WORD: ANONYMITY
MEANING:
1. secrecy, obscurity, concealment, privacy
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Anonymity in Missouri Police Shooting Fuels Anger
2. He works for a nuclar energy and all of a sudden he vanished in anonymity.
PRONOUNCE:
an·o·nym·i·ty - ऐननिमिटी
LINK: ANONYMITY
WORD: CONSUMMATE
MEANING:
1. Complete or perfect in every respect: consummate happiness. See Synonyms at perfect.
2. Supremely accomplished or skilled: "Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork" (Roberta Smith).
3. Complete; utter: a consummate bore.
4. perfect, excellent
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ravi Shastri is a true all-rounder. He can wear multiple hats with consummate ease.
2. Salvador Dali was a consummate artist
PRONOUNCE:
con·sum·mate - कन्समट / कान्समट / कान्समैट / कन्समिट / कान्समेट
LINK: CONSUMMATE
WORD: DEBACLE
MEANING:
1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout.
2. A total, often ludicrous failure.
3. The breaking up of ice in a river.
4. A violent flood.
5. disaster, fiasco, tragedy, farce
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Dhoni-CookTheir morale battered by the Test series debacle, India would look to make a fresh beginning and salvage lost pride when they take on England in a fivematch ODI cricket series starting in Bristol on Monday.
2. The convention was a debacle
PRONOUNCE:
de·ba·cle - डबाकल / डेबाकल
LINK: DEBACLE
WORD: COERCIVE
MEANING:
1. forced, strong, powerful
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. SC to Kerala govt: No coercive action against bar owners
2. The management used coercive force on the workers to call off strike.
PRONOUNCE:
co·er·cive - कोअर्सिव
LINK: COERCIVE
WORD: DECKED
MEANING:
1. To clothe with finery; adorn. Often used with out: We were all decked out for the party.
2. To decorate: decked the halls for the holidays.
3. decorated
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ahmedabad decked up for a grand welcome to PM Modi, Chinese President Xi
2. She decked up nicely for the party.
PRONOUNCE:
deck - डेक
LINK: DECKED
WORD: FETE
MEANING:
1. A festival or feast.
2.
a. An elaborate, often outdoor entertainment.
b. An elaborate party.
3. event, celebration, carnival, festival
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. All Set to Fete Rendezvous with the Red Planet
2. We are going to the fete arranged by the church.
PRONOUNCE:
fete - फेट / फैट
LINK: FETE
WORD: COURTEOUS
MEANING:
1. polite and considerate in manner
2. polite, well-mannered
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shah Rukh Khan praises Salman Khan for being courteous and gracious
2. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world
PRONOUNCE:
courteous - कर्टीअस
LINK: LINK
WORD: CARTON
MEANING:
1. Any of various containers made from cardboard or coated paper: cans packed in cartons; a milk carton.
2. The contents of a carton: dyed the whole carton of eggs.
3. box, container, packet
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I will come with full carton.
PRONOUNCE:
car·ton - कार्टन
LINK: CARTON
WORD: EBB
MEANING:
1. (Physical Geography) (of tide water) to flow back or recede. Compare flow9
2. to fall away or decline
3. disappear, flow away, go out
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Israel and Hamas agree to 72-hour ceasefire as fighting in Gaza ebbs
2. Wholesale inflation ebbs to 5-year low at 3.74% in August
PRONOUNCE:
ebb - एब
LINK: EBB
WORD: PLUNGE
MEANING:
1. To fall or throw oneself into a substance or place: We plunged into the icy mountain lake.
2. To throw oneself earnestly or wholeheartedly into an activity or situation: plunged into my studies.
3. To enter or move headlong through something: The hunting dogs plunged into the forest.
4. To descend steeply; fall precipitously: a cliff that plunges to the sea.
5. To move forward and downward violently: The rider plunged from the bucking horse.
6. To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically: Stock prices plunged during the banking crisis.
7. To speculate or gamble extravagantly.
8. drops, falls, dives
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jet Airways flight plunges 5000 feet over Turkey, pilots suspended by DGCA
2. Gold prices plunge on fall in demand, global cues
3. The truck went out of control and plunged into river.
PRONOUNCE:
plunge - प्लन्ज
LINK: PLUNGE
WORD: PERIL
MEANING:
1.
a. Imminent danger.
b. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss.
2. Something that endangers or involves risk.
3. danger, threat, risk
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In peril under PM Modi, a vestige of Soviet-style planning
2. The reindeers are able to survive in the perils of harsh winter.
3. Be careful of the perils coming on your way advised the astrologer.
PRONOUNCE:
per·il - पेरल
LINK: PERIL
WORD: VIVID
MEANING:
1. Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant: a vivid star.
