Sore: (a part of the body)hurting when toiuched or used; tender and painful; aching (dard karna) hurt and angry (esp because one has been treated unfairly) irritated; (fml or dated) serious. (çhale’; ‘kasht-prad’; ‘ghaav’; çhot khayi’; ‘twacha sankraman’; dukh)
It compels (vivash karna) recall of their sordid past whose record lies buried in the archives.
Amplify: (fied) increase (sth) in size or strength ; add details to (a story, etc); make fuller. (‘badhana- khas kar ke awaz’; ‘kahani me atirikt vivran dena’)
Embody: (died) sth (in sth) (fml) express or give visible form to (ideas, feelings, etc); include or contain sth (‘sakar karna’; ‘murt roop dena’)
Predicament: difficult or unpleasant situation, esp one in which sb is uncertain what to do. (‘halat’; ‘durdasha’; ‘dasha’)
But watching her doggedly (‘dhridh nischay ke saath’) amplify her wrongs over the last year, I realize (ehsas hona’; ‘samajhna) she embodies a kind of political predicament –she is the good individual who’s been unable to withstand (samna karna; ‘sahan karna ‘; ‘pratirodh karna’) the system.
Indelible: adj (of marks, stains, ink, etc) that cannot be removed or rubbed out [indelible –adv] (‘sthayi’; ámit’; ‘pakka’)
May be the indelible ink-mark to identify voters needs to be rethought.
Volition: act of using one’s will in choosing, making a decision , etc, (idm) of one’s own volition: without being forced; voluntarily (adj volitional) (íchcha shakti; íchcha’)
Jayalalitha’s outburst (‘prakop’; áaweg’), they say, was of her own volition and the BJP should not seek to play second fiddle (khelna)
Spew: (sth) (out/up) (esp infml) vomit; out; sth (out) (cause sth to) send out in a stream. (ugalna; ulti karna)
Addressing (sambodhit karte hue) the UN General Assembly, General Pervez Musharraf spewed venom (‘vish’; ‘vid-wesh’) against India.
Fret: (about/at/over sth) (cause sb to) become unhappy, bad tempered, or anxious about sth; worry; wear (sth) away by rubbing or biting; state of irritation, worry. (‘kheejan’; ‘vyathit hona’çhinta prakat karna’)
In any case, the General always speaks without positive action and therefore there is no point in fretting over his speech.
Usurp :’(fml) take (sb’s power, right, position) wrongfully or by force. (‘hadapna’; chin lena’; ányay se le lena’)
They dictate (áagya dena’) democracy to their people while usurping all power for themselves.
Farce: cunny play for the theatre based on unlikely situations and events; play of this type; absurd and pointless proceedings (‘karya-wahi’; ‘karya-vivran’) (‘tamasha’; ‘swang’)
It’s nothing but moral (naitik) hypocricy (‘dhong’; ‘mithya charitra’) of those who see elections in India as a farce or an exercise in futility (‘nirarthakta’)
Scuttle: run with short quick steps; act of scuttling; sink (a ship) deliberately by opening valves (ábhi-dwar’) or making holes in its side or bottom ; coal scuttle (coal) (‘koyla rakhne ki tokri’; ‘viphal kat dena’; ‘bhaag jana’; ‘jaan boojh kar jahaj doobana’; çhed banana’)
After scuttling peace talks and after threatening (dhamkana) the use of nuclear weapon, he suddenly wants to be a peace maker (‘shanti-sthapak’; ) . what a joke ! (‘mazak’)
Prod: [-dd] (at sb/sth) push or poke (sb/sth) with a finger or some other pointed object; (sb into/doing sth) (infml) (try to) make (a slow or unwilling person) do sth; poke or thrust; (infml) stimulus to action; instrument for prodding (çhubhan’; çhubhana’; ‘kochna’)
If there is an earnest desire, it should be possible for the US that spends over $1000 million a year in strengthening established ddemocracies to prod its protégé to restore (‘bahal karna’; ‘marammat karna’) democracy.
Hackles: long feather on the neck of the domestic cock, etc or hairs on the neck of a dog; (idm) make sb’s hackles rise /raise sb’s hackles- make sb angry. With one’s hackles up: angry and reday to fight.(‘gardan ke baal’; ‘kutte ya pakshi ke garden ke upar ke baal’)
Why was it necessary for Dalmiya to enter into an agreement that was against the player’s interest and then deny doing it when the players put their hackles up?
