WORD: ASTONISH
MEANING:
1. To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Deepika Padukones passport holders cost will leave you astonished
PRONOUNCE:
a·ston·ish - अस्टानिश
LINK: ASTONISH
WORD: SCINTILLATING
MEANING:
1. Cannes 2019: Hina Khan makes her scintillating red carpet debut, Twitter dubs her unstoppable
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Animated, brilliant, or highly skilled: a scintillating personality; a scintillating performance.
PRONOUNCE:
scin·til·lat·ing
LINK: SCINTILLATING
WORD: CRIME-FIGHTER
MEANING:
1. of or relating to crime fighting
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ace Amazon Echo upgrade transforms Alexa into a crimefighter (yes, really!)
PRONOUNCE:
crime-fighting
LINK: CRIME-FIGHTER
WORD: LAMBASTE
MEANING:
1. n. drunk. He went out and got himself lambasted, and then he wrecked his car.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Former India wicket-keeper Farokh Engineer lambasted the current Indian selection committee, claiming that the MSK Prasad-led panel is "a Mickey Mouse selection committee" who were apparently busy tending to Anushka Sharma's needs during the World Cup.
PRONOUNCE:
lambaste - लैम्बेस्ट
LINK: LAMBASTE
WORD: MOUNTING
MEANING:
1. Something that serves as a support, setting, or backing: a mounting for a gem.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Telecom industry which is already reeling under the heavy financial pressure may soon suffer another major blow as there are talks of Vodafone's possible exit from India due to the company's mounting losses.
PRONOUNCE:
mount·ing - माउन्टिंग
LINK: MOUNTING
WORD: ACCREDITATION
MEANING:
1. The act of accrediting or the state of being accredited, especially the granting of approval to an institution of learning by an official review board after the school has met specific requirements.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Why it was right to withdraw new rules on journalist accreditation and fake news
PRONOUNCE:
ac·cred·i·ta·tion - अक्रेडटैशन
LINK: ACCREDITATION
WORD: COMPASSION
MEANING:
1. a deep sympathy for the sorrows of others, with an urge to alleviate their pain: The nurse showed great compassion for the injured children.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. you all have seen that Modi govt seems to have no compassion when it comes to shutting down people's voices and implement legislation.
PRONOUNCE:
compassion - कम्पैशन
LINK: COMPASSION
WORD: GUTSY
MEANING:
1. Marked by courage or daring; plucky.
2. Robust and uninhibited; lusty: "the gutsy ... intensity of her musical involvement" (Judith Crist).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shreyas Iyer, who had scored a gutsy half-century in the first ODI, hit another fifty in Vizag as India raced towards a strong total.
PRONOUNCE:
guts·y - गट्सी
LINK: GUTSY
WORD: CLOBBERED
MEANING:
1. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
2. strike violently and repeatedly
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Already tired after a masterclass by Rohit Sharma and a fluent hundred by KL Rahul, the West Indies bowlers watched in horror as Rishabh Pant clobbered a flurry of sixes to put India in absolute command.
PRONOUNCE:
clobbered - क्लाबर
LINK: LINK
WORD: INSTIGATE
MEANING:
1. To initiate or bring about, often by inciting: instigate a public discussion of the issue; instigate an uprising.
2. To urge on; goad: tried to instigate the people to revolt.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Congress and its allies are instigating Muslims for political purpose
PRONOUNCE:
in·sti·gate - इन्स्टगेट / इन्स्टगैट
LINK: INSTIGATE
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. Fentanyl smugglers: Nine jailed in landmark US-China operation
PRONOUNCE:
fen·ta·nyl
LINK: FENTANYL
WORD: BUTTERFINGER
MEANING:
1. A person who tends to drop things.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kohli asks butterfingers India to get a grip on catching woes
PRONOUNCE:
but·ter·fin·gers - बटर्फिंगगेर्ज़
LINK: BUTTERFINGER
WORD: SPADE
MEANING:
1. A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.
2. Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. "I admire and compliment Manmohan Singh for being truthful and calling a spade a spade," he said.
