English Vocabulary from Indian Express dated 11th August 2016

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Hello Friends, I am Pratik Ankar. Here I am sharing the English Vocabulary from Indian Express dated 11th August 2016. Happy Reading :)

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Indian Express  August 11, 2016  Sixteen years of solitude.

• Solitude – Loneliness.
• Lick – To pass the tongue over.
• Dab –
• Slight tap.
• Adept.
  
• Premise – Statement on which reasoning ins founded.
• Oppression – The condition of being oppressed / tyrannize.
• Spur – Sharp device fixed to a horse rider’s hills.
• Morse – Mouthful.
• Halt –
• To come or bring  to stop.
• To speak or proceed in a hesitating way.
• Incarcerate – To imprison.
• Unlettered – Uneducated.
• Endure – To suffer.
• Abduct – To kidnap.
• Enact – To make law.
• Quell – To suppress.
• Gruesome – Fearful.
• Convoy – To escort.
• Incense –
• The gum giving sweet smell when burnt.
• To enrage greatly.
• Repeal – To annul.
• Conform – To make like.
• Counsel – Advice.
• Epic- Heroic.
• Solidarity – Unity.
• Matron – Married woman or widow.
• Relent – To become less stern.
• Thorn – A sharp pointed growth on the stem of a plant.
• Confine – To bound or limit.
• Quench – To put out.

Indian Express  August 11, 2016  A river runs through it.

• Afflict – To harness, distress or vex.
• Severe – Strict.
• Havoc – Devastation.
• Incur – To bring on oneself.
• Eke out – To supplement.
• Inundation – A flood.
• Shrink – To become smaller.
• Eroding – To wear away.
• Hemmed – Folded and sewn border of cloth.
• Refrain –
• Line of a song repeated at the end of each verse.
• Not to do something.
• Tripartite – Having three parts.
• Accord – To give, to grant.
• Crucial – Decisive.
• Culverts – Passage under road.
• Fury – Rage or wild anger.

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