Flam-boy-ant: adj (of a person or his or her character, manner, etc) showy, very confident and extravagant, (‘kharichila’; átyadhik’; ‘fijul kharch’); brightly colored or decorated: flamboyant clothes. (áakarsgal’; ‘bharkila’)
Espoused: (fml) give one’s support to (a cause, theory , etc) (‘sahara dena’; ‘paksh lena’; ‘sagai karna’)
He had flamboyantly espoused the cause of our cricketers treated roughly by Mike Deness last year in South Africa.
Ado: trouble; fuss; unnecessary activity (used esp as in the expression shown) (‘bina samay vyarth kiye)
Or, was it because the players had lost faith in him for, after the BCCI permitted them to speak to the ICC, they did so and, led by Raj Singh Dungarpur, managed to reach an agreement without much ado.
Procurer: (fml procuress) (derog) person who finds prostitutes for clients. (dalal)
Haul: pull or drag (sth) with effort or force; transport (st ) by lorry, etc. (idm) haul sb over the coals (infml) reprimand sb severely. (phr) haul sb up (before sb) (infml) bring sb to be tried or reprimanded (‘fatkarna’) (prapt vastu; ‘dhona’; ‘balpurvak kheechna’)
What rankles is that their unity was not because they had the interest of the country or the game at heart but their own interest; the fear of being legally hauled up for breach of contract or loss of lucrative financial deals.
Cohort: (in the army of ancient Rome) each of the ten units forming a legion (battle unit , special military unit) number of people branded together.(dal’; ‘sahyog’; ‘dasta’)
Lick one’s wounds: try to restore one’s strength or spirits after a defeat (‘ghav bharne ki koshish karna’)
Octogenarian: person between 80 and 89 years of age. (ássi se jyada lekin nabbe se kam umar wala)
Clarion: adj [attrib] loud, clear and rousing (‘shandaar’; úttejak’; útsahpurn’;) , cause sb/oneself to wake (turhi; ‘jor ki/jaga dene wali)
After biting the dust (dhhol chatna) over the battle for grabbing the vice president’s post with a casteist weapon, the congress and its cohorts in the opposition were licking their wounds when the octogenarian warrior, Jyoti Basu gave them the clarion call.
Antagonism: (against /for /to towards/sb/sth) (between A and B) (instance of) active opposition or hostility , esp between two people. (‘virodh’; ‘bair bhav’)
Come to think of it, the two yadavs have more antagonism against each other than they have against any other leaders of standing. (áadhar’; ‘pratishtha’)
Misnomer: a name that does not suit what it refers to, or the use of such a name. (‘naam ka galat prayog’; án-upyukt naam’)
The term office of profit is a misnomer.
Countenance: (fml) (expression on sb’s ) face; support, approval. (idm) keep one’s countenance (fml) maintain one’s composure (‘dhairya’), esp by not laughing. (idm) put/stare sb out of countenance (dated) make sb feel embarrassed or at fault by staring at him. (‘samarthan karna’)
They had great hopes that the NDA partners would not countenance the BJP stand on the Gujarat events.
Wane: (of the noon) show a gradually decreasing area of brightness after being full; gradually lose power or importance; (idm) wax and wane- increase and then ecrease in strength or importance; (idm) on the wane- gradually decreasing, warning.
The Boycott was supposed to force the prime minister. Once that happened, george’s clout would wane and the samata, itself facing many internal cries would split.
Cleavage: split or division; (infml) hollow between a woman’s breast that can be seen above the low neckline of a dress.
The hope for cross-voting by scheduled caste MP’s within the BJP during the VP elections was supposed to accelerate this process by exposing the cleavage to the embarrassment of the coalition leader.
Plight: serious and difficult situation or condition; (idm) Plight of one’s troth- make a promise to marry sb (‘durdasha’; ‘gamhir stithi’)
Some of these who had ambitions of leading splits(‘phoot parna’; ‘batwara’; ‘katna’) must have taken the lessons from the plight of those who had pushed their clout beyond the Laxmam Rekha drawn by the Prime minister.
Razzmatazz: (also razzmatazz) (infml) glamour and excitement; extravagant publicity; all the razzmatazz of show biz.
