{"id":10265,"date":"2018-05-14T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:49:45","slug":"vocabulary-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-156\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Penurious<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: lacking money; excessively unwilling to spend, not having enough money to pay for necessities.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms<\/strong>: parsimonious, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: Warren Buffett, famous multi-billionaire, still drives a cheap sedan, not because he is penurious, but because luxury cars are gaudy and impractical.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">2. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ponderous<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms<\/strong>: heavy, lumbering<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: Laden with 20 kilograms of college textbooks, the freshman moved ponderously across the campus.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">3. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Expunge<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: to eliminate completely; remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms<\/strong>: excise, scratch, strike<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: When I turned 18, all of the shoplifting and jaywalking charges were expunged from my criminal record.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">4. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Interlocutor<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: a person who takes part in a conversation.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms<\/strong>: conversational partner<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: The government\u2019s interlocutor(middle man), R.N. Ravi, confirmed to a local daily that the August 3 agreement was indeed a \u2018framework agreement\u2019.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hitherto<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms<\/strong>: as yet, heretofore, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: Before John learned to fly an airplane, he had hitherto been afraid of heights.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Penurious Meaning: lacking money; excessively unwilling to spend, not having enough money to pay for necessities. Synonyms: parsimonious, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched Sentence: Warren Buffett, famous multi-billionaire, still drives a cheap sedan, not because he is penurious, but because luxury cars are gaudy and impractical. 2. 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