Capricious: changing one’s mind quickly and often

Example: The boss’s capricious mood swings made it difficult for employees to know
what to expect.

Cogent: convincing or believable

Example: The lawyer presented a cogent argument that swayed the jury in his
client’s favor.

Didactic: intended to teach, often in a moralizing way

Example: The children’s book had a didactic tone, with a clear message about the
importance of kindness.

Equanimity: calmness and composure, especially in difficult situations

Example: Despite the chaos around her, the doctor maintained her equanimity and
focused on saving her patient’s life.

Fastidious: very attentive to detail, often excessively so

Example: The chef was fastidious about the freshness of the ingredients, carefully
inspecting each one before using it in his dishes.

Gratuitous: unnecessary, without reason or cause

Example: The violence in the movie was gratuitous, serving no purpose other than to
shock the audience.

Harbinger: a sign of things to come, often used to describe something negative

Example: The sudden drop in the stock market was a harbinger of an economic
recession.

Inscrutable: difficult to understand or interpret, often used to describe people’s

expressions or behavior
Example: The poker player’s inscrutable face made it impossible to tell if he had a
good hand or not.

Meticulous: very careful and precise, paying close attention to detail

Example: The accountant was meticulous in her calculations, double-checking every
figure to ensure accuracy.

Nebulous: vague or unclear, often used to describe ideas or concepts

Example: The politician’s platform was nebulous, with no clear plan for how to
accomplish

Ostracize: to exclude someone from a group or society

Example: After the scandal, the company decided to ostracize the CEO, refusing to
work with him again.

Pedantic: overly concerned with minor details, often in a way that is annoying or
tedious
Example: The professor’s pedantic lecture on grammar was so boring that half the
class fell asleep.

Quandary: a difficult situation or problem, often with no obvious solution

Example: The team was in a quandary when the star player was injured and unable to
play in the championship game.

Rancor: bitter, long-lasting resentment or hatred

Example: Despite the passage of time, the two former friends still held rancor
toward each other.

Sagacious: having good judgment or wisdom

Example: The CEO’s sagacious decision to invest in new technology helped the
company stay ahead of its competitors.

Tenacious: persistent, not easily giving up or letting go

Example: The lawyer’s tenacious pursuit of justice helped her win a difficult case.

Ubiquitous: present, appearing, or found everywhere

Example: In today’s world, smartphones are ubiquitous, with almost everyone owning
one.

Vex: to annoy or frustrate someone

Example: The constant interruptions from her coworker vexed the employee, making it
difficult to focus on her work.

Wistful: having a feeling of sadness or regret, often with a longing for something
that can’t be obtained
Example: The old man looked wistfully out the window, remembering his youth and the
opportunities he had missed.

Zealot: a person who is fanatical or uncompromising in pursuit of their beliefs or

goals
Example: The political zealot refused to listen to anyone who disagreed with him,
insisting that he was always right.

Ostensible: seeming or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

Example: The ostensible reason for the meeting was to discuss budget cuts, but in
reality, it was a strategy session for the upcoming election.

Pedantic: overly concerned with minor details, often to the point of being annoying
Example: The English teacher’s pedantic corrections of students’ grammar and
punctuation were not helpful to their overall understanding of the literature.

Quotidian: ordinary, mundane, or everyday

Example: Despite his fame and fortune, the actor’s life was largely filled with
quotidian tasks like going to the grocery store and doing laundry.

Recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to authority or control

Example: The recalcitrant student refused to follow the teacher’s instructions and
ended up getting detention.

Sanguine: optimistic, cheerful, and confident, often in the face of difficulty

Example: Despite setbacks, the entrepreneur remained sanguine about the future of
her business and continued to work hard.

Tenuous: weak or fragile, often used to describe a connection or relationship

Example: The tenuous bond between the two countries was strained even further by
the recent conflict.

Ubiquitous: present, appearing, or found everywhere

Example: In today’s society, smartphones are ubiquitous and almost everyone has
one.

