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- Meaning: An embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation.
- Example: I made some remark about his wife's family, and then realized I'd made a serious fauxpas.
- Meaning: Modern, New, Recent
- Example: It is all too neoteric and light for my humour.
- Meaning: Combining different religions, cultures, or ideas
- Example: These elements point to syncretic architectural practices.
- Meaning: Usage of a wrong or inappropriate name
- Example: The name "Greenland" is a misnomer, since much of the island is covered by a massive ice sheet.
- Meaning: It is the quality of being late, behind time or not on time.
- Example: Excessive tardiness can also result in you getting fired.
- Meaning: Something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt.
- Example: Because I have quite a sweet tooth, my biggest guilty pleasure would have to be toffee chocolates but do I have to confess that I’m partial to a kebab from Turkish Delight in Manchester.
- Meaning: To leave somebody, thing or place, especially somebody you are responsible for.
- Example: People often simply abandon their pets when they go abroad.
- Meaning: To move back or away from a place or situation; to make somebody/something do this.
- Example: Workers have threatened to withdraw their labour.
- Meaning: To show the limits of something.
- Example: Parking spaces are demarcated by white lines.
- Meaning: Showing a willingness to take risks.
- Example: This thrilling new series charts audacious prison escape attempts.
- Meaning: To rate or evaluate too low; underestimate.
- Example: He is one of Hollywood’s most underrated actors (= He is much better than people think).
- Meaning: Not as good or important as some people believe.
- Example: In my opinion, she's a hugely overrated singer.
- Meaning:
- A piece of music that has no formal structure and expresses powerful feelings.
- A speech or piece of writing that contains powerful feelings and enthusiasm.
- Example: The mayor launched into a long rhapsody about his plans for the city.
- Meaning: Careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret.
- Example: The family made discreet enquiries about his background.
- Meaning: Someone who behaves badly or does not obey rules.
- Example: He supports tough penalties against corporate miscreants.
- Meaning: Open to corrupt influence and especially bribery.
- Example: They are accused of being involved in venal practices.
- Meaning: Badly and carelessly made.
- Example: We're not paying good money for shoddy goods.
- Meaning: Free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
- Example: She was acquitted of all the charges against her.
- Meaning: Declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
- Example: She was convicted of murdering her drunken and allegedly violent husband.
- Meaning: An acknowledgment of your error or guilt.
- Example: A newspaper might issue a mea culpa for printing inaccurate information.
- Meaning: To make timid or frightened; scare.
- Example: The terrain is massive, confusing, and intimidating, and almost everyone skis it with a local guide.
- Meaning: Clearly visible or understood; obvious.
- Example: It should be apparent to anyone that the letter was written by a child.
- Meaning: A person who knows a lot about food and cooking, and who enjoys eating high-quality food.
- Example: Food critics have to be gourmets in order to write about food in an informed way.
- Meaning: It is a great success or achievement, often one that has been gained with a lot of skill or effort.
- Example: The eradication of smallpox by vaccination was one of medicine's greatest triumphs.
- Meaning: Prove more powerful or superior.
- Example: It is hard for logic to prevail over emotion.
- Meaning: Someone who looks spookily like you, but isn't a twin.
- Example: Some lookalikes are hired to entertain at clubs and parties: they learn to sing like their doppelgänger so the crowd think they are getting the real thing.
- Meaning: Not based on logical reasons or clear thinking.
- Example: It's totally irrational, but I'm frightened of mice.
- Meaning: Not related to what is being discussed or considered and therefore not important.
- Example: These documents are largely irrelevant to the present investigation.
- Meaning: Someone who knows a lot about a particular thing and enjoys it a lot.
- Example: Sarah tells me you're something of an art connoisseur.
- Meaning: Something of monstrous size, power, or appearance.
- Example: The newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space.
- Meaning: Second from the last.
- Example: It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.
- Meaning: Grievous distress, affliction, or trouble.
- Example: He did not tell his relatives and friends about his woes.
- Meaning: An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- Example: Malnutrition is one of the common afflictions of the poor.
- Meaning: Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.
- Example: A high percentage of women said they had abstained from alcohol during pregnancy.
- Meaning: A person who never drinks alcohol.
- Example: His parents are teetotallers so he didn't get the whisky from his home.
- Meaning: Not large in size or amount, or not expensive.
- Example: They live in a fairly modest house, considering their wealth.
- Meaning: Extremely large.
- Example: There has been a colossal waste of public money.
