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
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