Vocabulary 23

 Honing--Sharpening

gigs- performance

Laxative-medicine to make stool soft

Psychosis- Sick mental condition

Sedative-medicine to cause sleep

Gladiator - professional wrestler

Arena- fighting ground

Caucus- meeting of a political party

Pugnacious -harmful

Foolhardy-rash

Relapse-to get addicted in bad habit again

Stygian- Dark

Cogent-acute


Pyre-place where dead Hindu people are burnt

Contentious -quarrelsome

Mortuary-place to keep dead bodies

Centurion -General

Augury-knowledge to make prediction

Feckless -helpless

Pliant-obedient

Evanescent -temporary

Upbraid-reproach

Dote-like

Erratic-whimsical

Noxious -harmful

Mutter-indistinct

Drone- monotonously talk

Dawdler-unemployed

Pest- insect

Enigma- Puzzle/mystery

Preamble- Introduction

Prologue- introduction

Proliferate-expand

Contiguous -Abut

Synthetic- Artificial

Millinery-Female hat

Peremptory-firm



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