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. Kartik Aaryan Wants to Look Sexy Again, Asks Fans if He Should Shave off his Stubble
PRONOUNCE:
stub·ble - स्टबल
LINK: STUBBLE
WORD: VALIANT
MEANING:
1. Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave: a valiant knight; a valiant effort. See Synonyms at brave.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Mathews soothes growing pain with valiant ton
PRONOUNCE:
val·iant - वलितं / वलित / वालिण्ट
LINK: VALIANT
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: 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: 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: 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: RANCOR
MEANING:
1. Bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will: He was filled with rancor after losing his job.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Rancorous week looms with Trump untamed
PRONOUNCE:
ran·cor - रैंगकर
LINK: RANCOR
WORD: DISPARITY
MEANING:
1. The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference: "narrow the economic disparities among regions and industries" (Courtenay Slater).
2. Unlikeness; incongruity
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Dravid unhappy with BCCI over cash award disparity for India U-19 staff, players
PRONOUNCE:
dis·par·i·ty - डिस्पेरटी / डिस्पैरिटी
LINK: DISPARITY
WORD: RESTIVE
MEANING:
1.
a. Uneasily impatient or hard to control under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay: Passengers on board the delayed airliner began to grow restive.
b. Characterized by impatience or an absence of calm; unsettled: had a restive feeling that something wasn't quite right.
2. Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shops and offices were shut in Kashmir on Thursday and the streets largely deserted as the authorities formally revoked the restive state's constitutional autonomy and split it into two government territories.
PRONOUNCE:
res·tive - रेस्टिव
LINK: RESTIVE
WORD: PANG
MEANING:
1. a sudden sharp feeling of distress or longing: a pang of desire; a pang of guilt; twinge, ache, throb, stab
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Khan and Alaya share an easy chemistry refreshingly bereft of melodrama or guilt pangs: their relationship is depicted as what it is.
PRONOUNCE:
pang - पैंगज़
LINK: PANG
WORD: IMPERIOUS
MEANING:
1. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing. See Synonyms at dictatorial.
2. Urgent; pressing: an imperious necessity.
3. Obsolete Regal; imperial.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Imperious Federer sweeps past Krajinovic into third round
PRONOUNCE:
im·pe·ri·ous - इम्पिरीअस / इम्पीरीअस
LINK: IMPERIOUS
WORD: FIRMAMENT
MEANING:
1. The vault or expanse of the heavens; the sky.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. You have to laud the courage of a girl like Deepika who is in the top firmament and yet takes a step like this.
PRONOUNCE:
fir·ma·ment - फर्ममन्ट
LINK: FIRMAMENT
WORD: LAUREATE
MEANING:
1. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction: "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag" (James Traub).
2. Crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
3. Archaic Made of laurel sprigs, as a wreath or crown.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
PRONOUNCE:
lau·re·ate - लॉरीअट / लॉरीइट
LINK: LAUREATE
WORD: HECKLE
MEANING:
1. To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger.
2. To comb (flax or hemp) with a hatchel.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Heckled by people in fire-ravaged communities, Scott Morrison has become a key focus of frustration.
PRONOUNCE:
heck·le - हेकल
LINK: HECKLE
WORD: SPORADIC
MEANING:
1. Occurring at irregular intervals or in isolated or scattered places; having no pattern or order: his sporadic attendance in class; rebels who put up sporadic resistance. See Synonyms at periodic.
2. Medicine Not epidemic, endemic, or inherited. Used of a disease or condition: Most cancers are sporadic, caused by genetic mutations that are not heritable.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. India's Rohit content with sporadic captaincy honour
PRONOUNCE:
spo·rad·ic - स्परैडिक / स्पोरैडिक
LINK: SPORADIC
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
