by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Malady is an illness of an animal: “The cattle died of an incurable malady and his business ran into ruins.” Medley is a piece of music made up of a series of short tunes: “The actor performed on the medley of songs of the best of his movies in the...
by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Maize is corn, often referred to as Indian Corn: “Maize is the staple food of people living in America and Africa and for livestock worldwide.” Maze , on the other hand, means that which is complicated or elaborate: “I have never been able to...
by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Main has the following meanings:- 1. Most important; principal, chief: “Amitabh Bachchan is the main attraction of the quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati.” 2. Exerted to the utmost; sheer: “Will power is the main strength of a person.” 3. The...
by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Magnate is a word that comes to from Latin. Magnate, derived from from the Late Latin magnas, refers to a great man. ‘Magnus’ in itself implies ‘great’, with the word designating a noble or other man in high social position. This term was applied to the Turkish...
by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Macrocosm means great, universal, a complex that represents on a large scale one of its components: “The painter has drawn the picture of a man’s body with a macrocosm of heart showing its atria walls and veins bigger than the original ones.”...
by Wordpandit | Jun 13, 2012 | Usage Tips |
Luxuriant means fertile, abundant: “There was a luxuriant crop of clover in the fields.”She has a luxuriant growth of black curly hair.” Luxurious , on the other hand, means exceedingly costly or self indulgent: “I would prefer to stay in a...
