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 Seams - cloths are sewn together I bulged at the seams, then I became self-conscious because I was so fat, and finally had to take off forty pounds with equal agony to get myself down to respectable size.  twinge - fiery, impulsive, capricious, elated  They used to me get up in public to make speeches when it scared me to death, even filled me with terror, that was years ago, but the twinge of it comes to me every now and then when I walk on to a platform. perfunctory - done quickly as a duty without any interest or feeling The acquiring of dynamic faith is accomplished by prayer, lots of prayer, by reading and mentally absorbing the Bible and by practicing its fai techniques. In another chapter I deal with specific formulas of prayer, but I want to point out here that the type of prayer that produces the quality of faith required to eliminate inferiority is of particular nature, surface skimming, formalistic and perfunctory prayer is not sufficiently powerful. skimming ...

 Brusquely -  bluntly  Not one for social pleasantries, the chief of staff would brusquely ask his subordinates anything he wanted, even coffee.  Pleasantries -   Not one for social pleasantries, the chief of staff would brusquely ask his subordinates anything he wanted, even coffee.  discursive - tangential Many readers find it tough to read Moby Dick since the author is discursive, often cutting the action short to spend 20 pages on the history of a whale.  Vanquish - defeat thoroughly  For years, Argentina would dominate in world cup quantifying matches, only to be vanquished by one of the, European counting during the late stages of the tournament.  Burgeon - grow rapily  China's ho using market is burgeoning but some predict that the growth is merely a bubble and will burst much like U.S. real estate bubble of 2008.

 impute - attribute, represent, possessed by someone  He impute his subpar performance on the test to a combination of stress and poor sleep.  renege - go back on  we will no longer work with that vendor since it has reneged on nearly every agreement.  furtive -stealthy  - while at work, Georje and his boss Regena felt the need to be as furtive as possible about their romantic relationship.  avaricious - greedy  - Since avaricious desire is similar to gluttony or lust -sins of excess -it was listed as one of the seven deadly sins by the Catholic church.  Gluttony - voracity  They lecture him on gluttony as they stuff their faces.

 Flounder - struggle  Sylvia has excelled at advanced calculus, but ironically when she deals with taxes, she flounders.  Pedestrian - lacking imagination  - while Nan was occupied with far more pedestrian concern , how to earn a salary and run a household.  capricious - impulsive  - Nearly every month our capricious CEO had a new plan to turn the company around, and none of them worked because we never gave them the time they needed to succeed.  byzantine - overly complex  - Getting a driver's license is not simply a matter of taking a test; the regulations and producers are so byzantine that many have found themselves at the mercy of the department of motor vehicles.  concomitant - accompanying  concomitant with his desire for nature was a desire for the culture and energy of a big city. 

 envy - jeleousy  He reported just enough of his inside information to cause his associates to regard him with admiration and envy.  longed - waiting for  I longed to be hard-boiled tough and fat. agonizing -   I stayed thin and lay awake nights thinking and agonizing about it.  culminate -  Beethven's musical genius culminated in the 9th symphony, which many consider his greatest work. veneer - disguishing layer  Mark Twain referred to the Victorian period in America as the Glied Age, implying the ample moral corruption that lay beneath a mere veneer of respectability. 

Plucky - courageous  Some scouts initially doubted pdroia because of his short stature, but he is a plucky player, surprising everyone with his boundless energy and fierce determination.  Stature - Physic Some scouts initially doubted pdroia because of his short stature, but he is a plucky player, surprising everyone with his boundless energy and fierce determination.   timorous - shy Since this was her first time debating on stage and before an audience, Di's voice was timorous and quiet for the first 10 minutes. Anodyne - that which soothes  Muzak, which is played in department stores, is intended to be an anodyne, but is often so cheesy and over the top that customers become irritated.  pittance - small amount  Vinny's uncle beamed smugly about how he had offered his nephew fifty dollars for his Harvad tuition; even twice the amount would have been a mere pittance. 

 sunk - expressing serious trouble or unable  to solve the problem  The listener sang through him, as it were, his passions sung back to him through another mouth.  tormented -  Here I am forty years old, why is it that all my life I have been tormented by inferiority feelings, by lack of confidence, by self-doubt? probe - search something very thoroughly, - we must approach the maladies of out emotional life das a physician probes to find something  wrong physically.  divulges -  He has all the other necessary qualifications, but he talks too much, and without, earning to do so divulges matters of a private and important nature. succumbed -  Upon analysis I found that he " talked too much "  simply because of an inferiority feeling. To compensate for it he succumbed to the tempatation of parading his knowledge. 

 haughty - arrogant The haughty manager didn't believe that any of his subordinates could ever leave an insight as brilliant his own. amok - frenzied, behaves uncontrollably and disruptively  whenever the bowl haircut teen - idol went, his legions of screaming fans ran through the streets amok, hoping for a glance at his boyish face. appalling - astounding, awful it is appalling to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferiority complex.    dejectedly - disappointed, or without hope I have a terrible disbelief in myself he said dejectedly " I have no confidence.  lamented - deplore, bewail, bemoan  in fact " he lamented " i am just about sunk. 

Munificent - very generous  Uncle Charley was known for his munificence, giving all seven of his nephews lavish Christmas presents each year. Chortle - laugh merrily, laugh in noise, gleeful way Walking into the cafe, I could hear happy, chortling people and smell the rich aroma of roasted coffee beans.  Merrily -  He merrily rewrote history according to his own prejudices. Both Nato and the community knew they could not go merrily on as before. A pan of potatoes was boiling away merrily on the gas stove.  Invidious - causing resentment  At a time when many other in the office were about to be laid off, many considered cheryl's clothes that day an invidious display.  Proscribe - ban  My doctor proscribe my habit of eating donuts with chocholate sauce and humburge patties for breakfast. 

