English Vocabulary from Indian Express dated 2nd September 2016

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The Indian Express: 2 September 2016


Jain lessons for Haryana.

• Taming – Domesticated animal / cultivated plant.
• Transpired – Occur, happen.
• Dismaying – Cause someone to feel consternation and distress.
• Lax – Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.
• Qua – In the capacity of; as being.
• Partisan – A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
• Patriarchal – Relating to the male head of family.
• Enticing – Attractive or tempting.
• Preacher – A person who preaches, especially a minister of religion.
• Entangle – Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
• Eulogise – Praise highly in speech or writing.
• Conviction – A formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offence, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
• Contrivance – A thing that is created skillfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose.
• Persuasion – The action or fact of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.
• Ubiquitous – Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
• Altar – The table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion service.
• Articulation – The action of putting into words an idea or feeling of a specified type.
• Succour – Assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.
• Deprive – Deny ( a person or place) the possession or use of something.
• Riposte – A quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
• Clad – Clothed.
• Salvation – Deliverance from sin and its consequences.
• Skirted – Go around or past the edge of.
• Riveting – Completely engrossing.
• Wade – Walk through water or another liquid or soft substance.
• Suasion – Persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion.

So that Mothers can work.

• Exacerbate – Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
• Diminish – Make or become less.
• Requisite – Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.
• Alleviate – Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.
• Empirical  - Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

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