WORD: INTUITIVE
MEANING:
1. spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
2. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
3. natural, in-built
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles
2. Philosophers had intuitive perception.
PRONOUNCE:
intuitive - इन्टूअटिव / इन्टूइटिव
LINK: INTUITIVE
WORD: DEFAMATION
MEANING:
1. (Law) law the injuring of a person's good name or reputation. Compare libel, slander
2. (Law) the act of defaming or state of being defamed
3. insult, offense
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Arvind Kejriwal sent to judicial custody in Gadkari defamation case
2. His family has to bear the defamation because of his deeds.
PRONOUNCE:
defamation - डेफमेशन / डेफमैशन
LINK: DEFAMATION
WORD: CLINK
MEANING:
1. To make or cause to make a light, sharp ringing sound: clinked their wineglasses together in a toast.
n.
2. A light, sharp ringing sound, as of glass or metal.
3. jingle
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ranbir Kapoor Clinks With Grandmother Krishna Raj Kapoor
2. I heard the clink of keys.
PRONOUNCE:
clink - क्लिंगक
LINK: CLINK
WORD: GORGE
MEANING:
1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
3. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise.
4. The crop of a hawk.
5. An instance of gluttonous eating.
6. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.
7. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.
8. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.
9. valley
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 17 killed as bus falls into gorge on JK Highway
2. The car fell into a deep gorge.
PRONOUNCE:
gorge - गॉर्ज
LINK: GORGE
WORD: TRUCE
MEANING:
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an agreement to stop fighting, esp temporarily
2. temporary cessation of something unpleasant
3. peace, break, ceasefire
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Apple signs truce with Google, but Samsung still in its crosshairs
2. They had a truce after the quarrel.
PRONOUNCE:
truce - ट्रूस
LINK: TRUCE
WORD: CROSSHAIRS
MEANING:
1. a center of interest;
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the war on terrorism has put Saddam Hussein in the crosshairs
PRONOUNCE:
crosshairs - क्रॉसहेर
LINK: CROSSHAIRS
WORD: SPLICE
MEANING:
1. to join (two ropes) by intertwining the strands
2. to join up the trimmed ends of (two pieces of wire, film, magnetic tape, etc.) with solder or an adhesive material
3. to join (timbers) by overlapping and binding or bolting the ends together
4. (passive) (informal) to enter into marriage
-noun
5. a join made by splicing
6. the place where such a join occurs
7. the wedge-shaped end of a cricket-bat handle or similar instrument that fits into the blade
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the break was due to an imperfect splice
2. Splice the different colour chewinggum.
PRONOUNCE:
splice - स्प्लाइस
LINK: SPLICE
WORD: STUMBLE
MEANING:
1.
a. To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
b. To proceed unsteadily or falteringly; flounder. See Synonyms at blunder.
c. To act or speak falteringly or clumsily.
2. To make a mistake; blunder.
3. To fall into evil ways; err.
4. To come upon accidentally or unexpectedly: "The urge to wider voyages . . . caused men to stumble upon New America" (Kenneth Cragg).
5. fall
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jennifer Lawrence stumbles yet again at X-Men: Days Of Future Past
2. I stumbled over a tree root.
PRONOUNCE:
stum·ble - स्टम्बल
LINK: STUMBLE
WORD: ADO
MEANING:
1. Bustle; fuss; trouble; bother.
2. excitement
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Godzilla': Much ado about nothing
PRONOUNCE:
ado - अडू
LINK: ADO
WORD: ABDUCT
MEANING:
1. To carry off by force; kidnap.
2. Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb.
3. kidnapped, captured
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. video of abducted Nigerian girls
2. Maoists kill two of the four people abducted from Koraput in Odisha
PRONOUNCE:
abduct - एब्डक्ट
LINK: ABDUCT
WORD: BRIBE
MEANING:
1. Something, such as money or a favor, offered or given to a person in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.
2. Something serving to influence or persuade.
3. Corruption
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Former Israeli Premier Is Sentenced to 6 Years for Bribery
2. He was offered a bribe to do the job but he refused to accept it.
3. They bribed the officials to get the licence.
PRONOUNCE:
bribe - ब्राईब
LINK: BRIBE
WORD: SKID
MEANING:
1. The act of sliding or slipping over a surface, often sideways.
2.
a. A plank, log, or timber, usually one of a pair, used as a support or as a track for sliding or rolling heavy objects.
b. A pallet for loading or handling goods, especially one having solid sideboards and no bottom.
c. One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.
3. skids Nautical A wooden framework attached to the side of a ship to prevent damage, as when unloading.
4. A shoe or drag applying pressure to a wheel to brake a vehicle.
5. A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.
6. skids Slang A path to ruin or failure: His career hit the skids. Her life is now on the skids.
7. slip, slide
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The car skidded on the ice.
2. The man skidded into the table
PRONOUNCE:
skid - स्किड
LINK: SKID
WORD: CONCEDES
MEANING:
1. to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit, often grudgingly: He finally conceded that she was right.
