WORD: LEVERAGE
MEANING:
1.
a. The action of a lever.
b. The mechanical advantage of a lever.
2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his . . . career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
3. The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.
4. pull, control, force
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Inputs for leveraging POST OFFICE NETWORK with a task force.
2. In a corrupt society money provides adequate leverage to get favourable decisions.
PRONOUNCE:
lev·er·age - लेवरिज / लेव्रज / लीवरिज
LINK: LEVERAGE
WORD: AGHAST
MEANING:
1. Struck by shock, terror, or amazement.
2. horrified, amazed, shocked
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She is aghast at such an offer.
2. She stood aghast at the terrible sight.
PRONOUNCE:
a·ghast - अगैस्ट
LINK: AGHAST
WORD: REVELS
MEANING:
1. To take great pleasure or delight: She reveled in her unaccustomed leisure.
2. To engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
3. festivities, celebrations
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. CWG 2014: Glasgow revels in Usain Bolt buzz and warm glow
2. They revelled till late at night.
PRONOUNCE:
rev·el - रेवल
LINK: REVELS
WORD: CHOPPY
MEANING:
1. Having many small waves; rough: choppy seas.
2. uneven, variable, irregular, rough
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rupee steady, seen choppy until RBI policy outcome
2. Market remains choppy; BSE Realty Index slips 2%
3. Sensex turn choppy; top ten stocks in focus
PRONOUNCE:
chop·py - चापी
LINK: CHOPPY
WORD: RATIFY
MEANING:
1. To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. See Synonyms at approve.
2. approve, sanction, endorse, authorize
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. BJP National Council meet begins, to ratify Amit Shah as party president
2. Heads of SAARC countries will meet to ratify the treaty.
PRONOUNCE:
rat·i·fy - रैटफाइ
LINK: RATIFY
WORD: OUTWITTED
MEANING:
1. To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.
2. Archaic To surpass in intelligence.
3. beat, beaten
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He tried but finds himself repeatedly outwitted
PRONOUNCE:
out·wit - आउट्विट
LINK: OUTWITTED
WORD: AFTERMATH
MEANING:
1. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune: famine as an aftermath of drought.
2. A period of time following a disastrous event: in the aftermath of war.
3. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.
4. result, outcome, reverberation, consequence
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Meerut gangrape aftermath: Hindu groups target old enemy 'Love jihad'
2. In the aftermath of one of the worst sequence of losses, Arunabha Sengupta lists ten things that went wrong in the recently concluded series.
3. On Sunday evening, crowds angered by the incident and its aftermath gathered again.
4. A new school building was built in the aftermath of the flood.
PRONOUNCE:
af·ter·math - ऐफ्टर्मैथ
LINK: AFTERMATH
WORD: BOOTY
MEANING:
1. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war.
2. Goods or property seized by force or piracy.
3. A valuable prize, award, or gain.
4. proceeds, treasure
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. With Monday being a holiday in some states, the film should add a substantial figure to the booty.
2. Government has found large amount of booty from the Militants.
PRONOUNCE:
boo·ty - बूटी
LINK: BOOTY
WORD: FINESSE
MEANING:
1. Refinement and delicacy of performance, execution, or artisanship.
2. Skillful, subtle handling of a situation; tactful, diplomatic maneuvering.
3. A method of leading up to a tenace, as in bridge, in order to prevent an opponent from winning the trick with an intermediate card.
4. A stratagem in which one appears to decline an advantage.
5. skill, grace
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Expendables 3 brings together almost every Hollywood action star you've seen on screen from the 1980s and 1990s and gathers them together in a movie that has all the finesse of a tank and a helicopter in a glorious head-on collision.
2. What lets the film down is a juvenile script and lack of logic and finesse.
3. He deals with difficult issues with great finesse.
PRONOUNCE:
fi·nesse - फिनेस / फिनेस्स
LINK: FINESSE
WORD: SKEPTICAL
MEANING:
1. Marked by or given to doubt; questioning: a skeptical attitude; skeptical of political promises.
2. Relating to or characteristic of skeptics or skepticism.
3. Doubtful, Uncertain, unconvinced
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Israelis Skeptical of PM's Gaza Victory Claim
PRONOUNCE:
skep·ti·cal - स्केप्टकल / स्केप्टिकल / स्केप्टिकल
LINK: SKEPTICAL
WORD: MEEK
MEANING:
1. Showing patience and humility; gentle.
2. Easily imposed on; submissive.
3. humble, gentle
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In a column written by Pooja Bedi, Times of India, this morning, put up a meek defence against controversy surrounding their post on Deepika Padukone's "cleavage"
2. He is a pretty meek fellow.
PRONOUNCE:
meek - मीक
LINK: MEEK
WORD: INVADES
MEANING:
1. To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage.
2. To encroach or intrude on; violate: "The principal of the trusts could not be invaded without trustee approval" (Barbara Goldsmith).
