Facile

1. Easily done or performed; not difficult.
2. Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; as, "too facile a solution for so complex a problem."
3. Ignoring the complexities of an issue; superficial.
4. (of an achievement) easily accomplished.

Facile means something that’s easy to understand, or easily accomplished. At one time it could even imply that a person had good manners, or was courteous or affable — in other words someone whose behaviour was easy or effortless.
But with time a second meaning grew up, a derogatory one which is now often the first to be cited in dictionaries: something glib that’s superficially convincing but actually simplistic. If you speak these days of a man with a facile intellect, you’re most likely to be saying that he is shallow of mind and specious of opinion.

Usage 1. Today, the nuclear projects in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea forbid the facile conclusion that the atomic weapons age is conclusively ended.
2. This is a very facile sort of speculation not supported by the facts or by common sense.

Synonyms accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, effortless, fluent, glib, glib, hasty, light, obvious, practiced, proficient, quick, ready, royal, shallow, simple, skillful, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, vocal, voluble,

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Coeval

adj. Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era.

n. One of the same era or period; a contemporary

Usage 1.Unhappily, however, the writers speak almost wholly to those who already regard Lewis as not just the coeval but the equal of T. S. Eliot, Joyce and Pound.

Antonyms Antecedent , Foregoing , Unrelated

Moulin

A moulin or glacier mill is a narrow, tubular chute, hole or crevasse through which water enters a glacier from the surface. They can be up to 10 meters wide and are typically found at a flat area of a glacier in a region of transverse crevasses. Moulins can go all the way to the bottom of the glacier and can be hundreds of meters deep, or may reach the depth of common crevasse formation (about 10-40m) where the stream flows englacially.

Beyond it "Le Moulin Rouge" is a famous nightclub (music hall) in paris. That means "the red (wind)mill".and the name of the movie Moulin Rouge was inspired from that

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Abacus

An abacus is a calculation tool, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in the People's Republic of China, Japan, Africa, and elsewhere.

Around the world, abaci have been used in pre-schools and elementary schools as an aid in teaching the numeral system and arithmetic. Abaci are still commonly used by individuals who are blind. They use an abacus to perform the mathematical functions multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cubic root.

Friable

adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;
"friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach"
2: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency;
"light sandy soil"

syn: breakable, brittle, brittle as glasscrisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, lacerable, pulverizable, pulverulent, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, triturable, vulnerable

Usage: Just as sometimes I feel that reading some of those books on very friable yellow paper that come apart in your hand, and come unglued from the spine, and the print's all over the page, and it seems to have been written for people who have magnifying lenses in their glasses, that's hard work too.

Origin : Friable comes from Latin friabilis, from friare, "to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces."

Friation \Fri*a"tion\ (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

Abbey

1. A monastery supervised by an abbot.
2. A convent supervised by an abbess.
3. A church that is or once was part of a monastery or convent.

An abbey (from the Latin abbatia, which is derived from the Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serve as the spiritual father or mother of the community. A priory differs from an abbey only in that the superior bears the title of prior instead of abbot. Priories were originally offshoots from the larger abbeys, to the abbots of which they continued subordinate; however, the actual distinction between abbeys and priories was lost by the Renaissance. Do not confuse the term convent with the term monastery. Both nuns and monks live in monasteries. Sisters, members of active orders, live in convents. Nuns who are cloistered live in monasteries.

ab·ba·tial adj. Of or having to do with an abbey, abbot, or abbess

Face time

noun 1. Time spent interacting with someone in person, rather than via email or some other electronic link. or like

2. Time spent interacting in the presence of or in the same location as another or others or

3. the amount of time one spends appearing on television

Usage: "John and Heather duly dispatched their pictures, both of which showed pleasant, open, plumpish faces. Both liked what they saw, but there still remained the underlying worry that neither might be the person they said they were. It was not until eight months after they first made computer contact that the couple finally secured what is termed 'face time' — a meeting in person."

putting in face time in the office instead of working at home.

Beyond the meaning: Face time is important for its unique characteristics of eye contact and touch. Various simulations that serve as an alternative to face time do not have these features (yet). Quality time is the idea of surrounding oneself with others of value, while having low obligations and being oriented towards fun (see Anthropological theories of value). This sort of behaviour is possible in non-face time situations like chat rooms, but it is widely felt that fun in a chat room does not qualify as quality time

Ragamuffin

n. - A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.
n. - A person who wears ragged clothing.
n. - The long-tailed titmouse.

Ragamuffin means 'a dirty, disreputable person in ragged clothes, especially a child'. It's a Middle English word that was originally used as an insulting personal name

Usage: I am sure I looked like a ragamuffin after the long hike in the wind and dust

Byeond The meaning:

The word ragamuffin is formed from the elements raggi, an adjective meaning 'ragged' (yes, it derives from rag), and muffin, of uncertain origin though perhaps from a Middle Dutch word meaning 'mitten'. (It is not related to the word muffin 'small cup-shaped cake', which is itself of uncertain origin, but it is not found until around 1700.)

Havdalah

A religious ceremony observed at the close of the Sabbath or a holy day.

Havdalah (or Habdalah or Havdala), is a Jewish religious ceremony that symbolically formally concludes the Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and many Jewish holidays. According to Judaism, the Shabbat ends-- and the new week begins-- at nightfall, and not at midnight. Therefore, Havdalah may be made as soon as three stars are visible in the night sky. Some communities have the custom to delay making Havdalah until later, in order to prolong Shabbat. If for some reason one cannot make Havdalah on Saturday night, it may be observed as late as Tuesday evening.

Havdalah is normally recited over kosher wine or kosher grape juice, but other beverages may be used under certain circumstances. On completion of the Shabbat, a candle with more than one wick is used, and spices to commemorate the departure of the "added soul" of the day. After Yom Kippur, a candle is used but not spices.

Ibid

(Latin, short for "ibidem", "the same place")
Ibid. is the abbreviation, ibidem the full Latin word meaning “in the same place.” The abbreviated form in particular is a convention of scholarly footnoting: when you wish to cite a work and a page for which you have just given a reference, ibid. does the job succinctly.

Usage
1. R. Millan, "Latin for dummies" (Academic, New York, 1997), p. 23.
2. Ibid., p. 100.
The reference in no. 2 is the same as in 1 (R. Millan, "Latin for dummies"). Note that the page number is different.

Jabot

noun, Etymology: French
1. a fall of lace or cloth attached to the front of a neckband and worn especially by men in the 18th century
2. a pleated frill of cloth or lace attached down the center front of a woman's blouse or dress
3. An ornamental cascade of ruffles or frills down the front of a shirt, blouse, or dress.
4. An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

Kaput

adjective No longer effective, capable, or valuable : done, done for, finished, through, washed-up.
Idioms: at the end of thelineroad, over the hill, past one's prime

Usage : 1. washing machine is suddenly kaput.
2. old car finally went kaput.

Beyond the meaning : ka·put also ka·putt

Blood Money

Blood money is, colloquially, the reward for betraying a criminal to justice

A common meaning in other contexts is the money-penalty paid by a murderer to the kinsfolk of the victim. These fines completely protect the offender (or the kinsfolk thereof) from the vengeance of the injured family. The system was common among the Scandinavian and Teutonic races previous to the introduction of Christianity, and a scale of payments, graduated according to the heinousness of the crime, was fixed by laws, which further settled who could exact the blood-money, and who were entitled to share it.

Blood money may refer to:

1. the reward for betraying a criminal to justice

2. Money paid by a killer as compensation to the next of kin of a murder victim

3. Money gained at the cost of another's life or livelihood.

4. paid to a hired murderer

Labret

NOUN:

An ornament inserted into a perforation in the lip.

A labret is one form of body piercing. Taken literally, it is any type of adornment that is attached to the facial lip (labrum). However, the term usually refers to a piercing that is below the bottom lip, above the chin.

Beyound the meaning

The main health risk associated with labret piercings is gum erosion. The disc which sits against the gums rubs against them and can, over time, result in the thinning of the gums. The risk can be reduced by proper placement and proper jewelry. The disc should be very thin in width. (source : wikipedia)

Activationist

noun. A person who designs and implements programs of treatment or therapy that use recreation and activities to help people whose functional abilities are affected by illness or disability.

