by Wordpandit | Apr 27, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
Well, this ad says it all: Nothing for us to say other than the fact that this is a blunder, an absolute and complete blunder. Meaning of Faux Pas: 1. a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion. Pronunciation:...
by Wordpandit | Apr 1, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
Pronunciation: pes-kee The obvious word to learn from this video is despicable, since it’s taken from the movie ‘despicable me’. But why should we do that something as obvious as that? We do something else. We make you watch the video and then pick one word which...
by Wordpandit | Mar 22, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
Pronunciation: mahy-stroh This is a word we have all heard at some point of time or the other. Maestro in simple words means genius. In the video below, we have the Indian Maestro AR Rahman playing his magical compositions and regaling the whole audience. The...
by Wordpandit | Mar 21, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
Pronunciation: tsahyt-gahyst This is a word that sounds abstruse and esoteric, doesn’t it? Well, it’s a German word and Wikipedia has this to say about it: Zeitgeist is “the spirit of the times” or “the spirit of the age.” Zeitgeist is the...
by Wordpandit | Mar 14, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
This is an interesting video. It might lack the usual humor we generally put up in this section but then in terms of being bang on with the meaning, it does do its job. We can see from the video below what narcissist means, can’t we? The dictionary definitions...
by Wordpandit | Mar 10, 2012 | YouTube Vocab |
We all know what procrastination is, after all we have studied it here. Well, shilly-shally (or spelled as shillyshally at times) is more or less the same thing as procrastination: to keep delaying something, that must be done. One should neither shilly-shally nor...
