by Wordpandit | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Saddle • The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal’s back by a girth. • The most common type is the equestrian saddle designed for a horse. • However, specialized saddles have been created for oxen, camels and other...
by Wordpandit | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Nitty-Gritty • The most important aspects or practical details of a subject or situation. Usage: Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of Budget 2019. Synonyms: basics, essentials, essence. 2. Couplet • A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry....
by Wordpandit | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Entail • Involve in something as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence. Usage: Jackson’s versions of happy endings often entail a paradisal communion of human and animal. • In Law, It means limit the inheritance of property over a number of...
by Wordpandit | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Propensity • An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way. Usage: His propensity for violence. 2. Petard • A small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall. Usage: But, with any...
by Wordpandit | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Concur • Be of the same opinion or agree Usage: People pretend to concur with their seniors in order to be in their good books. Synonyms: Accord 2. Sterile • Lacking in imagination Usage: The movie we watched last weekend was sterile. Synonyms: pointless,...
by Wordpandit | Aug 1, 2019 | Daily Hindu Vocabulary |
1. Phraseology • Phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical units, in which the component parts of the expression take on a meaning more specific than or otherwise not predictable from the...