CSS well-defined Synonyms-Past Papers

 

CSS well-defined Synonyms-

Past Papers (1984-2018)

A

1.      Acrimonious: anger and bitter, caustic, biting or rancorous,__ in feeling, language or manner, embittered, hard, rose, resentful

2.      Agrarian: of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure, agricultural, farming.

3.      Amiable: friendly, sociable, pleasant, congenial, agreeable, affable, genial, good-natured, good tempered, gracious, mellow, nice, sweet, well.

4.      Anathema: someone or something that is very strong disliked or loathed, a vigorous, denunciation, curse, ban, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, winze.

5.      Antics: prank, caper, capriccio, dido, escapade, frolic, gag, jest, knavery, monkeyshine, practical joke, rag, roguery, shavie, trick, waggery, playful or funny act buffoon.

6.      Antiquarian: one who collects or studies antiquities or sells valuable old things

7.      Apolitical: having no interest or involvement in political affairs, averse  to politics.

8.      Apotheosis: The highest or best part of something, quintessence, acme, beanideal, perfection by word, classic, epitome, exempler. Ideal.

9.      Archipelago: an expanse of water with many scattered islands, a group of islands.

10.  Astute: shrewd, canny, clean-eyed, clean-sighted, hard-boiled, hard headed, heady, knowing, saving, sharp, sharp-witted, smart.

11.  Averse: allergic, antipathetic, having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste.

B

1.      Baklava: a dessert made a thin pastry, nuts and honey.

2.      Bibliophile: bibliolater, bibliomaniac, bookman, lover of books.

3.      Brag: a pompous or boastful statement, an arrogant talk or manner, cockiness, raiggart, luster, bombast, braggadocio, cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade or rodomontade.

4.      Bipartisan: relations to or involving members of two political parties.

C

1.      Cajun: a person from Louisiana whose ancestors were French Canadian prepared in a cooking style.

2.      Calligraphy: The art of making beautiful hand writing, long hand, manuscript, script, handwriting.

3.      Calumny: An untrue, libel, statement that is made to damage someone’s maligning reputation, aspiring, blackening, calumniation, smearing, slayder, character, assassination, defamation.

4.      Cavil: traducing, vilification, vilifying.

5.      Chronicle: a description of events in the order that they happened- account, chronology, commentary, history, narration, narrative, record, report, strong.

6.      Cicerone: a guide who conducts sightsees, mentor, tutor.

7.      Conclude: close out, complete, close, end, finish, terminate, wind up, waspup .

8.      Contingent: likely but not certain to happen, possible, empirical, unpredictable, conditional, not necessitated, delegation, delegacy.

9.      Covenant: A formal and serious agreement or promise accord, alliance, compact, convention, treats, pact.

D

1.      Data: fact or information in numerical.

2.      Decorum: literary and dramatic propriety: fitness, orderliness, conventions of polite behavior decency, form.

3.      Deluge: A large amount of rain, alluvion, bath, cataclysm, cataract, flood, flood tide, inundation, Niagara, over flow, spate, torrent.

4.      Demise: die, decease, depart, drop, end, exit, expire, fall, flat line, pass away, peg out, perish, pop off, stepont.

5.      Demograph: The study of changes such as the number of births, deaths, marriages and illness.

6.      Denouement: The final part of the something ( such as a book, a play or a series of events)

7.      Desiccate: Dry up, dehydrate, drain of emotional or intellectual vitality, castrate, damp, dampen, devitalize, enervate, gled, lobotomize, enliven.

8.      Diagnosis: The act of identifying a disease, illness or problem by examining someone or something.

9.      Disgorge: To flow out of mouth, vomit, belch, erupt, eruct, expel, jet, spew, spont, spurt.

10.  Domesticate: To tame, to grow a plant, adopt In a house hold.

E

1.      Empirical: based on testing or experience verified, existential, experiential, experimental, objective, observational.

2.      Entourage: A group of people who go with and assist an important person, cortege, following, posse, retinue, suite, tail, train.

3.      Epitaph: words written in memory on a grave yard.

4.      Era: A period or time that is associated with a particular quantities event, person ect. ; day, epoch, age, period, time.

5.      Essay: To try to do, perform, or deal with something- assay, endeavom, attempt, seek, strive, try.

F

1.      Feedback: Helpful information or criticism tha is given to someone to say what can be done to improve performance, product etc. reversion, retrogression, regression.

2.      Ferret: An animal, hunt, search, flush, harry, worry.

3.      Fetter: A chain or shackle for the fact restraint, check, circumscription, condition, constraint, curb, restriction, limitation, stricture.