Vacillate: to be indecisive, to waver back and forth between choices

Example: The politician vacillated on the issue, unable to make up his mind on how
to proceed.

Wistful: yearning or longing, often for something that cannot be attained

Example: Looking out at the sunset, she felt wistful for the carefree days of her
youth.
Zealous: enthusiastic and passionate, often to an extreme degree
Example: The zealous fan base of the band camped out for days to get tickets to
their concert.

1. Pragmatic - a pragmatic way of dealing with something is based on practical

considerations, rather than theoretical ones, a pragmatic person deals with things
in a practical way

2. Reluctant - if you are reluctant to do something, you are unwilling to do it and

hesitate before doing it, or do it slowly and without enthusiasm

3. Dispassionate - someone who is dispassionate is calm and reasonable and not

affected by emotions

4. Disposition - someone's disposition is the way that they tend to behave or feel
(dispassionate disposition)

5. Candid - when you are candid about something or with someone, you speak honestly

6. Naive - if you describe someone as naive, you think they lack experience and so
expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind

7. Gullible - if you describe someone as gullible, you mean they are easily tricked
because they are too trusting

8. Cliche - a phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer
original or interesting or effective

9. Horrified - shocked, terrified, frightened, stricken with horror

10. Horrid - if you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very
unpleasant way toward other people

11. Contemptuous - if you are contemptuous of someone or something, you do not like
or respect them at all

12. Liminal - of intermediate or in-between state or condition (liminal being)

13. Decree - a decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the
ruler of a country

14. Precedence - if one thing takes precedence over another, it is regarded as more
important than the other thing (took precedence over)

15. Meritorious - if you describe something as meritorious, you approve of it for

its good or worthwhile qualities (meritorious life)

16. Hermit - a hermit is a person who lives alone, away from people and society

17. Consort - if you say that someone consorts with a particular person or group,
you mean that they spend a lot of time with them (sakthi is his consort)

18. Wax and wane - to become stronger and then weaker, to increase and then
decrease

19. Elude - if something that you want eludes you, you fail to obtain it, if a fact
or idea eludes you, you do not succeed in understanding it, realizing it, or
remembering it, if you elude someone or something, you avoid them or escape from
them

20. Lineage - someone's lineage is the series of families from which they are
directly descended

21. Ambiguity - if you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it
is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way (gender
ambiguity)

22. Manifest - if you say that something is manifest, you mean that it is clearly
true and that nobody would disagree with it if they saw it or considered it

23. Insensitive - if you describe someone as insensitive, you are criticizing them
for being unaware of or unsympathetic to other people's feelings

24. Obliged - if you are obliged to do something, a situation, rule, or law makes
it necessary for you to do that thing

25. Fortune - luck

26. Misfortune - bad luck

27. Trait - a trait is a particular characteristic, quality, or tendency that

someone or something has

28. Obsessed - if someone is obsessed with a person or thing, they keep thinking
about them and find it difficult to think about anything else

29. Indulge - if you indulge in something or if you indulge yourself, you allow
yourself to have or do something that you know you will enjoy, if you indulge
someone, you let them have or do what they want, even if this is not good for them

30. Hurl - if you hurl something, you throw it violently and with a lot of force

31. Stricken - if a person or place is stricken by something such as an unpleasant

feeling, an illness, or a natural disaster, they are severely affected by it

32. Weep - if someone weeps, they cry

33. Scour - if you scour something such as a place or a book, you make a thorough
search of it to try to find what you are looking for

34. Elusive - something or someone that is elusive is difficult to find, describe,

remember, or achieve

35. Ethereal - someone or something that is ethereal has a delicate beauty (most
ethereal romantic heroin)

36. Dashing - a dashing person or thing is very stylish and attractive

37. Celibacy - state of not being married (took the vow of celibacy), someone who
is celibate does not marry or have sex because of their religious beliefs (I was
celibate for 2 years) (stay celibate)

