CONCORD

WORD: CONCORD

MEANING:
1. Harmony or agreement of interests or feelings; accord.
2. A treaty establishing peaceful relations.
3. Grammar Agreement between words in person, number, gender, or case.
4. Music A harmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones.
5. a state of accord or agreement

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. After days of deliberation, the jury finally reached concord and was able to give the judge a verdict.

PRONOUNCE:
con·cord - कांगकर्ड / कान्कॉर्ड / कान्कर्ड

LINK: CONCORD

DESPONDENT

WORD: DESPONDENT

MEANING:
1. hopeless, low, dejected
2. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. See Synonyms at depressed.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Daily 202: Democrats despondent, Trump emboldened after GOP victory in Georgia special election

PRONOUNCE:
de·spon·dent - डिस्पान्डन्ट

LINK: DESPONDENT

RETRACT

WORD: RETRACT

MEANING:
1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement.
2. To draw back or in: a plane retracting its landing gear.
3. Linguistics a. To utter (a sound) with the tongue drawn back. b. To draw back (the tongue).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. CNN accepts resignations of 3 involved in retracted story

PRONOUNCE:
re·tract - रिट्रैक्ट / रीट्रैक्ट

LINK: RETRACT

EMBOLDENED

WORD: EMBOLDENED

MEANING:
1. To foster boldness or courage in. See Synonyms at encourage. 2. encouraged, heartened, inspired

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Daily 202: Democrats despondent, Trump emboldened after GOP victory in Georgia special election

PRONOUNCE:
em·bold·en - एम्बोल्डन

LINK: EMBOLDENED

REGURGITATE

WORD: REGURGITATE

MEANING:
1. To cause to pour back, especially to cast up (partially digested food).
2. To repeat (facts or other learned items) from memory with little reflection.
3. To pour out or throw back.   

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The teacher wanted us to examine ideas rather than to regurgitate memorized facts.

PRONOUNCE:
re·gur·gi·tate - रिगर्जटैट / रिगर्जिटेट

LINK: REGURGITATE

DAIS

WORD: DAIS

MEANING:
1. A raised platform, as in a lecture hall, for speakers or honored guests.
2. stage, stand

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Amitabh Bachchan sharing the dais with MNS chief Raj Thackeray was an "insult" to north Indians.

PRONOUNCE:
da·is - डेइस / डैज़

LINK: DAIS

CONDEMN

WORD: CONDEMN

MEANING:
1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food. See Synonyms at criticize.
2. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
3. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
4. To force (someone) to experience, endure, or do something: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana).
5. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
6. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.
7. criticize, judge, attack

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Opposition in Rajya Sabha condemns rustication of JNU students
2. Most leaders roundly condemned the attack.

PRONOUNCE:
con·demn - कन्डेम

LINK: CONDEMN

TROVE

WORD: TROVE

MEANING:
1. A collection of valuable items discovered or found; a treasure-trove.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Alibaba Sees Mobile Games as Latest Trove
1. Hidden Trove of Suspected Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina

PRONOUNCE:
trove - ट्रोव

LINK: TROVE

DIATRIBE

WORD: DIATRIBE

MEANING:
1. A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A diatribe against consumerism.

PRONOUNCE:
di·a·tribe - डाइअट्राइब

LINK: DIATRIBE

SPRUCE

WORD: SPRUCE

MEANING:
1. To make neat and trim:

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shah Rukh Khan's wife Gauri Khan, who is a mother of three children, is certainly is a star in her own right! Gauri has, over the years, earned herself the title of one of India's coolest interior designers and has spruced up homes of many celebrity

PRONOUNCE:
spruce - स्प्रूस

LINK: SPRUCE

INDEMNITY

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, protection, cover, security


EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Jab Harry Met Sejal' mini trailer 2: Anushka Sharma discloses a 'no-sex' indemnity bond to Shah Rukh Khan

PRONOUNCE:
in·dem·ni·ty - इन्डेम्नटी / इन्डेम्निटी / इन्डेम्निटी

LINK: INDEMNITY

TIMBER

WORD: TIMBER

MEANING:
1.
a. Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.
b. Wood used as a building material; lumber.
2.
a. A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.
b. Nautical A rib in a ship's frame.
3. A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity: That trainee is executive timber.
4. wood prepared for use in building and carpentry

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. tenants had the right to cut standing timber.

