WORD: TENET
MEANING:
1. An opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization.
2. theory, rules, views, idea
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I want to discuss some of the basic tenets of REST
2. The basic tenet of Buddhism was non-violence.
PRONOUNCE:
ten·et - टेनट / टेनिट
LINK: TENET
WORD: STYMIE
MEANING:
1. to hinder or thwart
2. (Golf) golf to impede with a stymie
3. An obstacle or obstruction.
4. a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Their plans to open a new shop have been stymied by lack of funds.
PRONOUNCE:
sty·mie - स्टाइमी
LINK: STYMIE
WORD: CONDOLE
MEANING:
1. To express sympathy or sorrow
2. to express sympathy with someone in grief, pain, etc
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India Inc condoles demise of Tata Motors MD Karl Slym
2. Condolences were sent from all over the world on the death of the leader.
PRONOUNCE:
con·dole - कन्डोल
LINK: CONDOLE
WORD: DEMISE
MEANING:
1. The end of existence or activity; termination:
2. Death, expiration
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India Inc condoles demise of Tata Motors MD Karl Slym
2. The demise of the players sports-man ship is very sad.
PRONOUNCE:
de·mise - डिमाइज़
LINK: DEMISE
WORD: INDICTMENT
MEANING:
1. (Law) a formal written charge of crime formerly referred to and presented on oath by a grand jury
2. (Law) any formal accusation of crime
3. summons, prosecution, charge, blame
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Devyani Khobragade requests court to extend indictment deadline
2. the book is an indictment of modern philosophy
3. Conditions in some inner cities are a damning indictment of modern values.
4. Many scams are indictment on current government.
PRONOUNCE:
in·dict·ment - इन्डाइट्मन्ट
LINK: INDICTMENT
WORD: KEEN
MEANING:
1. eager or enthusiastic
2. (foll by: on) fond (of); devoted (to): keen on a girl; keen on golf.
3. intellectually acute: a keen wit.
4. (of sight, smell, hearing, etc) capable of recognizing fine distinctions
5. having a sharp cutting edge or point
6. intense, strong, powerful
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. MS Dhoni keen to continue as skipper in all three formats
2. She is keen to take on medical line.
3. He is keen on marrying your sister.
PRONOUNCE:
keen - कीन
LINK: KEEN
WORD: PALE
MEANING:
1. lacking brightness of colour; whitish:
2. (of a colour) whitish; produced by a relatively small quantity of colouring agent
3. dim or wan: the pale stars.
4. light, fair, soft
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Dhoom 3 pale in comparison to Ramesh Sippy's Sholay 3D.
2. his wife, always palely appealing
3. pale morning light.
PRONOUNCE:
pale - PALE
LINK: PALE
WORD: HERMIT
MEANING:
1. a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
2. any person living in seclusion; recluse.
3. an animal of solitary habits.
4. a spiced molasses cookie often containing raisins or nuts.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. How delicious! The prospect tempts even me, a hermit! But never mind, dear, about this wedding.
2. He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit , and retired into this solitary spot.
PRONOUNCE:
her•mit - हर्मट / हर्मिट
LINK: HERMIT
WORD: INCESSANT
MEANING:
1. Continuing without interruption.
2. not ceasing; continual
3. continuing without interruption
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. an incessant noise.
2. This week is of almost incessant rain.
PRONOUNCE:
in·ces·sant - इन्सेसन्ट
LINK: INCESSANT
WORD: WEIRD
MEANING:
1. (Alternative Belief Systems) suggestive of or relating to the supernatural; eerie
2. strange or bizarre
3. (Classical Myth & Legend) of or relating to fate or the Fates
4. fate or destiny
5. (Classical Myth & Legend) one of the Fates
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The garden has weird plants.
2. You don't know how weird it is for her to be this shy.
3. Acts weird because she is shy He breaks up with he to be her friend.
PRONOUNCE:
weird - विर्ड / वीर्ड
LINK: WEIRD
WORD: GABLE
MEANING:
1. the triangular upper part of a wall between the sloping ends of a pitched roof (gable roof)
2. a triangular ornamental feature in the form of a gable, esp as used over a door or window
3. the triangular wall on both ends of a gambrel roof
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. That house has three gables.
