High Frequency Vocabulary ( Part 7 ) for GRE , GMAT ,SAT , IELTS , TOEFL , BCS, CSP

High Frequency Vocabulary ( Part-7)

Approbation – approval, praise

Appropriate – to take without permission, to set aside for a particular use

Aptitude – capacity for learning, natural ability

Arbiter – one who decides, a judge

Arbitrary – random, capricious

Arcane – mysterious, known only to select few

Archaic – extremely old, ancient, outdated

Archetype – an original model or pattern

Ardent – passionate

Arduous – hard , difficult

Aristocratic – of noble birth , snobbish

Artful – crafty , wily , sly

Artifice – clever trick , cunning

Ascendancy – supremacy, domination

Ascetic – hermitlike, practicing self-denial

Assiduous – hardworking, busy , quite diligent

Word	Synonyms	Antonyms
Approbation	approval, blessing, favor	refusal, rejection,
Appropriate	applicable, apt, becoming	incapable, incompetent, inept
Aptitude	affection, affinity, bent	allergy, averseness, ,
Arbiter	adjudicator, arbitrator, judge
Arbitrary	imperious, peremptory, willful	balanced, disinterested, dispassionate
Arcane	abstruse, deep, esoteric	easy, facile, simple
Archaic	antiquated, dated	contemporary, current
Archetype	ancestor, antecedent	derivative, offshoot
Assiduous	active, bustling, busy	asleep, dormant, latent
Ascetic	austere, authoritarian, flinty	charitable, kind, merciful
Ascendancy	dominion, hegemony, imperium,	impotence, powerlessness
Artifice	device, dodge, fetch	inability, inadequacy
Ardent	blazing, burning, charged	detached, dry,impersonal
Arduous	Augean, backbreaking, challenging	achievable, clear, doable
Aristocratic	elitist, high hat,persnickety	democratic, egalitarian
Artful	beguiling, cagey	obvious, open

Quick Quiz #7 (Match words in the first column with its definition in the second column.

Approbation Appropriate Misappropriate expropriate Aptitude Arbiter arbitrate Arbitrary Arcane Archaic Archetype Ardent Arduous Aristocratic Artful Artifice Ascendancy Ascetic Assiduous

a)      Misuse public money b)      Extremely old c)      Take without permission ‘ d)     Weigh opposing views e)      Mysterious f)       Approval g)      Random h)      Take property officially i)        Judge j)        Natural ability k)      Passionate l)        Of noble birth m)    Supremacy n)      Hardworking o)      Difficult p)      Trickery q)      Hermitlike r)       Crafty s)       Original model

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List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 5).

List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 5).

·        Breathe upon ( to tarnish the name of ) Your action breathes upon your brother.

·        Breeze up ( to freshen) Let us breeze up in the garden.

·        Bring about ( cause to happen) Bangabandhu brought about great changes inn the country.

·        Bring in ( to introduce)  I was brought in to the grand assembly.

·        Bring out ( to make clear) Please bring out the meaning of your poem.

·        Bring over ( convert) You cannot bring me over to communism by violence.

·        Bring round ( to win over ) Sprinkling of water on his face brought him round.

·        Bring under ( to subdue) The chairperson failed to bring the members under.

·        Bring up ( to educate) Children should be brought up as simply as possible.

·        To bring about ( to cause to happen ) His negligence brought his failure.

·        Brush away ( to put aside ) Unless you brush away his weakness , you cannot make him change.

·        Brush up ( revive, freshen ) Please read the book ‘ Brush up Your English’.

·        Bubble over ( to be angry) My child bubbled over her pocket money.

·        Buck up( cheer up) Buck up;you are winning the game.

·        Build up ( to cover with buildings) Chandrima Uddyan has now been built up.

List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 4)

List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 4).

·        Be bound up in ( to be wholly devoted to) He was bound up in his work.

·        Black out ( to obliterate with black ) Real news are blacked out.

·        Block up ( to obstruct) Rains have blocked up the Macki road

·        Blow over ( to pass away as a danger or scandal) Every unpleasant happening blows in the course of time.

·        Blow up ( to bring into discredit) The people blew upon the leader.

·        Blow upon ( come into being/to shatter by explosion/ to scold) The earthquake blew up.

·        To blunt the edge of ( to weaken force) Time blunts the edge of danger.

·        Make no bones of ( have no scruples about) Many men do not make bones of their morals.

·        To make boot of ( to profit ) The new policy of the government is going to punish those who are making boots by charging higher prices.

·        Bottle up ( to enclose as in a bottle) We were bottled up in the house.

·        Break away ( revolt ) Bangladesh has broken away from Pakistan.

·        Break down ( to demolish , collapse , fail completely ) In times of emergency all controls tend to break down.

·        Break even ( to avoid loss but fail to gain ) The parties have broken even in the bargain.

·        Break forth ( burst forth) Nature breaks forth in Spring.

·        Break off( to detach by breaking , to leave off abruptly) The boy has broken with the family.

List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 3)

List of the most Important appropriate prepositions with sentence for UPSC , BCS, IPS,CSP , IELTS, TOEFL , Bank exams and all competitive Examinations (Part 3)

·        Back of ( behind ) China is back of Pakistan.

·        On the back of ( close behind) Russia is on the back of India.

·        To back up ( to support) For a good cause one must always back up.

·        Bail up ( to secure in a bill ; to put up one’s hand in surrender)

·        Bang up ( in the height of excellence of fashion ) Every university student is in the bang up.

·        To bank upon ( to depend) Even at the age of thirty he banks upon his parents.

·        Hold at , keep at ( show the defiance ) The criminal kept the constable at bay.

·        Draw a bead on ( to take aim) the dacoit drew a bead on the policeman.

·        Bear out ( to corroborate / to confirm ) Please bear out that I have done no harm to you.

·        Bear up ( to keep up one’s spirits) You must bear up until the trouble is over.

·        Bear up for( sail towards ) Please bear up for a great position in life.

·        Bear with ( make allowance for ) You should bear with your friend’s illness.

·        Beat out ( to flatten or reduce in thickness by beating) Iron is beaten out in sheets.

·        Beat down ( of a buyer , trying to reduce prices of goods) The Indian ladies are often competent in beating down the prices.

·        Beat off ( drive back) The elephants beat off the lion.

·        To become of ( to happen ; the end of ) What will become of his sons after his death?

·        Better off (in superior circumstances) People today are better off than before independence.

·        Get the better of ( to gain the advantage over, to over come) By and by you will get the better of any trial or trouble.

·        Think better of ( revise one’s opinion about ) I have learnt to think better of you.