Vocabulary Made Easy series: Focus on your language skills to score well in exams

To improve one's language skills is not a herculean task.

Students preparing for exams need to know that impressive language skills can lead to scoring well in the exams. To improve one's language skills is not a herculean task. With proper guidance and hard work, students can improve their vocabulary.

With proper guidance and hard work, students can improve their vocabulary. (Shutterstock)

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.

Disingenuous (Adjective)

Meaning: not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does

Example: This disingenuous fluff was calculated to excuse the intrusive nature of the exercise

Didactic (Adjective)

Meaning: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Example: His style was didactic, often patronising, and the jokes were thick-cut

Dither (Verb)

Meaning: be indecisive

Example: The easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images

Discord (Noun)

(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)