Magoosh difficult words passage
libelous
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign. Administrators would still be able to block content that is slanderous, libelous or otherwise breaks laws. Washington TimesMar 15, 2016 Then I got a call from Trump himself, who told me that my work was "inaccurate and libelous." if a girl is liberal that means she knows how to survive in this brutal world by using/maligning men.
Apologia
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Befitting
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Beguiling
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Buffoon
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Capacious
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Circumspect
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Defy
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Fraught
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Germane
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Heave
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Hideous
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Homage
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Parenthetical
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Parody
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Perpetual
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Phylum
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Ponderous
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Quill
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Redemption
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Retribution
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Rod ousing
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Scathing
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Slew
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Spleen
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Stricture
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Terse
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Tome
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Treatise
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Uncanny
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Usurp
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Virile
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Wean
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Zealot
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a claque
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amply
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caustically
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chronicle
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circumspect
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circumvent
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codify
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coherent
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commends
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delectable
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deprecatory
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detractor
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disconcerting
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disdain
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dissimulation
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drab
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dwindle
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ebbs
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emended
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enigma
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eviscerate
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exalted
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fawn
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feverish
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habiliments
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hitherto
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humdinger
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ineffable
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inexplicable
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ingenious
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intuit
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iridescent
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jettisoned
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knotty
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libertine
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macabre
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mellifluous
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mordant
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nefarious
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nemesis
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oblique
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odious
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officiate
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panglossian
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paragons
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pat comparison
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pedantic
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plumbed
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preamble
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propaganda
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propitiatory
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proscribe
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proviso
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queasy
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reprieve
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resurgence
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rogue
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salutary
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sleuth
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smoldering
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solecism
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solipsistic
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sonorous
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subsist
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tintinnabulation
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transcendent
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treasonous
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truculent
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vestiges
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wanton
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barrage
A barrage is something that comes quickly and heavily — as an attack of bullets or artillery, or a fast spray of words. Sometimes in movies or news footage, the audience gets a glimpse from behind a mounted weapon and sees a heavy rain of bombs or bullets — called a barrage — going toward a target, sending as much POW! as possible to hit a wide area. Words become a barrage when spoken or written in uncontrollable anger or with overflowing emotion: "Her human-rights speech was a barrage of passion. It was hard to keep up with, but we felt the intensity of her cause." It has continued to limp and languish despite massive public works spending and, more recently, a barrage of monetary stimulus. US NewsMay 24, 2016 That officers would reduce their discretionary engagement under this barrage of criticism is understandable and inevitable.
inextricable
A chain that is very badly knotted and cannot be unraveled is inextricable. You cannot disentangle it. Inextricable comes from the Latin prefix in- meaning "not" and extricare meaning "unravel." Something that is inextricable cannot be unraveled. This isn't just limited to objects. Memories from childhood can sometimes be inextricable from other associations — so bound up that it is hard to separate one from the other. But Dickinson's two chief vocations were inextricable: Her passion for all things botanical is essential for a complete understanding of her personality, spirituality and verse. New York TimesMay 13, 2016 As older cases like Foster's move toward execution dates, the inextricable ties between race and the death penalty in America become increasingly salient. U have EXTRA CABLE of your net connection in your room which irritates u...so u knot that in a bundle...
harbinger
A harbinger is something that comes before and that shows what will follow in the future. The robin is a harbinger of spring--its presence means spring is coming soon. the only difference between harbinger and augury is that harbinger is neutral The appearance of a ghost is often thought of as a harbinger of homicide. Middle English herbergere is from Old French herbergeor "host," from herberge "camp, shelter," a word ultimately borrowed from a Germanic language. A protracted refugee crisis with a largely urban refugee population is both different from past crises and a harbinger of the new normal. Depending on whom your ask, Donald Trump is either the saviour of the Republican Party, or a harbinger of its demise. sounds like HER + FINGER, she shows me what is about to happen by gesturing with her finger.
glib
A hiring manager might think you're being glib, or slick and insincere, if you say you've led a successful multinational corporation when you were actually in charge of flipping burgers for a fast-food restaurant chain. The word glib might be used to describe the slick car salesman who uses his polished sales pitch to talk his customers into buying lemons. In fact, the word comes from old German and Dutch words for "slippery," another word that could be used to describe the very same salesman. In addition to meaning "smooth" and "persuasive," glib can be applied to the kind of thoughtless comment that could get you into big trouble. Telling your boss that you had a "hot time" with his daughter is the kind of glib remark that could end your career. Some mental health professionals called Mr. Bradshaw's ideas and his treatment methods glib and superficial, his courting of adulation unseemly. These stylistic shifts could easily seem obvious, even glib. glib sounds like Ghalib..his shayeri was slick and fluent.
spate
A large number of similar things coming together in quick succession.(n) A spate of articles
maverick
A maverick is a rebel, someone who shows a lot of independence. A maverick on a motorcycle might blaze his own trail, or show a maverick touch in a rough sport by wearing a helmet with the word "Mom" inside a heart. Samuel A. Maverick owned a lot of cattle, and he let them roam around Texas without a brand, or identification mark, seared into their skins. Samuel was a maverick for going against the common practice of tracking his animals, and his last name became part of the English language as both an adjective and a noun in the 19th century. Someone who acts very independently is a maverick, and individual actions that stand out are maverick, as in "her maverick jumping style on the ice was both wild and delicate." There are heroes: good fats, natural foods, everyday people who refuse to be sheeple, maverick doctors who write books that go against the grain. SlateMay 24, 2016 He's a maverick both courtside and in the political arena.
milieu
A milieu is a surrounding culture. Your family, house, neighborhood, school, and people you hang out with make up your milieu. If you live in a mansion and have rich friends, you're part of the upper crust milieu. Go you. A milieu is both "surroundings" and everything that makes up the surroundings. Your milieu is your world, or the context you come from. Sometimes a milieu shapes a person, as when a "milieu of abuse and poverty," inspires someone to improve things for others. Milieu sounds a lot like mildew without the "d," but unless you grew up in a moldy bathtub, mildew probably has little to do with your milieu, or environment. It's a grubby milieu that screams poverty and hardship, yet as always the O'Casey characters are joltingly alive. Washington PostMay 19, 2016 Its mission, he says, is "to create a special milieu where students are free to think". milieu sounds like MILE + U .. miles is the term that we use when we travel out somewhere .. that is we travel some miles near our SURROUNDINGS OR ENVIRONMENT and we get all excited=Means of expression :)
philistine
A philistine is a person who doesn't think a lot and isn't interested in learning. Your uncle Marvin, who's only interested in eating, sleeping, and watching game shows, could be considered a philistine. In the late 17th century, during a conflict in Jena, Germany, between townspeople and students, someone referred to the townspeople as "Philistines." Since then, philistine has described someone who stands against learning and the arts. And if you don't start reading the great Russian authors, someone might suggest that you have a philistine attitude toward literature — the word can also be used as an adjective describing a person or thing that displays indifference to the arts and intellectual pursuits. Not to sound philistine, but this seems an inordinate amount of money and time off, especially given the relatively small scholarly return. Washington PostMay 12, 2016 The philistines and modern-day know-nothings are on the march, and they all seem to show up at the Trump rally. phil is a guy whos a teen and is not taken seriously as he's considered to be narrow-minded and limited in scope and outlook
savage
A polar bear in a zoo might look like an adorable giant stuffed animal, but if you met a hungry one in its native environment, it would seem more savage — wild and fierce — than cute. Describing an animal as savage means that it is true to its wild, ferocious nature, but if you describe a person or the actions of a person as savage, it means "cruel" or "brutal." A place can also be described as savage if it's untamed, uninhabitable, and unwelcoming. When savage takes the form of a noun, it means "a brutal person," and when it's a verb it means "to attack ferociously." Any way you use it, savage is uncivilized and violent. Kevin Steele, the district attorney who is trying the case, won election over Castor last November by savaging Castor's handling of the case. The GuardianMay 24, 2016 As usual, he savaged our current trade deals, calling them "disgusting, the absolute worst ever negotiated by any country in the world." U have to be "saved" from a savaging person
preface
A preface is an introduction to the main text of a book, when an author or critic can write directly to the reader. A preface often describes how a book came together, like a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the final product. The preface is a place for extra context, thoughts, or even disclaimers about the text that follows. In his preface to Lyrical Ballads, the famous poet William Wordsworth wrote, "The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments." In other words, "Don't judge me too harshly!" Preface can also be used as a verb meaning "introduce." When you preface a statement with, "No offense but... ," the person you're talking to braces for criticism. Babine had prefaced the act by saying from the stage that he had "a special someone here" and something important to do. The solution to this is following the lead of Jane Austen and prefacing every opinion with "It is a truth universally acknowledged...".
proteges
A protégé is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field. If your boss introduces you as his newest protégé, you're off to a good start in your career. Essentially, a protégé is a teacher's pet, someone who is given special status or favors. Often, the word is used for someone who has special standout talent and is taken up as an upcoming star or powerhouse. The word's original associations, however, have nothing to do with talent and everything to do with how a person treats the protégé — the source of the word means "protection." He is thought to be a protégé of President Xi Jinping. EconomistMar 17, 2016 On the grassy area inside the track, Skinner's protege Gordon stretches. Washington PostMay 8, 2016 The two are represented by the same agency and Carter was thrilled when he saw his protege land in Minnesota.
