High Frequency Vocabulary ( Part-7) for all exams

High Frequency Vocabulary ( Part-7)

Approbation – approval, praise

Appropriate – to take without permission, to set aside for a particular use

Aptitude – capacity for learning, natural ability

Arbiter – one who decides, a judge

Arbitrary – random, capricious

Arcane – mysterious, known only to select few

Archaic – extremely old, ancient, outdated

Archetype – an original model or pattern

Ardent – passionate

Arduous – hard , difficult

Aristocratic – of noble birth , snobbish

Artful – crafty , wily , sly

Artifice – clever trick , cunning

Ascendancy – supremacy, domination

Ascetic – hermitlike, practicing self-denial

Assiduous – hardworking, busy , quite diligent

Word	Synonyms	Antonyms
Approbation	approval, blessing, favor	refusal, rejection,
Appropriate	applicable, apt, becoming	incapable, incompetent, inept
Aptitude	affection, affinity, bent	allergy, averseness, ,
Arbiter	adjudicator, arbitrator, judge
Arbitrary	imperious, peremptory, willful	balanced, disinterested, dispassionate
Arcane	abstruse, deep, esoteric	easy, facile, simple
Archaic	antiquated, dated	contemporary, current
Archetype	ancestor, antecedent	derivative, offshoot
Assiduous	active, bustling, busy	asleep, dormant, latent
Ascetic	austere, authoritarian, flinty	charitable, kind, merciful
Ascendancy	dominion, hegemony, imperium,	impotence, powerlessness
Artifice	device, dodge, fetch	inability, inadequacy
Ardent	blazing, burning, charged	detached, dry,impersonal
Arduous	Augean, backbreaking, challenging	achievable, clear, doable
Aristocratic	elitist, high hat,persnickety	democratic, egalitarian
Artful	beguiling, cagey	obvious, open

Quick Quiz #7 (Match words in the first column with its definition in the second column.

Approbation Appropriate Misappropriate expropriate Aptitude Arbiter arbitrate Arbitrary Arcane Archaic Archetype Ardent Arduous Aristocratic Artful Artifice Ascendancy Ascetic Assiduous

a)      Misuse public money b)      Extremely old c)      Take without permission ‘ d)     Weigh opposing views e)      Mysterious f)       Approval g)      Random h)      Take property officially i)        Judge j)        Natural ability k)      Passionate l)        Of noble birth m)    Supremacy n)      Hardworking o)      Difficult p)      Trickery q)      Hermitlike r)       Crafty s)       Original model