[Word Powers] Today's Words ~~Tuesday Tutor - Kannada ~~

Scorching (skor-ch-ing) (Adjective/Adverb):

 

1.            Hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface.

 

2.            Capable of causing burns.

 

Residents are panting; blame it on the scorching heat and unscheduled power cuts over the past few days        

 

Behest (be-hest) (noun): 1. An authoritative command or request.

 

He said that those who had suffered the most had not been at the behest of the State.

                               

 

 

‘ Tuesday Tutor - Kannada’:

 

 

 hattira ( ha-thi-ra ) (adjective/adverb):  Near

 

nayigalu               manjina                hattira                  ive

dogs       snow    near      (are) there

 

                 

 Doora    ( doo-ra ) (adjective/adverb):  Far

 

nimma  mane      estu     doora?

Your       (is) Home             how     far?

 

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Vivify (viv-uh-fahy) (verb):

 

1.            To give life to; animate; quicken.

2.            to enliven; brighten; sharpen.

 

Stories not only provide context for statistical statements but can illustrate and vivify them as well.          

 

Gastronome (gas-truh-nohm) (noun):

 

1.            A person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for foods.

2.            A connoisseur of good food and drink.

 

Even though Paris was then considered the culinary capital of Europe, the food at the Cercle was so highly revered that many well-known gastronomes regularly made the trip to Lyon to eat there

 

 

Fillip (FIL-uhp) (noun):  Something which causes a sudden improvement

 

The athletics win provided a much-needed fillip for national pride.

 

Effulgent  (ih-FUHL-juhnt) (adj):Shining forth brilliantly; radiant.

 

The violet sky seemed branded with the effulgent figure of the sun  lowering over the sea on the edge of the horizon.

 

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Coup (kooh) (noun): A highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move.

Lalit Modi has pulled off a coup by forging a tie up with search engine giant Google to stream IPL3 live on YouTube.

 

Perfunctory (per-fuhngk-tuh-ree) (Adj): Lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic.

Don't just give these instructions a perfunctory glance; go through them carefully, and don't be afraid to ask the medical staff to elaborate things you don't completely understand.   

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Gaffe (gaf) (Noun):

 

1)            A clumsy social error or blunder, faux pas, blatant mistake

 

George Bush, the former president of the USA, is exceptionally well known for his English related gaffes also known as ‘Bushisms’.

 

 

Ulterior (uhl-teer-ee-er) (Adj):

 

1)            Lying beyond what is evident, revealed or avowed especially being concealed intentionally, undisclosed

 

Sheila never knew about the ulterior motives behind his friendly demeanour – which were revealed when he proposed marriage to her.

 

2)            Occurring later, coming at a subsequent time or stage in future

 

The elections were marred by the ulterior events of vote rigging.

 

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[Word Powers] Friday Fiesta - September 2009

This section covers the origin of certain words.

bug (bug)

Meaning:

A defect, difficulty or imperfection as in a system or design

The term was coined in the lab of Thomas Edison, perhaps by the man himself. Edison is the first to be recorded using the term in 1878. From Matthew Josephson’s 1959 Edison: a Biography which quotes the man himself: “'Bugs'—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success...is reached.'" [There is, however, a very popular etymology (or perhaps it is entomology in this case) that credits Grace Hopper, naval officer and computer pioneer, with coining the term bug for a computer defect when she discovered an insect in a malfunctioning computer. It’s a fun story, and it’s even true, except in that it is not the origin of the term. Hopper (or perhaps one of her colleagues) did discover an insect in a computer, but as we have seen bug meaning defect dates from the nineteenth century.]

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[Word Powers] Thursday Trivia - September 2009

This section covers few Indian colloquial words which made it into the English Dictionary.

Dinghy: From the Bengali word ‘dingi’; a kind of boat used in the East Indies.

Thug: From the Hindi word ‘thag’; a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.

Mango: From the Tamil word ‘mānkāy ’, a tropical Asian evergreen tree.

[Word Powers] Tuesday Tutor - September 2009

This section covers basic Kannada words as part of Tuesday tutor section.

mane (ma-ne) (noun): house Nimma mane ellide your house Where is?
kaChEri (ka-che-ri) (noun): office Nimma kaChEri ellide? your office where is?
Odu (o-dhu) (verb): Read ee pustaka Odu This book Read
nODu (no-du) (verb): see illi nODu Here see
ivattu (i-va-thu) (noun/adverb): today ivattu sangeetha kaaryakrama ide Today music programme is there
naaLe (naa-Le) (noun/adverb): tomorrow naaLe nimma manege bartheeni Tomorrow your to house I will come
idu (e-du) (noun/adverb): This / It idu pustaka This (is) book
adu(a-du) (noun/adverb): That adu nanna mane That my (is) house