Language skills are an important factor in helping students feel more confident about appearing for exams and helping professionals feel more confident about their work. With a strong vocabulary, you can impress your peers at work or with your answers in the exams.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power and language skills.
Exigent (Adjective)
Meaning: pressing; demanding
Example: The exigent demands of her contemporaries’ music took a toll on her voice
Fatuous (Adjective)
Meaning: silly and pointless
Example: The comparisons are being made, fatuous as they are
Eschew (Verb)
Meaning: deliberately avoid using; abstain from
Example: He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence
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Gouge (Verb)
Meaning: make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade
Example: Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car
Grandiose (Adjective)
Meaning: impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so
Example: Don’t be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt
Guile (Noun)
Meaning: sly or cunning intelligence
Example: He has also added a smattering of guile to his undoubted power
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Homage (Noun)
Meaning: special honour or respect shown publicly
Example: They stood for a minute in homage to the fallen troops
Incipient (Adjective)
Meaning: beginning to happen or develop
Example: We seemed more like friends than incipient lovers
Inure (Verb)
Meaning: accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant
Example: These children have been inured to violence
Lax (Adjective)
Meaning: not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful
Example: Many parents are too lax with their children
Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- Discipline is very _______________ in this school. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Lax, Incipient)
- He could feel incipient anger building up. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? ( Inure, Incipient)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Homage?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Guile?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
