BRUNT

WORD: BRUNT

MEANING:

1. The main impact or force, as of an attack.

2. The main burden: bore the brunt of the household chores.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Himachl Pradesh, Uttarakhand, J&K bear the brunt of rains;

PRONOUNCE:

brunt - ब्रन्ट

LINK: BRUNT

SNOBBISH

WORD: SNOBBISH

MEANING:

1. Of, befitting, or resembling a snob; pretentious.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Akshay Kumar called Gold co-star Mouni Roy snobbish. 

PRONOUNCE:

snob·bish - स्नाबिश

LINK: SNOBBISH

CHUG

WORD: CHUG

MEANING:
1. To make dull explosive sounds. 2. To move or travel while making dull explosive sounds.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Satyameva Jayate box office collection Day 6: John Abraham's film chugs along

PRONOUNCE:
chug

LINK: CHUG

PESKY

WORD: PESKY

MEANING:

1. Troublesome; annoying: a pesky mosquito.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Tech Mahindra, Microsoft join hands to curb pesky calls

PRONOUNCE:
pes·ky - पेस्की

LINK: PESKY

ATTRITION

WORD: ATTRITION

MEANING:
1. A rubbing away or wearing down by friction. 2. a. A gradual reduction in number or strength because of stress or military action. b. A gradual reduction in personnel or membership because of resignation, retirement, or death, often viewed in contrast to reduction from layoffs. 3. Roman Catholic Church Repentance for sin motivated by fear of punishment rather than by love of God.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. It has been a day of attrition so far with india content in taking their time, thereby extending the lead and also gradually pulverizing england's bowlers.

PRONOUNCE:

at·tri·tion - अट्रिशन

LINK: ATTRITION

SQUABBLE

WORD: SQUABBLE

MEANING:
1. To engage in a bad-tempered argument, often over a trivial matter; bicker. See Synonyms at argue.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Fresh Pakistan-US diplomatic squabble on whether Mike Pompeo did or didn't discuss terror with Imran Khan

PRONOUNCE:

squab·ble - स्क्वाबल

LINK: SQUABBLE

PULVERIZE

WORD: PULVERIZE

MEANING:
1. To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust. 2. To overwhelm or defeat utterly: The visitors pulverized the home team.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. It has been a day of attrition so far with india content in taking their time, thereby extending the lead and also gradually pulverizing england's bowlers.

PRONOUNCE:

pul·ver·ize - पल्वराइज़

LINK: PULVERIZE

DEVOID

WORD: DEVOID

MEANING:
1. Completely lacking; destitute or empty: a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Hichki Movie Review: Rani Mukerji's brilliant act is devoid of emotional manipulation

PRONOUNCE:

de·void - डिवॉइड

LINK: DEVOID

MURKY

WORD: MURKY

MEANING:
1. Dark or dim, as from mist: a murky sky. See Synonyms at dark. 2. Darkened, clouded, or blurry: murky waters; murky images. 3. Not clearly known, understood, or expressed: a murky future; the murky world of spies; murky writing.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky license

PRONOUNCE:

murk·y - मर्की

LINK: MURKY

FURORE

WORD: FURORE

MEANING:
1. a public outburst, esp of protest; uproar 2. a sudden widespread enthusiasm for something; craze 3. frenzy; rage; madness

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kuldeep Singh Sengar was booked by the UP Police yesterday following nationwide furore over rape allegations against him

PRONOUNCE:

furore - फ्युअरॉरी

LINK: FURORE

ROT

WORD: ROT

MEANING:
1. To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition; decay. See Synonyms at decay. 2. a. To become damaged, weakened, or useless because of decay: The beams had rotted away. b. To disappear or fall by decaying: One could see the blackened areas where the branches had rotted off. 3. To deteriorate through neglect or inactivity; languish or decline: "He upset Alice by calling Washington ... a sink of boredom and saying he was rotting there" (John Dos Passos). 4. To decay morally; become degenerate.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The rot in india's batting line-up overseas starts at the top

PRONOUNCE:
rot - राट

LINK: ROT

INCEST

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. Cops: Accused incest couple, their infant dead in apparent multi-state murder-suicide

PRONOUNCE:

in·cest - इन्सेस्ट

LINK: INCEST

FENTANYL

WORD: FENTANYL

MEANING:

1. An opioid narcotic analgesic, C22H28N2O, used in its citrate form to treat chronic pain and before, during, or following surgery

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Record US fentanyl bust 'enough to kill 26 million people'

PRONOUNCE:

fen·ta·nyl 

LINK: FENTANYL

HARROWING

WORD: HARROWING

MEANING:
1. Extremely distressing; agonizing: a harrowing experience.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Maharashtra Bandh LIVE: Commuters Face Harrowing Time as Protesters Block Eastern Express Highway

PRONOUNCE:

har·row·ing - हेरोइंग

LINK: HARROWING

GRANDEUR

WORD: GRANDEUR

MEANING:
1. The quality or condition of being grand; magnificence: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God" (Gerard Manley Hopkins). 2. Nobility or greatness of character.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif add grandeur to Manish Malhotra’s show