Perfect Usage:
"The team referred to in this paper includes the regulated professional disciplines whose services are in most facilities and are funded by one of the three envelopes into which a facility's operating budget is divided (i.e., accommodation, programming, nursing and personal care). These professions are registered nurses/registered practical nurses, social workers, dietitians, activationists, physio/occupational therapists and staff educators."
—"The Professional Care Team in Long Term Care," Ontario Association of Non-Profit Homes and Services for Seniors, February 2000

Macabre

adjective 1. having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death

2. Suggesting the horror of death and decay.

3. Macabre is a term applied to a type of artistic or literary works, characterized by a grim or ghastly atmosphere. In these works, there is an emphasis on the details and symbols of death

4. Tending to produce horror in a beholder .

5. a medieval dance or procession in which a skeleton representing death leads other skeletons or living persons to the grave -- called also dance of death

Nainsook

1. Nainsook is a fine, soft muslin fabric, often to used to make babies' clothing.

2. A soft, light cotton material, often with a woven stripe.

3. A fine fabric used for tucked or embroidered, blouses, night wear, lingerie, and infant's wear.

Beyond the meaning

From Hindi nainsukh, pleasant : nain, eye (from Sanskrit nayanam, from nayati, he leads) + sukh, pleasure (from Sanskrit sukha-, running easily (of chariots), pleasant : su-, good; see (e)su- in Indo-European roots + kham, opening, axle-hole in the nave of a wheel)

Obbligato

adj.
1. Not to be left out; indispensable.
2. Used of an accompaniment that is an integral part of a piece

noun.
1. a persistent but subordinate motif
2. a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission

Beyond the Meaning

obbligato [Ital.,=obligatory], in music, originally a term by which a composer indicated that a certain part was indispensable to the music. Obbligato was thus the direct opposite to ad libitum [Lat.,=at will], which indicated that the part so marked was unessential and might be omitted.

Pablum

Trite, insipid, or simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization

1. worthless or oversimplified ideas
2. a worthless message
3. a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders

Usage:

1. We have to settle for the pablum that passes for the inside dope

2. I imagined his thoughts had been solely of me, that the letter would be filled with love sonnets, that it would gush with the same romantic pablum I devoured from those movie star magazines.

Abrasion

noun 1. A scraping away of a portion of a surface. attrition, corrasion, detrition

2.The wearing down or rubbing away or removal of the superficial layers of skin or mucous membrane in a limited area. Synonyms: scratch, scrape, excoriation

3. The pathological wearing away of tooth substance by mechanical means; grinding, attrition, detrition

Beyond the meaning

In dermatology, an abrasion is superficial damage to the skin, generally not deeper than the epidermis. It is more superficial than an excoriation, although it can give mild bleeding. Mild abrasions do not scar, but deep abrasions may lead to the development of scarring tissue. Most commonly, abrasion injuries occur when exposed skin comes into moving contact with a rough surface causing trauma to the upper layers of the epidermis.

Such injuries, where caused by abrasive contact with textiles or carpet, are sometimes referred to as 'rug burn' or 'carpet burn'.

Cabaret

1. A restaurant or nightclub providing short programs of live entertainment.
2. The floor show presented by such a restaurant or nightclub.
3. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club"
   Synonyms: nightclub, club, nightspot
   

Beyond the meaning

Many grew up surrounded by “cabaret” style belly dancers. Webster’s defines cabaret as a restaurant providing entertainment, or a floor show provided by a restaurant or night club. Nowadays, many belly dancers in the U.S. do not like to use the word cabaret because in Egypt, small establishments that we might call dives have taken to calling themselves cabarets, while larger, more expensive, supposedly higher class places call themselves night clubs.

American Cabaret, the original fusion belly dance, is accessible and fun for everyone, regardless of their dance education. Additionally, with the much more solid foundation of knowledge in the U.S. about individual “pure” ethnic dances, fusion becomes that much more rich and varied, allowing dancers to be that much more informed, powerful, and creative! Go fusion, go CABARET!

by Piper

Accost

1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
2. approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
3. To approach for the purpose of speech: greet, hail, salute. See approach/retreat, greeting, seek/avoid.
4. To meet face-to-face, especially defiantly: confront, encounter, face, front. See meet.
5. To speak to first; to address; to greet.

Synonyms: address, annoy, bother, brace, buttonhole, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, face off, flag, greet, hail, proposition, salute, welcome

Prate

1. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
2. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
3. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity

Synonyms: blab, blubber, blurt, bull, burble, cackle, chatter, gas, gibber, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, romance, run on, squeal*, talk foolishly, talk incoherently, talk nonsensically, tattle, trivialize, yackety-yak, yak*

Opprobrium

1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
2. A cause of shame or disgrace.
3. public disgrace or ill fame that follows from conduct considered grossly wrong or vicious

Usage: 1. Five months after Malaysia incurred global opprobrium by closing off its currency and capital markets, its officials are in no mood to apologize.
2. He called the poor cripple by several vile and opprobrious names, and was absolutely proceeding to beat him.

Opprobrium/ious is derived from the Latin prefix op-, a variant of ob- 'to; towards; against; over', as in "object" and "obligate", and the root probum 'infamy; disgrace'.

Reliquary

Container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept .
A receptacle, such as a coffer or shrine, for keeping or displaying sacred relics.

A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the "Gesta Sanctorum" that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome

Trait

1. A distinguishing feature, as of a person's character.
2. A genetically determined characteristic or condition: a recessive trait.
3. A stroke with or as if with a pencil.
4. A slight degree or amount, as of a quality; a touch or trace: a sermon with a trait of humor
5. Generically, it refers to a characteristic or property of some entity.
6. In biology, trait refers to features of organisms.
7. In psychology, it refers to a component of personality as defined by Trait theory.
8. In computer science, traits refer to several things:
In C++, a trait class is a class which is used to store metadata about some other datatype; typically for the benefit of templates.
In several object oriented programming languages, a trait is a type of abstract type.

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Unyoke

1. To release (an animal) from a yoke or harness. usage : "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses.''
2. To disconnect or unfasten.
3. To set free; to liberate
4. cease from labour

Synonyms : abjugate, disyoke

Vainglory

1. Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.
2. Vain, ostentatious display.
3. excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.
4. empty pomp or show
5. A regarding of oneself with undue favor.

Usage: 1. Spurred by the vainglory of being the first person in recent memory to catch a Solovki canal trout on a fly, I fished with newfound intensity.
2. As if to underscore the awkward mix of social unease and vainglory on which such claims are based, they are always delivered in the same triumphant tone: 'We have the tallest high-rise flats, the longest wall, the largest community of artists . . . in Europe.'

Synonyms: amour propre, arrogance, complacence, complacency, consequence, narcissism, outrecuidance, pomposity, pride, self-admiration, self-exaltation, self-importance, self-love, smugness, stuffiness, swagger, swelled head*, vainglory, vainness, vanity

Waif

1. A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.
2. An abandoned young animal.
3. Something found and unclaimed, as an object cast up by the sea

Usage: 1. Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.
2. He was followed almost immediately by Hiram Da Souza, who, curiously enough, seemed to have been on the platform when the train came in and to have been much interested in this shabby, lonely old man, who carried himself like a waif stranded in an unknown land.

As in Wiki: Waif literally means a homeless, forsaken or orphaned child, similar to a ragamuffin or urchin but in recent popular culture the term has been used to described a very thin (almost unhealthily thin) looking person, usually a woman. The 'waif look' was first used to describe the 1960s model Twiggy, who had large round eyes and a very thin body.

Abet

1. To encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
Usage : He was the one who Abet in that crime.
Synonyms help, aid, assist; promote.
Antonyms hinder, discourage.

2. To actively second and encourage (as an activity or plan)
To assist or support in the achievement of a purpose
Usage :abetted the thief in his getaway

3. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
Uasge: Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted. - Jer. Taylor

Etymology:
Old French abeter; a (Latin ad) + beter to bait (as a bear), from Icelandic beita to set dogs on, to feed, originally, to cause to bite, from Icelandic bīta to bite, hence to bait, to incite. See bait, bet.

Bale

1. A large bundle of things tied tightly together.
2. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
3. A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay.
4. To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton
5.Evil: “Tidings of bale she brought” (William Cullen Bryant).
6. Mental suffering; anguish: “Relieve my spirit from the bale that bows it down” (Benjamin Disraeli).

Usage: 1. They need one bale of hay to put on the floor of the barn

Cabal

1. A small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
2. The plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue.
3. A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
4. To form a cabal; intrigue; conspire; plot.
5. A conspiratorial group of plotters or intriguers
6. A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

Synonyms: junta, faction, band, league, conspiracy

Usage: 1. The cabal is plotting to take over the world.
2. Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal. Some work together. Some never do explain

Beyond the meaning: A cabal is a number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in a church, state, or other community by intrigue. Cabals are secret organizations composed of a few designing persons. The term can also be used to refer to the designs of such persons, and also holds a general meaning of intrigue and conspiracy. Its usage carries strong connotations of shadowy corners and insidious influence; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish. Because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions

Datum

1. A piece of information
2. A fact or proposition used to draw a conclusion or make a decision.
3. A point, line, or surface used as a reference, as in surveying, mapping, or geology
4. Any numerical or geometrical quantity or set of such quantities which may serve as reference or base for other quantities. Where the concept is geometric, the plural form is "datums" in contrast to the normal plural "data."
5. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research

Notes: Dataum is thee singular form of data; for example, one datum. It is rarely used, and data, its plural form, is commonly used for both singular and plural.

