WORD: TEETER
MEANING:
1. To move or sway unsteadily or unsurely; totter.
2. To alternate, as between opposing attitudes or positions; vacillate.
3. To be close to or in danger of failure or ruin: The housing market teetered on the edge of collapse.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Iran Protests Escalate, Scores Murdered, Is The Regime Teetering Towards A Total Collapse?
PRONOUNCE:
tee·ter - तीतर / टीटेर / तितर
LINK: TEETER
WORD: DAMPEN
MEANING:
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress: "trade moves ... aimed at dampening protectionist pressures in Congress" (Christian Science Monitor).
3. To soundproof.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rain dampens the spectacle but Test's fuse may yet burn bright
PRONOUNCE:
damp·en - डम्पऐन / दमपेन / डामपेन
LINK: DAMPEN
WORD: RANCHER
MEANING:
1. One that owns or manages a ranch.
2. A rectangular house of one story; a ranch house.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Judge dismisses case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons
PRONOUNCE:
ranch·er - रहकर / रंचेर / रान्चर
LINK: RANCHER
WORD: CONFOUND
MEANING:
1. To cause to become confused or perplexed. See Synonyms at perplex.
2. To fail to distinguish; mix up: Don't confound fiction and fact.
3. To make (something bad) worse: Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.
4. To cause to be ashamed; abash: an invention that confounded the skeptics.
5. Used in mild curses: Confound you!
6.
a. To frustrate or thwart: trivial demands that confounded the peace talks.
b. Archaic To defeat or overthrow (an enemy).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Space X's Zuma satellite launch mission has everyone confounded; no clear idea if it was successful
PRONOUNCE:
con·found - कंफॉउंड / कॉनफॉउंड / कंफॉण्ड
LINK: CONFOUND
WORD: DEPRAVED
MEANING:
1. Morally corrupt; perverted.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 'This is depraved conduct,' DA says of California couple accused of torturing kids
PRONOUNCE:
de·praved - देप्रावेद / डेपरवेद / देप्रवेद
LINK: DEPRAVED
WORD: FIZZLE
MEANING:
1. To make a hissing or sputtering sound.
2. Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Ranbir Kapoor and Mahira Khan's relationship fizzles out?
PRONOUNCE:
fiz·zle - फ़िज़्ज़ले / फ़िज़्ज़ल / फ़िज़्ज़लए
LINK: FIZZLE
WORD: INTERLOCUTOR
MEANING:
1. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
2. The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. SC interlocutors on Shaheen Bagh
PRONOUNCE:
in·ter·loc·u·tor - इन्टर्लाक्यटर
LINK: INTERLOCUTOR
WORD: ADAMANT
MEANING:
1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
2. An extremely hard substance.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Trump adamant to 'reopen US soon'
PRONOUNCE:
ad·a·mant - ऐडमन्ट
LINK: ADAMANT
WORD: FERVENT
MEANING:
1. Having or showing great emotion or zeal; ardent: fervent protests; a fervent admirer.
2. Extremely hot; glowing.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Making a fervent appeal to his fans to stay indoors, Kartik shared it with the caption, "#CoronaStopKaroNa.
PRONOUNCE:
fer·vent - फर्वन्ट
LINK: FERVENT
WORD: CAULDRON
MEANING:
1. A large vessel, such as a kettle or vat, used for boiling.
2. A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat: a cauldron of conflicting corporate politics.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Olympic cauldron in Japan ignited with flame from Greece
PRONOUNCE:
caul·dron - काल्ड्रन / कॉल्ड्रन / कॉल्ड्रन
LINK: CAULDRON
WORD: DRUBBING
MEANING:
1. A severe thrashing.
2. A total defeat.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India were below-par, Kohli says after drubbing by New Zealand
PRONOUNCE:
drub·bing - ड्रबिंग
LINK: DRUBBING
WORD: REVIVE
MEANING:
1. To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate: revived the passenger who fainted.
2. To give new health, strength, or spirit to: was revived by the long shower; a speech that revived morale.
3.
a. To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice: revived a fad from the 1980s.
b. To present (an old play, for example) again.
