Enhancing your vocabulary is no longer a daunting challenge. If you aspire to boost your word power and perform better in the verbal sections of competitive exams, here’s a simple way to achieve it.
Explore the words for the day along with a brief quiz to encourage yourself to enhance your vocabulary.
Wheedle (Verb)
Meaning: To use flattery or coaxing to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
Example: It was just a ruse to wheedle more money out of gullible customers.
Welter (Noun)
Meaning: A large number of items in no order; a confused mass.
Example: There’s such a welter of conflicting rules.
Wary (Adjective)
Meaning: Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.
Example: They teach their children to be wary of strangers.
Withhold (Verb)
Meaning: To refuse to give something that is due to or desired by another.
Example: He said he believed it was the school’s legal right to withhold exam results.
Put on your thinking cap and try to answer the following questions to gauge how much you’ve learned:
Can you provide a few synonyms for the word wary? Can you come up with a few antonyms for the word wheedle?
Stay tuned for your weekly update on improving word power.
