Vocabulary Made Easy series: Learn a new word and update your knowledge

Have you wondered how to update your vocabulary? Does reading help? There are many ways where an individual could improve their language skills. Reading is one among them.
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.
Meaning: the time at which something is most powerful or successful
Example: It was a goal worthy of George Best at his zenith

Meaning: bitter criticism or malice
Example: The body lies down and then the brain pours bitter vitriol on the day

Meaning: a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas
Example: His carefully negotiated product loyalties place him in the vanguard of a powerful new industry

Meaning: playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way
Example: A whimsical sense of humour

Meaning: feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems
Example: Shrewd and wary was Leofric, careful and measured in all things, nothing beyond him

Meaning: sharpen the blade of (a tool or weapon)
Example: She took out her dagger and began to whet its blade in even, rhythmic strokes

Meaning: the action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest
Example: The religion condemns usury

Meaning: a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
Example: It looks, in short, like a general reader’s fantasy of a scholarly tome

Meaning: very weak or slight
Example: The dictator has managed to retain his tenuous hold on power

Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)