Showing posts with label MAY - High frequency words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAY - High frequency words. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

May - High Frequency Words

1. Larval - Of or pertaining to a larva
2. Larva - The newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis; newly hatched, earliest stage of any of various animals that undergo metamorphosis, differing markedly in form and appearance from the adult; malevolent spirit of the dead; a lemur
3. Diaphanous - Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent; characterized by delicacy of form; vague or insubstantial; fine, see-through; having such fineness of texture as to be see-through
4. Fervent - Having or showing great emotion or zeal; ardent; extremely hot; glowing; characterized by intense emotion; sincerely or intensely felt; extremely hot
5. Leaven - An agent, such as yeast, that causes batter or dough to rise, especially by fermentation; element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whole; cause to rise, especially by fermentation; pervade with a lightening, enlivening, or modifying influence; agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change
6. Imperious - Arrogantly domineering or overbearing; urgent; pressing; regal; imperial; bossy, overbearing; able to deal authoritatively with affairs
7. Mundane - Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary; of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular; ordinary
8. Timorous - Full of apprehensiveness; timid; easily frightened; fearful by nature
9. Eulogy - A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died; high praise or commendation; expression of warm approval; praise, acclamation; formal speech praising a person who has just died
10. Beguile - To deceive by guile; delude; take away from by or as if by guile; cheat; distract the attention of; divert; pass (time) pleasantly; amuse or charm; delight; charm; deceive; draw notice or interest by charm
11. Delude - To deceive the mind or judgment of; to elude or evade; frustrate the hopes or plans of; deceive, fool
12. Feasible - Capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible; used or dealt with successfully; suitable; possible, doable
13. Pan - A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes; open metal dish used to separate gold or other metal from gravel or waste by washing; basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water; wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan; yield gold as a result of washing in a pan; leaf of the betel vine; chewing preparation of this leaf with betel nuts, spices, and lime, used in the Far East; move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect; criticize strongly; part of the lock that held the priming in old types of guns
14. Halcyon - Calm and peaceful; tranquil; prosperous; golden; fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea during the winter solstice; serene; Calm and peaceful
15. Virile - Having or showing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power; of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male; vigorous or forceful
16. Proselyte - A new convert to a doctrine or religion; a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism
17. Gaunt - Thin and bony; angular; emaciated and haggard; drawn; bleak and desolate; barren; skinny, pale; having little flesh or fat on the body; worn and lean, as from hunger or illness
18. Covert - Existing or operating in a way so as to ensure complete concealment and confidentiality; lying beyond what is obvious or avowed; something that physically protects, especially from danger; a hiding place; clandestine, underhanded; something that serves to conceal or shelter
19. Dank - Disagreeably damp or humid; clammy; slightly wet; unpleasantly damp or cold
20. Swarthy - Having a dark complexion or color; of a complexion tending toward brown or black; dark-complexioned
21. Boastful - Characterized by or given to boasting; exhibiting self-importance
22. Intangible - Incapable of being apprehended by the mind or the senses; indefinite, obscured; incorporeal; incapable of being realized or defined
23. Emulate - To take as a model or make conform to a model; to strive against (others) for victory; to imitate with intent to learn; strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation; compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with; ambitious; emulous
24. Disparate - Fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar; containing or composed of dissimilar or opposing elements; at odds, different; not like another in nature, quality, amount, or form; including markedly dissimilar elements; fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
25. Trifling - Of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle; insignificant, worthless; contemptibly unimportant; the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working
26. Oaf - A person regarded as stupid or clumsy; large, ungainly, and dull-witted person; person who is clumsy, stupid; awkward person
27. Penurious - Unwilling to spend money; stingy; yielding little; barren; poverty-stricken; destitute; mean; poor; ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money
28. Accrue - Accumulate or increase; increasing by addition of growth, often financial
29. Esteem - To regard with respect; prize; favorable regard; think highly of; have a high opinion of; recognize the worth, quality, importance, or magnitude of; feeling of deference, approval, and liking
30. Pundit - A source of opinion; a critic; learned person; usually elderly person noted for wisdom, knowledge, and judgment; person who is authority
31. Limpid - Admitting light so that objects beyond can be seen; characterized by transparent clearness; calm and untroubled; serene; clear; comprehensible
32. Avarice - Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity; excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves; extreme greed; greed or passion for money or riches
33. Contrite - Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses, feeling regret for a fault or offence
