High frequency word list part-1

from now on ill be posting series of high frequency word taken from SAT and GRE

• Stagnant: Not moving, still
• Sycophant: flattering some one important to get a favour
• Satirical: Use of humor or irony to reveal people's bad point
• Scrupulous: Scrutinize; Very careful and thorough
• Secluded: Away from people; Private
• Servile: Excessive pleasing to others
• Somber: Dull and serious
• Sage: very wise man
• Aberrant: Not normal or acceptable
• Abeyance: Temporarily not in use
• Zealot: Strict follower of religion or policy
• Abate: Become less severe
• Neanderthal: Rude person
• Whimsical: old fashioned, showing sudden changes
• Transgress: Go beyond the limits considered acceptable

Double Negative

My todays post is about the mistake which most of the general public is unaware of. People know that something is wrong with the sentence but they cant find out the error. So, here it is: its called double negative.Double negative occurs when two negations are used in the same clause.Double negative has been considered correct in archaic English and many poets have also used triple and fourfold negatives like in this sentence taken from wikipedia(i.e., "There was not no man nowhere so virtuous") In todays' formal English double negative is considered wrong but most people tend to use it in their everyday conversation or for show off purpose as it looks kind of cool according to the teenagers out there

Lets take an example of this sentence : " I did not do nothing", Although this sentence looks fine and delivers it meanings but its grammatically incorrect

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Borrowed/Loan Words

Loan/ Borrowed words are basically words which are borrowed from another language and incorporated into another
For example :

Deja Vu

Je Ne Sais Quoi

Schadenfreude

Feu De Joie

Ma Non Troppo

Mea Culpa

Pyjamas

Bungalows

Interesting words of English

Subpoena- A writ order a person to attend court

Tmesis- Separation of words by a compound word

Expletive Infix- Separation of words by a compound word

Avaricious- Greed for money

Avocado- A purple edible fruit

Audacity- Recklessly daring

Midget- Dwarf

Mascot- A person or thing believed to bring good luck

Incarnation- Embodied in flesh ( citation needed)

Epicaricacy*- Deriving pleasure from others' troubles

Clairvoyance- Supposed faculty of perceiving events in future or beyond normal sensory contact

Manque- Having failed to become what one might have been

Mansuetude- Gentleness

Antiquated- Old Fashioned

Astute- Having an ability to assess situations or people accurately

* Old English word. Not used now a days in common English