3. To overrun as if by invading; infest: "About 1917 the shipworm invaded the harbor of San Francisco" (Rachel Carson).
4. To enter and permeate, especially harmfully.
5. attacks, raids, enters
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bug Invades Android Browser App
PRONOUNCE:
in·vade - इन्वेड / इन्वैड
LINK: INVADES
WORD: STAMMER
MEANING:
1. to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
2. hesitate, pause
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He always stammers in public meeting
2. she used to stammer after getting nervous
PRONOUNCE:
stam•mer - स्टैमर
LINK: STAMMER
WORD: SCOTCH
MEANING:
1. to put an end to; crush: bad weather scotched our plans.
2. to injure so as to render harmless
3. to cut or score
4. stopped, finished, ended
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. North Korea coup rumours scotched as Kim Jong Un returns
PRONOUNCE:
scotch - स्काच
LINK: SCOTCH
WORD: COUP
MEANING:
1. a brilliant and successful stroke or action
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) short for coup d'état
3. revolution, rebvellion, takeover
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. North Korea coup rumours scotched as Kim Jong Un returns
2. The Prime Minister was afraid of a military coup.
PRONOUNCE:
coup - कू
LINK: COUP
WORD: FEEBLE
MEANING:
1.
a. Lacking strength; weak.
b. Indicating weakness.
2. Lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; inadequate. See Synonyms at weak.
3. weak, poor
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I woke up this morning to numerous messages from friends on Facebook asking me to log onto Orkut on its dying day, ironic since the ubiquitous FB was new social media lion that finished off the feeble Orkut.
2. He has very feeble health.
PRONOUNCE:
fee·ble - फीबल
LINK: FEEBLE
WORD: CONTRITE
MEANING:
1. Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent.
2. Arising from or expressing contrition: contrite words.
3. regretful
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. With Windows 10, a contrite Microsoft tries to atone for Windows 8
2. He looked contrite after hearing the sad news of his father.
PRONOUNCE:
con·trite - कन्ट्राइट
LINK: CONTRITE
WORD: POSTURE
MEANING:
1.
a. A position of the body or of body parts: a sitting posture.
b. An attitude; a pose: assumed a posture of angry defiance.
2. A characteristic way of bearing one's body; carriage: stood with good posture.
3. Relative placement or arrangement: the posture of the buildings on the land.
4. A stance or disposition with regard to something: "Those bases are essential to our military posture in the Middle East" (Gerard Smith).
5. A frame of mind affecting one's thoughts or behavior; an overall attitude.
6. position, attitude
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India's tough posture on border has been in place since June
2. She has very good posture.
PRONOUNCE:
pos·ture - पास्चर
LINK: POSTURE
WORD: ARBITRARY
MEANING:
1. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice.
2. Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary.
3. Established by a court or judge rather than by a specific law or statute: an arbitrary penalty.
4. Not limited by law; despotic: the arbitrary rule of a dictator.
5. random, chance
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. You can implement arbitrarily sophisticated behaviors just by updating the viewmodel object.
2. Rs 100-crore fine arbitrary exercise of power: Jayalalithaa
PRONOUNCE:
ar·bi·trar·y - आर्बट्रेरी / आर्बिट्रेरी / आर्बिट्रेरी
LINK: ARBITRARY
WORD: REBUKE
MEANING:
1. To criticize or reprove sharply; reprimand. See Synonyms at admonish.
2. To check or repress.
3. scolded, criticized, censured, reproached
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bigg Boss 8: Rebuked by Upen Patel, Sukirti Kandpal Breaks Down on Day 2
2. Lawmakers Rebuke Secret Service Chief Over White House Breach
PRONOUNCE:
re-buke - रिब्यूक / रीब्यूक / रिब्यूक
LINK: REBUKE
WORD: BOTCHED
MEANING:
1. To ruin through clumsiness.
2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle.
3. To repair or mend clumsily.
4. failed, poor, spoiled
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Movie review: Actor Ravi Teja's Power is botched up entertainment
2. Apple has released the iOS 8.0.2 update after the botched 8.0.1 updated which rendered cellular services useless on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and also affected the TouchID on the two new iPhones.
