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English Vocabulary By Neerja Raheja | Free PDF Download – Set 7

hogwash Noun Meaning: Foolish or meaningless talk; Nonsense; balderdash; bunkum (foolish and nonsense talks); Usage: According to many Trump’s claims are a mere hogwash Why the word is trending? nonchalant Adjective Meaning: Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 20th August 2018

missive [ MIS-iv ] [noun]  MEANING: written correspondence or letter apocalyptic [ uh'-pok-uh'-LIP-tik ] [noun,adjective]  MEANING: 1. (adj.) pertaining to or of an apocalypse 2. (adj.) prophetic, revelatory or ominous or suggestive of a disastrous outcome 3. (adj.) pertaining to or suggestive of a final doom...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 18th August 2018

indict [ in-DAHYT ] [transitive verb]  MEANING: accuse, charge or prosecute ossify [ OS-uh’-fahy ] [intransitive verb,transitive verb]  MEANING: 1. (tr.v.) to harden and transform to a bone 2. (tr. v.) to be rigid or resist change and unconventionality 3. (intr. v.) to change a bone...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 17th August 2018

blasé [ blah-ZEY, BLAH-zey; Fr. bla*-ZEY ] [adjective]  MEANING: 1. apathetic to, indifferent to or bored with worldly pleasures 2. sophisticated 3. nonchalant or unconcerned kibbutz [ ki-BOO’ TS, -BOOTS ] [noun]  MEANING: a community farm or settlement in israel kickshaw [ KIK-shaw ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. a tidbit...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 16th August 2018

kismet [ KIZ-mit, -met, KIS- ] [noun]  MEANING: fate, luck or destiny overweening [ OH-ver-WEE-ning ] [adjective]  MEANING: 1. brash, arrogant or conceited excessive or overbearing apparition [ ap-uh'-RISH-uh' n ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. a spectre, wraith, phantom or supernatural appearance 2. a manifestation or sudden appearance 3. an...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 14th August 2018

limpid [ LIM-pid ] [adjective]  MEANING: 1. transparent, crystal clear 2. lucid and simple 3. calm, serene or free of stress frivolity [ fri-VOL-i-tee ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. triviality, silliness or lightness 2. frippery, bagatelle or something has little or no importance doddering [ dod-er-ing ] [adjective]  MEANING: mentally...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 13th August 2018

placid [ PLAS-id ] [adjective]  MEANING: 1. peaceful, tranquil or serene 2. complacent excision [  ek-SIZH-uh' n, ik-  ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. an act, process or instance of removal 2. abscission or surgical removal xiphoid [ ZIF-oid ] [noun,adjective]  MEANING: 1. (adj.) sword shaped 2. (n.) the xiphisternum...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 11th August 2018

infirmity [ in-FUR-mi-tee ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. frailty or feebleness 2. foible or moral failing 3. ailment or malady myriad [ MIR-ee-uh’ d ] [noun,adjective]  MEANING: 1. (n.) an enormous or incalculable number 2. (n.) (archaic) ten thousand 3. (adj.) incalculable, indefinite or innumerable 4. (adj.)...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 10th August 2018

plethora [ PLETH-er-uh’ ] [noun]  MEANING: 1. a very large amount, superfluity or overabundance 2. an abnormality which is characterized by excessive blood in the circulatory system or in some organ or area of it deducible [ di-du-ci-ble ] [transitive verb]  MEANING: 1. to infer from...

Daily Word List Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF – 9th August 2018

nascent [ NAS-uh’ nt, NEY-suh’ nt ] [adjective]  MEANING: having recently developed or emerged deprecate [ DEP-ri-keyt ] [transitive verb]  MEANING: 1. to deplore or disapprove 2. to belittle, play down or depreciate explicate [ EK-spli-keyt ] [transitive verb]  MEANING: 1. to explain or make clear the meaning of...