DEMEANOUR

WORD: DEMEANOUR

MEANING:
1. the way a person behaves towards others; conduct 2. bearing, appearance, or mien

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rishi Kapoor tweeted: "Simplicity and super stardom. I realised I have been such a brat. Cannot get over his demeanour

PRONOUNCE:
demeanour - डिमीनर

LINK: DEMEANOUR

SLEUTH

WORD: SLEUTH

MEANING:

1. A detective.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 4 IB sleuths caught near Verma house

PRONOUNCE:

sleuth - स्लूथ

LINK: SLEUTH

BRAT

WORD: BRAT

MEANING:
1. A child, especially a spoiled or ill-mannered one. 2. A child of a career military person.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rishi Kapoor tweeted: "Simplicity and super stardom. I realised I have been such a brat. Cannot get over his demeanour

PRONOUNCE:

brat - ब्रैट

LINK: BRAT

SUSPICIOUS

WORD: SUSPICIOUS

MEANING:
1. Arousing or apt to arouse suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior. 2. Tending to suspect; distrustful: a suspicious nature. 3. Expressing suspicion: a suspicious look.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. High drama outside ex-CBI director's residence as security personnel catch 4 suspicious men

PRONOUNCE:

sus·pi·cious - सस्पिशस

LINK: SUSPICIOUS

COCKLE

WORD: COCKLE

MEANING:
1. Any of various chiefly marine bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs. 2. The shell of a cockle. 3. A wrinkle; a pucker. 4. Nautical A cockleshell.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. October: Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu's innocent love will warm the cockles of your heart

PRONOUNCE:
cock·le - काकल

LINK: COCKLE

CRUMBLE

WORD: CRUMBLE

MEANING:
1. To fall into small fragments or pieces; disintegrate: The ancient castle had crumbled to ruins. 2. To give way; collapse: an ego that crumbles under pressure.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Delhi crumbling but Centre not bothered: SC

PRONOUNCE:
crum·ble - क्रम्बल

LINK: CRUMBLE

GORGE

WORD: GORGE

MEANING:
1. A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides; a ravine. 2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification. 3. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise. 4. The crop of a hawk. 5. An instance of gluttonous eating. 6. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed. 7. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge. 8. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 27 killed as school bus rolls down a gorge in Himachal

PRONOUNCE:

gorge - गॉर्ज

LINK: GORGE

SALVO

WORD: SALVO

MEANING:
1. a. A simultaneous discharge of firearms. b. The simultaneous release of a rack of bombs from an aircraft. c. The projectiles or bombs thus released. 2. Something resembling a release or discharge of bombs or firearms, as: a. A sudden outburst, as of cheers or praise. b. A forceful verbal or written assault.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Yashwant Sinha's latest salvo has a warning for the BJP ahead of 2019: Is Narendra Modi listening?

PRONOUNCE:

sal·vo - सैल्वो

LINK: SALVO

RACY

WORD: RACY

MEANING:
1. Having a distinctive and characteristic quality or taste. 2. Strong and sharp in flavor or odor; piquant or pungent. 3. Risqué; ribald. 4. Vigorous; lively.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Deepika Padukone, Kangana Ranaut's racy Cannes gowns look too similar

PRONOUNCE:

rac·y - रेसी / रैसी

LINK: RACY

TURBAN

WORD: TURBAN

MEANING:
1. A headdress consisting of a long piece of cloth wound around a small cap or directly around the head, traditionally worn in North Africa, the Near East, and Central and South Asia. 2. A hat that resembles a turban, especially a brimless, close-fitting cap of draped fabric.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. US apologises after Canadian Minister told to remove turban

PRONOUNCE:

tur·ban - टर्बन

LINK: TURBAN

VIE

WORD: VIE

MEANING:
1. Archaic To offer in competition; match. 2. Obsolete To wager or bet.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Karnataka Election Results 2018 Live: Can BJP Make A Last Minute Save As Congress And JD(S) Vie For Power

PRONOUNCE:
vie - वाइ

LINK: VIE

GRAFT

WORD: GRAFT

MEANING:
1. a. To unite (a shoot or bud) with a growing plant by insertion or by placing in close contact. b. To join (a plant or plants) by such union. 2. To transplant or implant (living tissue, for example) surgically into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect. 3. To join or unite closely: graft new customs onto old.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Malaysia police raid Najib's house as part of graft probe

