Princeton Review Hit Parades

The Princeton Review Hit Parades Group 1 Sl.No.

Word

POS

Meaning deviating from the norm eager and enthusiastic willingness deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality an expression of approval or praise to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify daring and fearless; recklessly bold inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable to criticize severely; to officially rebuke trickery or subterfuge an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar well-spoken; expressive; articulate to weaken; to reduce in vitality dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent exonerate; to clear of blame urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication accustomed to accepting something undesirable easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts to praise highly the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving associated with war and the armed forces of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary coming into being; in early developmental stages vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or

1. 2. 3.

Aberrant Alacrity Anomaly

adj noun noun

4. 5. 6. 7.

Approbation Assuage Audacious Capricious

noun verb adj adj

8. 9. 10.

Censure Chicanery Connoisseur

verb noun noun

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Discordant Disparate Eloquent Enervate Ennui

adj adj adj verb noun

16.

Equivocate

verb

17. 18.

Exculpate Exigent

verb adj

19.

Filibuster

noun

20.

Ingenuous

adj

21. 22.

Inured Irascible

adj adj

23. 24.

Laud Magnanimity

verb noun

25. 26.

Martial Mundane

adj adj

27. 28. 29.

Nascent Nebulous Neologism

adj adj noun

30. 31.

Noxious Obtuse

adj adj

32. 33. 34.

Obviate Onerous Parody

verb adj noun

35.

Perennial

adj

36. 37.

Perfunctory Prattle

adj verb

38.

Prescience

noun

39. 40. 41.

Prevaricate Refute Relegate

verb verb verb

42. 43.

Solicitous Sporadic

adj adj

44. 45. 46. 47. 48.

Static Stupefy Tortuous Truculent Voracious

adj verb adj adj adj

49.

Waver

verb

use of new words or senses harmful; injurious lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression to anticipate and make unnecessary troubling; burdensome a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly cursory; done without care or interest to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead to disprove; to successfully argue against to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position concerned and attentive; eager occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances not moving, active, or in motion; at rest to stun, baffle, or amaze winding; twisting; excessively complicated fierce and cruel; eager to fight having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

Group 2 Sl.No.

Word

POS

1. 2. 3. 4.

abscond ameliorate arduous ascetic

verb verb adj noun

5.

austere

adj

6. 7. 8.

axiom axiomatic bucolic

noun adj adj

9.

canonical

adj

10.

contentious

adj

11. 12. 13. 14.

convoluted culpable disabuse eclectic

adj adj verb adj

15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.

effrontery ephemeral erudite eulogy extemporaneous facetious fulminate hyperbole

noun adj adj noun adj adj verb noun

23. 24.

lucid oscillation

adj noun

25. 26.

paean penurious

noun adj

27. 28. 29. 30.

perfidy pernicious perspicacious pious

noun adj adj adj

Meaning to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide to make better or more tolerable strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic a universally recognized principle taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement complex or complicated deserving blame to undeceive; to set right composed of elements drawn from various sources extreme boldness; presumptuousness brief; fleeting very learned; scholarly a speech honoring the dead improvised; done without preparation playful; humorous to loudly attack or denounce an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech clear; easily understood the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous intentional breach of faith; treachery extremely harmful; potentially causing death acutely perceptive; having keen discernment extremely reverent or devout; showing strong

31. 32.

precipitate precipitate

adj verb

33.

precursor

noun

34. 35.

predilection prolific

noun adj

36. 37.

qualms quiescence

noun noun

38. 39. 40.

recant redoubtable reticent

verb adj adj

41.

satire

noun

42. 43. 44. 45.

sordid squalid squander stoic

adj adj verb adj

46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51.

stymie supplant synthesis torpid torque ubiquitous

verb verb noun adj noun adj

52. 53. 54.

veracity vilify virulent

noun verb adj

religious devotion acting with excessive haste or impulse to cause or happen before anticipated or required one that precedes and indicates or announces another a disposition in favor of something; preference producing large volumes or amounts; productive misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest to retract, esp. a previously held belief awe-inspiring; worthy of honor quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect to waste by spending or using irresponsibly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast to block; thwart to take the place of; supersede the combination of parts to make a whole lethargic; sluggish; dormant a force that causes rotation existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread Truthfulness; honesty to defame; to characterize harshly extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

Group 3 Sl.No.

