WORD: COHESIVE
MEANING:
1. characterized by or causing cohesion.
2. tending to unify, harmonize, or be consistent.
3. of or pertaining to the molecular force within a body or substance acting to unite its parts.
4. solid, consistent
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. film lacks cohesive plot
1. Family has a cohesive force that sustains it as a unit.
PRONOUNCE:
co•he•sive - कोहीसिव
LINK: COHESIVE
WORD: BOON
MEANING:
1. A benefit bestowed, especially one bestowed in response to a request.
2. A timely blessing or benefit: A brisk breeze is a boon to sailors.
3. benefit, advantage, bonus
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Parks are a great boon to the children in big cities.
2. They are both boon couples.
PRONOUNCE:
boon - बून
LINK: BOON
WORD: BITTER
MEANING:
1. Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant.
2. Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh: enveloped in bitter cold; a bitter wind.
3. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear: the bitter truth; bitter sorrow.
4. Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity: a bitter struggle; bitter foes.
5. Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment: cried bitter tears.
6. Marked by resentment or cynicism: "He was already a bitter elderly man with a gray face" (John Dos Passos).
7. nasty, unpleasant, sour, acid
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The bitter truth is difficult to swallow.
2. A bitter struggle
PRONOUNCE:
bit·ter - बिटर
LINK: BITTER
WORD: EXPLOIT
MEANING:
1. to utilize, esp. for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
2. to take advantage of; promote.
3. to use selfishly for one's own ends.
4. broken, misused, abused
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Hazare's image was exploited to collect funds: Digvijaya
2. Im not interested in your exploits in the war.
PRONOUNCE:
ex•ploit - इक्स्प्लॉइट / एक्स्प्लॉइट / एक्स्प्लॉइट
LINK: EXPLOIT
WORD: INDEMNITY
MEANING:
1. Security against damage, loss, or injury.
2. An exemption from liability for damages resulting from specified conduct, as in a contract indemnifying a party for the performance of certain actions.
3. Compensation for damage, loss, or injury suffered.
4. insurance, cover, security
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. double indemnity
2. The vicarious nations are demanding huge indemnities from their former enemies.
PRONOUNCE:
in·dem·ni·ty - इन्डेम्नटी / इन्डेम्निटी / इन्डेम्निटी
LINK: INDEMNITY
WORD: FEATHER
MEANING:
1. One of the light, flat growths forming the plumage of birds, consisting of numerous slender, closely arranged parallel barbs forming a vane on either side of a horny, tapering, partly hollow shaft.
2. A feathery tuft or fringe of hair, as on the legs or tail of some dogs.
3. Character, kind, or nature: Birds of a feather flock together.
4.
a. A strip, wedge, or flange used as a strengthening part.
b. A wedge or key that fits into a groove to make a joint.
5. The vane of an arrow.
6. A feather-shaped flaw, as in a precious stone.
7. The wake made by a submarine's periscope.
8. The act of feathering the blade of an oar in rowing.
9. quill, plume, barb, spine
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Birds use their feathers for balance while in flight.
PRONOUNCE:
feath·er - फेदर
LINK: FEATHER
WORD: INVASION
MEANING:
1. The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.
2. The entry into bodily tissue and subsequent proliferation of an injurious entity, such as a pathogen or tumor.
3. An intrusion or encroachment: Your reading her diary was an invasion of her privacy.
4. attack, raid
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. invasion of body snatchers
2. Ahmad shah abdali done invasion on punjab eight times .
3. The invasion of the Mohammud Ghori started the muslim rule in India.
PRONOUNCE:
in·va·sion - इन्वेश़न / इन्वैश़न
LINK: INVASION
WORD: WELL-KNOWN
MEANING:
1. Widely known; familiar or famous: a well-known performer.
2. Fully known: well-known facts.
3. famous, notorious
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. It is well known to every one that mahatma gandhi is our father of Nation.
