Broach

Broach
- To raise a difficult subject for discussion.

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Usage:
- He broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening.
- Latin Grammy organizers asked press not to broach political topics at awards ceremony.

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Laggard

Laggard
- Slower than desired or expected.
- Lagging or tending to lag

Adoption Curve

Usage:
- London Is Becoming the U.K.'s Laggard in the Housing Market.
- Canada a laggard as world's firms wake up to digital disruption.
- As compared to other major emerging economies, India is a clear laggard in female labour force participation

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Beseech

Beseech
- To make an urgent appeal.
- To beg someone for something.

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Usage:
- Delta farmers beseech high level team for water to save wilting crops.
- Senators Beseech Obama Not to Turn Against Israel at UN.

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Chastise

Chastise
- To criticize someone severely
- To inflict punishment on

Chastised : He'd been running on the hillside and off the paths in the wallaby enclosure, which is not allowed.
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Usage:
- Local GOP candidates chastise Trump for his vulgar comments.
- Doctors Without Borders chastises Pfizer for refusing to lower vaccine price.

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Rescind

Rescind
- Rescind is an official reversal.
- Revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

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Usage:
- Iowa Republicans denounce Trump but do not rescind support.
- The navy rescinded its ban on women sailors.

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Swathe

Swathe
- A long strip or large area especially of land:
- To bandage a wound, limb, etc, esp completely. [In Medicine]

LEFT : Swathes of flowers spread across; RIGHT : Baby swathed up.
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Usage:
- The militants controlled a swathe of land around the size of Belgium, but army has recaptured most of the territory.
- Swathe a baby up and you're creating a little cocoon where she can sleep.

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Intersperse

Intersperse
- Scatter among or between other things; place here and there.

This stack of delicate green tea flavored crepes interspersed with light cream is an absolute delight.
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Usage:
- October can see stock market gains interspersed with sharp volatility from swings in election forecast.
- The debate was interspersed with angry exchanges.

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Altruism

Altruism
- Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.

Woman and child giving sticky rice to the monks.
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Usage:
- An altruistic firefighter risks his life to save another's life, while an altruistic mom gives up the last bite of pie so her kid will be happy.
- Someone who is altruistic always puts others first.

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Eerie

Eerie
- Strange and mysterious
- Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

Eerie Eyes
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Usage:
- Dull, Eerie Silence on the Streets of Kashmir On the Eve of Eid.
- Wind Blowing Over Bridges Produces Eerie sounds

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Wry

Wry
- Making a clever comment or witty observation
- In a humorously sarcastic or mocking manner

Wry Smile
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Usage:
- Reliance Jio was wryly described by competitors and its owner as a 20 billion dollar start-up.
- Stephen Colbert wryly recaps Donald Trump's meticulously scripted black-outreach trip to Detroit.

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Imbroglio

Imbroglio
- An imbroglio is a complicated or confusing situation.
- Unwanted, difficult, and confusing situation.

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Usage:
- We do not expect the current imbroglio to impact its core business and key customers.
- Home minister will bring all the four mainstream political parties of the state on one platform to find a way out of the current Kashmir imbroglio and restore normalcy.

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Jingoism

Jingoism
- Extreme chauvinism or nationalism
- Patriotism can turn into jingoism and intolerance very quickly.

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Usage:
- Regional jingoism in Karnataka degenerated into attacks on Tamil families and premier schools run by Tamil managements in Bengaluru.
- Loudmouthed jingoism will not win us any foreign allies.

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Concussion

Concussion
- A hard blow or collision
- An injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.

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Usage:
- She suffered a severe concussion after falling on the ice.
- Kids, sport, concussion, and the long lasting effects of minor brain injury. [News Article]

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Nonchalant

Nonchalant
- Relaxed and calm
- Coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual.

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Usage:
- Danger still lurks as city administration remains nonchalant.
- Her sincere and nonchalant attitude struck a chord with me.

