Play With English

06/04/2020

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20/10/2019

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16/09/2017

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15/09/2017

Over the past month, from Cox’s Bazar, in the southeast of Bangladesh, smoke can be seen billowing into the grey sky across the country’s border.

BILLOW

When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.

e.g.
Steam billowed out from under the bonnet.
...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke.

13/09/2017

But what about the enormous software or cultural differences between Japan and India? Mr. Nakano was sanguine. “When we had Indians coming here (to Tokyo) for training, I noticed some of them were quite late. But after two weeks in Japan they became very punctual,” he concluded.

SANGUINE:
If you are sanguine about something, you are cheerful and confident that things will happen in the way you want them to.

05/07/2017

In the seventieth year of India’s Independence, we must recognise that the machinery of government as we know it came into existence to ring-fence plunder by the East India Company. Its association with terrorism, indirectly in the case of the mob lynchings or directly in the case of extortion, is not compatible with freedom. India’s state needs to be governed. To paraphrase our President, we can’t be vigilant enough.

# to ring-fence
To ring-fence a grant or fund means to put restrictions on it, so that it can only be used for a particular purpose.

e.g., "The Treasury has now agreed to ring-fence the money to ensure that it goes directly towards helping elderly people..."

# plunder
If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it.

e.g., "They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster..."
"She faces charges of helping to plunder her country's treasury of billions of dollars..."
"This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves."

19/02/2017

MENAGERIE

pronunciation tips: me-nej-iri

meaning: a collection of wild animals.

19/02/2017

FANFARE

There has always been a lot of fanfare and expectation around the Central Bank's monetary policy.

If something happens with a fanfare, it happens or is announced with a lot of publicity. If something happens without a fanfare, it happens without a lot of fuss or publicity. (JOURNALISM)

"the studio released this film with great fanfare but no commercial success"

31/01/2017

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01/11/2016

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27/02/2015

Choose the correct form.
The increase in freight rates for ______ products has been in the range of two to 10 per cent.
[a] select
[b] selected
ANALYSIS
'Select' is a verb and also an adjective. Verb forms are "Select, Selected, Selected, Selecting, Selects." There are no such forms in an adjective. Here we are talking about some sort/kind of exclusive products; Hence we will consider the term as an adjective.
ANSWER
The increase in freight rates for select products has been in the range of two to 10 per cent.

07/10/2014

The Pakistan military does not realise that its OVERT and COVERT MEDDLING makes Pakistan more unstable.................................................................................
Overt: An overt action or attitude is done or shown in an open and obvious way.
= open

Covert: Covert activities or situations are secret or hidden.

Meddle: If you say that someone meddles in something, you are criticizing the fact that they try to influence or change it without being asked.
- interfere