50 Difficult New English Word/Meanings
- Abnegation -Renouncing a belief or doctrine
- Aggrandize-enhance power, wealth or status
- Alacrity -eagerness
- Anachronistic -misplaced chronologically
- Archetypal -quintessential of a certain kind
- Ascetic -one who practices self-denial as part of spiritual discipline
- Beguile -influence someone in a deceptive way
- Blandishment -intentional flattery for persuasion
- Cajole -persuade by flattery or coaxing
- Callous -disregard for others
- Camaraderie -a sense of solidarity arising out of familiarity and sociability
- Circumlocution -expressing someone in an indirect way
- Clamor -proclaim something noisily
- Cognizant -awareness or realization
- Construe -interpret or assign meaning
- Convivial -enjoyable atmosphere or jovial company
- Demagogue -a political leader who uses rhetoric to appeal to prejudices and desires of ordinary citizens
- Denigrate -belittle someone
- Didactic -instructive with a moral intent
- Disparate -of a distinct kind
- Eclectic -deriving the best ideas and styles from a diverse range of sources
- Egregious -reprehensible or outrageously bad
- Embezzlement -misappropriation of funds.
- Enervate -lacking in vitality or mentally/ morally drained.
- Ephemeral– lasting for a short duration
- Equanimity -maintaining composure in stressful situations
- Fatuous -devoid of intelligence
- Gratuitous -uncalled for or unwarranted
- Iconoclast -someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs
- Idiosyncratic -something peculiar to an individual
- Incumbent -something that is morally binding
- Inveterate -habitual
- Libertarian -someone who cherishes ideas of free will
- Licentious -someone who is promiscuous
- Mendacious -deceitful
- Multifarious -multifaceted or diverse
- Obdurate -being stubborn and refusing to change one’s opinion
- Ostracism -excluding a person or certain section from society by majority consent
- Pejorative -showing disapproval
- Pertinacious -someone who is stubbornly unyielding
- Phlegmatic -expressing little or no emotion
- Promulgate-to broadcast or announce
- Quotidian -something that is of daily occurrence
- Recalcitrant -resistant to authority
- Sanctimonious -the pretense of being morally pious to exhibit moral superiority
- Solipsism -the philosophical theory that only the self-existence is known and all that exists
- Travesty -distorting facts or imitation
- Ubiquitous -omnipresent or existing everywhere
- Vicissitude – an unwelcome or unpleasant change in circumstances or fortune
- Vociferous -something or someone who is offensively/ conspicuously loud.
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