Beyond the meaning: A datum (plural datums) is a reference from which measurements are made. In surveying and geodesy, a datum is a reference point on the earth's surface against which position measurements are made, and an associated model of the shape of the earth for computing positions. Horizontal datums are used for describing a point on the earth's surface, in latitude and longitude or another coordinate system. Vertical datums are used to measure elevations or underwater depths. In engineering and drafting, a datum is a reference point, surface, or axis on an object against which measurements are made.

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Educe

1. To draw or bring out
2. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
3. Develop or evolve, especially from a latent or potential state derive
4. To assume or work out from given facts; deduce.
5. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
6. Develop or evolve, esp. from a latent or potential state

Usage:
Investigators were able to educe the necessary information through a process of interviews and research.

Synonyms: bring forth, come out, conclude, deduce, derive, develop, distill, drag, draw, draw out, elicit, evince, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extort, extract, gain, get, infer, obtain, procure, pull, reason, secure, think out, wrest, wring
Antonyms: miss, overlook, pass over

Facetious

1. Playfully jocular; humorous
2. Cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"
3. Given to jesting; playfully jocular
4. Amusing; intended to be humorous; not serious
5. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

Usage:
1. J. K. Morley was being both serious and facetious when he claimed that "the world's greatest water power is woman's tears."
2.He was by all odds the liveliest, most genial man in the group--"a most engaging and entertaining companion of a sweet, even and lively temper, full of facetious stories always applied with judgment and introduced apropos."

Beyond the meaning: This word uses all five vowels just once and in alphabetical order (others are abstemious, abstentious, annelidous, arsenious, casesious and fracedinous). If y is counted as a vowel, then facetiously uses all six vowels in alphabetical order. (Source: WikiPedia)

Gaiety

1. A state of joyful exuberance or merriment; vivacity.
2. Merry or joyful activity; festivity: making preparations for the holiday gaieties.
3. Bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery.

Usage:
1. The party was filled with gaiety when the clowns arrived.
2. The decorations added greatly to the gaiety of the room.
3. There was much gaiety at the ball.

Synonyms: blitheness, blithesomeness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, Joyful, exuberant activity: conviviality, festival, festiveness, festivity, fun, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, revel, revelry.
Antonyms: misery, sadness, solemnity, unhappiness

Haggard

1. Appearing worn and exhausted.
2. Wild or distraught in appearance.
3. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
4. An adult hawk captured for training.
5. Appearing worn and exhausted.
6. Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering
7. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.
8. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
9. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty.
10. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

Usage : 1. Anil's face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
2. His eyes were haggard and cavernous.

Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted

Icily

1. In a cold and icy manner
2. Containing or covered with ice: an icy road
3. Bitterly cold; freezing: an icy day Resembling ice: icy fingers.
4. Chilling in manner: an icy stare; icy detachment.
5. Resembling ice: icy fingers.

Usage: 1. After realizing my mistake, I apologized rather icily and then made my way back to my friend.
2. An icily request has more power than an authoritative order.

Synonyms bore, dog eye, fix, frown, gape, gawk, gaze, glower,lower, menace, moon, peer, pierce, scowl.

Jingo

1. One who vociferously supports one's country, especially one who supports a belligerent foreign policy; a chauvinistic patriot.
2. extreme bellicose nationalist

Synonyms: chauvinist, ist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer

Beyond the meaning: "mindless, gung-ho patriot," 1878, picked up from the refrain of a music hall song written by G.W. Hunt supporting aggressive British policy toward Russia at a time of international tension. ("We don't want to fight, But by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too.") As an asseveration, it was in colloquial use since 1694, and is apparently yet another euphemism for Jesus, influenced by conjurer's gibberish presto-jingo (1670).

The word jingo in general context means 'a person who professes belligerent patriotism and favors an aggressive foreign policy'. The more common jingoism is 'the spirit, policy, or practice of jingoes; bellicose national chauvinism; extreme patriotism'.

Keepsake

1. Something kept or given to be kept as a memento.
2. Something of sentimental value

Synonyms: emblem, favor, memento, memorial, relic, remembrance, reminder, souvenir, symbol, token, trophy

Usage: 1. The first is that some relic -- a piece of gear, a keepsake, or a note unmistakably belonging to one of the men — might be found on or near the top.
2. She and her husband, Chris, 45, planned to put the results of their tests alongside lockets of Helen's mother's hair, newspaper clippings and other keepsakes in the scrapbook.

Abdicate

1. To give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations;
2. To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.

Beyond the meaning:
In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a family member, as the disinheriting of a son. The term commonly applies to monarchs. A similar term for an elected or appointed official is resignation.

Probably the most famous abdication in recent memory is that of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom in 1936. Edward abdicated the British throne in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson, over the objections of the British establishment, the governments of the Commonwealth, the royal family and the Church of England. This was also the first time in history that the British crown was surrendered entirely voluntarily. Richard II of England, for example, was forced to abdicate after the throne was seized by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, while Richard was out of the country.

Synonyms: abandon, abjure, abnegate, cede, disclaim, drop, forgo, give up, eave, quit, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire, step down, surrender, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield

Acreage

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1. An area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on".
2. Area of land measured in acres.

Usage: Refers to a land use typically containing more than 1 acre or a large parcel of land. Example: The total acreage of Sam's farm is 300, comprising 100 acres of crop land and 200 acres of ranch land.

The magnitude of U.S. planted acreage in 2007, and therefore production potential, is the biggest factor looming in both the corn and soybean markets, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialis.

Synonyms: area, country home, country place, demesne, domain, dominion, farm, freehold, grounds, holdings, lands, parcel, plantation, quintal, ranch, residence, rural seat, territory, villa

Paucity

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1. an insufficient quantity or number
2. The condition or fact of being deficient ; a paucity of natural resources
3. Smallness of number; fewness.Scarcity; dearth

Usage: 1. According to him the paucity of funds in the NHS is the sole reason for this sorry state. This in turn has affected the health care of patients.
2.thanks to the paucity of serious challenges to incumbents, they rarely have to spend the campaign funds they amass

Synonyms: absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity

Racy

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1. full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style" 2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. 3. Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively. Burn's English, though not so racy as his Scotch, is generally correct.

Usage: Racy, Spicy. Racy refers primarily to that peculiar flavor which certain wines are supposed to derive from the soil in which the grapes were grown; and hence we call a style or production racy when it "smacks of the soil" ,' or has an uncommon degree of
natural freshness and distinctiveness of thought and language. Spicy, when applied, has reference to a spirit and pungency added by art, seasoning the matter like a condiment. It does not, like racy, suggest native peculiarity. A spicy article in a magazine; aspicy retort. Racy in conversation; a racy remark.

Synonyms: animated, bright, buoyant, clever, distinctive, entertaining, exciting, exhilarating, fiery, forceful, forcible, gingery, heady, keen, lively, mettlesome, peppery, piquant, playful, poignant, pungent, rich, salty, saucy*, sharp, snappy, sparkling, spicy*, spirited, sportive, sprightly, stimulating, strong, tangy, tart, tasty, vigorous, vivacious, witty, zestful, zesty

Accession

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1. The attainment of a dignity or rank: the queen's accession to the throne.
2. Something that has been acquired or added; An increase by means of something added.an acquisition.
3. Law. The addition to or increase in value of property by means of improvements or natural growth.

Abject

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1. of the most contemptible kind
2. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
3. showing utter resignation or hopelessness, Very low in spirit or hope.; "abject surrender"

The term Abjection literally means "the state of being cast out." The concept of abject exists in between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject, something alive yet not. In contemporary critical theory, it is often used to describe the state of often-marginalized groups, such as women or homosexuals.

Usage: 1. Only two people among the dozen-odd teachers at the school did not live in the most abject poverty: Nick, 42, who was shacked up with his management-consultant girlfriend; and Serena, 35, who was married to a prosperous businessman and for whom teaching was a convenient source of pocket-money.

2. It is hard to disguise the verdict of the battlefield, and nearly impossible to explain away the dead, or to suggest that abject defeat is somehow victory.

