Succeeding in exams demands hard work and dedication. For students to be thorough with their answer writing in exams, they must ensure they work on their language skills.
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.
Apathy (Noun)
Meaning: lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern
Example: He also signalled the need for politicians to combat public apathy by re-establishing trust.
Augury (Noun)
Meaning: a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen
Example: Amid the carnage and death, that unity is one augury of hope
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Avarice (Noun)
Meaning: extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Example: Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child’s lips
Boor (Noun)
Meaning: a rough and bad-mannered person
Example: At last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner
Complaisant (Adjective)
Meaning: willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest
Example: And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction
Concur (Verb)
Meaning: be of the same opinion; agree / happen or occur at the same time; coincide
Example: In tests, cytogenetic determination has been found to concur with enzymatic determination
Demur (Verb)
Meaning: raise objections or show reluctance
Example: Normally she would have accepted the challenge, but she demurred
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Dictum (Noun)
Meaning: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
Example: ‘Where there is smoke there is fire’, says the old dictum.
Dogma (Noun)
Meaning: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true
Example: These beliefs form part of their political dogma
Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- They follow the __________ of their religion. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Dogma, Demur)
- The old _____________ ‘might is right’. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Dictum, Concur)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Complaisant?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Avarice?
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Watch out for this space for your weekly update on improving word power.
(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
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