Grid Substation 440 KV (GSS 440 KV)

annuity

annuity [ uh-NOO-i-tee, uh-NYOO-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. the annual payment of an allowance
2. a contract by which one receives fixed payments on an investment for a lifetime

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They assured him that after he retired he would receive an annuity for the rest of his natural life.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
"When you have an annuity and you sell it, there are a lot of penalties that the insured incurs, and the first time you buy an annuity, the agent makes a very nice commission," Atterholt said.

effectuate

effectuate [ ih-FEK-choo-eyt ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to effect or bring about
2. to cause to happen

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The slashing of headcount in many companies was effectuated by the economic recession.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
"Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice," Judge Polk wrote in his ruling.

scrupulous

scrupulous [ SKROO-pyuh'-luh's ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. principled or having a strict regard for what one considers right
2. painstaking or minutely careful

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The young executive was rewarded by the company for his scrupulous performance during the year.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Charles Wheeler was a scrupulous reporter who tirelessly pursued the truth.

cavil

cavil [ KAV-uh'l ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to quibble about or raise inconsequential or frivolous doubts or objections
2. (tr. v.) to make petty objections or point out sham or minor discrepancies
3. (intr. v.) to raise trivial objections or unnecessarily find fault with
4. (n.) a frivolous and irritating objection
3. (n.) the act of making a frivolous objection

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The little boy grumbled that he could never please his parents as they cavilled about everything he did.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Purists who shudder at the historical doubtfulness of the Uzbek-Timur connection may also cavil at the Tajiks' claims.

hubbub

hubbub [ HUHB-uhb ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. an uproar or confusion caused by many voices
2. tumult
3. loud noises or din

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The group discussion turned out to be a regular hubbub with each candidate trying to shout down the others.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Within minutes of filling in my registration forms there was a hubbub at the door and David Cameron, Andrew Lansley and the rest of the shadow health team accompanied by senior Royal Marsden staff arrived in the room.

bliss

bliss [ blis ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. spiritual joy or heavenly
2. extreme happiness or ecstasy

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The prince married the princess and they lived in bliss for the rest of their lives.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The notion of suddenly bolting a cushy corporate dream to follow one's bliss may seem romantic.

parochial

parochial [ puh'-ROH-kee-uh'l ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. pertaining to or supported by or located in a parish
2. pertaining the education provided by a parochial school
3. very limited scope or narrow in outlook
4. provincial

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The best education is provided in parochial schools.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Sometimes it's political, sometimes it's parochial, but senators see it as another critical check the legislators have over the executive branch.

lance

lance [ lans, lahns ]
[ noun, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a weapon with a long wooden shaft and a sharp metal head
2. (n.) a lancet or surgical knife with a short, pointed double-edged blade for making incisions
3. (n.) a pipe for directing oxygen onto a heated metal object in order to burn a hole in it
4. (tr. v.) to pierce with or as if with a lancet
5. (tr. v.) to cut through with an oxygen lance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The lance was used by knights in a jousting tournament.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The event took place in an encampment that featured medieval tents, stocks, the pillory and racks of weapons and lances.

emulate

emulate [ v. EM-yuh'-leyt; adj. EM-yuh'-lit ]
[ adjective, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to imitate with an effort to excel or surpass or to strive to equal
2. (tr. v.) to successfully compete with or attain equality with
3. (adj.) desirous of excelling or equalling

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He joined medical college so that he could emulate his father who was a prominent doctor.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Many people are determined that the United States should emulate the rest of the industrialized world and adopt a publicly subsidized system of universal coverage.

pseudonym

pseudonym [ SOOD-n-im ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a pen name
2. a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity
3. a nickname or alias

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
One of the employees wrote a letter to the manager criticizing the new policies being enforced by the company and signed it with a pseudonym.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Colonel Britton was the pseudonym of Douglas Ritchie, a 36-year-old Assistant News Editor at the BBC.

prefigure

prefigure [ pree-FIG-yer ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to foreshadow or show beforehand
2. to imagine or picture beforehand
3. to suggest or represent by an antecedent

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The novel titled “Twenty thousand leagues under the sea” written by Jules Verne prefigured the invention of the submarine.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
In the soaring dreams of Daniel Burnham and the hellish ones of Henry Holmes, Larson has paired two unlikely stories that paint a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come.

fuss

fuss: [ fuhs ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) an excessive display of anxious attention or needless activity
2. (n.) a noisy dispute
3. (n.) a frivolous complaint or protest
4. (tr. v.) to be excessively careful or to fret or worry over trifles
3. (intr. v.) to disturb or bother with trifles

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The old dame would fuss over her pet dog as if it were a baby.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The fuss is, and will continue to be, about the funding of British politics and not the precise tax status of members of the House of Lords.

replenish

replenish [ ri-PLEN-ish ]
[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to fill up or complete again, with what is lacking
2. (tr. v.) to refill or fill again
3. (tr. v.) to supply again with what was used
4. (intr. v.) to become full again