PRONOUNCE:
spade - स्पेड / स्पैड
LINK: SPADE
WORD: PROLONG
MEANING:
1. To lengthen in duration; protract: factors that prolong the drug's effect.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In twin shocks for the economy that is battling a prolonged slowdown, the retail price based consumer inflation has spiked to a three-year high while the index of industrial production has contracted, official data showed.
PRONOUNCE:
pro·long - प्रलॉंग
LINK: PROLONG
WORD: ENSHRINE
MEANING:
1. To enclose in or as if in a shrine.
2. To cherish as sacred.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The CAB enshrines a pathway to citizenship for immigrants that specifically excludes Muslims, setting a legal criterion for citizenship based on religion.
PRONOUNCE:
en·shrine - एन्श्राइन
LINK: ENSHRINE
WORD: PERSECUTION
MEANING:
1. The act or practice of persecuting on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs that differ from those of the persecutor.
2. The condition of being persecuted.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. According to the proposed legislation, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014, facing religious persecution there, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship. The bill ignores Muslims.
PRONOUNCE:
per·se·cu·tion - पर्सक्यूशन
LINK: PERSECUTION
WORD: MAR
MEANING:
1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Peaceful Hong Kong march marred by fire outside court, police say
PRONOUNCE:
mar - मार
LINK: MAR
WORD: WEE
MEANING:
1. Very small; tiny.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. While you were sleeping, the Telangana Police killed all the four accused in the Hyderabad rape-murder case in what it claimed to be an encounter in the wee hours of Friday.
PRONOUNCE:
wee - वी
LINK: WEE
WORD: CLARION
MEANING:
1. A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.
2. The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'My sisters, seize power from men': Priyanka Gandhi's clarion call to women
PRONOUNCE:
clar·i·on - क्लेरीअन / क्लैरीअन
LINK: CLARION
WORD: TORMENTOR
MEANING:
1. One that torments.
2. A hanging at each side of a stage directly behind the proscenium that serves to block the wing area and sidelights from the audience.
3. A sound-absorbent screen used on a movie set, used to prevent echo.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Virat Kohli was the tormentor in chief for West Indies as he guided India to a 6-wicket victory in the first T20 international in Hyderabad.
PRONOUNCE:
tor·men·tor - टॉर्मेन्टर
LINK: TORMENTOR
WORD: IMPASSE
MEANING:
1. A road or passage having no exit; a cul-de-sac.
2. A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate: reached an impasse in the negotiations.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Maha impasse: Sena MLAs moved to hotel
PRONOUNCE:
im·passe - इम्पैस
LINK: IMPASSE
WORD: TILT
MEANING:
1. To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline: tilt a soup bowl; tilt a chair backward. See Synonyms at slant.
2. To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another: a development that tilted the balance of trade in their favor.
3.
a. To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.
b. To charge (an opponent); attack.
4. To forge with a tilt hammer.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Wrestler Ritu Phogat ready for tilt at MMA world title
PRONOUNCE:
tilt - टिल्ट
LINK: TILT
WORD: SLOPPY
MEANING:
1. Marked by or given to a lack of neatness or order; untidy: a sloppy room; a sloppy roommate.
2. Showing or in the habit of using little care or attention: sloppy use of language; a sloppy researcher.
3. Informal Oversentimental; gushy: a sloppy love letter.
4. Of, resembling, or covered with slop; muddy or slushy: sloppy ground.
5. Watery and unappetizing: a sloppy stew.
6. Spotted or splashed with liquid.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Cricket: Shami, Ashwin put India on top despite sloppy catching
PRONOUNCE:
slop·py - स्लापी
LINK: SLOPPY
WORD: WHET
MEANING:
1. To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone.
2. To make more keen; stimulate: The frying bacon whetted my appetite.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gold falls as U.S.-China trade deal hopes whet risk appetite
PRONOUNCE:
whet - वेट / ह्वेट
LINK: WHET
WORD: DISSENT
MEANING:
1. To have or express an opinion different from a prevailing or official position; disagree.
2. Law To reach a conclusion contrary to the majority of the judges deciding a case; render a minority opinion.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. DROPPED! It's the skipper at third slip. Umesh Yadav has no option but to walk back to his mark without showing much dissent.
