WORD: CONTINGENT
MEANING:
1. Liable but not certain to occur; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
2. Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
3. Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable: contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations. See Synonyms at accidental.
4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
5. commission, legation, committee, group
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics
2. No longer a male bastion, Assam Rifles gets its first women's contingent
PRONOUNCE:
con·tin·gent - कन्टिन्जन्ट
LINK: CONTINGENT
WORD: SPECTACLE
MEANING:
1.
a. Something that can be seen or viewed, especially something of a remarkable or impressive nature.
b. A public performance or display, especially one on a large or lavish scale.
c. A regrettable public display, as of bad behavior: drank too much and made a spectacle of himself.
2. spectacles
a. A pair of eyeglasses.
b. Something resembling eyeglasses in shape or suggesting them in function.
3. sight, display, show, scene, vision
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A double dose of a Bollywood superstar intent on pushing himself into new zones as an actor makes for a passably watchable spectacle in Maneesh Sharma's Fan.
2. the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape
PRONOUNCE:
spec·ta·cle - स्पेक्टकल
LINK: SPECTACLE
WORD: POPULIST
MEANING:
1. A supporter of the rights and power of the people.
2. Populist A supporter of the Populist Party.
3. majority, mainstream
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Brexit is bad news for all, save the populists
PRONOUNCE:
pop·u·list - पाप्यलस्ट / पाप्युलिस्ट
LINK: POPULIST
WORD: SULLEN
MEANING:
1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent: sullen, gray skies.
3. Sluggish; slow: the sullen current of a canal.
4. dark, cloudy
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She could not finding him, and lapses into a sullen silence.
PRONOUNCE:
sul·len - सलन
LINK: SULLEN
WORD: NOUS
MEANING:
1. Philosophy
a. Reason and knowledge as opposed to sense perception.
b. The rational part of the individual human soul.
c. The principle of the cosmic mind or soul responsible for the rational order of the cosmos.
d. In Stoicism, the equivalent of Logos.
e. In Neo-Platonism, the image of the absolute good, containing the cosmos of intelligible beings.
2. Chiefly British Good sense; shrewdness: "Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again" (Nadine Gordimer).
3. intellect, ability, intelligence
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. sorcery is a tiny facet of magic, whose final goal is the realisation of nous and the unification of heaven and earth.
2. Kumble has the experience and the nous to be the coach
PRONOUNCE:
nous - नूस
LINK: NOUS
WORD: EXPERIENCE
MEANING:
1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
2.
a. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
b. The knowledge or skill so derived.
3.
a. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
b. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
4. knowledge, skill, practice, understanding
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kumble has the experience and the nous to be the coach
2. She has 1.years of teaching experience.
PRONOUNCE:
ex·pe·ri·ence - इक्स्पिरीअन्स / इक्स्पीरीअन्स
LINK: EXPERIENCE
WORD: PIRATE
MEANING:
1. One who commits or practices piracy at sea.
2. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
3. One who illegally intercepts or uses radio or television signals, especially one who operates an illegal television or radio station.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Udta Punjab's pirated copy hosted by over 700 websites
2. The pirate video cassettes are now banned.
PRONOUNCE:
pi·rate - पाइरट / पाइरैट
LINK: PIRATE
WORD: TRAGEDY
MEANING:
1.
a. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
b. The genre made up of such works.
c. The art or theory of writing or producing these works.
2. A play, film, television program, or other narrative work that portrays or depicts calamitous events and has an unhappy but meaningful ending.
3. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.
4. A tragic aspect or element.
5. disaster, catastrophe, misfortune
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The obnoxious mass shooting at Orlando nightclub, which resulted in the death of 50 people dead and left at least 53 injured, has proven the deadliest attack in the history of modern America after the 9/11 tragedy.
2. The fall of a school bus into the river was a great tragedy for the whole nation.
PRONOUNCE:
trag·e·dy - ट्रजिडी / ट्रैजडी
LINK: TRAGEDY
WORD: LOCALITY
MEANING:
1. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: "Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages" (Wall Street Journal).
2. The fact or quality of having position in space.
3. area, neighborhood, zone, section
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. It is a fairly open locality.
