Wordsmith – D2G’s Glossary Ep 109

WORDSMITH

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1)Ancillary :Adjective, Noun
Meaning:  providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system.अधीनस्थ
Sentence: the development of ancillary services to support its products.

2)Deplorable: Adjective
Meaning: deserving strong condemnation.खेदजनक
Sentence: the deplorable conditions in which most prisoners are held.

3)Disown: Verb,
Meaning:refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with.अस्वीकार करना
Sentence: Howard’s rich family had disowned him because of his marriage.

4)Abstruse: Adjective
Meaning: difficult to understand; obscure.अव्यक्त
Sentence: an abstruse philosophical inquiry.

5)Artifice: Artifice
Meaning: clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.युक्ति
Sentence: artifice and outright fakery.

6)Abstemious: Adjective
Meaning: not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.संयमीnoun
Sentence: We only had a bottle.” “Very abstemious of you.

7)Ameliorate: Verb
Meaning: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.सुधारना
Sentence: the reform did much to ameliorate living standards.

8)Brace: Noun, Verb
Meaning: a device that clamps things tightly together or that gives support, in particular.सिकोड़ना
Sentence: a pair of something, typically of birds or mammals killed in hunting.

9)Lax: Adjective
Meaning: not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.
Sentence: lax security arrangements at the airport.

10)Exhume: Verb,
Meaning:dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground. पृथ्वी खोद कर निकालना
Sentence: The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter’s Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his