34. Surfeit - To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust; overindulge; excessive amount; satisfy to the full or to excess; Immoderate indulgence, as in food or drink; overfill; state of being more than full; quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
35. Gainsay - To declare false; deny; to oppose, especially by contradiction; refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of
36. Epitomic - A brief presentation or statement of something; a summary of a written work; a typical or ideal example; brief or miniature form
37. Ossified - Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues; rigid, unimaginative convention; process of becoming set in a rigidly conventional pattern, as of behavior, habits, or beliefs
38. Subterfuge - A deceptive stratagem or device; indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end; trickery; something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
39. Hoodwink - To take in by deceptive means; deceive; trick or mislead; cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation; influence by slyness; conceal one's true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
40. Derision - Tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling word or expression; tending to demean or belittle; negative
41. Mace - A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body; heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor; aromatic spice made from the dried, waxy, scarlet or yellowish covering that partly encloses the kernel of the nutmeg; kind of spice made from nutmeg
42. Resurgence - A continuing after interruption; a renewal; restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor; a revival; bringing again into activity and prominence
43. Inquiline - An animal that characteristically lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species; being or living as an inquiline
44. Dote - To show excessive fondness or love; to To lavish attention on; be foolish or senile due to old age; shower with love; show excessive affection for
45. Audacious - Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold; arrogant, presumptuous; showing courage
46. Mite - A very small contribution or amount of money; very small object, creature, or particle; coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing; tiny animal related to spiders and ticks
47. Impervious - Incapable of being penetrated; incapable of being affected; having the capacity to withstand; not allowing to pass through
48. Repudiate - To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; reject; turn one's back on; disown
49. Puckish - Mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful
50. Dodder - To shake or tremble, as from old age; totter; progress in a feeble, unsteady manner; walk unsteadily, as of small children; any of various leafless, annual parasitic herbs of the genus Cuscuta that lack chlorophyll and have slender, twining, yellow or reddish stems and small whitish flowers
51. Assiduous - Constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing; persistent; hard-working
52. Pugnacious - Combative in nature; belligerent; fond of fighting or arguing
53. Slipshod - Marked by carelessness; sloppy or slovenly; slovenly in appearance; shabby or seedy; indifferent to correctness, accuracy, or neatness; careless; not well done
54. Marsupial - Any mammal that has a pouch on the abdomen of the female for carrying young
55. Stalwart - Capable of exerting considerable effort or of withstanding considerable stress or hardship; strong, valiant; brave and resolute; who is physically and morally strong; who steadfastly supports an organization or cause; stout
56. Debauched - Dissolute; dissipated; violated, corrupted; lead away from virtue or morality; to corrupt
57. Redundant - Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous; excessive; repetitious; using more words than are necessary to the meaning
58. Ponderous - Having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull; dreary, tedious; heavy, cumbersome
59. Bore - One that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious; to make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill; proceed or advance steadily or laboriously; high, often dangerous wave caused by the surge of a flood tide upstream in a narrowing estuary or by colliding tidal currents; unpleasant, tiresome person; hollow out (a gun barrel or other tube)
60. Gull - A person who is easily tricked or cheated; a dupe; any of various chiefly coastal aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having long wings, webbed feet, a thick, slightly hooked beak, and usually gray and white plumage; person who is easily deceived or victimized; get money or something else from by deceitful trickery
61. Tedious - Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring; dull, monotonous; long and boring; tiresome
62. Succor - Assistance in time of distress; relief; one that affords assistance or relief; to give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress; give support or assistance
63. Cameo - To make into or like a gem or shell carved in relief; to portray in sharp, delicate relief, as in a literary composition
64. Gratuitous - Costing nothing; not required, necessary, or warranted by the circumstances of the case; not necessary; free
65. Maverick - An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it; one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter; being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence; radical
66. Surreptitious - Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means; sneaky, secret; trickily secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
67. Falter - To be unsteady in purpose or action, as from loss of courage or confidence; waver; speak hesitatingly; stammer; to operate or perform unsteadily or with a loss of effectiveness; stumble, stutter; to move in a shaky or unsteady way
68. Temerity - Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness; nerve, audacity; rash or presumptuous daring
69. Imbue - To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade; to permeate or saturate; to stain or dye deeply; to cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone; infuse, saturate
70. Limpid - Admitting light so that objects beyond can be seen; characterized by transparent clearness; calm and untroubled; serene; clear; comprehensible

