J.vocab List 1

Front 1

Augury/ augur

Back 1

Prediction

Hint 1

Being a logical person, he ignored the auguries of the gypsy.

Front 2

Forecast

Back 2

Prediction

Hint 2

The weather forecast today said that thunderstorms and hail might takeover the city tonight

Front 3

Foresight

Back 3

Prediction

Hint 3

His foresights on the earthquake saved hundreds

Front 4

Foretell

Back 4

Prediction

Hint 4

He was confounded as the plot unfolded just the way the psych foretold

Front 5

Presage

Back 5

Prediction

Hint 5

The sage of the famous hill told presages to the villagers warning them about the meteor shower

Front 6

Prescience

Back 6

Prediction

Hint 6

Her prescience on men's mentality kept her away from many relationships

Front 7

Prognosis

Back 7

Prediction

Hint 7

Think about diagnosis, which means treatment for a disease. And prognosis means predicting the course of the disease.

Front 8

Forebode

Back 8

Sign, warning (-)

Hint 8

For - before, bode - sign/warning

Reading the review of the movie, they decided not to go for it, as it forebodes negativity and monotony

Front 9

Foreshadow

Back 9

Warning

Hint 9

Reflecting the course of his day, he regretted missing the foreshadows of the accident.

Front 10

Ominous

Back 10

Bad warning

Hint 10

Driving an omni van is ominous of getting kidnapped

Front 11

Portend/ Portent

Back 11

Sign that something calamitous is yet to happen

Hint 11

Dashing on the kitchen desk feeding their lust, portending the breaking of China and waking up the dog.

Front 12

Premonition

Back 12

A strong feeling that something bad is to happen

Hint 12

Not getting her period, she finally paid heed to the premonition that she might be pregnant.

Front 13

Minatory

Back 13

Expressing threat

Hint 13

As the cheetah approached the lady, the minatory looks on the beasts face scares her.

Front 14

Sinister

Back 14

Bad luck, unpleasant vibes

Hint 14

Even the he was the padre of the village church, his sinister looks drove pilgrims away.

Front 15

Enrage

Back 15

Make someone angry

Hint 15

Talking about Ram's ex enraged her, so she avoided any talks involving Plato or Pondicherry

Front 16

Fume

Back 16

Very angry

Hint 16

She loved the way his nostrils flared as he fumed.

Front 17

Glower

Back 17

To look at someone angrily

Hint 17

In order to avoid the glowers from her friends she pretended to cry, so that they attended to her feelings.

Front 18

Incense

Back 18

To make angry

Hint 18

Burning incense sticks on that special night, instead of awakening her senses, it enraged her and so she walked out of the room incensed, leaving the guy in agony

Front 19

Infuriate

Back 19

To make angry

Hint 19

Although she never admitted, whenever Ram talked about Meera she got infuriated and moved on to another topic.

Front 20

Irate

Back 20

Irritate

Hint 20

Killing all the favourite characters, the irate viewers stopped watching the show

Front 21

Ire

Back 21

Anger

Hint 21

As the teacher opened the notebook, the students knew the ire of the dragon is to fall upon them that day.

Front 22

Livid

Back 22

Furiously angry

Hint 22

Headlines about wars and destruction made him livid, driving his pens faster than a cheetah, slaughtering the restraints that he faced in reality, and opened up a new dimension of his utopia.

Front 23

Rabid

Back 23

Extreme anger

Hint 23

When the naïve jungle boy killed his rabbit for food, Ram became rabid and banished Mowgli from the reservation.

Front 24

Seethe

Back 24

Extreme and unexpected anger

Hint 24

Ram seethed when raavan escaped to Lanka with Seetha, Ram's soulmate.

Front 25

Smolder

Back 25

Suppressed anger

Hint 25

Unable to make any moves, men smolder whenever their wives ask them to wait in the middle of a cuddle just to adjust their hair

Front 26

Wrath

Back 26

Great anger

Hint 26

Stealing Ram's heart, Hema was facing Meera's wrath.

Front 27

Cerebral

Back 27

Intellectual

Hint 27

His cerebral credits attracted the same kind of women.

Front 28

Didactic

Back 28

One who renders moral lessons

Hint 28

Though what Ram shared Nobel thoughts, his didactic traits drove away friends.

Front 29

Erudite

Back 29

Showing great knowledge

Hint 29

IT ppl these days are erudite and caring, a combination that might bring changes to that society.

Front 30

Pedantic

Back 30

Very concerned with academics

Hint 30

She stayed away from her classmates of her new class, apart from their prude mindset, their pedantic behavior repelled her.

Front 31

Pedagogue

Back 31

A strict teacher

Hint 31

Ram was not the commonplace pedagogue, he stirred and observed the mindsets of his students

Front 32

Protege

Back 32

A specially cared student

Hint 32

Gautham Buddha was a protégé until he escaped the clinch of the naïveté.

Front 33

Adept

Back 33

Very skilled and professional

Front 34

Adroit

Back 34

Very skilled at using hands and mind

Hint 34

Android phones and apps could be used to live life adroitly

Front 35

Agile

Back 35

Move quickly and easily

Hint 35

Agility is required if you need to survive a Nile ride

Front 36

Consummate

Back 36

Perfectionist

Front 37

Deft

Back 37

Skilled

Front 38

Dexterous

Back 38

Be skilled in using hands

Front 39

Limber

Back 39

Flexible

Hint 39

She flaunted her limber body when she displayed her yoga positions before they got together

Front 40

Lithe

Back 40

Bend easily

Hint 40

Snakes are my favorite because their slithering combined with a lithe which any human may find difficult to achieve

Front 41

Nimble

Back 41

Quick and light in action

Hint 41

Though she is a softcore person, some nights she appreciated the nimble creature he was as he pulled, scratched and pinned her

Front 42

Proficient

Back 42

Perfect now because of earlier practice

Hint 42

Her daily practises made her proficient in dancing

Front 43

Prowess

Back 43

Doing everything in a perfect and skilled way

Hint 43

His prowess in archery attracted Sagittarius women

Front 44

Supple

Back 44

Bending, flexible

Hint 44

Watching the ballet recital, the kid gaped at the dancer's supple and agile body.

