Vocab 10.7 Flashcards
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Parenthesis
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- But what is the plural of parenthesis
Parentheses
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Hypothesis
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Hypotheses
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Premise
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An idea, a notion, a theory, a proposition upon which an argument is based or from which you draw a conclusion
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Premises
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- “A premises”
- A tract of land or a piece of land
And everything that is built upon it
- A tract of land or a piece of land
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Suffice
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- To be sufficient
- To be adequate
To be enough
- To be adequate
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Feign
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- To pretend
- To give false impression of something
He’s not sleeping, he’s just feigning
- To give false impression of something
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Unwittingly
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- To do something without being aware of
- To do something without being cognizant of
- To do something unintentionally
- To do something not on purpose
To do something inadvertently
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Unbeknownst
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- Without being known.
- Without the knowledge of
- Without the awareness of
Unbeknownst to his wife he has been going to this club
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Moribund
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- Related to morbid - to die
- On the verge of dying
- About to die
This marker is moribund
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Canvass (verb)
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- To go door to door soliciting votes, subscriptions, orders
- To conduct a survey of public opinion
- To take poll
- Second meaning: to examine something thoroughly
- To scrutinize something closely
- To discuss something thoroughly
- Or in detail
So in this case we are canvassing
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Expression : To gain currency
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- To become widely acceptable
- To become popular
- To become prevalent
- To become common
- Remember the example of haresh tagging sanjana
The idea ………………………………………… is gaining currency
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Breach
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- To breach, or “ a breach”
- A violation or infraction of a law, legal obligation or a promise or a custom or a tradition
To breach someone’s confidence
- A violation or infraction of a law, legal obligation or a promise or a custom or a tradition
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Inordinate
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- Excessive
- Unreasonable
- Immoderate
- Exceeding norms
Exceeding reasonable limits
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Inebriated
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Drunk or intoxicated
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Jejune
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- Something that is not robust
- Something that is insubstantial
- Dull
- Not interesting
- Immature
- Argument to be a jejune argument
- Silly, childish
- How did you like the movie? I found the plot to be jejune
- Infantile
Childish
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Puerile
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- Childish
- Infantile
- You think you are making a very good point, but that is a jejune point
Infantile - like an infant
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Infantile
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Like an infant
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Verbatim
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- You might find it in mathematics
- Word for word
- Using exactly the same words
- To quote someone
Because I’m saying these words in verbatim
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Antonym of the word - Verbatim - No longer saying the same words, putting it in your own words
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Paraphrase
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- To say something in your own words
I’m paraphrasing what he said, I’m not quoting him
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Visceral (Adjective)
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- Literal meaning : comes from the word viscera (plural), which means guts, intestines, inner organs, what’s basically there in your stomach
- Metaphorical Meaning : To feel something at your gut level. To feel it in your gut
To have a intuition ,
- Metaphorical Meaning : To feel something at your gut level. To feel it in your gut
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Inkling
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- To have a hunch, to feel it in your guts
I can’t put the sentence exactly on the black board - verbatim, I’ll paraphrase it
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“My decision to become something was not so much cerebral as it was visceral”
Not based on some intellectual analysis, but it was intuition
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Cerebral
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- Literal meaning: it means having to do with brain or the cerebral
Metaphorical meaning: something that is intellectual, something that is well planned with great deal of intellectual analysis
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Analyses
The plural form of analysis
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Naught
- Zero
- Nothing
- Something of more in a colloquial manner
- Zilch
- Cipher
- It was all for naught
Generally all the preparation that I do is for naught
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Cipher or cypher
- It is an Arabic word meaning zero
- Worthless
- Something of no value
- But there's a another meaning to this word
- Depending on pronunciation the meaning changes
- "To write something in codes"
- Means to encrypt
- Means to encode
- Means to figure out a coded message
It's important to learn the words to spell the words phonetically
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Antonym of the word cipher
- To break the code
- To decipher it
- To decode
To understand
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Proverb
- Saw, axiom, cliché, overly used expression, maxim
| Adage - (find the meaning properly)
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-banal, mundane, trite, hackneyed, pedestrian, prosaic
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Prosaic comes from the word prose
- Full of emotions
- Soporific - saffron, makes you feel sleepy
Makes you drowsy
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Onus (Noun)
- Burden
- Responsibility
- Usually a big one
- Adjective: Onerous
Burden - burdensome
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Enumerate
- To make a list
- To count off
To name one by one
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Adulterate
- To make something impure
- "Adultery"
Eg: unadulterated drivel (pure nonsense)
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Drivel
- Literally: to drool, to slobber, saliva dripping down from the side of the mouth
- Metaphorically: to speak nonsense
- To speak stupidly
To make no sense
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I did not understand a word of that Gibberish
| It was an unadulterated drivel
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Gibberish
A nonsensical talk
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Poppycock
A nonsensical talk
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Piffle (noun)
- Foolish talk or an idea
| Non sense
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Cockamamie
- Not a real word. Just a slang
- Something that is silly
- Ludicrous
- Nonsensical
He gave me some cockamamie excuse
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Humbug
- Non sense or rubbish
- But an intention to deceive, to fraud
Has this connotation
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Gobbledygook
Something that may have trouble understanding but not because it is nonsense because it full of Jargon(34)
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Blather or blither
- To talk nonsensically, stupidly
| Blithering idiot
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Masochism
- Driving pleasure from being subjected to abuse or physical pain
- Roose bolten
- And the person who drives the pleasure
- Masochist or masochistic
Usually used in the context of sexual activities
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Hedonism
- Doing something because it is pleasurable without any regards to morality of it.
