Sunday, August 9, 2009

Select Word by Meaning - I


1. v. pick out; reject

  • prolong
  • guileless
  • cull
  • personable

2. n. changing its habitat; wandering

  • shrew
  • hale
  • scurvy
  • migrant

3. v. tilt; lean over

  • list
  • bawdy
  • abusive
  • carcinogenic

4. v. assent; agree passively

  • acquiesce
  • evoke
  • deplete
  • consort

5. adj. bloody

  • dissertation
  • poseur
  • sanguinary
  • contest

6. n. arrival

  • emetic
  • overbearing
  • manifesto
  • advent

7. n. aversion; dislike

  • amass
  • foolhardy
  • antipathy
  • pallid

8. adj. unjustified; groundless

  • corporeal
  • precursor
  • unwarranted
  • embellish

9. adj. stuffy; boringly conservative

  • braggart
  • propinquity
  • degenerate
  • stodgy

10. adj. petty criticism; fault-finding

  • carping
  • windfall
  • intangible
  • decimate

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