Sunday, May 07, 2006

Wordlist apart from Barron's wordlist - 2

1.idyll...a musical composition that evokes rural life.
2.imbrue...drench,stain especially with blood
3.imprimatur...permission to print a book
4.incarnadine...stain crimson or blood...colour
5.ingenue...an artless girl;an actress who plays such parts
6.integument...outer covering or skin
7.interlocutory...intermediate;not final
8.interstices...chinks;crevices
9.irrefragable...indisputable


10.jejune...lacking interest;barren;meager
11.jeremiad...lament;complain

12.kiosk...summerhouse;open pavilion

13.lackey...footman;yes...man;toady
14.lagniappe...trifling present given to a customer
15.lambent...flickering;softly radiant
16.lapidary...worker in precious stones
17.lave...wash
18.lesion...injury,unhealthy change in structure
19.libation...drink
20.lieu...instead of
21.lissom...agile,lithe
22.lupine...like a wolf


23.marauder...raider,intruder
24.maunder...talk incoherently;utter drivel
25.melange...medley
26.mesa...high flat...topped hill
27.mews...group of stables buil around a courtyard
28.moiety...half;part
29.moot...debataable
30.morganatic...marriage between a royal and a common
31.mugwump...defector from a party
32.murrain...plague;cattle disease


33.natal...pertaining to birth
34.nave...main body of a church
35.neap...lowest
36.necrology...list of teh dead
37.non sequitor...conclusion that doesn't follow from facts

stated
38.nonage...immaturity
39.nosegay...fragrant bouquet


40.objurgation...severe rebuke;scolding
41.oblation...the eucharist;pious donation
42.obliquity...departure from right principle;perversity
43.offal...waste;garbage
44.offertory...collection of money at relegious ceremony
45.orison...prayer
46.ovine...like a sheep


47.palaver...misleading speech;chatter
48.palliation...act of making less severe or violent
49.panoply...complete suit of armour
50.paregoric...medicine tha eases pain
51.parlous...dangerous;perilous
52.parturiotion...delivery;child...birth
53.parvenu...upstart,newly rich person
54.patrimony...inheritance from father
55.peculate...steal;embezzle
56.pelf...stolen property
57.pennate...having wings or feathers
58.perforce...of necessity
59.persiflage...flippant conversation;banter
60.picaresque...pertaining to rogues in literature
61.plebiscite...expression of will of people by direct election
62.plenipotentiary...fully empowered
63.poltroon...coward
64.postprandial...after dinner
65.purloin...steal


66.qui vive...wide awake;expectant
67.quibble...escape of main point of an argument
68.prorogue...dismiss parliament


69.recherche...choice;sought after
70.recreant...coward;betrayer of faith
71.recrudescence...reopening of a wound or sore
72.recusant...person who refuses to comply
73.refection...slight refreshment
74.renascence...revival of learning and culture
75.reticulated...covered with a network;having a
mesh like appearence
76.rheumy...pertaining to discharge from nose and eyes
77.rime...white frosts
78.risible...inclined to laugh;ludicrous
79.risque...verging on the improper;off...colour
80.roan...brown mixed with gray or white
81.rood...crucifix


82.sacerdotal...priestly
83.saltatory...relating to leaping
84.salutatory...opening oration at commencement in american colleges
85.salver...tray
86.sangfroid...coolness in a trying situation
87.sapid...savory;tasty;relishable
88.sapient...wise;shrewd
89.sarcophagus...highly decorated stone coffin
90.savoir faire...poise;sophistication
91.scarify...make slight incisions in;scratch
92.sciolism...quackery;superficial information
93.screed...long tiresome harangue
94.scullion...menial kitchen worker
95.senescence...state of growing old
96.sequacious...eager to follow;ductile
97.serried...standing shoulder to shoulder;crowded
98.shibboleth...slogan;watchword
99.shoal...shallow place
100.slattern...untidy person
101.soupcon...suggestion;hint;taste
102.splenetic...peevish
103.spoliation...pillaging;plunder
104.spume...froth;foam
105.stertorous...having a snoring sound
106.sub rosa...in strict confidence
107.sudorific...pertaining to perspiration
108.sumptuary...limiting or regulating expenditures
109.supernal...heavenly;celestial
110.suppurate...create pulse
111.surcease...cessation