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