PRONOUNCE:
dis·sent - डिसेन्ट
LINK: DISSENT
WORD: DROWSY
MEANING:
1. Dull with sleepiness; sluggish.
2. Produced or characterized by sleepiness.
3. Inducing sleepiness; soporific.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Drowsy Steve Smith looking to solve sleep problems and Yasir
PRONOUNCE:
drows·y - ड्राउज़ी
LINK: DROWSY
WORD: COLLUDE
MEANING:
1. To act together, often in secret, to achieve an illegal or improper purpose: "The managers and the union leaders regularly colluded to rob the plantations at the expense of the workers" (Daniel Wilkinson).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India probe finds SKF, Schaeffler, Tata Steel units colluded on bearings prices
PRONOUNCE:
col·lude - कलूड
LINK: COLLUDE
WORD: ACCUSATION
MEANING:
1. An act of accusing or the state of being accused.
2. A charge of wrongdoing that is made against a person or other party.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. U.S. defense chief rejects Amazon's accusations of bias in cloud contract
PRONOUNCE:
ac·cu·sa·tion - ऐक्यज़ैशन / ऐक्युज़ेशन / ऐक्यूज़ैशन
LINK: ACCUSATION
WORD: PLUSH
MEANING:
1. a pile fabric whose pile is generally no less than ? inch (0.3 cm) high.
adj.
2. expensively or showily luxurious: a plush hotel.
3. abundantly rich; luxuriant: plush lawns.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Vijay Deverakonda moves into a plush house worth 15 crore
PRONOUNCE:
plush - प्लश
LINK: PLUSH
WORD: ERUDITION
MEANING:
1. Deep, extensive learning.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Known for his erudition, Bhogle had also shown his professionalism on Sunday after Manjrekar had escalated the argument regarding the pink ball.
PRONOUNCE:
er·u·di·tion - एरडिशन / एर्युडिशन
LINK: ERUDITION
WORD: WILT
MEANING:
1. To become limp or flaccid; droop: plants wilting in the heat.
2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly: "His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness" (Vladimir Nabokov).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Japanese prime minister's approval rating wilts amid accusations of party funding
PRONOUNCE:
wilt - विल्ट
LINK: WILT
WORD: STAGFLATION
MEANING:
1. Sluggish economic growth coupled with a high rate of inflation and unemployment.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. “Continued increase in inflation combined with stagnant demand and high unemployment will lead to what economists term as ‘stagflation’, a dangerous territory from which it becomes very hard for large economies to recover,” he said.
PRONOUNCE:
stag·fla·tion - स्टैग्फ्लेशन / स्टैग्फ्लैशन
LINK: STAGFLATION
WORD: DISPENSATION
MEANING:
1.
a. The act of dispensing.
b. Something dispensed.
c. A specific arrangement or system by which something is dispensed.
2. An exemption or release from an obligation or rule, granted by or as if by an authority.
3.
a. An exemption from a church law, a vow, or another similar obligation granted in a particular case by an ecclesiastical authority.
b. The document containing this exemption.
4. Theology
a. The divine ordering of worldly affairs.
b. A religious system or code of commands considered to have been divinely revealed or appointed.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Parliament is in session from November 18 to December 13. It is expected to witness much heat as the Opposition looks to corner the Union government over issues like economic slowdown and situation in Kashmir while the Modi dispensation seeks to push through the contentious Citizenship (amendment) Bill.
PRONOUNCE:
dis·pen·sa·tion - डिस्पन्सेशन / डिस्पन्सैशन
LINK: DISPENSATION
WORD: MALAISE
MEANING:
1. A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness.
2. A general sense of depression or unease: "The markets remain mired in a deep malaise" (New York Times).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Manmohan Singh Reveals Root Cause of Economic Malaise and Why India is Entering Dangerous Territory
PRONOUNCE:
mal·aise - मैलेज़ / मैलैज़
LINK: MALAISE
WORD: PELVIC
MEANING:
1. Of, in, near, or relating to the pelvis: a pelvic artery.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Johnson & Johnson loses pelvic mesh class action in Australia
PRONOUNCE:
pel·vic - पेल्विक
LINK: PELVIC
WORD: DISPENSATION
MEANING:
1.
a. The act of dispensing.
b. Something dispensed.
c. A specific arrangement or system by which something is dispensed.