2.
a. Having intensely bright colors: a vivid tapestry.
b. Having a very high degree of saturation: a vivid purple.
3. Presented in clear and striking manner: a vivid account of the incident. See Synonyms at graphic.
4. Perceived or felt with the freshness of immediate experience: a vivid recollection of their childhood.
5. Active in forming lifelike images: a vivid imagination.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The wall has been painted a vivid blue
2. He gave a vivid description of what really happened there.
PRONOUNCE:
vivid - विवड / विविड / विविड
LINK: VIVID
WORD: SINEW
MEANING:
1. A tendon.
2. Vigorous strength; muscular power.
3. The source or mainstay of vitality and strength. Often used in the plural: "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue" (Izaak Walton).
4. power, strength
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There’s one in every love story, says the tagline of Ek Villain, and the film strains every sinew to justify it.
PRONOUNCE:
sin·ew - सिन्यू
LINK: SINEW
WORD: STRAY
MEANING:
1.
a. To move away from a group, deviate from the correct course, or go beyond established limits.
b. To become lost.
2. To wander about without a destination or purpose; roam. See Synonyms at wander.
3. To follow a winding course; meander.
4. To deviate from a moral, proper, or right course; err.
5. To become diverted from a subject or train of thought; digress.
6. drifted, wander away
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Missing jet may have strayed toward Andaman Sea
2. Bad company strayed him from the path of honesty.
PRONOUNCE:
stray - स्ट्रे / स्ट्रै
LINK: STRAY
WORD: IMPOVERISH
MEANING:
1. To reduce to poverty; make poor.
2. To deprive of natural richness or strength: impoverish the soil by overuse.
3. weaken, drain
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Curbs on smoking will not impoverish tobacco farmers, Harsh Vardhan says
2. Rich people willfully create impoverishment in the society.
PRONOUNCE:
im·pov·er·ish - इम्पावरिश / इम्पाव्रिश
LINK: IMPOVERISH
WORD: INTERIM
MEANING:
1. (prenominal) temporary, provisional, or intervening: interim measures to deal with the emergency.
n
2. the interim the intervening time; the meantime (esp in the phrase in the interim)
adv
3. meantime
4. temporary, provisional
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sunil Gavaskar should take over as interim president of the cricket board in place of the embattled incumbent N Srinivasan
2. Sri Lanka appoints Atapatty as interim coach
3. IPL fixing: SC to discuss Mudgal's interim report today
4. The discount is for the interim period.
PRONOUNCE:
interim - इन्टरम / इन्टरिम / इन्ट्रम / इनरम
LINK: INTERIM
WORD: SOLACE
MEANING:
1. Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or distress; consolation.
2. A source of comfort or consolation.
3. support, relief
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She lived a long life and I hope she enjoyed it to the fullest and that her family can take some solace in that.
2. The only solace for her is photography.
3. Every one can find solace in music.
PRONOUNCE:
sol·ace - सालस / सालिस / सोलिस
LINK: SOLACE
WORD: PLEAD
MEANING:
1. To appeal earnestly; beg: plead for more time.
2. To offer reasons for or against something; argue earnestly: plead against a bill.
3. To provide an argument or appeal: Your youth pleads for you in this instance.
4. Law
a. To put forward a plea of a specific nature in court: plead guilty.
b. To make or answer an allegation in a legal proceeding.
c. To address a court as a lawyer or advocate.
5. pray, request
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jailed Sahara group chief Subrata Roy pleads for 10 more days
2. Pleadingly the requests made by the criminals were refused by the president.
PRONOUNCE:
plead - प्लीड
LINK: PLEAD
WORD: PROP
MEANING:
1. to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often fol. by up).
2. to rest (a thing) against a support: He propped the ladder against the wall.
3. to support or sustain (often fol. by up).
4. Support
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Root hundred props up England; Target 295 for India
2. his torso propped up on pillows
3. We balanced the almirah with the help of prop.
PRONOUNCE:
prop - प्राप
LINK: PROP
WORD: REVELRY
MEANING:
1. noisy or unrestrained merrymaking
2. partying, merriment
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. What peeves you the most when you're in the middle of revelry with friends?
2. Slowly their drunken revelry went on late into the night.
PRONOUNCE:
revelry - रेवल्री
LINK: REVELRY
WORD: LASH
MEANING:
1. a sharp cutting blow from a whip or other flexible object: twenty lashes was his punishment.
