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Year: 2019

• Meaning: An embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation.
• Example: I made some remark about his wife's family, and then realized I'd made a serious fauxpas.

• Meaning: Modern, New, Recent
• Example: It is all too neoteric and light for my humour.

• Meaning: Combining different religions, cultures, or ideas
• Example: These elements point to syncretic architectural practices.

• Meaning: Usage of a wrong or inappropriate name
• Example: The name "Greenland" is a misnomer, since much of the island is covered by a massive ice sheet.

• Meaning: It is the quality of being late, behind time or not on time.
• Example: Excessive tardiness can also result in you getting fired.

• Meaning: Something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt.
• Example: Because I have quite a sweet tooth, my biggest guilty pleasure would have to be toffee chocolates but do I have to confess that I’m partial to a kebab from Turkish Delight in Manchester.

• Meaning: To leave somebody, thing or place, especially somebody you are responsible for.
• Example: People often simply abandon their pets when they go abroad.

• Meaning: To move back or away from a place or situation; to make somebody/something do this.
• Example: Workers have threatened to withdraw their labour.

• Meaning: To show the limits of something.
• Example: Parking spaces are demarcated by white lines.

• Meaning: Showing a willingness to take risks.
• Example: This thrilling new series charts audacious prison escape attempts.

• Meaning: To rate or evaluate too low; underestimate.
• Example: He is one of Hollywood’s most underrated actors (= He is much better than people think).

• Meaning: Not as good or important as some people believe.
• Example: In my opinion, she's a hugely overrated singer.

• Meaning:
  • A piece of music that has no formal structure and expresses powerful feelings.
  • A speech or piece of writing that contains powerful feelings and enthusiasm.
• Example: The mayor launched into a long rhapsody about his plans for the city.

• Meaning: Careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret.
• Example: The family made discreet enquiries about his background.

• Meaning: Someone who behaves badly or does not obey rules.
• Example: He supports tough penalties against corporate miscreants.

• Meaning: Open to corrupt influence and especially bribery.
• Example: They are accused of being involved in venal practices.

• Meaning: Badly and carelessly made.
• Example: We're not paying good money for shoddy goods.

• Meaning: Free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
• Example: She was acquitted of all the charges against her.

• Meaning: Declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law.
• Example: She was convicted of murdering her drunken and allegedly violent husband.

• Meaning: An acknowledgment of your error or guilt.
• Example: A newspaper might issue a mea culpa for printing inaccurate information.

• Meaning: To make timid or frightened; scare.
• Example: The terrain is massive, confusing, and intimidating, and almost everyone skis it with a local guide.

• Meaning: Clearly visible or understood; obvious.
• Example: It should be apparent to anyone that the letter was written by a child.

• Meaning: A person who knows a lot about food and cooking, and who enjoys eating high-quality food.
• Example: Food critics have to be gourmets in order to write about food in an informed way.

• Meaning: It is a great success or achievement, often one that has been gained with a lot of skill or effort.
• Example: The eradication of smallpox by vaccination was one of medicine's greatest triumphs.

• Meaning: Prove more powerful or superior.
• Example: It is hard for logic to prevail over emotion.

• Meaning: Someone who looks spookily like you, but isn't a twin.
• Example: Some lookalikes are hired to entertain at clubs and parties: they learn to sing like their doppelgänger so the crowd think they are getting the real thing.

• Meaning: Not based on logical reasons or clear thinking.
• Example: It's totally irrational, but I'm frightened of mice.

• Meaning: Not related to what is being discussed or considered and therefore not important.
• Example: These documents are largely irrelevant to the present investigation.

• Meaning: Someone who knows a lot about a particular thing and enjoys it a lot.
• Example: Sarah tells me you're something of an art connoisseur.

• Meaning: Something of monstrous size, power, or appearance.
• Example: The newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space.

• Meaning: Second from the last.
• Example: It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.

• Meaning: Grievous distress, affliction, or trouble.
• Example: He did not tell his relatives and friends about his woes.

• Meaning: An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• Example: Malnutrition is one of the common afflictions of the poor.

• Meaning: Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something.
• Example: A high percentage of women said they had abstained from alcohol during pregnancy.

• Meaning: A person who never drinks alcohol.
• Example: His parents are teetotallers so he didn't get the whisky from his home.

• Meaning: Not large in size or amount, or not expensive.
• Example: They live in a fairly modest house, considering their wealth.

• Meaning: Extremely large.
• Example: There has been a colossal waste of public money.

