WORD: ARDENT
MEANING:
1. expressive of or characterized by intense desire or emotion; passionate: ardent love.
2. intensely enthusiastic; eager: an ardent longing.
3. glowing, flashing, or shining: ardent eyes.
4. burning: an ardent fever.
5. passionate, eager
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. An ardent fan of the war film genre
2. King Ashoka was the ardent follower of buddhishm .
PRONOUNCE:
ardent - आर्डन्ट
LINK: ARDENT
WORD: LIMBO
MEANING:
1. (often cap.) a region on the border of hell or heaven in Roman Catholic teaching, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ.
2. a place or state of oblivion for persons or things cast aside, forgotten, or out of date.
3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
5. midpoint, dividing line
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Cricket: Srinivasan in limbo as IPL probe extended
2. The bill remained in limbo for a long time.
PRONOUNCE:
lim•bo - लिम्बो
LINK: LIMBO
WORD: FEMINISTS
MEANING:
1. A person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism.
2. activists, campaigners
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Feminists demand immediate Venus mission!
2. She takes a leading part in all feminist movements in the country.
PRONOUNCE:
fem·i·nist - फेमनस्ट
LINK: FEMINISTS
WORD: PUERILE
MEANING:
1. exhibiting silliness; immature; trivial
2. of or characteristic of a child
3. childish, immature, foolish, silly
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Tamil movie review: Madras is a puerile battle over a wall
2. Though he consideres himself that he is very intelligent but his behaviour is puerile.
PRONOUNCE:
puerile - प्यूअरिल / प्यूरील
LINK: PUERILE
WORD: ENACT
MEANING:
1. To make into law: Congress enacted a tax reform bill.
2. To act (something) out, as on a stage: enacted the role of Romeo.
3. pass, sanction
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Human Rights Watch to Modi govt: Enact anti-communal violence law, persecute anti-Sikh riots culprits
2. The Principal has enacted the new rule in the school.
PRONOUNCE:
en·act - इनैक्ट / एनैक्ट
LINK: ENACT
WORD: YANK
MEANING:
1. To pull with a quick, strong movement; jerk: yanked the emergency cord.
2. Informal To extract or remove abruptly: yanked the starting pitcher early in the game.
3. pulling, snatching
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. With SC yanking him out of 2G case, caged parrot Ranjit Sinha is a lame duck
2. He yanked the gate in anger.
PRONOUNCE:
yank - यैंगक
LINK: YANK
WORD: SPITEFUL
MEANING:
1. full of spite or malice; malicious.
2. mean, nasty, malicious
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Finally after the spiteful distance, Gautam and Diandra have electrified their togetherness.
2. He is just being spiteful.
PRONOUNCE:
spiteful - स्पाइट्फल
LINK: SPITEFUL
WORD: SARCASTIC
MEANING:
1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
2. using or given to the use of sarcasm.
3. ironic, mocking
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. From the sarcastic comments on his son's new hairstyle to his reactions on the antics of Khan, Verma made his own mark in the movie.
2. The best part of the video is that it doesn't try to sarcastic, it's not a dramatised, fictional account of sexual violence.
PRONOUNCE:
spite•ful - सार्कैस्टिक
LINK: SARCASTIC
WORD: RUES
MEANING:
1. To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for: "I never rued a day in my life like the one I rued when I left that old mother of mine" (Flannery O'Connor).
2. regrets, laments, repents
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Australia skipper Steve Smith rues Spider cam 'interference' at Sydney test
PRONOUNCE:
rue - रू
LINK: RUES
WORD: GRIMACES
MEANING:
1. an ugly or distorted facial expression, as of wry humour, disgust, etc
2. scowls, frowns, smirks, pouts
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He is grimacing in pain.
2. she made a grimace at the prospect
PRONOUNCE:
grim·ace - ग्रिमस
LINK: GRIMACES
WORD: IMBIBE
MEANING:
1. To drink.
2. To absorb or take in as if by drinking: "The whole body ... imbibes delight through every pore" (Henry David Thoreau).
3. To receive and absorb into the mind: "Gladstone had ... imbibed a strong prejudice against Americans" (Philip Magnus).