2. An exemption or release from an obligation or rule, granted by or as if by an authority.
3.
a. An exemption from a church law, a vow, or another similar obligation granted in a particular case by an ecclesiastical authority.
b. The document containing this exemption.
4. Theology
a. The divine ordering of worldly affairs.
b. A religious system or code of commands considered to have been divinely revealed or appointed.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Parliament is in session from November 18 to December 13. It is expected to witness much heat as the Opposition looks to corner the Union government over issues like economic slowdown and situation in Kashmir while the Modi dispensation seeks to push through the contentious Citizenship (amendment) Bill.
PRONOUNCE:
dis·pen·sa·tion - डिस्पन्सेशन / डिस्पन्सैशन
LINK: DISPENSATION
WORD: SPASM
MEANING:
1. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle or group of muscles.
2. A sudden burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. "I had a back spasm today so I can't really fight my body too much. I think mentally I am still young, but the body says take it easy, so hopefully I'll be fit for the next game," he said.
PRONOUNCE:
spasm - स्पैज़म
LINK: SPASM
WORD: CONTENTIOUS
MEANING:
1. Given to contention; quarrelsome. See Synonyms at argumentative.
2. Involving or causing contention; controversial: "a central and contentious element of the book" (Tim W. Ferguson).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Parliament is in session from November 18 to December 13. It is expected to witness much heat as the Opposition looks to corner the Union government over issues like economic slowdown and situation in Kashmir while the Modi dispensation seeks to push through the contentious Citizenship (amendment) Bill.
PRONOUNCE:
con·ten·tious - कन्टेन्शस
LINK: CONTENTIOUS
WORD: RANSACK
MEANING:
1. To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly: ransacked the drawer looking for my keys.
2. To go through (a place) stealing valuables and causing disarray; pillage: ransacked the village.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. My house in Kashmir is illegally occupied as most others in my communities. And those which were not occupied have been burnt down or ransacked," she told the hearing.
PRONOUNCE:
ran·sack - रैन्सैक
LINK: RANSACK
WORD: ACCEDE
MEANING:
1. To give one's consent, often at the insistence of another: accede to a demand. See Synonyms at assent.
2. To arrive at or come into an office or dignity: accede to the throne.
3. To become a party to an agreement or treaty.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The BJP refused to accede to the demand, saying there was no such deal between the allies.
PRONOUNCE:
ac·cede - ऐक्सीड
LINK: ACCEDE
WORD: HOBBLE
MEANING:
1. To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement.
2. To cause to limp.
3. To hamper the action or progress of; impede.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. According to our correspondent Manish Pathak, Mohammed Shami hobbled off the field and he was replaced by Shubman Gill.
PRONOUNCE:
hob·ble - हाबल
LINK: HOBBLE
WORD: INSTILL
MEANING:
1. inculcate, introduce; insinuate; infuse slowly into the mind or feelings: instill a sense of fairness in a child
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A loose shot from Rohit Sharma but try and say that to Jayed. he would like to believe, he deceived Rohit all ends up to find his outside edge. A big wicket for Bangladesh, this should instill life in them after being bowled out for 150.
PRONOUNCE:
instill - इन्स्टिल
LINK: INSTILL
WORD: GHOUL
MEANING:
1. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
2. In popular folklore, an undead or subhuman being, especially one that eats human flesh.
3. A grave robber.
4. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. UK election makes Halloween ghouls of capitalists
PRONOUNCE:
ghoul - गूल
LINK: GHOUL
WORD: FUMBLE
MEANING:
1. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie.
2. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something: fumble for a key.
3. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder: fumble through a speech.
4.
a. Football To drop a ball that is in play.
b. Baseball To mishandle a ground ball.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Another chance goes begging! Another top edge from Liton Das but Rohit Sharma was unable to complete the catch. It looked like Shivam Dube's catch but Rohit went for it and ended up fumbling it at the last moment. Bangladesh 58/0
PRONOUNCE:
fum·ble - फम्बल
LINK: FUMBLE
WORD: STRADDLE
MEANING:
1.
a. To stand or sit with a leg on each side of; bestride: straddle a horse.
b. To be on both sides of; extend over or across: a car straddling the centerline.
