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Abberation

Deviation from what is normal

Abreast

Up to date with latest news

Abstain

Refrain or hold back

Abyss

An extremely deep hole

Adept

Expert

Agog

Exited

Allure

Attraction

Altruism

Selflessness

Ambivalent

Uncertain

Annual

Declare invalid

Apathy

Lack of interest

Arbitrary

Random

Arbiter

A person who settles disputes

Artless

Candid

Audacious

Bold

Austere

Having an extremely plain and simple style

Blight

A thing that spoils or damages something

Blithe

Indifferent

Blowhard

Show off

Bolster

Support

Bombastic

High sounding little meaning

Boycott

Rejection

Burlesque

Parody or skit

Cacophony

Harsh noise

Chronic

Continuing or persistent

Coda

Finale

Confound

Contradict

Deign

Do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity

Disingenuous

Not candid

Docile

Submissive

Doff

Remove ( an item of clothing)

Endow

Bless or provide with a quality

Ephemeral

Lasting for very short time

Ethos

Character

Facetious

Flippant

Faction

Section

Fallow

Inactive

Falter

Fumble

Flail

Struggle

Fluke

Coincidence

Forage

Hint

Fortuitous

Fortunate

Fringe

Unorthodox

Garner

Assemble

Gist

Quintessence

Gossamer

Used to refer something light/ultra fine

Grovel

Suck up

Harangue

Diatribe

Impetuous

Impulsive

Indictment

Citation

Inert

Inactive

Ingrate

Ungrateful person

Insipid

Boring

Lax

Negligent

Listless

Enervated

Livid

Furiously angry

Loll

Stand in a lazy way

Lurid

Melodramatic

Mar

Damage

Mince

Use polite expression to indicate disapproval

Minion

Underlying of a powerful person

Mirth

High spirits

Modest

Ordinary

Morose

I’ll- tempered

Muse

Inspiration

Oblique

Indirect

Opaque

Cloudy

Overwrought

Exaggeration

Pertain

Related

Pine

To strongly desire

Palacate

Pacify

Platitude

Cliche

Plethora

Excessive amount

Posit

Put forward

Prodigal

Extravagantly wasteful

Prophetic

Predictive

Purist

Perfectionist

Pyre

Funeral pyre

Quack

Swindle

Reticence

Restraint


Radhika has a reticence nature

Rue

Bitterly regret


Shubham will rue the day he turned down that opportunity

Ruminate

Think deeply about something


Mummy ruminate all the time

Stigma

Dishonour


The stigma of going to jail will always be with her

Strut

Walk with a stiff or erect


Parade

Sublime

Majestic


Cricket match went from sublime to ridiculous

Surly

I’ll- natured


He left with a surly expression

Syncopation

A displacement of beats so that the strong beat becomes weak and vice Verda

Taunt

Insult

Towdry

Showy but cheap and poor quality


Towery jewellery

Temperate

Mild

Terse

Abrupt


A terse statement

Tome

A book, especially a large scholar one

Torrid

Full of difficulty


Torrid situation

Transgression

Offense or crime

Vapid

Uninteresting


Vapid story

Vestige

Fragment or remainder

Vilify

Defame


Dalits have always been vilified by the society

Viscous

Gluey

Volatile

Turbulent

Waffle

Fail to make up own’s mind

Waft

Float

Wanton

Spiteful


Inhuman behaviour

White wash

Cover up

Whittle

Wear away


He was sitting on a floor whiting the stick

Winsome

Winning

Wizened

Creased


Wrinkle with age

Wry

Ironic

Zeal

Passion

Arcimonious

Bitter

Essentric

Slightly strange

Trifling

Unimportant

Innovative

Original

Ostentatious

Showy

Opulent

Luxurious

Vindicate

Clear of blame


He felt vindicated after courts decision in favour of him

Mellow

Pleasantly smooth


Veera khan ma’am was a tough lady but became mellow with age

Deranged

Mad or insane


Deranged gunman killed children in us