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Mundane: After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day. Melee = Confusion; turmoil; jumble Usage: The rush-hour melee. Vain = full of self-admiration; inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, proud, swaggering, vainglorious.
Mundane: After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day. Melee = Confusion; turmoil; jumble Usage: The rush-hour melee. Vain = full of self-admiration; inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, proud, swaggering, vainglorious.
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Mundane: After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day. Melee = Confusion; turmoil; jumble Usage: The rush-hour melee. Vain = full of self-admiration; inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, proud, swaggering, vainglorious.
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Melee Mnemonic: remember as “MELA” . In general we found large crowd in mela,
usually our friends group got jumbled and confused their way around in large crowd. Melee = Confusion; turmoil; jumble Usage: the rush-hour melee. Synonyms: broil, clash, disorder, dispute, feud, fracas, fray, rhubarb, ruckus, scuffle, squabble, tumult, uproar, wrangle Antonyms: peace
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Word of the Day: Vain
Posted: vain vain resembles pain. A person who is full of self-admiration(vain) is a pain in the ass. vain==pain. Meaning : full of self-admiration; conceited; without result; unsuccessful; N. vanity Synonyms: egoistic, haughty, inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, proud, swaggering, vainglorious Antonyms: modest
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Posted: Enervate Loosing energy when your nerve get tired. Usage: The luxury which enervates and destroys nations. Synonyms: debilitate, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary Notes: energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means ‘drain energy or vigor from’ (from Latin [...]
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Obfuscate means make something fussy
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1000 GRE Reading Comprehension with Detailed Answer
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Lassi is considered as sleep inducing so lassitude !
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