IBPS RRB Officers Selection Exam: Word List: Vocabulary T

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Word List: T

• taciturn: Untalkative, silent
• talon: Claw of a bird of prey
• tamp: Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
• tamper: Interfere with
• tangential: Suddenly changeable
• tarnished: Lost brightness
• taunt: Contemptuous reproach, hurtful remark
• taut: Tightly stretched
• tautology: a repetition, a redundancy
• tawdry: Cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
• tease: Annoy; puzzling question
• tedious: Tiresome
• teetotal: Oppose to alcohol
• temerity: Boldness, brashness, intrepidness
• temperance: Abstinence from alcohol, self-control, moderation
• temperate: Showing self-control
• tenacity: Firmness, persistency, adhesiveness, tending to hang on
• tenuous: Insubstantial, flimsy, weak
• terse: Brief and to the point
• thrift: Care, economy, thriving, prosperous
• timid: Shy, easily frightened
• timorous: Fearful, timid, afraid
• tolerable: Fairly good
• tonic: Smth giving strength or energy
• topple: Be unsteady and overturn
• torment: Severe pain or suffering
• torpid: Sleeping, sluggish, lethargic, dormant
• tortuous: Full of twists and bends
• tout: Person who worries others to buy smth, to use his service
• touting: Act as tout
• toy: Think not seriously, handle absent-mindedly
• tractable: Easily controlled or guided
• transgress: Break, go beyond (a limit)
• transient: Temporary, fleeting
• transitory: Brief
• trenchant: Forceful, effective, vigorous; extremely perceptive, incisive
• trend: Tendency, general direction
• trepidation: Alarm, excited state of mind
• trifling: Unimportant
• trite: Not new
• truculence: Aggressiveness, ferocity
• trudge: Walk heavily
• turbid: Muddy, having the sediment stirred up
• turbulence: Being uncontrolled, violent
• turgid: Excessively ornate; swollen or bloated
• turmoil: Trouble, disturbance
• turpitude: Wickedness, shamefulness
• tyro: Tiro, beginner
• taciturn: Disinclined to conversation. Taut: Stretched tight.
• temerity: Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness. Terse: Pithy.
• timorous: Lacking courage. Torpid: Dull; sluggish; inactive. Torrid: Excessively hot.
• tortuous: Abounding in irregular bends or turns. Tractable: Easily led or controlled. Transgress: To break a law.
• transient: One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
• transitory: Existing for a short time only.
• travail: Hard or agonizing labor.
• travesty: A grotesque imitation.
• trenchant: Cutting deeply and quickly.
• trepidation: Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
• trite: Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
• truculence: Ferocity.
• truculent: Having the character or the spirit of a savage. Turbid: In a state of turmoil; muddled