Misinterpretations

Charu S. (India)
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  1. restive
    in a very tense state
    The incidents underlined heightened tensions across Turkey's restive southeast as Kurds marked their traditional new year. Wall Street Journal (Mar 22, 2012)
    To be restive is to be impatient or on edge — it's an edgy state. When you feel like your skin is too tight and your nerves are ready to snap, when you feel ready to explode, you are restive
  2. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  3. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  4. wreck
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
  5. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
    Women of meretricious life were distinguished by the way they wore their hair cut and combed over their brows, just like modern fringes. Brittain, Alfred
    To correctly pronounce meretricious, accent the third syllable: "mer-uh-TRISH-us." Don't mistake something that is meretricious for having merit. In fact, it is just the opposite. From an expensive restaurant that looks expensively furnished but when the lights are turned up, you can see that "leather" chairs are just cheap vinyl or a woman who pretends her counterfeit handbags are designer originals, meretricious actions are meant to deceive.
  6. gambol
    play or run boisterously
  7. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  8. parlance
    a manner of speaking natural to a language's native speakers
  9. interlude
    an intervening period or episode
  10. revel
    take delight in
  11. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  12. preen
    clean with one's bill
  13. flash
    emit a brief burst of light
  14. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  15. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  16. fray
    wear away by rubbing
  17. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  18. bode
    indicate by signs
  19. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  20. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Created on Sat Oct 27 15:40:13 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Nov 04 14:52:21 EST 2012)

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