WORD: GORE
MEANING:
1. To pierce or stab with a horn or tusk.
2. stabbed, wounded
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Two Australians gored in final bull run
2. The film was full of gore and violence.
PRONOUNCE:
gore - गॉर / गोर / गोरे
LINK: GORE
WORD: JUNCTURE
MEANING:
1. The act of joining or the condition of being joined.
2. A place where two things are joined; a junction or joint.
3. A point in time, especially a critical point. See Synonyms at crisis.
4. The transition or mode of transition from one sound to another in speech.
5. stage, occasion
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. BRICS Summit takes place at a crucial juncture.
2. At this juncture I cant afford to chuck my job.
PRONOUNCE:
junc·ture - जंगक्चर
LINK: JUNCTURE
WORD: TURMOIL
MEANING:
1. a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet.
2. Obs. hard labor; toil.
3. chaos, disorder
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The World is facing a high level of economic and political turmoil.
2. There was turmoil after the election.
PRONOUNCE:
tur•moil - टर्मॉइल
LINK: TURMOIL
WORD: BARS
MEANING:
1. To fasten securely with a long, straight, rigid piece of material.
2. To shut in or out with or as if with bars.
3. To obstruct or impede; block.
4. To keep out; exclude. See Synonyms at hinder1.
5. To rule out; except.
6. To mark with stripes or bands.
7. Law To stop (a claim or action) by objection.
8. blocks, restrictions, bans
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. SEBI bars Satyam's Raju for 14 years.
PRONOUNCE:
bar - बार
LINK: BARS
WORD: CONUNDRUM
MEANING:
1. A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
2. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma
3. puzzle, mystery
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Binny, Jadeja or Ashwin? India's number seven conundrum for Lord's Test
2. He could not solve even single conundrum asked by his friend.
PRONOUNCE:
co·nun·drum - कनन्ड्रम
LINK: CONUNDRUM
WORD: FRACAS
MEANING:
1. A noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; a brawl.
2. quarrel, fight
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India complained within 24 hrs of Anderson-Jadeja fracas: report
2. He unwillingly got involved in a fracas.
PRONOUNCE:
fra·cas - फ्रेकस / फ्रैकस
LINK: FRACAS
WORD: ELATED
MEANING:
1. full of high spirits, exhilaration, pride or optimism; very happy
2. jubilant, overjoyed, thrilled
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The World Before Her Director Elated With Emmy Nod
2. the elated winner
PRONOUNCE:
elated - इलेटिड / इलैटड / इलैटिड
LINK: ELATED
WORD: FOIL
MEANING:
1. To prevent from being successful; thwart.
2. To obscure or confuse (a trail or scent) so as to evade pursuers.
3. stopped, halted
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Israel Says it Foiled Attack; Cease-Fire Reportedly Broken
PRONOUNCE:
foil - फॉइल
LINK: FOIL
WORD: INSANITY
MEANING:
1. (Psychology) relatively permanent disorder of the mind; state or condition of being insane
2. (Law) law a defect of reason as a result of mental illness, such that a defendant does not know what he or she is doing or that it is wrong
3. utter folly; stupidity
4. craziness, stupidity
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sunny Leone on Career High: It's Complete Insanity
PRONOUNCE:
insanity - इन्सैनटी / इन्सैनिटी / इन्सैनिटी
LINK: INSANITY
WORD: SLANDER
MEANING:
1. (Law) law
a. defamation in some transient form, as by spoken words, gestures, etc
b. a slanderous statement, etc
2. any false or defamatory words spoken about a person; calumny
3. insult
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Won't slander Pancholis: Rabiya to HC
2. Ramesh started a vicious slander against Rahul.
PRONOUNCE:
slander - स्लैन्डर
LINK: SLANDER
WORD: MINT
MEANING:
1. A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.
2. A place or source of manufacture or invention.
3. An abundant amount, especially of money.
4. made, produced, collect
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ek Villian movie has minted over Rs.52 crore in its opening weekend
2. They used to mint coins illegally.
PRONOUNCE:
mint - मिन्ट
LINK: MINT
WORD: REJIG
MEANING:
1. (Commerce) to re-equip (a factory or plant)
2. to rearrange, alter, or manipulate, sometimes in a slightly unscrupulous way
3. rearrange, alter, change
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Decoding Apollo Hospitals rejig: It is all about entrepreneurship, strategy and gevernance here.