- Meaning:
- A thorough investigation into a crime or other matter.
- To try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly.
- Example: Detectives questioned him for hours, probing for any inconsistencies in his story.
- Meaning: To keep one thing separate from another.
- Example: The psychiatric section is segregated from the rest of the prison.
- Meaning: The return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed.
- Example: He will be extradited to Arizona from Florida.
- Meaning: State again strongly.
- Example: The government yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the current peace process.
- Meaning: Event or period of time involves many exciting and confusing events or feelings.
- Example: After the tumultuous events of 1990, Europe was completely transformed.
- Meaning: Extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable.
- Example: If you make an egregious error during a championship soccer match, your coach might bench you for the rest of the game.
- Meaning: A religious song or poem of praise to God.
- Example: In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine.
- Meaning:
- Be received or understood.
- Produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound.
- Example: the sound of the siren resonated across the harbour.
- Meaning: An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
- Example: If you run into a friend out with her grey-haired father, and you blurt out, "Oh, hi, you must be Tara's grandfather!" then you've made a gaffe.
- Meaning: If you've heard an expression a million times, chances are it's a cliche.
- Example: It's a cliche but true that pubs are the lifeblood of many communities.
- Meaning: A job or position that is very suitable for someone, especially one that they like.
- Example: He found his niche in the academic world.
- Meaning: Extremely unpleasant or bad.
- Example: Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous.
- Meaning: Break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
- Example: Court is adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow.
- Meaning: Likely to occur at any moment.
- Example: For a man in imminent danger of losing his job, he appeared quite unruffled.
- Meaning: Arousing one's curiosity or interest; fascinating.
- Example: This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.
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Year: 2020
- Meaning: Certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented.
- Example: Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.
- Meaning: A noisy situation or argument.
- Example: The losers are sure to raise a ruckus.
- Meaning: A word consisting of only one syllable.
- Example: He answered all their questions with monosyllables like “yes” and “no.”
- Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstəsi/
- Meaning: An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
- Example: they went into ecstasies over the view.
- Meaning: To act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive or cheat someone.
- Example: It was suspected that the police had colluded with the witnesses.
- Meaning: If you say that someone is a good sport, you mean that they cope with a difficult situation or teasing in a cheerful way.
- Example: He was accused of having no sense of humor, of not being a good sport.
- Meaning: Person who is very rich and successful in business or industry.
- Example: a real estate/media magnate.
- Meaning: The effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect.
- Example: Any decrease in tourism could have serious repercussions for the local economy.
- Meaning: Left helpless.
- Example: He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
- Meaning: A line of people, walking, on horses, or in vehicles, who are moving slowly as part of a ceremony.
- Example: A cavalcade of antique cars.
- Meaning: Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Example: A cringeworthy photo shoot of him posing on a motorbike.
- Meaning: Impose (a tax, fee, or fine).
- Example: Taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament.
- Meaning: The act of buying and selling goods simultaneously in different markets to gain an immediate profit.
- Example: The importance of computers is that arbitrage opportunities can be quickly spotted and capitalized upon.
- Meaning: Producing a great deal of profit.
- Example: She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.
- Meaning: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
- Example: A senior leader cancelled a trip to Britain yesterday amid growing signs of a possible political crisis.
- Meaning: To end a law, agreement, or custom formally.
- Example: The treaty was abrogated in 1929.
- Meaning: To seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right.
- Example: The Congress wants to reverse the reforms and usurp the power of the presidency.
- Meaning: The early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises.
- Example: He was up until the wee hours trying to finish his work.
- Meaning: To lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat.
- Example: The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
- Meaning: A line of troops or of military posts enclosing an area to prevent passage.
- Example: A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building.
- Meaning: To consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing.
- Example: You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed.
- Meaning: To push something or someone with your finger or with a pointed object.
- Example: She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked.
- Meaning: Someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act.
- Example: The Trump administration decided to assassinate Soleimani due to American bases in Iraq being continuously attacked by Iranian rockets, with the administration concluding that Soleimani was the main perpetrator.
- Meaning: More than is needed, desired, or required.
- Example: The unions’ demands are superfluous, but perhaps not surprising.
- Meaning: Showing no sign of feeling or emotion.
- Example: Even as the guilty verdict was read, he stared impassively ahead.
- Meaning: Deprived of any communication with others.
- Example: He was held incommunicado for the first 48 hours after he was arrested.