2. A gunfight started on Friday between militants and security forces in Kashmir's Sopore town. "Security forces on information about the presence of militants, surrounded a house in Chana mohalla locality today (Friday) morning.
PRONOUNCE:
lo·cal·i·ty - लोकैलटी / लोकैलिटी
LINK: LOCALITY
WORD: SURROUND
MEANING:
1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle: the magnetic field that surrounds the earth.
2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication: The police surrounded the house.
3. enclosed, bounded, fenced, walled
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A gunfight started on Friday between militants and security forces in Kashmir's Sopore town. "Security forces on information about the presence of militants, surrounded a house in Chana mohalla locality today (Friday) morning.
2. Police had surrounded the criminals house.
PRONOUNCE:
sur·round - सराउन्ड
LINK: SURROUND
WORD: MEAGRE
MEANING:
1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.
3. Having little flesh; lean.
4. insufficient, inadequate
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gulbarg massacre: Zakia Jakri wonders why such meagre sentences for convicts
2. No one could survive on the meagre rations provided by the captors.
PRONOUNCE:
mea·ger - मीगर
LINK: MEAGRE
WORD: ENDORSE
MEANING:
1.
a. To express approval of or give support to, especially by public statement; sanction: endorse a change in policy; endorse a political candidate.
b. To recommend (a product), often in exchange for payment, as in an advertisement.
2. To write one's signature on the back of (a check) to obtain the amount payable or to make the amount payable available to a third party or to the bearer.
3. To write one's signature on the back of (an instrument) to transfer the rights available under that instrument to another party.
4. To place (one's signature), as on a contract, to indicate approval of its contents or terms.
5. To acknowledge (receipt of payment) by signing a bill, draft, or other instrument.
6. sanction, approva, ratify, recommend
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. No, Ted Cruz did not endorse Hillary Clinton
2. He never endorses my views.
PRONOUNCE:
en·dorse - एन्डॉर्स
LINK: ENDORSE
WORD: SUCCOR
MEANING:
1. Assistance in time of distress; relief.
2. One that affords assistance or relief: "There is a higher beauty still in ... being a succor to the oppressed" (Charles Sumner).
3. help, aid, support, assistance
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. TE3N movie review: Amitabh Bachchan masters while Nawazuddin and Vidya succour in this 'whodunnit' thriller
PRONOUNCE:
suc·cor - सकर
LINK: SUCCOR
WORD: VULGAR
MEANING:
1.
a. Crudely indecent: a vulgar joke.
b. Deficient in taste, consideration, or refinement: "that vulgar jockeying for position around the bedside of the gravely ill" (Susan Sontag).
c. Given to crudity or tastelessness, as in one's behavior: "He relentlessly vilified the studio executives as vulgar, ignorant hoodlums" (Marion Meade).
d. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious: the huge vulgar houses and cars of the newly rich.
2. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular: the technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
3. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.
4. bad-mannered, uncouth
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kangana Ranaut on Censorship of Queen: Nothing Vulgar About a Bra
2. His behaviour is vulgar
PRONOUNCE:
vul·gar - वल्गर
LINK: VULGAR
WORD: SNARL
MEANING:
1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth.
2. To speak angrily or threateningly.
3. roars, sneers
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bengaluru's traffic snarls: No lesson learnt from last year
PRONOUNCE:
snarl - स्नार्ल
LINK: SNARL
WORD: FUZZ
MEANING:
1. To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.
2. To make blurred or indistinct: fuzzing the difference between the two candidates; worked quickly to fuzz up the details of the scandal.
3. down, blur, cloud
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. TE3N movie review: The plot of this Big B, Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer has too much fuzz
PRONOUNCE:
fuzz - फज़
LINK: FUZZ
WORD: UNDERTONE
MEANING:
1. An underlying or implied tendency or meaning; an undercurrent.
2. A tone of low pitch or volume, especially of spoken sound.
3.
a. A pale or subdued color.
b. A color applied under or seen through another color.
4. hints, suggestions
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. They spoke to each other in undertones during the meeting.
2. TE3N movie review: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan starrer TE3N is a dark story with vicious undertones.
