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Monday, August 8, 2016

The Hindu Vocab


  1. Acrimonious (adjective) – angry & bitter, harsh, sharp.
  2. Martyr (noun) – a person killed for his (political or religious) beliefs.
  3. Indignation (noun) – resentment, discontent, dissatisfaction, distress.
  4. Mill about (verb) -(of people) throng, seethe, crowd, stream, surge.
  5. Put paid to (phrasal verb) – forestall, thwart; stop, check, block.
  6. Delusion (noun) – misunderstanding, misbelief; fallacy, illusion.
  7. Turbulent (adjective) – tempestuous, unstable, unsettled, chaotic.
  8. Sustain (verb) – continue, carry on, keep up, maintain.
  9. Insurgency (noun) – rebellion, revolt, uprising, outbreak, rioting.
  10. Incognito (adjective/adverb) – disguised; unrecognized, unidentified; secretly.
  11. Hop (verb) – jump, bound, spring; moving quickly by jumping on one foot.
  12. Enraged (adjective) – very angry, furious.
  13. Binary (noun) – something having two parts.
  14. Rigged (adjective) – manipulate, arrange fraudulently, misrepresent, fake.
  15. Military bunker (noun) – reinforced underground shelter.
  16. Ranting (adjective) – angry, impassioned.
  17. Cacophony (noun) – noise, din, uproar, racket, hubbub.
  18. Tip-off (noun) – piece of information, warning, hint, clue; information received.
  19. Zero in on (idiom) – focus on, concentrate on, home in on, aim at, highlight.
  20. Simmer (verb) – be furious, be angry, be incensed, fume.
  21. Discontent (noun) – dissatisfaction, unrest, disquiet.
  22. Vale or  Valley (noun) – an area of low land between hills or mountains (with river/stream running through it).
  23. Orchard (noun) – an enclosed place where fruit trees are grown.
  24. Savvy (adjective) – shrewd, intelligent, clever, sagacious.
  25. Sapling (noun) – a young tree.
  26. Graft (noun) – new growth, sprout, scion, cutting, bud.
  27. Pacify (verb) – appease, calm down, conciliate, mollify.
  28. Accretion (noun) – accumulation, gathering; increase, rise.
  29. Deception (noun) – deceitfulness; trick, misrepresentation.
  30. Accession (noun) – joining, signing up; addition, acquisition; agreement.
  31. In the face of (phrase) – in a dangerous/difficult situation; despite.
  32. Intrusion (noun) – violation, interruption, disruption, disturbance; obtrusion, encroachment, trespass.
  33. Nicety (noun) – fine point, subtlety, nuance; catalyst, cause, factor.
  34. Instrument (noun) – agent, medium, factor, mechanism.
  35. Consummate (adjective) – proficient, skilful; talented, well versed.
  36. Steeped in (verb) – imbue with, fill with,  pervade with, infuse with.
  37. Moorings (noun) – stabilizing influence/power.
  38. Reincarnated (adjective) – reembodied; incarnated again; undergone rebirth, reborn.
  39. Founder on (verb) – fail, be unsuccessful, fall through, break down, collapse.
  40. Shoals (noun) – a hidden danger.
  41. Incineration (noun) – destruction; an act of destroying something (by burning) completely.
  42. Shirk (verb) – evade, dodge, avoid, run away from; neglect.
  43. Exacerbate (verb) – aggravate, make worse; intensify, magnify.
  44. Discomfiture (noun) – embarrassment, unease, discomfort, nervousness, distress.
  45. Hoodlum (noun) – hooligan, mobster, criminal, gangster.
  46. Achilles heel (noun) – weak spot, weak/vulnerable spot.
  47. Washed up (adjective) – ineffective, unsuccessful.
  48. Detritus (noun) – debris, waste/discarded matter; remains, remnants, fragments.
  49. Make no mistake (phrase) – to bring attention to/emphasize a statement.
  50. Marginalisation (noun) – an act of making a group of people to feel isolated/insignificant/unimportant.
  51. Foreboding (noun) – apprehension, anxiety; premonition, suspicion.
  52. Graver (adjective) – (comparative form of grave) more serious/important/critical.
  53. 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
  54. pharmaceutical  adj. of or relating to the production and sale of drugs and medicine
  55. potentially – adv. capable of becoming real
  56. pill  n. a small, rounded object that you swallow and that contains medicine
  57. insulin ­– n. a substance that your body makes and uses to turn sugar into energy