PRONOUNCE:
rejig - रिजिग
LINK: REJIG
WORD: STALE
MEANING:
1. Having lost freshness, effervescence, or palatability: stale bread; stale air.
2. Lacking originality or spontaneity: a stale joke.
3. Impaired in efficacy, vigor, or spirit, as from inactivity or boredom.
4. Law Having lost effectiveness or force through lack of exercise or action.
5. old, out of date
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Lekar Hum Deewana Dil is stale and boring
2. I threw away the stale cake.
3. The company refused his stale ideas.
PRONOUNCE:
stale - स्टेल / स्टैल
LINK: STALE
WORD: EXEMPTS
MEANING:
1. to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release: to exempt a student from an examination.
adj.
2. released from, or not subject to, an obligation, liability, etc.: organizations exempt from taxes.
n.
3. a person who is exempt from an obligation.
4. frees, relieves, excuses
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Court exempts Amit Shah from appearance in encounter cases
2. He is exempt from military service.
3. The accused was exempted from all charges.
PRONOUNCE:
ex•empt - इग्ज़ेम्प्ट
LINK: EXEMPTS
WORD: ASCERTAIN
MEANING:
1. To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation. See Synonyms at discover.
2. Archaic To make certain, definite, and precise.
3. determine, discover, find out
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. While initially it looked like Jiah had attempted suicide, her mother, Rabia Khan has since then trying to bring together proofs to ascertain the actual reason of her death.
2. They ascertained whether the newspaper reports are accurate.
PRONOUNCE:
as·cer·tain - ऐसर्टेन / ऐसर्टैन
LINK: ASCERTAIN
WORD: FLAW
MEANING:
1. An imperfection, often concealed, that impairs soundness: a flaw in the crystal that caused it to shatter. See Synonyms at blemish.
2. A defect or shortcoming in something intangible: They share the character flaw of arrogance.
3. A defect in a legal document that can render it invalid.
tr. & intr.v. flawed, flaw·ing, flaws
To make or become defective.
4. faults, errors, defects
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Microsoft Fixes 24 Browser Flaws, Adobe Repairs Flash Player Bug
2. His presentation at the conference was flawed.
3. Your report is full of flaws.
PRONOUNCE:
flaw - फ्लॉ
LINK: FLAW
WORD: ELITE
MEANING:
1.
a. A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status: "In addition to notions of social equality there was much emphasis on the role of elites and of heroes within them" (Times Literary Supplement).
b. The best or most skilled members of a group: the football team's elite.
2. exclusive, leading, selected
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The short list was nominated by an elite panel of cricket experts
2. The party was for the elite.
PRONOUNCE:
e·lite - इलीट / ऐलीट
LINK: ELITE
WORD: DISTRACT
MEANING:
1. To cause to turn away from the original focus of attention or interest; divert.
2. To pull in conflicting emotional directions; unsettle.
3. divert, disturb
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Distract yourself with free browser games
PRONOUNCE:
dis·tract - डिस्ट्रैक्ट
LINK: DISTRACT
WORD: FIERCE
MEANING:
1. Having a savage and violent nature; ferocious. See Synonyms at cruel.
2. Extremely severe or violent; terrible: "the fierce thunders roar me their music" (Ezra Pound).
3. Extremely intense or ardent: fierce loyalty. See Synonyms at intense.
4. Strenuously active or resolute: a fierce attempt to escape.
5. Informal Very difficult or unpleasant: a fierce exam.
6. Savage or threatening in appearance.
7. violent, sever, extreme
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Microsoft faces fierce competition from market leader Samsung Electronics and Apple.
2. He has a fierce loyalty for his mother.
3. The battle of Kurukshetra was a fierce battle.
PRONOUNCE:
fierce - फिर्स / फीर्स
LINK: FIERCE
WORD: PARISH
MEANING:
1. an ecclesiastical district having its own church and cleric.
2. a local church with its field of activity.
3. (in Louisiana) a county.
4. the people of a parish.
5. community, village, district
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. During a visit to a parish church in Rome at the weekend, Pope Francis got chatty about his credentials.
2. He is aVicar of a large rural parish.
PRONOUNCE:
par•ish - पैरिश / पेरिश
LINK: PARISH
WORD: EVACUATE
MEANING:
1.
a. To empty or remove the contents of.
b. To create a vacuum in.
2. To excrete or discharge waste matter from (the bowel, for example).
3.
a. To relinquish military possession or occupation of (a town, for example).
b. To withdraw or send away (troops or inhabitants) from a threatened area.
