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🟠🟠Today's The Indian Express Vocabulary🟠🟠

✅ Degenerate- to become worse, lower in quality, etc

✅ Construe- to understand the meaning of something in a particular way.

✅ Cobble- a small round stone used to cover road surfaces

✅ Acquiescence- the act of accepting or agreeing to something, often unwillingly

✅ Myriad- a countless or extremely great number of people or things.

✅ Ubiquitous- existing or being everywhere at the same time

✅ Jettison- to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed

✅ Provenance- the place of origin of something

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✅ Adverse- making something difficult for somebody; having a negative or harmful effect on something

✅ Ramification- a complex or unwelcome consequence of an action or event; the possible result of a decision or action

✅ Maul- (usually used about a wild animal) to attack and injure somebody

✅ Prowl- to move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard, such as an animal does when hunting

✅ Stray- to move away from a place where you should be or from a direction in which you should go

✅ Tranquilize- to make a person or an animal calm or unconscious, especially by giving him/her/it a drug.

✅ Erratic- changing suddenly & unexpectedly; moving or behaving in a way that is not regular, certain, or expected

✅ Inadvertently- in a way that is not intentional

✅ Truism- a statement that is so obvious or said so often that its truth is not questioned

✅ Wily- clever at getting what you want

✅ Transcend- to go further, rise above, or be more important or better than something, especially a limit

✅ Heyday- a period of great success, popularity, or power

✅ Sober- not drunk or affected by alcohol; not funny; serious

✅ Ruffle- to make something untidy or no longer smooth; to make somebody annoyed or confused

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✅ Groundswell- an increase in a particular opinion among a large section of the population.

✅ Ostensibly- in a way that appears or claims to be one thing when it is really something else

✅ Assuage- to make an unpleasant feeling less strong.

✅ Plague- to cause somebody/something a lot of trouble

✅ Indelible- that cannot be removed or washed out.

✅ Annals- an official record of events or activities year by year; historical records

✅ Contingent- a group of people from the same country, organization, etc. who are attending an event; a group of armed forces forming part of a larger force.

✅ Exertion- the use of a lot of mental or physical effort

✅ Eternal- existing or continuing for ever; lasting forever, or seeming to be without end

✅ Quintessential- being the perfect example of something

✅ vex- to annoy or to make somebody feel worried

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✅ Shattered- very shocked and upset; very tired

✅ Degenerate- to become worse, lower in quality, etc.

✅ Ruin- to spoil or destroy something completely

✅ Rasping- to make a rough unpleasant sound, especially while breathing or speaking

✅ Appalling- shocking and very bad

✅ Timidity- the quality of being shy and nervous

✅ Intriguing- very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious

✅ Inadvertent- (used about actions) done without thinking, not on purpose; not intentional

✅ Veracity- the quality of being true, honest, or accurate

✅ Indict- to officially charge somebody with a crime.

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✅ Embroil- involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.

✅ Emanate- to produce or show something; to come out from a source;

✅ Scupper- sink (a ship or its crew) deliberately

✅ Purported- that has been stated to be true or to have happened, although this may not be the case

✅ Formidable- causing you to be quite frightened; difficult to deal with; needing a lot of effort.

✅ Dodge- to move quickly in order to avoid somebody/something; a clever way of avoiding something

✅ Contrived- hard to believe; not natural or realistic

✅ Heaved a sigh of relief- to relax because something one has been worrying about is not a problem or danger anymore

✅ Ardent- showing strong feeling; passionate & enthusiastic

✅ Abysmally- in an extreme and bad way

✅ Eloquent- able to use language and express your opinions well, especially when you speak in public; giving clear and strong message