Sophisticated English words

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rhetoric
Six years ago, when he last ran, Putin stepped up his anti-American rhetoric amid large and continuing street demonstrations against him
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Rhetoric comes from the Greek meaning "speaker" and is used for the art of persuasive speaking or writing.
When people listened eagerly to long speeches and studied them in school, rhetoric was generally used positively; now it is often a negative term, implying artfulness over real content.
ignominious
discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, embarrassing, inglorious, shameful
deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
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ig=negative and nomi=name
IGNORANT+MINUS(negative personality)... imagine your teacher is saying that you are an ignorant and negative person... what will happen?... it will cause public disgrace and shame...
infringement
your on a diet and your searching IN the FRIDGE(fringe) your crossing your limit, and violating the law of dieting...
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Word Origin and History for infringe. v. mid-15c., enfrangen, "to violate," from Latin infringere "to damage, break off, break, bruise," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + frangere "to break" (see fraction). Meaning of "encroach" first recorded
. They see it as an infringement on their own freedom of action.
infraction, invasion, transgression, violation
caveat
ignore inattention
Cave may not have light and might have snakes, etc. SO be cautious
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see caution.
admonition, alarm, caution, commonition, forewarning, monition
ostensible
profound good honest-to-god
People are "tense" when they appear to be something they're not.
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from ob "in front of" (see ob-) + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
superficial apparent seeming
juggernaut
At the festival, the crowd at Jagannath temple in India is juggernaut. Actually this word came into use from the British rule. On the day of festival a british officer saw the crowd and mispronounced Jagannath as juggernaut.
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jagat ("world") and natha ("lord")
inferior antonym
enamoured
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be filled with love for.
incumbency
INCUM + BENT = OFFICIALS are BENT on(determined) to bring an INCUM home, as it is NECESSARY to survive
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incumbere means to lie down or lean on or against something...
necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
conviction
Akon album "KONVICTED" it is said(=strong said(BELIEVED)) he was GUITY OF A CRIME and put in jail where he wrote songs to pass time
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The Latin root is "convincere", which is made up of vincere, to conquer, which also gave us "vanquish"; combined with "con-", a preposition meaning"with"
దోషిగా
deracinate
abate, abolish, annihilate, blot out, demolish, deracinate, do away with, efface, eliminate,
సమూలనాశనము
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Deracinate was borrowed into English in the late 16th century from Middle French and can be traced back to the Latin word radix, meaning "root."
deracinate= de (take away / remove) + raci(human race) + nate (native land). so ... to deracinate is to remove a race from native land
thrashing
to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating," dialectal variant of threshen (see thresh). Sense of "beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail" is
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to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating," dialectal variant of threshen (see thresh). Sense of "beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail" is
noun) a sound defeat Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping
complacent
ant: concerned, discontent, discontented, dissatisfied
complacent = completely satisfe
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1. pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are toocomplacent to change the government.
conceited, confident, easy-going, egoistic, egotistic, gratified, happy, obsequious, pleased,
detour
ప్రక్కతోవ
DETOUR if we REVERSE it ROUTE(D)means LONGER ROUTE
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French détour, Old Frenchdestor, derivative of destorner to turn aside, equivalent to des- de- + torner to turn
We had to make a detour across a bridge down the river from here.
divergence, diversion, fork, roundabout way, runaround, secondary highway, service road, substitute, temporary route

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