Mythology, Heaven, Hell, Fate

1. Apocalypse : prophetic revelation of cataclysm that reveals in good defeating the evil forces
2. Armageddon : final battle between forces of good and evil
3. Bane : source of ruin/destruction
4. Cataclysm : violent upheaval at the end of the world
5. Damnation : condemnation to hell or ill fate
6. Doom : unhappy destiny, death, ruin
7. Doomsday : day of last judgment
8. Eschatology : study of death, doomsday and immortality
9. Kismet : fate
10. Omen : an indication of fortune
11. Oubliette: finality, oblivion or death
12. Retribution : reward or punishment
13. Abraham’s bosom : heaven
14. Afterworld : place after life after death
15. Empyrean : highest paradise
16. Salvation : redemption from sin
17. Vahalla : heavenly hell
18. Welkin : vault of heaven
19. Abyss: bottomless areas of hell
20. Avernus : hell
21. Brimstone : fire and sulfur of hell
22. Damnation : eternity in hell
23. Inferno : hell in the form of fiery region of torture
24. Pandemonium : hell, demonic region
25. Styx: principal river of the hell
26. Tophet : hellish place of punishment
27. Void : dark unknown regions beyond life

It is the study of physical and socio cultural aspects of human kind

1. Epigraphy : study of ancient inscriptions
2. Ethnography : systematic descriptions of individual culture
3. Paleontology : study of fossils
4. Praxeology : a science that deals with human conduct
5. Bipedalism : locomotion on two feet
6. Animism : a belief that natural objects possess souls
7. Anthropophagy : cannibalism
8. Endogamy : marrying within a community
9. Exogamy : marrying outside a community
10. Polygamy : institution of marriage which permits more than one marriage
11. Polygyny : having more than one wife at a time
12. Taboo : culture specific prohibition
13. Polyandry : having more than one husband at a time

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society

1. Agnosticism : belief that human beings can’t know whether there is God
2. Anthropomorphism : attribution of human shape and character to animals
3. Apartheid : racial segregation
4. Apolitical : having no political interest
5. Chauvinism : unreasonable devotion to one’s race, sex and country
6. Decorum: propriety, polite behavior
7. Doxy : accepted religious beliefs
8. Ethos: characteristic/distinguishing attitudes and habits of a group
9. Etiquette: established conventions
10. Iconoclasm : opposition to accepted ideas/beliefs
11. Indoctrination : training others in one’s belief
12. Jingoism : excessive love towards one nation
13. Nihilism : a belief that there is no purpose to existence

Words related to education

1. Almamater : a college were one studied
2. Autodidact : a self-taught person
3. Docent : a tourist guide in a museum, a University teacher
4. Mentor : a teacher, a guide
5. Pedagogue : a teacher
6. Pedagogy : the science of art of teaching
7. Philomath : a lover of learning
8. Anglophile : a lover of English language
9. Francophile : a lover of French Language
10. Bibliophile : a lover of books
11. Truant : an irregular student
12. Valedictorian : a high ranking student

13.  Sophomore : a second year student of a School/college

1. Calligrapher : a person with good handwriting
2. Egoist : a selfish person
3. Egotist : a conceited person
4. Deserter : a person who runs away from army
5. graphologist : a person who studies people’s behavior by their handwriting
6. Altruist : an unselfish person
7. Quack : a person who deceives others by false appearance
8. Renegade : a person who runs away from a group
9. Jingoist : a person with a negative- patriotism
10. Iconoclast : a person who breaks dogma
11. Maverick : a person who breaks conventions
12. Polyglot : an expert in many languages
13. Spitfire : a lady who gets irritated easily
14. Philanthropist : a lover of mankind
15. Misanthrope : a hater of mankind
16. Demagogue : A person who hurts the sentiments of masses
17. Pedagogue : a teacher
18. Cynic: a person who is unhappy with human nature
19. Stoic : a person not moved by pleasure and pain
20. Optimist : a person with positive attitude towards life
21. Pessimist : a person with gloomy attitude towards life
22. Connoisseur : an expert of food, drinks and art
23. Puritan : a person who is strict in religious matters
24. Flippant : a sportive person
25. Truant : a student who is habitually absent from school
26. Valedictorian : a bright student with a very high grade
27. Bellicose : a person who loves aggression
28. Apostate : a person who breaks religious principles
29. Anarchist : a law breaker
30. Quixotic: an impractical person
31. Parsimonious : a stingy person
32. Benevolent : a kind hearted person
33. Defector: a person who turns traitor to a cause
34. Skeptic : a person who doubts
35. Agnostic : a person who doubts the ultimate knowledge of God

Meaning: grain

1. granary : a store house
2. granule : a small particle
3. grenade : a small shell
4. garner : together
5. ingrain : to fix deeply

Root: grat

Meaning: thankful

1. grace: elegance
2. gratis : free of cost
3. gratuitous : given freely
4. ingrate: ungrateful
5. ingratiate : to establish favor of others

Context:

1. A repository of grain is granary
2. A granule is a little grain
3. Hand grenades were used in World War –II
4. He garnered courage to speak to the boss
5. An ingrained superstition prevented him from venturing abroad
6. Fine paintings graced the stately home
7. Companies provide service gratis
8. The article was a gratuitous insult to the senior
9. The uncharitable ingrate ignored his benefactor
10. He ingratiated himself with his boss

Meaning: to have, to hold as customary

1. habiliment : equipment
2. habitude: customary condition
3. inhabit : dwell
4. prohibit : to forbid
5. inhibit : restrain

