Vocabulary Made Easy series: Work on your language skills to be more confident

Language skills are an important factor in helping students feel more confident about appearing for exams and helping professionals feel more confident about their work. With a strong vocabulary, you can impress your peers at work or with your answers in the exams.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power and language skills.
Meaning: pressing; demanding
Example: The exigent demands of her contemporaries’ music took a toll on her voice

Meaning: silly and pointless
Example: The comparisons are being made, fatuous as they are

Meaning: deliberately avoid using; abstain from
Example: He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence
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Meaning: make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade
Example: Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car

Meaning: impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so
Example: Don’t be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt

Meaning: sly or cunning intelligence
Example: He has also added a smattering of guile to his undoubted power
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Meaning: special honour or respect shown publicly
Example: They stood for a minute in homage to the fallen troops

Meaning: beginning to happen or develop
Example: We seemed more like friends than incipient lovers

Meaning: accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant
Example: These children have been inured to violence

Meaning: not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful
Example: Many parents are too lax with their children

Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.

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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)