serfs
A serf is a person who is forced to work on a plot of land, especially during the medieval period when Europe practiced feudalism, when a few lords owned all the land and everyone else had to toil on it. In Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries, large plots of land were ruled by lords who made serfs work the land for the lords' profit. The Latin root of the word is servus, which literally means "slave," but serf and slave are not synonyms. There were many kinds of serfs, some of which were indeed slaves, but others were more like employees who had some limited freedom. Either way, a serf's life was a brutal and unpleasant life. Slaves, serfs, subordinated women, people frozen in a hierarchy of lords or bureaucrats are not. Wall Street JournalMay 20, 2016 If the serfs or merchants, got out of line, well paid armies would descend on them and their punishment would be swift. New York TimesDec 29, 2015 If winter is coming - again - the poor serfs of the north should start saving up for a package holiday to Dorne. serf sound like smurfs who are slaves
fibber
A small or minor lie ;minor falsehood(n)
jocularity
A state of cheer or good humor is jocularity. It takes a certain amount of jocularity to tell a really good joke. Someone who has the quality of jocularity is playfully funny — a jokester or clown is known for his jocularity. A teacher's jocularity can transform a boring history class into something fun. Jocularity, the adjective jocular, and joke all stem from a common Latin root, iocus, or "joke." His partnering skills have improved admirably; and he perfectly judges the role's throwaway jocularity. Inside the expansive, glossy, warm wood paneled City Hall complex, police officers, city officials and administrative staff mix and backslap with picture perfect, inter-racial jocularity. sounds like joke hence
tropes
A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes. Each has its own particular structure, but in each case the actual meaning is different from the literal, dictionary sense. Trope is also used in a more general sense to describe a convention that you can easily recognize and understand because you've seen it so often. For example a TV cop show might use the trope of police vs. thieves to talk about larger issues. One of the most common and misleading tropes about transgender people is that many regret making their transitions. "So often women of color are relegated to playing simple tropes: the sidekick, the best friend, the noble savage, or the clown," Nyong'o wrote.
idyllic
A week at the beach that goes perfectly is an xx vacation. xx means so wonderful it seems almost magical. Are you having an xx childhood? You may not think so now, but in your old age, you may remember your days as a youngster as simple and carefree. The clear, blue water of the Caribbean Sea, the beautiful village perched on a cliffside, the sunny grassy field of wildflowers, these are all Idylls — simple peaceful scenes — that you may or may not find idyllic. Is the unexpectedly idyllic closing scene meant to be taken at face value or as a bitter fantasy vision of what might have been? "It's idyllic. It is a complete contrast to city living, which is what we like." Sounds like being idle. when we are idle without work we are jolly.
ulterior
An ulterior interest, argument, or revelation is one you try to keep hidden, like your ulterior motive for weeding your grandmother's garden is to have a conversation with your crush — and Grandma's neighbor — who happens to be outside, too. The adjective ulterior is a Latin word which means "more distant" or "future." Something that is ulterior may lay the groundwork for what comes later, like a new friend who hangs out with you at your house but whose ulterior motive is to date one of your siblings, or the incredible popularity of a series of novels set in a real place having the ulterior consequences of that place becoming a tourist destination. One leading German economist also accused the European Central Bank of ulterior motives. New York TimesMay 4, 2016 Last autumn, Kelly was invited by a local university's student union to attend a free outdoor concert - an invitation extended with ulterior motives. ulterior = ultra + interior which is very much inside means hidden.
portend
Be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen.(v) "the eclipses portend some major events"
belligerence
Belligerence is a natural disposition to be hostile or aggressive, or a warlike attitude. The belligerence of Roman gladiators made them excel in battle and instilled fear in their opponents. Belligerence in people is characterized by a tendency to pick fights or be aggressive toward others. It can be something in your nature, if you're, say, a bully, or it can be an attitude you summon in the heat of battle, as when you're going up against a rival sports team. One thing's for sure, though, there is nothing peaceful about belligerence, which, when displayed by armies or countries, can lead to devastating wars. He didn't directly mention the nuclear belligerence of North Korea, a problem that Mr. Obama inherited and has grown more threatening on his watch. Washington TimesMay 29, 2016 Donald Trump brings the Republican electorate to their feet with a farcical belligerence and ferocity that he perfected as a Reality TV star
quarry
Both meanings of quarry have to do with going after something. An animal being hunted is called quarry, and when you dig a hole in the earth looking for rocks, both the digging and the hole are called quarry as well. Gross fact: Quarry derives from the Latin cor "heart," because hunters used to drape the entrails of their chosen quarry on their dogs' backs. The origin in a word for "heart" can help you remember both quarries: a rock quarry is searching down toward the heart of the earth; a stag's heart is considered a hunter's greatest prize. There have been a wealth of recent fossil discoveries inside quarries, including Sclerocormus, which has taken several years to classify. BBCMay 23, 2016 Vincent took us to a place he called "stinky pond," an abandoned quarry often thought to be the location of "Roo's sandy pit."
disenchantment
Disenchantment is the feeling that comes from being let down or disillusioned by someone or something. The disenchantment of young voters can have a strong effect on an election's outcome. When you confess your disenchantment with school, it means you've been feeling disappointed by your classes lately — you may have had high expectations or started out the school year loving every class and admiring your teachers. Losing unrealistic expectations or beliefs results in disenchantment. The noun comes from disenchant, "cause to be disappointed," rooted in dis-, "do the opposite of," and enchant, "charm or cast a spell on." European disenchantment with the democratic system spiked after the crash of 2008, just as it did in the US. "There's an overwhelming disenchantment with him in this community," said Keegan Stephan, a veteran activist who has taken part in the protests against Mr. Thompson. enchanting means engaging or engrossing and disenchanting means disappointing
Drudgery
Dull menial work
canard
During a political campaign, you will often hear on TV commercials some canard about the opponent. This is a false, deluding statement designed to confuse the voters, as it presents the other candidate in a bad light by spreading an untruth. The Old French word quanart, "duck," morphed into canard, as in "vendre un canard à moitié," which refers to "half-selling" a duck, or cheating someone, and the word came to mean something meant to fool someone deliberately. Poet James Whitcomb Riley said, "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." Not always the case with canard. Thus far, this conflict has spared us the sight of McCrory blocking a rest-room door in defense of a similar canard. Trump has dismissed global warming as a "canard," "hoax" and "total con job," citing cold weather snaps as evidence. Remember Kannad movies...their fighting is so unreal..false... so remember canard as being a false portrayal.
fascistic
Fascism is a way of ruling that advocates total control of the people. Your parents' rule that you must be home by midnight might seem like fascism, but Europeans will tell you that it could be a lot worse. The word fascism can be hard to spell, so remember that the c comes after the s. Fascism comes from the Latin fascio, meaning "bundle, or political group." In fascism, the people are looked at as a bundle — one body that must be controlled by the government with absolute force. There's no option to vote, no chance to impeach a leader, and no freedom to stand up against the governing body Israel "has been infected by the seeds of fascism," Barak said. The New YorkerMay 26, 2016 Some Israelis say he sows "the seeds of fascism." TimeMay 25, 2016 The former Labour prime minister and defence minister Ehud Barak went even further, saying Israel's government had been "infected by the shoots of fascism".
precarious
Grab for the adjective xx when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You're in a xx financial situation! The Latin root of xx means "obtained by asking or praying." This fits well as xx always signals that help is needed desperately. If your life is xx or you are in a xx situation, things could become difficult, maybe even dangerous, for you. If your footing or hold on something is xx , it is unstable or not firmly placed, so that you are likely to slip or lose your grip. As precarious a moment as it was, his presence on this call would simply have sent the wrong message at the wrong time. A politician better at infighting than public speaking, he leaves behind a divided party and a precarious government. PRE+care+IOUS -> We have to take while doing something risky so that it does not go wrong. ..
irrefutable
Have you ever had to prove a point? If so, you probably needed to find evidence that could not be denied — that was absolutely true. That evidence would be considered irrefutable, impossible to disprove. The adjective irrefutable comes from the Latin verb refutāre, "repel or beat," with the added negative prefix in-. Some things are simply irrefutable. These are things based in logic (if a=b and b=c, then a=c), or in fact (George Washington was the first president of the United States). But some things that are irrefutable, while maybe not logical, are simply not arguable, as when someone responds to "Why not?" with "Because I don't want to"! irrefusable
heterogeneous
Heterogeneous can be used to describe the diversity of nearly anything — populations, classrooms, collections. A heterogeneous array of immigrants passed through Ellis Island to help create the American "melting pot." An easy way to remember the meaning of this word is that homo is the same and hetero is different. So, a homogeneous group of puppies might consist of apricot-colored poodles, while a heterogeneous group might consist of a hodgepodge of different pups ranging from dachshunds to dalmatians. Anytime you are confronted with a group whose members are not all similar to one another, you have an opportunity to trot out heterogeneous. IBS is extremely heterogeneous, and so the test requires more validation in different groups of patients, critics say. NatureMay 17, 2016 There is another way to investigate Mars and the full range of delights and discoveries this heterogeneous planet holds for us.
hubris
Hubris is an excess of confidence: a boxer who shouts "I'm the greatest!" even though he's about to get pummeled by a much stronger opponent is displaying a lot of hubris. Hubris is from Greek, where it meant "excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans" and was always punished by the gods. We no longer have the Greek gods, so in English it just refers to over-the-top self-confidence. If you call yourself the best in something, you better have the goods to back it up, since too much hubris can lead to embarrassment and humiliation. It's an age-old human failing: pride goeth before the fall. "Any show that's about human behavior and double-crossing and hubris, its value is not about the result, it's about the process," Christenfeld said. "There's a lot of hubris in our business," she told me. HUB+RIS(RAISE)--A person RAISEd in a HUB(city centre),will be arrogant and conceited towards villagers and others.
culpable
If a child tells his mother he was not to blame for the cookie jar being broken, she could still find him culpable if he was the only one home. Culpable means to be at fault. Culpable is being deserving of blame. If you are culpable of a crime, you are the culprit, or the one who did it. Culpable can be used when looking for the root of the problem rather than a simple who done it. If a teacher leaves the room during a difficult test, and the students decide to cheat, parents might ask whether or not the teacher was also somewhat culpable for the outcome. The culpable bear is likely still at large. Policies like these help protect otherwise culpable officers from conviction. culp( culprit)...so a culprit is always estimable(deserving) OF BLAME FROM EVERYONE.