Word

POS

1. 2. 3. 4.

abate accolade adulation aesthetic

verb noun noun adj

5. 6. 7. 8.

avarice burgeon cacophony canon

noun verb noun noun

9. 10.

castigation catalyst

noun noun

11. 12. 13. 14.

catalyst caustic chary cogent

noun adj adj adj

15.

complaisance

noun

16. 17.

contrite dearth

adj noun

18. 19. 20.

demur didactic discretion

verb adj noun

21. 22. 23.

disinterested dogmatic ebullience

adj adj noun

Meaning to lessen in intensity or degree an expression of praise excessive praise; intense adoration dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful greed, esp. for wealth to grow rapidly or flourish harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature severe criticism or punishment a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing a person or thing that causes change burning or stinging; causing corrosion wary; cautious; sparing appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing the willingness to comply with the wishes of others regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack to question or oppose intended to teach or instruct cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions indifferent; free from self-interest stubbornly opinionated the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

elegy emollient empirical enigmatic esoteric

noun adj adj adj adj

29. 30. 31. 32.

exonerate fallacy furtive gregarious

verb noun adj adj

33. 34. 35. 36.

harangue heretical impecunious incipient

verb adj adj adj

37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

inert innocuous intransigent inveigle morose odious opaque peruse preen

adj adj adj verb adj adj adj verb verb

46.

prodigious

adj

47. 48. 49.

putrefy quaff sanction

verb verb noun

50. 51.

urbane viscous

adj adj

a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh based on observation or experiment mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand intended for or understood by a small, specific group to remove blame an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people to deliver a pompous speech or tirade violating accepted dogma or convention lacking funds; without money beginning to come into being or to become apparent unmoving; lethargic; sluggish harmless; causing no damage refusing to compromise to obtain by deception or flattery sad; sullen; melancholy evoking intense aversion or dislike impenetrable by light; not reflecting light to examine with great care to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor to drink deeply authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance sophisticated; refined; elegant thick; sticky

Group 4 Sl.No.

Word

POS

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

acerbic amalgamate amenable bolster bombast bombastic credulous diatribe fawn fervent flout

adj verb adj verb noun adj adj noun verb adj verb

12. 13. 14.

fortuitous garrulous germane

adj adj adj

15.

glib

adj

16. 17. 18.

halcyon hubris idolatrous

adj noun adj

19. 20.

imminent imperturbable

adj adj

21.

impetuous

adj

Meaning having a sour or bitter taste or character to combine several elements into a whole agreeable; responsive to suggestion to provide support or reinforcement self-important or pompous writing or speech pompous; grandiloquent tending to believe too readily; gullible a harsh denunciation to flatter or praise excessively greatly emotional or zealous to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention happening by fortunate accident or chance pointlessly talkative; talking too much relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial calm and peaceful arrogant presumption or pride given to intense or excessive devotion to something about to happen; impending marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and

22.

implacable

adj

23.

indifferent

adj

24. 25. 26.

intrepid laconic malleable

adj adj adj

27.

maverick

noun

28. 29.

mendacity mercurial

noun adj

30.

meticulous

adj

31.

mollify

verb

32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.

obdurate obfuscate obsequious obstinate opprobrium ostentatious pedantic

adj verb adj adj noun adj adj

39. 40.

pervade pervasive

verb adj

41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46.

phlegmatic pirate plethora polemical pragmatic rancorous

adj verb noun adj adj adj

47.

rhetoric

noun

48. 49. 50.

salubrious sedulous solvent

adj adj adj

51.

soporific

adj

vehement not capable of being appeased or significantly changed having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice steadfast and courageous using few words; terse capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity unyielding; hardhearted; intractable to deliberately obscure; to make confusing exhibiting a fawning attentiveness stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising disgrace; contempt; scorn characterized by or given to pretentiousness the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules to permeate throughout having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout calm; sluggish; unemotional to illegally use or reproduce an overabundance; a surplus controversial; argumentative practical rather than idealistic characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion promoting health or well-being diligent; persistent; hard-working able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep

Group 5 Sl.No.

Word

POS

1. 2.

Aggrandize Alchemy

verb noun

3.

Anachronism

noun

4.

Astringent

adj

5. 6. 7.

