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What is SERENDIPITY? • Great discoveries are often by serendipidity. • It is luck plus your continuous efforts. • It is similar to chance factor – but the same as chance.

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What is sanguine? • I am sanguine of your success. • I am optimist about you.

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What is What is sacrosanct? • Temples are sacrosanct.These are not just santimoinous places – these are the places for pious person.

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What is surmise? • I can surmise that you are studying a lot – I guess it on the basis of your appearance.

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What is sycophant? • You find such persons in every office. • They do lot of buttering. • They are experts in using unctuous language.

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What is taciturn? • A taciturn person cant learn spoken english fast. Such person remains quite. • Something tacit is unspoken.

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What is somnolent? • Are english classes really somnolent? • Books are definitely somnolent. • It is similar to soporific.

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What is staid? • A staid person will remain very sedate, expression less, and will not change his expressions.

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What is rife? • • • •

Corruption is rife in india. Something rife is omnipresent. Something rife is ubiquitous. Rife is generally used in negative sense.

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What is ribald? • During marriage functions, boys make ribald on girls. • It is to make puns, taunt etc.

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What is ruse? • Birbal was good at ruse. • Sakuni was also good at ruse. • It is similar to guile.

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What is shrewd? • Chanakya was shrewd • Mechiavelli was shrewd • He is always clever, perspicacious.

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What is pugnacious: • He is always ready to fight with others. He is always eager to debate with others. Similar to querrelsome.

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What is rancor? • We shouldn’t have any rancor in our mind. • Rancor means hatred, ill-feelings, illthoughts etc.

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What is proscribe? • Doctor told me not to take radish. Doctor proscribed radish. • It is similar to restraint or prohibition.

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What is propensity? • You have propensity to become an executive. It is similar to preference. It is your inclination.

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What is rectitude? • Shashtri ji was known for his rectitude.

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What is repudiate? • He took loan of 50000 from me but now he refuses to accept it. He will not pay me. He has repudiated his loans.

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What is rescind? • Should we rescind our agreements. • Should our government rescind all our agreements with Pakistan. • It is similar to repeal or cancel or annul or abrogate

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What is quixotic? • Your ideas are fantastic – but not practical = they are quixotic.

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What is prosaic? • No one likes watching a prosaic movie. • People want to see an exciting movie. • Prosaic means ordinary, boring etc.

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What is ingenuous? • Nanak is very ingenuous person. He is very innocent, candid and simple person. He cant do any harm to any person.

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What is insidious? • Speculation is insidious and seductive for young generation. Now people in Bikaner are absorbed in this. It is sweet poison – which can kill any person. It is full of temptations.

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What is ignominious? • India had ignominious defeat in Hockey. • It is humiliating. • It is disgraceful. • It is shameful.

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What is gerrulous? • • • •

Girls are generally gerrulous. Someone gerrulous talk a lot. It is similar to talkative. It is opposite of taciturn.

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What is gregarious? • What is common in elephant, ant, bees, humans and monkeys – they are all gregarious. They live in group. They live in society.

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What is fastidious? • People in Bikaner find mistakes in everything they see. When they go as Barati – they find fault in every arrangement. They are fastidious.

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What is impetuous? • He cant score high in CAT – because he will try to solve every question in hurry. • He is similar to some of our students.

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What is iconoclast? • Ram Mohan Roy was an iconoclast. He could challenge old thinking. • Icons represent old thinking – so someone who can break these is iconoclast.

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What is harangue? • Have you seen political leaders like Uma Bharati / Bal thakare giving harangue.

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What is pejorative? • Don’t use pejorative language – even for your friends. • It is similar to derogatory, uncomplementary.

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What is opulent? • Mukesh Ambani is opulent. • This person has lot of money. • It is opposite of penurious.

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What is pariah? • He is a social outcast. • People don’t take food with him

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What is plethora? • The Punjab has plethora of water – but doest want to give it to Rajasthan. • It is similar to abundance.

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What is platitude? • Nobody wants to listen platitudes. You want to give someone a really good word – speak from your heart. • It is similar to cliché.

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What is precocious? • Tendulkar was precocious – as he attained mastery at a tender age of 16 only.

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What is vituperate? • Political leaders vituperate each others. • They berate each other. They rebuke each other and even fight with each others

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What is wanton? • According to Indian philosophy, we have wanton desires. They cannot be satisfied. It is similar to lewd, lust, and lascivious behaviour.

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What is zephyr? • Get up early in morning even in desert city of Bikaner you will have zephyr. • It is pleasant wind.

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What is languid? • Due to his involvement in maths and english preparation, Nilesh has become languid. He is continuously languishing. But it will help him. • It is similar to fatigue or tiredness.

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What is magnanimous? • When results will come, Srikant Bhansali will host a big party – afterall he is magnanimous person. • It is similar to generous. • Magna = big, animus = heart.

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What is mercurial? • Have you seen any person whose mood changes in seconds. Sometimes he is happy, sometimes peevish and sometimes depressed.

