1. Propaganda (noun) (प्रचार प्रसार) – information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view
Synonyms – publicity, disinformation
Antonyms – truth
Ex: Voters should listen to facts and not to the propaganda distributed by the media.
2. Anoint (verb) (तेल लगाना)– smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony
Synonyms – bless, grease
Ex: Anoint me with salt water.
3. Retrieving (verb) (पुनः प्राप्त करना)– get or bring (something) back from somewhere
Synonyms – recover, restore
Antonyms – break, damage
Ex: He took a long shower, exhausted, before retrieving his now lukewarm dinner from the house.
4. Reviving (verb) (पुनर्जीवित)– restore to life or consciousness
Synonyms – renovate, rally
Antonyms – dissuade, annoy
Ex: The new battery will revive the lifeless vehicle.
5. Perceived (verb) (माना जाता है) – become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand
Synonyms – grasped, noticed
Ex: Sometimes I am so concerned about how others perceive me that I do not always listen to my own voice.
6. Alienated (verb) (अलग-थलग)– make (someone) feel isolated or estranged
Synonyms – disaffected, alone
Antonyms – united
Ex: Teachers will alienate their students if they talk down to them.
7. Drubbing (noun) (पराजय) – a beating, a thrashing
Synonyms – whipping, thrashing
Ex: After drubbing Jeff twice at pool, Grady suggested that it was time to find.
8. Reinvent (verb) (परिवर्तन करके नयापन लाना) – change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new
Synonyms – remake, revive
Ex: You don't need to reinvent the wheel.
9. Slew (verb) (धसान) – turn or slide violently or uncontrollably
Synonyms – abundance, harvest
Antonyms – debt, little
Ex: He slew the great.
10. Squandered (verb) (गंवा) – waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner
Synonyms – consume, spend
Antonyms – hoard, collect
Ex: Eddie has a tendency to squander his entire allowance on comic books and action figures.
Word of the Day
Macerate
Meaning (English) – (especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid
Meaning (Hindi) – सिझाना
Synonyms – soften, steep
Antonyms – dehydrate, dry
Example – Add fresh fruit and leave to macerate for at least one hour
उदाहरण – ताजा फलों को कम से कम एक घंटे के लिए गलने के लिए रख दें।
1.Astute
Meaning: having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage
Synonym: shrewd, sharp, sharp-witted
Antonym: stupid
Sentence: 'an astute businessman"
2.Amalgam
Meaning: a mixture or blend.
Synonym: combination, union, merger, blend, mixture, mingling
Antonym: division, separation
Sentence: "a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern
3.Innate
Meaning: inborn; natural
Synonym: congenital, inherent, intrinsic
Antonym: acquired
Sentence: "her innate capacity for organization"
4.Taradiddle
Meaning: a petty lie., pretentious nonsense.
Synonym: fable, fabrication, falsehood,
Antonym:
Sentence: "no sane person would make up such a taradiddle"
5. Monologue
Meaning: a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme.
Synonym: soliloquy, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon,
Sentence: "he was reciting some of the great monologues of Shakespeare"
6.perennial
Meaning:lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring
Synonym:everlasting, perpetual, eternal,
Antonym: ceasing, ending, halting, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary
Sentence:"his perennial distrust of the media"
7. Allude
Meaning: suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at, mention without discussing at length.
Synonym: refer to, suggest, hint at, imply, mention,
Antonym: announce, declare, proclaim; elucidate, explain, spell out
Sentence: she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name"
8. Specious
Meaning: superficially plausible, but actually wrong., misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive
Synonym: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious,
Antonym: candid, direct, foursquare,
Sentence: "a specious argument"
9. Alliteration
Meaning: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Sentence: "the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’"
10.Alleviate
Meaning: make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.
Synonym: reduce, ease, relieve
Antonym: aggravate
Sentence: "he couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it"
Dec 18 ,2016
Well - oiled diplomacy
Conglomerate - A cluster of heterogeneous things
Heft - Heaviness, the feel of weight
Flak - Adverse criticism
Plethora - An excessive amount or number; an abundance
Behemoth - Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions
Thaw - to soften
Peers – equal
Apparent - visible to the eye
Hostility - showing the disposition of an enemy
Sanguine - full of hope
Détente - A relaxing of tension, especially between countries
Dec 19, 2016
Chaff in the wheat
Incentivized - to encourage
Expedient - quick; convenient
Prevailing - Widespread or preferred
Depleted - Used up, expended
Aggravated - To make worse
Inevitable - Impossible to avoid or prevent
Procure - To acquire or obtain
Reckoned - To count; to enumerate
Rosy – optimistic
Accorded - Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action
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Dec 20, 2016
Questions from a washout
Disruptive - An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something
Hysterical - Behaviour exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion
Deliberate - carefully considering the probable consequences of a step
Halt – to stop
Abandonment - To give up control of
Baffling - puzzling and frustrating
Aisles - A clear path through rows of seating
Adjournments - To postpone
Viable - able to live and develop
Avert - To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of
Dec 21, 2016
An unkind postscript
Confluence - A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things
Caveats - To warn or caution against some event
Fathom - Grasp, envelopment, control
Amnesty - Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; pardon
Cope - handle, manage, withstand
Diktat - a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon adefeated party by the victor
Arbitrary - Based on individual discretion or judgment
Threshold - The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit Tantamount
Ostensible - Apparent, evident
Scrutinized - To examine something with great care
Stipulated - Specified, promised or guaranteed in an agreement.
Spooked - A little scared
Skew - Neither perpendicular nor parallel
Gambit - An opening in chess, in which a minor piece(often a pawn) is sacrificed to gain an advantage
Dec 22, 2016
A year of living dangerously
Surreptitiously - Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert
Convoy - A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort
Pampore - a town in kashmir
Triumphalism - The attitude or belief that a particular doctrine,culture
Complicity - Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature
Retaliation - Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice
Proactive - Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
Indulgence - To yield to a temptation or desire
Rife - Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things)
Radically - fundamentally, at the root
Exploit - A heroic or extraordinary deed
Embolden - To encourage, inspire, or motivate
Exacerbate - To make worse (pain, anger, etc.)
Debilitating - Causing a loss of energy or strength
Dec 23, 2016
The art of non – deal
Offshoring - Located in the sea away from the coast
Speculation - The process of thinking or meditating on a subject
Maverick - Showing independence in thoughts or actions
Incredulity - Unwillingness or inability to believe
Sovereignty - Supreme authority over all things
Adhere - To hold, be attached, or devoted
Caucus - A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party
Contingent - An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future
Thwarted - To prevent; to halt
Incumbent - Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent
Stance - The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands
Repercussion - A consequence or ensuing result of some action
Spill over - To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
Acquiesce - To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent
Quid pro quo - giving something to receive something else
The art of non – deal
Offshoring - Located in the sea away from the coast
Speculation - The process of thinking or meditating on a subject
Maverick - Showing independence in thoughts or actions
Incredulity - Unwillingness or inability to believe
Sovereignty - Supreme authority over all things
Adhere - To hold, be attached, or devoted
Caucus - A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party
Contingent - An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future
Thwarted - To prevent; to halt
Incumbent - Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent
Stance - The manner, posture, or pose in which one stands
Repercussion - A consequence or ensuing result of some action
Spill over - To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
Acquiesce - To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent
Quid pro quo - giving something to receive something else
