Monday, July 27, 2015

HURDLE

WORD: HURDLE

MEANING:
1. Sports
a. A light portable barrier over which competitors must leap in certain races.
b. hurdles A race in which a series of such barriers must be jumped without the competitors' breaking their stride.
c. A leaping step made off one foot as means of maximizing spring at the end of an approach, as to a dive.
2. An obstacle or difficulty to be overcome: the last hurdle before graduation.
3. Chiefly British A portable framework made of intertwined branches or wattle and used for temporary fencing.
4. Chiefly British A frame or sledge on which condemned persons were dragged to execution.
5. obstacle, difficulty, problem

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the last hurdle before graduation

PRONOUNCE:
hur·dle - हर्डल

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