by Wordpandit | Sep 17, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Slash-and-burn agriculture • Slash-and-burn agriculture, also called fire-fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden. The method begins by cutting down the trees...
by Wordpandit | Sep 17, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Alibi • A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place. Usage: She has an alibi for the whole of yesterday evening. 2. Throttle • Attack or kill someone by choking or strangling them. Usage:...
by Wordpandit | Sep 12, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Merger vs Acquisition vs Takeover • Merger is the process where two or more companies agree to come together and form a new company. • The acquisition is the process by which a financially strong company takeovers a less financially strong company by buying more...
by Wordpandit | Sep 12, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Bear Hug • A rough, tight embrace. • In wrestling, a bear hug, also known as a body lock, is a grappling clinch hold and stand-up grappling position where the arms are wrapped around the opponent, either around the opponent’s chest, midsection, or thighs,...
by Wordpandit | Sep 12, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Abate • Of something unpleasant or severe become less intense or widespread. Usage: The storm suddenly abated. Synonyms: subside, alleviate, mitigate, mollify, allay, assuage 2. Diktat • An order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent. Usage:...
by Wordpandit | Sep 10, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Contingency Risk Buffer • According to the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan committee relating to surplus transfer was based on the size of the realised equity which is required to cover credit risk and operational risk, which the committee referred to as...
