Dear Readers,
Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few lines from The Hindu.
Example: Reviving the joy of snail mail, the world’s highest post office is on every tourist’s bucket list.
1. Bucket list
Noun: a list of things a person wants to achieve or experience, as before reaching a certain age or dying.
Example: His tiny post office is overrun by thousands of instant converts to snail mail, busy penning souvenir missives to kin and friends.
2. Overrun [verb oh-ver-ruhn; noun oh-ver-ruhn]
Verb: to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage; to swarm over in great numbers, as animals, especially vermin; infest; to spread or grow rapidly over, as plants, especially vines, weeds, etc.; to attack and defeat decisively, occupying and controlling the enemy’s position; overwhelm.
Synonyms: massacre, occupy, overwhelm, raid, rout, swamp, beat, clobber, drub, foray, inroad, lambaste.
Antonyms: underwhelm, lose, surrender, evacuate.
3. Souvenir [soo-vuh-neer, soo-vuh-neer]
Noun: a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento; a memory.
Synonyms: gift, memento, relic, trophy, memorial, remembrance, reminder, token, remembrancer.
4. Missive [mis-iv]
Noun: a written message; letter.
Adjective: sent or about to be sent, especially of a letter from an official source.
Synonyms: memo, memorandum, dispatch, epistle, letter, line, message.
Antonym: silence, speech.
5. Kin [kin]
Noun: a person’s relatives collectively; kinfolk; family relationship or kinship; a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.
Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction.
Example: Nitish’s new team in the saddle in Bihar.
6. Saddle [sad-l]
Noun: a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal; a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc; a part of a harness laid across the back of an animal and girded under the belly, to which the terrets and checkhook are attached.
Idiom, in the saddle: in a position to direct or command; in control; at work; on the job.
Synonyms: howdah, packsaddle, pillion, seat.
Example: Rajasthan to set up eight business incubators.
7. Incubator [in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-]
Noun: an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially; an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care; an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.
Synonyms: incubator, breeding place.
Example: Heavy rain lashes Himachal Pradesh.
8. Lash [lash]
Noun: the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip; a swift stroke or blow, with a whip or the like, given as a punishment; something that goads or pains in a manner compared to that of a whip; a swift dashing or sweeping movement, as of an animal’s tail; switch; a violent beating or impact, as of waves or rain, against something.
Verb: to strike or beat, as with a whip or something similarly slender and flexible; to beat violently or sharply against; to drive by or as if by strokes of a whip.
Synonyms: batter, buffet, chastise, knock, pummel, smack, baste, dash, drum, flagellate, flay, flog, hammer, hide, hit.
Antonym: compliment, lose, praise.
Example: Tiger census on in Bangladesh Sundarbans.
9. Census [sen-suh s]
Noun: an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.; the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
Verb: to take a census of.
Synonyms: enumeration, poll, demographics, demography, statistics, population tally, stats.
Example: Gujarat wobble seems like getting sorted before the next election there.
10. Wobble [wob-uh l]
Verb: to incline to one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; to move unsteadily from side to side; to show unsteadiness; tremble; quaver.
Noun: a wobbling movement.
Synonyms: careen, falter, flounder, lurch, oscillate, quiver, reel, seesaw, shimmy, stumble, sway, teeter, totter, tremble.
Antonyms: be still, remain, stay, steady.
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