2. It was a gabled house
PRONOUNCE:
gable - गेबल / गैबल
LINK: GABLE
WORD: NIBBLE
MEANING:
1. To bite at gently and repeatedly.
2. To eat with small, quick bites or in small morsels: nibble a cracker.
3. To wear away or diminish bit by bit: ""If you start compromising too early . . . they nibble you to death"" (People).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Do not nibble in the class
2. He was nibbling at his food.
PRONOUNCE:
nib·ble - निबल
LINK: NIBBLE
WORD: COSMOPOLITAN
MEANING:
1. a person who has lived and travelled in many countries, esp one who is free of national prejudices
adj
2. having interest in or familiar with many parts of the world
3. sophisticated or urbane
4. composed of people or elements from all parts of the world or from many different spheres
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city.
2. He has a cosmopolitan attitude.
3. the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt
PRONOUNCE:
cos·mo·pol·i·tan - काज़्मपालटन / काज़्मपालिटन
LINK: COSMOPOLITAN
WORD: ROVE
MEANING:
1. To wander about at random, especially over a wide area; roam.
2. To roam or wander around, over, or through. See Synonyms at wander.
3. An act of wandering about, over, around, or through.
4. wander, roam, range, meander
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. His eyes constantly roved around the garden.
2. His is something of a rover.
PRONOUNCE:
rove - रोव
LINK: ROVE
WORD: DISRUPTED
MEANING:
1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.
2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.
3. To break or burst; rupture.
4. upset, interrupted
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Winter session of Parliament disrupted over 2G spectrum and Telangana
PRONOUNCE:
dis·rupt - डिस्रप्टिड
LINK: DISRUPTED
WORD: WANDER
MEANING:
1. To move about without a definite destination or purpose.
2. To go by an indirect route or at no set pace; amble: wander toward town.
3. To proceed in an irregular course; meander.
4. To go astray: wander from the path of righteousness.
5. To lose clarity or coherence of thought or expression.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He wanders from place to place
2. After dinner, we wandered into town
PRONOUNCE:
wan·der - वान्डर
LINK: WANDER
WORD: AMORPHOUS
MEANING:
1. Lacking definite form; shapeless. See Synonyms at shapeless.
2. Of no particular type; anomalous.
3. Lacking organization; formless.
4. Lacking distinct crystalline structure.
5. formless, shapeless
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. an amorphous hacker claimed credit on hacking into the Skype account.
2. He found it difficult to manage the amorphous organization.
PRONOUNCE:
a·mor·phous - अमॉर्फस
LINK: AMORPHOUS
WORD: MISCREANT
MEANING:
1. troublemakers, scoundrels, criminals
2. An evildoer; a villain.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Beware of that miscreant.
2. Kejriwal wonders if miscreants wanted to kill him
PRONOUNCE:
mis·cre·ant - मिस्क्रीअन्ट
LINK: MISCREANT
WORD: MOJO
MEANING:
1.An amulet, often a small flannel bag containing one or more magic items, worn by adherents of hoodoo or voodoo.
2.Personal magnetism; charm.
3.magical power, charm
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. After losing their mojo, formerly high-flying tech firms rarely recover it.
PRONOUNCE:
mo·jo
LINK: MOJO
WORD: CALM
MEANING:
1. Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed:
2. Not excited or agitated; composed:
3. An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.
4. Serenity; tranquillity; peace.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The President was calm throughout the global crisis.
2. the calm surface of the lake.
3. The mother calmed the angry son.
PRONOUNCE:
calm - काम / काल्म
LINK: CALM
WORD: FUNERAL
MEANING:
1. A ceremony or group of ceremonies held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.
2. Archaic The eulogy delivered or the sermon preached at such a ceremony.
3. The burial procession accompanying a body to the grave.
4. An end or a cessation of existence.
5. Slang A source of concern or care: If he doesn't meet the deadline, it's his funeral.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. hundreds of people attended his funeral
2. He took part in the funeral.
3. the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation
PRONOUNCE:
fu·ner·al - फ्यूनरल
LINK: FUNERAL
WORD: CREMATE
MEANING:
1. to burn up (something, esp a corpse) and reduce to ash
2. burned, burnt
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Cremate a corpse
2. The officers body was cremated with full military honours.
PRONOUNCE:
cre·mate - क्रीमेट / क्रीमैट
LINK: CREMATE
WORD: ATTEND
MEANING:
1. To be present at: attended class.
2. To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result:
3. To listen to; heed: attended my every word.
4. To take care; give attention: We'll attend to that problem later.
5. To pay attention: attended disinterestedly to the debate.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The speech was attended by wild applause.
2. She attends class regularly
PRONOUNCE:
at·tend - अटेन्ड
LINK: ATTEND
WORD: MUZZLE
MEANING:
1. The forward, projecting part of the head of certain animals, such as dogs, including the mouth, nose, and jaws; the snout.