4. To renew in the mind; recall: an experience that revived a bad memory.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India’s government on Friday slashed corporate taxes in a surprise $20.5 billion break aimed at reviving private investment, seeking to lift growth from a six-year low that has sapped jobs and fuelled discontent in the countryside.
PRONOUNCE:
re·vive - रिवाइव / रीवाइव
LINK: REVIVE
WORD: ALLEVIATE
MEANING:
1. CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury said, "Just platitudes, slogans; nothing substantial to alleviate people's misery, growing unemployment, prices."
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. To make (pain, for example) less intense or more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms. See Synonyms at relieve.
2. To lessen or reduce: alleviate unemployment.
PRONOUNCE:
al·le·vi·ate - अलीवीएट / अलीवीऐट
LINK: ALLEVIATE
WORD: AUTOCRACY
MEANING:
1. Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
2. A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Many Egyptians who lived through Mubarak's presidency view it as a period of stagnation, autocracy and crony capitalism.
PRONOUNCE:
au·toc·ra·cy - ऑटाक्रसी
LINK: AUTOCRACY
WORD: SHORE
MEANING:
1. The land along the edge of an ocean, sea, lake, or river; a coast.
2. often shores Land; country: far from our native shores.
3. Land as opposed to water: a sailor with an assignment on shore.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India increases fuel taxes in a bid to shore up revenue
PRONOUNCE:
shore - शॉर / शोर
LINK: SHORE
WORD: DISLODGE
MEANING:
1. To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 101-year-old ship dislodged above Niagara Falls
PRONOUNCE:
dis·lodge - डिस्लाज
LINK: DISLODGE
WORD: LULL
MEANING:
1. To cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm: The sound of the waves lulled me to sleep.
2. To deceive into trustfulness: "that honeyed charm that he used so effectively to lull his victims" (S.J. Perelman).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Gold slips from near seven-year highs on lull in U.S.-Iran tensions
PRONOUNCE:
lull - लल
LINK: LULL
WORD: CRONY
MEANING:
1. a close friend or companion
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Many Egyptians who lived through Mubarak's presidency view it as a period of stagnation, autocracy and crony capitalism.
PRONOUNCE:
crony - क्रोनी
LINK: CRONY
WORD: AUTOCRATIC
MEANING:
1. Relating to or being an autocrat.
2. Tending to impose one's will on others in an insistent or arrogant manner; domineering. See Synonyms at dictatorial.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mubarak was ousted in 2011 following mass protests against his autocratic rule, and he was the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region.
PRONOUNCE:
au·to·crat·ic - ऑटक्रैटिक
LINK: AUTOCRATIC
WORD: EPIDEMIC
MEANING:
1. Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time: an epidemic outbreak of influenza.
2. Widely prevalent: epidemic discontent.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sport events affected due to coronavirus epidemic
PRONOUNCE:
ep·i·dem·ic - एपडेमिक / एपिडेमिक / एपिडेमिक
LINK: EPIDEMIC
WORD: CREPT
MEANING:
1. Past tense and past participle of creep.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. People blamed gregg chappel for the problems which crept into the team under his watch.
PRONOUNCE:
crept - क्रीप
LINK: CREPT
WORD: RAUCOUS
MEANING:
1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter.
2. Boisterous and disorderly: "a drunken and raucous party for his bachelor friends" (Louis Auchincloss).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. After raucous welcome in India, Trump clinches $3 billion military equipment sale
PRONOUNCE:
rau·cous - रॉकस
LINK: RAUCOUS
WORD: CONTRARY
MEANING:
1. Opposed, as in character or purpose: contrary opinions; acts that are contrary to our code of ethics.
2. Opposite in direction or position: Our boat took a course contrary to theirs. See Synonyms at opposite.
3. Music Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval: playing scales in contrary motion.
4. Adverse; unfavorable: a contrary wind.
5. (also kən-trâr′ē) Given to recalcitrant behavior; willful or perverse.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Contrary to the image of Fast And Furious films, the new teaser doesn't show any action happening. However, one can expect a lot of action in the next teaser or upcoming trailer of the film.