Contiguous Convention Cynicism

adj noun noun

8. 9. 10. 11.

decorum derision desiccate dilettante

noun noun verb noun

12. 13. 14. 15.

disparage divulge immutable inimical

verb verb adj adj

Meaning to increase in intensity, power, or prestige a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe sharing a border; touching; adjacent a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness polite or appropriate conduct or behavior scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge to slight or belittle to disclose something secret not capable of change damaging; harmful; injurious

16.

intractable

adj

17. 18.

neophyte presumptuous

noun adj

19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

pristine probity proclivity profligate propensity prosaic pungent quixotic

adj noun noun adj noun adj adj adj

27. 28. 29.

quotidian rarefy recondite

adj verb adj

30. 31.

refulgent renege

adj verb

32. 33.

shard sparse

noun adj

34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.

spendthrift subtle tacit terse tout trenchant unfeigned untenable vacillate

noun adj adj adj verb adj adj adj verb

43.

variegated

adj

44. 45. 46.

vexation vigilant vituperate

noun adj verb

47.

volatile

adj

not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate a recent convert; a beginner; novice overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties pure; uncorrupted; clean adherence to highest principles; uprightness a natural predisposition or inclination excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant a natural inclination or tendency; penchant dull; unimaginative characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals occurring or recurring daily; commonplace to make or become thin, less dense; to refine hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure radiant; shiny; brilliant to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise a piece of broken pottery or glass thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals one who spends money wastefully not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern implied; not explicitly stated brief and concise in wording to publicly praise or promote sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating genuine; not false or hypocritical indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color annoyance; irritation alertly watchful to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive

Group 6 Sl.No.

Word

POS

1. 2.

acumen adulterate

noun verb

3.

archaic

4. 5. 6. 7.

aver dissemble eccentric endemic

verb verb adj adj

8. 9. 10. 11.

evanescent exacerbate grandiloquence hackneyed

adj verb noun adj

12.

hedonism

noun

adj

Meaning quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time to state as a fact; to confirm or support to disguise or conceal; to mislead departing from norms or conventions characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing to make worse or more severe pompous speech or expression rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the

13.

hegemony

noun

14.

iconoclast

noun

15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

impassive impunity inchoate infelicitous insipid loquacious luminous

adj noun adj adj adj adj adj

22.

malevolent

adj

23. 24.

misanthrope mitigate

noun verb

25. 26.

occlude pedagogy

verb noun

27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.

penury pine pith pithy placate platitude

noun verb noun adj verb noun

33. 34.

plummet prodigal

verb adj

35. 36. 37.

profuse proliferate queries

adj verb noun

38.

querulous

adj

39.

recalcitrant

adj

40.

repudiate

verb

41. 42.

rescind reverent

verb adj

43.

specious

adj

44.

spurious

adj

45.

subpoena

noun

pleasures of the senses the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions revealing no emotion immunity from punishment or penalty in an initial stage; not fully formed unfortunate; inappropriate without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland extremely talkative characterized by brightness and the emission of light having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred one who hates all other humans to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate to obstruct or block the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing poverty; destitution to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor the essential or central part precise and brief to appease; to calm by making concessions a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful to plunge or drop straight down recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown to invalidate; to repeal; to retract marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

46. 47. 48. 49.

succinct superfluous surfeit tenacity

50.

tenuous

51.

tirade

52. 53.

transient zealous

adj adj verb noun adj noun adj adj

brief; concise exceeding what is sufficient or necessary excess; overindulgence the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation fleeting; passing quickly; brief fervent; ardent; impassioned

ADVANCED VOCABULARY Group 1

Sl.No. 1.

Word Abjure

POS verb

Meaning to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to

2. 3. 4. 5.

Abrogate Abscission Acarpous Accretion

6. 7. 8.

Admonish Adroit Adumbrate

9.

Anathema

10.

Anodyne

11. 12. 13. 14.

Antipathy Antithetical Apocryphal Apogee

15.

Apostate

16. 17. 18. 19.

Apotheosis Apposite Apprise Arabesque

20.

Arcane

21. 22.

Arrant Artless

23. 24.

Ascetic Asperity

25.