PRONOUNCE:
gran·deur - ग्रैन्जेर / ग्रैन्डूर

LINK: GRANDEUR

JILT

WORD: JILT

MEANING:
1. To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously. 2. One who discards a lover.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Jilted lover shoots woman after break-up in northwest Delhi

PRONOUNCE:

jilt - जिल्ट

LINK: JILT

CHINK

WORD: CHINK

MEANING:

1. Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Government has a great inititative for car owners, but chinks need fixing

PRONOUNCE:

chink - चिंगक

LINK: CHINK

VARSITY

WORD: VARSITY

MEANING:
1. The principal team representing a university, college, or school in sports, games, or other competitions. 2. Chiefly British A university.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Telangana varsity turns down request for Rahul Gandhi's campus visit

PRONOUNCE:

var·si·ty - वार्सिटी

LINK: VARSITY

PYRE

WORD: PYRE

MEANING:

1. A heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite.

2. A pile of combustibles.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Sridevi funeral: Daughters Janhvi and Khushi light the pyre to bid final goodbye

PRONOUNCE:

pyre - पाइअर

LINK: PYRE

HEED

WORD: HEED

MEANING:
1.To pay attention

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Jayalalithaa did not heed my advice to go to hospital, says Sasikala in affidavit

PRONOUNCE:

heed - हीड

LINK: HEED

RAVING

WORD: RAVING

MEANING:

1. Talking or behaving irrationally; wild: a raving maniac.

2. Exciting admiration: a raving beauty.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. People will be raving about Ram Charan's performance in Rangasthalam, says cinematographer Rathnavelu

PRONOUNCE:

rav·ing - रेविंग / रैविंग 

LINK: RAVING

DEFUNCT

WORD: DEFUNCT

MEANING:

1. Having ceased to exist or live: a defunct political organization.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Defunct Chinese space lab plunges back to Earth over Pacific

PRONOUNCE:

de·funct - डिफंगक्ट

LINK: DEFUNCT

HUSH

WORD: HUSH

MEANING:

1. To make silent or quiet.

2. To calm; soothe.

3. To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up: tried to hush up the damaging details.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress

PRONOUNCE:

hush - हश

LINK: HUSH

BLISS

WORD: BLISS

MEANING:

1. Extreme happiness; ecstasy.

2. The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai celebrate 11 years of wedded bliss

PRONOUNCE:

bliss - ब्लिस

LINK: BLISS

OBITUARY

WORD: OBITUARY

MEANING:
1. A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Obituary for Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder | Franzen-Davis Funeral Home & Crematory 

PRONOUNCE:

o·bit·u·ar·y - ओबिचूएरी

LINK: OBITUARY

FECES

WORD: FECES

MEANING:
1. Waste matter eliminated from the bowels; excrement.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'Torture occurred in this house': Parents charged after police find 10 children living amid feces, garbage

PRONOUNCE:
fe·ces - फीसीज़

LINK: FECES

CONTENTION

WORD: CONTENTION

MEANING:
1. a struggling between opponents; competition 2. dispute in an argument (esp in the phrase bone of contention) 3. (Rhetoric) a point asserted in argument

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. IPL 2018: After 'crazy' last week, RCB back in playoffs contention with win vs KXIP

PRONOUNCE:
contention - कन्टेन्शन

LINK: CONTENTION

FLAK

WORD: FLAK

MEANING:
1. a. Antiaircraft artillery. b. The bursting shells fired from such artillery. 2. Informal a. Excessive or abusive criticism. b. Dissension; opposition.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. FIR against officials in flyover collapse; govt-run corporation faced flak earlier too

PRONOUNCE:
flak - फ्लैक

LINK: FLAK

ENMITY

WORD: ENMITY

MEANING:

1. Deep-seated, often mutual hatred.

2. A feeling or state of hatred or animosity: ""More than almost any public man I have ever met, he has avoided exciting personal enmities"" (Theodore Roosevelt).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. What enmity does Pakistan have with an 8-month-old, asks father of baby killed in ceasefire violation

PRONOUNCE:

en·mi·ty - एन्मटी / एन्मिटी / एन्मिट 

LINK: ENMITY

STIR

WORD: STIR

MEANING:
1. To change position slightly: The leaves were stirring in the breeze. 2. a. To start to move, especially in rising from sleep: The house was quiet, as no one had stirred yet. b. To move about actively or busily: People were stirring about the office. c. To move away from a customary or usual place or position: instructed the guards not to stir from their posts. 3. a. To stir or mix a liquid or mixture: stood at the counter stirring. b. To be capable of being stirred: a mixture that stirs easily. 4. To happen or begin: when the civil rights movement first stirred. 5. To be roused or affected by strong feelings: "His wrath so stirred within him, that he could have struck him dead" (Charles Dickens).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Maharashtra Bandh: Maratha Groups Call Off Quota Stir

PRONOUNCE:

stir - स्टर

LINK: STIR

PATRIARCHAL

WORD: PATRIARCHAL

MEANING:

1.. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch.

2. Of or relating to a patriarchy: a patriarchal social system.

3. Ruled by a patriarch: a patriarchal see.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Ban on entry of women in sabarimala is patriarchal: SC

PRONOUNCE:

pa·tri·ar·chal - पैट्रीआर्कल

LINK: PATRIARCHAL