19TH JULY
1.Execrable (adjective)
- Meaning: unequivocally detestable
- Synonym: awful
- Antonym: admirable
- Usage: The restaurant shut down soon because of its execrable condition.
2.Exigent (adjective)
- Meaning: demanding immediate attention
- Synonym: imperative
- Antonym: imploring
- Usage: The teacher became even more exigent over the pronunciation of the students.
3.Expedient (adjective)
- Meaning: appropriate to a purpose
- Synonym: convenient
- Antonym: inexpedient
- Usage: It was held to be necessary and expedient, and it was accordingly carried out.
4.Expiate (verb)
- Meaning: make amends for
- Synonym: redeem
- Antonym: disproportion
- Usage: He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
5.Expunge (verb)
- Meaning: remove by erasing or crossing out
- Synonym: erase
- Antonym: trace
- Usage: He could not expunge the incident from his memory.
20TH JULY
6.Extraneous (adjective)
- Meaning: not belonging to that in which it is contained
- Synonym: irrelevant
- Antonym: intrinsic
- Usage: The students asked questions that are extraneous to the issue being discussed.
7.Extol (verb)
- Meaning: praise
- Synonym: applaud
- Antonym: criticize
- Usage: They extolled the benefit of regular exercise to the crowd.
8.Extant (adjective)
- Meaning: still in exercise
- Synonym: surviving
- Antonym: dead
- Usage: Four copies of this work are still extant after the great fire.
9.Fallacious (adjective)
- Meaning: containing or based on incorrect reasoning
- Synonym: erroneous
- Antonym: correct
- Usage: He based his argument on fallacious reasoning.
10.Fatuous (adjective)
- Meaning: devoid of intelligence
- Synonym: inane
- Antonym: intelligent
- Usage: It was a fatuous choice to carry so many glass cups at once.
21ST JULY
11.Fetter (noun)
- Meaning: a shackle
- Synonym: manacles
- Antonym: freedom
- Usage: He was bound with fetters of iron in the jail.
12.Flagrant (adjective)
- Meaning: conspicuously an outrageously bad
- Synonym: blatant
- Antonym: unobtrusive
- Usage: The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.
13.Foil (verb)
- Meaning: hinder or prevent
- Synonym: thwart
- Antonym: assist
- Usage: He acted as a foil to the main protagonist.
14.Forbearance (noun)
- Meaning: good-natured tolerance of delay
- Synonym: incompetence
- Antonym: impatience
- Usage: The local bank will use forbearance in its agreements with homeowners whose properties were destroyed by the hurricane.
15.Fortuitous (adjective)
- Meaning: lucky
- Synonym: unanticipated
- Antonym: predictable
- Usage: A series of fortuitous circumstances advanced her career.
22ND JULY
16.Fractious (adjective)
- Meaning: easily irritated
- Synonym: grumpy
- Antonym: contended
- Usage: She was in a fractious mood.
17.Gourmand (noun)
- Meaning: a person who is devoted to eating
- Synonym: glutton
- Antonym: ascetic
- Usage: The creative regional cuisine has been awarded a Michelin bib gourmand.
18.Grandiloquent (adjective)
- Meaning: lofty in style
- Synonym: pompous
- Antonym: unpretentious
- Usage: Her speech was full of grandiloquent language.
19.Hapless (adjective)
- Meaning: unfortunate and deserving pity
- Synonym: unfortunate
- Antonym: lucky
- Usage: Many children are hapless victims of this war.
20.Hegemony (noun)
- Meaning: dominance or leadership
- Synonym: supremacy
- Antonym: self-government
- Usage: The boss enjoyed his hegemony over the staff.
23RD JULY
21.Impecunious (adjective)
- Meaning: not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Synonym: penniless
- Antonym: wealthy
- Usage: Plans are being developed to help the impecunious people in the city who are without housing.
22.Impetuous (adjective)
- Meaning: characterized by undue haste
- Synonym: impulsive
- Antonym: cautious
- Usage: His rush was so impetuous, that he fairly overturned several of his opponents by dashing against them.
23.Impinge (verb)
- Meaning: infringe upon
- Synonym: affect
- Antonym: placate
- Usage: He heard the rain impinge on the windows.
24.Impute (adjective)
- Meaning: attribute or credit to
- Synonym: attribute
- Antonym: withdraw
- Usage: The political candidate tried to impute some rather unfortunate insults to his opponent.
25.Inane (adjective)
- Meaning: devoid of intelligence
- Synonym: fatuous
- Antonym: intelligent
- Usage: Politicians have diminished the debate down to often inane simplicities.
24TH JULY
26.Inchoate (adjective)
- Meaning: only partly in existence
- Synonym: incipient
- Antonym: mature
- Usage: His dreams were senseless and inchoate.
27.Incontrovertible (adjective)
- Meaning: impossible to deny
- Synonym: disputable
- Antonym: questionable
- Usage: We have incontrovertible evidence of the incident.
28.Incumbent (adjective)
- Meaning: necessary as a duty or responsibility
- Synonym: binding
- Antonym: optional
- Usage: He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
29.Inexorable (adjective)
- Meaning: impossible to prevent
- Synonym: relentless
- Antonym: lenient
- Usage: His jealousy sets him on an inexorable course towards murder.
30.Inimical (adjective)
- Meaning: not friendly
- Synonym: injurious
- Antonym: advantageous
- Usage: The police officer had an inimical attitude towards criminals.
25TH JULY
31.Injunction (noun)
- Meaning: a judicial remedy to prohibit a party
- Synonym: direction
- Antonym: disobedience
- Usage: The king issues an injunction that no one should wander the streets after curfew.
32.Inoculate (verb)
- Meaning: inject
- Synonym: immunize
- Antonym: disabuse
- Usage: Before doctors were able to inoculate people with a polio vaccine, many people died from the disease.
33.Insidious (adjective)
- Meaning: working or spreading in a hidden way
- Synonym: subtle
- Antonym: straightforward
- Usage: He experienced the insidious influence of the corporate culture.
34.Insurgent (noun)
- Meaning: in opposition to a civil authority
- Synonym: revolutionary
- Antonym: loyalist
- Usage: In 1778 he joined France in supporting the insurgent English colonists in America.
35.Inure (verb)
- Meaning: cause to accept or become hardened to
- Synonym: toughen
- Antonym: sensitize
- Usage: Even the veteran detective could not inure himself to the sight of a murdered child.
