{"id":8626,"date":"2017-10-31T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2017-10-31T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T06:27:15","slug":"vocabulary-words-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-words-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1. Bedlam (N):-<\/span> a state of extreme confusion and disorder.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses: As &#8220;Bhangarh To Bedlam&#8221; hits the stands, author Deepta Roy Chakraverti urges readers to separate the paranormal from the superstitious<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2. Penurious (Adj):-<\/span> lacking money; excessively unwilling to spend, not having enough money to pay for necessities.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synonyms: parsimonious, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses: Warren Buffett, famous multi-billionaire, still drives a cheap sedan, not because he is penurious, but because luxury cars are gaudy and impractical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3. Imbibe (V):-<\/span> to drink or absorb as if drinking; take in, also metaphorically<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses: Plato imbibed Socrates\u2019 teachings to such an extent that he was able to write volumes of work that he directly attributed, sometimes word for word, to Socrates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4. Ponderous (Adj):-<\/span> having great mass and weight and unwieldiness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synonyms: heavy, lumbering<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses: Laden with 20 kilograms of college text books, the freshman moved ponderously across the campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5. Diatribe (N):-<\/span> a strong verbal attack against a person or institution.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synonyms: fulmination, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce, vituperate<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses: Steve\u2019s mom launched into a diatribe during the PTA meeting, contending that the school was little more than a daycare in which students stare at the wall and teachers stare at the chalkboard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Bedlam (N):- a state of extreme confusion and disorder. Synonyms: chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness Uses: As &#8220;Bhangarh To Bedlam&#8221; hits the stands, author Deepta Roy Chakraverti urges readers to separate the paranormal from the superstitious 2. Penurious (Adj):- lacking money; excessively unwilling to spend, not having enough money to pay for necessities. Synonyms: parsimonious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}