heyyyo !

factitious: artificial
the backup story of the criminal was factitious 
Do not be confused by the 'fact' in the word to mean it to be real,

bridle: restrain
The vegan diet bridled his choice of restaurants

quip: witty remark
Quips usually are fun ice breakers

besmirch: dishonor
 the use of foul words besmirched the royal prince's reputation as well as the family name 

07/25 - Water and Time

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that ?", I asked.
"Water", the Dutchman said, " Well, and time."
                                                      - PETER VAN HOUTEN, An Imperial Affliction


conjoiner = consist of more than one entity. Conjoined twins, conjoined minds
rejoinder = witty comeback
poisoner = slayer, killler, someone who kills with poison
concealer = hidden, out of sight,
revelator = prophetic, indicative, indicatory, suggestive,

Weekend is here!!!

TGIF !!!

Proselytize : attempt to convert
People will proselytize you from android to apple, Beware !


Conflate: mix together
The musician conflates hip-hop with rock and even jazz.

pontificate: speak pompously
When its about Harry Potter, I tend to pontificate.

Arcane: understood by few
The passion of reading is arcane. Not every one gets it.

Raconteur: Storyteller
The art of a raconteur is inborn, it cant be learnt.

** it is originated from french word, raconter which means to tell **

This one is from mangoosh

pugnacious: combative
When the cricket team was booed, the captain pugnaciously spat back, "if you think it is that easy, give it a try"

excoriate: criticize harshly
When she left the car keys in the ignition and the car was stolen, she was excoriated and banned from driving ever again!

atavism: throwback ... It is ancestral throwback, meaning reappearing of the traits which had disappeared generations ago.
it is return to previous way of doing things or seeing things.
Living in straw huts without electricity or listening to gramophones can be said to be atavism.
Modern art is said t be atavism of the art found in small villages of Africa or South America.

probity : Integrity.
Politicians need to have the probity to lead.

supercilious: arrogant.
The air-hostess was superciliously towards the economy class as compared to those in the business class.

7/23: Came Across this!

Was Reading some thing and came across these words. At first, I thought I knew them but I was totally stumped. So here we go!

1. Conspicuous : This words sounds like something secretive but it is the opposite.
Conspicuous means something that is not concealed , out there.

2. Entrenched: Something that an individual has been doing for so long that it is deeply rooted and very difficult to change.

3. Incisive: Looks like this word is negative but naah it describes the quality of discerning (pointing out difference) between things.

So that are my 3 words for the day!

Wednesday

Abscond: leave secretly
synonyms: flee , decamp,  escape.

Sirus Black absconded from Azkaban 

Abate : reduce in amount
Synonyms: Wane, Slacken Assuage.

The turmeric paste did little to abate the pain. 

Forbear : refrain.
synonym: abstain ,withhold

If you are on diets, refrain from the chocolate cakes.

Admix: mix together.
Synonyms: commingle , fuse, Amalgamation, merge, Commix

The night was admix of music and food.

Devitalize : weaken, reduce in strength.
synonym: enfeeble , unnerve.

The prospect of walking up the slope devitalizes people. 

Attenuate : reduce
synonym: assuage

Debilitate : refuse or sap strength

heyy

implacable: unable to be calmed down
Argentinians were implacable after the match

convivial: friendly and lively
the reunions are always convivial

behoove : be ones duty
it would behoove the kids to attend their classes

aesthete: appreciator of beauty
as he could admire the oceans for days on end, it is not wrong to call him an aesthete

moot : irrelevant
remember how joey confused 'mooh' with moot ? the cows point of view scene !!

back after the hiatus

desiccated: lacking vitality
few movies today have solid stuff, rest put up desiccated works-boring shadows of classic ones.

Vaunted : boasted about
For years people vaunted the beauty of Mumbai Rains, when i witnessed it I knew they were not wrong

aboveboard: honest
 He is hardly aboveboard, he gets his work done with help of his angel face and charming smile.

lionize: celebrate
People learned to lionize Modi as he did become the PM of India.

Factitious: artificial
The defendants story was factitious and he was caught when the testimonies did not align with that of the eyewitnesses. 

July7th: 34 'V' WORDS from a Movie: V for Vendetta

Firs watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDO0Hc4klic

This (In Italics) is a Dialogue from a movie called V for Vendetta. ( MUST WATCH MOVIE if haven't already)

In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. 

vaudevillian:someone who performs in dramatic work or musical work
veteran:person who is experienced in his/her field
vicariously:live through others experience
vicissitudes:(vagaries) Differences
visage:face
veneer:thin layer that separates X from Y
vanity:feeling of excessive pride
vestige:remain from before (vestigial bone)
vox populi: feeling or sentiment shared by people


However, this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! 

