Thursday, April 12, 2007
Word list
Hi,
I am not good in Vocabulary and I am just too lazy to digest the Barons.
So i have come up with an idea.
i would learn 10 to 15 words (atleast once a day) and post it in this blog, in this way i know i vow it to those who read this blog so i would do it regularly.
Question me if i dont keep up my promise ok!!
And another point is that i will not and should not just copy paste it from anywhere. This is a promise that i give you. I would never abjure (give up) this promise.
so here is the wordlist for today
1) Rile - Irritate
2) Conflagration - Intense fire, Emergency situation
3) Impervious - incapable of being injured or impaired
not permitting penetration or passage
4) Abet - help / encourage
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime
- Related forms
a·bet·ment, a·bet·tal, noun
5)Abjure - to give up
To renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors.
Related forms
ab·jur·a·to·ry, adjective
ab·jur·er, noun
Syn: abandon, abjure, abnegate, bail out*, cede, disclaim, drop, forgo, give up, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire, sell out*, step down, surrender, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield
6) Contravene - Contradict someone or something
To come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
to violate, infringe, or transgress: to contravene the law
Syn: abjure, breach, break, combat, conflict with, counteract, cross, defy, disaffirm, disobey, encroach, exclude, fight, gainsay, hinder, impugn, infract, infringe, interfere, interpose, intrude, negate, offend, oppose, overstep, refute, reject, repudiate, resist, spurn, thwart, transgress, traverse, trespass, violate
7) Abstruse - Difficult to comprehend, Obscure
8) Abut - Border on
This piece of land abuts on a street
9) Acarpous - not producing fruit; sterile; barren
Not fertile
10) Accretion - To add up
1. An increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
2. The result of this process.
3. An added part; addition: The last part of the legend is a later accretion.
4. The growing together of separate parts into a single whole.
5. Law. Increase of property by gradual natural additions, as of land by alluvion.
11) Putsch - A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government
12) Abecedarian - Novice, Learning alphabets
1. A person who is learning the letters of the alphabet.
2. A beginner in any field of learning.
3. Of or pertaining to the alphabet.
4. Arranged in alphabetical order.
5. Rudimentary; elementary; primary.
13) Condescend - To stoop or deign to do something
1. To behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
2. To stoop or deign to do something: He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.
3. To put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior: He condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood.
14) Accrue - Accumulate
15) Alacrity - Cheerful readiness
1. Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
2. Liveliness; briskness.
The words again:
1) Alacrity
2) Accrue
3) Putsch
4) Acarpous
5) Rile
6) Conflagration
7) Abet
8) Abjure
9) Contravene
10) Condescend
11) Abstruce
12) Accretion
13) Absedarian
14) Impervious
15) Abut
I would get back to you soon with another set of words.
Love CAT -- Meow!!
I am not good in Vocabulary and I am just too lazy to digest the Barons.
So i have come up with an idea.
i would learn 10 to 15 words (atleast once a day) and post it in this blog, in this way i know i vow it to those who read this blog so i would do it regularly.
Question me if i dont keep up my promise ok!!
And another point is that i will not and should not just copy paste it from anywhere. This is a promise that i give you. I would never abjure (give up) this promise.
so here is the wordlist for today
1) Rile - Irritate
2) Conflagration - Intense fire, Emergency situation
3) Impervious - incapable of being injured or impaired
not permitting penetration or passage
4) Abet - help / encourage
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime
- Related forms
a·bet·ment, a·bet·tal, noun
5)Abjure - to give up
To renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors.
Related forms
ab·jur·a·to·ry, adjective
ab·jur·er, noun
Syn: abandon, abjure, abnegate, bail out*, cede, disclaim, drop, forgo, give up, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire, sell out*, step down, surrender, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield
6) Contravene - Contradict someone or something
To come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
to violate, infringe, or transgress: to contravene the law
Syn: abjure, breach, break, combat, conflict with, counteract, cross, defy, disaffirm, disobey, encroach, exclude, fight, gainsay, hinder, impugn, infract, infringe, interfere, interpose, intrude, negate, offend, oppose, overstep, refute, reject, repudiate, resist, spurn, thwart, transgress, traverse, trespass, violate
7) Abstruse - Difficult to comprehend, Obscure
8) Abut - Border on
This piece of land abuts on a street
9) Acarpous - not producing fruit; sterile; barren
Not fertile
10) Accretion - To add up
1. An increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
2. The result of this process.
3. An added part; addition: The last part of the legend is a later accretion.
4. The growing together of separate parts into a single whole.
5. Law. Increase of property by gradual natural additions, as of land by alluvion.
11) Putsch - A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government
12) Abecedarian - Novice, Learning alphabets
1. A person who is learning the letters of the alphabet.
2. A beginner in any field of learning.
3. Of or pertaining to the alphabet.
4. Arranged in alphabetical order.
5. Rudimentary; elementary; primary.
13) Condescend - To stoop or deign to do something
1. To behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
2. To stoop or deign to do something: He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.
3. To put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior: He condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood.
14) Accrue - Accumulate
15) Alacrity - Cheerful readiness
1. Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
2. Liveliness; briskness.
The words again:
1) Alacrity
2) Accrue
3) Putsch
4) Acarpous
5) Rile
6) Conflagration
7) Abet
8) Abjure
9) Contravene
10) Condescend
11) Abstruce
12) Accretion
13) Absedarian
14) Impervious
15) Abut
I would get back to you soon with another set of words.
Love CAT -- Meow!!
