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The document defines and provides examples for 16 words: odious, turbid, truism, antic, candid, grovel, extant, schism, labile, fete, remiss, debase, urbane, guffaw, epoch, and rubric. Each entry includes the definition, synonyms, and two examples showing the word used in context.

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The document defines and provides examples for 16 words: odious, turbid, truism, antic, candid, grovel, extant, schism, labile, fete, remiss, debase, urbane, guffaw, epoch, and rubric. Each entry includes the definition, synonyms, and two examples showing the word used in context.

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Odious - ঘৃণ�

Definition: If something is odious, it's hateful. If you


become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the
details of that odious trade.

Synonyms: abominable, detestable, execrable

Example 1: The odious reception clerk smiled when


he saw me.

Example 2: It was an odious, alien, distasteful name,


that just did not inspire confidence.

Turbid - অশা�,েঘালা

Definition: If a liquid is dark and murky and you can't


see through it, it's turbid. It’s usually used as a
criticism — a turbid river is generally a polluted one,
but then again a good pint of real ale should be
turbid. Go figure.

Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, murky

Example 1: He wondered if the turbid water gliding


past could again carry away his burdens.

Example 2: The name is inappropriate, for actually it


is a rather turbid lake because of the soft black ooze
that covers its shallow bottom.

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Truism-সত�বাদ

Definition: Here's a truism for you: Only people who


look up words they don't know can expand their
vocabularies. Did you find that statement obvious,
boring, and saying nothing new or interesting? That's
the perfect description of a truism.

Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace,


platitude

Example 1: Though it is a truism to emphasize the


stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times,
Cyrene in the early third century was no mere
political appendage of Alexandria.

Example 2: It is a truism of human nature that people


learn to hate those who help them.

Antic - িবেরাধী

Definition: An antic is a prank to the extreme. It’s


outrageous, but it’s usually meant to be funny. When
the senior class steals the principal’s car and
manages to get it inside the gym, the antic may be
condemned by the school, but everyone else
probably thinks it’s hilarious.

Synonyms: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque

Example 1: These kinds of antics were not what I


expected from my college experience.

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Example 2: His antics definitely would have gotten


under her skin.

Candid - অকপট

Definition: Straightforward and truthful talk might be


described with the adjective candid. If you're always
candid, your parents will know that they can trust you

Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open

Example 1: Before coming out here, I took the initiative


to look up “candid” in the dictionary.

Example 2: Mr. Big’s administrative assistant got a


raise by hinting that shed found a candid photo of
him and Natasha in a compromising position in the
file cabinet at bonus time.

Grovel - েতাষােমাদ, িনেজেক হীন করা

Definition: To grovel is to beg like a hungry dog. You


don't have to be a canine though; you might grovel
for a better grade (please don't).

Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn

Example 1: But the only thing I know for sure is that


there’s no way I’m crawling back, groveling, to ask for
a measly ride.

Example 2: I grovel for mercy sometimes I manage


real tears.

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Extant - িবদ�মান

Definition: Use the adjective extant to describe old


things that are still around, like your extant diary from
third grade or the only extant piece of pottery from
certain craftspeople who lived hundreds of years
ago.

Synonyms: existent, existing

Example 1: “That was one of only five extant copies!”


he moaned.

Example 2: It was also during that time that a


starving young artist, who had been given lodging in
the house out of pity, paid for his stay by painting the
only extant portrait of Clara.

Schism - িবেভদ

Definition: The sound of the word schism reminds


some people of the sound of a piece of paper being
torn in two; which makes sense –– when a group has
a big fight and the group is torn in two, that's a
schism.

Synonyms: split

Example 1: The schism over slavery finally cracked


the country wide open.

Example 2: Amity would not allow a schism; no one in


Abnegation would be so selfish; Candor would

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argue until they found a common solution; and even
Erudite would never do something so illogical.

Labile - অি�র

Definition: Labile is an adjective used to describe


something that is easily or frequently changed.
Radioactive elements, such as uranium or plutonium,
are labile. It is this lability that makes them unstable
and dangerous.

Synonyms: imbalanced, unbalanced

Example 1: Yet the aesthetic kinship between them


was also apparent in eruptive rhythms and labile
emotions.

Example 2: Mr. Bowie’s voice was similarly labile —


gliding between ragged cackle and haunting croon
as he sang about decaying cities and alienated rock
stars.

Fete - উৎসব

Definition: A fête is a party, often one thrown in


someone's honor. You'll find fête used as both a verb
and a noun. If you want to fête someone, throw them
a fête.

Synonyms: feast, fiesta

Example 1: That night, they were feted by Ernest at


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spare ribs eaten with the fingers and washed down


with the restaurant’s signature mai tai cocktails.

Example 2: For decades afterward, Washington


crewmembers were feted at the end of each rowing
year with a Loyal Shoudy banquet, where each found
a purple tie waiting at his plate.

Remiss - িশিথল

Definition: If it's your turn to bring in the coffee and


donuts for your early morning meeting, and you
forget, then your co-workers can say that you were
remiss in fulfilling your responsibility to keep them
awake with sugar and caffeine. Don't expect to get
much done at your meeting.

Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, neglectful

Example 1: “I would be remiss to do so twice. Pray,


what are your names, children? Your full names,
please.”

Example 2: “I feel like I would be remiss in my


parenting if I didn’t bring it up,” she said.

Debase - অব�া

Definition: To debase something is to make it corrupt


or impure. If your lemonade stand sells “pure
lemonade,” you’d insist on using real lemons instead
of a mix; using a mix would debase your product.

