Vocabs

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Date : 28th April

1. Fraught - Adj. -> Causing or affected by anxiety or stress.

2. Hardship -

3. narcotics -

4. barter - Verb -> Exchange without using money.

Noun -> trading, trade, exchange, swapping etc.

5. Exploit - Verb -> Make the full use of and derive benefit from

6. shrill election campaign - Adj. -> pitched and piercing,

Verb -> Make a shrill noice.

7. intransigent - Adj. -> Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.

8. pragmatic - Adj. -> dealing with things practically and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical consideration.

9. shot up - Verb. -> to hit, damage, kill

10. blatant - Adj. -> (of bad behaviour ) done openly and unashamedly.

Date 23rd June

1. incessant ->Adj -> When something continues without stopping/interruption, uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

2. Throng -> Noun -> a crowd of people or animals.

Usage: On the crowded platform, the throng of passengers attempted to push their way into the already overcrowded subway car.

3. Tickle-> v. -> to make someone laugh. touch (a body parts) lightly so as to excite someone. When you tickle someone, you touch them in a way that makes them laugh and squirm. It's impossible to tickle yourself

Usage: The grass tickled her calves.(calf -> the back of your leg, between your knee and ankle.)

4. Enshrine -> v. -> it means you are creating a shrine around it, or you are giving it its own protected revered space.

A shrine is a place considered holy because something special happened there or a case that holds sacred items. Places where people have claimed to see Jesus sometimes become shines. When you enshrine something, it means you are creating a shrine around it, or you are giving it its own protected revered space. This can be literal or figurative. At a funeral, the minister might say that the deceased will forever be enshrined in the memories of those who loved him or her.