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Vocab 30


1.       Verve: Great energy and enthusiasm
She delivered her speech with tremendous verve.

2.       Vilify: To use abusive language about or of, Defame
He was vilified by one of his best friends in front of faculties.

3.       Vintage: An earlier model
Vintage cars are always in great demand.

4.       Virago: A quarrelsome woman
Be cautious from a virago.

5.       Virtuoso: A person with great technical skill in some fine art especially in playing music.
Under the guidance of the renowned virtuoso, the disciple soon attained perfection in Hindustani music.

6.       Attain: To reach or succeed in getting something; to achieve
India attained independence in 1947, after decades of struggle.

7.       Vitiate: To destroy or damage something
It is disputable whether society vitiates men or men vitiate society.

8.       Vivisection: Surgery performed on a living animal in medical research.

9.       Wallop: To beat or defeat soundly
The girl was walloped for misbehaving in class.

10.       Waylay: To wait for and then stop someone, especially either to attack them or talk to them.
A man on his way to deposit Rs 10,000 in a bank was waylaid by two men who snatched his bag.

11.    Yahoo: A rude, loud and unpleasant person, especially one who has little education.
 
12.    Amorphous: Shapeless
Amoeba has an amorphous shape.

13.   Anagram: A word made by rearranging letters.
EUABITULF is an anagram for BEAUTIFUL.

14.   Analogy: Similarity in some way
Today Amit sir taught us the analogy of the human brain and the computer.

15.   Anathema: Anything greatly detested
Exams are an anathema to most underprepared students.
S: Adoration

Compiled By: Chaudhary Amit V. 

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