It is not mandatory to by-heart all the listed vocabulary. In normal case we are using some basic level of vocabulary in writing and speaking. But in certain cases to improvise and flourish the writings and speech in more perpetual way it is better to know some tough words too to express the meaning in appropriate to the context.
There are around 250 words listed and it’s meaning nearby. These premium words are fair enough to score maximum. The way most people build their vocabulary is by reading words in context. Reading is ultimately the best way to increase your vocabulary, although it also takes the most time.
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If you try to study some of these words you may unconsciously study some other appropriate words during your practice and it would be applicable in the examination. That would be enough to score your required score.
- Abate: To become less strong or decrease
- Aberrant: Not usual or normal
- Abeyance: Something such as a custom, rule or system that is in abeyance is not be ing used at the present time
- Abscond: To suddenly leave the place where you are being kept for doing something wrong
- Abstemious: Formal or humorous careful not to have too much food, drink etc
- Admonish: To tell or warn someone severely that they have done something wrong
- Aggregate: The total after a lot of different parts or data
- Alacrity: Quickness and eagerness
- Alleviate: To make something less painful or difficult
- Ambivalence: Not sure whether you want or like something or not
- Ameliorate: To make something better
- Anachronism: Someone or something that seems to belong to the past
- Analogous: Similar to another situation or thing so that a comparison can be made
- Anomalous: Different from what you expect ed to find
- Antipathy: Strong dislike or opposition to wards someone or something
- Apathy: The feeling of not being interested or not caring
- Appease: To make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want
- Apprise: To inform or tell someone about something
- Approbation: Official praise or approval
- Arduous: Involving a lot of strength and ef fort
- Artless: Natural, honest, sincere
- Ascetic: Living without any physical pleasures or comforts
- Assiduous: Very careful to make them re sponsible is done properly or completely
- Assuage: To make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe
- Attenuate: To make something weaker or have less effect
- Audacious: Brave and shocking
- Austere: Plain and simple and without any decoration
- Aver: To say something firmly and strongly because you are sure that it is true
- Banal: Ordinary and not interesting, because of a lack of new or different ideas
- Belie: To give someone a false idea about something
- Bolster: To help someone to feel better and more positive
- Bombastic: Long important sounding words that have no real meaning
- Boorish: Behaves in a very rude way
- Burgeon: To grow or develop quickly
- Burnish: To polish metal until it shines
- Buttress: To support a system, idea, argument especially by providing money
- Cacophonous: A loud unpleasant mixture of sounds
- Capricious: Changing quickly and suddenly
- Castigation: To criticize or punish someone severely
- Caustic: Criticize someone in a way that is unkind but often cleverly humorous
- Chicanery: The use of clever plans or actions to deceive people
- Coda: A separate piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or a speech
- Cogent: Reasonable & correct argument
- Commensurate: Matching something in size, quality or length of time
- Compendium: A collection of different and complete items in a box or book
- Conciliatory: Doing something that is in tended to make someone stop arguing with you
- Condone: To accept or forgive behavior that most people think is morally wrong
- Confound: To confuse or surprise people by being unexpected
- Connoisseur: Someone who know a lot about art, music, food etc
- Contention: An opinion that someone expresses
- Contentious: Someone who is contentious often argues with people
- Contrite: Feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done
- Conundrum: A confusing & difficult problem
- Converge: To come from different direction and meet at the same point
- Convoluted: Complicated and difficult to understand
- Craven: Completely lacking courage
- Daunt: To make someone feel afraid or less confident
- Decorum: Correct behavior that shows respect
- Deference: Behavior that shows that you respect someone and are therefore willing to accept their opinions or judgment
- Delineate: To describe or draw something carefully so that people can understand it
- Denigrate: To say that something or someone is not good or important
- Deride: To make remarks or jokes that show you think someone or something is silly or useless
- Derivative: Something that has developed or been produced from something else
- Desiccate: To remove all water from something
- Desultory: Done without any particular plan or purpose
- Deterrent: Something that makes some one less likely to do something
- Diatribe: A long speech or piece of writing that criticize someone or something very seriously
- Dichotomy: A separation between two things or ideas that are completely opposite
- Diffidence: Shy and unwilling to make people notice you or talk about you
