WORD: WHIMS
MEANING:
1. A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy: ""More than five hundred of these men would never see another sunset, yet a holiday atmosphere prevailed; they joked with each other as they marched, dropping out again for blackberries when the whim struck them, despite stern new orders to the contrary"" (William Marvel).
2. Arbitrary thought or impulse: ""I dreamed of having the golden flesh, the huge muscles of half-naked gods and goddesses who did whatever they wanted to do, ruling the universe according to their whims"" (John Edgar Wideman).
3. A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 17 deras in Haryana, Punjab were run at Gurmeet Ram Rahim's whims and fancies, HC told
PRONOUNCE:
whim - विम / ह्विम
LINK: WHIMS
WORD: OVERTURE
MEANING:
1. Music
a. An instrumental composition intended especially as an introduction to an extended work, such as an opera or oratorio.
b. A similar orchestral work intended for independent concert performance.
2. An introductory section or part, as of a poem; a prelude.
3. An act, offer, or proposal that indicates readiness to undertake a course of action or open a relationship.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. South-North Korea Border Talks Might Follow Kim Jong Un's Recent Overture
PRONOUNCE:
o·ver·ture - ओवर्चर
LINK: OVERTURE
WORD: SMEAR
MEANING:
1.
a. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
b. To apply by spreading or daubing: smeared suntan lotion on my face and arms.
c. To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places: The ink on the poster was smeared.
2. To stain or attempt to destroy the reputation of; vilify: political enemies who smeared his name.
3. Slang To defeat utterly.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Lawmakers attempting to smear the FBI's reputation signals that Mueller may be closing in on Trump's circle
PRONOUNCE:
smear - स्मिर / स्मीर
LINK: SMEAR
WORD: QUACK
MEANING:
1. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.
2. A charlatan; a mountebank.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 20 found HIV+ as quack treats them with same needle
PRONOUNCE:
quack - क्वैक
LINK: QUACK
WORD: STERN
MEANING:
1. Hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character: a stern disciplinarian. See Synonyms at severe.
2. Showing or expressing displeasure or disapproval; forbidding or harsh: a stern face; a stern voice.
3. Firm or unyielding; uncompromising: stern resistance.
4. Difficult to endure; oppressive: stern necessity.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Pakistan PM reluctant to take stern action against JuD: Report
PRONOUNCE:
stern - स्टर्न
LINK: STERN
WORD: STRANGULATE
MEANING:
1. To strangle.
2. Medicine To compress, constrict, or obstruct (an organ, duct, or other body part) so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid: strangulate an intestinal hernia.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Facebook friend' strangulates woman with shoe lace for refusing to have sex
PRONOUNCE:
stran·gu·late - स्ट्रैंगग्यलेट / स्ट्रैंगग्यलैट
LINK: STRANGULATE
WORD: ECSTATIC
MEANING:
1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy.
2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. After ten years, Apple is totally changing how it makes iPhone software — and users should be ecstatic
PRONOUNCE:
ec·stat·ic - एक्स्टैटिक
LINK: ECSTATIC
WORD: RHETORIC
MEANING:
1.
a. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
b. A treatise or book discussing this art.
2. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
3.
a. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject: fiery political rhetoric.
b. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
4. Verbal communication; discourse.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Narendra Modi's Parliament speech: Blistering rhetoric apart, PM's deification of Sardar Patel may need fact check
PRONOUNCE:
rhet·o·ric - रेटरिक
LINK: RHETORIC
WORD: CHORTLE
MEANING:
1. A snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Renuka Chowdhury regressed into a chortling child in House of Elders during Narendra Modi's Parliament reply
PRONOUNCE:
chor·tle - चॉर्टल
LINK: CHORTLE
WORD: BLISTERING
MEANING:
1. Intensely hot: a blistering sun.
2. Harsh; severe: blistering criticism.
3. Very rapid: a blistering pace.
4. Producing a blister or blisters: a blistering agent.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Narendra Modi's Parliament speech: Blistering rhetoric apart, PM's deification of Sardar Patel may need fact check
PRONOUNCE:
blis·ter·ing - ब्लिस्टरिंग
LINK: BLISTERING
WORD: REGRESS
MEANING:
1. To return to a previous, usually worse or less developed state: When I left the country, my ability to speak the language regressed.
2. To have a tendency to approach or go back to a statistical mean.
3. To move backward or away from a reference point; recede: The seas regressed as the glaciers grew larger.
v.tr. Psychology
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Renuka Chowdhury regressed into a chortling child in House of Elders during Narendra Modi's Parliament reply
PRONOUNCE:
re·gress - रिग्रेस / रीग्रेस / रिग्रेस
LINK: REGRESS
WORD: DEIFICATION
MEANING:
1.
a. The act or process of deifying.
b. The condition of being deified.