menace
If it's threatening you or otherwise posing some sort of danger, then it's a xx . Angry rabid dogs, smog clouds, and annoying little brothers are all probable xx . If you are with a girl in an automatic elevator then you being man phase to The word xx works as both a noun and a verb, but it wasn't used to describe threatening or bothersome people until 1936. Before then, common menaces probably included things like the plague, locusts, and roving bands of pirate ships. Today, a bad reputation can menace an otherwise promising career, weeds can menace your garden, and burglars are a menace to society. But their existing ground is hardly a menace to the environment... When Lanza chooses the straightforward vocal route, it's usually because there's something menacing chugging underneath the surface. dennis the menace.. In the cartoon was considered threat or the danger
vassal
If this were Medieval Europe, you would probably be a vassal — like most everyone else. Vassals were people who worked the vast plots of land that were held by lords, who though much fewer in number, held all the wealth and power. In days of yore(former times), vassals pledged devotion to feudal lords, who were the landowners, in exchange for protection and use of the land—-called a fief. Use vassal when referring to a servant, or anyone wholly dependent on another, or to describe a place that is controlled by one that is more powerful. For example, during World War II, Poland was a vassal of Germany. The members of the LSU and other key state boards and commissions now operate as vassals in the governor's fiefdom. SalonNov 9, 2015 Chinese and European leaders once sent vassals to pay homage to their powerful forebears. Sounds like vasool. One who has to give a vasool is a vassal.
aggrandize
If you are a window washer, but you refer to yourself as a "vista enhancement specialist," then you are aggrandizing your job title — that is, making it sound greater than it is. The verb aggrandize not only means "to make appear greater"; it can also be used to mean simply "to make greater." If you buy an estate and sink millions of dollars into its improvement, then you are actually aggrandizing the estate. If you are making yourself seem greater, then people may say you are "self-aggrandizing." His critics cannot so derisively dismiss claims that we're still waging a borderless war with al-Qaeda as merely a pretext to aggrandize the presidency. TimeNov 4, 2015 In choosing bronze, Crosher evokes a long history of aggrandizing and memorializing statuary. when you aggregate you get a bigger figure which is more than the individual line items.Hence aggrandize means to make it appear bigger.
factitious
If you create a "diamond" out of plastic, then you've created a factitious diamond, meaning that it's a phony. Factitious, pronounced "fac-TISH-us," means "fake," like a factitious compliment you give the person who cooked you an awful meal — you don't mean it, but you say it anyway, just to be nice. As he or she happily walks away, another friend might whisper, "Were you being facetious about the dinner being good?" Facetious, pronounced "fuh-SEE-shuhs," means "trying to be funny." Don't confuse factitious with facetious — or fictitious, which means "made up." A New York judge said at her sentencing she suffers from Munchausen by proxy, now known clinically as factitious disorder imposed on another. Washington TimesApr 8, 2016 He eventually came around to the idea and has since been working to unify a factitious and raucous Republican House caucus. MSNBCApr 4, 2016 It's good that he's sharing it with us, but it comes packaged with a theme so transparently factitious that one can't take it seriously. sounds very similar to word FICTITIOUS....so something which is fictitious .. is always artificial.
obsequious
If you disapprove of the overly submissive way someone is acting — like the teacher's pet or a celebrity's assistant — call them by the formal adjective obsequious. Vocabulary Shout-Out In Defense of "Obsequious" In an editorial for the Chicago Tribune yesterday, columnist Eric Zorn took issue with the College Board's inclusion of obsequious in a list of "low-frequency words that would be unlikely to be assessed directly as words-in-context questions on the redesigned SAT." Continue reading... There are many words in the English language for a person or an action that is overly obedient and submissive. Obsequious people are usually not being genuine; they resort to flattery and other fawning ways to stay in the good graces of authority figures. An obsequious person can be called a bootlicker, a brownnoser or a toady. You can also say that someone gives an obsequious bow, a gesture that means, "your wish is my command."
conversant
If you know a lot about computer programming, then you could describe yourself as conversant with the latest updates in coding languages. This means you have current working knowledge of the topic. The word conversant can be traced back to the Latin word conversari, meaning to "keep company with." If you're conversant with something, then you're familiar with it — as if you have been keeping company with it. The word is often paired with the prepositions with, as in "being conversant with the Detroit area, or in, as in "if you speak French, you're conversant in French." He had traveled in Egypt and was conversant with the knowledge of Babylon. Cosmos He adds that asking a candidate to be conversant with every football ground in London could actually be damaging to their campaign. BBCApr 7, 2016 Trump is clearly not conversant in the disingenuous posturing about abortion expected of all anti-choice politicians. you can converse with someone for long only if u have that knowledge
foible
If you repeat xx out loud enough times, it sounds so funny that you can laugh at it and maybe remember to laugh at the odd and distinctive weaknesses of others — the xx or two or a hundred that we all have. Sometimes a xx helps make a person who they are, even if the foible, or weakness ("feeble" is a close relative), is a little odd. Synonyms for foible in a negative sense are "failing," "shortcoming," and in a more positive sense "quirk," "eccentricity." It can likewise be annoying or endearing. Most people have a foible, or idiosyncrasy, that stands out to others, but interestingly, a person rarely sees his or her own characteristic foible. The foibles and pretentions of Harvard grads are distinct from those of Hampshire grads. The New YorkerMay 19, 2016 He puts his characters in motion — slow motion, it should be noted — and lets their foibles dictate their actions. Fail to be able.. so you have a weakness or slight fault at something
bluster
If you tell the captain of the basketball team that you're going to beat him at a game of hoops even though you've never played, you're speaking with a lot of bluster or false confidence and bravado. Bluster can also mean a strong wind. On a blustery day, you'll see trees blowing and people holding onto their hats. When someone full of bluster is talking about how they can do something that you think they can't, they're blowing a lot of hot air in your direction. And coincidently, another name for that type of person is a blowhard. For all of Mr. Lieberman's bluster, many Israeli analysts predict that he will become more pragmatic once he takes office. New York TimesMay 25, 2016 Trump responded with his usual bluster, instructing security to remove the protesters and mocking their actions by telling them to "Go home to mommy."
fastidious
If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious. Fastidious is a funny-sounding adjective from the Latin fastidium "loathing" that has several equally strange-sounding synonyms — persnickety, fussbudgety, finicky and punctilious. Fussy and hard to please will also do the trick. Fastidious is occasionally used as a compliment to describe someone whose attention to detail gives them good organizing abilities, but it is usually used as a disapproving term. His teachers describe him as quick to smile and laugh, but his teammates see his scowling, fastidious side. Mole rats can be fastidious about their tunnels, whisking away roots, pebbles, and other litter in the passageways. fas(ana) is tidious ..means kisi ko fasana bahot tidious hai. (jangal mein kisi shikar ko FASaney ke liye use "please" (by bait) karna padta hai. FASana+TEDIOUS=difficult to please=FASTIDIOUS)
modicum
If you want to describe a small amount of something, try modicum. If you have a modicum of interest in something, you are a little bit interested. Modicum comes from the Latin modicus, for moderate, and modus, for measure. We often use it to mean "any at all," as if "If you had a modicum of sense (i.e. any sense at all), you'd be able to see that the pencil you've spent the last five minutes looking for is tucked behind your ear." You can pony up a modicum of empathy. Wall Street JournalMay 12, 2016 There is a modicum of positive news to take away from the Allen storm. modi has come to power since past few months and we can already see small improvements
trenchant
If you're trenchant, it means you think or say smart, sharply worded things that cut right to the heart of the matter. A trenchant observation is one that makes people scratch their chins thoughtfully, or wince with embarrassment for whomever you're talking about, or both. The word trenchant originates from tranchant, which in French means "sharp" or "cutting," and it's related to the word trench, which originally meant a line carved in wood and later came to mean a ditch carved into the earth. The word is often used to describe political commentary or cultural criticism. One person known for her trenchant wit was the author and critic Mary McCarthy, who once said of the writer Lillian Hellman, "Every word she writes is a lie, including the 'and' and the 'the'." Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who has been Trump's most trenchant antagonist, tweeted after the Indiana primary: SlateMay 9, 2016 More than anything, Drake won the strategic battle, then stood on the shoulders of trenchant supporters who declared him the winner. TRENCH means fixed firmly and securely with a pit. You need something sharp to make the pit.So TRENCHANT-->CUTTING OR sharp insight
cavil
If your only xx to your family's trip to Disney World is that you don't like airline food, you're not representing the anti-Mickey side of the argument very well. A xx is a small or petty objection. xx is not a word that comes up all that often. You can replace it with the more commonly used word quibble and still have the same meaning. If you cavil over a restaurant bill, you argue about the minute, unimportant details of who owes what -- like whether your portion of the bill is $10.00 or $10.50. This logic can not be caviled with or gainsaid. No one caviled nor complained at the one-ideaness of womankind while the world was in a welter of woe and slaughter. sounds like evil.. people always find unnecessary faults in the good.. or sounds like keval (hindi) ie but so it goes like every time you find something thats perfect you say keval yahi problem.
apotheosis
If your teacher says the term paper you handed in last week is a work of genius that sets a new gold standard for the school, he's telling you your work is the apotheosis of term papers. The epitome. Perfection. Hidden in the middle of apotheosis you'll find the Greek theos, meaning god. (Theology, the study of religion, has the same root.) Combine theos with apo "from" and you get a person, place, or thing that is so out-of-this-world amazing that it seems as if it's "from God." It's divine. You could make the assertion that Leonardo da Vinci was the apotheosis of genius and that the Mona Lisa is the apotheosis of all his paintings. That statement may stand in history as the apotheosis of Mr. Obama's view of world affairs. The pairing of Mr. Hirst and Mr. Gagosian was a kind of apotheosis of Andy Warhol's famous precept that good business is the best art. Theos means god(you can remember it by THE O.S means the operating sytem that control's our live's must be god)AAP+THEOSis....aperson saying to another that aap toh god ho.....apotheosis...
augury
Is your team losing 15-0? Has your girlfriend just slapped your face? Dude, these are auguries — signs of how things are going to work out in the future. And these two examples don't look good. In fact, not every augury is an ill omen, as the common phrase "augurs well for the future" suggests, but more often than not, it seems, an augury is a sign that the future will be none too rosy. Auguries are signs of what's to come, and it's wise not to ignore them. So the idea arose that comets were harbingers of disaster, auguries of divine wrath—that they foretold the deaths of princes, the fall of kingdoms. Song-of-the-summer predictions are almost as tiresome and fallible as election auguries, so we'll leave it to someone else to make a claim for this one. Augury.... Augur..... Sounds like Eager. We are always eager to know whats written in our future... so...