- Diffuse: To make heat, a gas etc spread so that it mixes with the surrounding air or water
- Digression: To move away from the main sub ject that you are talking or writing about
- Dirge: A slow and sad song sung at a funeral
- Disabuse: To persuade someone that what they believe is untrue
- Discerning: Showing the ability to make good judgments, especially about art, music, style etc
- Discordant: To seem strange and unsuitable in relation to everything around
- Discredit: Loss of other people’s respect of trust
- Discrepancy: A difference between two amounts, details, reports etc that ought to be the same
- Discrete: Separate
- Disingenuous: Not sincere and slightly dishonest
- Disinterested: Able to judge a situation fairly because you are not concerned with gaining any personal advantage from it
- Disjointed: Not well connected
- Disparage: To criticize someone or something in a way any connection with someone or some thing
- Disparate: Very different and not connected with each other
- Dissemble: Hiding your true feeling, idea or desire
- Disseminate: To spread information, ideas etc to as many people as possible, especially in order to influence them
- Dissolution: The process by which something gradually becomes weaker and disappears
- Dissonance: Combination of non harmonic musical notes
- Distend: Pressure from inside causing swelling or moving something
- Divest: To take off something you are wearing or carrying
- Ebullient: Very happy and excited
- Efficacy: The quality of being able to produce the result that was intended
- Effrontery: Behavior that you think someone should be ashamed of
- Elegy: A poem or song written to show sadness for someone or something that no longer exists
- Elicit: To succeed in getting information
- Embellish: To make a story or statement more interesting by adding details that are not true
- Empirical: Based on the scientific testing and practical experience not on ideas from books
- Emulate: Try to be like someone else because you admire them
- Endemic: Always present in an particular place
- Enervate: Having lost energy and feeling weak
- Engender: To be caused of a situation or feeling
- Ephemeral: Popular or important for only a short time
- Equanimity: Calmness
- Equivocate: To say something that has more than one possible meaning
- Erudite: Showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study
- Esoteric: Known only by a few
- Eulogy: Praising somebody or something very much
- Euphemism: Polite word or expression to talk about shocking news without hurting the person
- Exacerbate: To make a bad situation worse
- Exculpate: To prove that someone is not guilty of something
- Exigency: Something that you much do to deal with an urgent situation
- Extrapolation: To make a guess about something in the future from facts that you already known
- Facetious: Saying things that are intended to be clever and funny but are really silly and annoying
- Facilitate: To make it easier for a process or activity to happen
- Fallacious: Containing or based on false idea
- Fatuous: Very silly or stupid
- Fawning: Praise someone and be friendly to them in an insincere way
- Felicitous: Well-chosen and suitable
- Fervor: Very strong believe or feeling
- Fledgling: A young bird that is learning to fly
- Flout: To deliberately disobey a law, rule etc
- Foment: To cause trouble and make people start fighting each other or opposing the government
- Forestall: To prevent something from happening
- Frugality: Careful to only buy what is necessary?
- Futile: No chance of being successful
- Gainsay: To say that something is not true and disagree with someone
- Garrulous: Always talking a lot
- Goad: Something that forces someone to do something
- Gouge: A hole or cut made in something, usually by a sharp tool or weapon
- Grandiloquent: Using words that are too long and formal in order to sound important
- Gregarious: Friendly and preferring to be with others rather than alone
- Guileless: Behaving in a honest way, without trying to hide anything or deceive people
- Gullible: Making false believe
- Harangue: A loud speech that criticizes or blames people or tries to persuade them
- Iconoclastic: Ideas that attack established beliefs and customs
- Idolatry: The practice of worshiping idols
- Immutable: Never changing or impossible to change
- Impede: To prevent something happening in the normal way
- Impermeable: Not allowed to pass anything
- Imperturbable: Remaining calm and unworried in spite of problems or difficulties
- Impervious: Not affected or influenced by something and seeming not to notice
- Implacable: Very determined to continue op posing someone or something
- Implicit: Understood without being stated
- Implode: To explode inward
- Inadvertently: Without realizing what you are doing
- Inchoate: Just starting to develop
- Incongruity: An act or event which seems strange or unsuitable
- Inconsequential: Not important
- Incorporate: To include something as part of a group, system, plan etc
- Indeterminate: Impossible to know about definitely or exactly
- Indigence: Not having much money or many possessions
- Indolent: Lazy
- Inert: Not having the strength or power to move
- Ingenuous: Inexperienced, simple, trusting and honesty
- Innocuous: Not offensive, dangerous or harmful