2. One that embodies the qualities of a god.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Narendra Modi's Parliament speech: Blistering rhetoric apart, PM's deification of Sardar Patel may need fact check
PRONOUNCE:
de·i·fi·ca·tion - डीअफकेशन / डीअफकैशन
LINK: DEIFICATION
WORD: DEBUNK
MEANING:
1. To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of: debunk a supposed miracle drug.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Deal me kuch kala hai': Rahul Gandhi debunks 'Mr Jaitlie's lies' on Rafale
PRONOUNCE:
de·bunk - डिबंगक
LINK: DEBUNK
WORD: TONAL
MEANING:
1. Of or relating to tones, a tone, or tonality.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. PadMan isn’t a particularly good film. It has tonal problems, swinging between commonplace-ness and flat-out filmi-ness, because it is trying to appeal to many constituencies at the same time.
PRONOUNCE:
ton·al - टोनल
LINK: TONAL
WORD: BIGOTRY
MEANING:
1. The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Bigotry And Islamophobia In Bhansali's "Padmaavat"
PRONOUNCE:
big·ot·ry - बिगट्री
LINK: BIGOTRY
WORD: FELICITATION
MEANING:
1. an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. MS Dhoni you've been an inspirational leader: Anil Kumble in felicitation ceremony, watch video
PRONOUNCE:
fe•lic•i•ta•tion - फिलिसिटेशन
LINK: FELICITATION
WORD: STIFLES
MEANING:
1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation.
3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
4. chokes, suppresses
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Umesh Yadav stifles Australia on spin-conducive Pune track
PRONOUNCE:
sti·fle - स्टाइफल
LINK: STIFLES
WORD: POLITY
MEANING:
1. The form of government of a nation, state, church, or organization.
2. An organized society, such as a nation, having a specific form of government: ""His alien philosophy found no roots in the American polity"" (New York Times).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The new Congress strategy in Gujarat points to a worrying polity
PRONOUNCE:
pol·i·ty - पालटी / पालिटी
LINK: POLITY
WORD: PERSUADED
MEANING:
1. To cause (someone) to accept a point of view or to undertake a course of action by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty: "to make children fit to live in a society by persuading them to learn and accept its codes" (Alan W. Watts). See Usage Note at convince.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Never any hesitation': Trump was quickly persuaded to support memo's release
PRONOUNCE:
per·suade - पर्स्वेड / पर्स्वैड
LINK: PERSUADED
WORD: FRANTIC
MEANING:
1. Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry.
2. Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key.
3. Archaic Mentally deranged.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. CCTV shows Delhi photographer frantic, on call, minutes before lover's kin stab him
PRONOUNCE:
fran·tic - फ्रैन्टिक
LINK: FRANTIC
WORD: HESITATION
MEANING:
1. The act or an instance of hesitating.
2. The state of being hesitant.
3. A pause or faltering in speech.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Never any hesitation': Trump was quickly persuaded to support memo's release
PRONOUNCE:
hes·i·ta·tion - हेज़टैशन / हेज़िटेशन
LINK: HESITATION
WORD: ASTUTE
MEANING:
1. Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns. See Synonyms at shrewd.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. He looked in complete control and sailed through for most of his 79 runs playing seamers and spinners with astute footwork.
PRONOUNCE:
as·tute - अस्टूट
LINK: ASTUTE
WORD: INCEST
MEANING:
1. Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
2. The crime of sexual relations with a person defined by statute as too closely related.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Father-daughter couple arrested for incest after having love child
PRONOUNCE:
in·cest - इन्सेस्ट
LINK: INCEST
WORD: QUASH
MEANING:
1. to subdue forcefully and completely; put down; suppress
2. to annul or make void (a law, decision, etc)
3. (Law) to reject (an indictment, writ, etc) as invalid
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Defamation Case: Arun Jaitley Asks Court To Quash Arvind Kejriwal's Plea
PRONOUNCE:
quash - क्वाश / क्वॉश
LINK: QUASH
WORD: AWASH
MEANING:
1.
a. Washed by the sea.
b. Washing about.
2. In such a position or way as to be covered with or as if with water.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Love awash in acid: 'Evadu' re-run in crime of passion
PRONOUNCE:
a·wash - अवाश
LINK: AWASH
WORD: FRIGATE
MEANING:
1. A warship that is smaller than a destroyer and used primarily for escort duty.
2. A high-speed, medium-sized sailing war vessel of the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s.
3. Obsolete A fast, light vessel, such as a sailboat.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. HMS St Albans: Russian warship escorted by UK frigate in North Sea
PRONOUNCE:
frig·ate - फ्रिगट / फ्रिगिट
LINK: FRIGATE
WORD: HOBBLING
MEANING:
1. to walk lamely; limp.
2. to proceed irregularly and haltingly.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Hobbling, heroic Steyn earns skipper's praise
PRONOUNCE:
hob•ble - हाबल
LINK: HOBBLING
WORD: COPTIC
MEANING:
1. Of or relating to the Copts, the Coptic Church, or the Coptic language.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gunman launches deadly attack on Coptic church near Cairo
PRONOUNCE:
Cop·tic
LINK: COPTIC
