No.
|
Word
|
Type
|
Meaning
|
Sentence
|
1
|
euphoria
|
noun
|
Feeling of great
|
-The euphoria of winning her
first gold medal in the 100 meter dash
overwhelmed Shelly-Ann Fraser
and she wept tears of immense joy.
-We try not to honor him too much as we don’t want him to have an euphoria
and leads to arrogance one day.
|
2
|
beatific
|
adjective
|
Express great happiness and calmness
|
-As soon as she heard
that news, she had on a beatific smile.
-She was surprised when they amazedly planned birthday prank to her but at the
same time she had beatific moment ever in her life.
|
3
|
luster
|
noun
|
A gentle sheen or soft
glow esp that of a partly reflective
surface
|
As light bounces off
the ruby’s surface, its luster
caught the eyes of many.
|
4
|
distraught
|
adjective
|
Very upset
|
-She was distraught that some
of her classmates are leaving MADPP.
-I am extremely distraught when I had checked out my scores of SAT in my first practice.
|
5
|
begrudge
|
verb
|
Jealous, envy
|
-Sitting all alone in his room,
Tam begrudged the happiness of his
friends playing outside at the field.
-I know that I’m really begrudged and
distracted as most of my friends got high scores in their first practice, but
it should be a challenge to me to get higher than them.
|
6
|
schism
|
noun
|
A separation or division into factions, discord, split
|
-Heretics were burned
for attempting to create a schism in the Catholic Church.
-The controversy created
a schism among my batch.
|
7
|
capricious
|
adjective
|
-sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior
-fickle, inconstant, changeable , volatile, temperamental,
unpredictable
|
-The rescue team had a hard time delivering supplies due to the capricious weather.
-She finds him oddly capricious ; praising her only to tease her
afterwards .
|
8
|
savvy
|
verb
|
-understand
-expertise
-know
-intuit
|
We should savvy 10 words per day
and update it in our blog.
|
9
|
besmirch
|
verb
|
-damage the good name n reputation
-make something dirty
-ruin, debase , damage, smear , taint
|
-The prince’s distasteful
choice of words besmirched
not only his own
name but the reputation of the entire royal
family .
-The ground was besmirched with blood.
|
10
|
spellbinding
|
Adjective
|
-hold your attention
completely
-extremely entertaining
-allure,, attract, beguile, bewitch, cajole , captivate,
fascinate
|
-He gave a spellbinding
performance.
-The spellbinding monuments
impress me and hard to leave the place.
|
11
|
paucity
|
noun
|
Lack of something
|
-There is a paucity of jobs hiring today that require menial
skill, since most such jobs have either been automated or
outsourced.
-We can feel a paucity when
someone from our class left us to achieve her goal but we should accept her
decision .
|
12
|
obliterate
|
verb
|
-Remove all signs, rub or blot out
-destroy something completely
|
The robbers had obliterated all fingerprints before leaving the
scene.
|
13
|
Amiable
|
adjective
|
friendly
|
That fellow is known all around school because of his
amiable
trait.
|
14
|
notable
|
adjective
|
-deserve to be noticed
or to receive attention
-important
-striking
|
-His sudden success in the business world is the notable point in
his life.
-We can’t have happiness
if we didn’t try to create a notable love and
respect among us.
|
15
|
Feasible
|
Adjective
|
-possible
-practicable
|
-His plan of robbing the bank
seems feasible to
me.
-Success is a feasible as we
really strive for it.
|
16
|
dearth
|
noun
|
Lack, shortage
|
-I am surprised by the dearth of
fast food chains, this is America and I assumed they were on every street.
-The dearth of love from his parents encourage him to do unpredictable
things.
|
17
|
hindsight
|
noun
|
Understanding the nature
of an event after it had happened
|
-In hindsight, we should’ve
brought on umbrella when we left the house.
-Only with hindsight did Wira
understood what sleep paralysis
meant.
|
18
|
mercenary
|
adjective
|
-hired to fight
-care only about making
money
-greedy
-moneygrubbing
-acquisitive, avaricious
|
-His motives in choosing
a career were purely mercenary .
-A mercenary businessman had been
caught for bribery last month.
|
19
|
Xenophobia
|
noun
|
A fear of foreigners or strangers
|
Some had trauma due to
the wave of xenophobia attacks on foreigners two years ago.
|
20
|
yahoo
|
noun
|
A person who is not intelligent or interested in culture
|
What I want to bring to your distinguished notice is this- that
you must not behave like a yahoo in my mathematical set.
|
21
|
advocate
|
-verb
-noun
|
-Speak, plead, argue in favor of, recommend, urge, advise
-a person who pleads for
a cause or propounds an idea, exponent, supporter, crusader, fighter
|
-While the senator privately approved the gay marriage, he was
unwillingly advocate for the cause in
public venue.
-Martin Luther King Jr. was tireless advocate for
the rights of African-Americans in United States.
|
22
|
fabricate
|
verb
|
Invent or concoct
something typically with deceitful intent
|
It might be fabricated by them
because they are just trying to
rip us off and constantly full of
spite.
|
23
|
powwow
|
noun
|
Informal meeting or discussion, assembly, get-together
|
Please attend a powwow tonight
sharp at 9 o’clock.
|
24
|
industrious
|
adjective
|
Characterized by hard
work and perseverance
|
Puteri is an industrious student, completing each assignments and
on time.
|
25
|
relegate
|
verb
|
Dismiss to an inferior
rank, lower, downgrade, put down
|
They aim to prevent women from
being relegated
to a secondary role.
|
26
|
Ephemeral
|
adjective
|
Lasting for a very
short time, transitory, transient, fleeting, momentary, brief
|
I tell my mum not to buy any toy for my youngest brother as he will makes it ephemeral toy.
|
27
|
Obdurate
|
adjective
|
stubborn
|
-He remains obdurate , refusing to alter his decision.
-My parents really despise to see us be an obdurate
child.
|
28
|
Awe-inspiring
|
adjective
|
Awesome, sublime
|
Taj Mahal is often
considered to be an awe inspiring sight.
|
29
|
malady
|
noun
|
Sickness, ailment,
disorder, infirmity
|
KKTM Ledang was struck
by a malady throughout the winter
that left most people sick in bed for
two weeks.
|
30
|
voracious
|
adjective
|
-Have a huge appetite, esurient, ravenous, gluttonous
-excessively eager,
insatiable
|
-Teenagers are often voracious eaters.
-A voracious reader intends to
meet with his admire author.
|
31
|
annex
|
verb
|
To add something to another
|
The attendance of my
friends to my house annexed some joys to the ambience.
|
32
|
emulate
|
verb
|
Strive to equal, esp by imitating, compete with successfully
|
To really fluent in a new language , emulate the
speech patterns of people who speak the language.
|
33
|
avert
|
verb
|
prevent
|
I know how to avert this
situation.
|
34
|
Ante
|
prefix
|
Before/ in front of
|
Ante room
|
35
|
hullabaloo
|
noun
|
Noisy, confused situation
|
There was such hullabaloo in
the room that he could
not hear himself think.
|
Just believe in Allah,,n everything's gonna be exciting,, Always be confident when u're right Our priority is ALLAH n parents. Don't make something that will make u regret. Explore everything in this wide world. No one can change us unless ourselves
Monday, 18 May 2015
success is not the key to happiness. happiness is the key to success. if i love what am i doing, i will be successful
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