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They placed an order with the grocer who promptly replenished their larder.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Part of the pearl initiative is to encourage pearl diving in the country again, since experts believe that harvesting oysters actually helps replenish oyster beds.

abbreviate

abbreviate [ uh'-BREE-vee-eyt ]
[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to make a word shorter by omitting letters
2. (tr. v.) to make briefer or less lengthy
3. (tr. v.) to make a short form of
4. (intr. v.) to use the shortened version of

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He abbreviated most of his presentation due to time constraints.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Highlight your notes or abbreviate them on cards, so that the information can be referred to easily - but don't spend all of your time doing this instead of revising.

thematic

thematic [ thee-MAT-ik ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. related to or pertaining to a topic
2. pertaining to the stem of a word

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They conducted a series of thematic discourses which provided guidance and counselling to students who had graduated.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The gallery said the drawings offered "close thematic and formal comparisons with The Dream".

furtive

furtive [ FUR-tiv ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. surreptitious or stealth or secret
2. sly or sneaky
3. having hidden motives

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Security personnel were alerted by the furtive behaviour of the thief.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that amid the deteriorating health of the Duke’s brother King George VI, who had succeeded him after the 1936 abdication crisis, furtive discussions began among rattled courtiers and senior politicians to the possibility of a “caretaker” monarch.

bane

bane [ beyn ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. anything that spoils or ruins
2. anything that caused harm, destruction or death
3. a deadly poison
4. the source of one's exasperation or a persistent annoyance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Alcoholism was the bane of his family life.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Suspension-jarring, bike-toppling, ankle-turning potholes are the bane of road users and local authorities alike.

eccentricity

eccentricity [ ek-suh'n-TRIS-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a peculiarity or an oddity
2. idiosyncrasy or the quality of being strangely odd
3. a deviation from the normal or the expected

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
M. F. Hussain the famous artist is also noted for his eccentricity.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Oil City Confidential celebrates English eccentricity and cussedness, as well as great music, and the band’s brilliant, boggle-eyed guitarist Wilko Johnson is surely the only pop star in recorded history capable of quoting from Langland’s daunting Middle English poem Piers Plowman.

debris

debris [ duh'-BREE or especially Brit., DEB-ree ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. wreckage, ruins, rubble or the remains of anything broken down
2. an accumulation of loose rock fragments
3. litter or carelessly discarded refuse

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The road was blocked with debris from the building that had collapsed.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The report pointed out that on or below every square mile of our ocean, there were 46,000 pieces of floating marine debris and that the problem was particularly acute in certain areas.

bestial

bestial [ BES-chuh'l ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. beastly or pertaining to or in the form of a beast
2. inhuman behaviour
3. debased or marked by depravity

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The legend is about a person who assumed a bestial form on the night of the full moon.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Fr Murray, a well-known civil rights campaigner, said the treatment of prisoners in the H Blocks was "squalid, cowardly and bestial".

laggard

laggard [ LAG-erd ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a person or thing that lingers
2. (n.) one who loiters or a straggler
3. (adj.) falling behind or dallying
4. (adj.) sluggish

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They stopped several times during the hike to enable the laggards to catch up with them.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Malaysia is one of the most nationalistic countries in APEC, and has been one of the laggards as the group seeks to reduce trade tariffs to zero by 2010 for developed APEC countries and 2020 for developing ones.

nebula

nebula [ NEB-yuh'-luh' ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a thinly spread cloud of interstellar dust and gas
2. (n.) a liquid medication prepared for use as a spray
3. (adj.) relating to or resembling a thinly spread cloud of interstellar dust and gas
4. (adj.) cloudy or resembling a cloud

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The scientists concluded that the nebula they were studying was the result of a collapsed star.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The image, taken by NASA's space-based Chandra Observatory telescope, shows an X-ray nebula 150 light years across.

Coup

coup [ koo ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a clever action or accomplishment
2. a very successful move or a brilliantly executed stratagem
3. a takeover or a sudden appropriation of power or leadership

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The presidency had to be won in a free and fair election and not by a coup.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The protesters are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006.

mantle

mantle [ MAN-tl ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a cloak or loose sleeveless cape
2. (n.) anything that conceals or covers or envelops
3. (tr. v.) to conceal or cover or envelop
4. (intr. v.) to become covered or spread over

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The final trick was the disappearing act in which the magician covered a volunteer with his mantle and made her vanish.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Ganymede's ocean is probably deeper beneath the surface, not in direct contact with the rocky mantle.

cognate

cognate [ KOG-neyt ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) related by birth or descended from the same parentage
2. (adj.) descended from the same language
3. (adj.) similar or allied in nature or quality
4. (n.) a person or thing related by origin or by blood with another
3. (n.) a word in one language related to a word in another language

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The pauper was actually a cognate of the prince that is why their features were so amazingly similar.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
No exchanges between Poland and Germany either on Danzig or cognate subjects have taken place