Subscribe To This Site
Difficult Words :
Usurp and Urbane
Difficult Words : Usurp and Urbane
By using this page, you can increase your vocabulary faster and more easily than you may realize. You can, in fact, accomplish a tremendous gain in your communication skills in less than two to three months of concentrated effort, even if you go at your own speed of a page a day.
Urbane (ur BANE) adj: poised, sophisticated, refined
The British count was witty and urbane. All the hosts and hostesses wanted to have him at their parties.
The new magazine was far too urbane to appeal to a wide audience outside of the big cities.
Urbanity is a quality more often acquired in an urban setting than in a rural one.
Usurp (yoo SURP) v: to seize wrongfully
The children believed that their mother's new boyfriend had usurped their real father's rightful place in their family.
The founder's scheming young nephew usurped a position of power in the company.
This site in general and this page in particular will certainly help the visitors to increase their knowledge of vocabulary in an exhaustive way. Whilst browsing through this list, at one full swoop you will pick up many words with the same or a related and the opposite meaning.
Reading this list is a great fun, while expanding your vocabulary at the same time. It is meant to help to improve the vocabulary of the visitors, the students (who are preparing for various examinations), the authors, journalists, literati and all other people who are interested in improving their language skills.
So enjoy this list and then get around for preparing your own list of words. There is no better way of boosting your words power. The most effective way to build your vocabulary is described in the page on Word Power. Educational research has discovered that your I.Q. is intimately related to your Word Power. Take a standard Vocabulary test and then an intelligent test, the result in both will be substantially the same. The more extensive your vocabulary, the better your chances of success, other things being equal- success in attaining your educational goals, success in moving ahead in your business or professional career, success in achieving your intellectual potential.
Follow These Links!