execrate
Just when you thought you knew every word in the book for hate, here's a new one: execrate. The word means to despise or also to curse. Broken down to its Latin root, the word execrate means the opposite of being sacred or devoted to. When you execrate something you, are cursing it instead of making it holy. The word is not used all that often. If you say to someone, "I execrate you!" they might think you're casting an evil spell on them. Which in a way, by cursing them, you are. Americans execrate "outsourcing," which supposedly involves sending "American jobs" overseas. You may loathe, you may execrate, but you cannot deny her...No wine gives fiercer intoxication, no drug more vivid exaltation." exe file is a curse
discomfiting
Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed. (v)
wince
Make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of pain or distress. (v)
decrepitude
Many old buildings located in "ghost towns" in the Old West area of the United States are in a state of decrepitude. In other words, they are worn out and in disrepair. Decrepitude is usually a result of old age or neglect. Elderly people can be in this state and so can things, such as homes and automobiles. Similar words, which also happen to start with the letter D, are dilapidation and deterioration. Haunted houses featured in the movies are good examples of decrepitude. Most of them are not new and shiny, but have peeling paint, creaking floorboards, and lots of cobwebs. Her cottonwood is old, its skin turned from the silvery white of youth to the dark gray of decrepitude. No other character, no other show, better encapsulates the moral decrepitude of white, male middle management. decre(decrease) + pitude(aptitude)..so if your aptitude is decreasing, it is an indication of OLD AGE, thats when a person becomes weak and in a state of deterioration.
nonchalance
Nonchalance is a casual lack of concern, a relaxed state without anxiety or enthusiasm. Like how you'd act if the girl you've had a secret crush on since grade school asks you to the prom. (Or maybe not.) It's hard to achieve nonchalance. If you're like most people, there's always going to be something that will rattle you. And you can forget about behaving with chalance, because chalance isn't a word. Sometimes you hear people say that so-and-so acted with "studied nonchalance," which means to sort of fake it. Oddly, the word's origins go back to the Latin calere, which is the same word as the root of calorie. A calorie is a unit of energy, and to act with nonchalance is to refrain from showing too much energy or excitement, so actually, it makes sense. He recently described his litany of military injuries with a nonchalance, almost a detachment, because those were understood risks, simply enough. Washington TimesMay 28, 2016 There's never been anybody like him," Cohen added, noting "the incredible air of nonchalance" the pitcher occasionally displays even during big league games. nonchalance rhymes like No + Challenge , When there is no challenge, people tend not to care and there will be a casual attitude or lack of concern.
penitent
Penitent means deeply sorry, ashamed, and full of remorse. If you feel sorry--or just want to appear to--you should adopt a penitent manner. Penitent comes from the Latin word paenitere, which means to repent. It can be either noun or adjective. Though it's not restricted to them, penitent often pops up in religious contexts, particularly as a noun, as in, "The penitent threw herself at the bishop's feet and begged forgiveness for her sins." But this solution has always been offered as an option in the shadowy private forum—in those off-the-record consultations between confessor and penitent. The New YorkerApr 8, 2016 In Madrid that night, upward of a thousand nazarenos, or penitents, take part in processions along various routes through the center of the city. inside a tent if you do some thing wrong with a girl by giving penni(money) you will repent it later.
perfunctory
Perfunctory means done as part of a routine or duty. If you give someone a gift and they look at it like it's roadkill and say nothing about it but a perfunctory "thank you," you might not be giving them another one anytime soon. A person who does something in a perfunctory way shows little enthusiasm or interest in what they are doing. Many of our everyday greetings are perfunctory. For example, when we say hello and how are you, it's usually done out of habit. Perfunctory is from Latin perfunctus, from perfungi "to get through with, perform," formed from the Latin prefix per- "completely" plus fungi "to perform." Sure, there are still a few perfunctory hold-outs, but they represent the minority within the party. SalonMay 23, 2016 At the same time comes increasing public defiance from liberal clergy who celebrate same-sex rites—often with only perfunctory response from liberal bishops. Wall Street JournalMay 12, 2016 Item: Though "known for his interest in children," he had only the most perfunctory contact with his granddaughter. SlateMay 11, 2016 She adds of that kiss: "Whether perfunctory or an impulse she could not repress, to this hour I don't know." PARAI(other's)+FACTORY - if you are told to take care of somebody else's factory, you would casually care about it
prim
Prim means polite, straight-laced, even twee. Many characters in Jane Austen novels are prim and proper. Prim describes someone who is so concerned with being proper it becomes almost fake. If you go to the beach on spring break wearing a Victorian bathing costume, you're being prim. Clothes can be prim, too, like that long wool swimsuit. If you're feeling crazy, you can use prim as a verb meaning, "to purse your mouth into a prim expression" — like how you prim your lips when you look down your nose at someone using the wrong fork. The pictures on the covers were usually celebrity wives or models wearing prim and feminine outfits: cloche hats, Peter Pan collars, not showing any skin. Los Angeles TimesMay 17, 2016 The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled. sounds like trim when we trim our hair we look like a proper gentleman.
prognosis
Prognosis concerns people who are so sick they might die. What is their prognosis? It is a word doctors use to talk about the path a disease will take with a person. Prognosis comes from the Greek pro- "before" and gnosis "knowledge." It means to know beforehand, but keep in mind that it is only a probable outcome and not a sure thing. Financial analysts frequently change their prognosis of the economy as they hear each piece of good or bad economic news. And if the weather prognosis is sunny and dry, but you see dark clouds forming, you would be wise to pack an umbrella. Police say the child was eventually discharged with a positive prognosis. Washington TimesMay 25, 2016 "They have an excellent prognosis, but it is still cancer and we have to follow it carefully," he said. prognosis = pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis = cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease before the disease itself.
pugilists
Pugilist is a fancy word for boxer, one who indulges in the noble art of pugilism, or fighting with one's fists. Be warned when people use the term pugilist or you see it in the paper. Nowadays such a term is often sarcastic in tone and critical of boxing's claims for legitimacy, often suggesting it's essentially savagery masquerading as sport. If you hear "the term "fighter" you can be more certain it's used with approval, or at least without prejudice. "But we knew, being very close to the two pugilists, that Mr Trudeau was very focussed on winning," Ruel added. The GuardianApr 2, 2016 Music is fighting, at least for this pugilist. Mike Tyson was a PUGILIST(Boxer) and always keeps a PUGs(dogs)+ LIST those he wanted to knock down..
relegating
Relegate means assign to a lower position. If the quarterback of the football team stops making decent throws he might be relegated to the position of benchwarmer, while another kid is given the chance to play. Relegate rhymes with delegate--both words derive from the Latin legare "send." Relegate means to send someone down in rank. Delegate means to send someone in your place to complete a task. In the workplace, managers who can't figure out how to delegate may get relegated to a lesser rank. After hiring someone, Xia said his first order of business will be to fix the atmosphere around the relegated club. Benitez took over in March but could not stop the club being relegated, despite the Magpies winning three of their last six league matches. relegate..split it like rele(relatives+gate)your relatives are crying at THE GATE because you are not allowing them to enter your house, you have put them in a worse place i.e the GATE WHICH IS ALMOST LIKE A FOOTPATH.
reprehensible
Reprehensible means deserving of blame or strong criticism. It is a strong word--your mother might forgive you for doing something bad, but something reprehensible? That's worse. Near synonyms are blameworthy and culpable. Antonyms are blameless and praiseworthy. The adjective reprehensible is from Middle English, from Latin reprehensus, from reprehendere plus the suffix -ibilis "deserving of, capable of." If someone is reprehended, they are blamed or strongly criticized. The 2016 election has brought many of the Clinton administration's reprehensible policies back into the limelight. A reprehensible father, who has talked about the desirability of dating his daughter, is lecturing us about women? It sounds like opposite of apprehensible and apprehensible sounds like derived from appreciate..so reprehensible is something which is not appreciated.
juxtaposed
See the word "pose" in juxtapose? When you juxtapose, you are "posing" or positioning things side by side. The verb juxtapose requires contrasting things placed next to one other: "The collage juxtaposed pictures of Jane while she was growing up and as an adult." Juxtapose is used often when referring to contrasting elements in the arts. "The music juxtaposed the instrumentation of jazz with the harmonies of soul." That Ruby and Harry have a summer romance is an obvious but lovely subplot, and it's perfectly juxtaposed against the existential crises bewildering their parents. Washington PostMay 16, 2016 Two of the book's strongest chapters are somewhat awkwardly juxtaposed.