Mamtaji, has nowhere ro go, now with the Prime Minister Slaming (‘jod se marna/patak dena/ band karna’) the door on her raucous cry of ‘Bengal in Danger’
Pastel: type of crayon (/momi/rangin khadiya’) made from colored chalks; picture drawn with this; pale delicate color. (‘halka ranf’; ‘bejan’; ‘rangin khadiya se bani hi chitra)
Leotard was the great pastellist and had captured her likeness as well as those of all her brothers and sisters in the court of Vienna.
Harem: separate part of a traditional Muslim house in which the women live; women living in this (‘janan-khana’)
Cloister: covered passage around an open court or quadranglr, with a wall on the outer side and columns or arches (‘toran path’) on the inner side, esp within a convent or college , or attached to a cathedral (‘pradhan girja ghar’); convent or monastery (‘math’); life in a convent or monastery (‘mathuya jeevan’; ékant sthal’; ‘toran path’)
Many of his remarkable (úllekhniya’; ‘vishist’) pastels of harem women reveal (‘darshana’) the cloistered atmosphere of life within those glazed (çhamakdaar’; ‘bhav sunya’) walls.
Grab: sudden (attempt to ) snatch; (engineering) mechanical device for picking up and holding sth to be lifted or moved; (idm) up for grabs: (infml) available for anyone to take; (‘jhapatta’; ‘harap; ;pakar lena’)
Grabber: selfish person always trying to get things for himself
With the contract issue intervening the players from participating there are plenty of opportunities for the youngsters up for grab.
Pester: sb (for sth); sb (with sth) annoy or disturb sb, esp with frequent requests (‘tang karna’; ‘satana’; ‘pestered= pareshan’)
“later I told him not to touch me again and it was agter that incident that my mother started pestering me to get married to him,”the girl said.
Arcane:adj secret; mysterious (‘gupt’)
Procedural:adj of procedure (‘karya vidhi sambandhi)
Wrangle:( with sb) (about / over sth); noisy or angry argument or dispute (with sb) (about sth); (with sb) (about/over sth) take part in a wrangle (with sb) (about sth) (çhik chik’; ‘jhagda’; ‘mol bhav’; ‘ladai’; úpadrav karna’; ‘dekh bhaal karna’)
Ordinary citizens will never understand the system’s arcane ways, or appreciate why the Babri prosecution (ábhi-yog paksh’) cannot even begin after 10 years of procedural wrangle, or why the courts can’t take no suo motu (‘swah-prerna) cognizance (‘purn jaankar hona’; ‘san-gyan’) of the worst communal (‘sampradayik’)pogrom in independent India when they can interfere (‘hastak-chep’) on CNG for buses.
Standard menus for different cuisines with a groceries list were stored.
Fathom: mesasure (6 feet or 1.8 meters) of the depth of water ; understand or comprehend (‘samajhna’; ‘samavisht karna’) (sb/sth) fully; (phr v) fathom sth out- find a reason or expolanation for sth. (‘gahrai’; ‘thah lena’; ‘purn roop se samajhna’)
What Mandela believes is wrong with the world is not difficult to fathom out (fathomless- athah)
Invective: (fml) vioent attack in words; abusive language (áp-shabd’)
As a seasoned (ánubhavi’; ‘manja hua’) political hand, Mandela has eschewed personal invective but has clearly made an exception when it comes to cheney. In 1986, Cheney voted against calling for his release because of his alleged support for “terrorism”. Mandela insisted that he is not motivated by pique.
Pique: hurt the pride or self-respect of (sb); offend; arouse; (a person’s interest or curiosity); feeling of annoyance or hurt, usu because one’s pride has been offended (á-prasann’); resentment (‘naraz’; ‘kroadhi’; çhidha hua’) (‘kheejh’; çhidh’; çhot karna’)
Encumber: [usu passive]: sb/sth (with sth) prevent sb/sth from moving or acting freely and easily; (derog) crowd sth; fill sth up. –encumberance- person or thing that encumbers (‘bhargrast karna’; ‘badha dalna’)
Mandela has never been encumbered by delusion (‘bhram’; ‘bhranti’) of grandeur (‘vaibhav’; ‘bhawyata’)
Consummate: adj [attrib] (fm;) highly skilled; perfect; make (sth) complete or perfect; make (a marriage) legally complete by having sexual intercourse; action or point of completing, making perfect, or fulfilling- consummation (‘vivah ko sharirik sambandh sthapit karke purn karna’; ‘pura karna’)
Since leaving office, Mandela has shown consummate diplomatic (‘kut nitigya’; ‘raj nayik’)
Fore stall: act before (sb else) so as to prevent him from doing sth (‘pehle se niwaran karna’; ‘pehle hi rok dena’)
Last year he was involved in the arrangement – sanctioned by the UN –to send South African troops to Burundi as a confidence building measure in a bid to forestall Rwanda style genocide.
