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Dr. T.K. Jain.

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What is SERENDIPITY?
• Great discoveries are often by
serendipidity.
• It is luck plus your continuous
efforts.
• It is similar to chance factor – but
the same as chance.

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 What is sanguine?
• I am sanguine of your success.
• I am optimist about you.

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 What is What is
sacrosanct?
• Temples are sacrosanct.These are
not just santimoinous places – these
are the places for pious person.

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 What is surmise?
• I can surmise that you are studying a
lot – I guess it on the basis of your
appearance.

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 What is sycophant?
• You find such persons in every office.
• They do lot of buttering.
• They are experts in using unctuous
language.

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 What is taciturn?
• A taciturn person cant learn spoken
english fast. Such person remains
quite.
• Something tacit is unspoken.

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 What is somnolent?
• Are english classes really somnolent?
• Books are definitely somnolent.
• It is similar to soporific.

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 What is staid?
• A staid person will remain very
sedate, expression less, and will not
change his expressions.

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 What is rife?
• Corruption is rife in india.
• Something rife is omnipresent.
• Something rife is ubiquitous.
• Rife is generally used in negative
sense.

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 What is ribald?
• During marriage functions, boys make
ribald on girls.
• It is to make puns, taunt etc.

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 What is ruse?
• Birbal was good at ruse.
• Sakuni was also good at ruse.
• It is similar to guile.

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 What is shrewd?
• Chanakya was shrewd
• Mechiavelli was shrewd
• He is always clever, perspicacious.

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 What is pugnacious:
• He is always ready to fight with
others. He is always eager to debate
with others. Similar to querrelsome.

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 What is rancor?
• We shouldn’t have any rancor in our
mind.
• Rancor means hatred, ill-feelings, ill-
thoughts etc.

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 What is proscribe?
• Doctor told me not to take radish.
Doctor proscribed radish.
• It is similar to restraint or
prohibition.

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 What is propensity?
• You have propensity to become an
executive. It is similar to preference.
It is your inclination.

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 What is rectitude?
• Shashtri ji was known for his
rectitude.

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 What is repudiate?
• He took loan of 50000 from me but
now he refuses to accept it. He will
not pay me. He has repudiated his
loans.

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 What is rescind?
• Should we rescind our agreements.
• Should our government rescind all our
agreements with Pakistan.
• It is similar to repeal or cancel or
annul or abrogate

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 What is quixotic?
• Your ideas are fantastic – but not
practical = they are quixotic.

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 What is prosaic?
• No one likes watching a prosaic
movie.
• People want to see an exciting movie.
• Prosaic means ordinary, boring etc.

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 What is ingenuous?
• Nanak is very ingenuous person. He is
very innocent, candid and simple
person. He cant do any harm to any
person.

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 What is insidious?
• Speculation is insidious and seductive
for young generation. Now people in
Bikaner are absorbed in this. It is
sweet poison – which can kill any
person. It is full of temptations.

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 What is ignominious?
• India had ignominious defeat in
Hockey.
• It is humiliating.
• It is disgraceful.
• It is shameful.

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 What is gerrulous?
• Girls are generally gerrulous.
• Someone gerrulous talk a lot.
• It is similar to talkative.
• It is opposite of taciturn.

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 What is gregarious?
• What is common in elephant, ant,
bees, humans and monkeys – they are
all gregarious. They live in group.
They live in society.

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 What is fastidious?
• People in Bikaner find mistakes in
everything they see. When they go as
Barati – they find fault in every
arrangement. They are fastidious.

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 What is impetuous?
• He cant score high in CAT – because
he will try to solve every question in
hurry.
• He is similar to some of our students.

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 What is iconoclast?
• Ram Mohan Roy was an iconoclast. He
could challenge old thinking.
• Icons represent old thinking – so
someone who can break these is
iconoclast.

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 What is harangue?
• Have you seen political leaders like
Uma Bharati / Bal thakare giving
harangue.

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 What is pejorative?
• Don’t use pejorative language – even
for your friends.
• It is similar to derogatory,
uncomplementary.

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 What is opulent?
• Mukesh Ambani is opulent.
• This person has lot of money.
• It is opposite of penurious.

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 What is pariah?
• He is a social outcast.
• People don’t take food with him

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 What is plethora?
• The Punjab has plethora of water –
but doest want to give it to
Rajasthan.
• It is similar to abundance.

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 What is platitude?
• Nobody wants to listen platitudes.
You want to give someone a really
good word – speak from your heart.
• It is similar to cliché.

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 What is precocious?
• Tendulkar was precocious – as he
attained mastery at a tender age of
16 only.

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 What is vituperate?
• Political leaders vituperate each
others.
• They berate each other. They rebuke
each other and even fight with each
others

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 What is wanton?
• According to Indian philosophy, we
have wanton desires. They cannot be
satisfied. It is similar to lewd, lust,
and lascivious behaviour.

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 What is zephyr?
• Get up early in morning even in
desert city of Bikaner you will have
zephyr.
• It is pleasant wind.

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 What is languid?
• Due to his involvement in maths and
english preparation, Nilesh has
become languid. He is continuously
languishing. But it will help him.
• It is similar to fatigue or tiredness.