glean
Seeing a word in context lets you xx information about how it's used. xx means to gather bit by bit. You might say, "I couldn't understand her accent, but from what I could xx , she needs money to take the bus." In the Book of Ruth in The Bible, Ruth meets her future husband when she asked permission to xx from his fields, which means follow the grain cutters, gathering the seed kernels that have fallen on the ground. For the very poor at this time, xx ing was often means of getting food. There's even some possible hope that can be gleaned from David's encounters with Weisz's character, Short Sighted Woman. And if anything is to be gleaned from his show last night, it's that Trevor Noah hates nicknames. sounds like clean , in order to clean something you have to gather things bit by bit
benign
Someone or something that is benign is gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful: a benign soul wouldn't hurt a fly. Benign describes a range of qualities, all of them positive. When talking about a person, it means "gentle." In reference to weather or climate, it means "mild." In some other contexts, it simply means "not harmful"; you might speak of "a benign tumor" or "an environmentally benign chemical." The word comes from a Latin root benignus meaning "well born," but the implied meaning is "kind" or "pleasant" — it's hard to get mad at someone who has a benign disposition. Each year, about 78,000 Americans are diagnosed with a malignant or benign brain tumor. Wall Street JournalMay 23, 2016 She says that as researchers learn more about genetic risks of cancer, they're finding that variants once considered benign might actually contribute to cancer risk. benign- bene(good) + sign
wayward
Someone wayward is a little stubborn and independent — they're determined to find their own way and are not easily controlled. Being wayward can mean a few things, but they all have something to do with doing your own thing — often, going against what others want you to do. A rebellious student is wayward. A son who ignores his parent's advice is wayward. A politician who goes against everyone else in his political party is wayward. Wayward folks like to go their own way — and they often take the unexpected path. Spieth, meanwhile, continued to fight his swing, but this time his putter was unable to offset his wayward shots. Golf DigestMay 22, 2016 There was no pattern to his wayward tee shots; some went right, some went left. waivered mind as in doesnt latches on others ideas and works independently
fretful
Someone who's fretful can't relax. You might be fretful — upset and fidgety — if you're waiting to hear whether or not you've been accepted into a competitive summer music program. You may be fretful because you're worried about a friend, you're waiting for news, you're incredibly irritated with your little brother, or simply because you're an anxious and restless person. The word at the heart of fretful is fret, a verb meaning "worry" which is rooted in the Old English fretan, "to eat or devour." From this, fret grew to mean "being eaten away by worry." The woman was lost in a fretful sleep. A Tangle of Knots Depressive graduate students, loaded with debt and fretful about diminished job prospects, fasten on to the futility running through the plays. fret - when you are told to do something which you havent done, you get frightened and you fret over it
antithetical
Something is antithetical when it is in complete and utter opposition to the character of something. If you're a vegetarian, eating giant T-bone steaks is antithetical to your beliefs. You'll find that antithetical is a useful word when you're trying to express an extreme contrast. If someone is trying to convince you to do something you don't believe in, or to allow an organization you're involved with to adopt measures you are strongly against, you can use antithetical. You go out to vote because sitting out of the voting process is antithetical to what you believe in. If you find that your club wants to adopt exclusive measures when it is supposed to be open, you'll tell them that that's antithetical to the club's purpose. Through the years, the standard line on Duncan is that he was a product of a low-key culture antithetical to the sneaker-company-sponsored deifying of teenagers. New York TimesMay 13, 2016 "In fact, that's antithetical to what I understand about the government code" and laws covering state spending. Anti- contrast or against , so antithetical is something that contrasts in meaning , character ,or purpose
poignant
Something that is poignant touches you deeply. Watching a poignant YouTube video about baby penguins chasing their mothers, for example, might give you a lump in your throat. Poignant comes from the Latin pungere "to prick," the same root as pungent. But something that's pungent pricks your sense of smell, whereas poignant refers to something that pricks your emotions, especially in a melancholy way. Movie critics might describe a touching portrayal as poignant if there isn't a dry eye in the house. The Clinton campaign turned the poignant moment into an ad ahead of the Nevada caucuses. MSNBCMay 23, 2016 The scene where Hodor holds the door against the wights as Bran is dragged away was horrifying and poignant. sounds like "pregnant", think what the situation of a woman would be who is pregnant and watching a video of a "woman giving birth".. obviously gr8 but painful as well
staid
Something that is staid is dignified, respectable — possibly even boring, like a staid dinner party that is heavy on the important guests but light on the laughs. Staid is pronounced just like "stayed" — in fact, it comes from stay, meaning "fixed" or "permanent." Something that is staid is sedate, slightly dull, and tends to stay the same. Whether it's a middle-class lifestyle, a conservative law firm, your unadventurous aunt, or an old navy plaid sofa, the word staid can be used to describe anything that maintains a respectable self-restraint and takes no chances. Even some of the more staid Creole standbys are benefiting from the new energy. Wall Street JournalMay 19, 2016 But the chaos that can overwhelm them suggests that the more staid, reactive side of his game has yet to be taken on board. The GuardianMay 19, 2016 Still, I loved that my friend and her groom had planned their wedding in a place far from the staid setting of a church. Staid--sounds like "STAYED"--Imagine you have always maintained your dignity and propriety in the place where you have stayed for so many years!
moribund
Something that is xx is almost dead, like a xx economy that has been stuck in a recession for years. Choose Your Words morbid / moribund Morbid describes something gruesome, like smallpox or Frankenstein's monster. Moribund refers to the act of dying. Goths love both. What fun! In Latin, mori means "to die." You probably recognize this root in words like mortal, mortician, and mortuary. Moribund means "near death," but it can also mean something that is coming to an end, nearly obsolete, or stagnant. For example, as streaming videos over the Internet becomes a more and more popular way to watch movies and television shows, the DVD has become a moribund medium. And if the Ottoman Empire was moribund, its military was still capable of fighting back. Mr. Temer's first priority is Brazil's moribund economy, which is mired in the worst downturn since the Great Depression. bund in hindi means "end " or "finish".So thats the end meaning its dying. So "moribund" means "dying
ascendant
Something that's ascendant is increasing its power or status. An ascendant political party is one that captures more and more seats in Congress with every election. Things are ascendant when they're growing in importance. It's common to use this adjective to describe people or groups that have already achieved a lot of power and whose influence continues to grow. Ascendant was originally a term in astronomy, although today it's used in astrology to mean the sign of the Zodiac rising in the east when someone's born. The Latin root is ascendere, "to go up," but also figuratively "to rise," or "to reach." Bongiorno, who makes the entire audience feel as if he's addressing us individually, is a star on the ascendant. Los Angeles TimesMay 17, 2016 On June 9, 1983, with Thatcher ascendant, Labour suffered its worst election defeat in modern times.
opulence
Something with opulence is drenched in wealth and luxury. You'll need gold brocaded curtains, diamond-encrusted watches, and a world-renowned personal chef if you want to add some opulence to your life. Not surprisingly, the noun opulence comes from the Latin opulentia, meaning "wealthy." A word that suggests extravagant excess, opulence describes lavish and visibly over-the-top living. Synonyms include abundance, prosperity, and riches. Said the novelist Joseph Conrad, "Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury." Meaning, first secure one's riches and safety, and then enjoy without a care in the world! Like Mr. Burton, whose original film made over $1 billion at the global box office, Mr. Bobin believes in taking opulence and extravagance to extremes. I'm talking about others, men and women who today exist only in images: in television or newspaper images, sometimes heartrending, sometimes offensive in their opulence. OPUL REMENBER OPEL AND LANCE MEANS LANCER CAR PEOPLE THOSE WHI HAS OPEL AND LANCER LIVE IN OPULANCE
recrimination
Sometimes you accuse your opponent of refusing to compromise and he accuses you of the same thing. That's a recrimination, an accusation or insult that's hurled back at someone. If you've ever been in a verbal disagreement with someone, odds are that you've experienced recriminations. You can remember it by noticing that crim as in "crime" is part of the word. When recriminations fly back and forth between two sides, each accuses the other of crimes in the metaphorical sense. Once the emergencies of a disaster have been taken care of, recriminations are sometimes hurled at those in charge for the way the crisis was handled. Their tales feature moments of intrepidity(resolute courageousness) and recrimination in equal measure. Washington PostMay 19, 2016 So, too, will recriminations, but the authorities cannot let the scenes go without condemnation, or fail to act on them re-crimina-tion: criminal relates to a crime. recrimination means: one accusing the other for a crime. The other "re" accused him of another crime.
sated
Sometimes you're so hungry you feel like you could eat a ten-course meal. Other times it takes just a small salad to sate your appetite, or to satisfy your hunger. The verb sate comes from the Old English sadian, "to satiate," and can be applied to any situation regarding the satisfaction of a need or an appetite. If you have been craving something sweet, your craving might be sated by a bag of jellybeans. However, if it seems like you can never get enough jellybeans, your appetite for sweets might be described as insatiable, a word used to describe a person or entity whose appetites — literally or figuratively — are impossible to satisfy. That didn't ever happen; instead, the audience's hunger for crossover music was sated by more crossover artists, and more releases from crossover stars." New York TimesMay 24, 2016 So is Fleiss trying to sate the public's hunger for spoilers, or has he just been generating buzz for Fletcher's new season? sounds like satiated
queer
Strange; odd. adjective strange; odd. "she had a queer feeling that they were being watched" verbinformal spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation). "Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute"
hedonism
Strictly speaking, hedonism is the belief that pursuing pleasure leads to the greatest ethical good. In practice, though, the ethical part sometimes gets lost in the pleasure part. Hedonism originally hails from the Greek word hedone, meaning "pleasure." In Ancient Greece, hedonism really did have an ethical component, and its adherents really believed that society would be best served if you as an individual cultivated those things that gave you the greatest pleasure, instead of the self-denial inherent in other philosophies and religions. Over time the philosophical aspect of hedonism has faded and we are left an idea that looks to us very much like, well, Las Vegas. he loved Miami, the city where she died, for its hedonism and modernity. The GuardianApr 3, 2016 Davis's life, in his own telling, is a trouble-filled adventure, in which racism and drugs, hedonism and violence, artistic vision and brute desire are intertwined. he(is)don... and obviously has strong devotion to pleasures of senses..
subsume
Subsume means to absorb or include. A successful company might subsume a failing competitor through a merger, or love may subsume you in the early stages of a romance. Subsume is a verb that comes from the Latin words sub, which means "from below," and sumere, which means "take." So subsume means "to take from below," like a sneak attack by some kind of deep-sea creature. Sailors and scuba divers should beware of monsters from the blackest depths waiting to subsume them. Opponents of the treaty preyed on fears that Denmark's economy would be subsumed by Germany's and would be captive to a remote bureaucracy in Brussels. "British troops will be subsumed into an EU army," counselled Mr Finch, sympathetically. subsume - to consume someone from sub ie low
surly
Surly describes behavior nobody wants to be around. Think of the irritable old guy who lives on your street and always seems to be simmering with some sullen nasty anger, whose every utterance he spits out with a rude snarl. He's the poster boy for surly. Surly behavior is always frowned upon, but the word's origins are in the behavior of English nobility. Surly's roots are in sirly, as in sir, meaning arrogant, haughty and superior. Its current meaning implies all that and more, none of it appealing. To be rude, snotty, sullen, mean and cranky can be added to the list. Generally speaking, if you find yourself in a surly mood, avoid your friends and loved ones. Americans are just in a very surly, unreceptive mood. SalonMay 21, 2016 Here, poverty and economic decline has led to the surly separation of a left-behind, resentful white working class and a Muslim minority. sounds like sourly . so if someone replies surly he/she replies sourly such that you might want to leave that place and go
repression
The action of subduing someone or something by force. (n) "students sparked off events that ended in brutal repression"
ecumenical
The adjective ecumenical refers to something universal, or something that has a wide, general application. You might refer to a wide assortment of ethnic foods served together as being ecumenical, and you'd be technically correct, as the word does mean something general and worldwide. But the term is most widely connected with religious unity, specifically Christianity. The original Greek root word, oikos, means "house," and that grew into the word oikoumenikós, which means "the entire world." Today it most often refers to bringing people of diverse Christian religions together; however, an ecumenical service might bring Christians, Jews, and Muslims together under one roof. Similarly, three Burlington County schools were converted into apartment buildings for the elderly in the past few years by an ecumenical housing organization. New York TimesMay 15, 2016 Also joining the pope was the ecumenical patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I, an ethnic Greek with citizenship in Turkey, where he is based. ECUMENICAL-> EClectic + MANY...uniting MANY ECLECTIC peoples.
