![]() ![]() Ersatz: used as a poor-quality substitute for something else, inferior to an original item Michael’s faster car easily overhauled the leading drivers in the F1 championship.Ģ3. ![]() Overhaul: to examine carefully and thoroughly and make any necessary changes or repairs to come from behind and pass them His son’s antics on the playground left him apoplectic with rage.Ģ2. Apoplectic: sudden loss of the ability to feel or move adj: suffering from apoplexy easily made angry Go down the Green Avenue and you will find a string of crèches and day-care centres.Ģ1. Crèches: a place where babies are looked after while their parents work, shop, etc. Randy’s winning putt remained mirabile dictu in the golf club gossip for many years.Ģ0. The Empire’s vanity and hubris in its exaggerated military were the reason for its downfall. Mike’s redoubtable instincts as a prize-fighter kept his opponents at arm’s distance. Redoubtable: deserving to be feared and respected Garcia’s desultory conversation got everybody yawning.ġ7. Desultory: going from one thing to another, without a definite plan or purpose In its initial stage, the nascent film industry faced harsh opposition from moral groups.ġ6. Nascent: beginning to exist, not fully developed The peripatetic bards of yore propagated the words of the Holy Prophet.ġ5. ![]() The Kristallnacht remains an infamous event in the German history.ġ4. Kristall, crystal (from Middle High German, from Old High German cristalla, from Latin crystallus, crystallum see crystal) + Nacht, night (from Middle High German naht, from Old High German see nekw-t- in Indo-European roots) Kristallnacht: German, night of (broken) glass: The soporific drug caused Tony to fall asleep in the board meeting.ġ3. The African states’ internecine conflict continues to extract a terrible toll on innocent human lives. Internecine: causing destruction to both sides ![]() Obduracy: refusing to change in any wayĪnthony’s obduracy in his legal case expedited his impeachment.ġ1. His solipsistic view about life ensured that he lived in social isolation.ġ0. Solipsistic: the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist The millionaire technocrat and his cronies were publicly derided for being apostates, after they were exposed of polluting the environment while purporting to have spent large sums for water conservation.ĩ. Apostates: pl a person who abandons a belief or principle His ludicrous attempts at mimicry in the office only earned him the opprobrium of his colleagues.Ĩ. Humpty Dumpty’s antics remain a constant source of baldenfreude for children and adults alike. Baldenfreude: Satisfaction derived from the misfortune of bald or balding individuals (coined by NYT columnist Maureen Dowd) The firm’s profligate spending only hastened its downfall.Ħ. Profligate: using money, resources, etc., in a way that wastes them Austerity: severe and morally strict the quality of being austere, having no pleasures or comfortsĮvery major war on this planet were followed by many years of austerity.ĥ. Bill Tandy generated his sui generis theory based on little research and more hypothesis, thus finding no takers for his pet project.Ĥ. Sui Generis: being the only example of its kind, unique Profligacy: recklessly wasteful wildly extravagant, profligate behaviorĪnderson’s profligacy cost him his job and its better you tighten up your belt before you go the same way.ģ. I am glad your inchoate proposals for integrating the company were not accepted this time, thus saving us face.Ģ. Inchoate: just begun and so not fully formed or developed Back in 2010 The New York Times published a list of 50 fancy words that most frequently stump their readership. ![]()
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