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 What is magnanimous?
• When results will come, Srikant
Bhansali will host a big party –
afterall he is magnanimous person.
• It is similar to generous.
• Magna = big, animus = heart.

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 What is mercurial?
• Have you seen any person whose
mood changes in seconds. Sometimes
he is happy, sometimes peevish and
sometimes depressed.

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 What is maudlin?
• My daughter is very maudlin. She is
very sentimental and gets angry or
dishearten soon.

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 What is malevolent?
• Rawan was malevolent. He wanted to
do something bad.
• Mal = bad
• Volent = desirious to do something
bad.

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 What is obfuscate?
• If you want to understand this word,
come to my advanced maths classes –
when everything will go like a
bouncer.
• Incomprehensive.

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 What is neophyte?
• You are neophyte in the field of
management education.
• Neo = new
• Beginner, novice, tyro are other
similar words.

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 What is obstreperous?
• Children are often obstreperous –
unruly – uncontrollable – untractable
– sometimes like us.

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 What is officious?
• You will find many such persons in
bikaner – who will give you advice –
when you don’t want one – who will
help you – when you sincerely don’t
want their help – they will drag you
to their home – but you will avoid
them.

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 What is puerile?
• Full of childishness – lack of maturity
and lack of wisdom.
• It is similar to juvenile, immaturity.

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 What is recalcitrant?
• He is obstinate to the limit. He just
doesn’t understand whatever you try
to tell him. He is the most unruly,
obstreperous, untractable person you
can get in the world.

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 What is punctilious?
• He will follow rules to the last. He is
very meticulous regarding rules and
processes. He is like old martinet
person – following rules strictly.

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 What is protean?
• He is flexible, adaptive and easy to
change.

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 What is surfeit?
• I had surfeit of food in the party
yesterday because the food was
tasty.
• It is excess supply of something-
more than required.

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 What is nostalgia?
• When you will be working in MNCs in
USA, you will have nostalgia of
Bikaner and Afterschoool sometime

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 What is pertinacious?
• We had persons like Surendra, who
were from Hindi backgroud – but
made tremendous struggle – and
really achieved success. These
persons don’t give up easily and
continue in spite of all difficulties.

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 What is propitious?
• Anand, this is not the propitious time
for your marriage – you have to do
MBA and get settled down – then
think about marriage.
• It is similar to favourable.

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 What is promulgate?
• Govt. should promulgate emergency
to fight with the current situation of
terrorism.
• It is to make known, to proclaim, to
implement etc.

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 What is quagmire?
• When you will open your books of
Finance and Mathematics, you will
find yourself in quagmire. Don’t
worry, don’t read them, relax
• It is similar to a very difficult
situation

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 What is pithy?
• Kabir speaks pithy sentences.
• We should try to speak pithy
sentences – full of wisdom in limited
words.

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 What is impertinent?
• Some persons tell me that youth are
impertinent – I don’t believe that as
the youth of today are very polite.
• It is similar to rude.

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 What is enervate?
• Supern has completely enerveted due
to his preparation of GK and other
subjects.

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 What is effulgent?
• Full of light, full of lumination.

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 What is dither?
• Why are you dithering regarding your
career?
• Join the best institution – where you
may get best education and can
develop your capability.

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 What is fallacious?
• The advocate gave many fallacious
arguments in the court, but the judge
repudiated all of them.
• It is similar to false statement,
misleading arguments.

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 What is expunge?
• Let us expunge corruption from our
country.
• Let us eradicate corruption.
• It is similar to completely remove.

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 What is expiate?
• This is your golden time, if you don’t
use it properly, you will expiate later.
• It is similar to atone for. Or regret.

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 What is fatuous?
• It is the word for sheikh chilly.

• Someone very fool – stupid.

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 What is fetid?
• Sursagar was once the most fetid
place of bikaner – but now it will
become most fragrant place of
Bikaner.

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 What is desecrate?
• Don’t desecrate any temple or any
religious place?
• It is to make a holy place impure.

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 What is diaphanous?
• She was wearing a diaphanous veil, as
in their community, girls were
supposed to wear veil.

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 What is diffident?
• When Sneha had joined
Afterschoool, she was diffident, but
now very talkative and chirpy.

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 What is deleterious?
• Coming to afterschoool might be
deleterious to your health, because
you will become slender, feeble, and
fragile person – due to studies –
studies – studies.

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 What is cupidity?
• Our desires have no limits – so
cupidity denotes this. It is similar to
wanton, lust, lewd, greed, avarice.

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 What is cursory?
• Mukesh made a cursory glance had
her bride – because all relatives were
around.

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 What is defile?
• Don’t defile image of any person.
• To make impure, to make unclean, to
do something bad or to say something
bad.

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 What is deprecate?
• People in Bikaner will deprecate your
achievements. Even if you get at the
top with hard work – they will say – it
is just a fluke – chance – or may be
by some scandal.

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 What is egregious?
• The worst person on earth
• He can do worse then what we can
imagine.
• You will find them as terrorist or
other anti social element.

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 What is eschew?
• Let us eschew violence.
• Let us eschew smoking
• It is to keep away from.

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 What is execrable?
• Terrorists are excerable to us.
• They are loathsome, detestable and
noxious elements.

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