The kids got caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jar.

"D"

• Doesn't cut the mustard: Doesn't meet the required standard

"E"

• Eating humble pie: To be forced to apologize humbly, suffer humiliation.
  Sentence:
  * He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.

"F"

• Food for thought: Worth considering

"G"

• Gone pear shaped: Gone unexpectedly wrong

"I"

• In a nutshell: simply put
• In a pickle: In trouble, mess


• In the red: owe money.
  Sentence:
  * By the end of the week, I am always in the red.
  
  
• 
  

"K"

• Kettle of fish: An awkward, difficult or bad situation, Muddle, mess a state of affair, A matter under consideration.
  Sentence:
  * The new proposal is quite a different kettle of fish from the last one.

"L

• Lion's share: The majority; A large or generous portion
  Sentence:
  * The gang stole a lot money from the bank. But the lion's share of the money went straight into the leader's pocket.
  
  
• Look like mutton dressed as lamb: Said about a woman who tries to look like much younger.
  Sentence:
  * Her skirt is too short. She looks like mutton dressed at lamb.

"N"

• Nit picker: One w who worried about small details Or A person who find faults (however small or unimportant, everywhere they look.)

"P"

• Paint the town red: Have a great time or party.
  Sentence:
  * We painted the town red when I was on vacation.

"R"

• Red in the face: Angry
  Sentence:
  * My sister was red in the face after she had found her car was stolen.
  
  
• Red as a lobster: A bad sun burn
  Sentence:
  * She is red as a lobster, after a day at the beach.
  
  
• Red tag sale: Special sale.
  Sentence:
  * I love it when stores have red tag sales.

"U"

• Unsung hero: Some one who has been very brave but has never been appreciate.

"Z"

• Zero hour for: The time to start work on.

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'Z'

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Words Start from Letter 'Z'

1. Zany: Buffoon, foolish, Jester, Simpleton.
   
   
2. Zag:
   (i) (Noun): a sharp change of direction in a zigzag course.
   Sentence:
   * We travelled in a series of zigs and zags.
   (ii) (Verb): Make a sharp change of direction.
   Sentence:
   * A long path zigged and zagged through the woods".
   
   
3. Zap:
   (i) (Verb): Destroy or obliterate.
   Sentence:
   * Zap the enemy's artillery before it can damage your core units".
   Synonyms: Annihilate, Destroy, Wipe out, Obliterate
   (ii) Move or cause to move suddenly and rapidly.
   Sentence:
   * Racing cars zapped past us on the track below.
   Synonyms: Hurry, Race, Run, Sprint, Speed, Dash, Bolt, Dart, Rush
   (iii) (Noun) A sudden burst of energy or sound.
   Sentence:
   * The eggs get an extra zap of UV light.
   
   
4. Zax (Noun): a small axe used for cutting roof slates, with a point for making nail holes.
   
   
5. Zea: A genus of large grasses
   
   
6. Zealous (Noun: Zealot - fanatic): Full of enthusiasm or eagerness.
   Sentence:
   * A zealous student achieved first position in the class.
   Antonyms: Perfunctory (done half heartedly only to finish the duty.
   
   
7. Zebu: Indicine cattle or humped cattle, a species or subspecies of domestic cattle (cow)
   
   
8. Zeck (Russian origin): Wood tick
   
   
9. Zed: An English letter "Z"
   
   
10. Zeda (Arabic origin): Fortunate
    
    
11. Zee: An English letter "Z".
    
    
12. Zeit-gist: Spirit of the time, trend of thought in a particular period.
    
    
13. Zek (Noun - Russian origin): Russian history, Soviet labour camp or prisoner
    
    
14. Zel: Fervor, Zeal, Heat, Estrus
    
    
15. Zenith: The highest point.
    Sentence:
    * The zenith of his career
    Synonyms: Acme, Apex, Culmination, Summit
    Antonyms: Nadir
    
