1. Viability Gap Finance
• Viability Gap Finance means a grant to support projects that are economically justified but not financially viable.
• It is designed as a Plan Scheme to be administered by the Ministry of Finance and amount in the budget are made on a year-to- year basis
2. Chip away
• To make something weaker or lessen
Usage: Her comments were beginning to chip away his self-confidence.
3. Constitutionalism
• Government can and should be legally limited in its powers, and that its authority or legitimacy depends on its observing these limitations.
• Constitutionalism is a complex of ideas, attitudes, and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from and is limited by a body of fundamental law.
4. Gavel
• A gavel is a small ceremonial mallet commonly made of hardwood, typically fashioned with a handle.
• It is used almost exclusively in
• the Country’ legislatures and courts of law, but is used worldwide for auctions.
Usage: The judge slams down his gavel and stands up as the audience becomes alive with controversy.
5. Habeas Corpus
• Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
Usage: But the Chief Justice said that, if that was the case, a habeas corpus hearing could go on for weeks to no purpose.
6. Pseudonymous
• Writing or written under a false name.
Usage: The monarch was not spared by the pseudonymous critic Julius.
7. Shy away
• To avoid someone, or to be unwilling to do something, because you are nervous or afraid.
Usage: She shies away from making any predictions.
8. Androgynous
• Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics into an ambiguous form.
Usage : He was an up-and-coming comic then, a strange androgynous mix of lunacy and manic energy
9. Machismo
• Machismo is the sense of being ‘manly’ and self-reliant, the concept associated with a strong sense of masculine pride.
• An exaggerated masculinity.
Usage: Maybe it is difficult to imagine these guys as nice chaps when your machismo immediately assumes they’ll be natural born show-offs.
10. Odious
• Extremely unpleasant.
Usage: A pretty odious character.
Synonyms: revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting
11. Gleefully
• In an exuberantly or triumphantly joyful manner.
Usage: Audiences laughed gleefully.
12. Behove
• It is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something.
Usage: Tt behoves the House to assure itself that there is no conceivable alternative.
