Q (Dictionary cum Vocabulary Word List for Exams)
Quack: fake charlatan
Example: [quacks operate eyes and at times cause blindness]
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Quackery: Charlatanry
Quadrate: To divide into quarters.
Quadruped: four foot animal
Example: [cow is a quadruped]
Quadruple: increase fourfold, having four components, multiply
Example: [With his aid, I invested in this enterprise about six thousand dollars, which I reasonably hoped to quadruple]
Quaff: to drink heartily
Example: [as they quaffed their wine, they listened to old songs]
Quagmire: difficult situation
Example: [to sink deeper into a quagmire]
Quail: cower shrink
Example: [She quailed before her boss’s anger]
Quaint: old-fashioned
Example: [a quaint old cottage]
Qualification: A requisite for an employment position right or privilege.
Qualified: limited
Example: [I’d like to qualify my criticisms]
Qualify: to provide with needed skills
Example: [B.Ed. qualifies you to teach in any secondary school]
Qualm: worry, misgiving, regret, reservation, doubt
Example: [A qualm of misgiving came over him that he might have trusted Teliso too much]
Qualms: misgivings
Example: [had no qualms about]
Quandary: difficulty dilemma
Example: [I’ve had two job offers, and I’m in a real quandary about which one to accept]
Quantity: Magnitude.
Quantum: particle quantity
Example: [a quantum leap]
Quarantine: confinement, detention, isolation period
Example: [The horse had to spend several months in quarantine when it reached India]
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Quarrelsome: Irascible.
Quarry: game prey
Example: [a granite quarry]
Quarter: residence
Example: [government quarters]
Quarterly: Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
Quartet: A composition for four voices or four instruments.
Quarto: An eight-page newspaper of any size.
Quay: wharf
Example: [the boat stopped at the quay]
Queasy: squeamish
Example: [Just the thought of blood makes me queasy]
Quell: allay suppress
Example: [to quell the disturbances]
Querulous: complaining
Example: [He became increasingly dissatisfied and querulous in his old age]
Query: To make inquiry.
Questionnaire: interrogation
Example: [fill in a questionnaire]
Queue: line
Example: [a queue at the cinema hall]
Quibble: to argue about insignificant and irrelevant details
Example: [There’s no point quibbling over five Rupees]
Quicken: hasten revive
Example: [to quicken the pace]
Quiescence: Quiet.
English Dictionary Cum Vocabulary Word List for GMAT, SAT, GRE, GATE, TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIC, CAT, LSAT, ACT, SSC, BANK PO& Other exams