    
16. Zep (Noun):
    (i) Cookery, sandwich
    (ii) Bomber, Hoagy, Torpedo, Sub 
    
    
17. Zephyr (Noun):
    (1) West wind, Gentle breeze
    (2) Any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing.
    
    
18. Zest:
    (i) Relish, Appetizing, Flavour, Piquancy
    (ii) Keen, Interest
    
    
19. Zeta: The sixth letter of  the Greek alphabet (𝛇)
    
    
20. Zex (Noun): A tool for cutting roof slate
    
    
21. Zho (Chinesse origin): A hybrid of a cow and a yak
    
    
22. Zig:
    (i) (Noun): a sharp change of direction in a zigzag course.
    Sentence:
    * We travelled in a series of zigs and zags.
    (ii) (Verb): Make a sharp change of direction.
    Sentence:
    * A long path zigged and zagged through the woods".
    
    
23. Zime (African origin): A beautiful princess
    
    
24. Zin: wine
    
    
25. Zine: Non commercial and non profitable publication, Like a magazine
    
    
26. Zingaro: Italian name for gypsy, A roman person
    
    
27. Zion: Jerusalem
    
    
28. Zip: Sharp whispering sound, Move at high speed
    
    
29. Zipper: A fastener strip used to fasten garments, bags and other items etc.
    
    
30. Zit: Pimple, A small swollen spot on the skin
    
    
31. Zither, Zithern: A flat, six stringed musical instrument.
    
    
32. Ziti: A hollow tube shaped pasta or tubular pasta
    
    
33. Ziz (Biblical name): Flower, Branch, A lock of hair.
    
    
34. Zoa (Latin origin): Animal, Organism
    
    
35. Zodiac: The astronomical calculation of the planetary positions.
    
    
36. Zoe (Greek origin) (Zoey, Zooey, Zoio, Zoie): Life
    
    
37. Zoic (Greek origin): Animal
    
    
38. Zol (South African English): A cigarette, especially of cannabis, that is rolled by hand.
    
    
39. Zone (Adj. Zonal, Zona): An area or stretch of land, Girdle, Belt
    Sentence:
    * A pedestrian zone
    Synonyms: Sector, Region, Territory
    
    
40. Zoo (Greek origin): Living organism
    
    
41. Zoom: Humming sound.
    
    
42. Zoon (Latin origin): Animal
    
    
43. Zoot: Marijuana, Cannabis cigarette
    
    
44. Zouk (French origin): Music
    
    
45. Zulu (South Africa Origin): Sky, A member of south African people traditionally living mainly in KwaZulu- Native province.
    
    
46. Zygote: Fertilized egg cell
    
    
47. Zyme: A ferment or enzyme
    
    
48. Zymosis: Formation of germs as cause of disease 

General Discussion - Conversation based on phrases and idioms

Dialogues based on phrases and idioms

Conversation between Mike and Jane (A general discussion).

"They went on strike last week." Mike said.
Jane replied, "What on earth for?"
[What on earth for: Why (showing surprise)]

I haven't stopped working for eight hours today." Mike said.
Jane replied, "My heart bleeds for you."
(My heart bleeds for you: To express sympathy)

She always goes to work on a bike." Mike said.
Jane replid, "She must be very healthy."

Mike: "He offered me a 50% discount . What should I do?"
Jane: "Bite his hand off."
(Bite his hand off: accept the offer very quickly, don't hesitate)

Mike: "I need some support, right now."
Jane: "Well, you can count on me."
(Count on: rely on to support or help on someone)

Mike: "Can you explain me why she did that?"
Jane: "Heavenly only knows."
(Heavenly only knows: No one knows)

Mike: "I could try another source if you like."
Jane: "There's no point."
(There's no point: It's not a good idea)

Mike: "I wonder what she 'll get up to next."
Jane: There's no knowing."

Mike: "You just can't believe what they'll think up next, can you?
Jane: "There is no saying."