Aspersion

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

Assay Asseverate Assiduous Attenuate Augury Auspice Auspicious Aver

avoid verb to abolish or annul by authority; to put down noun The act of cutting off or removing adj Effete; no longer fertile; worn out noun Growth; increase by successive addition; building up verb To reprove; to express warning or disapproval adj Adept; dextrous verb To foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure noun A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing adj/noun Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts noun Aversion; dislike adj Diametrically opposed; as in antithesis adj Of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious noun Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee) noun One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions noun Deification; glorification to godliness adj Appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos verb To give notice to; to inform noun A complex, ornate design; also to a dance position adj Mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates adj Impudent adj Completely without guile; natural; without artificiality noun/adj Someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark noun Severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability noun An act of defamation or maligning; animadversion noun/verb An analysis; examination; test; to put to a test verb To aver; to allege; to assert adj Diligent; hard-working; sedulous verb To rarefy; to weaken or make thinner noun Omen; portent noun Protection or support; patronage adj Favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous verb To affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate

34. 35. 36.

Baleful Bane Beatify

adj noun verb

37.

Bedizen

verb

38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54.

Belie Bellicose Bilge Blandish Blithe Boisterous Boor Burnish Byzantine Cabal Cachinnate Cadge Cajole Calumniate Calumny Caparison Captious

verb adj noun verb adj adj noun verb adj noun verb verb verb verb noun verb adj

55.

Caret

noun

56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

Cavil Celerity Chasten Chauvinist Chimera

verb noun verb noun noun

Sinister; pernicious; ominous Cause of injury; poison; source of harm To bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly To adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon To give a false impression of; to misrepresent Belligerent; pugnacious; warlike Bulge the protuberance of a cask To toady or fawn Carefree; merry Loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint A rude or insensitive person; lout To polish; to rub to a shine Labyrinthine; complex A scheme or plot; a group of plotters To laugh loudly To sponge or mooch To inveigle, coax, or wheedle To slander; to make a false accusation Slander; aspersion To adorn or bedizen Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling An insertion mark used by editors and proofreaders To find fault without good reason Speed; alacrity To chastise or correct A blindly devoted patriot An illusion; originally, an imaginary firebreathing she-monster

Group 2

Sl.No. 1. 2. 3.

Word Churlish Coalesce Coda

POS adj verb noun

Meaning Boorish; vulgar; loutish; difficult and intractable To come together; to fuse or unite Concluding section of a musical or literary piece

4. 5.

Coeval Commensurate

6. 7. 8.

Contemn Contumacious Corrigible

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Countenance Cozen Craven Curmudgeon Daunt Debacle Decorous Defalcate Denigrate

18. 19.

Denouement Deposition

20. 21.

Deprecate Depredate

22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

Derivative Descant Descry Desuetude Desultory

27. 28. 29.

Detraction Diaphanous Diffident

30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.

Digress Dilatory Din Dirge Disaffect Discomfit Discursive Dissolution Distention

39.

Distrait

adj adj

Of the same period; coexisting Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount verb To scorn or despise adj Insubordinate; rebellious adj Capable of being set right; correctable; reparable verb/noun To approve of or tolerate; face; composure verb To deceive, beguile, or hoodwink adj Contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage noun A crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope verb To cow or dismay noun Rout; fiasco; complete failure adj Correct; formal; marked by decorum verb To embezzle or misappropriate verb To blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage noun An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot noun Accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony verb To disparage or belittle; to put down verb To plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner adj Unoriginal; obtained from another source verb To comment at length verb To discriminate or discern noun Disuse adj Random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose noun Slandering; verbal attack; aspersion adj Transparent; gauzy adj Reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in selfconfidence verb To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent adj Causing delay; procrastinating noun Loud, sustained noise noun A song of grief or lamentation verb To estrange or alienate the affection of verb To defeat; to put down adj Digressive; passing from one topic to another noun Disintegration; looseness in morals noun The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape adj Distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety

40. 41.

Doggerel Dross

noun noun

42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.

Dulcet Dynamo Eclectic Edacious Edifying Effluvia

adj noun adj adj adj noun

48. 49. 50. 51.

Effrontery Effusive Egress Encomium

noun adj noun noun

52.

Endemic

adj

53. 54. 55. 56.

Engender Enormity Ephemeral Epicure

verb noun adj noun

57. 58. 59. 60.