2. Charles Dickens works are well known.
PRONOUNCE:
well-known - वेल नोन
LINK: WELL-KNOWN
WORD: RESENTMENT
MEANING:
1. Indignation or ill will stemming from a feeling of having been wronged or offended. See Synonyms at anger.
2. anger, bitterness, dislike
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Michael Clarke rises to greatness in the face of resentment
2. He went away in resentment.
PRONOUNCE:
re·sent·ment - रिज़ेन्ट्मन्ट / रिज़ेन्मन्ट
LINK: RESENTMENT
WORD: SPEECHLESS
MEANING:
1. Lacking the faculty of speech.
2. Temporarily unable to speak, as through astonishment.
3. Refraining from speech; silent.
4. Unexpressed or inexpressible in words: speechless admiration.
5. thunderstruck, amazed, wordless
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door
PRONOUNCE:
speech·less - स्पीच्लस / स्पीच्लिस
LINK: SPEECHLESS
WORD: REPRISE
MEANING:
1. Music
a. A repetition of a phrase or verse.
b. A return to an original theme.
2. (often rĭ-prīz′) A recurrence or resumption of an action.
3. recap, repeat
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Uday Chopra, who has been missing from the screen for a long time, will yet again reprise his role in 'Dhoom 3'.
2. She reprises her classical songs daily.
PRONOUNCE:
re·prise - रिप्राइज़ / रिप्रीज़
LINK: REPRISE
WORD: REINSTATE
MEANING:
1. To bring back into use or existence.
2. To restore to a previous condition or position.
3. restores, returns
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. SC reinstates ban on gay sex
2. They have reinstated the ousted chairman.
PRONOUNCE:
re·in·state - रीइन्स्टेट / रीइन्स्टैट
LINK: REINSTATE
WORD: PEAK
MEANING:
1. A tapering, projecting point; a pointed extremity: the peak of a cap; the peak of a roof.
2.
a. The pointed summit of a mountain.
b. The mountain itself.
3.
a. The point of a beard.
b. A widow's peak.
4. The point of greatest development, value, or intensity: a novel written at the peak of the writer's career. See Synonyms at summit.
5. Physics The highest value attained by a varying quantity: a peak in current.
6. Nautical
a. The narrow portion of a ship's hull at the bow or stern.
b. The upper aft corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
c. The outermost end of a gaff.
7. top, highest, topmost
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the view from the peak was magnificent
2. Land prices have peaked now-a-days.
PRONOUNCE:
peak - पीक
LINK: PEAK
WORD: PRAISE
MEANING:
1. Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration.
2. The extolling or exaltation of a deity, ruler, or hero.
3. Archaic A reason for praise; merit.
4. admiration, commendation, approval, applause
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Donot get excite if somebody praise you.
2. His teachers are full of praise for his work.
PRONOUNCE:
praise - प्रेज़ / प्रैज़
LINK: PRAISE
WORD: TROUNCE
MEANING:
1. To thrash; beat: "A crew of clean-cut thugs trounced him as he stepped out of a taxi into the unlit street" (Christropher Hunt).
2. To defeat decisively: The mayor was trounced in the election.
3. To criticize severely: The play was trounced by reviewers.
4. beaten, overcome, crushed
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. AB de Villiers revelled in delight after South Africa trounced India by a massive 134 run margin to seal the ODI series.
2. Indian cricket team was trounced by South Africa.
PRONOUNCE:
trounce - ट्राउन्स
LINK: TROUNCE
WORD: FULFILL
MEANING:
1. To bring into actuality; effect or make real: fulfilled their promises; fulfilled her dream.
2. To do, perform, or obey (a task or order, for example); carry out.
3. To meet (a requirement or condition); satisfy. See Synonyms at satisfy.
4. satisfy, meet, match
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The student fulfilled the conditions of entry to a college.
PRONOUNCE:
ful·fill - फुल्फिल
LINK: FULFILL
WORD: FIASCO
MEANING:
1. a complete failure, esp one that is ignominious or humiliating
2. debacle, desaster, mess, flop
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The strike turned out to be a complete fiasco.
PRONOUNCE:
fiasco - फीऐस्को
LINK: FIASCO
WORD: HOPE
MEANING:
1. (sometimes plural) a feeling of desire for something and confidence in the possibility of its fulfilment: his hope for peace was justified; their hopes were dashed.
2. a reasonable ground for this feeling: there is still hope.
3. a person or thing that gives cause for hope
4. a thing, situation, or event that is desired: my hope is that prices will fall.
5. not a hope some hope used ironically to express little confidence that expectations will be fulfilled
vb
6. (tr; takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to desire (something) with some possibility of fulfilment: we hope you can come; I hope to tell you.