PRONOUNCE:
tim·ber - टिम्बर

LINK: TIMBER

FORAY

WORD: FORAY

MEANING:
1. A sudden raid or military advance.
2. A venture or an initial attempt, especially outside one's usual area: an actor's foray into politics.
3. raid, incursion, venture, attack, assault

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. At a certain point in 'Gods of Egypt', an extravagantly silly foray into Afroasiatic mythology from the director Alex Proyas, one wounded deity begs another to show him mercy

PRONOUNCE:
for·ay - फॉरे / फॉरै

LINK: FORAY

JUVENILE

WORD: JUVENILE

MEANING:
1.
a. Not fully grown or developed; young.
b. Of or characteristic of a young animal that has not reached sexual maturity: a bird still in juvenile plumage.
2. Characteristic of, intended for, or appropriate for children or young people: juvenile fashions.
3. Marked by immaturity; childish: juvenile behavior. See Synonyms at young.
4. Geology Relating to or being water, gas, or a mineral-rich fluid believed to have originated from magma and to have come to the earth's surface for the first time.
5. physiologically immature or undeveloped

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He criticized his juvenile behavior at the party

PRONOUNCE:
ju·ve·nile - जूवनल / जूवनाइल

LINK: JUVENILE

ARTICULATE

WORD: ARTICULATE

MEANING:
1. Composed of distinct, meaningful syllables or words: articulate speech.
2. Expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language: an articulate speaker.
3. Characterized by the use of clear, expressive language: an articulate essay.
4. Having the power of speech.
5. Biology Consisting of sections united by joints; jointed.
6. enunciate, pronounce, speak, say

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Madhur Bhandarkar’s hard-hitting take on the fashion world may have been a woman-centric film but it didn’t miss out on a strong homosexual tale to articulate the politics of the industry

PRONOUNCE:
ar·tic·u·late - आर्टिक्यलट / आर्टिक्यलैट / आर्टिक्यलट / आर्टिक्यलिट / आर्टिक्यलेट

LINK: ARTICULATE

ADIEU

WORD: ADIEU

MEANING:
1. Used to express farewell.
2. a farewell, a good bye

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There was a bittersweet adieu between me and my friend leaving for college.

PRONOUNCE:
a·dieu - अडू

LINK: ADIEU

HECKLE

WORD: HECKLE

MEANING:
1. To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger.
2. To comb (flax or hemp) with a hatchel.
3. jeered, interrupted, boored

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Watch: Wasim Akram, TV crew heckled live on air after India-Australia World T20 match

PRONOUNCE:
heck·le - हेकल

LINK: HECKLE

PRETEXT

WORD: PRETEXT

MEANING:
1. A reason or excuse given to hide the real reason for something.
2. a fake excuse or reason

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Under pretext of being a police officer, the gang member gained entry into the rival gang leader’s apartment.

PRONOUNCE:
here - here

LINK: PRETEXT

STALEMATE

WORD: STALEMATE

MEANING:
1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock.
2. A position in chess resulting in a draw because the player whose turn it is, though not currently in check, would be put into check by any possible move.
3. impasse, deadlock

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jammu & Kashmir stalemate: Mehbooba Mufti has to make up her mind, says Arun Jaitley

PRONOUNCE:
stale·mate - स्टेल्मेट / स्टैल्मैट

LINK: STALEMATE

DEFERENTIAL

WORD: DEFERENTIAL

MEANING:
1. Marked by or exhibiting deference.
2. showing respect for another’s authority

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Donata is always excessively deferential to any kind of authority figure.

PRONOUNCE:
def·er·en·tial - डेफरेन्चल / डेफरेन्शल / डेफरेन्शल

LINK: DEFERENTIAL

RIG

WORD: RIG

MEANING:
1. To provide with a harness or equipment; fit out.
2. Nautical
a. To equip (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
b. To fit (sails or shrouds, for example) to masts and yards.
3. Informal To dress, clothe, or adorn: The costumer rigged out the actors in peasant clothing.
4. To make or construct in haste or in a makeshift manner: rig up a tent for the night.
5. To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain: rig a prizefight; rig stock prices.
6. fit, fixed

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1.Abcdefg8 is the same password you rigged in for Me! 

