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50 New English Vocabulary Words

The document lists and defines 50 new English words, with meanings provided for each word. Some of the words defined include abnegation meaning renouncing a belief, aggrandize meaning to enhance power or status, and alacrity meaning eagerness. Other words in the document are archetypal meaning quintessential of a certain kind, ascetic meaning one who practices self-denial as part of spiritual discipline, and beguile meaning to influence someone in a deceptive way.

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50 New English Vocabulary Words

The document lists and defines 50 new English words, with meanings provided for each word. Some of the words defined include abnegation meaning renouncing a belief, aggrandize meaning to enhance power or status, and alacrity meaning eagerness. Other words in the document are archetypal meaning quintessential of a certain kind, ascetic meaning one who practices self-denial as part of spiritual discipline, and beguile meaning to influence someone in a deceptive way.

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50 new english words with meanings

1. Abnegation -Renouncing a belief or doctrine

2. Aggrandize-enhance power, wealth or status

3. Alacrity -eagerness

4. Anachronistic -misplaced chronologically

5. Archetypal -quintessential of a certain kind

6. Ascetic -one who practices self-denial as part of spiritual discipline

7. Beguile -influence someone in a deceptive way

8. Blandishment -intentional flattery for persuasion

9. Cajole -persuade by flattery or coaxing

10. Callous -disregard for others

11. Camaraderie -a sense of solidarity arising out of familiarity and sociability

12. Circumlocution -expressing someone in an indirect way

13. Clamor -proclaim something noisily

14. Cognizant -awareness or realization

15. Construe -interpret or assign meaning

16. Convivial -enjoyable atmosphere or jovial company

17. Demagogue -a political leader who uses rhetoric to appeal to prejudices and desires of ordinary

citizens

18. Denigrate -belittle someone

19. Didactic -instructive with a moral intent

20. Disparate -of a distinct kind

21. Eclectic -deriving the best ideas and styles from a diverse range of sources

22. Egregious -reprehensible or outrageously bad

23. Embezzlement -misappropriation of funds.

24. Enervate -lacking in vitality or mentally/ morally drained.

25. Ephemeral– lasting for a short duration


26. Equanimity -maintaining composure in stressful situations

27. Fatuous -devoid of intelligence

28. Gratuitous -uncalled for or unwarranted

29. Iconoclast -someone who criticizes or attacks cherished ideas and beliefs

30. Idiosyncratic -something peculiar to an individual

31. Incumbent -something that is morally binding

32. Inveterate -habitual

33. Libertarian -someone who cherishes ideas of free will

34. Licentious -someone who is promiscuous

35. Mendacious -deceitful

36. Multifarious -multifaceted or diverse

37. Obdurate -being stubborn and refusing to change one’s opinion

38. Ostracism -excluding a person or certain section from society by majority consent

39. Pejorative -showing disapproval

40. Pertinacious -someone who is stubbornly unyielding

41. Phlegmatic -expressing little or no emotion

42. Promulgate-to broadcast or announce

43. Quotidian -something that is of daily occurrence

44. Recalcitrant -resistant to authority

45. Sanctimonious -the pretense of being morally pious to exhibit moral superiority

46. Solipsism -the philosophical theory that only the self-existence is known and all that exists

47. Travesty -distorting facts or imitation

48. Ubiquitous -omnipresent or existing everywhere

49. Vicissitude – an unwelcome or unpleasant change in circumstances or fortune

50. Vociferous -something or someone who is offensively/ conspicuously loud.

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