MINUSCULE

WORD: MINUSCULE

MEANING:
1. Very small; tiny. See Synonyms at small.
2. Of, relating to, or written in minuscule.
3. tiny, little, microscopic

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shipping a final version of the Mozilla Firefox browser for the Windows 8 "Metro" environment "would be a mistake," according to a Mozilla vice president, because of the relatively minuscule number of users on the platform.

PRONOUNCE:
min·us·cule - मिनस्क्यूल

LINK: MINUSCULE

PUNITIVE

WORD: PUNITIVE

MEANING:
1. Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment; punishing.
2. disciplinary, castigatory, penal, corrective

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Hulk Hogan-Gawker jury awards $25M in punitive damages
2. Army says destroyed Pakistan border posts along LoC, releases video of 'punitive' firing

PRONOUNCE:
pu·ni·tive - प्यूनटिव / प्यूनिटिव

LINK: PUNITIVE

GALORE

WORD: GALORE

MEANING:
1. In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs ... and fireworks galore" (Anne Armstrong).
2. abundant, plentiful, copious, in large numbers

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Confidence galore for VVS Laxman, Sunrisers Hyderabad players ahead of IPL 9
2. Gold, glitter, politicians galore: Reddy daughter's Rs 500-cr wedding on I-T radar

PRONOUNCE:
ga·lore - गलॉर / गलोर

LINK: GALORE

ELIXIR

WORD: ELIXIR

MEANING:
1. A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine.
2. a. See philosophers' stone. b. A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life. c. A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills.
3. An underlying principle.
4. A substance or liquid which is believed to cure illness and give eternal life

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The salesman was selling an elixir that he said would protect us all from the plague.

PRONOUNCE:
e·lix·ir - इलिक्सर

LINK: ELIXIR

CONSECUTIVE

WORD: CONSECUTIVE

MEANING:
1. Following one after another without interruption; successive: was absent on three consecutive days; won five consecutive games on the road.
2. Marked by logical sequence.
3. Grammar Expressing consequence or result: a consecutive clause.
4. successive, uninterrupted, following

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Unstoppable Australia Chalk Up Third Consecutive Win

PRONOUNCE:
con·sec·u·tive - कन्सेक्यटिव

LINK: CONSECUTIVE

SECURE

WORD: SECURE

MEANING:
1. Free from danger or attack: a secure fortress.
2. Free from risk of loss; safe: Her papers were secure in the vault.
3. Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons: Only one telephone line in the embassy was secure.
4. Free from fear, anxiety, or doubt: felt secure in his old job.
5.
a. Not likely to fail or give way; stable: a secure stepladder.
b. Firmly fastened: a secure lock.
6. Reliable; dependable: secure investments.
7. Assured; certain: With three goals in the first period they had a secure victory, but somehow they lost.
8. Archaic Careless or overconfident.
9. safe, protected, locked


EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Australia secure spot in Sultan Azlan Shah Cup final

PRONOUNCE:
se·cure - सिक्युर

LINK: SECURE

AMBIT

WORD: AMBIT

MEANING:
1. Sphere or scope, as of influence. See Synonyms at range.
2. Archaic An external boundary; a circuit.
3. realm, domain, territory

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jaitley firm on excise duty on jewellers, says 'luxury item' cannot remain out of tax ambit

PRONOUNCE:
am·bit - ऐम्बिट

LINK: AMBIT

DEMEAN

WORD: DEMEAN

MEANING:
1. To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class.
2. degrading, disgracing, lowring

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Insulting Harsha Bhogle is demeaning a self-made Indian who makes all of us proud

PRONOUNCE:
de·mean - डिमीन

LINK: DEMEAN

AVOUCH

WORD: AVOUCH

MEANING:
1. To declare the provable truth or validity of; affirm: She avouched that she herself was innocent.
2. To corroborate or confirm; vouch for: Has this report been avouched?
3. To accept responsibility for (an action, for example); acknowledge.
4. To avow; confess.
5. to declare freely and openly; to assert

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Standing at the witness stand, I stated that I could avouch for the sterling reputation of Jennifer. 

