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Friday 30 May 2014

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Thursday 27 March 2014

Most Important Vocabulary Part - X

1.    Desultory (अनियमित, असंगत)

Meaning: Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
Example : The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.

2.    Debacle
Meaning:  debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
Example: After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again.

3.    Diffident (संकोची, शर्मीला)
Meaning: Someone who is diffident is rather shy and does not enjoy talking about themselves or being notices by other people.
Example : Helen was diffident and reserved.

4.    Entice (फुसलाना, बहकाना)
Meaning:  To entice someone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.
Example : Retailers have tried almost everything to entice shoppers through their doors.

5.    Exacerbate (ख़राब करना)
Meaning: If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse.
Example : Long standing poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.

6.    Word: Meagre (अल्प, तुच्छ)
Meaning: If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meager, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.
Example: The bank’s staff were already angered by a meager 3.1% pay rise.

7.    Word: Morbid
Meaning: If you describe a person or their interest in something as morbid, you mean that they are very interested in unpleasant things, especially death, and you think this is strange.
Example: Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.

8.    Word : Obliterate (मिटाना , काटना)
Meaning: If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely.
Example: Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several time over.

9.    Word: Perennial (वर्ष-भर रहनेवाला, सार्वकालिक)
Meaning: You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time; used especially to describe problems or difficulties.
Example: the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness.

10.  Word: Patronize (संरक्षण करना)
Meaning: If someone patronizes you, they speak or behave towards you in a way which seems friendly, but which shows that they think they are superior to you in some way.
Example: Don’t you patronize me!

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Important English Idioms with Meanings and Examples

 Important English Idioms with Meanings and Examples

1.    Be a chicken
Meaning: Be a coward.
Example: Don't be a chicken. Talk to her about your love for her

2.    A little bird told me
Meaning: Said when you don't want reveal the source of your information.
3.    As gentle as a lamb
Meaning: Said about kind , innocent, mild-mannered people.
Example: She is as gentle as a lamb. That's why everybody likes her.

4.    Back the wrong horse
Meaning : to support someone or something that later cannot be successful.
Example: Don't back the wrong horse! You know he cannot win the elections.

5.    Be a cold fish
Meaning: be a person who is distant and unfeeling
Example: He rarely talks to his colleagues. He's a cold fish.

6.    Be like a fish out of water
Meaning: to feel uncomfortable in a situation 
Example: After her divorce, she was like a fish out of water

7.    Beat a dead horse
Meaning: (Also flog a dead horse.) To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.
Example: If you continue talking about something that cannot be changed, you are beating a dead horse.

8.    Call off the dogs
Meaning: said when you want someone to stop criticizing you
Example: Please, call off the dogs. I apologize for what I have done.

9.    Big fish in a small pond
Meaning: One who has achieved a high rank or is highly esteemed, but only in a small, relatively unimportant, or little known location or organization.
Example: Dr. Jones could get a professorship at an Ivy League university, but he enjoys being a big fish in a small pond too much to ever leave Hannover College.

10.  Cash cow
Meaning: someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money; a moneymaker.
Example:  The type writers production which had been their cash cow for so many years witnessed a collapse of sales.


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Tuesday 11 March 2014

Most Important Vocabulary Part - II


We have selected these words for maximum usefulness. All these have appeared in recent years in different exams. it can be helpful in upcoming exams. 

Word : Overhaul (पूरी मरम्मत)
Example : It will be another few weeks before we can turn the key on the Bonanza’s completely overhauled engine.
Word: Obsolete (अप्रचलित)
Example : It was like many towns in that part of the country in its  poverty and obsoleteness.
Word: Outrageous (अपमानजनक)
Example : Sahara group, the Supreme court rejected  this proposal saying , “ It is quite outrageous.
Word: Offensive (आक्रामक)
Example : He says he regrets that the comment was offensive.
Word:  Pretence (दिखावा)
Example : The budget is mere pretense.
Word: Provision
Example: The effect of this provision of the law is counterproductive.
Word: Peril (खतरा)
Example : Be careful of the perils coming on
your way advised the astrologer.  
Word :Profound (गहरा)
Example: Juhi Chawla’s brother Bobby Chawla suffered a profound shock in 2010 , after which Bobby had gone into coma.
Word :Perpetual (सतत)
Example : Their intention , to crush all opposition, to their personal , perpetual world rule.
Word :Perceive
Example:  As humans , our five senses are basic ways through which we perceive the world.
Word: Quarry (खदान)
Example : Vigilance team reconstructed  the quarry and crusher plant.
Word: Quaint (विचित्र)
Example : The cottage had a quaint look.
Word: Retrospect (पुनरावलोकन)
Example : The management has retrospected her confidential report.
Word :Reclaim
Example : His father reclaimed his lost property.