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Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch

Example 1: The remarks grew ever more debased and


treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he
claimed - was obliged to intervene with the
suggestion that such talk was bad form.

Example 2: Turner thought about getting to work on


conquering his debased self, but decided that could
wait till morning.

Urbane - শ�ের

Definition: Urbane people are sophisticated, polished,


cultured, refined. Spend enough time in an urban
setting–-going to concerts and museums, spending
time in crowds––and you'll be urbane too.

Synonyms: polished, refined, svelte

Example 1: "Anyhow he gives large parties," said


Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste
for the concrete.

Example 2: His activism surprised Ifemelu—he


seemed a little too urbane, a little too cool, to be in
the students' union government—but also impressed
her.

Guffaw - অটঠািস

Definition: A guffaw is a belly laugh: a laugh that bubbles


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stressful day of work, it’s good to have some guffaws


with your friends.

Synonyms: belly laugh

Example 1: A short, pleasurable, if somewhat ghoulish,


guffaw sounded behind the curtain.

Example 2: Xenocrates looked at her in utter disbelief,


and then suddenly released a guffaw that he tried to
stifle but couldn’t.

Epoch - যুগ

Definition: An epoch is a period of time marked by


certain characteristics: you might describe several
peaceful decades in a nation's history as an epoch of
peace.

Synonyms: era, period

Example 1: Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth


couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons
and ages and epochs that the past obviously
contained.

Example 2: Also, all this changes from textbook to


textbook and from person to person, so that some
authorities describe seven recent epochs, while
others are content with four.

Rubric - িবিধ

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Definition: A rubric is a heading or a category in a


chart, or a rule of conduct. A teacher's grading
rubrics may include participation, homework
completion, tests, quizzes, and papers.

Synonyms: category

Example 1: Somewhere along the way, though, he’d


stepped into the fullness of his birth name—Barack
Hussein Obama—and the complicated rubric of his
identity.

Example 2: Under the Common Core rubric, students


in, say, Chicago’s tony northern suburbs might read
New Yorker pieces—on the South Side, they’ll get train
schedules.

Staid - ি�র

Definition: Something that is staid is dignified,


respectable — possibly even boring, like a staid
dinner party that is heavy on the important guests
but light on the laughs.

Synonyms: sedate, decorous

Example 1: He wasn’t wearing staid mercher black


any longer, but garish striped trousers and a maroon
paisley vest.

Example 2: There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking,


as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron,
white handkerchief, and cap.

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Canny - িবচ�ণ

Definition: If you're a canny investor, you know how to


spend money to make money — that is, you're
prudent, farsighted, and capable of protecting your
own interests, particularly in matters of finance or
business.

Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever

Example 1: But she smiles her canny little smile in a


way that makes me think it’s not a bad notion.

Example 2: “Anyone who would keep pace with your


craftiness must be a canny dealer.”

Decry - সমােলাচনা করা

Definition: When you dye your hair pink and orange,


your mother decries your act as a horror and bursts
into tears. She criticizes your choice of colors, stating
that pink and purple would have looked better.

Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate

Example 1: With her father’s words to buoy her,


Katherine Goble observed the manifestations of
segregation at Langley, decried the injustice they
represented, yet did not feel their weight on her own
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Example 2: As a former educator, Garfield decried the
nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the
South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census
asking if a person could read and write

Demean - অবমাননা

Definition: YTo demean someone is to insult them. To


demean is to degrade or put down a person or thing

Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down

Example 1: : He cannot understand how the white


man can show the most demeaning aspects of his
nature and at the same time delude himself into
thinking he is inherently superior.

Example 2: We’d been taught that worrying about


inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering,
that it almost demeaned an officer

Veto - েভেটা,কতৃ�বেল িনেষধা�া

Definition: A veto is a no vote that blocks a decision.


The President can veto some bills that pass his desk

Synonyms: ballot, balloting, vote, voting

Example 1: One thing was for sure: One way or


another, if my ’rents didn’t veto the entire shebang, it
was going to be important

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Example 2: But the offer was merely a “toy


telephone,” as all parliamentary action by Indians
and Coloureds was subject to a white veto.

Guile - ছলনা

Definition: Use the noun guile for cunning, craftiness,


and artful duplicity. Acting like you have a job on Wall
Street when you're actually unemployed would take a
lot of guile.

Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness,


slyness, wiliness

Example 1: My head swivels, but his expression is


completely without guile.

Example 2: He had no intention of paying his debts


and was confident he could evade prosecution
through guile and charm.

Covert - েগাপন

Definition: Covert means secret or hidden. Soldiers


might take part in a covert mission to infiltrate an
enemy camp — and you might take part in a covert
mission to steal your brother's leftover Halloween
candy.

Synonyms: implicit, inexplicit

Example 1: Ron kept shooting Bill and Fleur covert


looks, as though hoping to pick up tips.

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Example 2: Bast made a frantic, covert gesture from


where he stood near the door, but Kvothe was busy
trying to catch the mercenary’s eye.

Filial - স�ােনািচত

Definition: : If you describe something as filial, you're


saying it's offspring-related. Depending on who your
parents are, your filial duties might include taking out
the trash, washing dishes, or ruling empires.

Synonyms: daughterly

Example 1: Nature seemed to me benign and good; I


thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who
from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection,
insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

Example 2: But despair, more than filial duty, made


me compliant.

Foray - আক��ক অিভযান

Definition: Foray means brief excursion. If you're in the


army, that's a literal excursion into enemy territory.
For the rest of us, it means trying something out. "My
foray into rugby ended with my spending a week in
the hospital."

