Saturday, July 26, 2008

charmed by the exuberance of your verbosity...

Abstemious – sober/teetotal/ascetic
Alacrity – eagerness/readiness/quickness
Amble – stroll
Aplomb – confidence/poise
Apprise – inform/explain/describe
Bayonet – a blade that can be attached to the end of a rifle/to stab.
Bestir – to forcefully stir.
Cahoots – an accomplice of
Cankerous – to become a source of spreading corruption and evil (think dorian)
Cantankerous – ill humor/bad tempered.
Celerity – speed
Chauvinistic – opinionated
Circumspect – judicious
Corrugated – grooved
Dank – damp
Dissolute – vile
Doff – take off (hat)
Drawl – slow talk
Elicit – extract
Facetious – Tongue in cheek/teasing
Flatulent – pompous or self-important (full of gas/windbag/piece of shit)
Fob – front pocket/chain as well as the ornament (usually watch)/to cheat.
Foible – bad habit
Fop – dandy man/vain
Foray – raid/expedition.
Fortuitous – By chance/accident
Fracas – quarrel/argument/melee
Hearth – fireplace
Illicit – dishonest
Imperious – ascendant/haughty/superior
Intrepid – Fearless
Judicious – sound judgment
Laconic – Curt/brief
Lampoon – skit/ridicule
Legerity – physical or mental quickness
Licentious – dissolute, profligate, immoral.
Loquacious – talkative/garrulous
Luminary – achiever/star/celebrity
Masochist – someone who enjoys being abused and insulted (esp. sexually)
Mired – delayed
Mirth – amusement/entertainment
Misogynist – someone who hates women
Noisome – Pungent smell
Non sequitur – it does not follow (illogical)
Odious – hateful
Ostensibly – presumably/apparently
Overture – offer/gambit
Pacifist – antiviolence
Pare – peeling
Penchant – liking
Preamble – prelude/introduction
Prolific – inexhaustible
Propitiate – to favor/appease
Ramble – walk
Repartee – banter/jousting/wordplay
Repertoire – range of skills
Reprieve – official pardon
Riveting – mesmeric
Saunter – slow walk
Sequester – confiscate
Sidle – slither
Sobriquet – unofficial nickname (funny nick)
Soporific – inducing sleep
Strident – Harsh sound
Stygian – dark/depressive
Surreptitiously – secretly
Swig – quick sip
Taciturn – silent and cold
Throe – Effect of pain/spasm
Timorous – fearful/trepid
Tremulous – quivering
Trepid – timid/fearful
Veneer – surface
Verve – vitality
Vitriolic – venomous and bitter

2 Comments:

Blogger fuss said...

avaricious: greed for money.

2:48 PM  
Blogger Ambreen Noon Kazi said...

I loved this. Will make a print out. (Am such a nerd).
GMAT here I come?
"Studying is such sweet sorrow..."
:)

7:32 PM  

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