Swarm

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Swarm
- A large or dense group of flying insects.
- An aggregation of persons or animals, especially when moving in mass.

Magical ever changing shapes of the swarming starlings.
Image Credits : Gail

Usage:
- During the summer, tourists swarm the little beach-side town.
- The dead sheep was covered with swarms of flies.

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Juxtapose

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Juxtapose
- To place side by side for comparison.

Usage:
- The premiere attempts to juxtapose the good and the bad of online daters.
- A display that juxtaposes modern art with classical art

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Impregnable

#137
Impregnable
- Impossible to capture or enter by force.
- Strong enough to resist or withstand attack.

The old intra-mural city of Manila is surrounded by a parapeted wall which, at the time it was built, was considered to be one of the most impregnable fortifications in the world.
Image Credits : John Tewell 

Usage:
- Apple Inc Claims Its New iPhones Are Impregnable.
- Each clan added such wonderful innovations to the fort’s defences that Daulatabad was considered virtually impregnable.
- Cook’s fortitude and defence looked impregnable.

Alacrity

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Alacrity
- A quick and cheerful readiness to do something.
- Speed or quickness

She accepted the invitation with an alacrity
Photo Credits : SOMBILON PHOTOGRAPHY

Usage:
- She accepted the invitation with an alacrity that surprised me.
- He had an alacrity of spirit that helped minimize the weight he carries.

Up The Ante

#135
Up The Ante
- To raise the cost or risk of an activity
- Increase the stakes at risk, especially in conflict.

Ready to Up The Ante..??
Image Credits : Images Money

Usage:
- Rival brands up the ante as Maggi relaunch nears in India.
- Halloween ups the ante on holiday spending.
- Obama ups the ante in Syria with TOW missiles.

Eke

#134
Eke
- Manage to make a living with difficulty.
- To get with great difficulty

Image Credits :  Shahrokh Dabiri 

Usage:
- The remains of yesterday's stew could be eked out to make another meal.
- Indices eke out a gain but stocks still groping for momentum.
- They managed to eke out a living by farming a small piece of land.

Magnum Opus

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Magnum Opus
- The greatest single work of an artist, writer, or composer.
- A great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist

The Hound of Baskervilles is the magnum opus of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Usage:
- 'Bahubali' Rajamouli's magnum opus is a classic example of captivating storytelling.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s magnum opus has been radically redefined while still keeping to his roots and that in itself is amazing.

Embalm

Embalm
- To treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs
- To keep unchanged.

Embalming fluids used in the early 20th century.

Usage:
- Kalam's body has been taken to the military hospital for embalming.
- Embalming Fluid Exposure Puts Funeral Directors at Risk for ALS

Dreary

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Dreary
- Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
- Causing sadness or gloom.

Just another dreary rainy day.
Image Credits : Carnie Lewis

Usage:
- I finished my work, there was nothing on TV, and the rain just wouldn't stop: what a dreary day!
- Jazz fest shines brightly on dreary day

Perusal

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Perusal
- The action of reading or examining something.
- The act of perusing; survey; scrutiny:

Usage:
- Lawyer Calls for Perusal of the plan Before Ratification
- Perusal of the main parties’ manifestos shows no one is offering more liberty.

Petrify

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Petrify
- Paralyse with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion.
- To convert into stone or a stony substance.

Petrified Wood at The Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Image Credits : Paul Cooper

Usage:
- They are petrified as the town is under attack.
- The tragedy in his life petrified his emotions.

Triage

#128
Triage
-  The process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition, when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately.
- Any system for prioritizing based on available resources, manpower, etc., as in an emergency

Triage Tag at a hospital.
Image Credits : Kieran

Usage:
- Apart from the crashes there are other blocker issues that need to be triaged. [Engineering perspective]
- The triage nurse will keep people in the waiting room informed of any change in the waiting time.

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.

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.

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.