38. Vow - if you vow to do something, you make a serious promise or decision that
you will do it

39. Ascetic - an ascetic person has a way of life that is simple and strict,
usually because of their religious beliefs (ascetic practices)
40. Displace - if one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its
place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself

41. Damsel - a damsel is a young, unmarried woman

42. Monumental - very important, very great or extreme (monumental failure), you
can use monumental to emphasize the large size or extent of something

43. Pilgrimage - if you make a pilgrimage to a holy place, you go there for a
religious reason

44. Coy - a coy person is shy, or pretends to be shy, about love and sex (she
turned coy) (she smiled coyly)

45. Smite - to smite something means to hit it hard

46. Smitten - if you are smitten, you find someone so attractive that you are or
seem to be in love with them (they were totally smitten with eachother) (she is
smitten by him)

47. Venture - if you venture somewhere, you go somewhere that might be dangerous

48. Alleged - an alleged fact has been stated but has not been proved to be true

49. Caustically - harshly

50. Caustic - a caustic remark is extremely critical, cruel, or bitter

51. Indignant - if you are indignant, you are shocked and angry, because you think
that something is unjust or unfair

52. Admonish - if you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they've
done something wrong

53. Churn - to move or mix something with force

54. Stigma - if something has a stigma attached to it, people think it is something
to be ashamed of (social stigma)

55. Indifferent - if you accuse someone of being indifferent to something, you mean
that they have a complete lack of interest in it

56. Uncharacteristic - if you describe something as uncharacteristic of someone,

you mean that it is not typical of them (uncharacteristic moment of lust)

57. Hurried - a hurried action is done quickly, because you do not have much time
to do it in (dress up hurriedly) (a hurried breakfast)

58. Livid - someone who is livid is extremely angry

59. Huff - if you huff, you indicate that you are annoyed or offended about
something, usually by the way that you say something, if someone is in a huff, they
are behaving in a bad-tempered way because they are annoyed and offended (he drove
off in a huff)

60. Wail - if someone wails, they make long, loud, high-pitched cries which express
sorrow or pain
61. Disguise - if you are in disguise, you are not wearing your usual clothes or
you have altered your appearance in other ways, so that people will not recognize
you (blessing in disguise) (you've to travel in disguise) (she disguised herself as
a man)

62. Duped - if a person dupes you, they trick you into doing something or into
believing something which is not true

63. Enrage - if you're enraged by something, it makes you really angry

64. Behest - if something is done at someone's behest, it is done because they have
ordered or requested it (at her behest)

65. Renounce - if you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and
declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in
that way

66. Stammer - if you stammer, you speak with difficulty, hesitating and repeating
words or sounds

67. Stoop - if you stoop, you stand or walk with your shoulders bent forward
(stooped on a stick)

68. Embrace - if you embrace someone, you put your arms around them and hold them
tightly, usually in order to show your love or affection for them. you can also say
that two people embrace (embraced his wives)

69. Virility - the masculine property of being capable of copulation and

procreation

70. Contentment - contentment is a feeling of quiet happiness and satisfaction

71. Mannerism - someone's mannerisms are the gestures or ways of speaking that are
very characteristic of them, and which they often use, peculiarity of how someone
behaves, traits

72. Consensus - a consensus is general agreement among a group of people

73. Patriarch - a patriarch is the male head of a family or tribe

74. Illustrious - if you describe someone as an illustrious person, you mean that
they are extremely well known because they have a high position in society or they
have done something impressive

75. Conjugal - conjugal means relating to marriage and the relationship between a
husband and wife, especially their sexual relationship (sacrificed his conjugal
life)

76. Beget - to beget something means to cause it to happen or be created, when a

man begets a child, he becomes the father of that child

77. Maiden - a maiden is a young girl or woman

78. Commodity - a commodity is something that is sold for money

79. Futility - futility is a total lack of purpose or usefulness (I realise the

futility of rage)

80. Cost dearly - if you pay dearly for doing something or if it costs you dearly,
you suffer a lot as a result

81. Endure - if you endure a painful or difficult situation, you experience it and
do not avoid it or give up, usually because you cannot