Canonize: officially declare (sb) to be a saint (‘sant ki upadhi se vibhusit karna’;)
Take Martin Luthar King, canonized after his death but vilified in his last year for his stand against America’s role in Vietnam.
Hilt: handle of a sword, dagger, etc (idm) (up) to the hilt: completely (‘katar ya talwar ki pakad’)
It was wrong, he told Americans, to suggest that öur enemies are your enemies- we are a liberation (‘mukti’; ázadi’;) movement (áandolan’) and they support our struggle to the hilt.
Urchin: (esp dated) mischievious or naughty child, esp a boy; (also ‘street –urchin’) ragged or dirty child who is homeless and lives in a poverty. (‘lawaris shararti bachcha’)
He had attacked an urchin during the game of cricket on the street.
Zen: Japanese form of Buddhism that stresses the importance of meditation (éshwar ka smaran’; ‘dhyan’; ‘tapasya’) more than the readings of religious writings [attrib] Zen Buddhism. (‘japan ka boddh dharm’)
If the questions were answerable in simple, accessible terms, then the almost impenetrable (á-bhed’) ideas that are found in Zen or vedantic literature would be laughable (‘has-yas-pad’)
Ghetto: (formerly in some countries) Jewish quarter of town; (often derog) area of a town lived in by any minority national or social group, typically crowded and with poor housing conditions. (álp-sankhayakon ki a-wik-sit jagah’; ‘basti’; ýahudi basti’)
How would we react to, say a Republican Governor who said at an election rally that “black people keep reproducing too fast”, and “their ghettos are just breeding factories”or that “democrats back negroes (‘habsi’) against white people.
In-can-des-cent: adj glowing or shining when heated. [incandescence] (átyadhik chamkila’’; ‘garmi ya taap ke karan chamakne wala’)
We would be incandescent with rage and the chances are that the Tory party leadership would disown the speaker.
Tory: adj (member) of the British conservative party.
Hirsute: adj (fml) (esp of a man) covered with hair; hairy; shaggy (‘royen-daar’; ‘baal-daar’)
Neanderthal: adj of an extinct (vilupt’; ‘durlabh’) type of man living in Europe in the stone age.
He has found his slot (‘sthan’) as a sort of hirsute. Hindutva fascist – and he seems happy with it. As a country men, I am ashamed (sharminda hona), and as a fellow state person I’m particularly embarrassed that Neanderthal Nazi (jaatiwaadi) is the leader.
Nouveau riche: (derog) person who has recently, and often suddenly, become rich, esp one who displays his wealth as ostentatiously (‘bhad-kile dhang se’) (‘kal ke nawab jaisa’)
But if this position is valid, then how does the BJP’s central leadership explain his current nouveau
Nazi rhetoric?
Avalanche: mass of snow, ice and rock that slides rapidly down the side of a mountain. (‘barf ki sarakti hui chattan’)
100 dead in avalanche.
Moll: woman companion of a gangster. (‘gundi’; ‘gunday ki premika’)
Monica Bedi, a small time actress to some and gangster’s moll to others.
It was a cut throat competition and most matches had an edge that is missing in a lot of the champions trophy game.
Ensconced: [esp passive] oneself/sb in sth (fml or joc) establish or settle oneself in a safe, secret, comfortable, etc place. (‘sthapit’; ‘sambhal kar rakha hua’)
India is ensconced in the only group where every game is vital (‘mahatva-purn’) and by my count there are six matches in the current format (‘pra-roop’) that will be nothing more than practice sessions.
You could call it Ramesh Chauhan’s great comeuppance, nine years after the Parle boss sold his best-selling soft drink brands to coca-cola to pump up his bisleri business, market research has shown America’s goliath to have beaten Delhi’s David at his own water game.