PRONOUNCE:
rig - रिग

LINK: RIG

INSULAR

WORD: INSULAR

MEANING:
1.
a. Of, relating to, or constituting an island.
b. Living or located on an island.
2.
a. Suggestive of the isolated life of an island: "He is an exceedingly insular man, so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist" (Leonard Michaels).
b. Circumscribed and detached in outlook and experience; narrow or provincial.
3. Anatomy Of or relating to isolated tissue or an island of tissue.
4. narrow-minded and separated

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Because of the sensitive nature of their jobs, those who work for MI5 must remain insular and generally only spend time with each other.

PRONOUNCE:
in·su·lar - इन्सलर

LINK: INSULAR

ATMOSPHERE

WORD: ATMOSPHERE

MEANING:
1. The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.
2. The air or climate in a specific place.
3. Abbr. atm Physics A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals).
4. A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude: an atmosphere of distrust among the electorate.
5. The dominant tone or mood of a work of art.
6. An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and pleasing one, associated with a particular place: a restaurant with an Old World atmosphere.
7. air, sky, troposphere

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mars Atmosphere: Oxygen Detected For First Time In 40 Years

PRONOUNCE:
at·mos·phere - ऐट्मस्फिर / ऐट्मस्फीर

LINK: ATMOSPHERE

TOIL

WORD: TOIL

MEANING:
1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.
2. To proceed with difficulty: "The old woman ... proceeded to toil up the narrow staircase before us" (James Joyce).
3. Work extremely hard or incessantly

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Club members had toiled long and hard to build these rooms and the photographers were showing no respect.

PRONOUNCE:
toil - टॉइल

LINK: TOIL

DISMAY

WORD: DISMAY

MEANING:
1. To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage: "young executives dismayed by the corporate ladder" (Peter Grose). See Synonyms at discourage.
2. To upset or distress: "Parents may be dismayed by the mess from sand or paint spread around by the pair or group at play" (Elizabeth Noble).
3. disappoint, shock

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Trump dismays, angers allies by abandoning global climate pact

PRONOUNCE:
dis·may - डिस्मे / डिस्मै

LINK: DISMAY

PREVENT

WORD: PREVENT

MEANING:
1. To keep from happening; avert: took steps to prevent the strike.
2. To keep (a person or thing) from doing something; impede: prevented us from winning; prevented the disease from spreading.
3. Archaic
a. To anticipate or counter in advance.
b. To come before; precede.
4. stop, avert, avoid

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Invisible hand prevented probe in chopper deal: Parrikar

PRONOUNCE:
pre·vent - प्रिवेन्ट / प्रीवेन्ट

LINK: PREVENT

WALKOUT

WORD: WALKOUT

MEANING:
1. A labor strike.
2. The act of leaving or quitting a meeting, company, or organization, especially as a sign of protest.
3. strike, protest, stoppage

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. During the discussion on the AgustaWestland deal, an angry Congress repeatedly clashed with the ruling BJP and later staged a walkout.

PRONOUNCE:
walk·out - वॉकाउट

LINK: WALKOUT

FUNFORMATIVE

WORD: FUNFORMATIVE

MEANING:
1. a fun and entertaining way of giving information.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. To create paper blocks  fun formative assessment  that keeps kids engaged | 

PRONOUNCE:
funformative

LINK: FUNFORMATIVE

CLASH

WORD: CLASH

MEANING:
1. To collide with a loud, harsh, usually metallic noise: cymbals clashing.
2.
a. To meet in violent conflict: armies that clashed on the plain.
b. To be in opposition or disagreement: an eyewitness account that clashed with published reports.
3. To create an unpleasant visual impression when placed together: colors that clash.
4. clatter, conflict, battle

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. During the discussion on the AgustaWestland deal, an angry Congress repeatedly clashed with the ruling BJP and later staged a walkout.

PRONOUNCE:
clash - क्लैश

LINK: CLASH

NOODIE

WORD: NOODIE

MEANING:
1. a sweatshirt without a hood

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Where'd you get your noodie? It's so cute! 

PRONOUNCE:
noodie

LINK: NOODIE