82. Exploit - if you say that someone is exploiting you, you think that they are
treating you unfairly by using your work or ideas and giving you very little in
return

83. Garment - a garment is a piece of clothing; used especially in contexts where

you are talking about the manufacture or sale of clothes (her upper garment fell)

84. Spellbound - if you are spellbound by something or someone, you are so

fascinated that you cannot think about anything else

85. Unashamedly - if you describe someone's behaviour or attitude as unashamed, you

mean that they are open and honest about things that other people might find
embarrassing or shocking

86. Unbridled - if you describe behaviour or feelings as unbridled, you mean that
they are not controlled or limited in any way (unbridled passion)

87. Stead - place or position, if you say that something will stand someone in good
stead, you mean that it will be very useful to them in the future

88. Mendicant - someone who lives by asking people for money

89. Pitiless - someone or something that is pitiless shows no pity or kindness

90. Inherit - if you inherit money or property, you receive it from someone who has
died (inherit the throne)

91. Spontaneous - spontaneous acts are not planned or arranged, but are done
because someone suddenly wants to do them

92. Folly - if you say that a particular action or way of behaving is folly or a
folly, you mean that it is foolish (human folly)

93. Speculate - if you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature
or identity, or about what might happen

94. Ferried - if a vehicle ferries people or goods, it transports them, usually by

means of regular trips between the same two places (ferried men across Ganga)

95. Remorse - remorse is a strong feeling of sadness and regret about something
wrong that you have done

96. Castrated - to castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles
(castrated himself)

97. Spurt - when liquid or fire spurts from somewhere, it comes out quickly in a
thin, powerful stream

98. Dreadfully - awfully or terribly

99. Indiscretion - if you talk about someone's indiscretion, you mean that they
have done or said something that is risky, careless, or likely to upset people

100. Weakling - if you describe a person or an animal as a weakling, you mean that
they are physically weak

101. Affront - if something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it

102. Mortified - if you say that someone is mortified, you mean that they feel
extremely offended, ashamed, or embarrassed

103. Imperiously - if you describe someone as imperious, you mean that they have a
proud manner and expect to be obeyed

104. Avenge - if you avenge a wrong or harmful act, you hurt or punish the person
who is responsible for it (she went in search of a warrior who would avenge her
humiliation)

105. Ensue - if something ensues, it happens immediately after another event,

usually as a result of it (a terrible fight ensued)

106. Despair - despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing
will improve (he looked at his wife in despair)

107. Nemesis - the nemesis of a person or thing is a situation, event, or person

which causes them to be seriously harmed, especially as a punishment

108. Deterioration - if something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way

109. Chattels - chattels are things that belong to you

110. Desperate - if you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are
willing to try anything to change it

111. Matted - if you describe someone's hair as matted, you mean that it has become
a thick and tangled mass, often because it is wet or dirty

112. Coarse - coarse things have a rough texture because they consist of thick
threads or large pieces

113. Gaunt - if someone looks gaunt, they look very thin, usually because they have
been very ill or worried (his gaunt features will scare the women)

114. Pale - if someone looks pale, their face looks a lighter colour than usual,
usually because they are ill, frightened, or shocked (she grew pale on seeing him)

115. Impale - to impale something on a pointed object means to cause the point to
go into it or through it (he was tortured and impaled) (you took delight in
impaling tiny insects on a straw)

116. Irony - irony is a subtle form of humour that involves saying things that are
the opposite of what you really mean, if you talk about the irony of a situation,
you mean that it is odd or amusing because it involves a contrast

117. Meticulously - if you describe someone as meticulous, you mean that they do
things very carefully and with great attention to detail (karma is followed
meticulously)

118. Repurcussions - if an action or event has repercussions, it causes unpleasant

things to happen some time after the original action or event

119. Frailties - if you refer to the frailties or frailty of people, you are
referring to their weaknesses (frailties of human laws)
120. Ordain - if some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it
should happen or be in existence (nature has ordained)