Synonyms: base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, destitute, dishonorable, downtrodden, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hangdog, hopeless, humbling, humiliating, low, miserable, outcast, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, servile, squalid, stark, submissive, underfoot, worthless, wretched

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Abeyance

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Abyss

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1. An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void: “lost in the vast abysses of space and time” ex. a bottomless gulf or pit
2. A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

Synonyms: abysm, chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void

Usage: We see the breach between one century and another as a vertical drop, an abyss, when in fact it is no greater than the time between one year and the next, a single second in duration, the span of a handclap.
Toward what abyss was this flagship civilization leading humanity? Such events precipitated a sense of shock and revulsion.

Abrogate

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1. formally put an end to ; To put an end to, especially formally and with authority
2. To "abrogate" means to abolish or do away with something,


Usage: "I don't think we're going to unilaterally abrogate anything," said John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University and a former member of the board that investigated the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
The State Board of Canvassers, she ruled, should not have approved the MCRI petition form in December because it fails to say the article of the constitution it may “alter or abrogate.”


Synonyms: abate, abolish, ankle, annul, cancel, dissolve, end, finish off*, invalidate, knock out*, negate, nix, nullify, quash, reject, renege, repeal, retract, revoke, scrub*, torpedo*, undo, vacate, vitiate, void.

Ablution

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1. The act of washing yourself
2. Ablution may refer to the practice of removing sins, diseases or earthly defilements through the use of ritual washing, or the practice of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease.

Ablution is also found in Hinduism. Hindus wash before praying, preferably in running water and washing in certain rivers like Ganga is believed to give spiritual benefits. It is also practiced after the death of someone and in earlier days by people of the upper caste who might have come into contact with untouchables like dalits to maintain purity.

In Islam, wudu or ablution is observed by Muslims before each prayer (Salat) if one is in a state of impurity. Physical cleanliness before Allah is deemed a necessity, and purification is intended not only for the body, but for the soul as well.
The Christian practice of baptism is an instance of ablution. Foot washing is another Christian practice involving washing. However, it signifies humility and service to others.

Synonyms: ablution, baptismal, christening, communion, confirmation, debut, dedication, dunking, immersion, initiation, introduction, launching, lustration, purgation, purge, purification, ritual, sanctification, sprinkling

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Adduce

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1. To bring forward for formal consideration
2. To cite as an example or means of proof in an argument.
3. To present, offer, bring forward, or introduce.

Usage:
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

The lawyer added that although Mr Hutchinson had claimed he had left for around five minutes, the Crown would adduce statements from his fellow councillors that they "have him away for substantially longer than that".

We cannot assume that you will not get justice in the state of Gujarat. If you have a case against the state you can adduce evidence in the trial court

He said the legal team would, in the cause of the trial adduce evidence to show that accused persons were caught in the fray as the skirmishes between the police and the actual rioters turned messy.

Synonyms: adduce, allege, ballyhoo, benefit, boost, cite, encourage, foster, further, introduce, lay forward, offer, present, proffer, propose, push, put forward, serve, set forth, splash, spot, submit, suggest, thump, urge

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Affront

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1. Insult or involve in entanglement
2. Treat, mention, or speak to rudely
3. A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;
4. To cause resentment or hurt by callous, rude behavior
5. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult. A hostile encounter or meeting.

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1. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
2. Following the statements, Chavez continued his affront to the administration by condemning the war in Iraq

Synonyms: abuse, backhanded compliment*, brickbat*, dirty deed*, dump, indignity, injury, left-handed compliment*, offense, outrage, provocation, put-down*, slap*, slight, slur, vexation, wrong.

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Decapitate

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1. Decapitate means to cut off the head.

2. Decapitation refers to the removal of a living organism's head and it is mostly used when the act of removal is intentional though it can be used in the other case. Decapitation can be accomplished with an axe, sword, or knife, or by means of a guillotine.

Usage:

1. Iraq’s turbulent effort to reckon with the violence of its past took another macabre turn on Monday when the execution of Saddam Hussein’s half brother ended with the hangman’s noose decapitating him after he dropped through the gallows trapdoor.

2. In Japan, decapitation was a common punishment, sometimes for minor offenses. Samurai were often allowed to decapitate their inferiors (which was nearly everyone else) at will.

Synonyms: abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, bump, butcher, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, lynch, massacre.

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Ebullient

1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited
2. Zestfully enthusiastic.
3. Boiling or seeming to boil; bubbling.

Usage: 1. The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination.
2. Normally ebullient chief executive Tex Edwards declined to comment on Vodafone's offer, made last month, to let rival mobile operators use its cell sites for a fixed fee of 21.5 cents a minute.
3. The confidence that comes with such a milestone could be seen in the ebullient optimism of the dancers, who swept the audience up in their joy.

Synonyms: agitated, bouncy, brash, buoyant, effervescent, effusive, elated, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, gushing, high-spirited, irrepressible, vivacious, zestful.

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Gambol

1. To leap about playfully; frolic. 2. Playful leaping or frisking. 3. Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement. 4. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; Synonyms: bound, caper, carry on, cavort, cut, cut loose*, fool around*, frisk, frolic, hop, horse around*, jump, kibitz around*, lark, leap, let go, let loose, make whoopee, play, prance, revel, roister, rollick, romp, skip, sport, spring. Usage: 1. Friday's concert was long on congeniality but short on revelations. Bamert infused the "Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus" with appropriate solemnity followed by a perky gambol 2. When Mary Rose was a young girl, the family vacationed near a tiny Scottish island. While father fished, daughter was left to gambol on the island in the afternoon. 3. The characteristic dances gambol in ways familiar to Smetana, cross-fertilized by Russian and Tchaikovsky's weakness for Wagner.

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Nausea

1. Nausea is the sensation of having a queasy stomach or being about to vomit. Vomiting, or emesis, is the expelling of undigested food through the mouth. 2. An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit. The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word "nausea," There is classic one Sartre's Nobel Prize winning book (1964) named "Nausea". Usage: 1. The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I. 2. The vertigo may be mild, or it may be severe enough to cause nausea and vomitting. 3. French pharmaceutical company Ethypharm has entered into a licensing and supply agreement with Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics for marketing an its anti-nausea drug in India. Synonyms: abhorrence, aversion, biliousness, disgust, hatred, loathing, offense, qualm, qualms, queasiness, regurgitation, rejection, repugnance, retching, revulsion, squeamishness, vomiting

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Idiosyncrasy

1. Having a distinctive and characteristic quality or taste. 2. Strong and sharp in flavor or odor; piquant or pungent. 3. Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language Usage: 1. A series of racy photos posted on the Internet has put an American Idol contestant in a bit of a jam -- and given Idol even more publicity than the top-rated program has attracted already this season. 2. Critics say the new breed of racy theatre producers are taking advantage of more liberal trends in the arts and media under the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. 3. This three-meg beauty is decked out in the silver, black and red livery of the McLaren F1 team and comes pre-loaded with racy ringtones and loads of video clips and images of the 2007 McLaren F1 car Synonyms: animated, bright, buoyant, clever, distinctive, entertaining, exciting, exhilarating, fiery, forceful, forcible, gingery, heady, keen, lively, mettlesome, peppery, piquant, playful, poignant, pungent, rich, salty.

Ignominious

1. Marked by shame or disgrace. 2. Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable. Usage: 1. It was an ignominious end as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt. 2. If Dean holds to its promise, the whole cloned-cow thing could die an ignominious death, rejected by increasingly aware consumers. 3. As the forty-third presidency staggers to an ignominious finale, liberals must prepare not only to govern America, but also to proclaim a new vision. Synonyms: agitation, bustle, commotion, craze, enthusiasm, excitement, fad, ferment, free-for-all, frenzy, fury, fuss, hullabaloo, hysteria, lunacy, madness, mania, outburst, outcry, pother, rage, rhubarb, row, ruckus, shindig, stir, to-do, tumult, uproar, whirl

Actuary

1. someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data 2. (Law) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally. 3.Mathematician in the insurance field. Actuaries conduct various statistical studies; construct Morbidity and Mortality Tables calculate premiums, reserves, and dividends for participating policies; develop products; construct annual reports in compliance with numerous regulatory requirements; and in many companies oversee the general financial function USAGE 1. An actuary who has spent his career in sports statistics has developed a program to determine who will win the Super Bowl. 2.While those under 75 can take up to 120% of a single life annuity based on the Government Actuary’s Department annuity rates, those who opt for an ASP will be able to draw an income of no more than 90% of a single life annuity Synonyms: CPA, actuary, analyst, auditor, bean counter, bookkeeper, calculator, cashier, clerk, comptroller, examiner, pen pusher, pencil pusher, public accountant, reckoner, teller

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Pagan

There is general agreement that the word "Pagan" comes from the Latin word "paganus." Most modern Pagan sources interpret the word to have meant "rustic," "hick," or "country bumpkin" -- a pejorative term. The implication was that Christians used the term to ridicule country folk who tenaciously held on to what the Christians considered old-fashioned, outmoded Pagan beliefs. Those in the country were much slower in adopting the new religion of Christianity than were the city folks. The word 'pagan' is often misunderstood. The meaning of this word is dependent on many factors; namely, who is saying the word, and to whom the word is being applied. The following defintations are taken from differnt sources 1. One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, especially an adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity. 2. One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew 3. One who does not acknowledge God. 4. One who has no religion 5. A non-Christian 6. A hedonist 7. One who worships false gods 8. An idolater Usage: 1. A woman charged with burning a Belchertown house that doubled as a pagan church was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing 2. Valentine's Day is conveniently placed on the calendar 13 days after the pagan night of human sacrifice Synonyms: agnostic, atheistic, ethnic, gentile, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, impious, infidel, polytheistic, profane, unchristian.

