Vocabulary Made Easy series: Improving your word power is now easy

Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power.

Improving your word power is no longer a herculean task. If you are looking for a way to improve your vocabulary and score better in the verbal sections of competitive exams, here is a way to do it.

If you are looking for a way to improve your vocabulary and score better in the verbal sections of competitive exams, here is a way to do it. (HT file)

Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power.

Wheedle (Verb)

Meaning: use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something

Example: It was just a ruse to wheedle more money out of gullible customers

Welter (Noun)

Meaning: a large number of items in no order; a confused mass

Example: There's such a welter of conflicting rules

Wary (Adjective)

Meaning: feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems

Example: They teach their children to be wary of strangers

Withhold (Verb)

Meaning: refuse to give (something that is due to or is desired by another)

Example: He said he believed it was the school's legal right to withhold exam results

Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.

1. Can you come up with a few synonyms for the word wary?
2. Can you come up with a few antonyms for the word wheedle?

Watch out for this space for your weekly update on improving word power.

(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)