Hedonist (someone who is doing it for the pure purpose of satisfaction
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Monastic
- A person who lives a simple life
- Like a monk
A very bear or Austere or Ascetic existence as in a monastery
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Austere or Ascetic
Look for the meaning of this word
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Monastery
Devoid of all luxuries
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Austere
- Without worldly comforts
- A very simple life devoid of all luxuries
Noun - Austerity
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Ascetic
- Living like a monk
| Synonyms of Austere
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Minutia
- Singular word
| Minute little details or trivial details of a procedure
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Minutiae
All the small little things
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Stickler
- Person who is strict about all the rules and regulations
| Person who demands exactness
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Subscribe
- To sign a contract to buy a newspaper or magazine
| To believe in a certain idea, certain thought, certain theory, certain notion
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Bombastic
- A loud, pretentious, pompous speech
- Speech or writing - full of grand gestures and promises but devoid of substance
Politicians come in mind
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Grandiloquent
- Synonym of bombastic
- Grand - big loquent - speech
- Simply a grand speech
Noun : Grandiloquence
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Circumlocution
- Circum - around
- Locution - speak
- Speak around the subject
- Beating around the bush
Evade the question
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Circumspect
- Spect - look
- Circum - around
- Looking around
- Paying attention
- Cautious, to be wary of your surroundings
To be very careful
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Synonyms
| Circumlocution
- To prevaricate
- To equivocate
To qualify
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Loquacious
- To be talkative
| Noun: loquacity
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Garrulous
Habitually talkative
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Milieu
- French word
- Noun
- Atmosphere, surroundings, environment
I don’t like the milieu
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Lieu
- Used in a idiom typically
| "In lieu of" - instead of, or in place of
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Ban lieu
- Suburbs
| Outskirts
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Asymptote
- Is a upper limit on a curve
- Adjective: Asymptotic
Adverb: Asymptotically
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Semantics
- Used with a singular word
- Study of words, phrases, expressions, historical backgrounds
- Linguistics - origin of languages and words, semantics is branch in this
Don’t get into the semantics of the terms
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Parlance
- A particular way of speaking
| Legal parlance - talking about legal terminologies, jargons, vernacular
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Idiom
- Group of words that have particular meaning in a given language
- If you translate word for word, then it will lose all its meaning
- Adjective : Idiomatic
Adverb: Idiomatically
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Sheer
- Adjective
- Pure, undiluted, unadulterated
Sheer happiness, sheer laziness, sheer dumb luck, sheer courage, sheer incompetence
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outflank
- To out maneuver
- To out smart
To gain tactical advantage over
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To keep abreast
- To keep up to date
- to be fully informed
- To have up to the minute knowledge of all the going-ons
So you are keeping abreast
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Apprise
- To give notice
| To inform
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"To make a clean breast of something"
- To come clean
- To admit to your (own doing)
To finally admit whatever wrong or illegal thing you did
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Rail
- To criticize someone harshly
| To scold someone vehemently
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Vehement
- Adjective
- With a great deal of force or emotions
- With forceful expression
- With vigor, energy, passion
- Noun: vehemence
Do u deny it - "Vehement", with every fiber of my being
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Emphatic
- To do something with a great deal of vigor, energy, passion, emotion
Doing with a great deal of emphasis
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Vehement and Emphatic are synonyms
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All these words we are going to see now are synonyms
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Esoteric
- Adjective
- His comment is esoteric, lecture
- Understood by only a few
Something very difficult to understand
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Recondite
Not easily understood
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Abstruse
Synonym of esoteric and recondite
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Cryptic
- Difficult to understand
- Something that is Mystifying
enigmatic
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Enigma
- Something that is puzzling
- Ambiguous
- Something who meaning is not clear
- Something that is difficult to understand
Adjective (Enigmatic)
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Crow
- If we use it as a verb
- If you are crowing is you are bragging
- To show off
To boast
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Cow
- As a verb (to cow)
- Past tense (cowed , cowing)
- To frighten someone
To scare someone with threats or show force
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Dog
- Verb( to dog)
- This thing is dogging me
- Dogging
- Something that is a constant source of annoyance
Something that is constant source of nuisance, irritation, bother
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Badger
- It’s an animal (see the animal)
- To annoy or to irritate
- To pester
To bother
