Word of the day - 2021

[Priyanka Bhatia]

hobnob Means (Dosti krna) and (HAHB-nahb)

A New Word come today.
hobnob means "to come or be together as friends."

[Jyuli Dhiman]

flexuous

adjective- FLEK-shuh-wus

Meaning -Meaning- having curves, turns, or windings

[Guest]

Obtuse

Adjective - ahb-TOOSS

Meaning - difficult to understand or unable to understand what is obvious.

Example: There are speeches and flags and somewhat obtuse artistic presentations, then at or near the end, the Olympic flame enters the stadium and is delivered to a cauldron … to burn for the next 16 days.

[Jyuli Dhiman]

Fustian

adjective- fuhs-chuhn

Meaning- pompous or bombastic,as language

[Guest]

Misbegotten

Adjective: miss-bih-GAH-tun

Meaning: ill-conceived." It can also mean "having an improper origin.

[Guest]

Parlay

Verb - PAHR-lay

Meaning - to turn (something) into something of greater value.

[Guest]

Fulminate

verb: FULL-muh-nayt

Meaning: to send forth harsh criticisms or insults.

Example: Talking heads on both the right and the left now are fulminating about the labor shortage.

[Jyuli Dhiman]

Parlay

verb- PAHR-lay

Meaning- Parlay means "to turn (something) into something of greater value.

[Guest]

Zest

Noun: ZEST

Example : It has always seemed bizarre to me to start talking about the coming winter in August. But this is Jackson Hole, and the zest for snow never seems to end.

[Jyuli Dhiman]

revolutionize

meaning- change (something) radically or fundamentally

[Guest]

Filial

Adjective: filial \FIL-ee-ul\

Meaning: of, relating to, or befitting a person's child.

Examples: The text purports to be Geppetto's captivity journal…. He recounts the story of Pinocchio's creation and truancy; he records [that] he continues to make art, painting portraits of lost loves and fashioning filial surrogates—lifeless, alas—out of old hard tack and shards of crockery.

[Guest]

Vestige

Noun - VESS-tij

Meaning - a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something lost or vanished.

Example - We see this galaxy as it was, not as it is today. It is theoretically possible the galaxy no longer exists but the light will continue toward Earth through the vacuum of space until the last vestiges reach our eyes and it disappears.

[Guest]

Cozen

Verb: cozen \KUZ-un\

Meaning: to deceive, win over, or influence with pleasing words or actions or by trickery.

Example: In the histories, indeed, we may be amazed and grieved to read how (seemingly) Melkor deceived and cozened others, and how … Melkor knew well the error of his ways.

[Jyuli Dhiman]

dolmen

Adjective- dohl-men, -muhn, dol-

Meaning- a structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone.

[Guest]

Mettle

Noun: mettle \MET-ul\

Example: Recently, 23 of Watauga's best math students met virtually to test their mettle against their peers in the annual MathCounts competition—a contest that tasks young mathematicians to tackle challenging math problems in a timed tournament format.