4.      Fiduciary: Relating to or involving trust, relating to or involving such as the trust between a customer and a professional)

5.      Filial: of or relating to a son or daughter.

6.      Finicky: very hard to please, requiring a lot of cave or attention, choosy, dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, fursbudgery, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety, picky.

7.      Flagrant: very bad, too bad to be ignored, blatant, conspicuous, egregious, glairing, gross, obvious, patent, pronounced, rank, striking.

8.      Flume: An inclined channel for carrying water, col, couloir, defile, canyon, gap, gill, gorge, gulch, gulf, notch, pass, ravine, raddle.

9.      Foible: The part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point. Weakness, demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, fraility, shortooning, sin, vice, want.

10.  Fudge: To fail or to deal with something in  an open and direct way. Equivocate, ledge, pussy foot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel.

G

1.      Grotto: A small cave, antre, cavern, delve.

2.      Guileful: Deceitful, cunning, duplicity, artfulness, artifice, canniness, craft, craftiness, deviousness, foxiness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, suntleness, subtlety, wiliness.

H

1.      Hearsay: Something heard from another person, rumor, buzz, gossip, scuttlebutt, talk tattle.

2.      Hoodwink: To deceive or trick someone bamboozle, beguile, bluff, bnttalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, hoax, deceive, horns woogle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, snooker, snow, spoof.

I

1.      Imminent: Happening very soon, impending, looming, pending, threatening, around the cornernn.

2.      Incendiary: A person who commits arson, agitator, firebug, arsonist, inflammatory, seditions

3.      Inception: The time at which something begins, commencement, alpha, baseline, birth, dawn, dayone, genesis, beginning, incipience, kickoff, lannch, nascence, onset, outset, start, threhols

4.      Input: Advice or opinion, comment, intake.

5.      Intrepid: very bold or brave, resolute, fortitude, courageous, dawntless, doughy, gallant, great hearted, gusty, gutty, heroic, loin hearted, manful, stalwart, stont, stout hearted, undanntable, undannted, valiant, valorous.

6.      Ionic: of relating to, existing as or characterized by ions( eg. Ionic gases )

L

1.      Laconic: using few words in speech or writing crisp, curt , concise, aphoristic, apothegmatic, elliptical, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, sententious, epigrammatic, monosyllable, pitty, succinct, summary, terse.

2.      Lacunae: A gap or blank space in something, a missing part, deficiency, crunch, dearth, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, lack, panicity, pinch, poverty, scantiness.

3.      Lapse: Break off, break up, close, conclude, dead-end, determine, die, discontinue, elapse, end, expire, finish, halt, cease, leave off, quit, terminate, wind up, wink up.

4.      Levitate: To rise or make ( something) rise into the air in way that appears to be magical.

5.      Loggia: An area in the side of a building that has a roof and that is open on one side, roofed open gallery.

M

1.      Malediction: curse, execration, anathema, bam, imprecation, malison.

2.      Malefic: Baleful, malicious.

3.      Menage: house hold, housekeeping, extended family.   

4.      Moratorium: A time when a particular activity is not allowed, cold storage, deep freeze, latency, abeyance, quiescence, suspended animation, suspension.

N

1.      Nicety: A small derail and especially one that is a part of polite or proper behavior. Datum, detail, fact, particular, particularity, specific.

2.      Nostalgia: pleasure, sadness in caused by remembering something from the past that you could experience it again, home sickness.

3.      Nucleus: The central and chief part of a plant.

4.      Numeracy: The capacity for quantitative thought and expression.

O

1.      Obscure: unknown, dank, dim, shrouded, faint, mysterious, remote, secluded, not prominent, ambiguous, cryptic, equivocal, murky, occult.

2.      Obsession: mania, fixation, pre occupation, prepossession, a persistent, disturbing, pre occupation, with an often unreasonable idea or feeling.

3.      Occult: To shut off from view or exposure, belie, blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, enshroud, mask, obscure, suppress, veil

4.      Output: Something provided, affair, fruit, handwork, labour, product, produce, yield.

P

1.      Pallid: Ashen, ashy, blanched, cadaverous, doughty, paroxysm, livid, lurid, mealy, paled, pasty, peaked, wan

2.      Peroration: The last part of a speech, address, declamation, harangue, oration, speech, task.

3.      Perturb: disquiet, worried, upset, agitate, bother, concern, derail, discomfort, dismay, distract, distress, flurry, disturb.

4.      Philandering: sexually, unfaithful, cheat screw around.

5.      Piazza: A open public area in a city, verandah, porch, gallery.

6.      Picket: A pointed or sharpened stake, custodian, guardian, keeper, guard, sentinel, warden, watchman.

7.      Plenary: Complete in every respect, absolute, comprehensive, entire, full, grand, intact, integral, perfect, total, whole.