PRONOUNCE:
a·vouch - अवाउच

LINK: AVOUCH

PURGE

WORD: PURGE

MEANING:
1. a. To clear (a container or space, for example) of something unclean or unwanted: purge a water pipe of air. b. To remove or eliminate (unwanted physical matter): purge the air from a water pipe.
2. a. To rid (a person or thing) of something unwanted: "He had purged his brain of grandiose and debilitating dreams" (Tom Junod). b. To remove or eliminate (an unwanted element): attempts to purge indecent remarks from company email.
 3. Law To clear (a person) of a charge or conviction.
4. a. To rid (a nation or political party, for example) of people considered undesirable. b. To get rid of (people considered undesirable).
5. Medicine a. To cause evacuation of (the bowels). b. To induce evacuation of the bowels in (an individual).
6. Computers a. To clear (a storage device) of unwanted data. b. To delete (unwanted data) from a storage device.
7. eliminated, removed

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. I think that the item for me needs to be purged

PRONOUNCE:
purge - पर्ज

LINK: PURGE

FELONY

WORD: FELONY

MEANING:
1. One of several serious crimes, such as murder, rape, or robbery, punishable by a more stringent sentence than that given for a misdemeanor.
2. Any of several crimes in early English law that were punishable by forfeiture of land or goods and by capital or other serious punishment.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Black man attacked by white supremacists in Charlottesville faces felony charge

PRONOUNCE:
fel·o·ny - फेलनी

LINK: FELONY

ACQUIT

WORD: ACQUIT

MEANING:
1. Law To find not guilty of a criminal offense.
2. To conduct (oneself) in a specified manner: acquitted herself well during the interview.
3. Archaic To release or discharge from an obligation, such as a debt.
4. Obsolete To repay.
5. free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. she was acquitted on all counts.

PRONOUNCE:
ac·quit - अक्विट

LINK: ACQUIT

SUPREMACIST

WORD: SUPREMACIST

MEANING:
1. One who believes that a certain group is or should be supreme.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Black man attacked by white supremacists in Charlottesville faces felony charge

PRONOUNCE:
su·prem·a·cist

LINK: SUPREMACIST

RUTHLESS

WORD: RUTHLESS

MEANING:
1. Having no compassion or pity; merciless: ruthless cruelty; ruthless opportunism.
2. Having or showing no pity or compassion for others.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A ruthless manipulator

PRONOUNCE:
ruth·less - रूथ्लस / रूथ्लिस

LINK: RUTHLESS

ADVERSARY

WORD: ADVERSARY

MEANING:
1. An opponent; an enemy.
2. Adversary The Devil; Satan. Often used with the.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rahul Gandhi's new image of a humble man projects him as Narendra Modi's ideological adversary

PRONOUNCE:
ad·ver·sar·y - ऐड्वर्सेरी

LINK: ADVERSARY

EPIDEMIC

WORD: EPIDEMIC

MEANING:
1. Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza. 2. Widely prevalent: epidemic discontent.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Trump's effort to blame Obama for the opioid epidemic

PRONOUNCE:
ep·i·dem·ic - एपडेमिक / एपिडेमिक / एपिडेमिक

LINK: EPIDEMIC

KINKY

WORD: KINKY

MEANING:
1. slang given to unusual, abnormal, or deviant sexual practices
2. informal exhibiting unusual idiosyncrasies of personality; quirky; eccentric
3. informal attractive or provocative in a bizarre way: kinky clothes.
4. tangled or tightly looped, as a wire or rope
5. tightly curled, as hair
6. unusual, quirky, unnatural, odd

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Survey: Folks love kinky sex.

PRONOUNCE:
kinky - किंगकी

LINK: KINKY

OPIOID

WORD: OPIOID

MEANING:
1. Any of various compounds that bind to specific receptors in the central nervous system and have analgesic and narcotic effects, including naturally occurring substances such as morphine; synthetic and semisynthetic drugs such as methadone and oxycodone; and certain peptides produced by the body, such as endorphins. Also called opiate.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Trump's effort to blame Obama for the opioid epidemic

PRONOUNCE:
o·pi·oid

LINK: OPIOID

MUCK

WORD: MUCK

MEANING:
1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.
3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
4. Something filthy or disgusting.
5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
6. The pile of discarded cards, as in poker: threw his hand into the muck.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sona Mohapatra to Kangana Ranaut: Wish you would rise above this muck

PRONOUNCE:
muck - मक

LINK: MUCK

SCOFF

WORD: SCOFF

MEANING:
1. To show or express derision or scorn: scoffed at their complaints.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rohingya refugees scoff at Myanmar's assurances on going home

PRONOUNCE:
scoff - स्कॉफ

LINK: SCOFF

FODDER

WORD: FODDER

MEANING:
1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.
3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Her personal life has once again become fodder for headlines. But Kangana Ranaut's ambitious project Manikarnika may have hit a rough patch too?