cataclysm
The hurricane battered the coast, causing the city to flood, and tens of thousands of people were stranded without food or water. When an event causes great suffering, we call it a cataclysm. Cataclysm comes from the Greek word kataklysmos which means "a deluge or flood." So saying something was "a disaster of cataclysmic proportions" is particularly apt when you're talking about a tsunami. Still, people use the word cataclysmic to describe non-watery disasters, too, like stock market crashes, painful breakups, and failed grammar tests. But, we do need to summon our voices and start shouting from rooftops: "We have options", "We don't have to settle for cataclysm". The GuardianMay 19, 2016 Yes, there's a final battle, but it isn't the cataclysm of previous Marvel entries. SlateMay 5, 2016 "Every time Europeans did this, it was an absolute cataclysm," Gray said. cat cl(/ry) - when cats / dogs cry it is believed that some kind of natural calamity might occur in the future.
entropy
The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change. The word entropy finds its roots in the Greek entropia, which means "a turning toward" or "transformation." The word was used to describe the measurement of disorder by the German physicist Rudolph Clausius and appeared in English in 1868. A common example of entropy is that of ice melting in water. The resulting change from formed to free, from ordered to disordered increases the entropy. Amid such an immeasurable mix of physical impairment, psychic wounds and simple entropy, a unified theory that better explains the Tiger conundrum has been lacking. Golf DigestMay 23, 2016 The subsequent chapter, which ends in the Nevada prison where Mr. Simpson currently resides, is all entropy, squalor and sleaze.
conciliate
The verb conciliate means to placate, appease, or pacify. If you are eating at a restaurant and the waiter accidentally spills a drink on you, the manager may try to conciliate you by picking up the tab for your meal. You may be more familiar with the termconciliation --it can mean the flowers you bring to conciliate your girlfriend after a fight, or a politician's conciliatory offer to fund a new playground to a community that's just lost its school. Conciliate comes from the Latin wordconciliare, meaning "to unite." Conciliare in turn comes from the Latin word concilium, meaning "council." If you remember their common etymology, you can remember that, like council,conciliate is spelled with only one l. But he cautions the newly elected leader of the opposition that he faces the choice of "annihilate or conciliate" his enemies within the party. A more confident president would conciliate his critics.
expatiate
The verb expatiate means "to add details to in order to clear up." If your story is confusing to everyone who hears it, certain key parts must be missing. Better expatiate so that people can understand it. To pronounce expatiate correctly, accent the second syllable: "ex-PAY-she-ate." When you expatiate on a piece of writing, you add details. The goal is to make your ideas clearer to readers, perhaps by offering an example to help them understand. Teachers can tell when you are expatiating and when you are just adding to what you've written, say, to reach a certain length requirement. That's usually called "padding." When the question is general enough, they move quickly from answering it to expatiating on general themes. Washington PostSep 15, 2015 It was suddenly cool to know stuff, to expatiate on the causes of the Spanish Civil War. Middlesex: A Novel Groucho expatiated on Lear's relationship to his daughters. extra pay she ate all the info since she got an extra pay she added much more to the job.
elusive
Things that are xx are recondite to find, pin down, or remember. They slip right out of your grasp. Choose Your Words elusive / illusive An elusive fairy is one you can't catch, but an illusive one was never really there at all. It was just an illusion! Ever try to catch a mouse? It's not easy, because mice are quick and xx — they're tough to catch. Rabbits are speedy, so they're xx too. Also, things that are tough to understand or describe are xx — like the concepts of love and beauty. If you had an idea and then forgot it, the idea is xx : it slipped away. Anything you can't get hold of, with your hands or with your brain, is elusive. illusive things are always recondite(difficult) to understand
forsake
To forsake another person is to leave them entirely, usually in a moment of need. Forsake may mean simply giving something up, such as a way of life or a homeland, for something better or more appropriate. But it is often a mean word, suggesting leaving something or someone behind when they need you to stay. One way to remember the meaning of this verb — to abandon or desert — is to remember this little sentence: "For heaven's sake, don't leave me, or heaven is lost!" Lose the heaven, and you have forsake. ome fans, many of them European, grumble that modern gymnastics has forsaken artistry for the sake of athleticism. The New YorkerMay 23, 2016 If you forsake the power of information, you have no standing to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. i gave up on my goals for the sake of your safety i forsook my goals for your safety
imbue
To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. One visit to Africa might be enough to imbue ambitions in a medical student to return to heal the sick. You can use imbue in a similar way as "saturate," or "soak through," to describe a filling or absorbing. A "hue" is a color, and it rhymes with imbue. When you're imbued with something, you are, in a way, colored by it. If you imbue a dish sponge with oily orange water from a spaghetti bowl, the color and the oil soak in. To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism. His Second, written in 1958, is imbued with the spirit of Schoenberg, with whom Kirchner studied in California. He wanted America to be "a hardy, robust and combative nation . imbued with the love of fight." imbue : i m b(l)ue (color of water)= so in cartoon when some 1 soaked you in water u become blue and u say I M Blue
masquerade
To masquerade means "to pretend to be someone else." If you masquerade as a sweet, kind-hearted person, you present that image to the world, hiding your true identity as a jerk who has rage issues. As a verb, masquerade can also mean to dress up as someone else, in costume. At the parade, you will masquerade as the court jester, wearing a purple outfit and bells and tossing candy to little kids. The noun masquerade refers to both your costume, which usually includes a mask, and the event where you will wear it. The fun is in hiding your real identity for the night. Yet an argument over British identity is masquerading as an economic debate. New York TimesMay 20, 2016 In her view, Beyoncé is merely regurgitating patriarchal ideas about the irrational emotion of women, and masquerading that as healing.
obviate
To obviate means to eliminate the need for something or to prevent something from happening. If you want to obviate the possibility of a roach infestation, clean your kitchen regularly. The prefix ob means "to go against." That makes sense when you look at the words obstruct and obstacle, but how about obstetrics? Why does the name of the branch of medicine dealing with birth have the same root as words that mean "stop" or "get in the way"? Because a midwife stands opposite to, or against, the woman giving birth. In other words, the relevance of food quality does not obviate the relevance of quantity, but rather plays a direct role in determining it. US NewsMay 16, 2016 It would obviate the problem of recruiting a candidate willing to spend an arduous six months on a quixotic national campaign. if it is obvious you can obviate it easily (you can prevent it), obvious and obviate sound similar
remediate
To remediate is to correct or make right. If you accidentally ran over your neighbor's bike with your car, you could remediate the bad situation by paying for the bike's repair. When you remediate some kind of damage or mistake, you repair it or set it straight. To remediate often means to make up for a lack of something, like when schools remediate students who have struggled in certain classes by giving them extra instruction after school. The origin of remediate goes back to the Latin wordremedium, a cure, remedy, or medicine.
spur
To spur something on is to get it going, to encourage it, to hasten it or stimulate. Cowboys wear spiky metal tools called spurs on their boots to kick their horses and spur them to greater speed. Economists talk of lowering interest rates to spur spending. A new source of funding for research will hopefully spur new proposals for research from scientists. An earthquake in China might spur cities in California to a higher standard of earthquake preparedness. You might spur your team on to victory by cheering from the sidelines. Chinese pressure has also spurred Hanoi to open its economy wider to investment from democratic nations. The play spurred the Thunder on a 24-7 run to close the half. sounds like a co-brand of spunk from spykar which inspires people to act and buy the products of the brand
blanch
To xx is to turn pale, usually as the result of a physical or psychological shock. Nineteenth century literary heroines were frequently blanching — before they fainted, that is. xx has also taken on the more general meaning of to cause shock in general. A government can xx at following through a particular reform, without the implication that an entire cabinet actually turned white. You can xx an inanimate object, too, when you deprive it of its natural color. White toilet paper has been xx by using bleach, for example, though environmentalists blanch at the thought. For instance, Chipotle said on its latest earnings call that it had started blanching bell peppers in an effort to kill germs. Coral researchers are now watching their subject blanch white as the Great Barrier Reef faces the largest bleaching event ever observed. its like "blank".. so blanched...
begrudge
To xx someone for something is to wish them ill for it or to envy them. Try not to xx his getting the promotion over you — he's been at the company longer. An understudy might xx the lead her role and even go so far as to put glass in her shoes so she can't perform. An easy way to remember the meaning of this verb is to note the noun grudge lurking inside it. A grudge is ill will that you hold toward someone: to begrudge is to hold that grudge. If you begrudge your friend his happiness because he got the nicer car, your friendship will suffer. So don't begrudge NBC/Golf Channel for devoting a decent amount of their 80 hours to reminding us how epic the week was. I realize that the relationship between audience and creator has changed in the digital age, and who would begrudge a network's quest for multiplatform cross-over. begrudge can be broken into beg + rude... so some one who behave rudely with beggars ... the beggar 'wish ill' for that person
recidivist
Use the noun recidivist to describe someone who can't stop committing crimes — for example, a repeat shoplifter is a recidivist If you've got serious backsliding tendencies, this could be your next step: recidivist is tech-talk for "repeat offender." A recidivist is basically someone who can't help lapsing into previous bad behavior patterns, usually of the criminal kind. An inmate who is released from prison and immediately steals a car can be described as a recidivist. Most studies show that prisoners who return to their old neighborhoods are most likely to be recidivist. Washington PostOct 9, 2015 It's also the case that people are recidivists because a life of crime is just that. recidivist:re+cid+vist, re means again..and "cid" if CID comes again and again to someone's house...dat means he is a habitual offender..