Synonyms: maraud, raid

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Example 1: I followed them, having no direction of my


own, except away from Siuwensin; which, I gathered
as we walked, had been raided by a foray from
Passerer across the bridge.

Example 2: So “fire” meant longer and longer forays


into the forest, stealing fallen branches from under
the blunt-eyed gaze of snakes, just for one single
bucket of drinkable water

Sylvan - অরণ�ময়

Definition: The adjective sylvan refers to a shady,


wooded area. The word suggests a peaceful,
pleasant feeling, as though you were far away from
the noise of modern life.

Synonyms: wooded

Example 1: The darkness of natural as well as of


sylvan dusk gathered over me

Example 2: It was inhabited by people and dwarfs, by


gnomes and sylvans and other, even queerer, folk.

Augur - ৈদব�,পূবাভাস
� েদয়া

Definition: To augur is to predict or indicate. A black


cat passing in front of you is said to augur bad luck,
but if you love cats you can choose to believe that it
augurs good luck instead.

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Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretel

Example 1: : ‘Oh, I’m not a lord.'. Octavian’s eyes


crinkled. ‘Just a centurion, an augur and a humble
priest doing his best to serve the gods.

Example 2: “Will Mr. Frank Churchill pass through Bath


as well as Oxford?”—was a question, however, which
did not augur much.

Careen - একেপেশ হওয়া,কাত হওয়া

Definition: Whether it’s an unsteady ship, a speeding


bus, or a person who is woozy, use the verb careen to
describe something that’s teetering from side to side.

Synonyms: barrel, career.

Example 1: Buoyed by the adrenalin that had flooded


my brain as we careened down the mountainside, I
had never felt better, and my father’s snores cut
through the cacophony of protestations outside my
window.

Example 2: “Chains of girls careen past, chanting We


don’t stop for anybody.

Viable - কাযকর

Definition: When something is viable, it has the ability


to grow or function properly. A viable seed can
develop into a plant, while a viable company has the
resources to succeed.

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Synonyms: alive, live

Example 1: Should we be shocked when they turn to


gangs for support when no viable family support
structure exists?

Example 2: I did not believe that guerrilla warfare was


a viable option at that stage.

Gyrate - চ�াকাের েঘারা

Definition: When things turn or spin on an axis, like


the seats on a whirling amusement park ride, they
gyrate. When you spin a top, you watch it gyrate.

Synonyms: reel, spin, spin around, whirl

Example 1: The compass was still gyrating loosely, but


the altimeter was functioning accurately, as far as he
could judge, and showed them to be floating about a
thousand feet above the seashore and parallel with
it.
Example 2: Only the dress had somehow trapped
both our legs inside it and all I was doing was
gyrating uselessly on top of him.

Heresy - ধমে�ািহতা

Definition: A heresy is a belief that doesn't agree with


the official tenets of a particular religion; heresy is the
maintaining of such contrary beliefs.

Synonyms: unorthodoxy

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Example 1: Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no


lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron
heresy—which was queer, since he always took
lemon in his morning beer.

Example 2: But these heresies died when he read her


last letter.

Clique - চ�

Definition: A clique is an exclusive group of people or


friends. Before Rudolph pulled Santa's sled through
the fog, the clique of flying reindeer never let him play
their reindeer games.

Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack

Example 1: Even my prettier older sister never


seemed to have boyfriends, when all the other white
girls in her clique did.

Example 2: The atrium’s busy as usual with people


talking to their little cliques or playing around.

Exalt - �শংসা করা

Definition: You might like your manager, but if you


exalt her, it means you really put her on a pedestal
and treat her like royalty.

Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim

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Example 1: “He is untiringly active. Great and exalted


deeds are what he lives to perform.”

Example 2: Just to see him in his exalted state, made


me know with finality that I was not him.

Balk - তক� করা

Definition: If you balk at your mother's suggestion


that you take on more responsibility, you're saying no
to added chores. To balk means to refuse to go along
with.

Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist

Example 1: No one would have balked at my


persecuting him then!

Example 2: I tried to think of whom among the district


committee I might call for information concerning
Clifton, but here again I was balked.

Jaunt - �েমাদ �মণ

Definition: Running out to get pizza to bring back


before the big game? This short, quick, pleasurable
trip could be called a jaunt (unless of course, you get
your pizza from Italy, that’s called “time to get a
closer pizza place”).

Synonyms: excursion, expedition, junket, outing,


pleasure trip, sashay

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Example 1: The serenity of the real world feels jarring


after my jaunt in the Dark World.

Example 2: The trip to Poughkeepsie was not the


boisterous and carefree jaunt of the year before.

Expo - সবজনীন
� �দশনী

Definition: A collection of things (goods or works of


art etc.) for public display

Synonyms: exhibition, exposition

Example 1: San Diego's Comic-Con began four


decades ago as a small trade fair for comics before
expanding to become a huge expo encompassing
books, films, television shows and video games.

Droll - হাস�রিসক, মজাদার

Definition: Need a mental picture for the word droll?


Think of one of those cute-homely troll dolls — blend
those two words together — "doll" and "troll" — and
you get droll, a description of a figure that is adorably
strange and whimsically cute.

Synonyms: humorous, humourous

Example 1:“I have a niece in Sunspear, did I tell you? I


could make rather a lot of mischief in Dome with
Myrcella. I could set my niece and nephew at war,
wouldn’t that be droll?”

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Example 2: He practiced a droll self-deprecating


expression and a halting delivery in front of the
bathroom mirror for a while.

