N (Dictionary cum Vocabulary Word List for Exams)

Nadir: lowest point
Example: [The defeat was the nadir of her career]

Naïve: ingenuous simple
Example: [It was a little naive of you]

Naiveté: a lack of worldly wisdom
Example: [He demonstrated a worrying naivete about political issues]

Nameless: Having no fame or reputation.

Naphtha: A light colorless volatile inflammable oil used as a solvent as in manufacture of paints.

Narcissism: self-love
Example: [seem to suffer from narcissism]

Narcissus: The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.

Narrate: recount tell
Example: [can you narrate the event for us]

Narration: description, story, telling, tale, report
Example: [a narration of events]

Narrative: story account
Example: [It’s a moving narrative of wartime adventure]

Narrator: One who narrates anything.

Narrow-Minded: Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
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Nasal: Pertaining to the nose.

Nascent: coming into existence incipient
Example: [a nascent problem]

Natal: related to birth
Example: [pre-natal medicine]

Natation: swimming
Example: [courses in natation]

Nationality: A connection with a particular nation.

Natty: neat and tidy, stylishly dressed, fashionable
Example: [natty appearance/servants]

Naturalize: grant citizenship
Example: [a naturalized US citizen]

Naturally: According to the usual order of things.

Nausea: An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit

Nauseate: To cause to loathe
Example: [the foul smell began to nauseate him]

Nauseous: Loathsome.

Nautical: or navigation related to ships
Example: [nautical miles]

Naval: Pertaining to ships.

Nave: main body of the church
Example: [the nave of the cathedral was empty at this hour]

Navel: The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.

Navigable: passable, unobstructed, (of a river or sea) deep enough to be sailed on by ships
Example: [The raids of the enemy along the navigable waters of Virginia became incessant]

Navigate: To traverse by ship.
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Neap: lowest
Example: [a neap tide]

Nebula: cloud of dust and gas, interstellar cloud, cloudiness
Example: [Here is to be seen at work that powerful telescope which enabled Bond to resolve the nebula of Andromeda, and Clarke to discover the satellite of Sirius]

Nebulous: cloudy, indistinct, vague
Example: [a few nebulous ideas]

Necessary: Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.

Necessitate: To render indispensable.

Necessity: That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.

Necrology: A list of the dead

Necromancer: One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.

Necromancy: black magic sorcery
Example: [feats of necromancy]

Necropolis: A city of the dead.

Necrosis: gangrene, cell death, mortification
Example: [Eventually, selenium was shown to be an essential nutrient, with minute amounts in inorganic form (selenite) preventing the development of liver necrosis in rats]

Nectar: Any especially sweet and delicious drink.

Nectarine: A variety of the peach.

Needlework: craft done with needles, decorative sewing or embroidery
Example: [A young woman put down her needlework and exclaimed, “Poor creature]

Needy: Being in need want or poverty.

Nefarious: vicious evil
Example: [nefarious practices]
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