Category Archives: High Frequency Word
Word of the Day: Mundane
Mundane:
After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day.
Meaning:
common, ordinary.
Synonyms:
banal, commonplace, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly
Antonyms:
exciting, extraordinary, supernatural, wonderful
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Word of the Day: Deify
Deify
Mnemonic: turn into a god, idolize. ( sounds like defeat. You can never defeat god, As he is all mighty.)
Usage:
- These young men deify financial success.
- Stalin was to some extent deified during his lifetime.
Synonyms:
adore, apostheosize, extol, idealize, idolize, immortalize, venerate, worship
Antonyms:
dishonor, lower
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Picture Word of the Day
Gaffe
Mnemonic – goofy – the cartoon character always committed social blunders.
Meaning:
gaffe – social blunder , faux pas
Usage:
The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste.
Synonyms:
goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight
Antonyms:
accuracy, correction
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GRE Word of the Day: Abridge (v)
Abridge (v)
A+ bridge….. By constructing bridge, we shorten distance between two places. So abridge edition of a book is a compact edition of large one.
(Courtesy: aas-jakobsen.no )
>> To reduce the length of (a written text); condense.
>> to reduce in scope : DIMINISH
>> to shorten in duration or extent
>> to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense
( Courtesy: balsabridge.com )
>> attempts to abridge the right of free speech
>> modern transportation that abridges distance
Word of the Day: Haughty
Haughty
Hot heroins shows a lot for haughtiness (arrogance).
Usage:
a haughty look
a haughty young woman
Synonyms:
bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm, imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unrestricted
Antonyms:
democratic, passive, humble, unpretentious, unassuming
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Word of the Day: Mettle
Mettle
Metal have a lot of mettle to defend from attack that is why people use arsenal made from metal.
Synonyms:
courage, determination, firmness, fortitude, nerve, pluck, resolution, resolve, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, tenacity, toughness
Antonyms:
powerlessness, spinelessness, weakness
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Word of the Day: Urbane by Raj Laxmi
Urbane
We can relate urbane with urban population Vs rural population. India have only 20% urban population. Normally we also agree that urbane people supposed to be urbane i.e. Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner.
Urbane
-adjective: characterized by tact and propriety
- adjective: marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel (“Urbane and pliant…he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris”)
-adjective: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience (“Maintained an urbane tone in his letters”)
More Usage:
In conversation, he was suave and urbane.
Synonyms
sophisticated, cultured, polished, civil, mannerly, smooth, elegant, refined, cultivated, cosmopolitan, civilized, courteous, suave, well-bred, debonair, well-mannered
Antonyms
rude, gauche, boorish, uncouth, impolite, uncivilized, discourteous, clownish, uncultured
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