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English Resources Drop in with your Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability, Logic and related queries.
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)
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
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.
Thanks for the help guys.... -
17-09-2005, 12:53 PM
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
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