Episodic Epithet Epitome Equanimity

adj noun noun noun

Trivial, poorly constructed verse Slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum Melodious; harmonious; mellifluous Generator; forceful, energetic person Culled from many sources Voracious; devouring Enlightening Outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor Boldness; impudence; arrogance Gushing; excessively demonstrative Exit Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous To cause; to produce; to give rise to Excessive wickedness; evilness Evanescent; fleeting; short-lived One devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite Loosely connected; not flowing logically Disparaging word or phrase Embodiment; quintessence Composure; self-possession

Group 3

Sl.No. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Word Equipoise Errant Eschew Estimable

POS Noun Adj Verb Adj

Meaning Equal distribution of weight; equilibrium Traveling; itinerant; peripatetic To shun or avoid Worthy; formidable

5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Evince Excoriate Exegesis Exemplar Expatiate

Verb Verb Noun Noun Verb

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.

Expiate Expostulate Expurgate Exscind Extant Extirpate Fallow Fatuous Feckless Felicitous Fetid Fetter Filigree

Verb Verb Verb Verb Adj Verb Adj Adj Adj Adj Adj Verb Noun

23. 24. 25. 26.

Florid Foment Forbearance Forestall

Adj Verb Noun Verb

27. 28. 29.

Forswear Fracas Fractious

Verb Noun Adj

30.

Frieze

Noun

31.

Froward

Adj

32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Gainsay Gambol Garner Gauche Gossamer Guile Hallow Harrow Heretical

Verb Verb Verb Adj Adj Noun Verb Verb Adj

41. 42.

Hermetic Heterodox

Adj Adj

To show clearly; to indicate To censure scathingly; to upbraid Critical examination; explication Typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model To descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length To atone or make amends for To argue earnestly in order to dissuade To remove obscenity; to purify; to censor To cut out or extirpate Existing; not destroyed or lost To destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind Untilled; inactive; dormant Silly; inanely foolish Ineffectual; Apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos Stinking; smelly; malodorous To shackle; to put in chains An ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns Flowery; ruddy; ornate To incite; to rouse Patience; willingness to wait To act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert To renounce; to disallow; to repudiate Noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl Quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable A semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental façade to a building Intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant To deny, dispute, contradict, to oppose To skip about playfully To gather and save; to store up Crude; awkward; tasteless Delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere Artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity To make holy; to consecrate To distress; to create stress; to torment Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma Sealed by fusion; airtight Unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic

43. 44. 45. 46. 47.

Hirsute homiletics Homily Iconoclastic Idyll

Adj Noun Noun Adj Noun

48. 49. 50.

Ignominious Imbroglio Impassive

Adj Noun Adj

51.

Imperious

Adj

52. 53.

Importune Impugn

Verb Verb

54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59.

Impute indefatigable Indolent Ineluctable Ingenuous Inherent

Verb Adj Adj Adj Adj Adj

60.

Inimical

Adj

Hairy; shaggy The art of preaching A sermon or morally instructive lecture Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox A carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such Shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified Difficult or embarrassing situation Expressionless; stoic; stolid; unsusceptible to emotion; apathetic; phlegmatic Commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty To ask incessantly; to beg; to nag To attack or assail verbally; to censure; to execrate To attribute to a cause or source; to ascribe Tirelessness; doggedness Lazy; listless; torpid Certain; inevitable Guileless; trusting; naïve; credulous Ingrained within one’s nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established Hostile; adverse; unfriendly

Group 4

Sl.No. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Word Inimitable Iniquity Innervate Inscrutable

POS Adj Noun Verb Adj

Meaning One of a kind; peerless Gross injustice; wickedness To supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize Incapable of being discovered or understood

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

Insensible Insouciant Insular Interdict Inveigh Inveterate Involute Itinerate Jejune Jibe Jocose, jocular Labile Lachrymose Lambaste Lassitude Libertine Limn

Adj Adj Adj Verb Verb Adj Adj Adj Adj Verb Adj Adj Adj Verb Adj Noun Verb

22. 23. 24. 25.

Limpid Lubricious Luculent Macerate

Adj Adj Adj Verb

26.

Maculate

Adj

27.

Malinger

Verb

28.

Maunder

Verb

29.

Mellifluous

Adj

30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.