PRONOUNCE:
botched - बाच
LINK: BOTCHED
WORD: STEEP
MEANING:
1. Having a sharp inclination; precipitous.
2. At a rapid or precipitous rate: a steep rise in salaries.
3.
a. Excessive; stiff: a steep price.
b. Ambitious; difficult: a steep undertaking.
4. expensive
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sony has launched its latest flagship, the Xperia Z3 smartphone at a steep Rs 51,990 price tag in India.
PRONOUNCE:
steep - स्टीप
LINK: STEEP
WORD: DELUSION
MEANING:
1.
a. The act or process of deluding.
b. The state of being deluded.
2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.
3. Psychiatry A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.
4. misunderstanding, misconception, misbelief
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ratan Tata may be suffering from delusion: West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra
2. Modi says Indian Muslims won't join al Qaeda, calls terror group's threat delusional
PRONOUNCE:
de·lu·sion - डिलूश़न
LINK: DELUSION
WORD: PACT
MEANING:
1. A formal agreement, such as one between nations; a treaty.
2. A compact; a bargain.
3. deal, promice, agreement
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bharti Airtel gains on signing pact with RIL JiO
2. Congress-RJD pact likely today.
3. Infosys gains on pact with Hitachi Data Systems
PRONOUNCE:
pact - पैक्ट
LINK: PACT
WORD: FLAK
MEANING:
1. criticism, disapproval
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The decision to let Drashti go was surprising as it was Ranvir who was getting more flak on social networking sites
2. Hema Malini draws flak from NGOs over her remark on Vrindavan widows
PRONOUNCE:
flak - फलक
LINK: FLAK
WORD: JUGGLE
MEANING:
1. To keep (two or more objects) in the air at one time by alternately tossing and catching them.
2. To have difficulty holding; balance insecurely: juggled the ball but finally caught it; shook hands while juggling a cookie and a teacup.
3. To keep (more than two activities, for example) in motion or progress at one time: managed to juggle a full-time job and homemaking.
4. To manipulate in order to deceive: juggle figures in a ledger.
5. managing, organizing
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Samsung Electronics, juggling $60 bln cash, bulks up on bonds
PRONOUNCE:
jug·gle - जगल
LINK: JUGGLE
WORD: RIVALRY
MEANING:
1. The act of competing or emulating.
2. The state or condition of being a rival.
3. competition, opposition
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shame of Gijon: The story of Germany & Algeria's unlikely rivalry
2. A bitter rivalry has grown up between the two families.
PRONOUNCE:
ri·val·ry - राइवल्री
LINK: RIVALRY
WORD: AKA
MEANING:
1. also known as, also called
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. RV Sindhu Sadhana is India's indigenously built 'Research Ship' aka a floating laboratory.
2. Amitabh Bachchan aka Big B is great actor
PRONOUNCE:
aka - आक / ऐकैऐ
LINK: AKA
WORD: SANITY
MEANING:
1. The quality or condition of being sane; soundness of mind.
2. Soundness of judgment or reason.
3. stability, rationality
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The leak came to light last month, when one of Mozilla's web developers discovered that a 'data sanitisation process' of the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) database had been failing.
2. I tried SaneBox, and it’s everything it implies, bringing a little sanity to my email.
PRONOUNCE:
san·i·ty - सैनटी / सैनिटी
LINK: SANITY
WORD: RECONCILE
MEANING:
1. (usually foll by: to) to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasant: she reconciled herself to poverty.
2. to become friendly with (someone) after estrangement or to re-establish friendly relations between (two or more people)
3. to settle (a quarrel or difference)
4. to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other
5. (Ecclesiastical Terms) to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, etc)
6. settle, reunite, merge, resolve
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Only after He forced the two actors to reconcile did the movie continue.
2. I have reconciled my account with the bank.
PRONOUNCE:
reconcile - रेकन्साइल
LINK: RECONCILE
WORD: ZEST
MEANING:
1. invigorating or keen excitement or enjoyment: a zest for living.
2. added interest, flavour, or charm; piquancy: her presence gave zest to the occasion.
3. (Cookery) something added to give flavour or relish
4. (Cookery) the peel or skin of an orange or lemon, used as flavouring in drinks, etc
5. taste, tang bite, spice
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ranveer Singh zest for life and enthusiasm in general is undeniable.
2. he joined the new school with zest.
PRONOUNCE:
zest - ज़ेस्ट
LINK: ZEST
