Inveterate: deep rooted, habitat.
Invocation: Asking of help from god. (not convocation)
Invoke: call upon.
Ashanur invoke his advisor’s aid in filling out his financial aid form.
Leech: bloodsucker, vampire, parasite, tick.
A celebrity surrounded by leeches who only want his money.
Eutrophication:
the process by which a body of water enriched in dissolved nutrients that stimulate the growth of adequate plant life usually resulting in the depletion of dissolved oxygen.
Depletion: running down, lessening, reduction, diminution.
However, to improve the yield
farmers often use fertilizers and insecticides
indiscriminately without proper knowledge. This
often destroys farmland and the surrounding areas
via leeching and eutrophication.
(Naheena Paper)
Salinity: came from saline.
Containing salt.
blemish
a small mark or flaw which spoils the appearance of something.
"the girl's hands were without a blemish"
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imperfection, fault, flaw, defect, deformity, discoloration, disfigurement; More
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verb
1. 1.
spoil the appearance or quality of (something).
"my main problem was a blemished skin"
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mar, spoil, impair, disfigure, blight, deface, flaw, mark, spot, speckle, blotch, discolour, scar
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reprimand
noun
noun: reprimand; plural noun: reprimands
1. 1.
a formal expression of disapproval.
"the golfer received a reprimand for a breach of rules"
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rebuke, reproof, admonishment, admonition, reproach, reproval, scolding, remonstration, upbraiding, castigation, lambasting, lecture, criticism, censure;
informaltelling-off, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap on the wrist, flea in one's ear, dressing-down, earful, roasting, tongue-lashing, bawling-out, caning, blast;
informalticking off, carpeting, wigging, rollicking, rocket, row;
informalserve;
vulgar slangbollocking;
datedrating
"they received a severe reprimand from the Office of Fair Trading"
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praise, commendation
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Verb
verb: reprimand; 3rd person present: reprimands; past tense: reprimanded; past participle: reprimanded; gerund or present participle: reprimanding
1. 1.
address a reprimand to.
"officials were reprimanded for poor work"
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rebuke, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, reprove, reproach, scold, remonstrate with, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, haul over the coals, lecture, criticize, censure;More
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praise, commend, compliment
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Chastise
verb: chastise; 3rd person present: chastises; past tense: chastised; past participle: chastised; gerund or present participle: chastising
1. rebuke or reprimand severely.
"he chastised his colleagues for their laziness"
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scold, upbraid, berate, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, admonish, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, lecture, criticize, pull up, take to task, haul over the coals, bring to book;
informaltell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give
someone a dressing-down, bawl out, blow up at, give someone
an earful, give someone a caning, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, come down on someone like a ton of bricks, have someone's guts for garters, slap someone's wrist, rap over the knuckles, give someone a piece of one's mind, throw the book at, read someone the Riot Act, let someone have it, give someone hell;
informalcarpet, monster, tear someone off a strip, tick off, have a go at, give someone a mouthful, give someone what for, give someone some stick, give someone a wigging;
informalchew out, ream out;
vulgar slangbollock, give someone a bollocking;
datedtrim, rate, give someone a rating;
archaicchasten, recompense, visit;
rarereprehend, objurgate
"the staff were chastised for arriving late"
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praise
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punish, especially by beating.
"her mistress chastised her with a whip for blasphemy"
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punish, discipline; More
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Though chastised for eating the snacks for the party , Lawrence shrugged off his mother’s harsh words, and continued to plow through jars of cookies and boxes of donuts.
Shrug
: shrug; 3rd person present: shrugs; past tense: shrugged; past participle: shrugged; gerund or present participle: shrugging
1. 1.
raise (one's shoulders) slightly and momentarily to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference.
"Jimmy looked enquiringly at Pete, who shrugged his shoulders"
o dismiss something as unimportant.
"the managing director shrugged off the criticism"
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disregard, dismiss, take no notice of, ignore, set aside, pay no heed to, forget, not trouble about, gloss over, play down, talk down, make light of, make little/nothing of, minimize, discount, diminish, downgrade, trivialize
"he shrugged off suggestions that he was keen to quit politics"
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noun
noun: shrug; plural noun: shrugs
1. 1.
an act or instance of shrugging one's shoulders.
"she lifted her shoulders in a dismissive shrug"
2. 2.
a woman's close-fitting cardigan or jacket, cut short at the front and back so that only the arms and shoulders are covered.
plough
plow
1. 1.
a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn over soil to turn it over and cut furrows in preparation for the planting of seeds.
o land that has been ploughed.
"she saw a brown strip of plough"
o NORTH AMERICAN
a snowplough.
2. 2.
BRITISH
a prominent formation of seven stars in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), containing the Pointers that indicate the direction to the Pole Star.
3. 3.
a yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor.
"poses such as the plough promote circulation and the drainage of blood from the legs"
verb
verb: plow
1. 1.
turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plough, especially before sowing.
"the fields had all been ploughed up"
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cultivate, till, work, furrow, harrow, ridge, break up, turn up
"the fields had been ploughed"
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o cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plough.
"icebergs have ploughed furrows on the seabed"
o (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water).
"cruise liners plough the long-sailed routes"
o unearth something while using a plough.
"some day someone will plough up the bomb and lose a leg"
2. 2.
(especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner.
"the car ploughed into the side of a van"
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career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run, careen;More
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· advance or progress laboriously or forcibly.
"they ploughed their way through deep snow"
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trudge, plod, toil, clump, push one's way, wade, flounder, press, move laboriously;More
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· continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop.
"he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans"
3. 3.
NORTH AMERICAN
clear snow from (a road) using a snowplough.
"he could use the car only in summer because the roads weren't ploughed in winter"
4. 4.
BRITISHinformaldated
fail (an examination).
"not many people plough Greats and become a professor of Latin"
Warangal :
hiatus
hʌɪˈeɪtəs/
noun
noun: hiatus; plural noun: hiatuses
1. a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity.
"there was a brief hiatus in the war with France"
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pause, break, interval, interruption, suspension, intermission, interlude, gap, lacuna, lull, rest, respite, breathing space, time out; More
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o PROSODYGRAMMAR
a break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in the ear and cooperate.
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opening, aperture, cavity, hole, gap, cleft, breach, fissure;
foramen
"the diaphragmatic hiatus was larger than necessary"
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stealth
stɛlθ/
noun
noun: stealth; modifier noun: stealth
1. 1.
cautious and surreptitious action or movement.
"the silence and stealth of a hungry cat"
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furtiveness, secretiveness, secrecy, surreptitiousness, sneakiness, slyness, covertness, stealthiness, clandestineness
"what they could not accomplish by violence or chicanery they would have to accomplish by stealth"
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2. 2.
(chiefly of aircraft) designed in accordance with technology which makes detection by radar or sonar difficult.
"a stealth bomber"
While it is in still stealth mood, Graymatics got fund from Citrix.
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