Front 45

Byzantine

Back 45

Complicated

Front 46

Circuitous

Back 46

Having a long path, roundabout

Hint 46

Trying to understand Ram is like trying to figure out the exit of a puzzle that extends from earth to mars, its so circuitous.

Front 47

Convoluted

Back 47

Extremely twisted

Front 48

Meander

Back 48

Proceed aimlessly

Hint 48

Front 49

Sinuous

Back 49

Having twists and turns

Front 50

Gnarled

Back 50

Rough and twisted

Hint 50

After consuming its meal, the python gnarled into coils and began its hibernation

Front 51

Tortuous

Back 51

Twists and turns

Front 52

Serpentine

Back 52

Like a snake, having coils, and turns

Front 53

Affinity

Back 53

Inclination

Front 54

Aptitude

Back 54

Natural ability to learn something

Front 55

Bent

Back 55

Natural talent

Front 56

Disposed

Back 56

Inclined and special attitude

Hint 56

She was disposed towards his raw and unforgiving words

Front 57

Penchant

Back 57

Habituated liking

Hint 57

Pen(girl) are penchant towards pendants

Front 58

Predilection

Back 58

A special liking

Front 59

Predisposition

Back 59

Favourable inclination towards someone

Hint 59

Racism is predisposition biased on color

Front 60

Proclivity

Back 60

Natural tendency

Front 61

Propensity

Back 61

Natural tendency to behave in a particular way

Front 62

Dilly dally/ dally/ dawdle

Back 62

Move slowly and waste time

Front 63

Dilatory

Back 63

Delay intentionally

Front 64

Goldbrick

Back 64

Lazy person

Front 65

Laggard

Back 65

Slow progress,lagging behind

Front 66

Malinger/ linger

Back 66

To fake illnes

Front 67

Procrastinate

Back 67

Delay or postpone

Front 68

Temporize

Back 68

Delay in order to gain time

Front 69

Aesthetic

Back 69

Pleasing appearance, artistic beauty..

Front 70

Appalling

Back 70

Shocked

Front 71

Comely

Back 71

Attractive

Front 72

Egregious

Back 72

Offensive

Front 73

Ghastly

Back 73

Causing horror

Front 74

Grisly

Back 74

Horror, disgusting and bloody

Front 75

Gross

Back 75

Vulgar and unattractive

Front 76

Grotesque

Back 76

Extremely unpleasant

Front 77

Heinous

Back 77

Wicked, evil

Front 78

Hideous

Back 78

Ugly

Front 79

Horrendous

Back 79

Terribly unpleasant

Front 80

Macabre

Back 80

Horrifying because it involves death

Front 81

Monstrous

Back 81

Shocking, gross

Front 82

Vile

Back 82

Unpleasant, evil

Front 83

Disjointed

Back 83

Lack of connections

Front 84

Nexus

Back 84

Connection, network

Front 85

Polarize

Back 85

To Divide

Front 86

Segregate

Back 86

To divide

Front 87

Winnow

Back 87

Separate them good from bad

Front 88

Precocious

Back 88

Child having developed inclination

Front 89

Babble, jabber

Back 89

Continuously talk foolishly

Front 90

Drawl, drivel

Back 90

Lazy and slow talk

Front 91

Gibberish

Back 91

Meaningless speech

Front 92

Prate, prattle

Back 92

Lengthy and foolish talk

Front 93

Avert

Back 93

Prevent something from happening

Front 94

Circumvent

Back 94

Avoid to overcome problem

Front 95

Elude

Back 95

Escape in a cunning manner

Front 96

Evade

Back 96

Escape or avoid using trick

Front 97

Headlong

Back 97

Done in a hurry

Front 98

Parry

Back 98

Avoid a question or blow

Front 99

Shirk

Back 99

Neglect

Front 100

Shunt

Back 100

Divert

Front 101

Swerve

Back 101

Changing directions suddenly

Front 102

Disassemble

Back 102

To take apart

Front 103

Dissemble

Back 103

Break things to part

Front 104

Feckless

Back 104

Ineffective, weak

Hint 104

Feckless politician

Front 105

Fumble

Back 105

Nervous or clumsy way of handling things

Front 106

Gauche

Back 106

Unsophisticated, tacky, graceless, rude, boorish, awkward

Front 107

Inept

Back 107

Having no skills

Front 108

Lummox

Back 108

Stupid person

Front 109

Maladroit

Back 109

Not efficient

Front 110

Ungainly

Back 110

Awkward

Front 111

Apparition

Back 111

Ghostly

Front 112

Chimera

Back 112

A thing which you wish to have but cant

Front 113

Delirium

Back 113

A very distributed mind caused because of intoxicant

Front 114

Delusion

Back 114

A belief that something is there even though it's not

Front 115

Mirage

Back 115

Something that seems real but its not

Front 116

Spector

Back 116

Ghostly

Front 117

Wraith

Back 117

Ghostly image

Front 118

Egress

Back 118

The act of leaving a place

Hint 118

Gress -to go

Digress - to stray

Egress - to go out

Ingress - to go in

Regress - to return to a former state

Front 119

Vagaries

Back 119

Changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and control

Front 120

Vicissitudes

Back 120

Changes in life that you have to deal with