waggish
Waggish means that someone is humorous or witty — the kind of person who'd keep you in stitches all night if you sat next to one at a party. Despite the wag part of the word, waggish does not refer to the characteristic tail flick that our canine friends exhibit when they are happy to see us. Instead, waggish is an adjective and actually describes someone who is a wag — the kind of hilarious person who keeps you entertained with witty stories and jokes. As the Capitol building itself undergoes a facelift, that waggish definition of Capitol Hill, "Hollywood for ugly people," is becoming more than mere aphorism. SalonSep 27, 2014 She does well with waggish material, like the delightful writing-workshop comedy "Seminar," but her attempts at realism don't feel real. when one is waggish people wag their tails and become their fans.
fulminate
Watch a bomb fulminate or explode and hope you're under safe cover. Have your parents fulminate or blow up at you for coming home past curfew and hope you're not grounded for too long. The word fulminate is made up of the Latin root fulmen meaning "lightning flash." Look up at the sky during a violent thunderstorm and chances are you'll catch thunder and lightning fulminate or explode loudly and violently overhead. But you needn't look to the sky alone for this kind of intensity. If you find yourself in a room with passionate Republicans and Democrats debating, you might see them fulminate or severely rail against each other's beliefs. She battled church bureaucrats and fulminated when a mime troupe gave a woman the role of Christ. Wall Street JournalApr 1, 2016 Many Clinton surrogates have fulminated that any independent voters are allowed to participate in the Democratic Party nominating process. SalonMar 30, 2016 However often he fulminates against trade deals, he cannot conjure secure jobs for his fans. culminate means reach to climax level or peak level.
deferential
When a young person shows respect and obedience to an older person, they're being deferential to the elder's wisdom and experience. To be obedient, courteous, or dutiful are all ways of being deferential. Bowing low to the Queen is a deferential act when visiting Buckingham Palace. On sports teams, rookies are usually deferential to the veterans and star players, while all players should be deferential to the coach. All employees are expected to be at least a little deferential to their bosses. Being deferential shows respect, but also means "I know my place, and it's lower than yours. As the newcomer in the room, Manafort was deferential but also pointed in his observations. New York TimesMay 18, 2016 Watching him play, right now, is at shortstop, where is both excelling and deferential. deferential : in this age by being deferential one is different
epiphany
When inspiration hits you out of the blue, call it an epiphany. divine manifestation. In the Christian tradition, xx (ə-PIF-ə-nee) is a festival celebrating Christ's appearance to the Gentiles, observed every year on January 6. From the Christian sense we get an additional religious sense, "the appearance of a god or deity" and the more common modern usage, a noun meaning "a sudden revelation." There's nothing religious about most epiphanies these days — your "Eureka!" moment could come when you realize that you're in the wrong line of work and you need to quit your job to join the circus. If you are inspired by Whitman's exuberant epiphany, one modern piece of fitness advice applies- stay hydrated. I have not experienced a sudden epiphany and am not here to detail an evolution in my perspective. ape-phnay(many ) ape was seem as divine
obstinate
When someone is beyond stubborn, use the word obstinate instead: "You obstinate old mule! Get out of my way!" While stubborn may have positive or negative connotations, obstinate is most definitely negative, because it implies a kind of hard-headed determination not to change your mind even when it might be best to rethink your position. "The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions, but they hold him," wrote Samuel Butler way back in the seventeenth century. The word still does the trick if you want a put-down for someone you think is being a pig-headed fool or a stick in the mud. And then there was his act with an obstinate bird -- and he chortled recalling the episode. They remain obstinate and continue to defy the request from the Justice Department. obs+tin+ate he ate tin so he is stubborn fellow as he is recondite(difficult) to control
impregnable
When something is impregnable it is not easily taken by force and can stand up to any attack. We usually use it in reference to some form of protection, like a fort or a solid defensive line in football. The genealogy of the adjective impregnable includes the Middle French word prenable, meaning "vulnerable, easily conquered," which itself came from the verb prendre, which meant "to take." The addition of the negative prefix im- flipped the meaning. Impregnable can be used to describe anything that cannot be entered or successfully attacked. Seventeenth-century theater critic Jeremy Collier once said, "True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable." It is intended to be virtually impregnable and, if needed, self-sufficient for three days at a time. New York TimesMay 11, 2016 Stark wears stylish Tom Ford suits when not clad in an impregnable computerized tin can, whereas Trump is like the worst-dressed rich man ever. impregnable - gals get pregnant and are usually physically impregnable as any one who tries to get near them is sidetracked.
palpable
When something is xx , you can touch or handle it, even though the word is often used to describe things that usually can't be handled or touched, such as emotions or sensations. You probably won't see xx used to describe, say, an egg or a doorknob or a motorcycle. xx is usually reserved for situations in which something invisible becomes so intense that it feels as though it has substance or weight. When the towers came down, the sense of sadness was so great, it was palpable. He pointed to the last Republican nominating competition, when widespread displeasure with Romney was palpable through the spring. Inside the event, there is also palpable excitement at the prospect of the first female president that transcends any easy stereotyping of Appalachian menfolk. palpable..divide it like..PALP(SOUNDS LIKE PULP)+ABLE.....after touching the PULP of fruit ITS OBVIOUS THAT every one would be ABLE TO PERCEIVE whether THE FRUIT is fresh or not
roiling
When water or another liquid is xx , it's stirred up and moving in a churning way. The xx , soapy water in your washing machine tells you that your clothes are getting thoroughly cleaned. If the ocean all around your little boat is xx , it's full of waves, tossing you on its surface — and the roiling green liquid inside your blender might turn out to be a delicious smoothie, despite its strange color. The adjective roiling comes from the verb xx , "move in a turbulent way," which has an uncertain history. One origin might be the Middle French rouiller, "to rust or make muddy." All this incessant, roiling, turbulent activity is in the comparatively cool visible surface. That's simply not happening to a degree sufficient to offset the continuing exodus of work and suggest deeper problems roiling factory floors. ROIL ~ SOIL = muddy
avow
When you avow something, you say it openly for the whole world to hear. If you're a witness in a trial, you'll be asked to take an oath in which you'll avow that you'll tell the truth. A simple way to remember the meaning of avow is that it sounds and looks a whole lot like "a vow," to which it's closely related. At the end of almost every wedding, the couple takes their vows, in which they avow their commitment to each other. To take a vow is to avow the things that you say in that vow. Be sure that you mean what you say when you avow something, because people will hold you to it. And don't mutter or mumble. That's no way to avow something. Ismael El Iraki, an avowed Eagles of Death Metal fan, penned an open letter Tuesday to say his "heart is bleeding." Washington TimesMay 26, 2016 It is also far from certain that removing Mullah Mansour would make such peace talks—an avowed U.S. goal—any easier to resume. When you say wow , you say it loudly for the world to know that you like it.
bolstered
When you cheer up a friend who's feeling down, you bolster them. To bolster is to offer support or strengthen. A bolster is also the name of a long pillow you might use to make your back feel better. And the two uses are not dissimilar. When you bolster your friends, you support them and prop them up, just like the pillow does for your back. When you're trying to bolster your credibility, you find people and/or documents that support you or your view. Bolster efforts to learn this word! It is these gentle memories that both conflict with and bolster stories about the man Wheeler would become. Washington PostMay 28, 2016 The sight bolstered Obama's impulse in his final years in office to write U.S. foreign policy in bolder, potentially historic, strokes.
foreboding
When you get a xx , you get a sense that something bad is going to happen. A xx is a foretelling, a sign or a glimpse, that "something wicked this way comes" — or might come. If something doesn't "bode" well, it means that the future doesn't look good. A xx is a glimpse or a feeling that bad things are going to happen. It's a premonition(A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.), or look into the future. Most times foreboding implies that something evil is coming, but sometimes it's used for anything bad up ahead, as in "she had a foreboding that the trip would get canceled due to the hurricane." Even if the future looks bright, a foreboding casts dread over what's ahead. Their appraisal of the medium's psychological force is both studious and foreboding. This was a dire and foreboding change for a decades-old economic trend line. Foreboding = replace the "o" in boding with "a" Fore(forward/future) + Bading ,i.e., Foreboding = Fore bading ,i.e is future is bad .. hence bad omen..
inhibit
When you inhibit something, you block it or hold it back. If you put plants in a dark room, you inhibit their growth. A teacher who mocks their students for giving wrong answers inhibits their willingness to speak up in class. When you look at the word inhibit, think hinder. Though it sounds like it might be a bad thing to inhibit something else, there is no judgment built into the word. A drug that inhibits the growth of cancer cells would generally be considered a very good thing. While you may wish cancer cells to be inhibited, you probably don't wish it upon your friend's sense of humor or your country's economic growth. All inhibit cancer by interfering with the signals that spur tumor growth, Hyman said. US NewsMay 19, 2016 As first lady, she inhibited staff members and created what one top Clinton administration official called a "world of shadows on the wall." exhibit means u want to show your stuff/talent/goods to people so as to promote your growth inhibit means quite the opposite and it means to oppose the growth of something
substantive
When you talk about x change, you mean change that really makes a difference. After a x discussion, you will have an in depth understanding of what you are talking about. When something is x , there is a lot of there , be it meaning or volume of things. The word brings a serious tone. While it is often used to talk about problems and their solutions, a big steak dinner could be called substantive as could a very long piece of writing. In any case, you use it when there is a lot of substance involved. But the prospect of any substantive rapprochement on policy seems remote. The first substantive item will be signing the role of membership. substantive = substance of any poem is always essential to understand the motif(decorative design/pattern) of the theme.
