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Daily Word List (English Vocabulary) – 28th August ’22

Fraught

Adjective
Meaning

  • Full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant
  • Characterized by or causing tension or stress:

Startle

Verb
Meaning

  • To disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
  • To cause to start involuntarily, by or as by a sudden shock.

Profligate

Adjective
Meaning

  • Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • recklessly prodigal or extravagant.

Ravenous

Adjective
Meaning

  • Extremely hungry; famished; voracious.
  • Extremely rapacious.
  • Intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction

Acquiesce

Verb
Meaning

  • To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent:

Enfranchise

Verb
Meaning

  • To grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
  • To endow (a city, constituency, etc.) with municipal or parliamentary rights.
  • To set free; liberate, as from slavery.

Coercion

Noun
Meaning

  • The act of coercing; use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
  • Force or the power to use force in gaining compliance, as by a government or police force

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