English Vocabulary from Indian Express 5th, 6th & 7th September 2016

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Hello Friends, I am Pratik Ankar. Here I am sharing the English Vocabulary from Indian Express from 5th, 6th & 7th 2016. Happy Reading :)

You can Read the Editorials of 5th September 2016 from HERE 

Happy Adhoc’s Day

• Ad hoc – Formed, arranged, or done for a particular purpose only.
• Spare – Refrain from distressing.
  
• Bearer – A person or thing that carries or holds something.
• Malady – A disease or ailment.
• Malaise – A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
• Lucrative – Producing a great deal of profit.
• Muggy – Unpleasantly warm or humid.
• Mortified – Cause someone to feel embarrassed, ashamed or humiliated.
• Disgust – A feeling of revulsion or profound disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.
• Incumbent – Necessary for someone as a duty or responsibility.
• Blissful – Extremely happy.
• Titillate – Stimulate or exile someone.
• Roster – Assign according to a duty roster.
• Dissuaded – Persuade someone not to take a particular course of action.
• Disparaging – Regard or represent as being of little worth.

The unassuming statement.

• Frosty – Very cold with frost forming on surfaces.
• Gradual – Taking place or progressing slowly or by degrees.
• Grudging – Given, granted, or allowed only reluctantly or resentfully.
• Formative – A formative element.
• Anecdotal – Not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.
• Interlocutor – A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
• Animus – Hostility or ill feeling.
• Assuaged – Make unpleasant feeling less intense.
• Bruised – Inflict an injury or something causing discoloration of the skin.
• Albeit – Although.

You can Read the Editorials of 6th September 2016 from HERE 

Not majority vs minority

• Coercion – The practice of persuading someone to do things by using force or threats.
• Reconfigure – Again shape or put together in a particular form or configuration.
• Cul de sac – A street or passage closed at one end.
• Dubious – Suspect, doubting; not to be relied upon.
• Antithetical – Directly opposed or contrasted.
• Patriarchal – Of, relating to, or characteristic of a male head of family.
• Shored – Support or hold up something with props or beams.
• Fossilised – Preserved to become fossil.
• Bulwark – A defensive wall.
• Intimidation – Frighten or overawe someone, especially in order to make them do what one wants.
• Ruse – A trick, an action intended to deceive someone.
• Pretence – A claim, especially a false or ambitious one.
• Specious – Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.
• Oppress – Keep someone in subservience and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority.
• Sacramental – Relating to or constituting any ritual of a religion.
• Abdication – Failure to fulfill a responsibility or duty.
• Propitious – Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.
• Bigamy – The act of going through a marriage ceremony while already married to another person.
• Perversely – In a manner contrary to what is expected or accepted.
• Virtues – Behaviour showing high moral, standards.

Vote bank to thought bank.

• Emerge – Move out of or away from something and come into view.
• Subaltern – Of lower status.
• Panacea – A solution or remedy for all difficulties or disease.
• Spectrum – A band of colors as seen in rainbow.
• Traction – The action of drawing or pulling a thing over a surface, especially a road or track.
• Angst – A feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.
• Antagonising – Cause someone to become hostile.
• Antithetical – Directly opposed or contracted.
• Devious – Showing a skillful use of under handed tactics to achieve goals.
• Feasible – Possible to do easily or conveniently.
• Exclusionary – The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
• Impervious – Not allowing fluid to pass through.
• Dissent – The expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.
• Nexus – A connection or series of connections linking two or more things.
• Transcend – Be or go beyond the range or limits.
• Petty – Of little importance.
• Confrontation – A hostile or argumentive meeting or situation between opposing parties.

You can Read the Editorials of 7th September 2016 from HERE 

My unsolicited suggestion

• Unsolicited – Not asked for, given or done voluntarily.
• Perturb – Make someone anxious or unsettle.
• Collegium – An advisory or administrative board in Russia.
• Entrenched – Encroach or trespass upon.
• Rectitude – Morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.
• Revive – Restore to life or consciousness.
• Dissension – Disagreement that leads to discord.
• Elephantine – Of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward.
• Anathema – Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
• Blaze – A very large or fiercely burning fire.
• Exalted – A person placed at a high or powerful level / in state of extreme happiness.

Fat tax slim evidence.

• Assimilate – Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
• Precursor – A person or thing that comes before another of the some kind.
• Sub serving – Help to further or promote.
• Rapporeur – A person who is appointed by an organization to report on the proceedings of its meetings.
• Ostensibly – Apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
• Construed – Interpret a word or action in a particular way.
• Ejusdem generis – Of or as the same kind.
• Ascribe – Attribute something to a cause.
• Levying – Impose, tax, fee, or fine.
• Induce – Succeed in persuading or influencing someone to do something.

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