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1. Spiralling • Show a continuous and dramatic increase. Usage: Inflation is spiralling like anything. 2. Callousness • Insensitive and cruel disregard for others. Usage: The callousness of using children to send a political message. 3. Emancipation • The fact or...

1. Pronouncement • A formal or authoritative announcement or declaration. Usage: That meant Musk’s pronouncements took on a new weight and received more media coverage. 2. Exposition • A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. Usage: We would...

1. Spree • A spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of a particular kind. Usage: The president went on a tweeting and retweeting spree last night, sharing more than 100 messages. 2. Radicalisation • Radicalization is a process by which an individual or...

1. Sensitization • Sensitization is a non-associative learning process in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response. • Sensitization often is characterized by an enhancement of response to a whole class of...

1. Domineer • Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way. Usage: He also was the target of much scrutiny from critics who complained about his court conduct and domineering behavior. 2. Siloed • Isolated from others. Usage: Managers have been told to break down...

1. Seer • A person of supposed supernatural insight who sees visions of the future. Usage: A seer had foretold that the earl would assume the throne. 2. Cross hairs • A pair of fine wires crossing at right angles at the focus of an optical instrument or gunsight, for...

1. Quantum Supremacy • Quantum supremacy is the potential ability of quantum computing devices to solve problems that classical computers practically cannot. • Quantum advantage is the potential to solve problems faster. In computational-complexity-theoretic terms,...

1. Replete • Filled or well-supplied with something. Usage: Sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death. 2. Shibboleth • A word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning • A...

1. Intertwine • Twist or twine together. Usage: A net made of cotton intertwined with other natural fibres. • Connect or link two or more things closely. Usage: As with most traditions, fact and fiction have become inextricably intertwined. 2. Innocuous • Not harmful...

1. El Niño vs La Niña • an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically...