[koseram]

12Sep05

Bihar Assembly election, Mark II

1. cookie might crumble - break of fall apart into fragments
2. pittance - zilch
3. bete noir - object of dislike
4. in the eye of storm - centre of controversy

Mubarak and his political shell game

1. belie - misrepresent; contradict
2.scoff at - flout; jeer; show contempt or derision; rebuke
3. whiff of - a short light gust of air; sniff;
4. henchmen - conspirers or collaborators (of a plot)
5. short shrift - brief and unsympathetic treatment(often rejection)
6. embers - hot smouldering of wood or coal left from a fire

France looks to firm up ties with India
1. rapprochement - reestablishing cordial relations
2. preclude - prevent
3. doldrums - state of stagnation
4. predicated - affirm or declare; necessary condition; imply
5. consternation - fear resulting from awareness of danger
6. fillip - anything that tends to arouse
7. rudderless - aimlessly drifting

America bids farewell to the rule of law
1. edifice - building
2. incarcerate - lock up or confine(as in a jail)
3. limbo - prison;
4. detention - state of being confined
5. covenants - agreement
6. habeas corpus - writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or into court esp. to investigate the lawfulness of his or her detention

Flat tax is economic nonsense
1. batty - (slang) mentally irregular
2. badge of virility - feature of manliness
3. atrophying - degeneration; wasting
4. undergirds - lend moral support to
5. trailbalzing - ground breaking; innovative
6. silver lining in the cloud - consolation in a difficult situation

Imaginary Friends
1. warren - a colony of rabbits (they are underconnected ground tunnels occupied by rabbits)

[koseram]

13SEP05

Roger Federer — statistical marvel, aesthetic delight
1.insouciant - nonchalant
2.skittering - scampering; move hurriedly

Finite ores, implications for mineral policy
1.obviate - avoid; do away with
2. sinter - to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting

North-South corridor in the doldrums
1. doldrums - stagnation

Militant liberals in need of a re-think
1. pander - someone who caters to other's sensual pleasures for his selfish ends
2. charade - mockery
3. dastard - coward
4. squabble - skirmish; bickering
5. episodic - occasional
6. floundered - walk with great difficulty; behave awkwardly
7. glee - great merriment(oft. due to malicious satisfaction)
8. unsavoury - distasteful
9. apogee - culmination; denouement
10. inflate - exaggerate
11. cod - spook, fake;
12. prosaic - lacking wit or imagination; commonplace

[simple_aspirant]

Originally Posted by koseram

13SEP05

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12. prosaic - lacking wit or imagination; commonplace

Hey Koseram

I bet if anytime you start DailyDig kind of service, that will be immensely popular...

Regards
Simple_Aspirant

[koseram]

Originally Posted by simple_aspirant

Hey Koseram

I bet if anytime you start DailyDig kind of service, that will be immensely popular...

Regards
Simple_Aspirant

[koseram]

14Sep05

Infighting as a way of life
1. wreathed - wrapped
2. pique - feeling of resentment and indignation
3. distraught - dissatisfied
4. l' affaire - the business
5. virulent - venomous
6. score brownie points - done to please or win favour
7. pander - cater to other's wishes for selfish ends

Growing economies, tardy progress
1. tardy - delayed; sluggish
2. decries - express strong disapproval of
3. perverse - depraved;
4. slackening - become slow or less active

It's time for boldness on the Siachen issue
1. belittling - denigrate; disparage
2. nitpicking - quibble over petty things
3. pedantic - academic; insisting on rules
4. wrangling - instance of intense argument
5. fly in the ointment - an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of sthg.

Who benefits from the cultivation of Bt cotton?
1. plummeted - drop sharply

The anthropic principle
1. antrhopic - related to mankind
2. primordial - primitive
3. tweaked - fine-tuned; pull out sharply

Call to halt CIA "terror flights"
1. rendition - interpretation
2. harrowing - extremely painful

An old debate reopened
1. domino effect - cascading effect

[Gaurav Dixit]

Its really a great thread man.
I had not been reading HIndu till now
but now i will try...

[koseram]

15Sep05:

Testing commitment to multipolarity
1.quid pro quo - sthg in exchange of sthg

End of Australia's cricket hegemony
1. caravan - procession travelling as single file
2. throes - agony
3. chivalrous - gallant; knightly

C.N. Annadurai's mission incomplete
1. Goliath - s'one or s'thg that is abnormally large or powerful
2. dolefully - sorrowfully
3. mirthless - joyless
4. espoused - embrace (some cause); support
5. ferment - an agitated or excited state
6. spurn - reject with contempt
7. elan - vivacity; liveliness
8. mellowed - gentle(of character); well-natured and smooth; genial
9. domino effect - cascading effect
10. captive - confined
11. moorings - tyings; connections or bonds

The farmer and the festival lights
1. lessee - a tenant who holds a lease

Should the police role be expanded further?
1. at the behest of - at the request or command of

German election: Bush may be disappointed
1. at odds with - in conflict with
2. rebuff - reject outright and bluntly

[koseram]

16Sep05:

India needs to stand firm
1. pull off - be successful; cause to withdraw
2. wherewithal - necessary means

Koizumi's decisive victory
1. interred - buried
2. stoking - stir up

When Jaswant took Indian politics to foreign shores
1. captive - confined
2. belie - misrepresent; be in contradiction with
3. flak - criticism
4. imprimatur - formal and explicit approval

Power regulation — time to get back to the basics
1. legion - a vast multitude
2. arcane - discreet
3. unto - (archaic) to
4. lacuna - loophole
5. quasi-judicial - semi-judicial
quasi - having some resemblance; patly, to some degree
6. nay - not this merely but also (usage: each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique)

A Maoist threat and the political implications
1. queered - put in a dangerous position; hinder or prevent
2. meted out - given out in portions; administer or bestow
3. overture - prelude; a formal proposal or offer

Betrayal of the people
1. stricken - grievously affected ; afflicted
2. klutz - a clumsy and dull person
3. apocalyptic - prophetic of devastation or doom
4. pugilism - fighting with fists;
5. caliphate - territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
caliph - chief muslim civil and religious ruler.

[coolsurfer23in]

for a change its me

17th Sept 2005


Pressing on with détente

détente - release from tension(French word)

contention-rivalry,disaccord



Beware of what you wear!

proscribe- denounce, condemn

puritanical - rigourous in religious observance

entrench- fix firmly, install

diktat - authoritative statement



Japan emerging as a more normal democracy

decisive- beyond doubt, unmistakable

articulate- endowed with the power of speech

credentials- testimonials concerning one's right to credit, confidence or authority

patronage- support

nimble- agile, swift

hustings- activities involved in political campaigning

frisson- moment of intense excitement

hard-nosed - Hardheaded,adamant



Inducing consolidation by banks

rationale- fundamental reasons

exponentially- in an exponential manner,

alluded- make an indirect reference

heterogeneity- quality or state of being heterogeneous


Germany drifting towards a grand coalition?

sodden day- cloudy,drizzly

nemesis- an opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome

dissidents- one who disagrees, agitator

[better4worse]

Thanks Vamsi for starting a wonderful thread......this thread is truly a treasure trove when it comes to VOCAB and Idiomatic english.... also the various links provided are excellent reading material....

great work guys(everybody posting )........ truly appreciate ur thread....

Thanks and Regards
Better4worse