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Most Important Vocabulary Part - III


We have selected these words for maximum usefulness. All these have appeared in recent years in different exams. it can be helpful in upcoming exams. 
Word : Spacious - विस्तृत
Example : Most specious Shop in twin cities is Chandana brothers.
Word : Turmoil – शोरगुल
Example : There was turmoil after the election.
Word : Unrivaled – अनुपम
Example : On the ground, in the air - their unique style of football has been unrivalled in this league.
Word : Uncouth – गंवार
Example : He is an uncouth man.
Word : Uproot - जड़ से उखाड़ना
Example : The war uprooted many people.
Word : Utter – पूर्ण
Example : All his arguments are utter nonsense.
Word : Vigilant – सावधान
Example : Ram is vigilant while working.
Word : Vernacular - देशी भाषा
Example : Children should be taught in their vernaculars
Word : Wanton – चंचल
Example : His work is pending due to his wanton behavior.
Word : Wrinkle – झुर्री
Example : The wrinkles on her face are not visible.
Word : Yield – उपज
Example : The yield of kharif crops was not good this season.
Word : Zenith – शीर्षबिंदु
Example : At 40, she reached the zenith of her career.
Word : Zonal – क्षेत्रीय
Example : Madhya Pradesh won the zonal matches of the Ranji Trophy tournament.



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Sunday 9 March 2014

How to use Preposition in English Grammar


Prepositions are words which show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun object and some other words in the sentence. They are always followed by nouns or pronouns. They are called "the biggest little words” in English because they have very important functions.

Three Groups of Prepositions:
a. Prepositions of place, position and direction.
b. Prepositions of time.
c. Prepositions for other relationships.



SOME COMMON PREPOSITIONS
PLACE
POSITION
DIRECTION
TIME
OTHER
above
across
along
among
at
away from
behind
below
beside
between
beyond
by
down
from
in
in front of
inside
into
near
off
on
opposite
out (of)
outside
over
around
through
to
towards
under
up
after
before
at
by
for
during
from
in
except
as
like
about
with
without
by
for

Rule: è
They are always followed by a "noun", never followed by a verb.
By "noun" we include:
à Noun (dog, money, love) 
à Proper Noun (name) (London, Mary) 
à Pronoun (you,him,us)
à Noun Group (my first car)
à Gerund (swimming)

If we want to follow with a verb, we must use the "-ing" form which is really a gerund or verb in noun form. è
Subject + Verb
Preposition
"noun"
The pen is
on
the table.
He lives
in
England.
Henry is looking
for
you.
The newspaper is
under
your green book.
Pascal is used
to
English people.
She isn't used
to
working.
We ate
before
coming.


Prepositions of Time / Place at, in, on à
à  At for a PRECISE TIME
à In for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
à On for DAYS and Dates

At
In
On
At 4:30 pm
in March
on Monday
At 3 o'clock
In Winter
On 6 March
At noon
In the summer
On 22 Dec.2012
At dinnertime
In 1990
On Christmas Day
At bedtime
In the next century
On your birthday
At the moment
In the future
On New Year's Eve


Notice that use of the prepositions of time in and on in these common expressions è
àIn the morning /On Monday morning
àIn the mornings / On Sunday mornings
àIn the afternoon(s) / On Sunday afternoons
àIn the evening(s) / On Friday evenings

Note : When we say next, last, this, every we do not use at,in,on. 
àI went to New York last June (not in last June)
àShe is coming back next Monday. (not on next Monday)
àI go home every Easter . (not at every Easter)
àWe'll call you this afternoon. (not in this afternoon) 
Place: at, in, on
In General: 
à At for a POINT (dog, money, love) 
àIn for an ENCLOSED SPACE 
àOn for a SURFACE 
At
In
On
At the bus stop
In London
On the wall
At the corner
In the garden
On the ceiling
At the entrance
In a box
On the floor
At the crossroads
In a building
On the carpet
At the top of the page
In a car
On a page



Some other common uses of at / on / in 
At
In
On
At home
In a car
On a bus
At work
In a taxi
On a train
At school
In a helicopter
On a plane
At university
In an elevator
On a bicycle
At the top
In the sky
On the radio
At the bottom
In the street
On the left
At the side
In a row
On a horse
At reception
In a boat
On a boat

Note : Notice how we can use on a boat or in a boat depending on the type and the size of the particular boat/ship.

More Prepositions
Prepositions
use
Example
during
while in
during the film,during the war, during my stay
for
for two days, for an hour
from / to
from Saturday to Monday, from 5 to 9
between
the time period from one to another
between 1986 and 2012, between Saturday and Monday
until/till
before a certain time
until/till Sunday,5 o'clock
by
at the least
by Tuesday, by next month, by tomorrow
to
movement towards
to school, to work, to the station
into
movement towards inside something
into the cinema, into the car
out of
to leave a place/a thing
out of the cinema,out of the car
by
near/next to/beside
LINK stand by me, by the lake
through
through the tunnel, through the room
across
opposite ends
across the river, across the street
against
against the wall, against the door
into
movement towards inside something
into the cinema, into the car


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