Improving your language skills is very important for students as well as professionals to excel in their exams and professional lives.
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.
Gregarious (Adjective)
Meaning: (of a person) fond of company; sociable
Example: Even though she was so gregarious and loved to chat, she also liked to listen
Furtive (Adjective)
Meaning: attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive
Example: It’s almost unbearably tempting to suggest a furtive flick on the nose
Frenetic (Adjective)
Meaning: fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way
Example: Her writing is hectic and frenetic, but at the same time utterly controlled
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Impervious (Adjective)
Meaning: not allowing fluid to pass through/ unable to be affected by
Example: Despite his best efforts, she remained impervious to his charms
Hotly (Adverb)
Meaning: in a passionate, intense, or angry way
Example: The rumours have been hotly denied
Hoodwink (Verb)
Meaning: deceive or trick
Example: They hoodwink shoppers into believing they are giving money to charity
Inquest (Noun)
Meaning: a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident/ a discussion or investigation into something that has happened, especially something undesirable
Example: The Divisional Court directed the coroner to resume the inquest
Intrepid (Adjective)
Meaning: fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect)
Example: Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too
Jingoism (Noun)
Meaning: extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy
Example: The popular jingoism that swept the lower–middle classes
Lissome (Adjective)
Meaning: (of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful
Example: The kind of outfit that should be left to lissom teenagers
Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- They are renowned for their ______________ exploits. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Intrepid, Lissome)
- Her son told the ___________ he had no idea where she got the tablets from. (Inquest, Jingoism)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Hoodwink?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Hotly?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
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