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By Kamlesh Tripathi

A learned society values a person with a sound vocabulary.

• Di-rigueur: Fashionable, up-to-date.
• Quirky: peculiar or with unexpected traits, eccentric.
• Avuncular: Kind of friendly towards a younger or a less experienced person.
• Opprobrium: harsh criticism.
• Grunt: of animal make a low, short guttural sound.
• Liverish: slightly ill
• tawny : of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour.
• Tramp: walk heavily or noisily.
• Honorofic: a title or word implying or expressing respect.
• Shikoed: prostrating themselves upon the ground, the hands
• Waddled: walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion.
• Lithograph: The art or process of producing a picture
• Sidelongness: a sidelong glance
• Sallow: (of a person’s face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour.
• Ochreous: a pale brownish yellow colour.
• Priori: is a philosophical term that is used in several different ways. The term is suppose to mean knowledge that is gained through deduction, and not through empirical evidence. For instance, if I have two apples now, and I plan to add three apples, I will have five apples. This is knowledge gained deductively.
• Ectoplasm: the more viscous, clear outer layer of the cytoplasm in amoeboid cells; a supernatural viscous substance that supposedly exudes from the body of a medium during a spiritualistic trance and forms the material for the manifestation of spirits.
• Ensconced : establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place.
• Equipoise: balance of forces or interests.
• Discountenance: Refuse to approve of; disturb the composure of.
• Wanton: Deliberate and unprovoked, sexually modest or promiscuous.
• Solstice: either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
• Spigot: a small peg or plug, especially for insertion into the vent of a cask; a tap.
• Confucian: relating to Confucius or Confucianism.
• Kowtow: act in an excessively subservient manner.
• Pedagogy: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.”the relationship between applied linguistics and language pedagogy”
• Plenipotentiary: a person, especially a diplomat, invested with the full power of independent action on behalf of their government, typically in a foreign country.
• Boorish: Rough and bad mannered, coarse.
• Quintessential: Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
• Jingoism: Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or war like foreign policy.
• Discomfiture: A feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness.
• Bete Noire: A person or a thing that someone dislikes very much.
• Neologisms: 1. A new word or expression 2. The coining of use of new words
• Intransigence: Uncompromising, stubborn.
• Atavistic: 1. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents or animals 2. Reversion to an earlier type
• Tall poppy syndrome: A social phenomenon where those with more merit or success are disparaged and pulled down.
• Purported: Appear to be or do something, especially falsely.
• Rime: Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing water vapour in cloud or fog
• Hegemonic: Ruling or dominant in a political or social context.
• Impinge: To have an effect, especially a negative one.
• Prosaic: Having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality.
• Fulsome: Complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree.
• Raconteur: A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing manner.
• Hurtle: Move or cause to move at high speed.
• Callow: Inexperienced and immature.
• Guffaw: Loud and hearty laugh.
• Russet: Reddish brown in colour, rustic, lonely.
• Delirium: Restlessness, illusions, incoherence.
• Speckled: Covered or marked with a large number of small spots or patches of colour.
• Ubiquitous: Present, appearing or found everywhere.
• Balk: Hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking.
• effrontery: Insolent or impertinent behaviour.
• Inchoate: Just begun and not so fully formed or developed; rudimentary
• Mallet: A hammer with a large, usually a wooden handle.
• Accompaniment: A musical part which supports or partners an instrument.
• Clammy: Unpleasantly damp and sweaty
• Forswear: Agree to give up or do without.
• Insouciance: Indifference; casual lack of concern
• Mendicant: Given to begging; a beggar
• Cannabis: A tall plant with a stiff upright stem, divided serrated leaves, and granular hair. It is used to produce hemp fire & as a psychotropic drug.
• South Paw:Is the normal stance for a left handed boxer.
• Ambled: to walk at a slow and relaxed speed.
• Corpulent: Fat
• Abound: exist in large numbers or amounts.
• Deckle edge: is a type of rough cut edged paper used in the book trade.
• Wading: walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance.
• Wrought: (of metals) beaten out or shaped by hammering; made or fashioned in the specified way.

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