2. to acknowledge (an opponent's victory, score, etc.) before it is officially established: to concede an election.
3. to grant as a right or privilege; yield.
4. allows, grants
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose
2. Nandan Nilekani concedes defeat in Banglore South
PRONOUNCE:
con•cede - कन्सीड
LINK: CONCEDES
WORD: REFUTE
MEANING:
1. To prove to be false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof: refute testimony.
2. To deny the accuracy or truth of: refuted the results of the poll.
3. disproving, negating
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kejriwal refutes Bhushan, says no support for BJP
2. Vidya Balan refutes reports of trouble in marriage with Siddharth Roy Kapur
3. My lawyer refuted all his arguments.
PRONOUNCE:
re·fute - रिफ्यूट
LINK: REFUTE
WORD: GROPE
MEANING:
1. to feel about with the hands; feel one's way hesitantly: to grope around in the darkness.
2. to search blindly or uncertainly: to be groping for an answer.
3. touched, molested
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Actor-VJ Rhea Chakraborty was groped and molested in Mumbai
2. Actor groped in her building
PRONOUNCE:
grope - ग्रोप
LINK: GROPE
WORD: CAPSIZE
MEANING:
1. To overturn or cause to overturn: The boat capsized; I capsized the canoe.
2. sinks
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 11 drown as boat capsizes in Basalpur dam
2. Libya boat capsize: At least 36 migrants dead
PRONOUNCE:
cap·size - कैप्साइज़
LINK: CAPSIZE
WORD: FUTILE
MEANING:
1. Having no useful result.
2. Trifling and frivolous; idle: the futile years after her artistic peak.
3. useless, wasted, ineffective
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rajjo(Hindi movie) is a futile exercise in trying to titillate the masses
2. Malaysian plane still missing, all search futile
3. He made a futile attempt to cross the border.
PRONOUNCE:
fu·tile - फ्यूटल
LINK: FUTILE
WORD: PSUEDO
MEANING:
1. False; deceptive; sham: pseudoscience.
2. Apparently similar: pseudocoel.
3. fake, pretend, artificial
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kargil martyr's mother : Modi a pseudo-patriot, he never visited us during the war
2. Pseudo Naxalites were caught by the people.
PRONOUNCE:
pseudo - स्युडो
LINK: PSUEDO
WORD: SELFIE
MEANING:
1. A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website:
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Deepika's selfie at NDTV Indian of the Year
2. i love to take selfie and to upload it on social networking sites.
PRONOUNCE:
selfie - सेल्फ़ी
LINK: SELFIE
WORD: CONTAMINATE
MEANING:
1. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
2. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
3. dirty, polluted
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Is your water supply contaminated?
2. contaminated evidence
PRONOUNCE:
con·tam·i·nate - कन्टैमनैटड / कन्टैमनैटिड
LINK: CONTAMINATE
WORD: HELM
MEANING:
1. Nautical The steering gear of a ship, especially the tiller or wheel.
2. A position of leadership or control: at the helm of the government.
3. wheel, controls
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The capital of Jharkhand is the second home of Chennai Super Kings as the team is helmed by MS Dhoni, Ranchi's most famous son.
2. the President is at the helm of the Ship of State
PRONOUNCE:
helm - हेल्म
LINK: HELM
WORD: STANCE
MEANING:
1. the manner and position in which a person or animal stands
2. (Ball Games, other than specified) sport the posture assumed when about to play the ball, as in golf, cricket, etc
3. general emotional or intellectual attitude: a leftist stance.
4. (Automotive Engineering) Scot a place where buses or taxis wait
5. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a place at the top of a pitch where a climber can stand and belay
6. attitude, position, stand
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. We all must have the right stance towards voting.
2. One should have a good stance when he is about to hit the ball in golf.
PRONOUNCE:
stance - स्टैन्स
LINK: STANCE
WORD: BUOYANT
MEANING:
1. able to float in or rise to the surface of a liquid
2. (General Physics) (of a liquid or gas) able to keep a body afloat or cause it to rise
3. cheerful or resilient, cheerful, happy, light
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Buoyant Mumbai look to carry forward momentum
2. we accepted the opportunity buoyantly
PRONOUNCE:
buoyant - बॉइअन्ट
LINK: BUOYANT
WORD: JOLT
MEANING:
1. To move or dislodge with a sudden, hard blow; strike heavily or jarringly: jolted his opponent with a heavy punch; an impact that jolted the mailbox loose.
2. To cause to move jerkily: stops and starts that jolted the passengers.
3. To put into a specified condition by or as if by a blow: "Now and then he jolted a nodding reader awake by inserting a witty paragraph" (Walter Blair).
