Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Rancid

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Rancid
- Having an unpleasant stale taste or smell as the result of decomposition
- Highly unpleasant; repugnant.

Image Credits : Giant Sloth
Usage:
- An unscrupulous food vendor who's as rancid as the meat that he serves.
- Without preservatives, fat goes rancid.
- Ravi is one of an estimated 300,000 rag pickers who spend their days sifting through piles of rancid garbage in Delhi's capital.
- Seeds like sunflower and poppy also get rancid quickly so buy just what you intend on consume immediately.

Friday, 9 January 2015

Archipelago

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Archipelago
- An expanse of water with many scattered islands
- A sea or stretch of water having many islands.

Man-made Archipelagos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Image Credits : NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center 
Usage:
-  In recent years, Indonesia carriers have place orders for hundreds of new commercial jets from Boeing and Airbus and increased flights across the archipelago nation.

-  The sprawling archipelago nation of 250 million people is one of Asia's most rapidly expanding airline markets, but is struggling to provide enough qualified pilots, mechanics, air traffic controllers and updated airport technology to ensure safety.

Thursday, 8 January 2015

Brouhaha

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Brouhaha
- A noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something.
- An episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., especially a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause.

Image Credits : Lotus Carroll
Usage:
- After the initial brouhaha, things got pretty quiet again.
- The IIT Roorkee lipstick brouhaha is just another in the series of incidents resulting from the perennial conflict between the old and the new.