Root: no, not, note, notation

Meaning: knowledge, known

1. notoriety : bad repute
2. connotation : a secondary meaning
3. connoisseur : expert in matters of art
4. incognito : to avoid notice
5. quaint : strange, pleasant

Context:

1. Clothes as worn by people in particular profession is habiliment
2. A person’s habitude reflects his belief
3. Weird notions inhabit is mind
4. Smoking is prohibited here
5. His extreme inhibition made him go unnoticed in the meeting
6. His notoriety lent him no credibility
7. The word fireplace has a possible connotation of hospitality
8. A connoisseur is reliable in matters of taste and fine arts
9. The star decided to travel incognito to avoid fans
10. The quaint old house evoked happy memories

ubermensch - a superman

ujamaa - a village community in Tanzania

ultima Thule - a distant unknown region

untermensch - a racially inferior person in Nazi terms

vendeuse – a saleswoman, especially in a fashionable dress-shop

ventre a terre - at full speed

verboten - forbidden, especially by an authority

verkrampte - conservative or reactionary as regards South African apartheid

verligte – progressive and enlightened as rebgards South African apartheid

vers libre - irregular or unrhymed verse

via media – a compromise

victor ludorum - a sports champion

vide - (as an instruction in a reference to a passage in a book etc.) see, consult.

vieux jeu – old-fashioned, hackneyed

vingt-et-un – the card-game pontoon

vin ordinaire - cheap (unusually red) French wine.

vin rose - light pink wine

vis-a-vis - in relation to, compared with

viva - (cried as a salute etc.) long live

volkerwanderung - a migration of peoples, especially that of Germanic and Slavic peoples into Europe from the second to the eleventh centuries

volte-face - a complete reversal of position

vox populi - public opinion

wehrmacht- the German armed forces, especially the army, from 1921 to 1945

weltanshauung - a particular philosophy or view of life; a conception of the worl

zollverein - a customs union, especially of German Stales in the nineteenth cent

Meaning: link, join, meet

1. conjoin: to unite
2. conjunct : connected
3. disjoin : disunite
4. enjoin : direct order
5. injunction : a legal command
6. joust : a tournament
7. junta : a council
8. juxtapose : to place close to each other
9. rejoinder : an answer
10. sub-junction : to append

Context:

1. When born they were conjoint twins
2. The moon and earth were in conjunction forming an eclipse
3. The disjointed train ran out of control
4. The court enjoined the tenant to vacate
5. The owner was restrained from evicting the tenant by the injunction of the court
6. The two contenders in the joust were tired
7. After the coup the junta acted as the interim government
8. The two pictures were placed in juxtaposition
9. The defendant’s rejoinder shocked the judge
10. The sub-junction to the tenth amendment was revoked

Meaning: poison

1. noxious : harmful
2. internecine : mutually destructive
3. obnoxious : offensive
4. pernicious : ruinous
5. innocent : pure

Root: grad, grade, gress

Meaning: to step, to go, a grade, degree

1. egress: exit
2. ingress: enter
3. regress : back words
4. retrogress : worsen
5. transgress : to break laws

Context:

1. The inhalation of noxious gases causes cancer
2. An internecine feud among proxy holders led to disaster
3. The obnoxious remarks of the politician caused unpleasantness
4. Smallpox was a pernicious disease
5. Children are innocent and indulge in harmless fun
6. To egress is to depart
7. To ingress is to enter
8. In spite of the advanced treatment he regressed into a coma
9. Society is in retrogression with strife everywhere
10. Transgression of traffic rules results in accidents

 tableau vivant- a silent and motionless group of people arranged to represent a scene

taedium vitae – weariness of life, especially as leading to suicide

tant mieux – so much the better

tant pis - so much the worse

terminus ad auem - the finishing-point of an argument, policy, etc.

terminus ante quern - the finishing-point of a period

terminus a quo - the starting-point of a period

terra incognita - unknown territory

terra sigillata - clay, or pottery, from Lemnos or Samos

terz rima - Prosody an arrangement of especially iambic pentameter triplets rhyming

aba bob cdc, etc.

tete-a-tete - an intimate conversation

tete-beche – (of a postage stamp) printed upside down or sideways

the dansant – an afternoon tea with dancing

ton - a prevailing fashion; fashionable society

tour de force - a feat of strength or skill

tous-les-mois - food starch from tubers of a canna, Canna Indica

tout court- without addition, simply

tout de suite - at once, immediately

trahison des clerce – the betrayal of standards by intellectuals

trente-et-quarante - rouge-et-noir

tristesse - sadness, grief, melancholy

trouvaille – a lucky find; a windfall

Meaning: hand, handmade, entrust

1. mandatory: an obligation, compulsory
2. manumit : to liberate
3. countermand : to cancel
4. emancipate : to free from bondage
5. maneuver: planned moves

Root: mem, mart

Meaning: to remember

1. memoir : records of events
2. immemorial : extending memory beyond
3. reminiscent : suggestive of earlier events
4. memento : souvenir
5.   memory : retain in mind

Context:

1. Learning one’s mother tongue is mandatory
2. To manumit a slave is an act of benevolence
3. The prohibitory law was countermanded
4. In Roman civil law to emancipate is to end paternal control
5. He maneuvered his way into the confidence of the army
6. A memoir is also a biography
7. From time immemorial man has been selfish
8. His style is reminiscent of Hemingway’s
9. A memento serves as a reminder of past events
10. To have good memory is a blessing while learning vocabulary