English Vocabulary By Neerja Raheja - Set 139

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Factotum

Noun
Meaning:
An employee who does all kinds of work; PA
Usage:
Jack was the office factotum

Extrapolate

Verb
Meaning:
To predict by projecting past experience or known data; conclude,
decide, derive, infer, gather
Usage:
With such a small study it is impossible to extrapolate accurately

Lachrymose

Adjective
Meaning:
Given to tears or weeping; tearful;
mournful; tearful, teary, weepy
Usage:
Praneet tended to become lachrymose when he was drunk That is a drama with a lachrymose hero

Scrupulous

Adjective
Meaning:
Having moral integrity; acting as per what is considered to be proper; painstaking, punctiliously exact
Usage:
You need to work with scrupulous care at your new job

Adamantine

Adjective
Meaning:
Unable to be broken; unyielding, rigidly firm; resembling the
diamond in hardness; bullheaded; headstrong; obdurate; obstinate
Usage:
There was an adamantine opposition of his parents to his marriage to a girl from a poor family