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Occultism,Necromancy,Diabolism:black magic,supernatural beliefs,worshipping devil Necrophobia,thahthanophobia:fear of dead bodies,conjure Legerdemain,Prestidigtion:Skillfull use of hands to play tricks,deception,trickery Leviate:to make someone float in air Talisman,amulet:lucky charm Omen,portent,augury:bad signs Portend,augur,forbode,fortell,promosticate,presage,prophesy:advance warning,predict 8. Prescience,foreshadow:having knowledge of events before they take place,warn of 9. Sibyl,clairvoyant,prophet,soothsayer,oracle,Cassandra,huruspex:a person whi can see the future,fortune teller 10. Minatory;Threatning 11. Smolder,seethe:Burn without flame,burn from inside ,example seething with anger 12. Singe,scorch sear:Burn superficially,example she singed her finger with hot oven 13. Scald;Burn with hot liquid 14. Swelter:An uncomfortably hot atmosphere.example It would be foolish to wear sweater in swelter atmosphere 15. Torrid: Very hot and dry 16. Scathe: to hurt, injure scathing remarks 17. Glower,scowl:to look angrily, having dark inflamed appearance,live angrily 18. Incense:Make very angry,to anger someone 19. Pique:a feeling of irritation 20. Indignation:Anger by annoyance,justified anger 21. Rabid:Extereme,fanatical 22. Discrete:disparate,separate,divided 23. Discreet:vice 24. Frigid:Very cold,frigid response 25. Glacial:Extremely cold or unfriendly

26. Didactic:Moralizing teacher,Didactic pundit 27. Pedantic;Fault finding,interested in minor details Pedantic always see half glass empty 28. Mentor:an experienced and trusted advisor 29. Protege;The one who is goided 30. Pedagogue:A teacher especially strict or pedantic one.Pedagogue Grammar specialist 31. Erudite:having or showing knowledge,scholarly 32. Limber,lithe,supple:Flexible 33. Nimble,agile:Able to move quickly and swiftly. 34. Adroid,prowess:Skillfull 35. Convoluted,tortuous,interwined,serpentine,winding,meandering,sinous,gnarled:Complex,t wisted,wavy,full of curves and turns 36. Affinity:Likeness,prone suspectible,vulnerable 37. Penchat,inclination,propensity,predilection:Liking towards something Penchant towards diamond pendants 38. Dawdle,dillydally,procrastinate:Waste time,delay or postpone action 39. Linger:To stay behind,to stay a lond time over.Boys linger around girls 40. Dilatory:slow 41. Laggard:slower than desired,a person who falls behing others 42. Malingerer:exaggerate or person who person who pretends to be ill to avoid or work 43. Goldbrick:event excuses to avoid tasks 44. Morbid,macabre:deathly 45. Gruesome,ghastly,grissly,gross,horrendous:fear or horror 46. Hideous,grotesque,teratoid:extremely ugly 47. Heinous,egregious,appalling:shockingly bad(for crime)

48. Segregate:separate 49. Polarize,dichotemy:separate into two contrast groups 50. Disjointed: lacking coherence 51. Prodigy:born talented,wonder kid Sachin TendulkarJ 52. Precocious:having developed certain skills or inclination at an earlier age than usual 53. Prattle,babble,gibber,glib,drivel,jabber,prate:to talk nonsense in speedy way Rakhi Sawant is famous for her Prattle talksJ 54. Drawl:To speak in slow,lazy way with prolonged vowel songs;one who stops between talking. Atal bihari Vajpayee way of delivering speechesJ 55. Inundate:flood,Mumbai was inundated by rain water. 56. Parry,shrirk,evade,circumvent,elude,dodge:avoid,bypass 57. Avert:prevent,ward off,turn away 58. Shunt:slow push or pull to less important place Shunt resistance in potentiometer(Class XII Current ElectricityJ) 59. Swerve:To take a sharp turn,abrupyly change from straight course. 60. Maladroit:Ineffective,unskilled 61. Inept:clumsy,incompetent 62. Gauche,lummox,ungainly:Unsophisticated,socially ackward. 63. Dilerium:not in precense of mind,incoherence of tought and speech,an acutely state of mind characterized by festlessness.Kangana Ranaut in her many films 64. Chimera:Female ghost 65. Bonny:fasionable 66. Limpid:easy to understand,transparent,clear