- Acrimonious (adjective) – angry & bitter, harsh, sharp.
- Martyr (noun) – a person killed for his (political or religious) beliefs.
- Indignation (noun) – resentment, discontent, dissatisfaction, distress.
- Mill about (verb) -(of people) throng, seethe, crowd, stream, surge.
- Put paid to (phrasal verb) – forestall, thwart; stop, check, block.
- Delusion (noun) – misunderstanding, misbelief; fallacy, illusion.
- Turbulent (adjective) – tempestuous, unstable, unsettled, chaotic.
- Sustain (verb) – continue, carry on, keep up, maintain.
- Insurgency (noun) – rebellion, revolt, uprising, outbreak, rioting.
- Incognito (adjective/adverb) – disguised; unrecognized, unidentified; secretly.
- Hop (verb) – jump, bound, spring; moving quickly by jumping on one foot.
- Enraged (adjective) – very angry, furious.
- Binary (noun) – something having two parts.
- Rigged (adjective) – manipulate, arrange fraudulently, misrepresent, fake.
- Military bunker (noun) – reinforced underground shelter.
- Ranting (adjective) – angry, impassioned.
- Cacophony (noun) – noise, din, uproar, racket, hubbub.
- Tip-off (noun) – piece of information, warning, hint, clue; information received.
- Zero in on (idiom) – focus on, concentrate on, home in on, aim at, highlight.
- Simmer (verb) – be furious, be angry, be incensed, fume.
- Discontent (noun) – dissatisfaction, unrest, disquiet.
- Vale or Valley (noun) – an area of low land between hills or mountains (with river/stream running through it).
- Orchard (noun) – an enclosed place where fruit trees are grown.
- Savvy (adjective) – shrewd, intelligent, clever, sagacious.
- Sapling (noun) – a young tree.
- Graft (noun) – new growth, sprout, scion, cutting, bud.
- Pacify (verb) – appease, calm down, conciliate, mollify.
- Accretion (noun) – accumulation, gathering; increase, rise.
- Deception (noun) – deceitfulness; trick, misrepresentation.
- Accession (noun) – joining, signing up; addition, acquisition; agreement.
- In the face of (phrase) – in a dangerous/difficult situation; despite.
- Intrusion (noun) – violation, interruption, disruption, disturbance; obtrusion, encroachment, trespass.
- Nicety (noun) – fine point, subtlety, nuance; catalyst, cause, factor.
- Instrument (noun) – agent, medium, factor, mechanism.
- Consummate (adjective) – proficient, skilful; talented, well versed.
- Steeped in (verb) – imbue with, fill with, pervade with, infuse with.
- Moorings (noun) – stabilizing influence/power.
- Reincarnated (adjective) – reembodied; incarnated again; undergone rebirth, reborn.
- Founder on (verb) – fail, be unsuccessful, fall through, break down, collapse.
- Shoals (noun) – a hidden danger.
- Incineration (noun) – destruction; an act of destroying something (by burning) completely.
- Shirk (verb) – evade, dodge, avoid, run away from; neglect.
- Exacerbate (verb) – aggravate, make worse; intensify, magnify.
- Discomfiture (noun) – embarrassment, unease, discomfort, nervousness, distress.
- Hoodlum (noun) – hooligan, mobster, criminal, gangster.
- Achilles heel (noun) – weak spot, weak/vulnerable spot.
- Washed up (adjective) – ineffective, unsuccessful.
- Detritus (noun) – debris, waste/discarded matter; remains, remnants, fragments.
- Make no mistake (phrase) – to bring attention to/emphasize a statement.
- Marginalisation (noun) – an act of making a group of people to feel isolated/insignificant/unimportant.
- Foreboding (noun) – apprehension, anxiety; premonition, suspicion.
- Graver (adjective) – (comparative form of grave) more serious/important/critical.
- bioelectronics – n. a branch of science that deals with electronic control of how the body works, especially in medicine to make up for defects of the nervous system
- pharmaceutical – adj. of or relating to the production and sale of drugs and medicine
- potentially – adv. capable of becoming real
- pill – n. a small, rounded object that you swallow and that contains medicine
- insulin – n. a substance that your body makes and uses to turn sugar into energy
Monday, August 8, 2016
The Hindu Vocab
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