Power your vocabulary

[Anisur Rahman]

My Answer:
1. Coups: A successful move
2. de trop: Not wanted
3. de ex machine: good out of a machine
4. expatriate: a person living or working abroad
5. sotto voce: in a quite voice

[Anisur Rahman]

I would like to introduce few new words:

1. Choleric
2. Denigrate
3. Digress
4. Dilate
5. Din

[Anisur Rahman]

Answers:

1. Choleric: tending toward anger
2. Denigrate: blacken
3. Digress: to stray from the point
4. Dilate: to become wider
5. Din: loud sustained noise

[Anisur Rahman]

Know the 'ex' words. Match each words in the first column with the definition given in the second column:

1. extemporaneous         a. incite
2. exonerate                  b. atone for
3. expiate                     c. remove obscenity
4. extant                      d. remove blame
5. exemplar                   e. not destroyed
6. extirpate                   f. destroy
7. exhort                      g. model
8. exigent                     h. improvised
9. expatiate                  i. urgent
10.expurgate                 j. discuss at length

[Anisur Rahman]

I still expect the answer.

[Anisur Rahman]

Here is the answers to the quiz:

1. h
2. d
3. b
4. e
5. g
6. f
7. a
8. i
9. j
10. c

[Anisur Rahman]

Some new words:
1. Quaff
2. Quail
3. Qualms
4. Queries
5. Querulous

[Anisur Rahman]

Guess the meaning of the words from the given contexts:

1. The medicine tested so foul that I had to hold my nose and quaff it all in one gulp.
2. I quailed at the thought of jumping out of a plane as soon as I looked down, which was probably a liitle late to be having second thought.
3. Peter had no qualms about singing in public, which was a little surprising since he couldn't carry a tune.
4. Aleeza's queries to the Library of Congress for information concerning the old manuscript did not produce the results she had hoped for.
5. Aleeza tended to become querulous when she hadn't had her afternoon nap.

[sazzadte]

ya its effective for everyone.

[nusrat-diu]

Anisur Rahman Sir, Here is the answer:

1. Quaff: to drink deeply
2. Quail: to shrink back in fear
3. Qualms: causes for hesitancy
4. Queries: questions
5. Querulous:quarrelsome

[sethy]

Effective post 4 all.

[Anisur Rahman]

Some new words:

1. plumb
2. plethora
3. plangent
4. pragmatic
5. pristine

[Anisur Rahman]

Answer:

1. plumb: to examine critically
2. plethora: a surplus
3. plangent: thundering
4. pragmatic: practical rather than idealistic
5. pristine: pure

[Anisur Rahman]

New Words:

1. lumber
2. luminous
3. lucid
4. malinger
5. malleable

[nusrat-diu]

W/M:

1. lumber: to move heavily and clumsily or with a rumbling sound
2. luminous: enlightened, clear
3. lucid: sound, clear
4. malinger: to feign illness so as to avoid work
5. malleable: easily influenced