Difficult English Words to Pronounce

While going for an interview there are few things that matter a lot such as your appearance, outlook, confidence as well as English speaking skills, more appropriately saying, your grammar and pronunciation. It is very important to learn some difficult vocabulary words and know to pronounce them properly. English is becoming a very important part of our daily lives while communicating. If you want to admission in some good college or are preparing for a job, English plays a very important role in each and every competitive exam. There is no way one can get through these exams without having a proper and deep knowledge in English.

Here are some tips that can help you increase your vocabulary as well as improve your pronunciation.

Read newspaper regularly:

This is the very first step in improving your English. Reading newspaper would be helpful to you in multiple ways. You would get to know about the current topics, get to learn new words, would be able to understand the pattern of writing, grammatical rule, sentence formation and this would enrich your vocabulary. If at first you don’t like reading the whole paper, make a point to read the editorial pages. These would help a lot and with passing time you can make it a habit to read the whole paper.

Make your vocabulary strong:

No one can impress an interviewer more than a person who has a strong vocabulary. Also this would be very helpful during competitive exams where there is a whole section dedicated to test the candidate’s vocabulary. Make a habit of reading at least ten new words from the dictionary before going to sleep and try to use them next day while communicating. This will slowly but gradually improve your vocabulary as well as speaking skills. Now one doesn’t even needs a dictionary as several apps are available in smart phones.

Quixotic	Idealistic or unrealistic
Liturgy	A form of worship or ritual
Quash	Nullify, overturn or quell
Ludicrous	Absurd or nonsensical
Larceny	Robbery or pilfering
Admonish	Rebuke or warn about strongly
Tirade	Outburst  or censure
alacrity	Eagerness
Amorphous	Shapeless, vague
Vociferous	Vehement outcry, raucous
Whimper	Moaning or fuss
Zenith	Peak or  acme
Vertigo	Dizziness, giddiness or abscess
Usurp	Take over, seize or confiscate
Trepidation	Nervousness or consternation
Transgress	Disobey or contravene
Gibe	Taunt or mock
Emulate	Imitate with effort or surpass
Abnegation	The rejection of a belief
Abstruse	Difficult to understand
Accede	Yield to another’s wish
Acumen	Shrewdness shown by keen insight
Adverse	In opposite direction
Alacrity	Liveliness
Amorphous	Having no definite shape
Annex	Attach to
Arcane	Requiring secret knowledge
Bane	Something causing death
Bilk	Cheat somebody out of money
Callous	Emotionally hardened
Candor	Quality of being honest
Cavort	Play boisterously
Cleave	Separate with a sharp tool
Cognizant	Having or showing knowledge
Conduit	A passage through which water or electric wires can pass
Construe	Making sense of
Convivial	Occupied with or fond of the pleasure of good company
Dearth	An insufficient quantity
Debunk	Expose while ridiculing
Despot	A cruel dictator
Didactic	Excessively instructive
Dour	Showing a brooding ill humor
Edict	A formal proclamation
Elegy	A mournful poem
Engender	Call forth
Espouse	Choose and follow a theory
Evince	Give expression to
Exhort	Spurge on by cheers and shouts
Expedient	Appropriate to a purpose
Extol	Praise
Fortuitous	Lucky
Hapless	Unfortunate and deserving pity
Inane	Devoid of intelligence
Inimical	Not friendly
Inure	Cause to accept
Knell	Sound of a bell rung slowly to declare a death
Litigant	A party to a lawsuit
Mendacious	Given to lying
Modicum	A small token amount
Nadir	Lowest point of anything
Noisome	Offensively malodorous
Paradigm	A typical example
Paucity	An insufficient quantity
Pert	Characterized by a saucy quality
Pithy	Concise and full of meaning
Probity	Complete and confirmed integrity
Proscribe	Command against
Quaint	Attractively old-fashioned
Relegate	Assign to a lower position
Rescind	Cancel officially
Rife	Excessively abundant
Solicitous	Full of anxiety and concern
Staid	Characterized by dignity
Tome	A large and scholarly book
Toady	A person who tries to please someone to gain advantage
Utilitarian	Having a useful function
Veracity	Unwillingness to tell lie

Learning a new language comes across some hurdles in the form of certain difficult words which create the process more inaccessible. Mastery over a new language like English is very difficult and seems almost impossible. But if someone continues practice it systematically there is nothing such impossibility.