18 April 2015

18 April 2015

-hypothetical ( adjective ) ( nouns )

·         Based on primarily on surmise rather than adequate

-they could not run from that hypothetical situation

·         A hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc

-the policemen consider the following statements are just a hypothetical

-recalcitrant ( adjective )

·         Stubbornly resistance to authority or control @ disobedient

-the recalcitrant citizen will lose their citizenship

·         Marked by stubborn resistance to authority

-the university suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrator

-corpse ( nouns )

·         The dead body of a human being

-at the end of investigation, the policemen managed to discover a corpse

-cognizant ( adjective )

·   ( sometime followed by ‘of’ ) having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

-he was cognizant of his opponent’s hostility

-crass ( adjective )

·         ( of person ) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

-we may abuse this procedure as crass materialism

17 April 2015

17 April 2015

-conundrum ( nouns )

·         a difficult problem @ enigma/riddle

-he took a decade to solve the conundrum

-brief ( adjective )

·         of short duration or distance

-a brief stay in the country

·         concise and succinct

-he manages to cover the matter in a brief statement

·         (of cloth) very short

-she wore a brief gown when she attended the party yesterday

-palpable ( adjective )

·         Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled, touched or felt

-there are a lot of palpable dusts in that old house

-She felt sudden anger in a palpable wave

·         ( medicine ) can be felt by palpation

-the doctor informed David suffers a tumour that is palpable

-innocuous ( adjective  )

·         Not injurious to physical or mental health

-fortunately, he involved in an innocuous accident

·         Not causing disapproval

-it was an innocuous remark

·         Lacking intent or capacity to injure @ innocent

-on April Fool many people will do an innocuous prank

-augment ( verb )

·         Enlarge or increase

-the recent speech of the president augmented tension in Near East

·         Grow or intensify

-the pressure augmented as the debater from the opposition rebuts the idea from the government side  

16 April 2015

16 April 2015

-plethora ( nouns )

·         the property of being extremely abundant @ richness

-the policemen gave the plethora of detail regarding that case

-antithesis ( nouns )

·         exact opposite

-the theory that he gave was the antithesis of mine

-volition ( nouns )

·         the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention @ will (hasrat)

-the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt

·         the act of making a choice

-I followed my father’s volition

-sanction ( verb )

·         give permission or approval for something @ OK

-I will sanction his educational policies

-terse ( adjective )

·         brief and to the point; effectively cut short

-the news is short and terse so it is easy to understand

-formidable ( adjective )

·         extremely impressive in strength or excellence

-Unfortunately, I needed to face a formidable opponent

·         inspiring fear

-the formidable prospect of major surgery

15 April 2015

15 April 2015

-friar ( nouns )

·         A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

-he is a friar

-err ( verb )

·         To make a mistake or be incorrect

-he erred when he did not have enough time to answer the questions

·         Wander from a direct course or at random

-the child erred from the path and her parent lost sight of her

-purgatorial ( adjective )

·         Serving to purge or rid of sin @ purifying

-he makes a purgatorial rite

·         of or resembling purgatory

-it was a purgatorial fire

-copious ( adjective )

·         large in number or quantity ( especially of discourse )

-she took copious notes

·         affording an abundant supply

-they kept copious provision for emergency

-morose ( adjective )

·         showing a brooding ill humour @ moody

-she has a morose and unsociable manner

14 April 2015

14 April 2015

-verge ( nouns ) ( nouns )

·         The limit beyond which something happen or changes

-she was on verge of tears

·         Border on; come closed to

-his behaviour verges on the criminal

-siege ( verb )

·         Encircle as a military tactic

-the Turks sieges Vienna

-cult ( adjective )

·         Enjoyed by a small, loyal group

-A cult film

-genial ( adjective )

·         Diffusing warmth and friendliness

-he was a genial host and everyone loved him

·         Agreeable, conducive to comfort

-today, the genial sunshine shone my room

-astutely ( adverb )

·         In a shrewd manner

-he invested his fortune astutely

-shrewd ( adjective )

·         Marked by practical hard headed intelligence

-he was too shrewd to go along with them

·         Serving one’s own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner

-he was the most shrewd and selfish man

13 April 2015

13 April 2015

-profligate ( adjective )

·         Recklessly wasteful

-it was a profligate in their expenditure

·         Unrestrained by convention or morality

-she draws a profligate aristocratic society

-jejune ( adjective )

·         Lacking n nutritive value

-she practiced a jejune diet

·         Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

-he just gave jejune responses to our problems

·         Lacking interest, significance or impact @ lame

-I was so sad since I had bought a jejune novel

-lavish ( verb ) ( adjective )

·         Expand profusely; also used with abstract nouns

-he was lavished with praised

·         Very generous

-they distributed gifts with a lavish hand toward the orphans

·         Characterized by extravagance and profusion

-during my birthday party, my mom prepared a lavish buffet

-gourmet ( adjective )

