We can never have enough of words , can we ? Here is the 4th edition for you…Keep learning, keep writing !!!!
| Word | Meaning | Sentence |
| Chutzpah | Shameless audacity, impudence, offensively bold | He is burning bridges with his near and dear ones. That requires chutzpah. |
| Brazen | Bold without shame | The thieves were brazen enough to leave a mocking note for the investigators. |
| Hedonism | Sensual self-indulgence | My neighbor is a hedonist. He parties all night. |
| bonhomie | cheerful friendliness , geniality, affability | The instant bonhomie developed between children is admirable. |
| ludicrous | foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing. | The ludicrous movie is about a dog that becomes the president of a country. |
| luminary | Inspiration | A luminary leader of a famous political party, Jane has inspired many to eradicate corruption. |
| Despotism | Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power
A despot is a person ho exercises absolute control in a cruel or oppressive way |
Once the despot killed his parents, he was able to run the country with an iron fist. |
| incarceration | imprisonment | Jude remained incarcerated but Alex, facing a lesser charge, was released on bail. |
| Machiavellian | cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics. | He and his machiavellian son destroyed the country’s economy to reap their own benefits |
| Pedantic | excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous. | his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic |
| Travesty | a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something. | It would be a travesty of justice to put an innocent man in jail. |
| pusillanimity | someone who is not courageous | The pusillanimous student was bullied by his seniors everyday at school. |
| reparation | to make amends for wrong doing | Alec tried to make reparation for the hurt feelings he had caused, but Emily wasn’t having any of it. |
| evangelize | to preach | The teachers in school evangelize the importance of God – worship. |
| promiscuous | having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships. | It was general knowledge that Lori had been promiscuous in her youth. |
| archaic | very old or old fashioned | The original Ford Model T car is considered archaic when compared to modern vehicles |
| regression | a return to former or less developed state | While my students did well on the algebra quiz last week, this week’s test scores are much lower and show a great deal of regression |
| niggle | cause slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety. | The major niggle with the film is its over dramatic climax. |
| schmaltz | excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films. | At the end of the film the audience were drowned in a sea of schmaltz |
| calumny | he making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander. | The editor refused to publish the calumny that could possibly destroy the politician’s career. |
| sapiosexual | One who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature. | “I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want someone who sometimes makes me go ouch due to their wit and evil sense of humor. I want someone that I can reach out and touch randomly. I want someone I can cuddle with. I decided all that means that I am sapiosexual.” |
| sully | damage the purity or integrity of, make dirty | Ashes and dirt sullied his uniform and made him sneeze. |
| mull | think about something deeply at length | government needs to seriously mull corrective measures to eliminate increasing incidents of crime in the capital. |
| Schadenfreude | pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. | When the winning team saw their rivals saddened by defeat, they felt a sense of schadenfreude. |
| paucity | presence of something in small or insufficient quantities. | Even though the school claims to be a major university, it has merely a paucity of courses for students to take. |
| arrears | unpaid overdue debt, unfulfilled obligation | With its failure to repay the roughly 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to the IMF, Greece becomes the first developed country to fall into arrears |
| alter ego | An intimate, trusted friend | My sister is my alter ego. |
| clairvoyance | the supposed faculty of perceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact, psychic abilities | Although Heather is not a clairvoyant, she is very good at predicting how others will respond to certain incidents. |
| echelon | a level or rank in an organization, profession or society | Because Bill is at the highest echelon of his company, he receives a huge salary. |
| bigotry | intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself. | Because Helen is very close-minded, many people consider her to be a bigot. |
