Dr. Vocab Sahil Mittal Sir™®

2022-05-17 04:55:33 Disprove - verb prove to be false

Detractor - noun one who disparages or belittles the worth of something

Adage - noun a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

pitchfork - noun a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay; verb lift with a pitchfork

Turmoil - noun disturbance usually in protest; violent agitation

Contend - verb maintain or assert; be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

Revive - verb restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength

Abolish - verb do away with

erstwhile - adj. belonging to some prior time; adv. at a previous time

resent - verb feel bitter or indignant about; wish ill or allow unwillingly

viable - adj. capable of life or normal growth and development; capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

consortium - noun an association of companies for some definite purpose

squander - verb spend extravagantly; spend thoughtlessly; throw away Open / Comment

2022-05-17 03:35:15 Crisis and opportunity: On Sri Lanka political crisis

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/crisis-and-opportunity/article65419450.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-16 07:57:35 ANSWERS

1. C
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. E
8. A
9. C
10. A
11. A
12. E
13. E Open / Comment

2022-05-16 07:50:25 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).


1. insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising

A. cede
B. Strategic
C. rebellion
D. retaliation
E. Ripple

2. strategical

A. Strategic
B. setback
C. Hostile
D. Let up
E. Bastion

3. rippling, riffle, wavelet, ruffle, cockle, undulate, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle

A. Ripple
B. Let up
C. setback
D. Agnosticism
E. rebellion

4. polarize

A. Hostile
B. Ripple
C. Agnosticism
D. Polarise
E. Strategic

5. skepticism, scepticism

A. Agnosticism
B. Let up
C. Strategic
D. intent
E. retaliation

6. surrender, deliver, give up, concede, yield, grant

A. Polarise
B. Agnosticism
C. cede
D. sore
E. Bastion

7. uncongenial, unfriendly

A. Polarise
B. rebellion
C. Ripple
D. setback
E. Hostile

8. purport, spirit, purpose, intention, aim, design, captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, wrapped

A. intent
B. Bastion
C. Agnosticism
D. Polarise
E. Strategic

9. huffy, mad, sensitive, raw, tender, afflictive, painful

A. intent
B. Let up
C. sore
D. Ripple
E. cede

10. citadel

A. Bastion
B. Hostile
C. intent
D. cede
E. Polarise

11. ease up, ease off, abate, slack off, slack, die away

A. Let up
B. retaliation
C. Strategic
D. Ripple
E. setback

12. reverse, reversal, blow, black eye

A. Polarise
B. sore
C. Hostile
D. cede
E. setback

13. revenge

A. sore
B. Bastion
C. Agnosticism
D. cede
E. retaliation Open / Comment

2022-05-16 06:30:20 Fuel to fire: On Finland joining NATO

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/fuel-to-fire-the-hindu-editorial-on-finland-joining-nato/article65416755.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-14 19:44:42 CDS/NDA/CAPF

Offline Session at 9.30 AM

15 May 2022

Mukherjee Nagar Open / Comment

2022-05-14 08:33:15 ANSWERS

1. D
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. D
11. A
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. C Open / Comment

2022-05-14 08:23:48 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).


1. obstinate, unregenerate, refractory

A. Rescind
B. Comply
C. Reluctance
D. Stubborn
E. Traverse

2. straighten out, see the light, reclaim, regenerate, rectify

A. Staple
B. Counterpart
C. Reform
D. Reluctant
E. Dilute

3. revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, vacate

A. Mandatory
B. Glitch
C. Rescind
D. Naive
E. Outbreak

4. staple fiber, staple fibre, basic, raw material

A. Staple
B. Outbreak
C. Stubborn
D. Mandatory
E. Summit

5. similitude, twin, opposite number, vis-a-vis

A. Rescind
B. Stubborn
C. Counterpart
D. Naive
E. Staple

6. deny, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across, traversal, transom, trave, crossbeam, crosspiece, span, sweep

A. Traverse
B. Outbreak
C. Rescind
D. Summit
E. Counterpart

7. eruption, irruption

A. Naive
B. Outbreak
C. Reluctance
D. Dilute
E. Glitch

8. hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition

A. Staple
B. Outbreak
C. Rescind
D. Reluctance
E. Dilute

9. mandate, mandatary, compulsory, required

A. Staple
B. Glitch
C. Summit
D. Mandatory
E. Traverse

10. bug

A. Strengthen
B. Naive
C. Summit
D. Glitch
E. Staple

11. thin, thin out, reduce, cut, adulterate, stretch, debase, diluted

A. Dilute
B. Reluctance
C. Traverse
D. Counterpart
E. Stubborn

12. summit meeting, peak, crown, crest, top, tip, acme, height, elevation, pinnacle, superlative, meridian, tiptop

A. Summit
B. Comply
C. Reluctance
D. Reluctant
E. Naive

13. loath, loth

A. Reluctant
B. Strengthen
C. Naive
D. Staple
E. Comply

14. follow, abide by

A. Reform
B. Summit
C. Reluctance
D. Comply
E. Counterpart

15. naif, uninitiate, uninitiated, uninstructed, unenlightened, primitive

A. Counterpart
B. Mandatory
C. Naive
D. Strengthen
E. Traverse

16. beef up, fortify, tone, tone up

A. Strengthen
B. Stubborn
C. Reluctance
D. Reluctant
E. Counterpart Open / Comment

2022-05-14 07:26:23 Reform - noun a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; verb change for the better; make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; break up the molecules of; produce by cracking; bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Outbreak - noun a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)

Summit - noun a meeting of heads of governments; the top point of a mountain or hill; the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; verb reach the summit of a mountain

Strengthen - verb gain strength; make strong or stronger; give a healthy elasticity to


Reluctant - adj. not eager; unwilling to become involved; unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom


Stubborn - adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield; not responding to treatment


Mandatory - adj. required by rule; noun a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves; the recipient of a mandate
Comply - verb act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes

Counterpart - noun a duplicate copy; a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another

Staple - adj. necessary foods or commodities; noun paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together; a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables; a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn; (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant; material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing; verb secure or fasten with a staple or staples

Rescind - verb annul by recalling or rescinding

Reluctance - noun a certain degree of unwillingness; (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)

Traverse - noun travel across; taking a zigzag path on skis; a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it; a horizontal beam that extends across something; verb deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit; travel across or pass over; to cover or extend over an area or time period

Glitch - noun a fault or defect in a system or machine

Naive - adj. inexperienced; marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; lacking information or instruction; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

Dilute - adj. reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; verb lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones Open / Comment

2022-05-14 07:07:50 Reforming WHO

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/reforming-who-the-hindu-editorial-on-enhancing-the-un-bodys-ability-to-respond-to-disease-outbreaks/article65410794.ece Open / Comment