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26 Prolific

Prolific

Producing much fruit or foliage

Productive
Creative
Fertile
Inexhaustible
Fruitful
Unproductive(ANT)

PROLIFIC sunflowers near

Prospect Valley CO

27 Debilitate

Debilitate

Make somebody or something

weak

Incapacitate
Weaken
Hamper
Hinder

Unfortunately, the battle with his

DEBILITATING disease is not over
yet.

28
Ostentatious

Ostentatious

pretentious display.

Pretentious
Affected
Showy
Brazen
Flamboyant
Grandiose
Modest(ANT.)
Mayawati has always been criticized for
OSTENTATIOUS display of power in her
state

29 Affable

Affable

Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk

to.
Genial
Pleasant
Friendly
Sociable
Easy-going
Jovial

AFFABLE and humble, the Editorin-chief of CNN-IBN

30 Deflect

Deflect

turn aside from a straight

Turn aside
course.

Ward off
Repel
Sidetrack
Prevent
Attract(ANT.)

Kapil Sibal DEFLECTS 2G

blame to NDA, Raja

31 Dawdle

Dawdle

Waste time; be slow.

Waste time
Hang around
Hang about
Dally
Plod
Delay
Hurry(ANT)

Remember when Sundays meant parking

yourself in front of the tube and DAWDLING
away the whole morning watching your most
wanted serials on Doordarshan?

32
Exorbitant

Exorbitant

Unreasonably high.

Excessive
Very expensive
Very high
Inflated
Ridiculous
Reasonable(ANT.)

It meant borrowing money at an

EXORBITANT rate of interest.

33 Pivotal

Pivotal

of vital or critical importance

Essential
Key
Crucial
Fundamental
Critical
Central
Irrelevant(ANT.)

Yash Chopra ropes in Aamir Khan

for a PIVOTAL role in Dhoom 3

34 Vulgar

Vulgar

Making explicit and offensive reference to

sex or bodily functions;

Offensive
Earthy
Improper
Naughty
Clean,Decent(ANT.)

Rakhi Sawant wants Anna

Hazare to judge VULGAR

35
Obverse

Obverse

The side of a coin or medal bearing

the head or principal design

Face
Faade
Frontage
Back(ANT.)

The OBVERSE of the coin

shows a scene of Mother
Teresa

36 Mirth

Mirth

Amusement, esp. as expressed

Amusement
in
laughter
Hilarity
Laughter
Entertainment
Delight
Joyfulness
Her MIRTH on seeing his downfall
became evident from the sadistic
expression on her face

37 Terrific

Terrific

Of great size, amount, or

intensity
TERRIBLE
TREMENDOUS
DREADFUL
FRIGHTFUL
HORRIBLE

She's given me some

TERRIFIC ideas.

38
Diligent

Diligent

Having or showing care and

conscientiousness in one's work or
HARD-WORKING
duties.
INDUSTRIOUS
ASSIDUOUS
METICULOUS
THOROUGH
ATTENTIVE
He manages to leave the asylum and is
taken in by his brother Pete, a
DILIGENT and well-meaning restaurant
owner.

39
Abridge

Abridge -

Shorten

Edit
Condense
Reduce
Abbreviate
Cut
Expand(ANT.)

The editor ABRIDGED the story to

make the book easier to digest.

40 Whim


Whim

A sudden desire or change of mind,

Impulse
Urge
Notion
Quirk
Caprice
Fad
Craze

Warne confident could

still return to Test cricket

41 Dissolute

Dissolute

Lax in morals; licentious.

Degenerate
Depraved
Immoral
Self-indulgent
Dissipated
Upright(ANT.)

RSS a band of DISSOLUTES,

says Lalu.

42 False

False

Not according with truth or fact;

incorrect.

Bogus
Phony
Counterfeit
Forged
Artificial
Real(ANT.)

A FALSE statement or
Rumor.

43
Anathema

Anathema

something despised or under a curse

Abhorrence
Abomination
The vegetables were depressed
on finding out they are
ANATHEMA to most small
children.

44
Niggard

Niggard

A stingy or ungenerous person

MISER
SKINFLINT
TIGHTWAD
SCROOGE
CURMUDGEON

such a NIGGARD that he refused to

hand out candy at Halloween, saying
it would cost too much money

45 Placate

Placate

Make (someone) less angry or hostile.

Pacify
Conciliate
Soothe
Calm
Mollify
Enrage(ANT.)

He made a PLACATE
approach to impress obama

46 Abnegation

Abnegation
to deny oneself, self-denial, selfrenunciation.
give up
renunciation
Denial
relinquish.

assert, assume, defend,

defy, hold, remain,
retain, usurp.

Swami Vivekananda ABNEGATED

all the luxurious of material life.

47
Supervene

Supervene

Occur later than a specified or implied event

or action,

During the first four days after the

accident acute apprehension was felt
by the physicians that tetanus might
SUPERVENE.

48 Abrade

Abrade

to wear down or tear away by friction.

CHAFE,
RUB OFF,
WEAR AWAY,
ERASE,
ERODE,
SCOUR,
SCRAPE.

Antonyms smooth.

Frequent brakes ABRADE

tyres fast.

49 Sanguine

Sanguine

Cheerfully
optimistic

Confident
Optimistic
Cheerful
Positive
Upbeat
Uncertain(ANT.)

As the EZ Finance ministers get together for

yet another meeting on Greece due to
commence 1130 GMT the markets are
generally SANGUINE that some sort of a
bailout deal with be made.

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for my beliefs
because I might
be Bertrand
wrong.
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