2. To appear to favor both sides of (an issue).
3. To fire shots behind and in front of (a target) in order to determine the range.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In 1991, Ajay Devgn straddled atop two parallel motorbikes and arrived in Bollywood in style with Phool Aur Kaante.
PRONOUNCE:
strad·dle - स्ट्रैडल
LINK: STRADDLE
WORD: ILLICIT
MEANING:
1. not legally permitted; unlicensed; unlawful: Illicit drugs are rampant in the ci
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. In the world's diamond capital, illicit mining fight flounders
PRONOUNCE:
illicit - इलिसट / इलिसिट
LINK: ILLICIT
WORD: PREACHY
MEANING:
1. Inclined or given to tedious and excessive moralizing; didactic.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. This film is not preachy, but has tackled a basic yet important issue with nuance and without going all over with it.
PRONOUNCE:
preach·y - प्रीची
LINK: PREACHY
WORD: OVERT
MEANING:
1. Open and observable; not hidden, concealed, or secret: overt hostility; overt intelligence gathering.
2. Of, relating to, or being military or intelligence operations sanctioned or mandated by Congress: overt aid to the rebels.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. It was so great to see a film that does to go overtly filmy and looks way too real, and managing to tickle us all the while as well!
PRONOUNCE:
o·vert - ओवर्ट
LINK: OVERT
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. Following his blistering knock, Rohit Sharma has now another record under his belt as he stands on the top of the most number of sixes in the calendar year across all formats
PRONOUNCE:
blis·ter·ing - ब्लिस्टरिंग
LINK: BLISTERING
WORD: DINGHY
MEANING:
1. A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat.
2. A small rowboat or motorboat.
3. An inflatable rubber life raft.
4. A small recreational sailboat, especially one designed for racing.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kushila Stein was rescued north of Crete after 37 hours at sea in a rubber dinghy.
PRONOUNCE:
din·ghy - डिंगई / डिंगगी
LINK: DINGHY
WORD: KITTY
MEANING:
1. fund, pot, pool, stake
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ajay has quite a few major films in his kitty
PRONOUNCE:
kitty - किटी
LINK: KITTY
WORD: FEND
MEANING:
1. To ward off. Often used with off: fend off an attack.
2. Archaic To defend.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. China says will fend off financial risks
PRONOUNCE:
fend - फेन्ड
LINK: FEND
WORD: REEL
MEANING:
1. To be thrown off balance or fall back: reeled from the sharp blow.
2. To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.
3. To go round and round in a whirling motion: gulls reeling and diving.
4. To feel dizzy: My head reeled with the facts and figures.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Telecom industry which is already reeling under the heavy financial pressure may soon suffer another major blow as there are talks of Vodafone's possible exit from India due to the company's mounting losses.
PRONOUNCE:
reel - रील
LINK: REEL
WORD: INSINUATING
MEANING:
1. Provoking gradual doubt or suspicion; suggestive: insinuating remarks.
2. Artfully contrived to gain favor or confidence; ingratiating.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. “COAI is clearly insinuating that if the immediate relief... is not provided, the two operators might stop operations,” Jio said in letter released to media on Thursday.
PRONOUNCE:
in·sin·u·at·ing - इन्सिन्यूएटिंग
LINK: INSINUATING
WORD: BANISH
MEANING:
1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile: The spy was found guilty of treason and banished from the country.
2. To drive away; expel: We banished all our doubts and fears.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Delhi banishes some cars in hope of clearing the air
PRONOUNCE:
ban·ish - बैनिश
LINK: BANISH
WORD: TENTERHOOK
MEANING:
1. to be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen. He was on tenterhooks about the result of the exam.estar sobre ascuas
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sena keeps BJP on tenterhooks
PRONOUNCE:
tenterhooks - टेन्टर्हुक
LINK: TENTERHOOK
WORD: FACTUAL
MEANING:
1. Of the nature of fact; real.
2. Of or containing facts.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The company said that it continues to pay all its debts as per schedule and has not approached any lender for debt recast. Further, it has called these reports "factually incorrect" and added that it continues to pay the debt as and when dues come.
