Important Vocabulary for Exams

Important Vocabulary for Exams

1.Petulant

Meaning: (of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered

Synonym:  short-tempered, peevish,

Antonym:  affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted

Sentence: “he was moody and petulant”

2.Interlocutor

Meaning: a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.

Synonym: minstrel show, middleman, minstrel

Sentence: The music at the party was so loud my interlocutor couldn’t understand a word I said during our conversation.

3.Quintessential

Meaning: the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

Synonym: acme, apotheosis

Sentence: A selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity

4.Savior

Meaning: someone who saves something or someone from danger, harm, failure, etc.

Synonym: deliverer, redeemer

Sentence: We all felt that she was our savior.

5.Rambunctious

Meaning: uncontrolled in a way that is playful or full of energy

Synonym: hell-raising, knockabout, boisterous

Antonym: noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restrained, serene,

Sentence: The schoolyard was filled with rambunctious kids.

6.Chicanery

Meaning: the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose.

Synonym: trickery, deception, deceit,

Sentence: “storylines packed with political chicanery”

7.Charlatan

Meaning: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill.

Synonym: quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, fake

Sentence: “a self-confessed con artist and charlatan”

8.Tactic

Meaning: the means or procedure for doing something

Synonyms: approach, manner

Sentence: used dishonest tactics to win election to the town council

9.Rebuff

Meaning: treatment that is deliberately unfriendly

Synonyms: brush-off, repulse

Sentence: took her rebuff in stride, and still greeted her cousin with a friendly smile the next time they met

10.Extricate

Meaning: to free or remove

Synonyms: disentangle, disencumber

Sentence: They extricated the tractor from the mud.