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While many are figuring out how to climb the career ladder, what many do not understand is that communication is the key to success. With good communication skills and vocabulary to back you up, you can be assured of making an impression among your peers.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power and language skills.
Fanaticism (Noun)
Meaning: the quality of being fanatical
Example: The prospects are for more destruction, fanaticism, violence and hatred
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Fanfare (Noun)
Meaning: a short ceremonial tune or flourish played on brass instruments, typically to introduce something or someone important
Example: The studio released this film with great fanfare but no commercial success
Farce (Noun)
Meaning: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
Example: It adds to the farce when they cannot quite make their costume changes fast enough
Fastidious (Adjective)
Meaning: very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
Example: He always loves to have everything very chic and polished and fastidious
Fecundity (Noun)
Meaning: the ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertility
Example: The fecundity of Elizabethan language was an extraordinary phenomenon produced by an extraordinary society
Febrile (Adjective)
Meaning: having or showing the symptoms of a fever/ characterized by a great deal of nervous excitement or energy
Example: Chest radiographs may, however, be normal during the febrile prodrome and throughout the illness
Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- The child seemed __________________ about getting her fingers dirty. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Fastidious, Farce)
- There are elements of farce in this drama which makes it all the sadder. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Farce, Fanfare)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Fanfare?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Fanaticism?
- Can you think of some sentences using the word Febrile?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
