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What are the difficult words with meaning?

What are the difficult words with meaning?

50 Difficult Words with Meanings and Examples

  • Abnegation /abnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/: Renouncing a belief or doctrine.
  • Aggrandize /əˈɡrandʌɪz/: enhance power, wealth or status.
  • Alacrity /əˈlakrɪti/: Eagerness.
  • Anachronistic /ənakrəˈnɪstɪk/: misplaced chronologically.
  • Archetypal /ˌɑːkɪˈtʌɪp(ə)l/: quintessential of a certain kind.

What things are difficult to describe with words?

hard to define imperceptible to the touch unable to be touched undefinable inexpressible indefinite incommunicable nameless abstract inenarrable ineffable unutterable unanalysable UK inconceivable uncommunicable incalculable unanalyzable US unspeakable unimaginable defying description beyond words ethereal bodiless spiritual spectral nonmaterial

What are some really hard words to spell?

Irascible. An adjective: Meaning – irritable,quick-tempered.

  • Foudroyant. An adjective: Meaning – stunning; sudden and overwhelming.
  • Pterodactyl. A noun: Meaning – extinct flying reptiles,having no feathers.
  • Stichomythia.
  • Feuilleton.
  • Milquetoast.
  • Chrematistic.
  • Sacrilegious
  • Semaphore.
  • Transept.
  • What is the most difficult word to define?

    With strenuous effort; intently: worked hard all day; stared hard at the accused criminal.

  • With great force,vigor,or energy: pressed hard on the lever.
  • In such a way as to cause great damage or hardship: industrial cities hit hard by unemployment.
  • With great distress,grief,or bitterness: took the divorce hard.
  • What are some words that are hard to pronounce?

    – r is not pronounced if it occurs at the end of the word e g car (ka:), bar (ba:). – r is not pronounced if it is followed by a consonant e g heart (ha:t), start (sta;t). – r is pronounced if it is followed by a vowel e g red, rain etc. – Since the words that begin with r in English are generally followed by a vowel, the r in such a case is pronounced e g