Mendicant Meretricious Metamorphose Mettle Mettlesome Militate Minatory Misogynist Multifarious Nadir Natty Nexus Noisome

Noun Adj Verb Noun Adj Verb Adj Noun Adj Noun Adj Noun Adj

Unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected; numb Carefree; unconcerned; heedless Parochial; narrow-minded To prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt To attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate Deep-routed; ingrained; habitual Intricate; complex; convoluted To travel from place to place; to peregrinate Vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile To agree; to be in accord Humorous; gay; blithe Readily open to change; unstable Causing tears; tearful To censure; to excoriate; to berate Listlessness; languor; weariness Someone unrestrained by morality or convention To draw; to outline in detail; to delineate; to describe Transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid Lewd; wanton; greasy; slippery Easily understood; lucid; clear To waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping Marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure To feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid work To digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path Sweetly flowing usually used to describe use of words Beggar; supplicant Cheap; gawdy; tawdry; flashy; showy To transform; to change utterly Strength of spirit; courage; stamina Courageous; high-spirited To have weight; to bear on; to argue (against) Menacing; threatening One who hates women or females Varied; motley; greatly diversified Low point; perigee Trimly neat and tidy; smart A connection, tie, or link Offensive, especially to one’s sense of smell; fetid

43.

Nonplused

Adj

44.

Nostrum

Noun

45. 46.

Nugatory Obloquy

Adj Noun

47. 48. 49.

Obstreperous Officious Ossified

Adj Adj Adj

50. 51.

Ostensible Overweening

Adj Adj

52.

Palliate

Verb

53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58.

Panegyric Paradigm Pariah Parry Parsimonious Partisan

Noun Noun Noun Verb Adj adj/noun

59. 60.

Paucity Peccadillo

Noun Noun

Baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do Panacea; cure all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative Trifling; inconsequential Abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny Noisy; loud Meddlesome; pushy in one’s services Tending to become more rigid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age; literally, tuned into bone Seeming; appearing as such; professed Presumptuously arrogant; supercilious; overbearing To make something appear less serious; to gloss over Formal praise; eulogy; encomium A mode, example, or pattern; exemplar An outcast; a rejected and despised person To block; to evade or ward off, as a blow Cheap; miserly Committed to a party; biased or prejudiced; supporter; adherent Scarcity; a lacking of A slight offense; literally, a minor sin

Group 5

Sl.No. 1. 2. 3.

Word Pellucid Penchant Peregrination

POS Adj Noun Noun

Meaning Transparent; easy to understand; limpid Strong inclination; a liking Traveling about; wandering

4.

Peremptory

5. 6. 7.

Perigee Peripatetic Peroration

8. 9. 10. 11.

Personable Petrous Petulant Philistine

12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Phlegmatic Picaresque Pillory Piquant Pique

17.

Placebo

18. 19. 20.

Plangent Plumb Poignant

21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34.

Poseur Prate Precarious Precept Précis Preempt Profligate Prolix Propinquity Propitiate Proscribe Provident Puerile Pugnacious

35. 36.

Puissance Punctilious

37.

Pundit

38.

Pusillanimous

Adj

Admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious Noun Closest or lowest point in an orbit; nadir Adj Itinerant; traveling; nomadic Noun The concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech Adj Pleasing in appearance; attractive Adj Like a rock; hard; stony Adj Impatient; irritable Noun A crass individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values Adj Impassive; stoical; lethargic; sluggish Adj Involving clever rogues or adventures Verb To punish; to hold up to public scorn Adj Agreeably pungent; stimulating noun/verb Resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend; to excite, provoke, or arouse Noun Inactive pill prescribed for mental relief rather than for physical effect; something tending to soothe Adj Pounding; thundering; resounding Verb To measure the depth; to examine critically Adj Distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional Noun Affected or insincere person; literally, a poser Verb To chatter; to babble, as in prattle Adj Uncertain; risky; dangerous Noun Rule establishing standards of conduct Noun Concise summary of essential points Verb To replace; to supersede; to appropriate Adj Spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant Adj Long-winded; verbose Noun Nearness in time or place; affinity of nature Verb To appease; to conciliate Verb To ostracize; to banish; to outlaw Adj Frugal; looking to the future Adj Childish; immature Adj Contentious; quarrelsome; contumacious; given to fighting; belligerent Noun Power; strength Adj Precise; paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette Noun An authority on a subject; one who gives opinion Adj Cowardly; craven

39. 40. 41. 42. 43.