2. the flexible end or ends of a whip
3. a cutting or hurtful blow to the feelings, as one caused by ridicule or scolding
4. a forceful beating or impact, as of wind, rain, or waves against something
5. (Anatomy) See eyelash
6. have a lash Austral and NZ to make an attempt at or take part in (something)
7. smash, beat
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sahara India Parivar lashed out at BCCI president N Srinivasan for not allowing them to bid for the rights.
PRONOUNCE:
lash - लैश
LINK: LASH
WORD: PRUDENCE
MEANING:
1. caution in practical affairs; discretion or circumspection
2. care taken in the management of one's resources
3. consideration for one's own interests
4. the condition or quality of being prudent
5. caution, carefulness
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. FM vows no compromise on fiscal prudence
2. We always need prudence for success
PRONOUNCE:
prudence - प्रूडन्स
LINK: PRUDENCE
WORD: FOE
MEANING:
1. A personal enemy.
2. An enemy in war.
3. An adversary; an opponent: a foe of tax reform. See Synonyms at enemy.
4. Something that opposes, injures, or impedes: taxes that were the foe of economic development.
5. enemies, rivals, oppenents
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Nelson Mandela's memorial service brought a handshake between the leaders of two countries that have been foes for half a century.
2. they had been political foes for years
3. Ram and his friend have turned foes after the last time they quarrelled.
PRONOUNCE:
foe - फो
LINK: FOE
WORD: PENCHANT
MEANING:
1. A definite liking; a strong inclination.
2. liking, desire
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Arun Jaitley's penchant for Rs 100 crore
2. Some companies have a penchant for secrecy regarding future products.
3. She has a penchant for buying party gowns.
PRONOUNCE:
pen·chant - पेन्चन्ट
LINK: PENCHANT
WORD: BLUSH
MEANING:
1. To become red in the face, especially from modesty, embarrassment, or shame; flush.
2. To become red or rosy.
3. To feel embarrassed or ashamed: blushed at his own audacity.
4. rouge, makeup, cosmetic
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The bride entered the room blushingly.
2. She blushed when he flattered her.
3. Girls are generally blushing in nature.
PRONOUNCE:
blush - ब्लश
LINK: BLUSH
WORD: STIR
MEANING:
1.
a. To pass an implement through (a liquid, for example) in circular motions so as to mix or cool the contents: stirred the soup before tasting it.
b. To introduce (an ingredient, for example) into a liquid or mixture: stirred a cup of sugar into the cake batter.
c. To mix together the ingredients of before cooking or use: stirred up some popover batter; stirred the paint.
2. To cause to move or shift, especially slightly or with irregular motion: A breeze stirred the branches.
3. To prod into brisk or vigorous action; bestir: stirred themselves to fix breakfast.
4.
a. To rouse, as from indifference, and prompt to action. See Synonyms at provoke.
b. To provoke deliberately: stirred by trouble.
5. To excite strong feelings in.
6. disturbance, upset
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sanjay Dutt leaves jail for unwell wife whose photos create stir
2. Her sudden death was quite a stir.
3. I gave a stir to the tea in order to dissolve the sugar.
PRONOUNCE:
stir - स्टर
LINK: STIR
WORD: RATTLE
MEANING:
1.
a. To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds.
b. To move with such sounds: A train rattled along the track.
2. To talk rapidly and at length, usually without much thought: rattled on about this and that.
3. upset, anxious
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rattled Congress takes refuge in blame game
2. Three bomb blasts rattle Baghdad
PRONOUNCE:
here - here
LINK: RATTLE
WORD: REVERE
MEANING:
1. To regard with awe, deference, and devotion.
2. respected, admired
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Grief, deep admiration expressed worldwide for the revered Nelson Mandela
PRONOUNCE:
re·vere - रिविर्ड
LINK: REVERE
WORD: VIABLE
MEANING:
1. Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.
2. Capable of living outside the uterus. Used of a fetus or newborn.
3. Capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable: a viable plan; a viable national economy. See Synonyms at possible.
4. feasible, practical, possible
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Have to be part of 100 crore club to be commercially viable : Priyanka Chopra
2. Viable Organisms are prone to bacteria
3. Chanakya adopted viable plans to please the king
PRONOUNCE:
vi·a·ble - वाइअबल
LINK: VIABLE
WORD: UNWITTING
MEANING:
1. Not knowing; unaware: an unwitting subject in an experiment.
2. Not intended; unintentional: an unwitting admission of guilt.
3. innocently, accidentally
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. US woman unwittingly live-tweets husband's car crash
2. he unwittingly deleted the references
3. I think I've unwittingly offended him.
PRONOUNCE:
un·wit·ting - अन्विटिंगली
LINK: UNWITTING