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Panacea

Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. In addition, nothing solves a problem without introducing its own new set of problems In Greek mythology, Panaceia, or (Latin Panacea), was the goddess of healing. Definitions from Dictionaries 1. A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all. 2. The herb allheal. 3. A universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction 4. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists Usage 1. Symantec has issued a report on the state of security within Microsoft's flagship operating system Vista, claiming that the platform is far from the panacea for all security ills that many had hoped. 2.My problem with ethanol is not so much what it is, is that it's being sold as a panacea. It's being sold as an alternative fuel. 3. Several medical specialists simply could not explain or cure the hiccups. Medicine helped, but was no panacea. Synonyms:catholicon, cure, elixir, nostrum, relief, remedy.

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Obliterate

Obliterate means to remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean. Few definitions as given in dictionaries 1.To do away with completely so as to leave no trace. 2.To wipe out, rub off, or erase (writing or other markings). 3.Medicine. To remove completely (a body organ or part), as by surgery, disease, or radiation. 4.To destroy all traces of. 5.Reduced to nothingness. Synonyms:abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, defeat, destroy, disestablish, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, finish, inhibit, invalidate, kill, negate, nix, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, prohibit, quash, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, scrub*, set aside, squelch, stamp out, stop, subvert, supersede, suppress, terminate, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, wipe out. Usage: 1.The minister said the existence of "the super card" would not in any way obliterate the existence of any of its components, or foreclose their usefulness. 2.I predict that Sylvia will obliterate the elder statesman of MMA in the first round without breaking a sweat. 3. Bachmann said the president of Iran wants to obliterate the United States.

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Ignoble

1.Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean. 2.Not of the nobility; common. 3.Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common 4.Not honorable, elevated, or generous 5.(Science: zoology) Not a true or noble falcon; said of certain hawks, as the goshawk 6.dishonorable and contrary to the high standards of conduct expected of somebody 7.Having or proceeding from low moral standards 8.Lacking high station or birth Usage: 1.The king was adamant about keeping his son from wedding an ignoble serf. 2.Consciously lying to someone is ignoble. 3.It was ignoble to disgrace the family in front of all of the townspeople. 4.He also suggests that it is somehow ignoble to seek to boost our national rankings via donations, but I fail to see the source of his qualms. 5.Those few American Indian protesters who were highlighted in this ignoble quest were influenced by close-minded people who demand adherence to their unrealistic perception of equality Synonyms: abject, base, baseborn, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, scurvy, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, unwashed, unworthy, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong.

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Iliad

The Iliad is a great poem, but also one which presents a number of difficulties for the first-time reader. (from wikipedia) The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, supposedly a blind Ionian poet. Most modern scholars considerer the epics to be the oldest literature in the Greek language (though some believe that the works of the poet Hesiod were composed earlier, a belief that some classical Greeks also held). For most of the twentieth century, scholars dated the Iliad and the Odyssey to the 8th century BC. Some still argue for an early dating. Usage 1.It's the Iliad with armies arrayed to war over Helen and Briseis and all feminine beauty and volutptuousness. 2.He read the Iliad and loved his gun and observed and partook of the rark 'em atmosphere of young men panting to go to war. 3.According to rumors in the French market, Noos numericable and the Iliad group (Free) are said to be in talks over a merger or a takeover of Iliad by Noos.

Hackney

Hackney was a parish(A parish is a type of administrative subdivision) in the ancient county of Middlesex. Few more definitions from dictionaries 1.A horse of a breed developed in England, having a gait characterized by pronounced flexion of the knee. 2.Trotting horse suited for routine riding or driving; a hack. 3.A coach or carriage for hire. 4.To cause to become banal and trite through overuse. 5.To hire out; let. Usage: 1.A Man was last week jailed for planning to sell the drugs he said had been left behind at his Hackney home by a lodger. 2. Improvements to provide easier and safer access for disabled travellers at two Hackney stations have been announced by government rail minister, Tom Harris. Synonyms: carriage, hack, hackney, jitney, taxi, taxicab.

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Nebula

1. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer. 2. an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space. 3. A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness depending on the way the mass absorbs or reflects incident radiation. 4. A cloudy spot on the cornea 5. A nebula (Latin: "mist"; pl. nebulae or nebulæ, with ligature; from Latin nebula, "cloud") is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas and plasma. Originally nebula was a general name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way Usage 1. If the nebula is not visible to you with the naked eye, try scanning with binoculars to find it. 2.The massive binary star Carinae has a bipolar nebula called Homunculus 3.The Orion Nebula was observable last Saturday night at the Breckenridge observatory Synonyms:Billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, overcast, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack

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Decoy

A decoy is usually a person, device or event meant as a distraction to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also in wartime and in the committing or resolving of crimes. The decoy in war may for example be a wooden fake tank, designed to be mistaken by bomber plane crews to be real, or a device that fools an automatic system such as a guided missile, by simulating some physical properties of a real target. Dictionary Definitions 1. A living or artificial bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within shooting range. 2.An enclosed place, such as a pond, into which wildfowl are lured for capture. 3.A means used to mislead or lead into danger. 4.An imitation in any sense of a person, object, or phenomenon which is intended to deceive enemy surveillance devices or mislead enemy evaluation. Also called dummy. 5.A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) Usage: 1. The grant will provide training on minor decoy operations, shoulder tap operations, and controlled party dispersal 2. At that point, the two are interrupted by a Decoy who passes by and gives them a squinty look 3.Two businesses in Shasta County allegedly sold alcohol to a minor during a decoy operation Synonyms:allurement, attraction, bait, blind, booster, camouflage, catch, chicane, chicanery, come-on, deception, deek, drawing card, ensnarement, enticement, fake, imitation, inducement, inveiglement, lure, nark, plant, pretense, pusher, seducement, shill, snare, stick, stool temptation, trick, trickery

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Pall

1. Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped 2. A cover for a coffin often made of black, purple, or white velvet. 3. A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb. 4. Become less interesting or attractive 5. A gloomy effect or atmosphere: "A pall of depressed indifference hung over Petrograd during February and March 1916". 6. A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice. 7. A covering that darkens or obscures: a pall of smoke over the city. 8. Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring,insipid, or tiresome Synonyms:cloak, cloth, cloud, covering, damp, damper, dismay, mantle, melancholy, shadow, shroud, veil Usage 1. Fears of economic slowdown and falling demand in China cast a pall over commodity markets on Wednesday and pushed down copper and crude oil prices, but analysts said the nervousness was overdone. 2. Huge conflagrations caused by extremely dry conditions forced thousands from their neighborhoods, destroyed many homes and covered Brevard County in a pall of choking smoke -- for weeks. 3. The pall that hangs over the Bush administration, obviously, is - has mostly to do with the failure to win in the Iraq

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Oblivion

The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock Dictio-Definitions 1.The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; 2.Cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. 3.Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; 4.Freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness Usage 1.The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion. 2. In the year 1998, The first vertical drop rollercoaster, Oblivion, opened at Alton Towers theme park. 3.In addition to releasing new gameplay footage from Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles, Bethesda has released a trailer for the PS3 version of the original showstopper RPG Synonyms: abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness, inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, lethe, neglect, nirvana, obliviousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, unmindfulness

Gamut

1. A complete range or extent 2. In color reproduction, including computer graphics and photography, the gamut, or color gamut, is a certain complete subset of colors. 3. A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. 4. (Mus.) The graduated series of all the tones,ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves 5. Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the coresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile. Usage: 1. So it came as little surprise last year when word filtered through music-industry channels that the country singer and guitar wizard's new record would run the gamut of influences, from country and bluegrass to rock and religious. 2. The plan will be informed by feedback from another track of the gamut study, which is evaluating the reliability and utility of UFIT(TM) noninvasive measurements for routine health monitoring and therapy evaluation. 3. Ideas run the gamut from simply changing traffic light timing and adding more lights on the highway, to building a new route along Lookout Mountain on the east edge of town at a potential cost of $600 million or more. Synonyms:area, catalogue, compass, diapason, extent, field, scale, scope, series, spectrum, sweep.