8.      Poignant: pervasive, piercing, affecting, emotional, impactful, impressive, touching, stirring.

9.      Polarize: To cause to vibrate in a definite pattern concentrate, center, compact, consolidate, centralize, unify, unite.

10.  Premise: Given, hypothetical, assumption, presupposition.

11.  Presumptive: credible, creditable, likely, plausible, probable.

12.  Prodigal: lavish, luxuriant, extravagant, high, rolling, profligate, spendthrift, squandering, unthrifty, wasteful.

13.  Progeny: Descendants, children, fruit, issue, posterity, off spring, seed, spawn.

14.  Prognosis: Dr’s opinion, augury, Bo dement, forecast, predicating, prophecy.

15.  Proletariat: The laboring class rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, scum, trash, unwashed.

16.  Prolific: fruitful, abundant, fat, fecund, lush, productive, fertile, rich.

17.  Pungent: having a strong, sharp taste or smell.

Q

1.      Quasi: having some resemblance.

R

1.      Radical: fundamental, extreme, ultra, extremist, fanatic, rabid, revolutionary.

2.      Raucous: loud and unpleasant to listen, roughly behaving, strident, hoarse, hell-raising, knockabout, boisterous, boisterous, roisterous, rowdy.

3.      Recapitulate: summarize, sumup, abstract, brief, epitomize, recap, reprise, synopsize, wrapup.

4.      Reprisal: Something that is done to hurt or punish someone who has hurt you or done something bad to you damages indemnification, indemnity, recompense, requital, restitution.

5.      Resurgent: Becoming popular, active, or successful once again.

6.      Rigmarole: A long complicated, and annoying process, description, meaning less talk, a complex procedure, bafflegab, double-talk, gibberish.

S

1.      Sacrosanct: sacred, inviolable, hallowed, holy, unassailable, untouchable.

2.      Samizdat: A system in USSR to suppress litoration.

3.      Sequester: segregate, seclude, cutoff, insulate, separate, isolate.

4.      Sheepish: meek, timid, bashful, coy, demure, different, introverted, modest, recessive, shy, effacing.

5.      Shingle: A small piece of building material, a sign board, a women’s hair cut style.

6.      Slack: Negligent , slow, sluggish, weak, dull, careless, derelict , disregardful, lack, lazy, neglectful.

7.      Sonar: A device used for finding thing that are under water.

8.      Spunk: A woody tinder, punk, mettle, pluck, spirit, liveliness, backbone, constancy

9.      Stoicism: fiber, grittiness, guts, fortitude.

10.   Succinct: The quality or behavior of a person who accepts everything without any complete, impassiveness.

 

T

1.      Tentative: uncertain and hesitant, conditional contingent, dependent.

2.      Thwart: To prevent or stop , contravene, baffle, balk, beat, checkmate, discomfort, foil, frustrate.

3.      Tiffe: A petty quarrel, altercation, argle bargle, brawl, controversy, dispute, fight, hassle, imbroglio, quarrel, squabble, argument, wrangle.

4.      Tirade: A harsh, censorious language or speech.

5.      Torpor: Apathy, dullness, casualness, complacence, disinterested, disregard, incuriosity, indifference, unconcern.

6.      Touch Stone: something that is used to make judgments about the quality of other things, barometer, bench mark, criterion, grade, measure, paw standard, yard stick.

7.      Trait: Quality, affection, attribute, character, feature, hallmark, property, characteristic.

8.      Trice: instant, eye blink, flash, jiffy, moment, twinkle, wink

U

1.      Underling: A person of low rank who works for more powerful  person, subordinate, inferior, junior.

2.      Unequivocal: Very strong and clear, unambiguous, unquestionable, apparent, barefaced, clear-cut, crystal, distinct, evident.

3.      Unfazede  : Not confused or curried or shocked undaunted.

V

1.      Veld: grassland with trees, campo, heath, lea, moor, pampa, steppe.

2.      Venial: forgivable, pardonable, excusable, condonable, remissible, remittable.

3.      Viable: Capable of doing or succeeding, achievable, attainable, possible.

4.      Vilify: harsh wording or writing, defame, asperse, blacken, malign, smear, slander.

5.      Void: Having no legal force or effect, null, bad, inoperative, invalid, nugatory.

W

1.      Wanton: Showing no thought or care for other feelings, undisciplined, unruly, lewd, bawdy, sensual, lustful, merciless, inhumane, malicious, coarse, crude, profane, vulgar, obscene.

2.      Witted: Having with or understanding.

3.      Wry: Twist, writhe, wlong headed.