Mike: "It's amazing when you learn what technology can do, isn't it?"
Jane: "Its mind boggles."
(Mind boggles: Difficult to imagine or understand, Thinking about it is quite terrifying)

Mike: "Do you know what I did last night?"
Jane: "I shrink to think."
(Shrink to think: In semi humorous/ sarcastic sense remarks that hesitate to think on that)

Mike: "Do you know how much the bill has come to?
Jane: "No, it's way above my head."
(Way above my head: difficult, complicated)

Mike: "I asume you 're following the argument, aren't you.
Jane: "No, it's all Greek to me."
(All Greek to me: can't comprehend what is being written or said)

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'J'

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Words Start from Letter 'J'

1. JARGON: Confused, unintelligible, meaningless talk; special vocabulary used only by members of a group or trade
   Sentence:
   * Variety, a newspaper written in theatrical jargon.
   Synonyms: gibberish, argot, cant.
   
   
2. JAUNTY: Having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness.
   Sentence:
   * Walked with a jaunty step.
   Synonyms: sprightly, airy, gay, nonchalant, debonair
   Antonyms: somber, staid.
   
   
3. JEOPARDY: Danger
   Sentence:
   * His life was in jeopardy.
   Synonyms: hazard, peril
   
   
4. JETTISON: To throw overboard (as cargo); to throw off (as a burden or something in the way)
   Sentence:
   * Jettisoned their old candidate as a political liability.
   
   
5. JUDICIOUS: Wise; using or exhibiting good judgment
   Sentence:
   * A well-chosen plan, termed judicious by all.
   Synonyms: discreet, politic, discerning

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'I'

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Words Start from Letter 'I'

1. IDIOSYNCRASY: A personal peculiarity
   Sentence:
   * Wearing white was one of Whistler's idiosyncrasies.
    Synonyms: eccentricity, foible, mannerism, crotchet, aberration, quirk, singularity
   
   
2. IGNOMINIOUS (Noun: IGNOMINY): Incurring public disgrace
   Sentence:
   * Suffered an ignominious descent from political power.
   Synonyms: infamous, degrading, opprobrious, odious
   Antonyms: illustrious, renowned, preeminent
   
   
3. IMMACULATE: Spotless; pure
   Sentence:
   * An immaculate reputation.
   Synonyms: undefiled, unsullied, unblemished, untarnished
   Antonyms: defiled, sullied, blemished
   
   
4. IMMINENT: Likely to occur soon
   Sentence:
   * Stood in imminent peril.
   Synonym: impending
   
   
5. IMMUNE (Verb: IMMUNIZE): Exempt from; protected from
   Sentence:
   * Immune from taxation.
   Synonym : insusceptible
   
   
6. IMPALE: To pierce through with a pointed instrument
   Sentence:
   * Impaled a spider to the wall.
   
   
7. IMPEACH:
   (1) To accuse (a public official) of wrongdoing
   Sentence:
   * Impeached the judge for accepting a bribe.
   Synonym: arraign
   (2) To cast discredit upon
   Sentence:
   * Impeached his motives.
   Synonyms: call in question, discredit
   
   
8. IMPECCABLE: Faultless
   Sentence:
   * Performed with impeccable skill.
   Synonyms: consummate, irreproachable, unerring, infallible
   Antonyms: culpable, fallible
   
   
9. IMPERVIOUS: Incapable of being penetrated
   Sentence:
   * A mind impervious to new ideas.
   Synonyms: impermeable, impenetrable
   Antonyms: permeable, pervasive
   
   
10. IMPLACABLE: Incapable of being soothed, made peaceful, or forgiving
    Sentence:
    *- implacable resentment.
    Synonyms: unrelenting, inexorable, unappeasable
    Antonyms: placable, forbearing
    
    
11. IMPLICIT:
    (1) Implied but not clearly expressed
    Sentence:
    * An implicit agreement.
    (2) Unquestioning
    Sentence:
    * Implicit confidence.
    Synonyms: tacit, implied
    Antonym: explicit
    
    
12. IMPORT (Noun): Meaning; significance or importance
    Sentence:
    * A matter of great import.
    Synonyms: purport, moment, consequence
    
    
13. IMPOSTOR (Noun: IMPOSTURE): One who pretends to be what he is not.
    Sentence:
    * Unmasked as an impostor.
    Synonyms: quack, mountebank, charlatan, bogus, fraud.
    