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Presage

1. A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment. 2. Something which foreshows or portends a future event 3. A foreboding about what is about to happen 4. An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen. 5. A sign of something about to happen 6. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power 7. Indicate by signs Synonyms:apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, indication, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning. Usage 1. He looked for an omen before going into battle 2. Ministers were concerned that two waves of selling on global equity markets this year could presage a bigger sell-off that would hurt economic growth and oil demand. 3. First, Gonzales' cronyistic record in both Texas and as White House counsel did indeed presage many of the serious problems Gonzales now faces at the Justice Department.

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Rancor

1. A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. 2. Bitter, long-lasting resentment. 3. The deepest malignity or spite. 4. Deep-seated enmity or malice. Usage 1. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. 2. The NOA boss appealed to political parties to conduct their campaign activities in an open and transparent manner devoid of violence and rancour saying that no meaningful development could be achieved in an atmosphere of disaffection, rancour and violence in the society. 3. The House, which had been free of rancour and serious divisions, had its maiden ‘baptism of fire’ when a member of the House, Honourable Chidi Lloyd, stood against the debate of the committee reports on the 2007 Appropriation Bill. Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, harshness, hate, hatefulness, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness, resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence.

Sagacious

1. Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness 2. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail 3. Of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment 4. Acutely insightful and wise 5. Skillful in statecraft or management Usage 1. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life 2. Many of her friends came to her with their problems because she gave sagacious advice. Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted, clever, insighted, insightful, intelligent, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, prudent, rational, sage, sapient, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smooth, sophic, tuned in, whiz, wise, witty In Hindi विचक्षण , दूरदर्श , बुद्धिमान

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Cursive

Cursive is any style of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single stroke. In British English, the phrase "joined-up writing" is far more commonly used, while the term "running writing" is sometimes used in Australia. Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letters and some connected. The words cursive and cursory are related. Both eventually come from the Latin word currere 'to run'. Cursory means 'going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial', and comes from the Late Latin cursorius 'running'. The origin of cursive, which refers to "script," or handwriting of flowing strokes with the letters joined together, makes more sense if you think of it as meaning 'flowing' or 'running together'. It is from Latin cursivus '(of penmanship) flowing', from currere 'to run' and a suffix for adjectives that expresses tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc., that shows up in English in detective, sportive, and others. Dictionary Definitions 1.Writing in which the letters are joined together. 2.Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper 3.Cursiving writing also called "script," a form of handwriting in which each letter of a word is connected to another letter. Contrast with "block lettering" or "printing," in which the individual letters do not touch. Usage 1. As they copy their spelling lists, joining loops and lines into words, many of the students look well on their way to mastering cursive writing 2. But my sloppy handwriting wasn't at fault. Jack, who is a smart boy and an excellent reader, cannot decipher a single sentence written in cursive 3.After polishing off four more European tour dates this March in support of Happy Hollow, Omaha-natives Cursive will invite Mastodon and Against Me! on a US tour throughout the merry month of May. Synonyms At ease, calm, carefree, comfortable, comfy, commodious, composed, content, contented, cozy, cursive, cushy, easeful, easygoing, effortless, flowing, fluent, forthright, gentle, leisurely, light, mild, moderate, peaceful, pleasant, prosperous, quiet, running, satisfied, secure, serene, slow, smooth, snug, soft, spontaneous, substantial, successful, temperate, thriving, tranquil, undemanding, undisturbed, unexacting, unhurried, untroubled, unworried, well-to-do In Hindi प्रवाही

Nettle

1. To trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations 2. (Science: botany) A plant of the genus urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. 3. Nettle cloth, a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes. 4. Nettle rash (Med.), an eruptive disease resembling the effects of whipping with nettles. 5. Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants. 6. To irritate; vex. 7. To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in. Usage 1. The younger brother nettled his older sister until she slapped him. 2. Ruth's hippyish mother feeds them on nettle soup and dandelion salad, while disco and mod divide her classmates 3. The boy will nettle the father into agreeing. Synonyms: annoy, chafe, disgust, disturb, exasperate, fret, goad, harass, huff, incense, insult, irritate, miff, peeve, pester, pet, pique, put out*, rile, roil, ruffle, snit, stew, sting, tease, tiff, upset, vex In Hindi बिच्छू का पेड़ डंक मारना सताना

Baize

Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth, sometimes incorrectly called "felt" in American English based on a similarity in appearance. It is most often used on snooker and billiards tables to cover the slate and cushions. The surface finish of baize is not very fine (and thus increases friction, perceptibly slowing the balls down, from a pool player's perspective), and has a perceptible nap. Baize is the preferred cloth for tables in snooker, in which understanding of the effects of the nap is part of the game. But this cloth is generally not favored for use on high-end pool or carom billiards tables (Source: Wikipedia). Dictio-Definations 1. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. 2. A bright green fabric napped to resemble felt; used to cover gaming tables 3. An often bright-green cotton or woolen material napped to imitate felt and used chiefly as a cover for gaming tables. Usage 1. Predominantly a snooker player in a country with just four tables, Manalo has recorded green baize wins over the likes of Matthew Stevens and Shokat Ali 2. "Oh, I always play to win. Alex and I don’t get on too well off the table, so we are always determined to beat each other," was the dead-pan delivery from the flame-haired king of the baize. In Hindi बनात

Caprice

1. An impulsive change of mind. 2. An inclination to change one's mind impulsively. 3. A sudden, unpredictable action, change, or series of actions or changes. 4. sudden, unpredictable or whimsical change; impulse 5. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; Usage 1.A hailstorm in July is a caprice of nature. 2.The caprice with which the couple approached the change of plans was evidence to their young age. 3.The king ruled by caprice as much as law. Synonyms bee, caper, changeableness, contrariety, crotchet, fad, fancy, fickleness, fitfulness, freak, gag, humor, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, jerk, kink, mood, notion, peculiarity, perversity, quirk, rib, temper, thought, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy In Hindi मौज,तरंग, लहर, सनक

Adumbrate

Adumbrate means "to prefigure or foreshadow," "to sketch in vaguely," and hence possibly "to obscure or put in shadow." Only the learned will know the word; for others it may impress the impressionable and befuddle or irritate the rest 1. To give a sketchy or slight representation of; to outline. 2. To foreshadow in a vague way. 3. To suggest, indicate, or disclose partially. 4. To cast a shadow over; to shade; to obscure. 5. To give an indication of something in advance 6. To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch. 7. To darken or conceal partially; overshadow. Usage 1. The next day, when the year that had passed had been fully gone over and the hope for the year to come had been cautiously adumbrated, the delicate moment arrived when Ben Attar had to decide how to apportion the year's profit among the three partners. 2. The symbolical paintings, as they have come to be called, adumbrate a dark dream world where what seem dimly recollected circumstances, caught in their own nocturnal inertia, remain cryptic and mystifying. 3. The letter even fixes the meeting as having taken place on October 23, which fits the chronology adumbrated by Professor Bald. Synonyms: adumbrate, bespeak, bode,crystal-ball, figure out, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, herald, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, signify, soothsay In Hindi पूर्वाभासदेना छायाडालना रूपरेखाप्रस्तुतकरना रेखाचित्रखींचना

Albino

The word Albino was coined by a 17th century historian named Balthazar Telez. He coined the term "albino" meaning white negro when he saw tribe members along the coast of West Africa. He and the other explorers thought they were seeing two different races of people. The meaning of the word has since changed. Some people take offence because the word describes a thing, not a human being. A more acceptable term is "person with albinism". This puts the person in front of the condition or syndrome, which can be a good thing.Albinism has been found in everything that breathes including every type of fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, mammal, and plant. Dictio-Definitions 1.A person or animal lacking normal pigmentation, with the result being that the skin and hair are abnormally white or milky and the eyes have a pink or blue iris and a deep-red pupil. 2.(Chess.)An Albino is a chess problem in which, at some stage in the solution, a White pawn standing on its starting square makes each of its four possible moves: one square forward, two squares forward, capture to the left, and capture to the right. 3.(Med.)A pigmentless white phenotype, determined by a mutation in a gene coding for a pigment-synthesizing enzyme. 4.A plant that lacks chlorophyll. Usage 1. Researchers say they have discovered a new type of albino millipede in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. 2. In an effort to erase prejudices about albinos and to create sufficient public awareness on the forthcoming national conference on albinism, The Albino Foundation on Tuesday paid an advocacy visit to THISDAY corporate head office at, Apapa, Lagos 3. Imagine Bobby Anderson's surprise when an albino calf was born on his Hart County farm Synonyms: auricomous, bleached, blond, champagne, fair, fair-haired, flaxen, golden-haired, leucous, light, pale. In Hindi विवर्ण