Querulous Raffish Ramify Rapacious Rebus

Adj Adj Verb Adj Noun

44. 45. 46.

Recidivism Recondite Reconnaissance

Noun Adj Noun

47. 48. 49. 50. 51.

Reconnoiter Recreant Recumbent Redolent Refractory

Verb noun/adj Adj Adj Adj

52. 53. 54.

Regale Remonstrate Repine

Verb Verb Verb

55. 56. 57. 58.

Repudiate Resolute Rubric Rue

Verb Adj Noun Verb

Habitually complaining; whining Tawdry; flashy; meretricious; low; vulgar; base To be divided or subdivided; to branch out Voracious; greedy; plundering Riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior Abstruse; profound; arcane Preliminary survey to gain information, especially of an enemy To engage in reconnaissance Coward; cowardly; craven; pusillanimous Leaning; resting; prone Fragrant; suggestive or evocative Stubborn; unmanageable; intractable; unruly; fractious To delight or entertain; to feast To protest; to object To feel or express dejection or discontent; to long for To disown; to disavow; to reject as untrue Adamant; steadfast; determined; irresolute Heading, title or category To regret; to feel remorse or sorrow

Group 6

Sl.No. 1. 2.

Word Runic Sagacious

POS Adj Adj

Meaning Mysterious; magical Having sound judgment; perceptive; wise

3. 4. 5.

Salacious Salient Salutary

6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Sanctimony Sanguine Satiate Saturnine Seine Seminal Sententious

13. 14. 15.

Sidereal Simper Sinecure

16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

Sinuous Slake Sodden Solder Sophistry Sophomoric

22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.

Splenetic Stanch Stentorian Stint Striated Stygian Succor Sundry Supercilious Supine

32. 33. 34.

Suppliant Supplicant Tamp

35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

Tautology Tawdry Tendentious Timorous Toady Torrid Tractable

Adj Adj Adj

Obscene Prominent; protruding; conspicuous; relevant Wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health Noun Self-righteousness Adj Cheerful; confident; optimistic Verb To surfeit; to overindulge Adj Gloomy; dark; sullen; morose Noun A large net dragged to catch fish Adj Like a seed; constituting a source; originative Adj Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively Adj Astral; relating to stars or constellations verb/noun To smirk; a silly smile Noun Position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income Adj Winding; undulating; serpentine Verb To satisfy or quench Adj Soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull Verb To weld, fuse, or join Noun Fallacious reasoning; faulty logic Adj Self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity Adj Bad-tempered; irritable Verb To stop the flow of a fluid Adj Extremely loud and powerful Verb To restrain; to be sparing or frugal Adj Striped; grooved; banded Adj Gloomy; dark Noun Assistance; relief in time of distress Adj Various; miscellaneous; separate Adj Disdainful; arrogant; haughty Adj Mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one’s back; prone Adj Supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching Noun Beggar; mendicant Verb To plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows Noun A repetition; a redundancy Adj Cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious Adj Biased; showing marked tendencies Adj Timid; fearful; diffident Noun Sycophant; flatterer Adj Scorching; ardent; passionate Adj Docile; obedient; easily led

42. 43. 44.

Travesty Tumid Turbid

Noun Adj Adj

45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52.

Turgid Turpitude Tyro Umbrage Undulate Untoward Upbraid Usury

Adj Noun Noun Noun Verb Adj Verb Noun

53. 54.

Vaunt Venal

Verb Adj

55. 56. 57. 58. 59.

Venerate Verisimilitude Veritable Virago Vitiate

Verb Noun Adj Noun Verb

60. 61. 62. 63.

Volubility Waft Welter Wend

Noun Verb Verb Verb

Mockery; caricature; parody Swollen Roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque Swollen; tumid; thick; pompous; bombastic Depravity; prurience Novice; greenhorn; rank amateur Offense; resentment; pique To move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate Perverse; unruly; unseemly To scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise The practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest To brag or boast Capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable To revere; to worship Appearance of truth or reality Authentic; honest-to-goodness A loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag To pervert; to debase; to spoil; to make ineffective Fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language To cause to move as if by a light breeze To writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil To go; to proceed; to walk