- Insinuate: Mean something unpleasant without saying directly
- Insipid: Not interested, exciting or attractive
- Insulate: To cover or protect something
- Intractable: Having a strong will and difficult to control
- Intransigence: Unwilling to change your ideas or behavior
- Inundate: To receive so much of something unpleasant
- Inured: To make someone become unpleasant
- Invective: Rude and insulting words
- Irascible: Becoming angry
- Irresolute: Unable to decide what to do
- Lethargic: Feeling as if you have no energy and no interest in doing anything
- Levee: A special wall built to stop a river flooding
- Laconic: Using only a few words to say something
- Lassitude: Tiredness and lack of energy
- Latent: Something present but hidden
- Laud: To praise someone or something
- Levity: Lack of respect or seriousness when you are dealing with something serious
- Loquacious: Liking to talk a lot
- Lucid: Expressed a way that is clear and easy to understand
- Luminous: Made of a substance or material that shines in the dark
- Magnanimous: Kind and generous
- Malinger: Avoid work by pretending to be ill
- Malleable: Easy to press or pull into new shape
- Maverick: An unusual person with different ideas and skills
- Mendacious: Not truthful
- Metamorphosis: Changing completely from one form to other
- Meticulous: Very careful about small details
- Misanthrope: Dislike others and prefer to be alone
- Mitigate: Making the situation less unpleasant
- Morose: Bad-tempered, unhappy and silent
- Mundane: Ordinary and uninteresting
- Negate: To prevent something from having any effect
- Neophyte: Someone who has just started to learn a particular skill
- Obdurate: Unreasonably determine not to change your beliefs or feelings
- Obsequious: Too eager to serve people and agree with them
- Obviate: Easy to notice or understand
- Opprobrium: Strong public criticism, hatred or shame
- Ostentatious: Show off how rich they are
- Pathological: The study of the causes and effect of illness
- Pedantic: Too much attention to rules and details
- Penchant: A slight disapproval
- Penury: The state of being very poor
- Perfidious: Disloyal and cannot be trusted
- Perfunctory: Action is done quickly
- Permeable: Substance that allow water, gas etc pass through
- Pervasive: Existing or spreading every where
- Phlegmatic: Calm and not easily excited or worried
- Piety: Respect for God and religion
- Placate: To make someone stop feeling angry
- Plethora: An amount of something, larger than you needed
- Plummet: To suddenly or quickly to go down in value or amount
- Pragmatic: Dealing with problems with sensible and practical way
- Preamble: A statement at the beginning of the book, document or talk
- Precarious: A situation or state is likely to become very dangerous
- Presumptuous: Showing disrespect as a result of being too confident
- Prevaricate: Try to hid the truth by not answering the question directly
- Pristine: Extremely fresh or clean
- Prodigal: Someone who spending money carelessly and wastes their time
- Propensity: A natural tendency to behave in a particular way
- Proscribe: Try to stop the existence of something
- Quibble: To argue about small important points
- Quiescent: Not developing or doing anything
- Recalcitrant: Refused to do what you are told to do even after getting punishment
- Recluse: Liking lonely life
- Recondite: Only a few people know about that information
- Refractory: Disobedient and difficult to deal with or control
- Refute: To prove that a statement of idea is not Correct
- Relegate: Depromote
- Repudiate: To refuse to accept something
- Rescind: Officially end a law, decision or agreement that has been made in the past
- Reticent: Talk about what you feel and what you know
- Salubrious: Pleasant and healthy place
- Satiate: To satisfy a desire to food, sex
- Savor: Interest and enjoyment
- Shard: A sharp piece of broken glass, metal etc
- Skeptic: Someone who does not believe things unless they have define proof
- Solicitous: Anxiously caring about safety, health and conform
- Soporific: Making you feel ready to sleep
- Sporadic: Happening often but not regularly
- Stint: To give or use too little of something
- Stolid: Does not react to the situation or get excited
- Striated: Having narrow lines or bands of colors
- Strut: To show your skills at doing something
- Subpoena: To order someone to come to a court of law and be a witness
- Tacit: Unofficially accepting support
- Tenuous: Weak or doubtful link
- Torpor: Not being active because of lazy and sleepy
- Truculent: Bad tempered and always argue with people
- Vacillate: Continuously changing opinion, ideas etc
- Venerate: Treat people with great respect
- Veracity: The quality of being true or of telling the truth
- Vituperative: Full of angry and cruel criticism
- Wary: Worrying much something might be dangerous
- Welter: A large and confusing number or different details, emotions etc
- Whimsical: Unusual or strange and often amusing.
- Zealot: Extremely strong belief especially religious
As we told before, knowledge about the antonyms and synonyms are necessary for para phrasing and making more sentence strength based on the context. These listed words are very basic and simple. Go through to catch the idea behind that.
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