·         (of food) fine; high-quality

-I prepared a lot of gourmet foods for our family picnic

-vague ( adjective )

·         Not clearly understood or expressed

-their descriptions of human behaviour become vague, dull, and unclear

·         Not precisely limited, determined or distinguished

-I don’t know how to express a vague feeling of sadness

·         Lacking clarity or distinctness

-he saw a vague outline of a building through the fog

12 April 2015

12 April 2015

-utmost ( adjective )

·         Of the greatest possible degree, extent or intensity

-the thing that he had done was an utmost contempt

·         Highest n extent or degree

-it was up to the utmost measure of human endurance

·         (comparative of ‘far’) most remote in space, time and order

-don’t go beyond the utmost tree

-gaol ( verb )

·         (law) lock up of confine, in or as in a jail

-the suspect were gaoled without trial

-humane ( adjective )

·         Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities

-the teachers teach a humane education at the school

-gleeful ( adjective )

·         Full of high-spirited delight

-A gleeful heart

-savage ( adjective )

·         (of person or their action) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

-because she was so angry, she gave a savage slap to her friend

·         Wild and menacing

-at the end of the field there was a pack of savage dogs

·         Without civilizing influence

-the minister just ignored the savage people

·         Marked by extreme and violent

-he needed to be hospitalized because of a savage beating

11 April 2015

11 April 2015

-treacherous ( adjective )

·         Dangerously unstable and unpredictable

- it was treacherous winding roads

·         Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous characters

-he is the fiercest and most treacherous of foes

-prodigy ( nouns )

·      An unusual gifted or intelligent ( young ) person; someone whose talent excite wonder and admiration

-She is a chees prodigy

·         An impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality

-the Marines are expected to perform prodigies of valour

-eunuch ( nouns )

·         A man who has been castrated

-he had been assigned to become eunuch

-flog-ging ( verb )

·         Beat severely  with a whip or rod

-the teachers often flogged the students

·         Exchange or deliver for money or its

-he flogged his house in January

-insolence ( nouns )

·         The trait of being rude and impertinent

- He strolled among the servants with the absent-minded insolence which they have all seen in their patrons.

-valour ( nouns )

·  The qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger especially in battle )

-he received a medal for valour

10 April 2015

10 April 2015

-Accrued ( adjective )

·         Periodically accumulated over time

-he had accrued interest in art since he was in high school

-latter ( adjective )

·         Referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned

-that issue had aroused in the latter case

-moniker ( nouns )

·         A familiar name for a person ( often a shortened version of a person’s given name )

-Joe’s mother would not use his moniker and always called him Joseph

-citation ( nouns )

·         A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

-the student’s essay failed to list several important citations

-seditious ( adjective )

·         Arousing to action or rebellion

-there are five men were charged for seditious conspiracy

9 April 2015

9 April 2015

-thawed ( adjective )

·         No longer frozen solid

-the thawed ice was treacherous

·         No longer frozen

-the thawed ground was muddy

-anthropomorphic ( adjective )

·         Suggesting human characteristic for animal or inanimate things

- I love anthropomorphic sculpture, so I was delighted to see pictures that resembled a girl

-xenophobia ( nouns )

·         A fear of foreigner or stranger

-she suffered xenophobia due to her traumatic experience

-gangrene ( verb )

·         Undergo necrosis ( the localized death of living cells )

-the tissue around the wound gangrened

-asylum ( nouns )

·         A shelter from danger or hardship

-the patients with mental disease were put at the asylum

8 April 2015

8 April 2015

-aglow ( adjective )

·         Softly bright or radiant

-during night, that house aglow with lights

-blissful ( adjective )

·         Completely happy and contented

-they are a blissful young couple

-rendezvous ( nouns )

·         A place where people meet

-he was waiting for them at the rendezvous

-prenatal ( adjective )

·         Occurring or existing before birth

-it was her prenatal period

-murmur ( verb )

·         Speak softly or indistinctly

-she murmured softly to the baby in her arms

·         Make complaining remarks or noises under one’s breath

-she murmurs when she feels overworked

7 April 2015

7 April 2015

-deliberate ( adjective )

·         Carefully thought out in advance

-it was a deliberate insult toward her.

