Saturday, August 28, 2010

aversion

noun
1.a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually fol. by to ): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.

2.a cause or object of dislike; person or thing that causes antipathy: His pet aversion is guests who are always late.

3.Obsolete . the act of averting; a turning away or preventing.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

poaching

noun

1.the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.

2.any encroachment on another's property, rights, ideas, or the like.
Use poaching in a Sentence

-verb

to take without permission and use as one's own: to poach ideas; a staff poached from other companies.

Informal . to cheat in a game or contest.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

narcolepsy

noun Pathology .
a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.

stagnation

A good example of stagnation was the U.S. economy in the 1970s.

-verb

1.to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing: My mind is stagnating from too much TV.

2.to be or become sluggish and dull: When the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.

antidote

noun

1.a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.

2.something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects: Good Jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.

verb (used with object)

3.to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.

മറുമരുന്നു, ഒറ്റമൂലി

Monday, August 9, 2010

Resurrect

1. To take from the grave; to disinter. [Slang]
[1913 Webster]

2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that
which was forgotten or lost)
. [Slang]
[1913 Webster]

Sunday, August 8, 2010

limbo

-noun
an imaginary place for lost, forgotten, or unwanted persons or things

an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo

Boring stage...

Eg: The game is in limbo.

limbo

-noun
an imaginary place for lost, forgotten, or unwanted persons or things

an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo

Boring stage...

Eg: The game is in limbo.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

litigious

adjective
1.of or pertaining to litigation.

2.excessively or readily inclined to litigate: a litigious person.

3.inclined to dispute or disagree; argumentative.

panting

verb (used without object)
1.to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.

2.to gasp, as for air.

3.to long with breathless or intense eagerness; yearn: to pant for revenge.

Eg: He said, panting after the jog.

sprint

I sprinted out of the hall. (ran away from hall)
n.
1. The act or an instance of sprinting, especially a short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
v. sprint·ed, sprint·ing, sprints

humiliate

verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.

sue

-verb (used with object)

1.to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.

2.to woo or court.

3.Obsolete . to make petition or appeal to.

verb (used without object)
4.to institute legal proceedings, or bring suit: She threatened to sue.

5.to make petition or appeal: to sue for peace.

6.to court a woman.


Eg: I wondered if a groom can sue his father-in-law for molestation.

translucent

adjective
1.permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.

2.easily understandable; lucid: a translucent explication.

3.clear; transparent: translucent seawater.


Eg: He wore a translucent lungi.

Monday, August 2, 2010

suffice

verb (used without object)
1.
to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
verb (used with object)
2.
to be enough or adequate for; satisfy.


Examples:

Suffice to say, there were no errors of fact apparent to me.

Hope this will suffice.

A combination of email and the members website should suffice in most cases.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

doyen

A man who is the senior member of a group

Eg: Doyen of Malayalam print media departs.