Day 5

Question 1

EBULLIENT

Synonyms: vivaciousness, elation, liveliness

Answer 1

Cheerful and full of energy

Example: The teacher’s encouraging words filled the children with ebullience

Question 2

ECLECTIC

Synonyms: mixed, assorted, varied

Answer 2

selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

Example: The DJ played an eclectic selection of music.

Question 3

EFFICACY

Synonyms: effective,capable, efficient

Answer 3

Effectiveness

Example: The efficacy of drug is reduced if it is not taken according to the directions

Question 4

EFFRONTERY

Synonyms: audacity , assumption, presumption

Answer 4

shameless or insolent boldness;

audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

Example: Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.

Question 5

ELEGY

Synonyms: dirge

Answer 5

a sorrowful poem or speech

Example: Her first poem, written at 15, was an elegy for Charlie Parker.

Question 6

ELICIT

Synonyms: extract

Answer 6

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);

derive by reason

Example: The police could not elicit any worthwhile information from the criminal.

Question 7

EMBELLISH

Synonyms: enhance, elaborate, beautify

Answer 7

make more beautiful; add details to

Example: The article was embellished with numerous idioms that it lacked readability.

Question 8

EMPERICAL

Synonyms: **practical, experimental **

Answer 8

Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic

Example: Despite lacking formal training in web design, he had an emphirical knowledge of the web design.

Question 9

EMULATE

Synonyms: follow, copy, imitate, mimic

Answer 9

Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation

Example: The teenager wished to emulate the antics of his superhero.

Question 10

ENDEMIC

Synonyms: *prevalent *

Answer 10

native to or confined to a certain region

Example: Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world

Question 11

ENERVATE

Synonyms: enfeeble, weaken, debilitate, unnerve, emasculate

Answer 11

to reduce in strength

Example: Exposure to extreme summer heat enerviates one’s energy.

Question 12

ENGENDER

Synonyms: generate, produce, cause, beget, create, origin

Answer 12

to produce, cause, or bring about

Example: Laura was bitten by a dog which engendered fear of dogs in her.

Question 13

ENHANCE

Synonyms: increase, heighten, augment, raise, magnify

Answer 13

Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.

Example: QA does the enhancements to the software

Question 14

EPHEMERAL

Synonyms: brief, temporary, fugitive, evanescent, unenduring

Answer 14

lasting a short time; brief

Example: The romantic phase of a relationship is ephemeral in the context of a lifelong marriage.

Question 15

EQUANIMITY

Synonyms: calmness, composure, steadiness, tranquility

Answer 15

steadiness of mind under stress

Example: Equanimity is one of the virtues of the wise

Question 16

EQUIVOCATE

Answer 16

use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead.

Example: The witness gave such equivocal replies that the jury was confused.

Question 17

ERUDITE

Synonyms: learned, scholarly, lettered wise

Answer 17

learned, scholarly, bookish

Example: The annual research meeting attracted the most erudite, well-published individuals.

Question 18

ESOTERIC

Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, mysterious, obscure, cryptic

Answer 18

known or understood by only a few

Example: The esoteric wedding rituals of the nomadic tribe fascinated the tourist

Question 19

EULOGY

Synonyms: homage, tribute, acclamation

Answer 19

speech in praise of someone (normally for the dead)

Example: David’s eulogy on his father was very touching

Question 20

EUPHEMISM

Synonyms: redefined term

Answer 20

use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

Example: The HR preferred to use the euphemism“outsourced” instead of “fired”

Question 21

EXACERBATE

Synonyms: rub salt to the wounds, worsen, add fuel to the flames

Answer 21

to make worse

Example: The imporverished state of the flood victims was exacerbated by the administrator’s apathy

Question 22

EXCULPATE

Synonyms: acquit, clear, exonerate, assoil

Answer 22

to clear from blame, prove innocent

Example: The judge exculpated the man who was framed in the case

Question 23

EXIGENCY

Synonyms: emergency, difficulty, crisis, predicament

Answer 23

urgent, requiring immediate action

Example: The terrorist bomb blast created an exigency in the Ministry of Defence

Question 24

EXTRAPOLATION

Answer 24

an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations

Example: Other estimates based on extrapolations put the death toll closer to 2,000.