Today's Words: Coruscate, Iterate, Inimical, Riposte

Coruscate

Flash or sparkle.

"The light was coruscating through the walls."

To give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes: sparkle.

2: To be brilliant or showy in technique or style.

He's known for his coruscating wit.

The soldier threatens me in a foreign language so that his precise meaning is lost but his hostility is coruscating.

The sunlight coruscates on the surface of the water.

Iterate

Say, state, or perform again. synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell.

To iterate is to repeat, as in to say or perform something again.

People often iterate a point, by repeating it, they hope others will understand it better. Politicians often iterate key points.

Inimical

Harmful, hostile

It is generally used to describe forces, concepts, or situations that are in some way harmful or hostile. For example, high inflation may be called " inimical " to economic growth.

Having the disposition of an enemy

Excessive managerial control is inimical to creative expression.

These policies are inimical to the interests of society.

Authoritarianism is historically inimical to genuine invention.

It may have become inimical to our happiness.

Price controls are inimical to economic growth.

Riposte

A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism

He's known for having a brilliant riposte to nearly any insult

A swift sharp reply in speech or action.

Review

Surveil... surveillance

Equanimity .. calmness

Expedient .... action

Exigent...... ...urgent

Obdurate... stubborn

Recondite... incomprehensible

Compendious... concise

Egregious .... extremely bad

Adjure......urge,order.

Cavil....petty objections

Importune.. harras repeatedly

Fractious.. unruly

Obfuscate..make intentionally unclear

Asperity... harshness of tone

Cliche... overused phrase

Gauche...tactless

Disparate... opposites

Iterate...to repeat again

Riposte....a quick cleaver reply

Inputs Courtesy: ENT Specialist Doctor with 41 years of experience. He can be reached Only on WhatsApp messages at 9243301223.

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