bene-:good
e.g.: benefit, beneficial
mal-: bad
e.g.: malficent
vocabulary
1.wrangle (verb)
(intransitive) To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
(transitive) to herd horses or other livestock
2.presage (noun)
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
3.presentiment (noun)
A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
4.slander (noun)
a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken or published), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement
5.slender (adjective)
Thin; slim.
e.g.: A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
6.inscrutable (adjective)
Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret.
e.g.: His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
7.subside (verb)
To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
8.supersede (verb)
Set (something) aside.
Take the place of.
e.g.: No one could supersede his sister.
9.elude (verb)
To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
10.decrepit (adjective)
Weakened or worn out from age or wear
11.prevalent (adjective)
Widespread or preferred.
Superior or dominant.
12.artery (noun)
An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
A major transit corridor.
13.assess (verb)
To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate
e.g.: He assessed the situation.
14.subsidy (plural subsidies)
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
e.g.: Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
15.scathe (noun)
Harm; damage; injury; hurt; misfortune.
16.Scheme (noun)
A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
17.circumscribe (verb)
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
18.reverberate (verb)
to ring with many echos
to have a lasting effect
to repeatedly return
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
e.g.: Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
19.embed (verb)
To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
20.cacophony (noun)
A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
21.oratory (noun)
The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
22.mundane (adjective)
worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly
Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
ordinary; not new
tedious; repetitive and boring
23.contemplation (noun)
The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
Holy meditation.
The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
24.improbable (adjective)
Not likely to be true.
e.g.: It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.
Not likely to happen.
e.g.: Due to the loss of power, it is improbable that we will begin on time.
25.verbose (adjective)
Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
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