4. To make suddenly active or effective: The remark jolted my memory.
5. To disturb suddenly and severely; stun: She was jolted by the betrayal of her trusted friend.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Delhi-NCR jolted by four tremors within three hours
2. Magnitude 6.0 earthquake jolts Tokyo in Japan, no tsunami risk
PRONOUNCE:
jolt - जोल्ट
LINK: JOLT
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WORD: INTERPOLATION
MEANING:
1. To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
2.
a. To insert (material) into a text.
b. To insert into a conversation. See Synonyms at introduce.
3. To change or falsify (a text) by introducing new or incorrect material.
4. Mathematics To estimate a value of (a function or series) between two known values.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He interpolated a conversation with a witty remark.
PRONOUNCE:
in·ter·po·late - इटर्पलैट / इन्टर्पलेट
LINK: INTERPOLATION
WORD: VINDICATE
MEANING:
1. To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof: "Our society permits people to sue for libel so that they may vindicate their reputations" (Irving R. Kaufman).
2. To provide justification or support for: vindicate one's claim.
3. To justify or prove the worth of, especially in light of later developments.
4. To defend, maintain, or insist on the recognition of (one's rights, for example).
5. To exact revenge for; avenge.
6. right, proved
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Having vindicated the team management's decision to promote him to the No. 3 spot : Says Lokesh Rahul
2. vindicate the rights of the citizens
3. He was vindicated by the court.
PRONOUNCE:
vin·di·cate - विन्डकेट / विन्डकैट
LINK: VINDICATE
WORD: CLING
MEANING:
1. To hold fast or adhere to something, as by grasping, sticking, embracing, or entwining: clung to the rope to keep from falling; fabrics that cling to the body.
2. To remain close; resist separation: We clung together in the storm.
3. To remain emotionally attached; hold on: clinging to outdated customs.
4. adhere, stick
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Subhash Ghai continue to cling to the essential values of his storytelling style.
2. The child clinged to its mother.
3. His parents still cling to old ideas.
PRONOUNCE:
cling - क्लिंग
LINK: CLING
WORD: MILITANT
MEANING:
1. Fighting or warring.
2. Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause: a militant political activist.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 3 Killed as militants strike terror in Jammu and Kashmir
2. 7 kileld in militant attach in Assam
PRONOUNCE:
mil·i·tant - मिलटन्ट / मिलिटन्ट
LINK: MILITANT
WORD: ATTAIN
MEANING:
1. To gain as an objective; achieve: attain a diploma by hard work.
2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time. See Synonyms at reach.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the attainment of independence
2. Sensex, Nifty attain record closing high
PRONOUNCE:
at·tain - अटेन / अटैन
LINK: ATTAIN
WORD: VERGE
MEANING:
1. The extreme edge or margin; a border. See Synonyms at border.
2.
a. An enclosing boundary.
b. The space enclosed by such a boundary.
3. The point beyond which an action, state, or condition is likely to begin or occur; the brink: on the verge of tears; a nation on the verge of economic prosperity.
4. Architecture The edge of the tiling that projects over a roof gable.
5. Chiefly British The shoulder of a road.
6. A rod, wand, or staff carried as an emblem of authority or office.
7. Obsolete The rod held by a feudal tenant while swearing fealty to a lord.
8. The spindle of a balance wheel in a clock or watch, especially such a spindle in a clock with vertical escapement.
9. The male organ of copulation in certain invertebrates.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. on the verge of tears
2. Vehicles may not be parked on the verge of the road.
3. He was treated with ridicule which verged on insult.
PRONOUNCE:
verge - वर्ज
LINK: VERGE
WORD: INERT
MEANING:
1. Unable to move or act.
2. Sluggish in action or motion; lethargic. See Synonyms at inactive.
3. Chemistry Not readily reactive with other elements; forming few or no chemical compounds.
4. Having no pharmacologic or therapeutic action.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Inside the room she saw Sitas inert body on the sofa.
2. I cant seem to throw off this feeling of inertia.
PRONOUNCE:
in·ert - इनर्ट
LINK: INERT
WORD: DIVIDE
MEANING:
1.
a. To separate into parts, sections, groups, or branches: divided the students into four groups. See Synonyms at separate.
b. To sector into units of measurement; graduate: The ruler was divided into metric units.
c. To separate and group according to kind; classify: divided the plants by genus.
2.
a. To cause to separate into opposing factions; disunite: "They want not to divide either the Revolution or the Church but to be an integral part of both" (Conor Cruise O'Brien).
b. To cause (members of a parliament) to vote by separating into groups, as pro and con.
3. To separate from something else; cut off: A mountain chain divides France and Spain.
4. To apportion among a number: Volunteers divided the different jobs among themselves. See Synonyms at distribute.
5. Mathematics
a. To subject (a number) to the process of division: divided 20 by 4.
b. To be a divisor of: 3 divides 9.
c. To use (a number) as a divisor: divided 5 into 35.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Divide the cake into three equal parts
2. The mountain range divides the two countries
3. Divide and rule
PRONOUNCE:
di·vide - डिवाइड
LINK: DIVIDE