Leery - চ�ল

Definition: You can use the adjective leery to


describe someone who's suspicious of a person or
situation. After his brother came out with bald spots
and uneven patches of buzz-cut hair, he was leery of
having the same barber get near his own head.

Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

Example 1: Actually Ralph felt leery of the dog too, but


because the girls were watching, he picked him up.

Example 2: I’m still leery about the nuts, but Finnick


says Mags recognized them from another Games.

Hector - তজ�ন গজ�ন করা

Definition: To hector is to boss around or verbally


bully someone. An older brother might hector his little
sister until she hands over part of her Halloween
candy.

Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat

Example 1: And wasn’t it better to explore and work


them out in a rockin’ musical than in some droning,
hectoring lecture from their teachers or parents?
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Example 2: I had thought there might be some


solidarity between Grandma and the other
gender-benders until the day I heard him being
hectored by a new queen, who was getting lots of
attention in the block

Facile - সহজ

Definition: If someone does something easily, or


shows ease, it is described as facile in a good way,
but if someone takes the easy way out and shows a
lack of thought or care, it is facile in a bad way.

Synonyms: superficial

Example 1: He sniffed around, wrinkling his facile nose


at the unfamiliar smell, then reached out a long
curved black paw and tapped the white head.

Example 2: Miss Adebayo visited and said something


about grief, something nice-sounding and facile:
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could
feel real grief were lucky to have loved.

Infamy - কুখ�ািত

Definition: Infamy means being famous for


something bad or negative. You may be hoping for
fame when you get an enormous tattoo of your
favorite pop star on your back, but there's a chance
you'll end up with infamy instead.

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Synonyms: opprobrium

Example 1: This is one of those infamies a prince


should be on guard against, as will be discussed
below.

Example 2: If the gods were good, Lannister’s severed


head was halfway back to King’s Landing by now, but
more like the dwarf was hale and whole and
somewhere close, stinking drunk and plot-ting some
new infamy.

Covet - েলাভ

Definition: : If you covet something, you eagerly


desire something that someone else has. If it's 95
degrees out and humid, you may find yourself
coveting your neighbor's air conditioner.

Synonyms: drool, salivate

Example 1: He decided to end the life of another man


who stood between him and the land he coveted

Example 2: I shall not covet my sister’s husband, but I


shall know him, in my way, better

Imbibe - পান করা, হজম করা

Definition: Imbibe is a fancy word for "drink." If you


need to imbibe ten cups of coffee just to get out of
the house, you might have a caffeine problem

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Synonyms: drink

Example 1: If only he could imbibe some of that night


rest!

Example 2: So we each did, but I might have also


potentially snuck into the kitchen to imbibe a glass of
that mojito stuff Papi makes.

Malign - �িতকর

Definition: IIf you malign someone, you badmouth


them — just like the jilted girlfriend who tells the whole
school her ex has bad breath and head lice..

Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud,


traduce

Example 1: Because ye know what I see when a lass is


maligned for something she can’t help and yet she
still shows up anyway?”

Example 2: Was it imagining on his part, Robbie


wondered, or malign intent on hers, that made the
adults' portions appear twice the size of the
children's?

Duress - বাধ�তামূলক বল �েয়াগ

Definition: Let’s hope you’re never denied food and


sleep and forced to sign a confession, but if you are,
that's called being under duress. Threats and harsh
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don’t want to do is duress.

Synonyms: coercion, force

Example 1: My biology textbook said that dogs can


smell fear because of a chemical secreted by human
glands in a state of duress, the same chemical a
dog’s prey secretes.

Example 2: “You gave the Beiderman cookies. From


your own personal stash. Willingly. Not under duress.”

ৃ লতা
Levity - উ��

Definition: Joking that your dead grandmother "never


looked better" could inject some levity, or frivolity, into
her funeral, but your relatives might find your joke
inappropriate to the occasion.

Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity,


merriness

Example 1: “So you get weekends off,” joked


Rowan—trying to add a little nervous levity to the
discussion.

Example 2: They both laughed, which made Mark


wonder where all the sudden levity had come from.

Forage - প�খাদ�

Definition: To forage is to wander around looking for


food. When it’s cold and snowy outside, birds may

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forage for food in your backyard, digging around for


whatever they can find.

Synonyms: scrounge

Example 1: I heard, from somewhere distant, the calls


of the adult bonobos coordinating their foraging.

Example 2: The young dog spent most of the day still


occupied with his ceaseless foraging for food.

Hiatus - িবরিত

Definition: A temporary gap, pause, break, or


absence can be called a hiatus. When your favorite
TV show is on hiatus, that means there are no new
episodes — not forever, just for a little while.

Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension

Example 1: Slowly, my left hand patting Schwarz to


encourage a hiatus in her meowing, I worked the top
off my drum with my right hand.

Example 2: Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of


an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt
that I was the most wicked and abandoned child
ever reared under a roof.

Scion - বংশীয়

Definition: Use the word scion when talking about a


young member

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of a family that is known to be wealthy, powerful or


otherwise important, such as a prince, heiress or the
children of, say, the President.

Synonyms: descendant, descendent

Example 1: And if he, good Christian, scion of a


striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could
be forever bound, who then could not?

Example 2: It signifies little, whether I am scion of a


noble line.

Torpor - িন��য়তা

Definition: Torpor is a state of mental and physical


inactivity. "After a huge Thanksgiving meal, my family
members fall into a torpor; no one can even pick up
the TV remote."

Synonyms: listlessness

Example 1: For all its array of officials, Siuwensin was a


very small, plain place, sunk deep in rural torpor.

Example 2: ‘Now was the time to ask about the trip,


but the same torpor that had overtaken Father also
affected Tendai.