PRONOUNCE:
fod·der - फाडर

LINK: FODDER

ABOLISH

WORD: ABOLISH

MEANING:
1. To do away with; put an end to; annul: voted to abolish the tax.
2. Archaic To destroy completely.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons awarded Nobel Peace Prize

PRONOUNCE:
a·bol·ish - अबालिश

LINK: ABOLISH

INSURGENT

WORD: INSURGENT

MEANING:
1. Rising in revolt against a government or other established authority.
2. Rebelling against the leadership of a political party.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Army conducts operations against Naga insurgents along Myanmar border

PRONOUNCE:
in·sur·gent - इन्सर्जन्ट

LINK: INSURGENT

DEMUR

WORD: DEMUR

MEANING:
1. to raise objections or show reluctance; object
2. (Law) law to raise an objection by entering a demurrer
3. archaic to hesitate; delay
4. raise objections, object, take exception, take issue

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. normally she would have accepted the challenge, but she demurred.

PRONOUNCE:
demur - डिमर

LINK: DEMUR

INFLICT

WORD: INFLICT

MEANING:
1. To cause (something injurious or harmful), as to a person, group, or area: claws that inflicted a deep wound; an attack that inflicted heavy losses; a storm that inflicted widespread damage.
2. To force to undergo or experience (something unwanted): "the piano lessons he inflicted on his son" (Christopher Miller). 
3. To deal or deliver (a blow, for example).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Army inflicts 'heavy casualties' on Naga militants along Indo-Myanmar border, denies it was surgical strike

PRONOUNCE:
in·flict - इन्फ्लिक्ट

LINK: INFLICT

EBULLIENT

WORD: EBULLIENT

MEANING:
1. Zestfully enthusiastic.
2. Boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling.
3. cheerful and full of energy

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jack always felt ebullient after drinking his morning coffee

PRONOUNCE:
e·bul·lient - इबल्यन्ट

LINK: EBULLIENT

FICKLE

WORD: FICKLE

MEANING:
1. not constant or loyal in affections.
2. likely to change, esp. due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
3. indecisive, inconsistent

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The fickle greatness of Shane Watson

PRONOUNCE:
fick•le - फिकल

LINK: FICKLE

FUROR

WORD: FUROR

MEANING:
1. A general commotion; public disorder or uproar.
2. Violent anger; frenzy.
3. A fashion adopted enthusiastically by the public; a fad.
4. A state of intense excitement or ecstasy.
5. uproad, commotion, controversy, protest

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. After a day of dramatic furor, Bombay HC declines to stay IPL opener at Wankhede

PRONOUNCE:
fu·ror - फ्युरॉर

LINK: FUROR

PROSE

WORD: PROSE

MEANING:
1. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.
2. Commonplace expression or quality.
3. Roman Catholic Church A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel.
4. style, text

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. For his fans, listening to Bhogle is a unique experience: It is a joyful mix of poetry, prose, cricket, philosophy and one-liners that make you smile every time you remember them.

PRONOUNCE:
prose - प्रोज़

LINK: PROSE

PROTRUDING

WORD: PROTRUDING

MEANING:
1. To extend or jut out; project. See Synonyms at bulge.
2. swelling

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The besotted admirer of the title is Gaurav Chandna (Shah Rukh Khan, with protruding teeth and looking years younger than he is), a West Delhi boy who is a lookalike of a fictional matinee idol, Aryan Khanna (Khan again).

PRONOUNCE:
pro·trude - प्रोट्रूड

LINK: PROTRUDING

FLOURISH

WORD: FLOURISH

MEANING:
1. To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive: The crops flourished in the rich soil.
2. To do or fare well; prosper: "No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
3. To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence: a poet who flourished in the tenth century.
4. To make bold, sweeping movements: The banner flourished in the wind.
5. grow vigorously

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Our roses are really flourishing in this nice weather.

PRONOUNCE:
flour·ish - फ्लरिश

LINK: FLOURISH