121. Concubine - in former times, a concubine was a woman who had a sexual
relationship with a man of higher social rank without being married to him

122. Prosperous - prosperous people, places, and economies are rich and successful

123. Liaison - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship (premarital

liaison)

124. Illicit - an illicit activity or substance is not allowed by law or the social
customs of a country, illegal

125. Supersede - if something is superseded by something newer, it is replaced

because it has become old-fashioned or unacceptable (pandu superseded
dhritarashtra)

126. Quirk - a quirk is something unusual or interesting that happens by chance (he
was well versed with the quirks of laws)

127. Bypass - if you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to
get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something
more quickly (he is bypassed and his younger brother was made king)

128. Distraught - if someone is distraught, they are so upset and worried that they
cannot think clearly

129. Faze - if something fazes you, it surprises, shocks, or frightens you, so that
you do not know what to do

130. Unfazed - unperturbed

131. Dismay - dismay is a strong feeling of fear, worry, or sadness that is caused
by something unpleasant and unexpected, if you are dismayed by something, it makes
you feel afraid, worried, or sad

132. Whim - a whim is a wish to do or have something that seems to have no serious
reason or purpose behind it, and often occurs suddenly (abandoned it to a river's
whim)

133. Volition - if you do something of your own volition, you do it because you
have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told
you to do it

134. Invoke - if you invoke something such as a principle, a saying, or a famous

person, you refer to them in order to support your argument, if you invoke a law,
you state that you are taking a particular action because that law allows or tells
you to (kunti invoked indra of her own volition)

135. Afterthought - if you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it

after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought

136. Eunuch - a eunuch is a man who has had his testicles removed

137. Deemed - if something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a

particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing
138. Fidelity - fidelity is being loyal to your husband, wife, or partner by not
having a sexual relationship with anyone else (women expect fidelity from their
men)

139. Reluctant - if you are reluctant to do something, you are unwilling to do it

and hesitate before doing it, or do it slowly and without enthusiasm

140. Quiver - if something quivers, it shakes with very small movements

141. Occult - the occult is the knowledge and study of supernatural or magical
forces (record of occult secrets)

142. Miscarriage - if a pregnant woman has a miscarriage, her baby dies and she
gives birth to it before it is properly formed

143. Rational - a rational person is someone who is sensible and is able to make
decisions based on intelligent thinking rather than on emotion

144. Invocation - an invocation is a request for help or forgiveness made to a god,

an invocation is a prayer at a public meeting, usually at the beginning

145. Compensate - to compensate someone for money or things that they have lost,
means to pay them money or give them something to replace those things, if you
compensate for a lack of something or for something you have done wrong, you do
something to make the situation better, something that compensates for something
else balances it or reduces its effects

146. Inadequacy - the inadequacy of something is the fact that there is not enough
of it, or that it is not good enough (compensate for the inadequacies of pandu)

147. Tryst - a tryst is a meeting between lovers in a quiet secret place (kunti's
premarital tryst)

148. Glorify - to make something seem much better or more important than it really
is

149. Sorely - sorely is used to emphasize that a feeling such as disappointment or

need is very strong (sorely missed it, sorely disappointed)

150. Draped - if you drape a piece of cloth somewhere, you place it there so that
it hangs down in a casual and graceful way, if someone or something is draped in a
piece of cloth, they are loosely covered by it

151. Pyre - a pyre is a high pile of wood built outdoors on which people burn a
dead body or other things in a ceremony

152. Avert - if you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening
(avert the inevitable)

153. Decipher - if you decipher a piece of writing or a message, you work out what
it says, even though it is very difficult to read or understand

154. Wistful - someone who is wistful is sad because they want something and know
that they cannot have it

155. Forlorn - if someone is forlorn, they feel alone and unhappy

156. Cohabit - if two people are cohabiting, they are living together and have a
sexual relationship, but are not married
157. Colloquial - colloquial words and phrases are informal and are used mainly in
conversation

158. Alms - alms are gifts of money, clothes, or food to poor people