🟠🟠Top ten most populous countries in the world in 2023

✅ India

✅ China

✅ USA

✅ Indonesia

✅ Pakistan

✅ Nigeria

✅ Brazil

✅ Bangladesh

✅ Russia

✅ Mexico

🟠🟠Today's The Indian Express Vocabulary🟠🟠

✅ Abridge- to make something shorter by removing parts of it

✅ Ordain- to make somebody a priest of the Church.

✅ Concord- peace and agreement

✅ Pale- not bright or strong in colour

✅ Cohort- a group of people with a shared characteristic; divide (people) into groups with shared characteristics.

✅ Embellish- to make something more beautiful by adding decoration to it; to make a story more interesting by adding details that are not always true

✅ Drag- to move something by pulling it along a surface, usually the ground

✅ Debacle- an event or situation that is a complete failure and causes embarrassment

✅ Harp on- to keep talking about something in a boring or annoying way.

✅ Vilification- the act of saying or writing unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of them

✅ Congruence- agreement or harmony; compatibility.

✅ Exponent- a person who supports an idea, a theory, etc. and persuades others that it is good.

✅ Reverence- a feeling of great respect.

✅ Seminal- (used about an article, book, etc.) original, important and having great influence on future developments

✅ Sterling- of very high quality

🟠🟠Today's The Indian Express Vocabulary🟠🟠

✅ Scuttle- to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape; to stop something happening or to cause a plan to fail

✅ Perpetrator- a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.

✅ Contemplate- to think carefully about something or the possibility of doing something

✅ Agony- great pain or suffering.

✅ Transpire- to become known; to be shown to be true; to happen

✅ Circumspection- the quality of being careful not to take risks

✅ Poignant- causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness

✅ Trammel- to limit somebody’s freedom of movement or action

✅ Travesty- something that fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent, in a way that is shocking or offensive

✅ Conundrum- a confusing and difficult problem or question

✅ Enunciate- to say or pronounce words or part of words clearly; to express an idea clearly

✅ Exhortation- — the act of strongly encouraging or trying to persuade someone to do something

✅ Banishment- the act/ punishment of sending someone or something away from a place and not allowing them to come back

✅ Concomitant- naturally accompanying or associated