PRONOUNCE:
fac·tu·al - फैक्चूअल
LINK: FACTUAL
WORD: RATTLE
MEANING:
1.
a. To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds.
b. To move with such sounds: A train rattled along the track.
2. To talk rapidly and at length, usually without much thought: rattled on about this and that.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 2nd Test Live: Pacers rattle SA early on Day 3
PRONOUNCE:
rat·tle - रैटल
LINK: RATTLE
WORD: INCURSION
MEANING:
1. An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion.
2. The act of entering another's territory or domain.
3. The act of entering or running into: homes damaged by the incursion of floodwater.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Turkey Syria offensive: US builds pressure to halt incursion against Kurds
PRONOUNCE:
in·cur·sion - इन्कर्श़न
LINK: INCURSION
WORD: HANDCUFF
MEANING:
1. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Jane Fonda led away in handcuffs over climate change protest
PRONOUNCE:
hand·cuff - हैन्ड्कफ
LINK: HANDCUFF
WORD: ARTICULATION
MEANING:
1. The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation: an articulation of the group's sentiments.
2.
a. The act or manner of producing a speech sound.
b. A speech sound, especially a consonant.
3.
a. A jointing together or being jointed together.
b. The method or manner of jointing.
4. Anatomy
a. A fixed or movable joint between bones.
b. A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods.
5. Botany
a. A joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem.
b. A node or a space on a stem between two nodes.
6. The conversion of a student's credits at one school to credits at another school by comparing the curricula.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The party's economic ideology and its articulation were limited to mainly critiquing the Nehruvian model from the fringes of the political spectrum
PRONOUNCE:
ar·tic·u·la·tion - आर्टिक्यलेशन / आर्टिक्यलैशन
LINK: ARTICULATION
WORD: WOBBLE
MEANING:
1. To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side.
2. To tremble or quaver: The child's voice wobbled with emotion.
3. To waver or vacillate in one's opinions or feelings.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rohit century, Rahane fifty steady India after early wobble
PRONOUNCE:
wob·ble - वाबल
LINK: WOBBLE
WORD: CONTAGION
MEANING:
1.
a. Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact.
b. A disease that is or may be transmitted by direct or indirect contact; a contagious disease.
c. The direct cause, such as a bacterium or virus, of a communicable disease.
2. Psychology The spread of a behavior pattern, attitude, or emotion from person to person or group to group through suggestion, propaganda, rumor, or imitation.
3. A harmful, corrupting influence: feared that violence on television was a contagion affecting young viewers.
4. The tendency to spread, as of a doctrine, influence, or emotional state.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There is rising risk of contagion in India's banking sector with many finance companies having lost more than half of their equity value in the past year, rating agency S&P's said on Wednesday.
PRONOUNCE:
con·ta·gion - कन्टेजन / कन्टैजन
LINK: CONTAGION
WORD: COMMENCE
MEANING:
1. Begin, Start, Origin
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Katha has been planned to be held on next week commencing from 10.00 AM onwards.
PRONOUNCE:
commence - कमेन्स
LINK: COMMENCE
WORD: PROTEGE
MEANING:
1. a person under the protection, patronage, or tutelage of another: a protégé of the concertmaster
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Upon the film's release, Hrithik and Tiger urged the audiences not to spoil the movie for others. The duo, who play mentor and protege at loggerheads in the film, said they have made War with a lot of "blood, sweat and love" and it is something that should be enjoyed on the big screen
PRONOUNCE:
protégé - प्राटिश़े / प्रोटश़ै
LINK: PROTEGE
WORD: ABROGATE
MEANING:
1. To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority: "Our existing Aboriginal and treaty rights were now part of the supreme law of the land, and could not be abrogated or denied by any government" (Matthew Coon Come).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Almost all leaders from the National Conference (NC), Congress and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) in Jammu have been freed from their detention. They were placed under preventive detention since August 5 after the abrogation of Article 370.
PRONOUNCE:
ab·ro·gate - ऐब्रगेट / ऐब्रगैट
LINK: ABROGATE
