Daily Word List – 4 January, 2017 – Definition | Synonyms | Use in a Sentence

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Hello and welcome to exampundit. So here are the Daily Word List of 4 January, 2017.

1. Garrulity
(n): excessive talkativeness, especially on trivial matters.

Use: “the
character’s comic garrulity”

Synonyms:
loquaciousness, talkative, bombastic, wordy.

2. Paraphernalia (n):
miscellaneous articles, especially the equipment needed for a particular
activity.

Use: “drills,
saws, and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements”

Synonyms: set of
equipments, miscellaneous items, belongings

3. Ricochet (v):a
shot or hit that rebounds off a surface.

Use: “she
was hit by a ricochet in the leg”

Synonyms: rebound,
recoil, defect

4. Bungling
(adj): carry out (a task) clumsily or incompetently.

Use: “she
had bungled every attempt to help”

Synonyms: clumsy,
awkward, unskillful

5. Leery (adj):
cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions.

Use: “a city
leery of gang violence”

Synonyms: suspicious,
dubious, unsure

6. Nocuous (adj):dangerous,
damaging, deadly

7. Precocious (adj):
(of behaviour or ability) having developed at an earlier age than is usual or
expected.

Use: “a
precocious talent for computing”

Synonyms: bright,
cocky, exceptionally smart

8. Simpatico
(adj): (of a person) likeable and easy to get on with.

Use: “the
inspector was a charming man, so simpatico”

Synonyms: compatible
temperament, agreeable, likable

9. Lynch
(v): (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a
legal trial, especially by hanging.

Use: “her
father had been lynched by whites”

Synonyms: kill by
hanging, execute, murder

10. Imbroglio
(n): an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.

Use: “the
abdication imbroglio of 1936”

Synonyms: an
entanglement, a complicated situation