Defray - অপব�য়

Definition: If your mother says she will defray the cost


of your next move, say thank you.

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She means she will take on some of the expenses for


you.

Synonyms: pay

Example 1: My stipend was a predetermined amount


of money—based on world ranking—to defray the
cost of training expenses.

Example 2: Further, they stated that the money their


society had collected for making coffins and burying
the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages
which we had to pay to those whom we employed.”

Rancor - িবে�ষ

Definition: The word rancor is best when you're not


just talking about anger, you're talking about a deep,
twisted bitter type of anger in your heart. The open
rancor in political discussion prevents cooperation
between political parties.

Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancour, resentment

Example 1: “In that case, you have us over a barrel—”


said Colonel Kom without rancor.

Example 2: That conversation, the biting rancor that


he felt against his father, and the imminent possibility
of wild love inspired a serene courage in him.

Ebb - ভাটা

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Definition: When something ebbs, it is declining,


falling, or flowing away. The best time to look for sea
creatures in tidal pools is when the tide is on the ebb
— meaning it has receded from the shore.

Synonyms: flow, reflux

Example 1: The ocean of people stretched farther


than I could see— waves of people ebbing and
flowing, shoving the sawhorses and the policemen
who were trying to keep them in place.

Example 2: Within the hotel chemical odors ebbed


and flowed like an atmospheric tide.

Litany - �াথনা
� স�ীত, েয েকােনা দীঘ িবর��কর
� বক্তৃতা,
�ী�ানেদর একজাতীয় �াথ�না।

Definition: A litany is a long, repetitive list or series of


grievances, like your picky brother's litany of
complaints about dinner or the litany of critical
comments your English teacher writes in the margins
of your essay.

Synonyms: Litany

Example 1: Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and


was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of
preparations, the waiting and watching, the power
outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets
catching rain.

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Example 2: Through the tunnels of that island fortress


came wind of a horror too great to speak aloud—a
whispered litany that would take years to be fully
disclosed to the world, and especially to me.

Arable - আবাদেযাগ�

Definition: If you describe land as arable, it means


that something can grow there. If you're looking to
raise crops, you better find yourself a patch of arable
land.

Synonyms: cultivable, cultivatable, tillable

Example 1: Every scrap of arable land had been


terraced and planted with barley, bitter buckwheat,
or potatoes.

Example 2: It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead,


nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land.

Banal - সাধারণ, গতানুগিতক

Definition: If something is boring and unoriginal, it's


banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater.

Synonyms: commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat,


shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite,
well-worn

Example 1: As I exchanged banal congratulations


with the climbers filing past, inwardly I was frantic:
“Hurry it up, hurry it up!”

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Example 2: There was something vacuous and stupid


about it, flapping out there in the middle of nowhere,
something empty, banal, brutish.

Tirade - অপবাদ পূণ দীঘ


� েজারােলা
� বক্তৃতা

Definition: A tirade is a speech, usually consisting of a


long string of violent, emotionally charged words.
Borrow and lose your roommate’s clothes one too
many times, and you can bet you’ll be treated to a
heated tirade.

synonyms: broadside, philippic

Example 1:This is always how her tirades begin and


end: “If Anne were my daughter…” Thank goodness
I’m not.

Example 2: The nature of this quarrel was hopelessly


confused in his mind—but each of them had on
several occasions broken out into a bitter tirade
against the other, the absent one.

Extol - �শংসা

Definition: If you have a crush on a guy who likes your


best friend, it can be very depressing to listen to him
extol your friend's virtues, while you just nod and
smile. If you extol something, you praise it very highly.

Synonyms: exalt, glorify, laud, proclaim

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Example 1: The Colonel and I said nothing, while a


bunch of people who didn’t know Alaska extolled her
virtues and professed to be devastated, and at first, it
bothered me.

Example 2: He extolled the bounty of New England to


Thomas Dermer, one of Smith’s subordinates, who
was then staying in the same camp.

Recant - পিরত�াগ করা

Definition: If you're someone who speaks before you


think, you may need to recant, or take back, that
overly honest assessment of your friend's new haircut

Synonyms: abjure, forswear, resile, retract

Example 1: We now knew that because Myers had


recanted his accusations against Walter before the
trial, the State might not be entirely surprised to hear
that he was denying McMillian's involvement in the
crime

Example 2: While Chapman had suggested that


Myers must have been pressured to recant, the
district attorney presented no actual evidence to
support that claim, which made the judge's ruling
hard to understand.

Blithe - সুখী

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Definition: The adjective blithe used to mean happy


and carefree, but over time it has also come to
describe someone who isn't paying attention the way
they should.

Synonyms:blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted,


lightsome

Example 1: Instead, she returned him to his agony


with a blithe shrug of her shoulders.

Example 2 : She was one of them, really, blithe and


girlish in her manner and her tastes—video games,
Harry Potter, the baffling pop music they listened to.

Edify - উ�ত সাধন করা

Definition: To edify is to help someone understand,


whether it is books that edify those who want to learn
a new language, or the explanations that hang
beside paintings at a museum that edify visitors who
aren't familiar with the artist.

Synonyms: enlighten

Example 1: Parsons, his attention caught by the


trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping
solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.

Example 2: As a journalist, I found it edifying to


experience things from the other side of the fence

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Lurid - উত্েতজনাপূন �

Definition: Something lurid is vivid and


attention-grabbing in a shocking, graphic, or horrible
way. that pulls them in. Your mother might complain
that she hates lurid TV shows — ones that are overly
sensationalized and meant to shock.