• Meaning:
  • A thorough investigation into a crime or other matter.
  • To try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly.
• Example: Detectives questioned him for hours, probing for any inconsistencies in his story.

• Meaning: To keep one thing separate from another.
• Example: The psychiatric section is segregated from the rest of the prison.

• Meaning: The return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed.
• Example: He will be extradited to Arizona from Florida.

• Meaning: State again strongly.
• Example: The government yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the current peace process.

• Meaning: Event or period of time involves many exciting and confusing events or feelings.
• Example: After the tumultuous events of 1990, Europe was completely transformed.

• Meaning: Extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable.
• Example: If you make an egregious error during a championship soccer match, your coach might bench you for the rest of the game.

• Meaning: A religious song or poem of praise to God.
• Example: In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine.

• Meaning:
  • Be received or understood.
  • Produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound.
• Example: the sound of the siren resonated across the harbour.

• Meaning: An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
• Example: If you run into a friend out with her grey-haired father, and you blurt out, "Oh, hi, you must be Tara's grandfather!" then you've made a gaffe.

• Meaning: If you've heard an expression a million times, chances are it's a cliche.
• Example: It's a cliche but true that pubs are the lifeblood of many communities.

• Meaning: A job or position that is very suitable for someone, especially one that they like.
• Example: He found his niche in the academic world.

• Meaning: Extremely unpleasant or bad.
• Example: Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous.

• Meaning: Break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
• Example: Court is adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow.

• Meaning: Likely to occur at any moment.
• Example: For a man in imminent danger of losing his job, he appeared quite unruffled.

• Meaning: Arousing one's curiosity or interest; fascinating.
• Example: This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.

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Year: 2020

• Meaning: Certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented.
• Example: Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.

• Meaning: A noisy situation or argument.
• Example: The losers are sure to raise a ruckus.

• Meaning: A word consisting of only one syllable.
• Example: He answered all their questions with monosyllables like “yes” and “no.”

• Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstəsi/
• Meaning: An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
• Example: they went into ecstasies over the view.

• Meaning: To act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive or cheat someone.
• Example: It was suspected that the police had colluded with the witnesses.

• Meaning: If you say that someone is a good sport, you mean that they cope with a difficult situation or teasing in a cheerful way.
• Example: He was accused of having no sense of humor, of not being a good sport.

• Meaning: Person who is very rich and successful in business or industry.
• Example: a real estate/media magnate.

• Meaning: The effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect.
• Example: Any decrease in tourism could have serious repercussions for the local economy.

• Meaning: Left helpless.
• Example: He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.

• Meaning: A line of people, walking, on horses, or in vehicles, who are moving slowly as part of a ceremony.
• Example: A cavalcade of antique cars.

• Meaning: Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
• Example: A cringeworthy photo shoot of him posing on a motorbike.

• Meaning: Impose (a tax, fee, or fine).
• Example: Taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament.

• Meaning: The act of buying and selling goods simultaneously in different markets to gain an immediate profit.
• Example: The importance of computers is that arbitrage opportunities can be quickly spotted and capitalized upon.

• Meaning: Producing a great deal of profit.
• Example: She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.

• Meaning: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
• Example: A senior leader cancelled a trip to Britain yesterday amid growing signs of a possible political crisis.

• Meaning: To end a law, agreement, or custom formally.
• Example: The treaty was abrogated in 1929.

• Meaning: To seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right.
• Example: The Congress wants to reverse the reforms and usurp the power of the presidency.

• Meaning: The early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises.
• Example: He was up until the wee hours trying to finish his work.

• Meaning: To lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat.
• Example: The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.

• Meaning: A line of troops or of military posts enclosing an area to prevent passage.
• Example: A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building.

• Meaning: To consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing.
• Example: You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed.

• Meaning: To push something or someone with your finger or with a pointed object.
• Example: She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked.

• Meaning: Someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act.
• Example: The Trump administration decided to assassinate Soleimani due to American bases in Iraq being continuously attacked by Iranian rockets, with the administration concluding that Soleimani was the main perpetrator.

• Meaning: More than is needed, desired, or required.
• Example: The unions’ demands are superfluous, but perhaps not surprising.

• Meaning: Showing no sign of feeling or emotion.
• Example: Even as the guilty verdict was read, he stared impassively ahead.

• Meaning: Deprived of any communication with others.
• Example: He was held incommunicado for the first 48 hours after he was arrested.