-notoriously ( adverb )

·         To a notorious (known widely and usually unfavourable ) degree

-European émigrés who notoriously used to repair the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets

-bustling ( adjective )

·         Full of energetic and noisy activity

-Kuala Lumpur is a bustling city

-dainty ( adjective )

·         Delicately beautiful @ exquisite

-my mother bought a dainty teacup from France

·         Especially pleasing to the taste

-a dainty dish to set before a kind

·         Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

-it is too dainty about his food to take to the camp cooking

-octogenarian ( adjective )

·         Being from 80 to 89 years old

-that man talk to me with octogenarian formality

6 April 2015

6 April 2015

-conciseness (  nouns )

·       Terseness and economy in writing or speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words

-The chief aims of the author are conciseness and clearness

-vital ( adjective )

·         Urgently needed; absolutely necessary @ critical

-nowadays, our nation vital for a healthy society

·         Performing an essential function in the living body

-heart is one of the vital organs in our body

·         Full of spirit

-I am really proud of her because she is a vital and charismatic leader

·         Manifesting or characteristic of life

-he still has the vital signs

-malicious ( adjective )

·         Marked by deep ill will; deliberate harmful

-she spread such a malicious gossip

-poignant ( adjective )

·         Arousing affect

-A poignant grief cannot endure forever

·         Keenly distressing to the mind or feeling

-she suffered a poignant anxiety

-noxious ( adjective )

·         Injurious to physical or mental health

-that factory had been sued because it released noxious chemical wastes

5 April 2015

5 April 2015

-pro-life ( adjective )

     advocating full legal protection of embryos and foetuses (especially opposing the legalization of induced abortion) @ anti-abortion

-he has endeavoured to lay out well-supported facts on why the pro-life position is right

-appalled ( adjective )

·         Struck with fear, dread or consternation @ shock

-the union was appalled at the news that up to 1500 jobs were to be lost

-archival ( adjective )

·         Of or relating to or contained n or serving as an archive

-the catalogue contains photo storage boxes and archival boxes for acid free storage

-robust ( adjective )

·         Sturdy and strong in form, constitution or construction

-he has a robust body

·         Marked by richness and fullness of flavour

-the robust flavour of fresh-brewed coffee

·         Strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity

-fortunately, the experiment yielded robust result

·         Rough and crude

-he told me a robust tale

-thematically ( adverb )

·         With regard to thematic ( relating to or constituting a topic of discourse ) content

-all the information that we had gathered are thematically related

4 April 2015

4 April 2015

-mutilate-d ( adjective ) ( verb )

·         Having a part of the body crippled or disable

-the policemen found a mutilated body at the river bank

·         Destroy or injured severely

-the madman mutilates art work

·         Alter so as to make unrecognizable @ mangle

-the tourists mutilated the French language

-euthanasia ( nouns )

·         The act of killing someone painlessly ( especially someone suffering from an incurable disease

-The government does not allow the doctors to practice euthanasia toward the patient with terminal disease

-susceptible ( adjective )

·         ( often followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’ ) yield readily to or capable of @ non-immune/non-resistance

-she is susceptible to colds

-hamper ( verb )

·         prevent the progress of free movement of

-he was hampered in his effort by the bad weather

·         put at a disadvantage

-the brace that I need to wear is hampering my movement

-pro-choice ( adjective )

·         advocating a woman’s right to control her own body ( especially her right to induced abortion )

-the first analysis presents a demographic profile of activist and compares the pro-life and pro-choice groups studied in this book

3 April 2015

3 April 2015

Do you know I am so happy today. It is because today, I am gonna publish my 100th post in this blog :) hehehe....

100 can carry various meaning. It can be a mark, the percentage of attention an so on.

Special Quote :

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow this will work out in

 the end  -Larry Bird-

okay then, let's start again with our daily vocabulary...

-aloof ( adjective )

·         Remote in manner

-they stood apart with aloof dignity

-nuisance ( nouns )

·         Something or someone that cause annoyance

-I think that washing dishes at our restaurant was a nuisance since we still can get a dish washer

·         A bothersome annoying person

-that kid is a terrible nuisance

-ominous ( adjective )

·         Indicating evil intend or suggesting tragic development

-ominous rumbling of discontent

·         Presaging ill fortune

-a dead and ominous silence prevailed

-detrimental ( adjective )

·         ( sometime follow by to ) causing harm or injury

-that incident was detrimental to his career and reputation.

-reluctant ( adjective )

·         Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

-he gave me a reluctant smile.

·         Disinclined to become involved

-they were usually reluctant to socialize

·         Not eager

-some foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways

2 April 2015

2 April 2015

-subtle ( adjective )

·         Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyse

-a subtle difference during the experiment

-concession ( nouns )

·         A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

-he got the concession at the ball park

·         A point conceded or yielded

-they won all the concession they asked for

-applaud ( verb )

·         Clap one’s hand or shout after performance to indicate approval

-all the spectators applauded after the performance ended

·         Express approval of

-I applaud your efforts on making this project successful

-derail ( verb )

·         Caused to run off the track

-they had planned to derail the train that carried atomic waste

·         Run off or leave the rail

-the train derailed because a cow was standing on the track

-prudence ( nouns )

·         Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

-the servant showed a great tact and prudence