    
14. IMPRECATION: A curse
    Sentence:
    * Hurled imprecations at those who would not listen to him.
    Synonyms: execration, malediction, anathema
    Antonyms: benediction, benison
    
    
15. IMPREGNABLE: Unconquerable
    Sentence:
    * An impregnable fortress.
    Synonym; invincible
    Antonym: vulnerable
    
    
16. IMPROPRIETY: Improper act, manners, or expression
    Sentence:
    * Guilty of impropriety in public office
    Synonyms: indecency, indecorum
    Antonym: amenity
    
    
17. IMPROVIDENT: Lacking in thrift; not providing for future needs
    Sentence:
    * An improvident spender.
    Synonyms: prodigal, shiftless
    
    
18. IMPUGN: To attack or criticize as false; to call in question
    Sentence:
    * Impugned his honesty.
    
    
19. INCARCERATE: To imprison
    Sentence:
    * Crushed his opponents by incarcerating them.
    Synonyms: intern, immure
    Antonyms: emancipate, enfranchise
    
    
20. INCISIVE: Cutting. penetrating
    Sentence:
    * Incisive criticism.
    Synonyms: sarcastic, mordant, trenchant, acute
    
    
21. INCOGNITO: With one's identity concealed
    Sentence:
    * Traveled incognito
    
    
22. INCONTROVERTIBLE: Indisputable
    Sentence:
    * Incontrovertible evidence.
    Synonyms: irrefutable, indubitable
    
    
23. INCREMENT: An increase
    Sentence:
    * A salary increment.
    Synonym: accrual
    
    
24. INCUMBENT:
    (1) (Noun): An officeholder
    Sentence:
    * The incumbent in an election.
    (2) (Adj. ): Obligatory
    Sentence:
    * Felt it incumbent to reply.
    Synonyms: mandatory, imperative
    
    
25. INDEFATIGABLE: Untiring
    Sentence:
    * An indefatigable worker.
    Synonyms: unflagging, unremitting, persevering
    
    
26. INDIGENOUS: Native
    Sentence:
    * Rice is indigenous to China.
    Synonyms: innate, inborn
    
    
27. INDOMITABLE: Stubborn in determination not to be subdued
    Sentence:
    * Indomitable courage.
    Synonyms: insuperable, irrepressible, invincible, unyielding
    Antonyms: tractable, amenable, docile, submissive
    
    
28. INFERENCE: A conclusion reached by reasoning from data or premises
    Sentence:
    * An inference drawn from his remarks.
    Synonyms: deduction, implication
    
    
29. INGENIOUS: Demonstrating originality, skill, or resourcefulness
    Sentence:
    * An ingenious device.
    Synonyms: dextrous, inventive, adroit
    Antonyms: maladroit, gauche
    
    
30. INGENUOUS: Simple and straightforward; concealing nothing
    Sentence:
    * An ingenuous plan that anyone could see through.
    Synonyms: unsophisticated, naive, candid
    Antonym: sophisticated
    
    
31. INGRATIATE: To win another's favor or good opinion
    Sentence:
    * Tried to ingratiate himself with the politician.
    
    
32. INHIBIT: To check or hinder
    Sentence:
    * Inhibited his friend from a foolhardy course.
    Synonyms: restrain, curb
    Antonym: promote
    
    
33. INNOCUOUS: Harmless; inoffensive
    Sentence:
    * An innocuous remark, but it enraged him.
    
    
34. INNUENDO: An indirect reference or suggestion (frequently derogatory)
    Sentence:
    * Conveyed his idea by innuendo.
    Synonyms: (Verb) intimate, insinuate
    
    
35. INORDINATE: Excessive
    Sentence:
    * Spoiled by inordinate praise.
    Synonyms: immoderate, intemperate, extravagant
    
    
36. INSATIABLE: Unable to be satisfied
    Sentence:
    * Insatiable greed
    Synonyms: unappeasable, unquenchable, insatiate
    
    
37. INSCRUTABLE: Incapable of interpretation or understanding
    Sentence:
    * The inscrutable smile of the Mona Lisa.
    Synonyms: unfathomable, cryptic, enigmatic
    
    
38. INSIDIOUS: Working secretly or slyly
    Sentence:
    * That insidious disease, cancer
    Synonyms: wily, crafty, furtive, treacherous, artful, Guileful, perfidious.
    