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

MAY - High frequency words

1. Malaise - A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness; general sense of depression or unease; general feeling of discomfort or uneasiness, often the first indication of an infection or other disease
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Penurious - Unwilling to spend money; stingy; yielding little; barren; poverty-stricken; destitute; mean; poor; ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money
3. Obstinate - Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate; difficult to manage, control, or subdue; refractory; difficult to alleviate or cure; stubborn, determined
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Stagnant - Not moving or flowing; motionless; showing little or no sign of activity or advancement; not developing or progressing; inactive; lacking vitality or briskness; sluggish or dull; motionless
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Prevarication - The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing; secret abuse in the exercise of a public office; collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution; statement that deviates from or perverts the truth; intentionally vague or ambiguous; the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
6. Truss - A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia; rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof; something gathered into a bundle; a pack; iron fitting by which a lower yard is secured to a mast; compact cluster of flowers at the end of a stalk; tie up or bind tightly; bind or skewer the wings or legs of (a fowl) before cooking; support or brace with a truss; tie up (someone) with their arms at their sides
7. Cameo - To make into or like a gem or shell carved in relief; to portray in sharp, delicate relief, as in a literary composition
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Implacable - Impossible to placate or appease; firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will; merciless, cruel; incapable of being pleased
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Spartan - Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; practicing great self-denial; austere; laconic; simple
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Intimidate - To make timid; fill with fear; to coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats; frighten, threaten
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Laconic - Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise; short, to the point
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Audit - An examination of records or financial accounts to check their accuracy; adjustment or correction of accounts; examined and verified account; examine financial accounts; a post-treatment record review or clinical examination to verify information reported on claims
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Palpable - Capable of being handled, touched, or felt; tangible; obvious; concrete, real
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Stygian - Gloomy and dark; infernal; hellish
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Altruism - Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness; kindly, charitable interest in others; service to others without thinking of one's self.
16. Vehemence - Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activity; intensity or forcefulness of expression; the property of being wild or turbulent; quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; passion
17. Propensity - An innate inclination; a tendency; inclination, weakness; ending towards or natural liking
18. Dust jacket - A removable paper cover used to protect the binding of a book; cardboard sleeve in which a phonograph record is packaged; a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is printed
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Tardy - Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late; moving slowly; sluggish
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Malleable - Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure; tractable; able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable; pliable; flexible
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Inane - One that lacks sense or substance; stupid
22. Timorous - Full of apprehensiveness; timid; easily frightened
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Skirt - The periphery of a city or town; border, edge; avoid; get around; be on the edge; avoid fulfilling or answering completely; garment hanging from the waist and worn by women and girls; lower outer section of a rocket vehicle; flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle; piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection
24. Miff - A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff; petty quarrel or argument; a tiff; cause to become offended or annoyed; annoy, bewilder; a state of irritation or annoyance; extreme displeasure caused by an insult or slight
25. Evoke - To summon or call forth; call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting; create anew, especially by means of the imagination; induce, stimulate
26. Apulia - A region of southeast Italy bordering on the Adriatic Sea, Strait of Otranto, and Gulf of Taranto; a region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic
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Skimp - To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material; be stingy or very thrifty; scanty; be cheap or frugal about; give barely enough or not enough attention, funds or effort
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Coy - Tending to avoid people and social situations; reserved; affectedly and usually flirtatiously shy or modest; annoyingly unwilling to make a commitment; very modest; not forward but reticent or reserved in manner; given to flirting; shy
29. Gullibility - The state of being easily deceived
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Surly - Bad tempered; unfriendly
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Latent - Hidden; beneath the surface; not obvious or active; dormant; capable of being but not yet in existence; existing in a temporarily inactive form or state; fingerprint that is not apparent to the eye but can be made sufficiently visible, as by dusting or fuming, for use in identification; present or potential but not evident or active; undeveloped but capable of normal growth under the proper conditions
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Gossamer - So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film; gauzy, thin; soft light delicate material
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Pusillanimous - Lacking courage; cowardly; without spirit or bravery
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Incendiary - Causing or capable of causing fire; of or containing chemicals that produce intensely hot fire when exploded; inflammatory; an arsonist; who creates or stirs up factionalism or sedition; an agitator; causing trouble, damage; one who maliciously and willfully sets property on fire; also, an object or thing capable of starting and sustaining a fire
35. Havoc - Widespread destruction; devastation; disorder or chaos; chaotic situation; great damage or destruction; rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
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Proscribe - To denounce or condemn; to prohibit; forbid; banish or outlaw (a person); exclude
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Chicanery - Deception by trickery or sophistry; lack of straightforwardness and honesty in action; legal trickery or false argument; deception, trickery
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Euphemism - The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive; use or an instance of equivocal language; polite term
39. Solitude - The state or quality of being alone or remote from others; lonely or secluded place; aloneness

40. Accolade - An expression of approval; praise; special acknowledgment; an award; ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation; ceremonial bestowal of knighthood; recognition; ornamental treatment, used over an arch, a door, or a window, composed of two curves meeting in the middle; often a richly decorated molding; approval
41. Trespass - Unlawful entry or possession of property; invasion, offense; infringe, offend; enter forcibly or illegally: break in; violate a moral or divine law
42. Loquacious - Talkative; garrulous
43. Vivid - Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant; having intensely bright colors
; having a very high degree of saturation; presented in clear and striking manner; felt with the freshness of immediate experience; active in forming lifelike images
44. Haphazard - Dependent upon or characterized by mere chance; fortuity; ; without plan or organization; having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure
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Camouflage - To use protective coloring or garments for concealment; disguise, cover; conceal by the use of disguise or by protective coloring or garments that blend in with the surrounding environment
46. Doggerel - Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature; crude and comic verse
47. Sonnet - A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes
48. Entice - To attract by arousing hope or desire; lure; tempt or persuade
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Stolid - Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive; apathetic, stupid; without emotion or interest
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Lax - Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness; not taut, firm, or compact; slack; not strict