Panoply

A panoply is a complete suit of armour. The word represents the full armour of a hoplite or heavy-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet and greaves, together with the sword and lance. As applied to armour of a later date, panoply did not come into use till the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, and was then used of the complete suits of plate-armour covering the whole body. Because a panoply is a complete set of diverse components, the word panoply has come to refer to any complete or impressive collection. As heavy armour is rarely worn in the present age, this latter meaning is the more common in modern usage. Dictio-Definitions 1. A splendid display of something; ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories 2. A complete and impressive array 3. Ceremonial attire with all accessories: a portrait of the general in full panoply. 4. Something that covers and protects: a porcupine's panoply of quills. 5. The complete arms and armor of a warrior. Usage 1. The knight wore his panoply during battle. 2. We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God. 3. The Easter concert agenda is second only to Christmas, with a panoply of events on offer during the next few weeks. Synonyms: Accoutrements, armaments, artillery, equipment, firearms, guns, munitions, ordnance, panoply, weapons

Clemency

Clemency means lessening the penalty a crime without forgiving the crime itself. The act of clemency is a reprieve. Today, pardons and reprieves are granted in many countries when individuals have demonstrated that they have fulfilled their debt to society, or are otherwise deserving (in the opinion of the pardoning official) of a pardon or reprieve. Pardons are sometimes offered to persons who, it is claimed, have been wrongfully convicted. Dictio- Definitions: 1.A disposition to show mercy, especially toward an offender or enemy. 2.Mercy toward an offender; mildness; mercy; mildness; grace 3.A merciful, kind, or lenient act. 4.Good weather with comfortable temperatures 5.Mildness, especially of weather. 6.Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice 7.Disposition to forgive and spare 8.Legal - Executive Clemency The power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in state convictions, to pardon a person convicted of a crime, commute the sentence (shorten it, often to time already served) or reduce it from death to another lesser sentence. There are many reasons for exercising this power, including real doubts about the guilt of the party, apparent excessive sentence, humanitarian reasons such as illness of an aged inmate, to clear the record of someone who has demonstrated rehabilitation or public service, or because the party is a political or personal friend of the Governor Usage: 1. The governor granted the prisoner clemency. 2. The weather's clemency made for a perfect picnic. 3. He threw himself on the mercy of the court. 4. Unless he receives presidential clemency, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff is likely to do prison time for lying to federal investigators Synonyms: charity, clemo, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, spring, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration In Hindi: मन्दी मृदुलता अतीव्रता दया तरस कोमलता नम्रता राज्यक्षमा

Rapine

This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. It is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to one's own use. Dictio-Definitions: 1. The act of plundering. 2. Forcible seizure of another's property; plunder. 3. The act of despoiling a country in warfare. 4. The seizing and carrying away of another's property by force. Usage: 1. He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. 2.The war, proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison, was one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine - marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity." Synonyms: annihilation, blitz, blood, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, croaking, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, internecion, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, rapine, shambles, slaughter, slaying, warfare, wasting.

Imbibe

To drink or Take in. Take into solution, as of gas, light, or heat. To absorb or take in as if by drinking. To receive and absorb into the mind. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain. To saturate; to imbue. Usage: 1. Southwest Airlines loves to say it doesn't nickel-and-dime passengers, but those who like to imbibe in flight better pack a few more dollars. 2. Also at risk are people who imbibe a lot of alcohol, suffer insomnia or have high blood pressure Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, booze, chugalug, consume, down, gorge, ingest, ingurgitate, irrigate, juice back, knock back, liquor up, partake, pound,quaff, sink, sip, soak up, souse, suck, swallow, swizzle, take in, tank up, tipple In Hindi: ग्रहण करना अन्तर्ग्रहण करना, आत्मसात करना, पीना

Paramour

A lover; one who stands in the place of a husband or wife, but ordinarily without the legal rights attached to the marital relationship. Derived from the French term “paramour,” meaning “secret love,” the love for Paramore is secret no longer; rounding out its second Tour de’Warped, the five-piece, pop-punk band from Tennessee is growing up and growing 1. A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship. 2. person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress 3. A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); 4. illicit lover of married man or woman Synonyms: admirer, beloved, cavalier, escort, fiancé, flame, gentleman friend, inamorato, love, lover, paramour, squire, steady, suitor, swain, sweetheart, true love Usage 1.In a gory incident that has shocked the region, a person was brutally murdered by his wife and her paramour 2.David Paramour died from the lung disease mesothelioma after he was exposed to asbestos and its dust while employed by the insurance company. In Hindi जार उपपति जारिणी उपपत्नी

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Blazon

A blazon is a formal description of, most often, a coat of arms or flag, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image. A coat of arms or flag is therefore not primarily defined by a picture, but rather by the wording of its blazon (though often flags are in modern usage additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications). Blazon also refers to the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, to the act of writing such a description. (Source: Wikipedia) Other objects, such as badges, banners, and seals may be described in blazon. Dictio–Definitions: 1. To make widely or generally known. 2. To paint or depict (a coat of arms) with accurate detail. 3. An ostentatious display. 4. To make widely or generally known . The official symbols of a family, stateTo deck; to embellish; to adorn. 5. To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; 6. To publish or make public far and wide 7. To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. 8. Ostentatious display, either by words or other means Usage: 1. Heaven knows the men have wrongs too, only they are so modest they do not blazon them forth like the "fair" sex. 2. It is the misfortune of mountains in this country that they happen to be fine points upon which to hang a name, and blazon it into easy immortality Synonyms: acquaint, advance, advise, announce, apprize, bill, blazon, build up, circularize, communicate, declare, disclose, display, divulge, endorse, exhibit, expose, flaunt, hard sell, herald, inform, make known, notify, pitch, plug, proclaim, promote, promulgate, push, reveal, show, soft sell,sponsor, spot, tout, uncover, unmask In Hindi : कुलचिह्न,चारों ओर फैलाना या प्रचार करना, घोषित करना

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Egress

Egress (Latin egressus — "going out"), in astronomy, is the end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one. The term is often used to denote the transit of a satellite of Jupiter over the disk of the planet. It designates the moment at which the smaller body is seen to leave the limb of the other. In more general or legal use, this term refers to an exit, the act of exiting, or the right to leave. Dicto-Definitions: 1. An exit, or the act of exiting 2. The act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent 3. Becoming visible. 4. The right to leave or go out: denied the refugees egress. 5. A path or opening for going out; an exit. 6. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse 7. Egress Traffic(IT) Network traffic that begins inside of a network and proceeds through its routers to a destination somewhere outside of the network. For example, an e-mail message that is considered egress traffic will travel from a user’s workstation and pass through the enterprise’s LAN routers before it is delivered to the Internet to travel to its final destination. Usage: 1. Today gates and walls, much more hard and fixed barriers than street patterns, control entrance and egress in suburban subdivisions and urban neighborhoods around the country. 2. New York's superb natural harbor and its links westward via the Erie Canal and, later, several trunk railroads made it an ideal entry and egress point for goods and people. 3. The doorway provided an egress from the chamber. Synonyms: departure, doorway, egression, emanation, emergence, escape, exiting, exodus, issue, opening, outlet, passage, setting-out, vent, way out, withdrawal In Hindi: विचक्षण दूरदर्शी बुद्धिमान

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Joust

1. A combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances; a tilting match. 2. To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback 3. A personal competition or combat suggestive of combat with lances: a politician who relishes a joust with reporters. 4. To engage in mounted combat with lances; tilt. 5. To engage in a personal combat or competition 6. Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback 7. A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field Usage: 1. THE noble of art of jousting is returning to Wales, 500 years after the nation's last great tournament. 2. The museum will also host the annual International Joust this weekend, which will see four teams competing to win the coveted Sword of Honour. Synonyms: assault, attack, battle, bear arms, box, brawl, challenge, clash, cross swords, dispute, do battle, duel, exchange blows, feud, fight, joust, mix it up, ply weapons, quarrel, scrap, scuffle, skirmish, wage war In Hindi: झूठी लड़ाई खेल में सवारों का द्वंद्वयुद्ध

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Famish

1. To cause to endure severe hunger. 2. To cause to starve to death. 3. To endure severe deprivation, especially of food. 4. To undergo starvation and die. 5. Be hungry; go without food. 6. Deprive of food 7. Die of food deprivation Usage: 1. Famished people exist all over the world. 2. Many famished in the countryside during the drought. 3. Quitting the shop-board, he turned out a preacher, or rather a prophet, until his customers had left his shop, and his family were likely to famish Synonyms: abstain, deny oneself, diet, famish, forbear, go hungry, not eat, refrain, starve Antonyms: eat, glut, stuff