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Belabour

Belabour  
- To beat severely
- To attack verbally; criticize harshly

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Usage:
- I don’t think we need to belabour the matter again. We need to find a solution and get the factory running back.
- [Cricket Commentary] Hales rocks back to belabour his first delivery down the ground for four.

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Pioneer

Pioneer
- One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development
- To be one of the first people to do something new.

Anthony Levandowski said he had no regrets selling his pioneer self-driving startup to Google.Image Credits : Alan

Usage:
- The General Hospital is pioneering a new treatment for the illness.
- He was the pioneer of World Wide Web.

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Ephemeral

Ephemeral
- Lasting a very short time; short-lived.
- Anything short-lived.

Ephemeral beauty of a dandelion in it's 'puffball' seed form
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Usage:
- The public memory of an Olympic medal winner is ephemeral.
- Rahul Gandhi's guerrilla attacks and one-liners may have generated ephemeral interest in the party, but voters still do not have a clear reason for trusting the party, voting it back to power.

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Jettison

Jettison
- To throw off something as an obstacle or burden.
- To get rid of something

Image Credits : NASA Orion Spacecraft

Usage:
- Cisco to jettison 5500 jobs, will reinvest in cloud, IoT & more.
- Some boats need to jettison some of their cargo—even if it is valuable—just in order to stay afloat.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
-  A thing that becomes terrifying or destructive to its maker.

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Usage:
- In arming the dictator, the US was creating a Frankenstein.
- Seeing 'Frankenstein' through the lens of climate change

Origin :
From the novel, The Modern Prometheus, a story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Seethe

Seethe
- To feel or show strong emotion such as anger.
- To soak or saturate in a liquid

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Usage:
- We found ourselves in the middle of a seething crowd.
- Journalists seethe in anger over thrashing of colleagues under police watch.

Missive

Missive
- A letter or other written message, especially a long or official one.

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Usage:
- No Bouquets, Only 'Minimal Staff' To Receive Me: Air India Chief's Missive
- She received yet another lengthy missive from her father.

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Fumigate

Fumigate
- To remove germs, insects, etc.
- To employ smoke or fumes in order to exterminate or disinfect.

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Usage:
- We had to fumigate the cellar to get rid of cockroaches.
- Rio 2016; The Brazilian authorities deployed thousands of soldiers to fumigate key areas.

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Oblivion

Oblivion
- The state of being completely forgotten.
- The act or process of dying out

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Usage:
- GST will push these taxes into oblivion.
- After 20 years and pocket internet, cyber cafes consigned to oblivion.

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Tangible & Intangible

Tangible & Intangible
- Real or actual, rather than imaginary .
- Products are tangible and services are intangible in nature.

Tangible Things:
- When you can touch something, it's tangible.

Intangible Things:
Honesty, Goodwill, Brand Image, Feeling Secure, etc.

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Usage:
- He had no tangible achievement to show for his leadership after one year.
- I need tangible proof that aliens exist — I want to shake their little green hands!
- We need tangible evidence if we're going to take legal action.
- An intangible feeling of impending disaster.

Zephyr

Zephyr
- A gentle breeze
- A very slight or gentle wind

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Camaraderie

Camaraderie
- A feeling of good friendship among the people in a group
- A spirit of friendly good-fellowship

If I miss anything, it's the camaraderie of old friends. 

Usage:
- Fun, camaraderie and buzz at Olympic staging camp.
- Sportsmanship and camaraderie on full display at Little League state tournament.

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Perplex

Perplex
- To make someone feel completely baffled.
- To make complicated or confused.

A girl perplexed by her phone or is it her mirror image?
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Usage:
- Saturn's rings perplex astronomers again.
- Trump Policies Perplex Asia

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Contemplate

Contemplate
- To consider something thoroughly.
- To view or consider with continued attention.

Contemplating Religion.
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Usage:
- Brexit: Time to Celebrate or Contemplate?
- Manufacturers contemplate exit as production cost rises by over 50 per cent.

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