Words for Today

Gamut (noun):
Meaning:
1.the complete range of a particular kind of thing
2.(Music) The entire series of recognized note
Usage:
1.Politically, the unrestricted growth and avarice of regional parties has led to a whole new gamut of permutations and combinations wherein a party may or may not support a cause for entirely selfish reasons
2.a face that expressed a gamut of emotions, from rage to peaceful contentment

Words for Today

Vicious (adj.):
Meaning:
1.violent and cruel
2.Spiteful; malicious
3.(of an attack, criticism, etc.) full of hatred and anger
4.(of animals) aggressive and dangerous
5.Severe or intense
6.invalidated by defects; unsound
Usage:
1.The current vicious (means severe here) cycle of violence may be broken, for the time being, with the use of smart techniques of crowd dispersal.
2.a forced, vicious style of prose
3.a vicious storm

Swagger (noun/verb):
Meaning:
noun:
1.(disapproving) a way of walking or behaving that seems too confident
2.Boastful or conceited expression; braggadocio.
verb:
3.(usually disapproving) to walk in an extremely proud and confident way
4. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
Usage:
He might not have Warne's swagger, but he has a mystique all his own

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Disincentive (noun):
Meaning:
1.deterrent, something that provides motivation not to do something
2.a negative motivational influence
3.that which discourages a particular behaviour
Usage:
1.In-arguably, something needs to be done to disincentivisefrivolous PILs that add to backlog of cases, apart from derailing important projects
2.A further disincentiveis the high cost of registration, which runs from 50,000 to 300,000 dollars, according to one EEAA official.

Stringent (adj.):
Meaning:
1.severe, strict, demanding; binding, constraining
2.characterized by scarcity of money, credit restrictions, or other financial strain
Usage:
1.But a better way to tackle them may be to have a stringent vetting system within the judiciary itself for accepting or rejecting cases at the time of filing
2.stringent economic policies
3.operating under a stringenttime limit

Yawning gap :
Meaning:
1.Gap between something that is because of lack of interest
Usage:
1.There is a yawning gap between the rich and the poor
2.a yawning gap between fashion and style

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Prophecy (noun):
Meaning:
1.a statement that sth will happen in the future, especially one made by sb with religious or magic powers
Usage:
1.Lone’s prophecy that the impotence or de-legitimisation of the political leadership would result in chaos seems true today.
2.If you expect to fail, you will fail. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Grope (verb/noun):
Meaning:
1.To try and find sth that you cannot see, by feeling with your hands
2.To search blindly or uncertainly
Usage:
1.The political leadership in the state and country are groping for answers to the vicious cycle of protests that have broken out in the Valley in recent times
2.A very common example of groping is act of finding footwear's blindly beneath the bed without actually putting eyes there.

Shambles (noun):
Meaning:
1.a situation in which there is a lot of confusion
2.a place which is dirty or untidy
Usage:
1.The separatist political leadership is in a shambles and has little political vision based on pragmatism
2.The house was a shambles.

Confusing/Ambiguous Words

Incident vs. Accident :
Incident:
1.a single distinct event.
2.an event which is either unpleasant/embarrassing esp. of a social nature.
3.something that occurs casually in connection with something else.

Usage:
1.His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
2.There was a shooting incident near here last night.

Accidentt:
1.anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause; also, a mishap, especially one causing injury or death.
2.any event that happens unexpectedly, without a deliberate plan or cause.

Usage:
1.One in seven accidents is caused by sleepy drivers
2.I didn’t mean to break it—it was an accident

Word for the day

unfazed (adj):
Meaning: (informal) not worried or surprised by sth unexpected that happens
Usage:The government was unfazed, with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee ruling out a relook at the decision to increase prices and Congress slamming what it called “cheap and opportunistic politics at the cost of the nation”.

Word for Today

Rubicon(noun):
1.Its a river in northern Italy, and the act of crossing this river is seen as a momentous act. So this word can be associated with all effortful and great acts.
2.A limit that when passed or exceeded permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment.
Usage:
It seemed that science – and the human race – had crossed the Rubicon