PRONOUNCE:
un·der·tone - अन्डर्टोन
LINK: UNDERTONE
WORD: VICIOUS
MEANING:
1. Mean-spirited or deliberately hurtful; malicious: vicious gossip.
2.
a. Extremely violent or injurious; cruel: a vicious blow to the stomach; vicious tactics in suppressing a rebellion.
b. Marked by an aggressive disposition. Used chiefly of animals.
c. Disposed to violent or destructive behavior: a vicious dictator.
3. Severe, powerful, or intense; fierce: a vicious storm.
4.
a. Having the nature of vice; evil, immoral, or depraved: "All men who succeed ... in finance in New York at last ... return to their native towns, assert that cities are vicious, marry their childhood sweethearts" (Sinclair Lewis).
b. Given to vice, immorality, or depravity: "The sum and substance of it was, That Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents" (Charles Dickens).
5. Faulty or defective: a forced, vicious style of prose.
6. cruel, nasty, brutal
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jane is suffering from vicious migrane
2. TE3N movie review: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan starrer TE3N is a dark story with vicious undertones.
PRONOUNCE:
vi·cious - विशस
LINK: VICIOUS
WORD: EXCLUSIVE
MEANING:
1. Excluding or tending to exclude: exclusive barriers.
2. Not allowing something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive conditions.
3. Not divided or shared with others: exclusive publishing rights.
4. Not accompanied by others; single or sole: your exclusive function.
5. Complete; undivided: gained their exclusive attention.
6. Not including the specified extremes or limits, but only the area between them: 10-14, exclusive; that is, 11, 12, and 13.
7. Excluding some or most, as from membership or participation: an exclusive club.
8. Catering to a wealthy clientele; expensive: exclusive shops.
9. Linguistics Relating to or being a first person plural pronoun that excludes the addressee, such as we in the sentence Pat and I are in town, so we can meet you for lunch.
10. wholly, solely, completely, entirely
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She belongs to an exclusive club.
2. Exclusive: Bellevue coach says money from boosters is '100%' within rules
PRONOUNCE:
ex·clu·sive - इक्स्क्लूसिव
LINK: EXCLUSIVE
WORD: COACH
MEANING:
1.
a. A bus, especially one designed for long-distance passenger service.
b. A railroad passenger car.
c. A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
d. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage with an elevated exterior seat for the driver; a stagecoach.
2. Coach class.
3. Sports A person who trains or directs athletes or athletic teams.
4.
a. A person who gives instruction, as in singing or acting.
b. A private tutor employed to prepare a student for an examination.
4. trainer, teacher, instructor
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ramakanth Achrekar coached Sachin Tendulkar.
2. Exclusive: Bellevue coach says money from boosters is '100%' within rules
PRONOUNCE:
coach - कोच
LINK: COACH
WORD: RULE
MEANING:
1.
a. Governing power or its possession or use; authority.
b. The duration of such power.
2.
a. An authoritative, prescribed direction for conduct, especially one of the regulations governing procedure in a legislative body or a regulation observed by the players in a game, sport, or contest.
b. The body of regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for governing the conduct of its members.
3. A usual, customary, or generalized course of action or behavior: "The rule of life in the defense bar ordinarily is to go along and get along" (Scott Turow).
4. A generalized statement that describes what is true in most or all cases: In this office, hard work is the rule, not the exception.
5. Mathematics A standard method or procedure for solving a class of problems.
6. Law
a. A court decision serving as a precedent for subsequent cases: the Miranda rule.
b. A legal doctrine or principle.
c. A court order.
d. A minor regulation or law.
e. A statute or regulation governing the court process: rule of procedure; rule of evidence.
7. See ruler.
8. Printing A thin metal strip of various widths and designs, used to print borders or lines, as between columns.
9. law, instruction, regulation
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. She has broken the rules of the match and will have to be disqualified.
2. Exclusive: Bellevue coach says money from boosters is '100%' within rules
PRONOUNCE:
rule - रूल
LINK: RULE
WORD: ARREST
MEANING:
1. To stop; check: a brake that automatically arrests motion; arrested the growth of the tumor.
2. To seize and hold under the authority of law.
3. To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.
4. capture, seizure, detention
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Increase of crime rate led to several arrests.
