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Thursday, December 11, 2008

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- 1- Scurrilous: Expressing unfair or false criticism which is likely to damage someone's reputation
2- Repertoire: The entire range of works (reusable java components, sql scripts) that a working guy can use.
3- Procrastinate: To keep delaying some task that must be done, often because its bit boring or unpleasant
4- Accoutrement: An accessory item of equipment or dress.
5- Garrulous: Wordy and rambling, a garrulous speech, tiresomely talkative, rambling talk
6- Succinct: precise expression
7- Tacit: Expressing without words
8- Paradigm: One that serves as a pattern or model
9- Connoisseur:
A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
A person of informed and discriminating taste: a connoisseur of fine wines.

10- Incisive: Penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression: an incisive mind;
incisive comments.

11- Crux:
The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an
argument.

12- Prevaricate:
To stray from or evade the truth
13- Apprehensive: Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
14- Instrumental: Serving as a means or agency; implemental: was instrumental in solving the crime.
15- Traitor:
One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.
16- Staunch:
Firm and steadfast; true. See Synonyms faithful
17- euphonic: Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words.
18- os·ten·si·ble: Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
19- bloomy:
The condition of being in flower: a rose in full bloom.
Weather the storm: Promoting the bad notions or thoughts. ;-)
20- reverence: An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.
21- Resurrect: To bring back to life; raise from the dead.
22- sublime: Characterized by nobility; majestic.
Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth.


23- Desultory: passing or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: desultory conversation;
occurring in a random way: a desultory thought

24- Spontaneous: Happening or arising without apparent external cause; self-generated.

25- Sultry: Very humid and hot: sultry July weather.

26- Discursive:

Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.

27- Hone in (phrasal verb) :
To move or advance toward a target or goal: The missiles honed in on the military installation.
To direct one's attention; focus: The lawyer honed in on the gist of the given testimony.

28- Gist:
The central idea; the essence substance

29-
Convoluted: Intricate; complicated: convoluted legal language; convoluted reasoning.

30- Voracious:
Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.

31- Vivid

1. very bright: a vivid blue sky
2. very clear and detailed: vivid memories

32-
Sycophant: a person who uses flattery to win favour from people with power or influence.

33- Betray: to hand over or expose (one's nation, friend, etc.) treacherously to an enemy

34- ambivalence: The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.

35-frazzle: Exhaust physically or emotionally.

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