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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