4. Obsolete To permeate; saturate.
5. drink, down, swallow, absorb
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sharing the frame with a stalwart like Amitabh Bachchan and a star actor like Dhanush in her debut movie "Shamitabh" has helped Akshara Haasan imbibe a valuable learning for her film journey
2. Imbibe the eternal knowledge.
PRONOUNCE:
im·bibe - इम्बाइब
LINK: IMBIBE
WORD: DISSENT
MEANING:
1. to have a disagreement or withhold assent
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity to refuse to conform to the doctrines, beliefs, or practices of an established church, and to adhere to a different system of beliefs and practices
3. opposition, disagreement, conflict, difference
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Uighur scholar`s life sentence in China will chill dissent: Experts
2. Amid Resentment Over Kiran Bedi, BJP's Warning Against Public Dissent
PRONOUNCE:
dis·sent - डिसेन्ट
LINK: DISSENT
WORD: INFER
MEANING:
1. to conclude (a state of affairs, supposition, etc) by reasoning from evidence; deduce
2. (tr) to have or lead to as a necessary or logical consequence; indicate
3. (tr) to hint or imply
4. conclude, deduce, suppose, gather
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Any one can infer a connection between pan chewing and mouth cancer.
PRONOUNCE:
in·fer - इन्फर
LINK: INFER
WORD: RIFT
MEANING:
1. Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest: the extreme edge of the field.
2. Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense: extreme pleasure; extreme pain.
3. Being far beyond the norm: an extreme conservative. See Synonyms at excessive.
4. Of the greatest severity; drastic: took extreme measures to conserve fuel.
5. Biology
a. Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions.
b. Having an affinity for such conditions: an extreme microorganism.
6. Sports
a. Very dangerous or difficult: extreme rafting.
b. Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport: an extreme skier.
7. Archaic Final; last.
8. dangerous, risky, severe
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. he carried it to extremes.
2. He carried the argument to extremes.
PRONOUNCE:
ex·treme - इक्स्ट्रीम
LINK: EXTREME
WORD: WRAP
MEANING:
1. To arrange or fold (something) about as cover or protection: She wrapped her fur coat closely about herself.
2. To cover, envelop, or encase, as by folding or coiling something about: wrapped my head in a scarf.
3. To enclose, especially in paper, and fasten: wrap a package; wrapped up the peelings.
4. To clasp, fold, or coil about something: She wrapped her arms about his neck.
5. To move (text that will not fit on a line) automatically to the following line.
6. To envelop and obscure: Fog wrapped the city.
7. To surround or involve in a specified quality or atmosphere: The plan was wrapped in secrecy.
8. To engross: She was wrapped in thought.
9. coverting, binding, packaging
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The gifts were wrapped and kept on the table.
PRONOUNCE:
wrap - रैप
LINK: WRAP
WORD: NARRATE
MEANING:
1. to tell (a story); relate
2. (Film) to speak in accompaniment of (a film, television programme, etc)
3. tell, describe
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I narrated the whole story to my brother.
PRONOUNCE:
nar·rate - नेरैट / नैर्रेट
LINK: NARRATE
WORD: MOB
MEANING:
1. A large and often disorderly crowd. See Synonyms at crowd1.
2. The mass of common people; the populace.
3. often Mob Informal A criminal organization, especially the Mafia operating in the United States.
4. An indiscriminate or loosely associated group of things: a mob of boats in the harbor.
5. Australian A flock or herd of animals.
6. crowd, mass, gang
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The police found it difficult to control the mob.
PRONOUNCE:
mob - माब
LINK: MOB
WORD: LITERATE
MEANING:
1.
a. Able to read and write.
b. Knowledgeable or educated in a particular field or fields.
2. Familiar with literature; literary.
3. Well-written; polished: a literate essay.
4. well-educated, well read, knowledgeable, cultured
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I was quite astounded at just how computer literate they were.
PRONOUNCE:
lit·er·ate - लिटरट / लिटरिट
LINK: LITERATE
WORD: JURISDICTION
MEANING:
1. Law The right of a court to hear a particular case, based on the scope of its authority over the type of case and the parties to the case.
2.
a. Authority or control: islands under US jurisdiction; a bureau with jurisdiction over Native American affairs.
b. The extent of authority or control: a family matter beyond the school's jurisdiction.