7. (often foll by: for) to have a wish (for a future event, situation, etc)
8. (tr; takes a clause as object) to trust, expect, or believe: we hope that this is satisfactory.
9. chance, prospect, possibility
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. it revived their hope of winning the pennant
2. Hope floats after mauling
PRONOUNCE:
hope - होप
LINK: HOPE
WORD: SLAPSTICK
MEANING:
1. (Theatre)
a. comedy characterized by horseplay and physical action
b. (as modifier): slapstick humour.
2. (Theatre) a flexible pair of paddles bound together at one end, formerly used in pantomime to strike a blow to a person with a loud clapping sound but without injury
3. humor, joke, comedy
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Entertainment' review: The humour isn't just slapstick, it's also repetitive and lazy
2. Jokers do slapsticks in circus.
PRONOUNCE:
slapstick - स्लैप्स्टिक
LINK: SLAPSTICK
WORD: SIMULTANEOUS
MEANING:
1. Happening, existing, or done at the same time. See Synonyms at contemporary.
2. Mathematics Containing variables for which there are values that can satisfy all the equations: simultaneous equations.
3. concurrent, immediate, instantaneous, real-time
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. they spoke simultaneously
PRONOUNCE:
si·mul·ta·ne·ous - साइमल्टेनीअस / साइमल्टैनीअस
LINK: SIMULTANEOUS
WORD: ASSESS
MEANING:
1. To determine the value, significance, or extent of; appraise. See Synonyms at estimate.
2. To estimate the value of (property) for taxation.
3. To set or determine the amount of (a payment, such as a tax or fine).
4.
a. To charge (a person or property) with a special payment, such as a tax or fine.
b. Sports To charge (a player, coach, or team) with a foul or penalty.
5. measure, evaluate, judte, calculate
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Our house hasnt been assessed in years
2. I cannot assess the present situation.
PRONOUNCE:
as·sess - असेस
LINK: ASSESS
WORD: RITUAL
MEANING:
1.
a. A ceremony in which the actions and wording follow a prescribed form and order.
b. The body of ceremonies or rites used in a place of worship or by an organization: according to Catholic ritual.
2. A book of rites or ceremonial forms.
3. A set of actions that are conducted routinely in the same manner: My household chores have become a morning ritual.
4. Zoology A set of actions that an animal performs in a fixed sequence, often as a means of communication: the greeting ritual in baboons.
5. usual, normal
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. instead of committing ritual suicide (Sepukku) along with his colleagues, opens all of the American prisoners cell doors, giving them a doomed opportunity to escape.
2. Tribal women performed the ritual dance in front of the guests.
PRONOUNCE:
rit·u·al - रिचूअल
LINK: RITUAL
WORD: APPROPRIATE
MEANING:
1. right or suitable; fitting
2. particular; own: they had their appropriate methods.
3. to take for one's own use, esp illegally or without permission
4. (Banking & Finance) to put aside (funds, etc) for a particular purpose or person
5. suitable, fitting, proper
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The alliance will be declared at an appropriate time.
2. Rs.20000/- have been appropriated for the Conference.
PRONOUNCE:
appropriate - अप्रोप्रीअट / अप्रोप्रीएट / अप्रोप्रीऐट / अप्रोप्रीइट / अप्रोप्रीएट
LINK: APPROPRIATE
WORD: REJUVENATION
MEANING:
1. To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again.
2. To restore to an original or new condition: rejuvenate an old sofa.
3.
a. To stimulate (a stream) to renewed erosive activity, as by uplift of the land.
b. To develop youthful topographic features in (a previously leveled area).
4. upgrading, innovation, revolution
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. We will strive for our space dream as part of the Indian dream of national rejuvenation
2. the annual rejuvenation of the landscape
PRONOUNCE:
re·ju·ve·nate - रिजूवनैशन
LINK: REJUVENATION
WORD: CONSEQUENCE
MEANING:
1. a result or effect of some previous occurrence
2. an unpleasant result (esp in the phrase take the consequences)
3. (Logic) significance or importance: it's of no consequence; a man of consequence.
4. (Logic) logic
a. a conclusion reached by reasoning
b. the conclusion of an argument
c. the relations between the conclusion and the premises of a valid argument
5. the relation between an effect and its cause
6. in consequence as a result
7. result, effect, outcome
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The long-term consequences of smoking is hazardous.