    
39. INSTIGATE: To stir tip.
    Sentence:
    * Instigated discontent among the soldiers.
    Synonyms: foment, incite.
    
    
40. INTEGRITY: Honesty, moral soundness
    Sentence:
    * A man of proved integrity.
    Synonyms: probity, uprightness, incorruptibility.
    
    
41. INVEIGH: (Noun- INVECTIVE): To speak angrily or bitterly
    Sentence:
    * Inveighed against economic discrimination.
    Synonyms: rail, denounce, fulminate, vituperate.
    
    
42. IRASCIBLE: Easily angered.
    Sentence:
    * Even petty things made Peter irascible.
    Synonyms: choleric, petulant, testy, peevish, splenetic, touchy.
    Antonyms: placid, equable.
    
    
43. IRE: Anger:
    Sentence:
    * Aroused his ire.
    Synonyms: resentment; (adj.) irate, incensed
    
    
44. IRKSOME: Tedious, monotonous
    Sentence:
    * An irksome chore that no one liked.
    
    
45. ITINERANT: Traveling about; wandering
    Sentence:
    * An itinerant salesman.
    Synonym: nomadic

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English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'H'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'H'

1. HAIL: To greet
   Sentence:
   * The crowd hailed the returning hero.
   Synonyms: accost, salute
   
   
2. HARANGUE:
   (1) (Verb): To deliver a long. noisy speech
   Sentence:
   * harangued the multitude.
   Synonyms: rant, declaim
   (2) (Noun): A loud, tiresome speech
   Sentence:
   * An empty harangue which bored his audience.
   Synonym: tirade
   
   
3. HARBINGER: A forerunner; ail announcer
   Sentence:
   * The robin, harbinger of spring.
   Synonyms: precursor, herald
   
   
4. HAUGHTY: Proud; looking down with contempt on others
   Sentence:
   * Dismissed the messenger in a haughty manner.
   
   
5. HEEDLESS: Thoughtless; taking little care
   Sentence:
   * Rushed into battle, heedless of the.danger.
   Synonyms: inadvertent, rash, incautious
   Antonyms: prudent, circumspect, mindful, wary
   
   
6. HEINOUS: Wicked; hateful
   Sentence:
   * Committed a heinous crime.
   Synonyms: atrocious, outrageous, monstrous, odious, nefarious, abominable.
   
   
7. HERESY: An opinion held in opposition to the traditional view
   Sentence:
   * A view condemned as heresy.
   Synonym: heterodoxy
   Antonym: orthodoxy
   
   
8. HIATUS: A gap or vacancy; break
   Sentence:
   * Left a hiatus on the page where he erased a sentence.
   Synonym: breach
   
   
9. HISTRIONIC: Pertaining to the theater; designed for show
   Sentence:
   * Broke into histrionic laughter, hollow and insincere.
   Synonyms: dramatic, theatrical
   
   
10. HOAX:
    (1) (Noun): A trick or deception; a practical joke
    Sentence:
    * Played a hoax upon the credulous public.
    Synonym: canard
    (2) (verb): To play a trick on; to deceive.
    Sentence:
    * He hoaxed the crowd completely with his disguise.
    
    
11. HOMONYM: Two words having the same sound but different meanings
    Sentence:
    * Confusing such homonyms as mail add male.
    
    
12. HOVEL: A dirty or wretched dwelling
    Sentence:
    * Born in a hovel, died in a mansion.
    
    
13. HYPERBOLE: Extravagant exaggeration for effect
    Sentence:
    * An example of hyperbole: "There are a million objections to the project."
    Synonym: overstatement
    Antonym: understatement
    
    
14. HYPOTHESIS: An assumption made for the sake of argument.
    Sentence:
    * Worked from a fantastic hypothesis.
    Synonym: supposition.