Synonyms: shocking, sensational

Example 1: Then another hoarse scream erupted,


sudden and desperate and just as suddenly silenced,
broken off by lurid, ripping bone snap.

Example 2: Vines covered most of the tree trunks, but


their colors were oversaturated, almost lurid in their
brightness.

Morbid - েরাগা�া�

Definition: If the first section of the newspaper you


read is the obituaries, you could be considered
morbid. Morbid is a word used to describe anyone
who spends too much time thinking about death or
disease.

Synonyms: ghoulish, offensive

Example 1: He was surprised at having such a morbid


thought.

Example 2: “Of course some people have a morbid


dread of it,” said Colonel Julyan.

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Tumult - গ�েগাল

Definition: If a principal steps into a classroom and is


greeted by a tumult of voices, with the teacher
shouting for his kids' attention, she will not be
pleased. A tumult is a state of noisy confusion.

Synonyms: garboil, tumultuousness, uproar, zoo

Example 1: Despite the tumult of the times, I was a


happy, chubby baby who slept through the night and
was loved by an extended family full of aunts, uncles,
cousins, and grandmas.

Example 2: In the tumult, someone pulled the


emergency brake.

Despot - ৈ�রশাসক

Definition: A despot, is a cruel, all-controlling ruler. For


example, a despot does not allow people to speak
out against the leadership, nor really want them to
have much freedom at all.

Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant

Example 1: When he did see the old despot he started


back in honor, for Mr. P. was four feet long, his weight
incalculable.

Example 2:The papar risked their lives—and lost them


in untold droves-r- not in the pursuit of wealth or
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any despot

Feign - �তারণা করা

Definition: For a more formal way to say pretend to or


imitate, choose the verb feign. You might feign
indifference when you hear about some gossip, but
you're probably dying to know.

Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham

Example 1: “Don’t worry about me,” said Sarai with


feigned carelessness, but as she went out to the
gallery she added, in an undertone only she could
hear, “I don’t think we have to worry about forever.”
Example 2: To her great surprise, there was no need
for her to feign a migraine.

Demur - সংেকাচ না ি�ধা করা

Definition: If your mother asks you to clean your room


and you refuse, you demur. And if your friend invites
you to the Death Metal Forever concert but you
hesitate, you demur. Whether you object, politely
disagree, or hesitate, you demur.

Synonyms: except

Example 1: The Italian seemed the first person to


demur to this view.

Example 2: Dr. Shaw at first demurred; then let her


have what she wanted.

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dle - লাগাম

Definition: When you're riding a horse and scream


"Whoa!" to make it stop, you're pulling on the reins,
which are attached to a thing called the bridle, the
buckled straps around a horse's head that help you
control its movements.

Synonyms: check, crub

Example 1: ‘He will have none. If he will consent to


bear you, bear you he does; and if not, well, no bit,
bridle, whip, or thong will tame him. Farewell,
Shadowfax! Have patience. Battle is coming.’

Example 2: I would track the bridle path to its


mysterious end, wherever it might be.

Efface - িন�াশন

Definition: If something is erased or rubbed out, it has


been effaced. Teachers get annoyed to find that
someone has effaced the blackboard — even the
part clearly marked, "Do Not Erase!"

Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off

Example 1: It was as though Mona had once been


marked, but had since chosen to efface the
symbol—or to erase it.

Example 2: Brothers and sisters, newly men and


women, had to efface their sexual color and present

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plain miens.

Dictum - আেদশ

Definition: "You are what you eat" is a dictum, and so


is a law requiring you to curb your dog. A dictum is a
formal pronouncement, a rule, or a statement that
expresses a truth universally acknowledged.

Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so

Example 1: And if even the people who are familiar


with the dictum don’t know what it means, how could
the world be “simpler” if it were true?

Example 2: I have heard it said another way, as a


dictum: ‘‘He who is less than just is less than man.”

Candor - অকপট

Definition: Candor usually means the quality of being


open, honest, and sincere. If someone tells you they
think you're boring, you might reply with, "While I
appreciate your candor, I don't think we need to be
friends anymore."

Synonyms: candidness, candour, directness,


forthrightness, frankness

Example 1: After all the secrecy that had come before,


it was very strange indeed—in fact it was thrilling—to
be spoken to with such candor and trust.

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Example 2: One of the women from the agency told


me with typical slave-market candor that he and I
were “the weirdest-looking couple” she had ever
seen.

Fetter - েগাড়ািল বা পােয়র জন� িবেশষ েশকল

Definition: A fetter is a shackle or chain that is


attached to someone’s ankles. To fetter someone is
to restrict their movement, either literally or
metaphorically. You might feel fettered by your
parents' rules, even without the chains.

Synonyms: hobble

Example 1: No refuge between those black stalks,


even if she weren’t fettered.

Example 2: The men who’d been chained had to stay


with us, because they had to get rid of the fetters on
their ankles before they could go anywhere.

Indict - অিভযু�

Definition: If you accuse someone of committing an


offense, you indict them. A book that indicts the entire
education system might lay out all the reasons that
schools are failing kids.

Synonyms: accuse, charge

Example 1: When, on November 24, 2014, it was


announced that the St. Louis County Grand Jury had

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decided not to indict Wilson for the fatal shooting,


Ferguson became the source of mass protests.

Example 2: “Where is that bus driver? He must be


indicted immediately.”

Hobble - ব�হত করা, পােয় বাধা ভার

Definition:When you hobble, you walk awkwardly or


unsteadily because you're in pain. You might wipe
out on your bike and then hobble back home,
pushing it in front of you.

Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp

Example 1: Every day, I got up really early and


hobbled over to my truck that was sitting in the
garage.

Example 2: The donkey hobbled away placidly on


three legs, to crop the ferns at the edge of the road.

Canard - ই�াকৃত িব�াি�কর বােনায়াট

Definition: During a political campaign, you will often


hear on TV commercials some canard about the
opponent. This is a false, deluding statement
designed to confuse the voters, as it presents the
other candidate in a bad light by spreading an
untruth.

Synonyms: fable, fabrication, fiction

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Example 1: Anonymous: The whole “my problems


aren’t bad enough” argument against therapy is a
canard.

Example 2: Detrick, Md. But that canard required


bribing obscure journalists in remote countries and
took decades to reach a wide audience.

Gall - িপ�

Definition: Gall describes something irritating, like


someone very rude. If you barge into a bakery and
cut in front of a sweet old lady, then you have gall.

Synonyms: bile

Example 1:Dad had enough gall to be divided into


three parts, and the ability and poise to backstop the
front he placed before the world.

Example 2: She was right, he knew, though it galled


him that she would make that decision 1 should never
have come to the ball, he realized belatedly.

Cerebral - ম��� সং�া�

Definition: If you are a cerebral person, no one would


ever call you a drama queen. You make decisions
using your intelligence and cold, hard facts, instead
of your emotions.

Synonyms: analytical

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Example 1: There are many valleys in the mountains


of the mind, convolutions that greatly increase the
surface area available in the cerebral cortex for
information storage in a skull of limited size.

Example 2: That is why our brainstem is surrounded


by the R-complex, then the limbic system and finally
the cerebral cortex.

Demeanor - হাবভাব

Definition: Your demeanor is defined as being either


your facial appearance or your behavior. When
playing poker, don't let your demeanor give away
how good your cards are.

Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct,


demeanour, deportment

Example 1: She cuts herself off, and her whole


demeanor changes.

Example 2: As we gather up our bags to move on,


Safaa looks uncertain, in contrast to her earlier
demeanor.

Defunct - িবলু�

Definition: Defunct describes something that used to


exist, but is now gone. A magazine that no longer
publishes, like Sassy, the girl-power mag from the
'90s, is defunct, for example.

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Synonyms: alien, disaffect, estrange

Example 1: I neither wanted to offend the secretaries


nor alienate my new colleague, so I settled on what
seemed to me the most prudent course of action: I
declined to have any tea at all.

Example 2: If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier,


even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my
own colleagues.

Abstruse - িবমূত �

Definition: Abstruse things are difficult to understand


because they are so deep and intellectually
challenging. It might be hard to figure out how a
toilet flushes but the technology that goes into
making the Internet function is abstruse.

Synonyms: deep, recondite

Example 1: We appreciate the abstruse concept of


equations breaking down through an example,
division by zero, which we can understand for
ourselves in either of two ways.

Example 2: Blacks and whites alike scratched their


heads at Grabarek’s abstruse testimony, but it was
clear the mayor was no friend of Fuller.

Artless - িশ�হীন

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Definition: Yes, artless could mean lacking in art, but


more often it means lacking in superficiality or deceit.
An artless person could never make a living as a con
artist.

Synonyms: careless, natural

Example 1: He found him shooting jump shots from


the top of the key, hard, artless shots with almost no
arch.

Example 2: “You want something?” said Gloria, eyes


wide in an apparently artless complexity that fooled
her huge “nursemaid” not at all.

feckless - িনেবাধ

Definition: If a newspaper editorial describes a


politician as feckless, you might wonder, "What is
feck, and why doesn’t he have any?” In fact, the
columnist is accusing the politician of being
irresponsible and incompetent.

Synonyms: inept, incompetent

Example 1: McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker,


adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.

Example 2: Francisco Pizarro, now governor of Peru,


was learning that to avoid outbreaks of feckless
violence he needed to keep his men occupied at all
times.

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Eulogize - �শংসা করা

Definition: To eulogize someone is to talk about how


much you respect and admire them, especially as a
memorial after their death. At funerals, sometimes
several people eulogize the deceased person.

Synonyms: eulogise

Example 1: For a moment, before he receded from


history, too, White was eulogized as a good man who
had solved the murders of the Osage.

Example 2: When the time came for the mourners to


come up and eulogize him, no one stirred.

Belabor - েজাের �হার করা

Definition: Belabor means to go at something with


everything you've got. When you say, "Don't belabor
or agonize over the decision," it means, "Move on."

Synonyms: beat, beat up, work over

Example 1:Too many connectives can make it seem


as if an author is belaboring the obvious or
patronizing the reader, and it can give prose a
pedantic feel.

Example 2: Then they could hear it coughing and


whining on its single belabored engine.

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Genteel - ভ�

Definition: Although the adjective genteel means


high-class and refined, it is often used today in a
somewhat mocking tone, as though good manners
and elegance are passé. Still, it would be nice if more
people were a little more genteel.

Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured,


polite

Example 1: You probably do not know much about


this, because you have always been so closely
watched by your father in that well-guarded house
with your genteel mother.

Example 2: Mother’s shyness and ladylike demeanor


had a quieting effect on him, and he was displaying
his most genteel behavior.

Agrarian - কৃিষজীবী

Definition: Use the word agrarian to describe


something related to fields, farming, or rural matters.
The school calendar is still based on the old agrarian
calendar, when children needed to be off during the
summer to help with planting and harvesting.