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What is maudlin? • My daughter is very maudlin. She is very sentimental and gets angry or dishearten soon.

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What is malevolent? • Rawan was malevolent. He wanted to do something bad. • Mal = bad • Volent = desirious to do something bad.

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What is obfuscate? • If you want to understand this word, come to my advanced maths classes – when everything will go like a bouncer. • Incomprehensive.

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What is neophyte? • You are neophyte in the field of management education. • Neo = new • Beginner, novice, tyro are other similar words.

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What is obstreperous? • Children are often obstreperous – unruly – uncontrollable – untractable – sometimes like us.

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What is officious? • You will find many such persons in bikaner – who will give you advice – when you don’t want one – who will help you – when you sincerely don’t want their help – they will drag you to their home – but you will avoid them. www.afterschoool.tk

What is puerile? • Full of childishness – lack of maturity and lack of wisdom. • It is similar to juvenile, immaturity.

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What is recalcitrant? • He is obstinate to the limit. He just doesn’t understand whatever you try to tell him. He is the most unruly, obstreperous, untractable person you can get in the world.

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What is punctilious? • He will follow rules to the last. He is very meticulous regarding rules and processes. He is like old martinet person – following rules strictly.

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What is protean? • He is flexible, adaptive and easy to change.

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What is surfeit? • I had surfeit of food in the party yesterday because the food was tasty. • It is excess supply of somethingmore than required.

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What is nostalgia? • When you will be working in MNCs in USA, you will have nostalgia of Bikaner and Afterschoool sometime

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What is pertinacious? • We had persons like Surendra, who were from Hindi backgroud – but made tremendous struggle – and really achieved success. These persons don’t give up easily and continue in spite of all difficulties.

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What is propitious? • Anand, this is not the propitious time for your marriage – you have to do MBA and get settled down – then think about marriage. • It is similar to favourable.

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What is promulgate? • Govt. should promulgate emergency to fight with the current situation of terrorism. • It is to make known, to proclaim, to implement etc.

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What is quagmire? • When you will open your books of Finance and Mathematics, you will find yourself in quagmire. Don’t worry, don’t read them, relax • It is similar to a very difficult situation

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What is pithy? • Kabir speaks pithy sentences. • We should try to speak pithy sentences – full of wisdom in limited words.

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What is impertinent? • Some persons tell me that youth are impertinent – I don’t believe that as the youth of today are very polite. • It is similar to rude.

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What is enervate? • Supern has completely enerveted due to his preparation of GK and other subjects.

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What is effulgent? • Full of light, full of lumination.

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What is dither? • Why are you dithering regarding your career? • Join the best institution – where you may get best education and can develop your capability.

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What is fallacious? • The advocate gave many fallacious arguments in the court, but the judge repudiated all of them. • It is similar to false statement, misleading arguments.

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What is expunge? • Let us expunge corruption from our country. • Let us eradicate corruption. • It is similar to completely remove.

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What is expiate? • This is your golden time, if you don’t use it properly, you will expiate later. • It is similar to atone for. Or regret.

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What is fatuous? • It is the word for sheikh chilly. • Someone very fool – stupid.

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What is fetid? • Sursagar was once the most fetid place of bikaner – but now it will become most fragrant place of Bikaner.

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What is desecrate? • Don’t desecrate any temple or any religious place? • It is to make a holy place impure.

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What is diaphanous? • She was wearing a diaphanous veil, as in their community, girls were supposed to wear veil.

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What is diffident? • When Sneha had joined Afterschoool, she was diffident, but now very talkative and chirpy.

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What is deleterious? • Coming to afterschoool might be deleterious to your health, because you will become slender, feeble, and fragile person – due to studies – studies – studies.

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What is cupidity? • Our desires have no limits – so cupidity denotes this. It is similar to wanton, lust, lewd, greed, avarice.

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What is cursory? • Mukesh made a cursory glance had her bride – because all relatives were around.

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What is defile? • Don’t defile image of any person. • To make impure, to make unclean, to do something bad or to say something bad.

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What is deprecate? • People in Bikaner will deprecate your achievements. Even if you get at the top with hard work – they will say – it is just a fluke – chance – or may be by some scandal.

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What is egregious? • The worst person on earth • He can do worse then what we can imagine. • You will find them as terrorist or other anti social element.

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What is eschew? • Let us eschew violence. • Let us eschew smoking • It is to keep away from.

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What is execrable? • Terrorists are excerable to us. • They are loathsome, detestable and noxious elements.

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Thanks • Afterschoool conducts three year integrated PGPSE (after class 12 along with CA & CS) and 18 month PGPSE (Post Graduate Programme in Social Entrepreneurship) along with preparation for CFP / CFA /CMA / FRM. It also conducts workshops on social entrepreneurship in schools and colleges all over India – start social entrepreneurship club in your institution today with the help from afterschoool and help us in developing www.afterschoool.tk society.

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