valourous: courageous, showing characteristics of hero/heroine
visitation: formal or official visit 
vexation: annoyance, anxiety
vivified: renewed,revived
vanquish: clear off
venal: corrupt
virulent: deadly, poisonous
vermin: small insect, noxious animal
vanguarding: to be at the front, forefront of something
vice: evil, bad, moral weakness
vouchsafing: to give something condescendingly, to grant, to give
vicious: intentionally harmful
voracious: devour, to eat a lot
volition: will, intention


The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. 

vengeance: revenge
vendetta: blood feud, quest for revenge
votive: related to vow, something that has been dedicated or consecrated
veracity: truthful
vindicate: absolve from guilt, to free from guilt,
vigilant:careful observant or attentive
virtuous:high moral standards

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

Verily: in truth, certainly
vichyssoise: soup
veers: swerve, turns,
verbiage: lot of words, overabundance of words
(Irony we have words for lot of words. Do we have words for 
everything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Zo0mUO-GE)


Take this one slowly. Will take time to sink in :) Have a great day!

story time

Tantalizing: teasing
Story goes

There was a Greek king called Tantalus. He was mean and was sent to hell. there he found his spot was in a lake with shallow water with a tree laden with fruits over his head. The king was pleased and thought its a great deal. However as soon as he was thirsty and bent down to drink water, the water level declined. When he was hungry he would reach out to the fruits and they would be always just out of his reach. This teasing was called tantalizing after the King Tantalus.

thursday !

quip: witty remark
in one of the most famous quips about classical music, mark twain said about wager's music saying that it is actually better than it sounds.

promulgate: officially make known
Though they knew they had won the bid, they waited for the committee to promulgate the same


desiccated : lacking vitality
Unprepossessing things are not necessarily desiccated
( unremarkable, unattractive do not necessarily lack vitality, they may have some solid ground)

fastidious: fussy
I am not fastidious about anything but my shoes !

vaunted : boasted about
Mumbaikar cant help but vaunted about the lashing Rains.

Thursday

" you must exersice propriety whenever your in a public domain."
propriety: Correct or appropriate behaviour.

"at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
gullible: Naive and easily deceived or tricked

"He vacillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
vacillate: Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

"bolster morale"
bolster: support or strenghten

cacophony: A loud harsh or strident noise, din, clamour.

wednesday

Dessicate: lacking spirit/ life,
"a desiccate romance"
Preserve by removing all water and liquids from.
"carry desiccated food on your camping trip"

His pedant ways of studying are really boring to people like me.
pedant:A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.


The frequent fights at the office engender a lot of in difference and haterate amongst the
engender : generate something

"a pragmatic approach to the problem"
pragmatic: Concerned with practical matters, practical.

"the ephemeral joys of childhood"
ephemeral: Lasting a very short time.

Wednesday

1) Schadenfreude:  joy in others sufferings

Atop his mansion, he basked in schadenfreude when he watched the people sleeping on the streets.

2)Facetious: humorous

Facetious behaviour is not tolerated during the Mass. 

3)Eponym: derived from a name

India is an Eponym, It comes from the river Indus. 

4) Goad: aggressively urge on.

due to his incessant  goading, Jim took part in the race

5) Zeitgeist: spirit of times

Every decade has its own Zeitgest. The 50's were rolled in the spirit of independence

6) Ignoble: dishonorable.

Firing shoots across LOC during the peace time is an ignoble act

July 1st

In other words, the worldview that guides the moral and spiritual values of an educated person today is the worldview given to us by science. Though the scientific facts do not by themselves dictate values, they certainly hem in the possibilities. By stripping ecclesiastical authority of its credibility on factual matters, they cast doubt on its claims to certitude in matters of morality. The scientific refutation of the theory of vengeful gods and occult forces undermines practices such as human sacrifice, witch hunts, faith healing, trial by ordeal, and the persecution of heretics. 

hem: Most of your clothes have at least one hem in them — at the ends of your sleeves, the bottom of your skirt, or along the edge of your t-shirt. Here it implies that Science is adding possibilities to understand the world 

ecclesiastical: related to Church(Religion). Secular is the opposite of ecclesiastical. 

certitude:absolute confidence

refutation: To deny

occult: Hidden, not very well known

heretics:here it means someone whose religious beliefs are not in line with the church
but basically it is someone who does not follow the norm

Hello bhidu!

The enigma of the Bermuda triangle has not yet been explained scientifically.
Enigma: mistry, secret.

The fervid display of emotions hampered the drama of the family.
Fervid: intense emotions.

The sale executive managed to placate the angry customer.
Placate: assuage, to satisfy.

Implacable: person who is never satisfied by what is with him/her.

The student showed his zeal towards sports.
Zeal: strong eagerness, enthusiasm.

After jaundice patients should abstain alcohol.
 Abstain: to stay away, avoid.

 His apathetic attitude surprise me.
Apathy: absence of feeling, indifference.

The young politicians have the audacity to stand in front of the judge.
Audacious: in vulnerable to fear, bold.