It is always a good idea to work on your language skills and become more articulate to score well in exams. When students develop their vocabulary skills they will be able to express their ideas better in exams.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the word of the day and a short quiz to improve your vocabulary and language skills.
pusillanimous (adjective)
Meaning: showing lack of courage or determination; Coward
Example: Pray not to continue such poor writing
Proclivity (noun)
Meaning: The tendency to choose or do something regularly; inclination or tendency towards a particular thing
Example: tendency to work hard
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primacy (noun)
Meaning: The fact of being paramount or most important
Example: The ethical principle of autonomy emphasizes the primacy of patients’ individual choices.
quixotic (adjective)
Meaning: Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
Example: A huge and perhaps quick project
reticent (adjective)
Meaning: not to reveal one’s thoughts or feelings easily
Example: Unfortunately the book is also reticent; It is notable for what is not included
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sacred (adjective)
Meaning: (especially of a principle, place, or routine) considered so important or valuable that it cannot be interfered with
Example: A person’s right to work is considered sacred
Seraphic (adjective)
Meaning: characteristic of or similar to a seraph or seraphim; divine
Example: a calm smile
restraint (noun)
Meaning: state of being calm/quality of being stable or serious
Example: She could use a little more restraint in the way she dresses
Curb your thinking and try to answer the following questions to see how much you have understood.
- She speaks with such ____________, it’s clear she tells the truth. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (temperance, seraphic)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the words Sacrosanct and Reticent?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the words quixotic and primacy?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
