Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Collective Names for Animals

 Collective Names for Animals

A herd of cows, a pack of wolves…but what are groups of other animals called?

• Apes: a shrewdness

• Badgers: a cete

Thursday, December 5, 2019

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Friday, October 11, 2019

Word of the day - idées fixes - மனதில் ஆதிக்கம் செலுத்தும் ஒரு யோசனை

plural idées fixes\(ˌ)ē-ˌdā-ˈfēks\


: an idea that dominates one's mind especially for a prolonged period : An obsession, especially one that keeps intruding irrelevantly into other matters

மனதில் ஆதிக்கம் செலுத்தும் ஒரு யோசனை அல்லது ஆசை; ஒரு ஆவேசம்.

Origin

Frenchliterallyfixed idea.
First known use1836

Did you know?

The term idée fixe is a 19th-century French coinageFrench writer Honoré de Balzac used it in his 1830 novella Gobseck to describe an obsessive idea. By 1836Balzac's more generalized use of the term had carried over into Englishwhere idée fixe was embraced as a clinical and literary term for a persistent preoccupation or delusional idea that dominates a person's mindAlthough it is still used in both psychology and musicnowadays idée fixe is also applied to milder and more pedestrian obsessions.

Usage: Upon interrogation it was observed that all of them had common idée fixe.
No wonder he is successful, his goal was his idée fixe.

It's very uncommon for one to have multiple idée fixes.

We should be careful with people who transfer their idée fixes into us.



Friday, April 12, 2019

Word of the day - Volatile - எளிதில் ஆவியாகிற - 12-04-2019

Develop your vocabulary by learning a new word everyday

Word of the day - April 12th 2019

Volatile - vol-a-tile

Tamil : எளிதில் ஆவியாகிற

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Definition of volatile

 (Entry 1 of 2)
1acharacterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
(e.g. The shares or stock exchange is a volatile market )
bunable to hold the attention fixed because of an inherent lightness or fickleness of disposition
(e.g. The behavior of today's children are highly volatile)
Today's children exhibit a volatile temper.
2atending to erupt into violence EXPLOSIVE
beasily aroused
3
a substance that is readily vaporizable at relatively low temperature
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4difficult to capture or hold permanently EVANESCENTTRANSITORY
(e.g. My memory is highly volatile)
5flying or having the power to fly








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Word of the day - Despot - கொடுங்கோலன், கொடுங்கோல் அரசன் - 11-04-2019

Develop your vocabulary by learning a new word everyday

Word of the day - April 11th 2019

Despot - des-putt

Tamil : கொடுங்கோலன், கொடுங்கோல் அரசன்

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despot

noun
des·​pot | \ ˈdes-pət  -ˌpät\

Definition of despot


1aa ruler with absolute power and authoritytyrannical despots
bone exercising power tyrannically a person exercising absolute power in a brutal or oppressive way

2aByzantine emperor or prince
bChristianity a bishop or patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church
can Italian hereditary prince or military leader during the Renaissance
Noun:

  1. Historians regards the British rule as despot.
  2. After centuries of despotism, the country is now democratic.


Adjective :
The British ruled a despotic government/regime in India and other colonies.

Adverb :
After a military coup, the dictator ruled the country despotically.

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Courtesy: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/despot

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Top tips to read and speak English like a native speaker-Develop your Vocabulary

Practice Spoken English - Develop your Vocabulary-Through Newspapers



 
It’s a common advice that we receive from many others to develop the language or speak fluently in the language of our choice in this case English. If you happen to ask someone for advice the very next moment they would say is “Read newspaper” or few others would say “Read newspaper in front of the mirror”