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Word List -5

Willy- Nilly- Whether one wants it or not Wishy-Washy- Of inferior color or quality Tittle-Tattle- Silly talk Tommy-rot- Nonsense Topsy-turvy- Totally disordered Trail-blazer: Pioneer Shilly-shally- To hesitate in making a decision Slap-Happy- Cheerful yet too casual Snotty-nosed- Treating people of lower position roughly Starry-eyed- Enthusiastic yet impractical Strait-Jacket- A restricting thing, Stranglehold strait-laced- Very strict in morality Rabble-rouser: A haranguer, A fiery speaker Rand and rave: To show one's anger shouting loudly Rat-tat: Knocking at the door Roly-poly: Short and Fat person Pooh-pooh: To reject an idea with contempt Namby-Pamby: Weak and sentimental No-No: An unaccepted/unpermitted work Moth-eaten: Outdated or old-fashioned Mumbo-Jumbo: Complicated procedure with no clear objective Knick-knack: Things of little value Jiggery-Pockery:  Dishonest/Cheating Behaviour Hanky-Panky: Improper behaviour Hebbie-jeebies: Feeling of fear or anxiety Higgledy-piggled
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My Wordlist -4

 1. Cadre: A core Group 2. Quattrocento- 15th Century 3. Quinquennium: A five year period 4. Cinquecento: 16th Century 5. Sestet- A stanza of six lines 6. Habdomadal- Occuring every seven days 7. Decalogue: The 10 commandments 8. Quadrigenarian: 40 years old.  9. Hecatomb- Slaughter of a great number of persons. 10. Importunate: Urgent in demand, annoyingly insistent 11. Deliquescence: A melting away.  12. Recrudescence: A revival 13. Hearken: To listen 14. Stultify: To cause to appear foolish 15. Montage: Process of collecting several pictures to produce a single composition 16. Arrant: out and out, unmitigated 17. Manumission- 'sending away from hand' , emancipation  18. Arbitrament: Authoritative or final judgement 19. Escarpment- Steep Slope or cliff 20. Hebetude: dullness, lethargy. 
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My Wordlist-3

 Palimpest: Parchment Membrane Nonage: Youth, childhood infancy Unstinting: Giving Generously, not holding back Contravene: Obstruct Misfeasance: Act of doing Wrongly- Improper conduct in public office Autochthonous: Original, indigenous Bedight: Bedecked Paronomasia: A play on Words Parasol: A protection against sun Primogeniture: The right of inheritance by the first born.  Monogram: Logo: Combining of two or more letters to become one.  Monophobia: Morbid dread of being left alone.  Demimonde- "Half-world" Sesquicentennial: 150th Anniversary Triptych: A three-part picture Tercentenary: A 300th anniversary Trellis: Triple Thread Fabric Untrammeled: Unimpeded Quatrain: A four line stanza: Umar Khayyam
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My Word List -2

 Venal: Who is ready to do anything for Money Venial- Pardonable, slight Vernal- Appropriate for a spring Venous- Related to Veins Collation- A light meal Oblation- "A bring towards": A religious offering Prelate- A church dignitary Colloquy- Formal Talk Confabulation- Less formal talk Obloquy- Abuse, strong vituperation Prorogue- "To ask Before" - To postpone Supererogatory- "Beyond the call of duty": superfluous Sacerdotal: Related to a priest Adumbrate: To outline, to sketch lightly, "to give a shadow" Umbrage: "To Take umbrage" : annoyance, displeasure, resentment Perfidy: The act of betraying someone Impugn: To attach with words or arguments Recreant: "Again belief", cowardly, craven, false, unfaithful Miscreant: "False belief" infidel, depraved Tergiversation: Changing the sides
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My Word List-1

 Ineluctable: Inescapable Inexorable: Relentless= that cannot be prevented from continuing Solipsist: Egoist Serried: Crowded Together Regale: Entertain Lambent: Flickering Censer: Container for burning incense Immure: Enclose within Walls Encaustic: Method of Painting- fixed by heat Proselyte: "Come to, gone to" - One who has gone to other faith, a convert Apocryphal= "hidden away"- False, spurious, fictiious Sedulous= "apart from guile or deceit" diligent, industrious, assiduous Subterfuge= (h) Bahana, "secretely, underhanded" ultramundane - Situated beyond the world hyperbole: an exaggeration hyperborean: Far north, arctic, frozen Out-Herod- to exceed in violence or blustering Peregrination= A wandering through many lands Predilection= A liking, preference Circumambient= encircling, surrounding
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Words Depicting Boor: A country rude

 Boor, Churl, lout, clown, bumpkin, clodhopper, hick, yokel, rube
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Word Depicting Future Predictions

 Bode, Forbode, Augur, Forecast, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy. 
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