2. A leather or wire restraining appliance that, when fitted over an animal's snout, prevents biting and eating.
3. The forward, discharging end of the barrel of a firearm.
4. silence, quiet, gag
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The AAP should muzle on Kashmir issue
PRONOUNCE:
muz·zle - मज़ल
LINK: MUZZLE
WORD: ENSIGN
MEANING:
1. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
2. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
3. banner, flag, standard, emblem, badge
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the dove, an ensign of peace.
2. Our National flag is ensign of our country.
3. On the horizon An array of ensigns Cypresses marking a path
PRONOUNCE:
en·sign - एन्सन / एन्साइन
LINK: ENSIGN
WORD: PREJUDICE
MEANING:
1.an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2.any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3.unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4.such attitudes considered collectively:
5.damage or injury; detriment:
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The war against prejudice is never-ending.
2. a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.
PRONOUNCE:
predz.u.dis - प्रेजडिस
LINK: PREJUDICE
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WORD: ENDURANCE
MEANING:
1. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress:
2. The state or fact of persevering:
3. Continuing existence; duration.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A marathon tests a runner's endurance.
2. Through hard work and endurance, we will complete this project.
PRONOUNCE:
en·dur·ance - एन्डरन्स / एन्डुरन्स
LINK: ENDURANCE
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WORD: LACK
MEANING:
1. an insufficiency, shortage, or absence of something required or desired
2. something that is required but is absent or in short supply
vb
3. (when: intr, often foll by in or for) to be deficient (in) or have need (of): to lack purpose.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
2. Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
PRONOUNCE:
lack - लैक
LINK: LACK
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WORD: ENTHUSIASM
MEANING:
1. Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause.
2. A source or cause of great excitement or interest.
3. ardent and lively interest or eagerness
4. an object of keen interest; passion
5. (Ecclesiastical Terms) extravagant or unbalanced religious fervour
6. possession or inspiration by a god
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There is lack of enthusiasm in MICROSOFT team.
2. She never lost her enthusiasm for teaching.
PRONOUNCE:
en·thu·si·asm - इन्थूज़ीऐज़म / एन्थूज़ीऐज़म
LINK: ENTHUSIASM
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WORD: ATTEMPT
MEANING:
1. To try to perform, make, or achieve: attempted to read the novel in one sitting; attempted a difficult dive.
2. An effort or a try.
3. Archaic To attack with the intention of subduing.
4. effort, try
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. made an effort to cover all the reading material
2. how many questions you attempted today?
PRONOUNCE:
at·tempt - अटेम्प्ट
LINK: ATTEMPT
WORD: JIBE
MEANING:
1. taunt, dig, insult
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. His colleagues jibed at his dressing sense.
2. BJP secretly happy over PM Manmohan's jibe at Modi
PRONOUNCE:
jibe - जाइब
LINK: JIBE
WORD: GLEE
MEANING:
1. Jubilant delight; joy.
2. great merriment or delight, often caused by someone else's misfortune
3. delight, happiness, pleasure, joy
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. His glee was obvious at Indias victory.
2. Besides their visible angry reactions, there was a sense of glee within the BJA at PM's unprecedented attack on its mascot Narendra Modi
PRONOUNCE:
glee - ग्ली
LINK: GLEE
WORD: STEAL
MEANING:
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
2. To present or use (someone else's words or ideas) as one's own.
3. To get or take secretly or artfully: steal a look at a diary; steal the puck from an opponent.
4. To give or enjoy (a kiss) that is unexpected or unnoticed.
5. take, rob, thieve
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kejriwal steals Modi's thunder on TV, social media
2. The morning light was stealing through the window.
PRONOUNCE:
steal - स्टील
LINK: STEAL
WORD: WINTRY
MEANING:
1. (esp of weather) of or characteristic of winter
2. lacking cheer or warmth; bleak
3. Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold.
4. Suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness: a wintry welcome.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Wintry weather Still lurks in the air But for the optimism Of almond flowers
2. You have to prepare for the wintry days.
PRONOUNCE:
win·try - विन्ट्री
LINK: WINTRY
WORD: VERDICT
MEANING:
1. Law The finding of a jury in a trial.
2. An expressed conclusion; a judgment or opinion: the verdict of history.
3. decision, judgement
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. gay sex verdict
2. Your verdict is right.
3. why i dont speak to jurors after verdict
PRONOUNCE:
ver·dict - वर्डिक्ट
LINK: VERDICT
WORD: MISONEISM
MEANING:
1. Hatred or fear of change or innovation.
2. hatred of anything new
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Just a few hours old The new year already shows Ominous signs of misoneism
PRONOUNCE:
mis·o·ne·ism
LINK: MISONEISM