PRONOUNCE:
graft - ग्रैफ्ट

LINK: GRAFT

PROFANITY

WORD: PROFANITY

MEANING:
1. The condition or quality of being profane. 2. a. Abusive, vulgar, or irreverent language. b. The use of such language.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Please refrain from profanity in group chats

PRONOUNCE:
pro·fan·i·ty - प्रफैन इटी / प्रोफैनटी

LINK: PROFANITY

DIVERT

WORD: DIVERT

MEANING:
1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. To distract: My attention was diverted by an argument between motorists. 3. To entertain by distracting the attention from worrisome thoughts or cares; amuse. See Synonyms at amuse.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Damaged Air India Plane Flew For 3 Hours, Clueless Pilot Asked to Divert

PRONOUNCE:
di·vert - डाइवर्ट / डिवर्ट / डिवर्ट

LINK: DIVERT

LEWD

WORD: LEWD

MEANING:
1. a. Preoccupied with sex and sexual desire; lustful. b. Obscene; indecent. 2. Obsolete Wicked.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sajid Khan cracked lewd jokes, was rude to all women, says Bipasha Basu on Humshakals experience

PRONOUNCE:
lewd - लूड

LINK: LEWD

DERANGE

WORD: DERANGE

MEANING:
1. To disturb the order, arrangement, or functioning of: an asteroid impact large enough to derange the climate. 2. To upset (normal condition or functioning, as of a bodily organ). 3. To cause to be psychotic or otherwise severely mentally unsound. 4. mad, crazy

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. From ridiculous to deranged: Check out Shiv Sena's excuses for its roti rage

PRONOUNCE:
de·range - डिरेन्ज / डिरैन्ज

LINK: DERANGE

GARNER

WORD: GARNER

MEANING:
1. To gather and store in a granary. 2. To acquire or amass: garner awards. See Synonyms at reap. 3. gather, save, store

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mika Singh-Palak Muchhal’s ‘Jumme Ki Raat’ has, however, managed to garner some positive reviews from the audience.

PRONOUNCE:

gar·ner - गार्नर

LINK: GARNER

PLUMMET

WORD: PLUMMET

MEANING:
1. To fall straight down; plunge. 2. To decline suddenly and steeply: Stock prices plummeted. 3. falling, dropping

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India helps Apple overcome plummetting iPad sales 2. Sensex plummets 760 points as Trump's 'crazy' Fed comment hits global markets

PRONOUNCE:

plum·met - प्लमट / प्लमिट

LINK: PLUMMET

STUBBLE

WORD: STUBBLE

MEANING:
1. The short, stiff stalks of grain or hay remaining on a field after harvesting. 2. Something resembling this material, especially the short growth of hair that eventually protrudes from the skin after shaving.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Stubble burning: Delhi at risk of another smog attack as Punjab farmers have little alternative but burn...

PRONOUNCE:

stub·ble - स्टबल

LINK: STUBBLE

PROSPECT

WORD: PROSPECT

MEANING:
1. Something expected; a possibility. 2. prospects a. Chances. b. Financial expectations, especially of success. 3. a. A potential customer, client, or purchaser. b. A candidate deemed likely to succeed. 4. The direction in which an object, such as a building, faces; an outlook. 5. Something presented to the eye; a scene: a pleasant prospect. 6. The act of surveying or examining. 7. a. The location or probable location of a mineral deposit. b. An actual or probable mineral deposit. c. The mineral yield obtained by working an ore.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mayawati's decision to go alone in MP will not impact Cong prospects: Rahul Gandhi

PRONOUNCE:
pros·pect - प्रास्पेक्ट

LINK: PROSPECT

BRACE

WORD: BRACE

MEANING:
1. A device that holds or fastens two or more parts together or in place; a clamp. 2. A device, such as a supporting beam in a building or a connecting wire or rope, that steadies or holds something else erect. 3. braces Chiefly British Suspenders. 4. An orthopedic appliance used to support, align, or hold a bodily part in the correct position. 5. often braces A dental appliance constructed of bands and wires that is fixed to the teeth to correct irregular alignment. 6. An extremely stiff, erect posture. 7. A cause or source of renewed physical or spiritual vigor. 8. A protective pad strapped to the bow arm of an archer. 9. Nautical A rope by which a yard is swung and secured on a square-rigged ship. 10. A cranklike handle with an adjustable aperture at one end for securing and turning a bit. 11. Music A leather loop that slides to change the tension on the cord of a drum. 12. Music a. A vertical line, usually accompanied by the symbol {, connecting two or more staffs. b. A set of staffs connected in this way. 13. A symbol, { or }, enclosing two or more lines of text or listed items to show that they are considered as a unit. 14. Mathematics Either of a pair of symbols, { }, used to indicate aggregation or to clarify the grouping of quantities when parentheses and square brackets have already been used. Also called bracket. 15. pl. brace A pair of like things: three brace of partridges.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Kerala Braces for Extremely Heavy Rains, Shutters of Dams in Thrissur and Palakkad Lifted

