BOOZE

WORD: BOOZE

MEANING:
1.
a. Hard liquor.
b. An alcoholic beverage.
2. A drinking spree.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Belly dancers gyrate, booze flows at Meerut medical college

PRONOUNCE:
booze - बूज़

LINK: BOOZE

CURTAIL

WORD: CURTAIL

MEANING:
1. To cut short or reduce: We curtailed our conversation when other people entered the room.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The Library of Congress Will Curtail Its Twitter Collection in 2018

PRONOUNCE:
cur·tail - कर्टेल / कर्टैल

LINK: CURTAIL

GYRATE

WORD: GYRATE

MEANING:
1. To revolve around a fixed point or axis.
2. To move in a spiral or spirallike course. See Synonyms at turn.
3. To oscillate or vary, especially in a repetitious pattern: Stock prices gyrated around last week's high.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Belly dancers gyrate, booze flows at Meerut medical college

PRONOUNCE:
gy·rate - जाइरेट / जाइरैट / जाइरेट / जाइरेट

LINK: GYRATE

CONFISCATE

WORD: CONFISCATE

MEANING:
1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury, especially as a penalty for wrongdoing.
2. To seize by authority: The teacher confiscated all the comic books we had in class. See Synonyms at appropriate.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
"1. Shameful Pakistan confiscate Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife's shoes against false claims
2. 'There was something in her shoes,' says Pakistan about confiscating footwear of Jadhav's wife"

PRONOUNCE:
con·fis·cate - कान्फस्कैट / कान्फिस्केट

LINK: CONFISCATE

UNFAZED

WORD: UNFAZED

MEANING:
1. Not fazed or disturbed.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. PM Modi's popularity remains unfazed; 80% people believe country's economic conditions are 'good', says Pew survey

PRONOUNCE:
un·fazed - अन्फेज़्ड / अन्फैज़्ड

LINK: UNFAZED

GROPING

WORD: GROPING

MEANING:
1. To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way: groped for the telephone.
2. To search blindly or uncertainly: grope for an answer.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls

PRONOUNCE:
grope - ग्रोप

LINK: GROPING

ENCROACHMENT

WORD: ENCROACHMENT

MEANING:
1. The act or an instance of encroaching.
2. Football A violation of the rules in which a player enters the neutral zone and makes contact with an opponent prior to the snap of the ball.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Kerala Transport Minister Thomas Chandy resigns over encroachment charges

PRONOUNCE:
en·croach·ment - एन्क्रोच्मन्ट

LINK: ENCROACHMENT

MISSUS

WORD: MISSUS

MEANING:
1. The mistress of a household. Often used with the.
2. Informal One's wife or girlfriend. Often used with the: Tell the missus I said hello.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Iyer raises his bat and acknowledges the applause. The missus is also happy.

PRONOUNCE:
mis·sus or mis·sis - मिसज़ / मिसिज़

LINK: MISSUS

VACUOUS

WORD: RIFT

MEANING:
1.
a. Lacking intelligence; stupid or empty-headed.
b. Devoid of substance or meaning; vapid or inane: a vacuous comment.
c. Devoid of expression; vacant: a vacuous stare. See Synonyms at empty.
2. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle: "A sleepless night was followed by a vacuous day" (Zon Ferraris).
3. Archaic Devoid of matter; empty: vacuous space.


EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Sri Lanka going nowhere with this vacuous approach. The required run rate keeps climbing with each passing over.

PRONOUNCE:
vac·u·ous - वैक्यूअस

LINK: VACUOUS

KNACK

WORD: KNACK

MEANING:
1. A special talent or skill, especially one difficult to explain or teach: a knack for writing song lyrics.
2. A tendency or pattern of behavior: "Lincoln had a knack for involving himself in fights where the odds were against him" (Joshua Wolf Shenk).
3. Archaic
a. A clever trick.
b. A knickknack.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Chahal has unique knack of picking wickets had we tried in first match things would have been different - Let's not camp in the past

PRONOUNCE:
knack - नैक

LINK: KNACK

INIMICAL

WORD: INIMICAL

MEANING:
1. Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health.
2. Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Post Gujarat, parties inimical to Congress will develop a stake in Rahul Gandhi re-energising it before 2019

PRONOUNCE:
in·im·i·cal -  इनिमिकल

LINK: INIMICAL

CULT

WORD: CULT

MEANING:
1. a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. b. The followers of such a religion or sect. 2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual. 3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual. 4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease. 5. a. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. b. The object of such devotion. 6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Charles Manson 'Family' struggling to get out of prison as cult leader dies 2. Charles Manson, Cult Leader Behind Tate-LaBianca Murders, Dead at 83

PRONOUNCE:
cult - कल्ट

LINK: CULT

RANT

WORD: RANT

MEANING:
1. To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave. 2. To express at length a complaint or negative opinion: "He could rant on the subject of physician-assisted illness" (Paul Theroux).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A Haughty Rant Against Argentina's National Drink

PRONOUNCE:
here - here

LINK: RANT

AFOOT

WORD: AFOOT

MEANING:
1. On foot; walking. 2. In the process of being carried out; astir: plans afoot to resign.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A military coup is afoot in Zimbabwe. What's next for the embattled nation? Run away, there is froth in this IPO market: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

PRONOUNCE:
a·foot - अफुट

LINK: AFOOT

HAUGHTY

WORD: HAUGHTY

MEANING:
1. Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at arrogant.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A Haughty Rant Against Argentina's National Drink

PRONOUNCE:
haugh·ty - हॉटी

LINK: HAUGHTY

BONKERS

WORD: BONKERS

MEANING:
1. Crazy: "When word spread that free gas was to be found, the populace, as expected, went bonkers" (Washington Post).

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Lakmal to Rohit, Six, he is going bonkers.

PRONOUNCE:
bon·kers - बांगकर्ज़

LINK: BONKERS

ABERRATION

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. Perera to Rohit, 1 run, that's an aberration of sorts.

PRONOUNCE:
ab·er·ra·tion - ऐबरेशन / ऐबरैशन

LINK: ABERRATION

COLLUSION

WORD: COLLUSION

MEANING:
1. An often secret action taken by two or more parties to achieve an illegal or improper purpose.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Awkward? PM Modi meets Manmohan Singh, days after accusing him of collusion with Pakistan

PRONOUNCE:
col·lu·sion - कलूश़न

LINK: COLLUSION

SWEPT

WORD: SWEPT

MEANING:
1. curved, arced, bent

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 3 things you missed as the Warriors swept the Spurs to advance to the NBA Finals

PRONOUNCE:
swept - स्वेप्ट

LINK: SWEPT

APPEASEMENT

WORD: APPEASEMENT

MEANING:
1. a. An act of appeasing. b. The condition of being appeased.
2. The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.
3. concilation, pacification, accession

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Modi government created atmosphere of trust among minorities without appeasement: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

PRONOUNCE:
ap·pease·ment - अपीज़्मन्ट

LINK: APPEASEMENT