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

harbinger [ HAHR-bin-jer ] [ noun, transitive verb ] MEANING : (n.) someone or something that indicates or announces what is to come (tr. v.) to indicate the approach of domineer [ dom-uh'-NEER ] [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. (tr.v.) to dominate over,...

Daily Word List – 8th April 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF

highbrow [ HAHY-brou ] [ noun, verb ] MEANING : 1. (n.) a person who has or affects a highly cultivated and intellectual taste 2. (v.) of, relating to or being intellectual or cultivated ensconce [ en-SKONS ] [ transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. to...

Daily Word List – 23rd March 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation

exacerbate [ ig-ZAS-er-beyt, ek-SAS-] [  verb ] MEANING : aggravate; increase intensity, bitterness or violence burlesque [ ber-LESK ] [ noun, verb ] MEANING : 1. (n.) a dramatic or literary work that tries to mock or ridicule through grotesque comical exaggeration 2. (n.) a grotesque theatrical...

Daily Advanced Word List – 20th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

inveigle [ in-VEY-guh’ l, -VEE- ] [ transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. to entice or win over by flattery or sweet talk 2. to obtain or acquire by slyness or beguiling talk   adduce [ uh'-DOOS, uh'-DYOOS ] [ transitive verb ] MEANING : to...

Daily Advanced Word List – 19th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

Machiavellian [ mak-ee-uh’-VEL-ee-uh’ n ] [ adjective ] MEANING : 1. of or pertaining to Machiavelli 2. suggestive or marked by the principles analysed by Machiavelli especially those concerned with deceit, cunning or expediency coalescing [ koh-uh’-LES ] [ adjective...

Daily Advanced Word List – 18th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

omnipresent [ om-nuh’-PREZ-uh’ nt ] [ adjective ] MEANING : present everywhere at the same time abstruse [ ab-STROOS ] [ adjective ] MEANING : 1. recondite, ambiguous, esoteric or very difficult to understand or comprehend disparate [ DIS-per-it, di-SPAR-...

Daily Advanced Word List – 17th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

nemesis [ NEM-uh’-sis ] [ noun ] MEANING : 1. a source of harm or ruin 2. an opponent who is fearsome and cannot be beaten or overcome 3. one that inflicts retribution or vengeance comely [ KUHM-lee ] [...

Daily Advanced Word List – 16th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

malediction [ mal-i-DIK-shuh’ n ] [ noun ] MEANING : 1. the act of cursing or calling down some evil upon someone 2. a curse; imprecation accede [ ak-SEED ] [ transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. to concede, assent...

Daily Advanced Word List – 15th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

malevolent [ muh’-LEV-uh’-luh’ nt ] [ adjective ] MEANING : 1. having or displaying ill-will, hatred; disposed to causing harm or evil to others; malicious 2. having an evil, malicious influence quaver [ KWEY-ver ] [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive...

Daily Advanced Word List – 14th Feb 2018, English Language, Meaning, Pronunciation

rambunctious [ ram-BUHNGK-shuh’ s ] [ adjective ] MEANING : excessively boisterous; difficult to handle empirical [ em-PIR-i-kuh’ l ] [ adjective ] MEANING : 1. derived from experience or by observation 2. verifiable by experiment 3. based on observation...