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

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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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