inveigle
When you tell your boyfriend he's not just the best boyfriend ever but also the world's best driver, and this makes him offer to drive the whole way on your upcoming road trip, then congratulations. You know how to inveigle, or use charm to coax someone into doing something. If you successfully inveigle your sister to doing something for you, she must be so caught up in your flattering that she is blind to your true intention. In fact, inveigle comes from the Middle French word aveugler, meaning "delude, make blind," which can be traced back to the Medieval Latin word ab oculis, or "lacking eyes." The people you inveigle don't see what you are really up to. Sure enough, Atticus is inveigled by a call girl into what seem like compromising positions for a hidden photographer. New York TimesFeb 22, 2015 The shallow write-ups and inveigling headlines are insulting, and possibly injurious. sounds like in vague hence if someone tells you something and that results in you slogging it out , then your efforts are in vague because the objective of the person to make you work is achieved.
anodynes
When your back is killing you from helping your friend move furniture into his new apartment, you need to take an anodyne, a painkiller. An anodyne doesn't have to be actual medicine. If the pure joy of helping your friend is soothing enough to make you forget your aching back, that counts as an anodyne too (though perhaps an unlikely one). Anodyne can also be used as an adjective to describe something that relieves pain, or is at least inoffensive. When you're stressed out or unhappy, try looking at anodyne pictures of kittens. Er, unless you had a bad experience with a cat once. None have issued public statements, though when asked, they are happy to provide anodyne emails from a "spokesperson." In fact, only in the past century has the word "virility" been displaced by the more anodyne "masculinity" and "manliness."
provenance
Where something comes from is its provenance. If a style of music originated in the capital of Rhode Island, you could say that its provenance was Providence. Some items of foreign provenance are taxed more heavily than domestic products. If you claim that an artwork put up for sale was stolen from your family's art collection, an investigation may be ordered to resolve issues of provenance. In this case, provenance refers to who has the legal right to the specific work of art, or to whom it belongs. Martini brought along a psychologist, who helped him come to the conclusion that Falciani seemed credible about the provenance of his data. The New YorkerMay 23, 2016 They said that both the benefactor and the library had acted in good faith with regards to the letter's legitimate provenance. provenance = province+ance, remember when someone asks you: where do you belong to or to which province do you belong to?..which means whats your origin? Provenance=(Province of oneself )
gusto
You can do many things with xx , or hearty enthusiasm, whether it's eating a steak, playing table tennis, or cheering on your favorite team. Some people live their whole lives with xx . Since the seventeenth century xx has been helping English speakers describe things that are done with vigor and enthusiasm. Gusto is Italian for "taste," and its Italian origins are evident both in its spelling, with its "o" ending, and its sense of "a taste for life." Use this word to describe vigorous activities — you probably wouldn't "take a nap with gusto," even if you really enjoy napping. You're more likely to score goals and dance the Macarena with gusto. He barrels through a song, selling it with gusto, smiling, even though the tune is a cacophonous mess. He says he has not ruled out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former rival who has embraced the billionaire's campaign with gusto. GUSTo..gust..guest..you are filled with much enthusiasm while you eagerly wait for your guest to arrive.
mien
Your mien is how you present yourself, the impression you make. It's best to keep a low profile but a dignified mien. The source of the word mien is not completely clear, but it does involve a French word for "facial expression." A person's mien is a look or quality that tells a lot about their personalities or temperaments. A person with a cheerful mien probably radiates happiness and energy, while someone with a serious mien may have an air of being lost in thought. To many who watched him, Lyndon Johnson's mien was a fascinating thing to see. At first our voices wavered, our raised arms noodled, and our overall mien lacked sternness. MIEN is a shortened version of the word DEMEANOR
minions
Your minions, if you are lucky enough to have any, are those people who are devoted to you and entirely dependent on you. If you borrow money from a bully and don't pay it back, he might send one of his minions after you. A minion is nothing more than a yes-man, a nameless faceless servant. It is a negative term implying that your only importance is from the person who orders you around. Corporate presidents may have minions to do their dirty work such as firing employees who have made a mistake. If a celebrity comes to town, minions will come ahead of time to make sure that everything is to the celebrity's liking. f that happens, many who are now critical of the P.K.K.'s violence and hungry for an alternative will fall in line behind Ocalan's minions. Whether Trump buys that or not, he'll get off to his former repudiator being the minion that Perry has chosen out of opportunism to be. Washington TimesMay 10, 2016 The entire experience so humiliated Bettman that he ordered his minions to ensure that no Canadian team would ever win the Stanley Cup again. minion movie they are slaves to their master
Fasiscle
a small or slender bundle (as of pine needles or nerve fibers). 2 : one of the divisions of a book published in parts.
persnickety
adjective BRITISHinformal placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very pernickety about her food requiring a particularly precise or careful approach "the system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points"
Epithet
an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. "old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet 'dirty'" an epithet used as a term of abuse. "the woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them"
defunct
as the name suggests its defunct something that's not functional everal Silicon Valley figures asked to comment on Wednesday said they had not read it or did not know it was defunct. New York TimesMay 25, 2016 The last estimate - made in 2013 by the now defunct National Fraud Authority - put the cost of fraud at £52bn a year.
albeit
conjunction though. "he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"
lackey
lackey is someone who works for someone else and tries to get ahead by kissing up to his superiors. For example, a lackey might carry his employer's luggage or even serve him cappuccino for his coffee break. A lackey can also be a servant who wears a uniform, like a butler, doorman, or valet. Only the richest, grandest, snobbiest families employ lackeys these days. Another name for a lackey is a manservant, who works in a private home serving the needs of his employer — like a maid, but male. From this earliest meaning came the sense of lackey as a "toady" or "sycophant," someone who fawns and flatters in order to get what they want. The word stems from the Middle French laquais, "foot soldier" or "servant. No celebrity sightings, only the founders and perhaps a lackey or two. Golf DigestMay 19, 2016 "Supporting them means being a lackey of the Zionists." Lackey person lacks in lot of things so he/she always flatters, do boot licking to get lot of things!:)
nobility
means the upper class
doyenne
n. a woman who is the senior member of a group Stewart, who has since reinvented herself as a César-winning doyenne of independent cinema, told Variety she considered herself to have had a lucky escape. The GuardianMay 10, 2016 To the proper television doyenne, few things were as important as appearances and the illusion that the ladies of "The View" were a convivial bunch. sounds like don but the ending in "e" makes it sound feminine and hence it would mean a woman who is head or senior member of the grp
Idiosyncrasy
noun plural noun: idiosyncrasies 1. a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual. "one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first" 2. MEDICINE an abnormal physical reaction by an individual to a food or drug.
sham
noun 1. a thing that is not what it is purported(Appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely; profess.) to be. "our current free health service is a sham" adjective 2. bogus; false. "a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage" verb 3. falsely present something as the truth. "was he ill or was he shamming?"
spiel
noun 1. an elaborate or glib speech or story, typically one used by a salesperson. "he delivers a breathless and effortless spiel in promotion of his new novel" synonyms: speech, line, patter, pitch, sales pitch; More verb 1. reel off; recite. "he solemnly spieled all he knew" A long or fast speech or story, typically one intended as a means of persuasion or as an excuse but regarded with skepticism or contempt by those who hear it.
bastions
noun plural noun: bastions 1. a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions. synonyms: rampart, bulwark, parapet, fortification, buttress, outwork, projection, breastwork, redoubt, barbican, stockade, palisade; rarebartizan "he had fortified the stronghold with ditches and bastions" 2. an institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities. "cricket's last bastion of discrimination"
inquistor
nquisitor is what you call someone who asks questions in an aggressive way, like a prosecutor in a courtroom, or a parent who wants to know everything you did last night. This word comes from 4th century Rome, where the Church hired religious detectives, called Inquisitors, to root out people who disobeyed the Church's rules. So inquisitors have always been aggressive, even though there's nothing particularly harsh or aggressive about the Latin root quærere, which simply means "ask" or "seek." He looked at his inquisitor and gave a definitive and exact answer. Washington PostApr 12, 2016 Mr. Haugland gave the inquisitor a benign smile, and set out those elusive and delicate facts of life.
stymie
prevent or hinder from something
savagery
the property of being untamed and ferocious "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums" Today, such Holocaust-related items are housed in museums to instead show the savagery of the Nazis. Washington PostMay 14, 2016 According to Isenberg, industrialists and military officers alike tended to view the bison's impending extinction as a "triumph of civilization over savagery."
Conflate
verb gerund or present participle: conflating combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one. "the urban crisis conflates a number of different economic, political, and social issues"
hew to
verb chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool. "master carpenters would hew the logs with an axe" conform or adhere to. "his administration would hew to high ethical standards" CHEW- when you chew, you try to chop the thing with your teeth. and it sticks or adheres to the teeth conforming the concept of cavity
denigrating
verb gerund or present participle: denigrating criticize unfairly; disparage. "doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country" focus on the 'nigrate' part of this word and relate it to '******' (which means people who have black skin) no racism plz...
geniality
xx is a fancy word for friendliness. We show xx when we are pleasant, kind, and nice to be around. People usually like other people who show xx . Having the synonyms "amiability" and "affability," this word has to do with bring friendly and approachable. Mean, scary people show no xx at all. Smiling, giving compliments, laughing, listening to others, and helping out are all signs of xx . If you think about the people you like, part of what you like is probably their xx — they're congenial. He had an infectious geniality, whether he was pitching Borax soap or the actress starring in the upcoming episode. He was, in addition, a man of immense charm, geniality and of fiercely independent spirit. geniality-genial+lite+y genial-means genelia who always takes thing lite and looks cheerful
pathos
xx is a quality that stirs emotions. A song with a lot of xx hits you right in the heart. You ever notice how some songs or movies appeal to your brains, while others appeal to your feelings? The ones that are all about feeling are full of xx , an appeal to emotions that originally meant "suffering" in Greek. Often, this word has to do specifically with pity and sympathy: when someone tells a story about people suffering that makes you feel for them, that's xx . Second is pathos, which Sayler defines as the sparing appeal to emotions. Part of the pathos is that the students were studying to become teachers at a school set up for the impoverished children of peasants. PATHos.. is a part of the word symPATHy.. and you have sympathy for the people for whom you feel pity or who are in sorrow..
suffrage
ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/Submit noun 1. the right to vote in political elections. "universal adult suffrage" synonyms: franchise, right to vote, voting rights, the vote, enfranchisement, ballot; More