PRONOUNCE:
con·trar·y - कान्ट्रेरी / कन्ट्रेरी
LINK: CONTRARY
WORD: MORATORIUM
MEANING:
1. Law
a. A lawful suspension of the payment of certain debts during a period of financial or civil distress.
b. The period during which such a suspension occurs.
2. A suspension of an ongoing or planned activity: a moratorium on timber cutting.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India places Yes Bank under moratorium
PRONOUNCE:
mor·a·to·ri·um - मॉरटॉरीअम / मॉरटोरीअम
LINK: MORATORIUM
WORD: EXIGENCY
MEANING:
1. A pressing or urgent situation: "We were caught in a wartime exigency that was beyond any humane, any rational, resistance" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
2. An urgent requirement; a pressing need: "distracted by the exigencies of running a business" (Richard Curtis).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The minister also said that though there is a cap of Rs 50,000, the RBI has already announced that if people needs more funds for exigencies, they can follow the guidelines given by the regulator.
PRONOUNCE:
ex·i·gen·cy - एक्सिजन्सी
LINK: EXIGENCY
WORD: JUGGLERY
MEANING:
1. The skill or performance of a juggler.
2. Trickery; deception.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. "After Acche Din, New India, it appears govt also abandoned USD 5 trillion economy target. Budget full of piecemeal measures, repackaged schemes, jugglery of tax slabs and no real solutions to solve economic crisis."
PRONOUNCE:
jug·gler·y - जग्लरी
LINK: JUGGLERY
WORD: LITANY
MEANING:
1. ceremonial form of prayer; prolonged or tedious account; list; enumeration
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mubarak spent six years after facing trial in a litany of cases ranging from corruption to the killing of 239 protesters, whose 18-day revolt stunned the world.
PRONOUNCE:
litany - लिटनी
LINK: LITANY
WORD: INSIPID
MEANING:
1. Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty: insipid soup.
2. Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Congress leader Anand Sharma dismissed the Union Budget 2020 as 'insipid' saying, "it lacks stimulus for growth; no clear roadmap for job creation."
PRONOUNCE:
in·sip·id - इन्सिपिड
LINK: INSIPID
WORD: ILLICIT
MEANING:
1. not legally permitted; unlicensed; unlawful: Illicit drugs are rampant in the city.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mubarak's death comes just days after his two sons were acquitted of illicit share trading during the sale of a bank four years before the uprising that ended his rule.
PRONOUNCE:
illicit - इलिसट / इलिसिट
LINK: ILLICIT
WORD: ABERRATION
MEANING:
1. A deviation from what is typical or normal: an election that was an aberration from usual state politics. See Synonyms at deviation.
2. A departure from what is considered natural or proper: "Throughout history, the beast with a taste for human flesh has been regarded as an aberration, even as an outlaw" (Philip Caputo).
3. An abnormal, usually temporary alteration in one's mental state.
4.
a. A defect of focus, such as blurring in an image.
b. An imperfect image caused by a physical defect in an optical element, as in a lens.
5. The apparent displacement of the position of a celestial body in the direction of motion of an observer on Earth, caused by the motion of Earth and the finite velocity of light.
6. Genetics A deviation in the normal structure or number of chromosomes in an organism.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Judicial Aberrations on Gender Issues Are Worrisome
PRONOUNCE:
ab·er·ra·tion - ऐबरेशन / ऐबरैशन
LINK: ABERRATION
WORD: SVENGALI
MEANING:
1. A person who manipulates or controls another, especially by force of personality for malicious purposes.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Was Cambridge Analytica a digital Svengali or snake-oil salesman?
PRONOUNCE:
Sven·ga·li
LINK: SVENGALI