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Gendarme

A gendarme was a heavy cavalryman of noble birth, primarily serving in the French army from the Late Medieval to the Early Modern periods of European History. Their heyday was in the late fifteenth to mid sixteenth centuries, when they provided the Kings of France with a potent regular force of heavily-armoured, lance-armed cavalry which, when properly employed, could dominate the battlefield. (Source: wikipedia) Dictio-Definitions 1. A member of the French national police organization constituting a branch of the armed forces with responsibility for general law enforcement. 2. A body of French gendarmes. 3. Slang A group of police officers. 4. In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer 5. A military body charged with police duties among civilian populations Usage: 1. He has now called in Gendarme officers to investigate the theft. 2. One of the newest recruits is gendarme private Ayhan Aslan, who is doing his military service in Didim. 3. The report said that the driver of the vehicle escaped when he spotted the gendarme Synonyms: badge, bear, blue, bluecoat, bobby, boy scout, bull, constable, constabulary, cop, copper, corps, county mounty, detective, fed, flatfoot, force, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, heat, law, law enforcement, man, narc, officers, oink, patrolman, pig, police Hindi: पुलिस, नगर पाल गण

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Emblem

An emblem is a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept (example - a moral truth, or an allegory ) or that represents a person, such as a king or saint. The words emblem and symbol often appear interchangeably in day-to-day conversation without causing undue confusion. A distinction between the two may seem unnecessarily fastidious. Nevertheless, an emblem is a pattern that is used to represent an idea, or an individual. An emblem crystallizes in concrete, visual terms some abstraction: a deity, a tribe or nation, a virtue or a vice. An emblem is an object or a representation of an object.An emblem may be worn or otherwise used as an identifying badge. (Source: wikipedia) Dictio-Definitions: 1. An object or a representation that functions as a symbol. 2. A distinctive badge, design, or device - the emblem of the air force. 3. Special design or visual object representing a quality. 4. An allegorical picture usually inscribed with a verse or motto presenting a moral lesson. 5. A visible symbol representing an abstract idea. 6. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation. Usage: 1. Many countries consider their flag to be an important emblem. 2. The story of the United Nations Flag begins with the emblem which was prepared by the Presentation Branch of the United States Office of Strategic Services in April 1945. 3. Writers and artists of the 17th century gave much attention and study to the composition of such emblems, and many collections of them were published. Synonyms: adumbration, arms, attribute, badge, banner, brand, character, colophon, colors, design, device, figure, flag, hallmark, identification, image, impress, insignia, logo, mark, marker, medal, memento, miniature, monogram, motto, pennant, regalia, reminder, representation, scepter, seal, sign, standard, symbol, token, trademark, type. Hindi: चिह्न,लक्षण, रूप प्रतीक

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Onrush

Dictio-Definitions: 1. A forward rush or flow. 2. A violent physical or verbal attack; an assault. 3. The act of attacking. 4. An offensive against and enemy (using weapons) Usage: 1. It was forgotten in the onrush of events. 2. Shortly after the announcement by the CNES the organization’s Internet page crashed due to the onrush of visitors. 3. Armenians, during the war of 640-652, were among the few able to stop the onrush of Islamic forces. Synonyms: advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley Hindi: आक्रमण आघात प्रवेश

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Preempt

To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. Dictio-Definations 1. Preemption (computer) — Pre-emption as used with respect to operating systems means the ability of the operating system to preempt or stop a currently scheduled task in favour of a higher priority task. The scheduling may be one of, but not limited to, process or I/O scheduling, among others 2. preempt(Media) - Withholding of regularly scheduled radio or television time by a network for the presentation of a special priority broadcast. For example, a network may preempt an entire program or a portion of a program to broadcast a presidential speech, sports event, documentary special, or emergency news broadcast. 3. Pre-emption rights — the right of existing shareholders in a company to buy shares offered for sale before they are offered to the public. 4. Preemptive war - Preemptive war (or preemptive attack) is waged in an attempt to repel or defeat an imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war. Preemptive war is often confused with the term preventive war. While the latter is generally considered to violate international law, and to fall short of the requirements of a just war, preemptive wars are more often argued to be justified or justifiable. However, the legal ground for pre-emption remain highly a contentious issue. (Source: wikipedia) Usage: 1. Perlstein argues that budget cuts are responsible for the FDA's inability to preempt contaminated food crises. 2. Preempt the onslaught of ideology before it reaches your ears. 3. I'm not going to preempt what they're doing by getting into discussion of it here Synonyms: accroach, acquire, annex, anticipate, appropriate, arrogate, assume, bump, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, obtain, seize, sequester, take, usurp. Hindi: कब्जा करना , पकड़ना , धरना , छीनना मौके पर काम करना , मौके को हाथ से जाने न देना

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Bridle

A bridle is a piece of equipment used to control a horse. The bridle fits over a horse's head, and has the purpose of controlling the horse. It holds a bit in the horse's mouth, or holds on the nosepiece of a hackamore and other type of bitless bridle. Dictio-Definitions: 1. A harness, consisting of a headstall, bit, and reins, fitted about a horse's head and used to restrain or guide the animal. 2. A curb or check: put a bridle on spending. 3. The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;"his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper" 4. Nautical. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. 5. To lift the head and draw in the chin as an expression of scorn or resentment. 6. To show anger or resentment; take offense: bridling at the criticism. Synonyms: check, control, curb, deterrent, hackamore, halter, headstall, leash, rein, restraint, trammels Hindi: लगाम , बाग रोक , नियन्त्रण

Admonish

1. To reprove gently but earnestly. 2. To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution. 3. To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility. 4. To warn or notify of a fault 5. To counsel against wrong practices 6. To reprove gently or kindly, but seriously 7. To instruct or direct 8. To criticize for a fault or an offense: 9. To notify (someone) of imminent danger or risk

Usage: 1. Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly 2. The teacher admonished him about excessive noise. 3. He admonished the child for his bad behavior.

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Chagrin

A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event. Chagrin is used to explain strong feelings of embarrassment or displeasure. The ultimate etymology of the word chagrin, which comes directly to us from French, is considered uncertain by many etymologists. At one time chagrin was thought to be the same word as shagreen, "a leather or skin with a rough surface," derived from French chagrin. The reasoning was that in French the word for this rough material, which was used to smooth and polish things, was extended to the notion of troubles that fret and annoy a person. It was later decided, however, that the sense "rough leather" and the sense "sorrow" each belonged to a different French word chagrin. Dictio-Definitions: 1. Self-conscious distress 2. To excite ill-humor in 3. To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed 4. A feeling of being embarrassed and annoyed because one has failed or has been disappointed 5. strong feelings of embarrassment 6. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of 7. feeling of embarrassment due to failure or disappointment Usage: 1. To her chagrin, the party ended just as she arrived. 2. He was chagrined at the poor sales of his book. 3. I feel chagrin when I miss an appointment through no fault of my own. 4. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. 5. To the chagrin of the inventor, the machine did not work. 6. She turned red-faced with chagrin when she learned that her son had been caught shoplifting. Synonyms: annoyance, balk, blow, crushing, discomfiture, discomposure, disgruntlement, dismay, disquiet, dissatisfaction, embarrassment, fretfulness, frustration, humiliation, ill-humor, irritation, letdown, mortification, peevishness, shame, spleen, upset, vexation Antonyms: pride, satisfaction Hindi: खिजावट, कुढ़न, झुंझलाहट, सन्ताप, खीज

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Being called a prude is rarely considered a compliment, but if we dig into the history of the word prude, we find that it has a noble past. The change for the worse took place in French. French prude first had a good sense, "wise woman," but apparently a woman could be too wise or, in the eyes of some, too observant of decorum and propriety. Thus prude took on the sense in French that was brought into English along with the word, first recorded in 1704. The French word prude was a shortened form of prude femme (earlier in Old French prode femme), a word modeled on earlier preudomme, "a man of experience and integrity." The second part of this word is, of course, homme, "man."

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In origin, Armada is a Spanish word meaning "armed" in the feminine form. The word has evolved to mean a military navy or fleet. It is used in many Spanish-speaking nations to as the title of the national naval force (other Spanish-speaking countries use marina [English: navy] or marina de guerra [English: war navy]). Mexico uses the variation Marina Armada (Armed Navy) for the Mexican Navy. The word armada also appears in other military contexts, such as fuerzas armadas (English: armed forces). El Salvador uses the term Fuerza Armada de El Salvador, in English Armed Force of El Salvador. The word is also used in some non-military contexts, e.g. for several products and companies.

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