3. The territorial range of authority or control.
4. authority, dominion
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. this is not in my jusrisdiction
2. It is under Supreme Courts jurisdiction to solve water sharing dispute
PRONOUNCE:
ju·ris·dic·tion - जुरस्डिक्शन / जुरिस्डिक्शन / जुरिस्डिक्शन
LINK: JURISDICTION
WORD: EXTINCTION
MEANING:
1. death, loss,elimination
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Market for horns drive rhinos to extinction
2. the extinction of the volcano
PRONOUNCE:
extinction - इक्स्टिंगक्शन / इक्स्टिंगशन
LINK: EXTINCTION
WORD: SPOOKY
MEANING:
1. scary, frightening, ghostly
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1 Alone review: Horror queen Bipasha's spooky avatar is a huge disaster
2 That spooky old man is really terrifying
PRONOUNCE:
spooky - स्पूकी
LINK: SPOOKY
WORD: DWELLERS
MEANING:
1. To live as a resident; reside.
2. To exist in a given place or state: dwell in joy.
3.
a. To fasten one's attention on something, especially moodily or persistently: kept dwelling on what went wrong. See Synonyms at brood.
b. To speak or write at length; expatiate: dwelt on the need to trim the budget.
4. residents, occupants, inhabitants
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Arvind Kejriwal promises pucca houses for slum dwellers, accuses BJP of razing slums.
PRONOUNCE:
dwell - ड्वेल
LINK: DWELLERS
WORD: HOG
MEANING:
1. kept, cornered, monopolize, take over
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. PK is still a few crores behind ‘Dhoom 3’ which presently hogs the top slot as the highest grossing film with Rs. 284.27 crore lifetime business.
2. ramesh is such a hog.
PRONOUNCE:
hog - हाग / हॉग
LINK: HOG
WORD: LEAN
MEANING:
1.
a. Not fleshy or fat; thin.
b. Containing little fat or less fat relative to a standard: lean hamburger.
2.
a. Not productive or prosperous; meager: lean years.
b. Containing little excess or waste; spare: a lean budget.
c. Thrifty in management, especially by employing just enough people to accomplish a task or do business: "Company leaders know their industries must be lean to survive" (Christian Science Monitor).
3.
a. Metallurgy Low in mineral contents: lean ore.
b. Chemistry Lacking in combustible material: lean fuel.
4. thin, slim, trim
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. ASP.NET 5 is a lean .NET platform for building modern cloud-based apps.
PRONOUNCE:
lean - लीन
LINK: LEAN
WORD: BLEAK
MEANING:
1.
a. Gloomy and somber: "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" (John Millington Synge).
b. Providing no encouragement; depressing: a bleak prospect.
2. Cold and cutting; raw: bleak winds of the North Atlantic.
3. Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren: the bleak, treeless regions of the high Andes.
4. unwelcoming, miserable, lonely
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Omens look bleak for Vladimir Putin: Can the president ride out the storm?
2. The night after the storm was a bleak night.
PRONOUNCE:
bleak - ब्लीक
LINK: BLEAK
WORD: STALL
MEANING:
1. A ruse or tactic used to mislead or delay.
2. delayed, stuck
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Karisma, Sunjay Kapur's Divorce Stalled After Disagreements Between Couple
2. Our car stalled at the main crossing.
PRONOUNCE:
stall - स्टॉल
LINK: STALL
WORD: BIENNIAL
MEANING:
1. occurring every two years
2. lasting two years. Compare biannual
3. regular, periodic, two-yearly
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bellevue Arts Museum biennial puts wood on a pedestal
2. They met at biennial conventions
PRONOUNCE:
bi•en•ni•al - बाइएनीअल
LINK: BIENNIAL
WORD: PLIGHT
MEANING:
1. To promise or bind by a solemn pledge, especially to betroth.
2. To give or pledge (one's word or oath, for example).
3. trouble, difficulty, dilemma
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Modi blames Congress, SP, BSP form plight of UP
2. The flood increases the plight of poor people.
3. Plight of cows
PRONOUNCE:
plight - प्लाइट
LINK: PLIGHT