Synonyms: agricultural, farming

Example 1: Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral


civilization, with less culture and less people would be
better

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Example 1: We were agrarian, unsophisticated,


industrious people, Jews and Christians alike, whose
lives revolved around family, our religious calendars,
and the seasons of sowing and reaping.

Amalgam - সংিম�ণ বা িম�ণ

Definition: In science, when you mix a metal with


mercury to soften it, you create an amalgam.
Otherwise, an amalgam is simply a combination of
two or more unlike things into one.

Synonyms: dental amalgam

Example 1: Few spoke English, and the lingua franca


was an amalgam of many tongues known as
Fanagalo.

Example 2: They are a nocturnal amalgam of social


event and business meeting.

Feigned - �তারণা করা, েভজাল

Definition: Feigned is an adjective that means "not


genuine," like your feigned interest in your friends'
discussion of celebrity hairstyle trends.

Synonyms: insincere

Example 1: He had always feigned a confidence that


made him seem older, but now his vulnerability
revealed the truth.

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Example 2: I feigned shock, but truthfully, since I’m so


sick and opportunistic, I was happy to hear it.

Flounder - রাঘব েবায়াল

Definition: A flounder is a flat fish with both eyes on


one side of its head; and, as a verb, to flounder is to
wobble around like a fish out of water.

Synonyms: stagger

Example 1: Dr. Frankenstein thought the castle wasn’t


flammable, but the villagers proved him wrong.
flounder/founder.

Example 2: “Not another word. It’s too typical.


Permitting this anal compulsive to flounder like that.”

Pedantic - িবচারবু��হীন প��তসুলভ

Definition: There's nothing wrong with focusing on the


details, but someone who is pedantic makes a big
display of knowing obscure facts and details.

Synonyms: academic, donnish

Example 1: Because Ollie might be pedantic and


boring, but he could never be a Nazi.

Example 2: I used to tease him about being pedantic

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Reproof - িতর�ার

Definition: A reproof is a negative comment,


reprimand, or rebuke. Even the nicest kindergarten
teacher in the world will give his students a reproof if
they won't stop laughing and running around the
classroom.

Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproval

Example 1: Milo looked at him with reproof and turned


back to his work.

Example 2: The old woman’s voice was so lacking in


command and reproof, so full of crumbling
dissolution,—that Janie half believed that Nanny had
not seen her.

Beatific - আন�ময়

Definition: That blissful grin on your face? It could be


described as beatific, meaning it projects a peaceful
sense of joy.

Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike,


saintly

Example 1: Tsukiko takes a glass of champagne from


a stunned waiter, giving him a beatific smile before
returning to the ballroom.

Example 2: Later, he would say that I gave him a


beatific smile.

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Askance - সে�হ বা অস�িত সহ

Definition: You may have trouble watching a gory


horror movie, but you also won't be able to look away.
Find a happy medium by looking askance, or subtly
out of the corner of your eye.

Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint,


squint-eyed, squinty

Example 1: "You here for the funeral?" he asks Lev,


looking askance at the fringes hanging from his
waist.

Example 2: She looks at me askance, trying to tell if


I’m trying to get away with something or if I’m for real.

Enthrall - মু� করা

Definition: When something is so fascinating that it


holds all your attention, it is said to enthrall —
whether it's a thrilling action-adventure film, a
breathtaking work of art, or even the person you have
a crush on.

Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral,


ravish, transport

Example 1: Even now, having been tortured and


imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark wizard
in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as
much as it repulsed him.

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Example 2: But I think Winterbottom wants the


audience to share a bit of Coogan's restlessness and
exasperation at Brydon's nonstop mimicry, and his
envy at his friend's ability to enthrall two young
women with his impressions.

Bemuse - হতবু�� করা

Definition:To bemuse is to confuse or puzzle. You


could bemuse your teacher by writing an essay as a
series of haikus, but don’t. Usually a bemused
teacher is not a happy one.

Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw

Example 1: Their guns were raised, but their voices


were more bemused and curious than aggressive.

Example 2: He seemed bemused by my casual


reference to his secret realities.

Germane - �াসি�ক

Definition: Germane means relevant; it fits in. If you


are giving a speech on dog training, stick to the
germane, canine stuff. Topics that would not be
germane? Catnip toys, hamster wheels, and the use
of a saddle.

Synonyms: relevant

Example 1: Any sound that was not germane to the


night would make them alert.

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Example 2: Example 1: A point that Aristotle makes


that is particularly germane here is that arguments
are made from accepted premises—“and many
accepted premises are mutually contradictory.”

Marshal - সেবা�
� পদমযাদার
� সামিরক কমকত�
� া

Definition: A federal marshal knocks on your door.


You panic: a marshal is a law officer. What do you
do? You marshal your thoughts, that is, put them in
order.

Synonyms: marshall

Example 1: There on the wide flats beside the noisy


river were marshalled in many companies well nigh
five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and
many hundreds of other men with spare horses
lightly burdened.

Example 2: President Cleveland ordered federal


troops to Chicago and placed them under the
command of General Nelson A. Miles, previously the
grand marshal of the exposition.

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Caustic - দ�কারক পদাথ �

Definition: Use the adjective caustic to describe any


chemical that is able to burn living tissue or other
substances, or, figuratively, a statement that has a
similarly burning effect. Caustic in this sense means
harshly critical.

Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic

Example 1: In the middle years of the seventeenth


century experience stopped being something that
accorded naturally with the statements of previous
authorities and became a caustic solvent of fabulous
beliefs.

Example 2: If Kilvin’s demonstration was any


indication, I guessed the whole shop could be a sea
of flame and caustic fog in less than a minute.

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