4. To withdraw or depart from; vacate.
5. emptied, vacant
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Paul Walker's crash site evacuated for family members
2. Foreign govt has no right to evacuate our citizens.
PRONOUNCE:
e·vac·u·ate - इवैक्यऐट / इवैक्यूएट / ईवैक्यऐट
LINK: EVACUATE
WORD: STEM
MEANING:
1. To stop or hold back by or as if by damming; stanch.
2. To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).
3. Sports To point (skis) inward.
4. stop, halt, restrict
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Can Obama Saudi visit stem deteriorating ties?
2. Doctor bandaged the cut to stem the bleeding.
PRONOUNCE:
stem - स्टेम
LINK: STEM
WORD: MULL
MEANING:
1. considering, think over
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Google mulling launch of Android TV at I/O conference in June-end: Report
2. Japan mulls expanding air zone
3. US mulls air strikes as Iraqi jihadists advance towards Baghdad
4. Centre mulls raising tax exemption bar to Rs 2 lakh, boost savings
PRONOUNCE:
mull - मल
LINK: MULL
WORD: KNACK
MEANING:
1. a special skill, talent, or aptitude.
2. a clever or adroit way of doing something.
3. Archaic. a knickknack; trinket.
4. skill, ability, talent
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Have a knack for mobile applications?
2. She has a knack of cooking.
PRONOUNCE:
knack - नैक
LINK: KNACK
WORD: FLAYS
MEANING:
1. to strip off the skin or outer covering of, esp by whipping; skin
2. to attack with savage criticism
3. to strip of money or goods, esp by cheating or extortion
4. thrashes, critisizes, condemns
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. P Chidambaram flays PM Narendra Modi's "empty coffer" suggestion
PRONOUNCE:
flay - फ्ले / फ्लै
LINK: FLAYS
WORD: LATTE
MEANING:
1. coffee drink made with expresso and steamed milk.
2. (Cookery) coffee made with hot milk
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A flying beetle in India threatens to push up latte prices
PRONOUNCE:
latte - લેટ્ટ
LINK: LATTE
WORD: FUGITIVE
MEANING:
1. Running away or fleeing, as from the law.
2.
a. Lasting only a short time; fleeting: "[His] house and burial place ... should be visited by all who profess even a fugitive interest in political economy" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
b. Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive: fugitive solutions to the problem.
c. Given to change or disappearance; perishable: fugitive beauty.
d. Of temporary interest: fugitive essays.
3. Tending to wander; vagabond.
4. Escapee, Runaway
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Fugitive Thai politician sets up anti-junta organisation
2. fugitives from the sweatshops
3. The fugitive asked for asylum in Britain.
PRONOUNCE:
fu·gi·tive - फ्यूजटिव / फ्यूजिटिव / फ्यूजिटिव
LINK: FUGITIVE
WORD: SECTARIAN
MEANING:
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect.
2. Adhering or confined to the dogmatic limits of a sect or denomination; partisan.
3. Narrow-minded; parochial.
4. religious, rigid
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In Iraq's sectarian violence, a show of each side's worst
2. most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect
3. Sectarian Violence destroys national feeling among the people.The political leaders turned sectarians in their views.
PRONOUNCE:
sec·tar·i·an - सेक्टेरीअन
LINK: SECTARIAN
WORD: WILT
MEANING:
1. To become limp or flaccid; droop: plants wilting in the heat.
2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly: "His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness" (Vladimir Nabokov).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There was a time when she could just wilt a little, and everyone jumped up to defend her virtue, modesty or some such attribute.
2. The flowers in the pots are beginning to wilt.
PRONOUNCE:
wilt - विल्ट
LINK: WILT
WORD: SUDDEN
MEANING:
1. Happening without warning; unforeseen: a sudden storm.
2. Characterized by hastiness; abrupt or rash: a sudden decision. See Synonyms at impetuous.
3. Characterized by rapidity; quick and swift.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. All of a sudden, the front tyre burst.
2. a sudden storm
3. suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side
PRONOUNCE:
sud·den - सडन
LINK: SUDDEN
WORD: PURPORATE
MEANING:
1. alleged; supposed; rumoured: a purported two million dollar deal.
2. supposed, alleged, meant
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Purported Samsung Galaxy S5 images reveal metal frame, bigger display
2. Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini Purportedly Spotted on Samsung UK Site
PRONOUNCE:
purported - पर्पॉर्टिड
LINK: PURPORATE
