common word list 2013-14

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WORD – LIST 1.Abate/ment 27. Debilitate 53.Hoodwink 79. Palpable 2. Aberrant 28. Decadence 54.Hospitable 80.patronize 3.Abeyance 29.decorum 55.Impasse 81.pedestrian (adj) 4.Above-board 30. Demeanor 56. Impertinent 82.phenomenal 5.Accomplice 31.detrimental 57.Impetus 83. Plausible 6.acrimonious 32.discretion 58.Implicit 84.poise (noun) 7. Acumen 33.double-cross 59. Inadvertent 85.pre-empt 8.addendum 34. Eclectic 60. Inclement 86.pre-requisite 9.aftermath 35.embargo 61.Ingenuous/ 87.rationale 10.alarmist 36. Endemic 62. Intrepid 88.reciprocate 11 . Angst 37. Equivocal 63.Jeopardize 89. Reckoning 12 . Back-handed 38. Euphemism 64.Judicious/ial 90.reconnoitre 13. Becoming 39. Exponent 65.Juvenile 91.redress 14. Bigot 40.extradition 66.Keepsake 92.repercussion 15.brazen 41.extrovert 67.Largesse 93.resilient

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Page 1: Common word list 2013-14

WORD – LIST

1.Abate/ment 27. Debilitate 53.Hoodwink 79. Palpable

2. Aberrant 28. Decadence 54.Hospitable 80.patronize

3.Abeyance 29.decorum 55.Impasse 81.pedestrian (adj)

4.Above-board 30. Demeanor 56. Impertinent 82.phenomenal

5.Accomplice 31.detrimental 57.Impetus 83. Plausible

6.acrimonious 32.discretion 58.Implicit 84.poise (noun)

7. Acumen 33.double-cross 59. Inadvertent 85.pre-empt

8.addendum 34. Eclectic 60. Inclement 86.pre-requisite

9.aftermath 35.embargo 61.Ingenuous/ 87.rationale

10.alarmist 36. Endemic 62. Intrepid 88.reciprocate

11 . Angst 37. Equivocal 63.Jeopardize 89. Reckoning

12 . Back-handed 38. Euphemism 64.Judicious/ial 90.reconnoitre

13. Becoming 39. Exponent 65.Juvenile 91.redress

14. Bigot 40.extradition 66.Keepsake 92.repercussion

15.brazen 41.extrovert 67.Largesse 93.resilient

16.camouflage 42.fabricate 68. Latitude 94.saccharine

17.casualty 43. Fastidious 69.Litigation 95.salvage

18.chivalry 44. fatalism 70. Machinations 96.scapegoat

19.circumstantial 45.galvanize 71.malpractice 97. Solicit

20.compromise 46.generic 72. Milieu 98. Suave

21.consensus 47.graphic 73. Myopic 99. subservient

22.conspiracy 48.gruesome 74. narcissism 100.tentative

23.covenant 49.hackneyed 75.offbeat 101 .touchstone

24.credible/credulous 50.harrowing 76.out of the way 102.uncanny

25.credentials 51.headlong 77.overtone 103.unscrupulous

26. Cynicism 52heresy 78. Palatable 104.warrant

105. Wherewithal

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Omniscient avaricious foregone

One word substitutions

1.One who is unable to pay one’s debt insolvent

2.person who leaves his country to settle in some other country refugee, expatriate, immigrant emigrant

3.person who comes as a settler into a foreign country asylum seeker, refugee,

4.person who believes everything is predetermined fatalist foregone

5.person above 100 years centenarian

6.book/quote/ poem whose author is unknown Annonymous

7.cinema show held in the afternoon matinee

8.a medicine to counteract the effect of another medicine antidote

9.drug or substance that induces sleep sedative, soporific

10.a person appointed to settle dispute between parties mediator, arbitrator, umpire

11.person who does not believe in the institution of marriage misogynist, woman hater

12.a position for which no salary is paid honorary

13.a supposed cure for all diseases or problems panacea

14.Murder of: Father, mother, brother, infant, king/queen, human being, self Patricide,Matricide, Fratricide, Homicide infanticide, regicide

15.one who can do anything for money mercenary

16.one who can make himself at home in all countries cosmopolite

17.one who pretends to be what he is not impersonator, imposter

18.one who damages public property hooligan, Vandal

19.systematic study of election trends psephology

20.right to vote suffrage, franchise

Foreign words/ phrases/ prefixes/ suffixes

Ad hoc alma mater bona fide de facto modus operandi per se ( by itself) status quo

Ambi-, anti- ante(Before, pre), phil(Liking philology, philter, philhellenism, )-, psych-(psychometric, psychosis), pseudo-(pseudonym, mis-, sub-, -able, -ful/less, -ment, -ist, -ness, -ance,