2. Man Arrested After Standoff on Freeway
PRONOUNCE:
ar·rest - अरेस्ट
LINK: ARREST
WORD: STANDOFF
MEANING:
1. A situation in which one force or party neutralizes or counterbalances the other and further action is prevented; a standstill: a standoff between demonstrators and the police.
2. A tie or draw, as in a contest.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Man Arrested After Standoff on Freeway
PRONOUNCE:
stand·off - स्टैन्डॉफ
LINK: STANDOFF
WORD: FREEWAY
MEANING:
1. See expressway.
2. A highway without tolls.
3. expressway, parkway
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Man Arrested After Standoff on Freeway
PRONOUNCE:
free·way - फ्रीवे / फ्रीवै
LINK: FREEWAY
WORD: ENROCHMENT
MEANING:
1. infringement, violation
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Anti-encroachment drive: Mathura SP among 14 killed in clashes
PRONOUNCE:
enrochment
LINK: ENROCHMENT
WORD: HOST
MEANING:
1. One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.
2. A person who manages an inn or hotel.
3. One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event: the city chosen as host for the Olympic Games.
4. The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.
5. Biology
a. An organism on which or in which another organism lives.
b. A cell that has been infected by a virus or other infective agent.
6. Medicine The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.
7. Computers
a. A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem.
b. A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network, such as the Internet.
8. present, introduce
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shah Rukh Khan to host a bash for Apple CEO
2. Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games
PRONOUNCE:
host - होस्ट
LINK: HOST
WORD: AMPUTATE
MEANING:
1. elimination, exclusion, subtraction
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Dawood Ibrahim likely to undergo amputation: Doctors
PRONOUNCE:
am·pu·tate - ऐम्प्यटैट / ऐम्प्युटेट
LINK: AMPUTATE
WORD: BASH
MEANING:
1. party, celebration
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shah Rukh Khan to host a bash for Apple CEO
PRONOUNCE:
bash - बैश
LINK: BASH
WORD: CARNAGE
MEANING:
1.
a. Large-scale killing or maiming, as in war or an accident.
b. A number of violently killed or maimed bodies.
2. Informal Overwhelming defeat, loss, or destruction.
3. killing, bloodshed, slaughter, massacre
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Godhra carnage: ATS nabs key accused after 14 yrs; seven still at large
2. The terrains of Kargil witnesses a carnage last year.
PRONOUNCE:
car·nage - कार्निज
LINK: CARNAGE
WORD: RECOVER
MEANING:
1.
a. To get back (something lost or taken away), especially by making an effort: recovered his keys near the water cooler; recovered the ball in the end zone.
b. To search for, find, and bring back: divers recovered the body; researchers recovering fossils.
c. To get back control or possession of (land) by military conquest or legal action.
2.
a. To have (the use, possession, or control of something) restored: recovered the use of his fingers.
b. To regain the use of (a faculty) or be restored to (a normal or usual condition): recovered his wits after hearing the news; recovered his health after treatment.
c. To cause to be restored to a normal or usual condition: After two weeks on the medicine, he was fully recovered.
3. To discover or be able to follow (a trail or scent) after losing it.
4.
a. To procure (usable substances, such as metal) from unusable substances, such as ore or waste.
b. To bring (land) into or return to a suitable condition for use; reclaim.
5. To bring under observation again: "watching the comet since it was first recovered—first spotted since its 1910 visit" (Christian Science Monitor).
6. regain, improve
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The skater quivkly recovered his balance.
2. The economy is recovering after a period of recession.
PRONOUNCE:
re·cov·er - रिकवर
LINK: RECOVER
WORD: PASTURES
MEANING:
1.
a. A tract of land that supports grass or other vegetation eaten by domestic grazing animals.
b. Such vegetation, especially that eaten by domestic grazing animals.
2. The feeding or grazing of animals.
3. meedows, fields, territories, grounds
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1.1. The Garden City just broke its promise of greener, more serene pastures and unleashed upon its citizens inglorious blaze.
PRONOUNCE:
pas·ture - पास्ट्यूर / पैस्चर
LINK: PASTURES
