50 difficult word with their meaning in English
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1. Inchoate: just begun and so not fully formed or developed
2. Profligacy: recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant, profligate behavior
3. Sui Generis: being the only example of its kind, unique
4. Austerity: severe and morally strict; the quality of being austere, having no pleasures or comforts
5. Profligate: using money, resources, etc., in a way that wastes them
6. Baldenfreude: Satisfaction derived from the misfortune of bald or balding individuals (coined by NYT columnist Maureen Dowd)
7. Opprobrium: harsh criticism, contempt
8. Apostates: pl; a person who abandons a belief or principle
9. Solipsistic: the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist
10. Obduracy: refusing to change in any way
11. Internecine: causing destruction to both sides
12. Soporific: adj; causing sleep
13. Kristallnacht: German, night of (broken) glass:
14. Peripatetic: going from place to place
15. Nascent: beginning to exist, not fully developed
16. Desultory: going from one thing to another, without a definite plan or purpose
17. Redoubtable: deserving to be feared and respected
18. Hubris: excessive pride
19. Mirabile Dictu: wonderful to relate
20. Crèches: a place where babies are looked after while their parents work, shop, etc.
21. Apoplectic: sudden loss of the ability to feel or move; adj: suffering from apoplexy; easily made angry
22. Overhaul: to examine carefully and thoroughly and make any necessary changes or repairs; to come from behind and pass them
23. Ersatz: used as a poor-quality substitute for something else, inferior to an original item
24. Obstreperous: very noisy or difficult to control
25. Jejune: too simple, naïve; dull, lacking nourishment
26. Omertà: rule or code that prohibits speaking or revealing information, generally relates to activities of organized crime; sub; the Mafia
27. Putative: generally supposed to be the thing specified
28. Manichean: A believer in Manichaeism – an ancient Iranian Gnostic religion
29. Canard: a false report or rumour, aerofoil designs on certain airplanes
30. Ubiquitous: seeming to be everywhere or in several places at the same time
31. Atavistic: relating to the behavior of one’s ancestors in the distant past
32. Renminbi: another name for the Chinese Yuan, official currency of People’s Republic of China
33. Sanguine: hopeful, optimistic
34. Antediluvian: very old-fashioned
35. Cynosure: object or someone who serves as a focal point of attention and admiration, something that serves to guide
36. Alacrity: eagerness or enthusiasm
37. Epistemic: cognitive, relating to learning, or involving knowledge
38. Egregious: exceptional, outstanding
39. Incendiary: designed to set something on fire, tending to create public disturbances or violence
40. Chimera: an imaginary creäture composed of the parts of several different animals, wild or impossible idea
41. Laconic: using few words
42. Polemicist: person skilled in art of writing or speech, arguing cases forcefully
43. Comity: mutual civility; amity, an atmosphere of social harmony, the policy whereby one religious sect refrains from proselytizing the members of another sect
44. Provenance: the place that something originally came from
45. Sclerotic: condition in which soft tissue in the body becomes abnormally hard
46. Prescient: knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen
47. Hegemony: control and leadership, by one country over others
48. Verisimilitude: the appearance of being true or real
49. Feckless: not able to manage things properly or look after oneself, not responsible enough
50. Demarche: step or manoeuvre in political or diplomatic affairs