Weather Vocabulary

Weather Vocabulary

1.  Air Conditioner / Air conditioning (Noun):
   Meaning: An appliance that cool down the air in a home or building.
   Sentence: The air conditioner keep the office nice and comfortable even when it's very hot outside.
   
   
2. Avalanche (Noun):
   Meaning: A dangerous slide of snow down a mountain.
   Sentence: The skier were warned about a possible avalanche.
   
   
3. Ball of ice (Noun):
   Meaning: floating balls of slushy ice form on sea.
   Sentence: If weather forecast predict hail, you will likely see some ball of ice fall from sky.
   
   
4. Below Freezing (Preposition / Adjective):
   Meaning: Temperature less than 0 degrees Celsius / 32 degree Fahrenheit.
   Sentence: It's suppose to go below freezing before the weekend.
   
   
5. Bleak (Adjective):
   Meaning: When the weather is cold, harsh an quite unpleasant.
   Sentence: People often say that it's bleak.
   
   
6. Blizzard (Noun):
   Meaning: A storms with lots of snow and wind.
   Sentence: The air plane couldn't take off because of the blizzard.
   
   
7. Boiling hot (Adjective + Noun):
   Meaning: Common expression for describing a very hot day.
   Sentence: It was boiling hot, so we all jumped into the lake.
   
   
8. Breeze (Noun):
   Meaning: Light wind.
   Sentence: Don't bother with a hat, there is always a breeze near the ocean.
   
   
9. Celsius (Noun):
   Meaning: measurement of temperature (0 degree is freezing point / 100 degree is boiling point of water, Human body temperature is 37 ℃)
   Sentence: In the summer the average temperature is 25 degree celsius.
   
   
10. Chilly (Adjective):
    Meaning: Cold
    Sentence: It's a bit chilly todays, so i think you should wear a coat.
    
    
11. Clear (Adjective):
    Meaning: When the sky is blue because no clouds are blocking the sun.
    Sentence: On a clear night you can see a lot stars.
    
    
12.  Cloud / Cloudy (Noun / Adjective):
    Meaning: Water in the sky that appears as a white or grey mass.
    Sentence: It may cloudy in the morning, but the sun always comes ut by afternoon.
    
    
13. Cold spell (adjective + noun):
    Meaning: A period of colder than average weather.
    Sentence: They are calling for a cold spell, so we put off our camping trip.
    
    
14. Cool (Adjective):
    Meaning: Temperature in between warm and cold.
    Sentence: The days were boiling hot, but the nights were cool and comfortable for sleeping.
    
    
15. Degrees (Noun):
    Meaning: Measurement of temperature.
    Sentence: I don't feel the heat, it's about forty degree celsius outside.
    
    
16. Drizzling (Continuous verb):
    Meaning: Raining slightly.
    Sentence: I think I'll take the dog for a walk. It's only drizzling now.
    
    
17. Drought (Noun):
    Meaning: A long period with no rainfall.
    Sentence: Forest fires a serious danger during a drought.
    
    
18. Fahrenheit (Noun):
    Meaning: Measurement of temperature (32 degree is freezing point / 212 degree is boiling point, Human body temperature is 98.6 ℉).
    Sentence: It was 100 degree fahrenheit when we went to San Francisco.
    
    
19. Flood (Noun):
    Meaning: Overflow of rain water.
    Sentence: The flood was so bad, our basement was full of water.
    
    
20. Flurries (Noun):
    Meaning: Very light snowfall.
    Sentence: there a few flurries but the snow is not sticking on the road.
    
    
21. Fog / Foggy (Noun / Adjective):
    Meaning: Thick water vapour that blocks one's vision.
    Sentence: We couldn't see the bridge because there was too much fog.
    
    
22. Forecast (Noun / Verb):
    Meaning: The expected weather for the future.
    Sentence: According to the five day forecast, it's going to rain on our wedding day.
    
