DSAT 8th March

March exam vocab

Aberration

A deviation from what is normal or expected.

Acrimonious

Bitter in temper or tone.

Adulation

Excessive praise or admiration.

Aesthetic

Concerned with beauty or appreciation of beauty.

Alleviate

To relieve or make more bearable.

Ambivalent

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas.

Amiable

Friendly and pleasant.

Anachronism

Something out of place in time.

Anecdote

A short, interesting story about a real incident or person.

Apprehensive

Anxious or fearful about the future.

Arduous

Difficult and requiring much effort.

Assiduous

Showing great care and perseverance.

Benevolent

Well-meaning and kindly.

Bolster

To support or strengthen.

Cacophony

A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

Capitulate

To surrender or give in.

Censure

To express severe disapproval.

Circumspect

Cautious and unwilling to take risks.

Clandestine

Secret or concealed, often for illicit purposes.

Coalesce

To come together and form a whole.

Cognizant

Aware or informed.

Conundrum

A difficult problem or dilemma.

Corroborate

To confirm or give support to a statement.

Deleterious

Causing harm or damage.

Deride

To ridicule or mock.

Disparage

To belittle or criticize.

Dogmatic

Arrogantly assertive about one's beliefs.

Dubious

Hesitating or doubting; not to be relied upon.

Ebullient

Cheerful and full of energy.

Elicit

To draw out a response or reaction.

Elucidate

To explain or clarify.

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing.

Enervate

To weaken or drain energy.

Ephemeral

Lasting for a very short time.

Equanimity

Calmness and composure under pressure.

Esoteric

Intended for or understood by only a small group.

Euphemism

A mild or indirect word used in place of a harsh one.

Exacerbate

To make a problem worse.

Exculpate

To clear from blame or guilt.

Exorbitant

Unreasonably high (especially in price).

Extol

To praise highly.

Facetious

Treating serious issues with humor.

Fallacious

Based on a mistaken belief.

Fastidious

Very attentive to detail.

Fervent

Having intense passion or enthusiasm.

Flippant

Lacking proper respect or seriousness.

Fortuitous

Happening by chance; lucky.

Garrulous

Excessively talkative.

Grandiose

Impressive but overly ambitious.

Hackneyed

Overused and unoriginal.

Hapless

Unfortunate or unlucky.

Harangue

A long, intense verbal attack or speech.

Haughty

Arrogantly superior or disdainful.

Hedonist

A person devoted to pleasure.

Iconoclast

A person who challenges or criticizes traditional beliefs.

Idiosyncrasy

A unique personal trait.

Impetuous

Acting quickly without thought.

Inchoate

Not fully formed or developed.

Indolent

Lazy or avoiding work.

Intransigent

Unwilling to compromise.

Inveterate

Deeply rooted; long-established.

Irascible

Easily angered or irritable.

Juxtapose

To place side by side for comparison.

Laconic

Using very few words; concise.

Lament

To express sorrow or regret.

Languid

Lacking energy or enthusiasm.

Loquacious

Very talkative.

Malleable

Easily shaped or influenced.

Mendacious

Lying or deceitful.

Mitigate

To make less severe.

Munificent

Very generous.

Nefarious

Wicked or criminal.

Noxious

Harmful or poisonous.

Obfuscate

To make something unclear or confusing.

Obsequious

Overly submissive or eager to please.

Ostentatious

Showy, designed to impress.

Paragon

A model of excellence or perfection.

Partisan

Strongly supporting a particular cause.

Pernicious

Harmful in a gradual way.

Placate

To calm or appease someone.

Precarious

Unstable or risky.

Proclivity

A natural tendency toward something.

Prosaic

Dull or lacking imagination.

Pugnacious

Eager to argue or fight.

Quixotic

Unrealistically idealistic.

Recalcitrant

Stubbornly resistant to authority.

Repudiate

To reject or disown.

Sagacious

Wise or having keen judgment.

Superfluous

More than necessary.

Surreptitious

Done secretly or stealthily.

Advocative

Pertaining to advocacy; supporting a cause.

Allusion

An indirect reference to something.

Ambiguity

The quality of being open to multiple interpretations.

Analogy

A comparison between two things for explanation.

Apprehend

To understand or arrest someone.

Articulate

Able to express ideas clearly.

Bane

A cause of great distress or annoyance.

Bereft

Deprived of something; lacking.

Bias

A tendency to favor one thing over another.

Berate

To scold or criticize angrily.