PRONOUNCE:
consequence - कान्सक्वन्स / कान्सक्वेन्स
LINK: CONSEQUENCE
WORD: CRATER
MEANING:
1. A bowl-shaped depression created by the activity of a volcano or geyser.
2.
a. A bowl-shaped depression in a surface made by an explosion or the impact of a body, such as a meteoroid.
b. A pit; a hollow.
3. Variant of krater.
4. basin, bowl, hole
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. specifically targeting a large volcanic crater known as the Sinus Iridum on moon.
2. Necular tests in Pokhran crated the landscape.
PRONOUNCE:
cra·ter - क्रेटर / क्रैटर
LINK: CRATER
WORD: ANTICIPATE
MEANING:
1. (may take a clause as object) to foresee and act in advance of: he anticipated the fall in value by selling early.
2. to thwart by acting in advance of; forestall: I anticipated his punch by moving out of reach.
3. (also intr) to mention (something) before its proper time: don't anticipate the climax of the story.
4. (may take a clause as object) to regard as likely; expect; foresee: he anticipated that it would happen.
5. to make use of in advance of possession: he anticipated his salary in buying a house.
6. (Banking & Finance) to pay (a bill, etc) before it falls due
7. to cause to happen sooner: the spread of nationalism anticipated the decline of the Empire.
8. expect, await, predict
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. This composition anticipates Impressionism
PRONOUNCE:
anticipate - ऐन्टिसपेट / ऐन्टिसपैट
LINK: ANTICIPATE
WORD: PATRONAGE
MEANING:
1. The support or encouragement of a patron, as for an institution or cause.
2. Support or encouragement proffered in a condescending manner: Our little establishment has finally been deemed worthy of the bank's patronage.
3. The trade given to a commercial establishment by its customers: Shopkeepers thanked Christmas shoppers for their patronage.
4. Customers or patrons considered as a group; clientele: The grand old hotel has a loyal but demanding patronage.
5.
a. The power to distribute or appoint people to governmental or political positions.
b. The act of distributing or appointing people to such positions.
c. The positions so distributed or filled.
6. The right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy.
7. support, backing
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He controls security of the state under the patronage of a powerful leader
PRONOUNCE:
pa·tron·age - पैट्रनिज / पैट्रनज / पैट्रनिज
LINK: PATRONAGE
WORD: POIGNANT
MEANING:
1.
a. Arousing deep emotion, especially pity or sorrow; touching: a poignant memory; a poignant story. See Synonyms at moving.
b. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings: poignant anxiety.
c. Physically painful: "Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward" (Ambrose Bierce).
2. Piercing; incisive: poignant criticism.
3. Agreeably intense or stimulating: "It was a poignant delight to breathe the keen air" (Joseph A. Altsheler).
4. Archaic
a. Sharp or sour to the taste; piquant.
b. Sharp or pungent to the smell.
5. moving, emotional, touching
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Masaan review: This Cannes winner is a beautiful, poignant portrait of a small town india.
2. I was shattered by the poignant scene of the accident.
PRONOUNCE:
poign·ant - पॉइन्यन्ट
LINK: POIGNANT
WORD: RENDEZVOUS
MEANING:
1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. See Synonyms at engagement.
2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
3. A popular gathering place: The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.
4. Aerospace The process of bringing two spacecraft together.
5. location, site, resort
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. All Set to Fete Rendezvous with the Red Planet
2. Cruising towards its historic rendezvous with the red planet, India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) today entered the Mars Gravitational Sphere of Influence ahead of its scheduled Orbit Insertion on September 24.
PRONOUNCE:
ren·dez·vous - रान्डिवू
LINK: RENDEZVOUS
WORD: YARDSTICK
MEANING:
1. A graduated measuring stick one yard in length.
2. A test, standard, or model used in measurement, comparison, or judgment.
3. measure, index, guage
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shahid Kapoor laments that Bollywood applies the yardstick of film's success at box office results to consider one as a good actor.
2. IQ tests are no more used as a yardstick to measure students intelligence.
3. On what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
PRONOUNCE:
yard·stick - यार्ड्स्टिक
LINK: YARDSTICK