    
23. Freezing cold (Adjective / Noun):
    Meaning: Common expression used to describe a very cold day.
    Sentence: It was a freezing cold day for the Santa Claus parade.
    
    
24. Frost (Noun):
    Meaning: Ice crystal on a frozen surface.
    Sentence: Some flowers are so strong that they can stand with frost.
    
    
25. Frostbite (Noun):
    Meaning: A skin condition caused by over exposure to the cold (typically reddish skin with with spot.
    Sentence: I lost my hat while I was skiing and I ended up with frostbite on my ears.
    
    
26. Hail (Noun):
    Meaning: Small piece of ice that fall during a storm.
    Sentence: There was so much hail that some of the trader homes were destroyed.
    
    
27. Heat Stroke (Noun):
    Meaning: A flu-like condition can acquire after spending too long in the sun.
    Sentence: Drink lots of water and wear a hat to avoid heat stroke in this weather.
    
    
28. Heat wave (Noun):
    Meaning: Extremely hot weather that is much higher than average usually lasts a short time.
    Sentence: During the heat waves we cooled our beds down with ice pads.
    
    
29. Humid / Humidity (Adjective / Noun):
    Meaning: Moisture in the air.
    Sentence: It feels hotter than it actually is because of the humidity.
    
    
30. Hurricane (Noun):
    Meaning: A tropical storm with very strong wind and rain.
    Sentence: Half of the buildings on the island were flattened by the hurricane.
    
    
31. Icicle (Noun):
    Meaning: In winter the dripping water freezes and change into long ice balls that hang off roof-eaves and windows ledges.
    Sentence: Icicles hang from tree branches in winter.
    
    
32. Icy (Adjective):
    Meaning: Slippery because of ice.
    Sentence: The roads are icy so please avoid driving down any hills.
    
    
33. Lightning (Noun):
    Meaning: Electric flash caused by two clouds hitting.
    Sentence: The outdoor pool always closes when the lifeguards suspect lightning.
    
    
34. Mild (Noun):
    Meaning: Temperature that is warmer than average (In a cold season).
    Sentence: It is quite mild out so I didn't bother with a hat or mitten.
    
    
35. Meteorologist (Noun):
    Meaning: A person who studies weather pattern.
    Sentence: The meteorologist predicted that the cold spell cold spell would be over by now.
    
    
36.  Minus / negative (Adjective):
    Meaning: Indicate that temperature is below zero.
    Sentence: It was minus twenty degrees at the top of the Ski hill.
    
    
37. Overcast (Adjective):
    Meaning: No sun is visible.
    Sentence: The sky is overcast this morning, but the sun is supposed to come out by late afternoon.
    
    
38. Partly cloudy (Adverb + Adjective):
    Meaning: Term often used in a weather forecast to indicate that the skies are sunny and cloudy at the same time.
    Sentence: Tomorrow's forecast is partly cloudy with clear skies by night fall.
    
    
39. Precipitate (Noun):
    Meaning: Rain or snow that falls on an area.
    Sentence: There is very little precipitation in the desert.
    
    
40. Puddle (Noun):
    Meaning: Collection of rain water.
    Sentence: Children love to splash in puddles when they are wearing rubber boots.
    
    
41. Rain / raining / Rainy (Noun / Continuous verb, Adjective):
    Meaning: Water that falls to earth from clouds
    Sentence: My hair are all wet and messy from the rain.
    
    
42. Raindrop (Noun):
    Meaning: A single measurement of rain.
    Sentence: I love catching raindrop on my tongue.
    
    
43. Rainbow (Noun):
    Meaning: A band of colors find in the sky after a rain fall.
    Sentence: According to legend you can find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
    
    
44. Raining cats and dogs (Idiom):
    Meaning: raining heavily
    Sentence: They had cancelled the football match because it was raining cats and dogs.
    
    
45. Scorching / A scorcher (Adjective / Noun):
    Meaning: Extremely hot temperature / A very hot day.
    Sentence: It was a scorcher so the whole family slept in the cool basement.
    