Crank: L-shaped bar and handle for converting to-and-fro (ídhar udhar) movement to circular movement; (sth up) cause sth to turn by means of a crank; (derog) person with strange fixed ideas, esp on a particular subject; eccentric (sanki) person
Interpol (ánta-rashtriya-police’) and Indian investigators are no strangers to crank mails that claim to provide clues (‘surag’; ‘marg darshan’)
Eulogize: praise (sb/sth) highly in speech or writing (‘stuti karna’; ‘kah lar ya likh kar kisi ki prasansa karna’)
Her first concession to her partner in the state was to abandon a program of eulogizing E.U. Ramasamy Naicker, the rationalist (‘buddhi wadi’’tarkan vaadi’) Tamil leader , who is an inspiration for the BSP.
Diktat: (derog) order; esp an unreasonable one, that must be obeyed.
Flummox: [esp passive] (infml) bewilder (‘hairan karna’; ‘ghabra dena’), confuse or disconcert (çhubdh kar dena’; áshant kar dena’) (‘ghabrana’; chakra dena’)
I had been flummoxed by the ki and ka syndrome (‘lakshan’; ‘paris-thiti-ka lakshan’) in hindi language during my six years in U.P.
Progress of essential docrine takes many forms, but its basis is the control of one’s speech, so as not to extol one’s own sect or disparage (‘burai karna’; úpeksha karna’) another’s on unsuitable occasion.
Doctrine: ( any of a ) set of beliefs held ny a church, political party, group of scientists, etc.(‘mat’; ‘sidhant’; ‘vishwas yogya niti’)
Disparage: suggest, esp unfairly , that (sb/sth) is of little value or importance. [disparagement, disparaging adj, disparagingly (adv)]
Cardinal: most important; chief, fundamental. Cardinal number= whole number; cardinal point: north, south, east , west, deep red color, any of a group of senior Roman catholic priests who elect the pope. (‘pramikh’; ‘pradhan’; ‘mukhya’)
Edict: order of proclamation issued by an authority. (áadesh-patra’’kuritiyan’)
Thus proclaimed Emperor Ashoka Maurya in his 12th edict, which was engraved (‘khodna’; útt-kirn karna’) on rocks in the four cardinal extremes of his vast and sprawling (‘betar-tibi se faila hua) empire.
Concord: (fml) harmony between people; lack of quarelling and unfriendliness (ékta’; saman-jasya’)
Meritorious: sth (to sb) (fml) explain or make sth clear by giving details (‘sarahniya’; ‘guni’)
This 2300 year old record leaves even our present India Constitution behind in expounding (‘vyakhaya karna’; ‘samjhana’) operative principles of secularism.
Embellish: sth (with sth) make sth beautiful by adding ornaments, etc; improve (a story, statement, etc) by adding often untrue details , eg to make it more interesting or amusing (‘manoranjak’) (‘sawarna’; ‘namak mirch lagana’)
These embellishments were further strengthened and conduits (‘pani ki nali’; ‘vahak’) in the dam were provided under sshoka.
Vituperation: (fml) abusive language or bitter criticism (‘ninda’; áp-shabd’)
Anti-Muslims and Anti-christian vituperations are not good for Indian society.
Dia-tribe: (against sb/sth) lengthy and bitter attack in words. (‘kathor samalochna’)
Not too long ago after his soft persuasion, Vajpayee himself indulged in anti muslim diatribe in Goa.
Esque: in the style or manner of
It is a pity that he and his Sardal Patel esque deputy prime Minister show their remorse (‘paschatap’; ‘pachtawa’; ‘prayas-chit’) at Gujarat happenings only when they are in London or New York.
Foliage: (all the) leaves of a tree or plant; leaves with their stem and branches.(parn samuh)
It was a spot shrouded (‘kafan’; ‘parda’) in dense foliage, darker than the surroundings.
Scour: sth (out) make the dirty surface of sth clean or bright by rubbing it with sth rough ; sth (out) (of a river, etc) clear out or make (a channel, etc) by flowing at high speed ‘(phr) scour sth away /off remove (dirt) by rubbing with sth rough.(chan dalna’; ‘majna’; ‘gahra nishan banana’; ‘ghisna)