 Rarefied - refined  Jack's vulgar jokes were not so successful in the rarefied environment of college professors. myopic - shortsighted  the company ultimately went out of business because the myopic managers could'nt predict the changes in their industry. Phantassmagorical - illusive  Those suffering from malaria fall into a feverish sleep, their word a whirlingig of phantosmagoria, if they recover, they are unsure of what actually took place and what was simple a product of their febrile imagenations.  whirligig - a toy that spins round He is in such a whirligig in politics.  vicarious - not lived directly  the advent of twitter is a celebrity stalker's dream, as he or she can through hundreds of intimate tweets - vicariously live the life of a famous person. 

 wax - increase gradually  Her enthusiasm for the Diva's new album only waxed with each song; the end of the album, it was her favorite CD yet.  impung - call into question  Though many initially tried to impung Darwin's theory, un scientific circles today, the idea is taken as truth. Sanguine - cheerful  with the prospect of having to learn 3000, words during the course of the summer, Paul was anything but sanguine.  rile - annoy  Dan is usually calm and balanced, but it takes only one intense glare from Sabrina to rile him. rift - serious disagreement between friends A growing rift between the brtohers 

 Hoary - ancient  Sentence: Most workout gurus are young, fit people, where as most yoga gurus are hoary men with long white beards.  obtain - be customary  The custom of waiting your turn in line does not in some countries, which many people try to rush to front of the line at the same time.  Cupidity - greed for money  some believe people that amassing as much wealth as possible is the meaning to life yet then often realize that cupidity brings anyting but not happiness.  circumvent - get out of duty  one way of circumventing the GRE  is to apply to a grade school that does not require GRE scores.  besotted - very infatuated  Even though her father did not approve, Juient became besotted with the young Romeo.  

wield: to have and use power, authority she wield enormous power in the company some of the men were wielding knives.  vacuous - lacking intelligence Sentences: To the journalist's pointed question the senator gave a vacuous response mixing a few of his overall campaign slogans with platitudes and completely avoiding the controversial subject to the question. platitude- cliches  Sentences: To the journalist's pointed question the senator gave a vacuous response mixing a few of his overall campaign slogans with platitudes and completely avoiding the controversial subject to the question. melee: wild fight  Sentences: After enduring daily taunts about my name, I become enraged and pummled the schoolyard bully and his sycophantic friends in a brutal melee.  enduring - durable   Sentences: After enduring daily taunts about my name, I become enraged and pummled the schoolyard bully and his sycophantic friends in a brutal melee. 

Boorish  - ill-mannered  Bukowski was known for being a boorish drunk and alienating close friends and family.  Magisterial - domineering  Though she was only a third-grade teacher, Ms. Matinet was magisterial in dealing with her class, lording over them like a queen.  Lording - control over  Perhaps lording over globlins is the right description after all. Credence - belief  He placed no credence in psychics, claiming that, they offered no special power beyond the ability to make people part with their money. u Revelry -  His lifestyle of revelry and luxuriory excess could hardly be called austere. 

Scintillating - brilliant  Sentence: Richard Freyman was renowned for his scintillating lectures, the arcana of quantum physics was made lucid as he wrote animatedly on the chalkboard.  Arcana - secrets  Sentence:He was the only person who understand all the arcana details of last agreement. Etravagant - spendthrift Sentence: These assertions, which may appear extravagant, are based on bonafide demostrations in actual human experience.  Subservient -  Sentence: She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.  Sentence: The women's needs are seen as subservient to the group interest.  Hitherto - until now  Sentence: You man attain a degree of health not hitherto known by you and experience a new and keen pleasure in living.

 Sartorial - relating to clothes  Sentence: Monte was astute at navigating the word of finance: Sartorially, however he was found wanting, he typically would attempt to complement his beige tie with a gray suit and white pants.  Astute - mentally sharp or clever  Sentence: She was politically astute, she made a series of astute business decisions. Beige - color, pale greyish yellow  Sentence: Monte was astute at navigating the word of finance: Sartorially, however he was found wanting, he typically would attempt to complement his beige tie with a gray suit and white pants.  Ostentatious - showy  Sentence: Matt wanted to buy stone lions for front of the house, but cynthia convinced him that such a display would be too ostentatious for a modest house in an unassuming neighborhood.  Tawdry - cheap, showy  Sentence: The scandal was a tawdry affair.  Lascivious - perverted (of a person of their action) characterized by sexually abnormal and u...

Phlegmatic - not showing emotion  Sentence: Arnold is truly noble remaining reserved until an issue of significance arises, but Walter is simply phlegmatic, he doesn't have energy or inclination, to care about anything.  Surfeit - excessive amount  Sentence: There was no such thing a surfeit of shopping for Nancy she could stay at the outlet stores from opening to closing time. Austere - unadorned  Sentence: His life-style of revelry and luxurious excess could hardly be called austere.   Philistine - hater of culture  Sentence: Jane considered AI completely philistine, because he talked almost exclusively about video games. She was entirely unaware of how well-read he really was.  Cow - intimidate  Sentence: Do not be cowed by a 3000-word vocabulary list turn that list into a deck of flash cards.

Replete – Fully stocked Sentence: Only weeks after the hurricane made landfall, the local supermarket shelves were replete with goods, so quick was the disaster relief response.   Peripatetic – traveling on foot Sentence: Jim always preferred a peripatetic approach to discovering a city. He felt that he could see so many more details while walking.   Genial – agreeable Sentences: Betty is a genial young woman, everyone she meets is put at ease by her elegance and grace     Elegance – the quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner Sentence: It was fill of elegance and grace, something natural rather than man-made.   Deleterious – harmful Sentence: The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was deleterious to the fishing industry in the southern states.