    
46. Season (Noun):
    Meaning: Time of year characterised by certain weather, i.e. spring, summer, fall (or autumn) and winter.
    Sentence: My favourite season is fall because I love to watch leaves changing colours.
    
    
47. Shower (Noun):
    Meaning: Quick / light rainstorm
    Sentence: They 've calling for showers all  week, but so far its been dry.
    
    
48. Sleet (Noun):
    Meaning: Rain that freezes as it falls. (Similar to hail)
    Sentence: All weather tires are best if you have to drive in sleet.
    
    
49. Slush / Slushy (Noun / Adjective):
    Meaning: Snow on the ground that has been rained on. 
    Sentence: The snow turned to slush as as soon as it started to rain.
    
    
50. Smog (Noun):
    Meaning: Heavy, dark cloud cover caused by pollution.
    Sentence: You really noticed the smog downtown in this type of humidity.
    
    
51. Snow / Snowy / Snowing (Noun / Adjective / Continuous verb):
    Meaning: Frozen water that warms slightly as it falls to earth.
    Sentence: It is already snowing up in the mountain, so the sky season should be great this year.
    
    
52. Snowflakes (Noun):
    Meaning: Mass of small delicate arrangement of ice crystals that fall as snow on the ground.
    Sentence: The air was cold and brisk and  the snowflakes gently fell from the sky, creating a winter wonderland.
    
    
53. Snowstorm (Noun):
    Meaning: Large amount of wind and snow.
    Sentence: All of the schools were closed because of the snowstorm.
    
    
54. Sun / Sunshine / Sunny (Noun/ Noun / Adjective):
    Meaning: the gassy stars that warms the earth.
    Sentence: We hope to have sunshine on the day of the beach picnic.
    
    
55. Sun burn (Noun):
    Meaning: Painful red /pink skin caused by being in the sun too long. 
    Sentence: The bald man got a sunburn on his head.
    
    
56. Sunglasses / Shades (noun):
    Meaning: Dark eye wear that protect you from the sun.
    Sentence: I forgot my shades and I was driving right into the sun.
    
    
57. Suntan / Tanned (Noun (also verb) / Adjective (also verb):
    Meaning: Brown or golden skin caused by long period of sun exposure
    Sentence: I got a suntan on the cruise, but it has already faded away.
    
    
58. Sunscreen / Suntan lotion (Noun):
    Meaning: Cream that protect your skin from sun damage.
    Sentence: Don't forget to reapply your sunscreen when you get out of the lake.
    
    
59. Temperature (Noun):
    Meaning: How warm or cold the air is / Measurement of heat.
    Sentence: Can you check the temperature before we get dressed for our walk?
    
    
60. Thermometer (Noun):
    Meaning: Instrument for measuring the temperature of the air.
    Sentence: When I checked the temperature this morning, the thermometer said it was already thirty degree celsius.
    
    
61. Thunder / Thunderstorm (Noun):
    Meaning: The crashing of clouds (often followed by a strike of lightning and heavy rain).
    Sentence: Lets close all of the windows, it looks like a thunderstorm is coming.
    
    
62. Tornado / Twister / Cyclone / Swindler (Noun):
    Meaning: Violently spinning windstorm
    Sentence: The tornado picked up everything in his path, including animals and cars.
    
    
63. Typhoon (Noun):
    Meaning: A giant rotating storm that brings wind, rain an destruction in ocean. (found in pacific ocean)
    Sentence: The cruise is cancelled because of the typhoon storm.
    
    
64. Umbrella (Noun):
    Meaning: Held over one's head and body for rain protector.
    Sentence: I always keep an umbrella in my car in case of rain.
    
    
65. UV (Ultra violet rays) (Noun):
    Meaning: The damaging rays from the sun.
    Sentence: Ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer, if you don'y wear sunscreen.
    
    
66. Wind / Windy (Noun / Adjective):
    Meaning: Blowing air outside.
    Sentence: It's to windy to play golf today.
    
    
67. Wind Chill factor (Noun):
    Meaning: When the winds makes the air feel colder than the actual temperature.
    Sentence: It's minus two, but with the wind chill factor it's minus fifteen.