PRONOUNCE:

brace - ब्रेस / ब्रैस

LINK: BRACE

BREW

WORD: BREW

MEANING:
1. To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation. 2. To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea. 3. To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Cyclone brewing over Arabian Sea; Bay depression heralds N-E monsoon

PRONOUNCE:

brew - ब्रू

LINK: BREW

HASTY

WORD: HASTY

MEANING:
1. Done or made with haste, especially: a. Done or made without due consideration or attention; precipitate or cursory: a hasty decision; a hasty conclusion. See Synonyms at impetuous. b. Done or made rapidly due to pressing circumstances: beat a hasty retreat; bid a hasty goodbye. 2. a. Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried: Don't be too hasty in taking sides. b. Impatient or rudely abrupt: "Oh, what would I not give if I had been less hasty with her! It is dreadful to remember that I spoke to her as a servant whom I expected to obey me" (Wilkie Collins).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. News coverage of Sridevi's death: How media publications hastily fill the gaps between Botox and the bathtub

PRONOUNCE:

hast·y - हेस्टी / हैस्टी

LINK: HASTY

GRILL

WORD: GRILL

MEANING:
1. To broil on a gridiron. 2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling. 3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine. 4. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Zuckerberg apologizes, promises reform as senators grill him over Facebook's failings

PRONOUNCE:
grill - ग्रिल

LINK: GRILL

JEER

WORD: JEER

MEANING:

1. To speak or shout derisively; mock.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Tristan Thompson jeered at Cavaliers game; sex tape reportedly bought and destroyed

PRONOUNCE:

jeer - जिर / जीर

LINK: JEER

EXTRAVAGANCE

WORD: EXTRAVAGANCE

MEANING:

1. The quality of being extravagant: the extravagance of the furnishings; the extravagance of his rhetoric.

2. Immoderate spending: His extravagance led to his financial ruin.

3. Something extravagant. See Synonyms at luxury.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Sexual extravagance can be deadly, lead to extinction for some species

2. Sexual extravagance can lead to extinction of the species, reveals new study

PRONOUNCE:

ex·trav·a·gance - इक्स्ट्रैवगन्स

LINK: EXTRAVAGANCE

GAFFE

WORD: GAFFE

MEANING:
1. A clumsy social error; a faux pas: "The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste" (Mary McCarthy). 2. A blatant mistake or misjudgment.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Rafele ek, daam anek: BJP's witty comeback at Congress with Rahul gaffe video

PRONOUNCE:

gaffe - गैफ

LINK: GAFFE

FERVOUR

WORD: FERVOUR

MEANING:
1. great intensity of feeling or belief; ardour; zeal 2. rare intense heat

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Before Gold, a look back at Akshay Kumar films which stoked patriotic fervour

PRONOUNCE:

fervour - फर्वर

LINK: FERVOUR

EXPUNGE

WORD: EXPUNGE

MEANING:

1. To erase, delete, or strike out: expunged their names from the list.
2. To eliminate completely; wipe out: a government's attempt to expunge dissidents. See Synonyms at erase.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Rajya Sabha expunges prime minister's comment on Congress MP BK Hariprasad from its records

PRONOUNCE:

ex·punge - इक्स्पन्ज

LINK: EXPUNGE

BUNKUM

WORD: BUNKUM

MEANING:

1. Empty or insincere talk; claptrap.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. Raghuram Rajan note to parliamentary panel slams UPA mistakes; Congress blaming Modi for NPAs is bunkum

PRONOUNCE:

bun·kum - बंगकम

LINK: BUNKUM

FRET

WORD: FRET

MEANING:

1. To be vexed or troubled; worry. See Synonyms at brood.
2. To be worn or eaten away; become corroded.
3. To move agitatedly.
4. To gnaw with the teeth in the manner of a rodent.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:

1. From Antigua Hideout, Mehul Choksi Frets About Employees, shareholders

PRONOUNCE:

fret - फ्रेट

LINK: FRET