1) incumbent (adjective)
Synonyms: official
Meaning: to be someone’s duty or responsibility to do something
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Vocabulary: incumbent, quietus, plummet, flout, precarious, paucity, convene, mire, kith and kin, inculcate
Vocabulary: brazen, furore, sycophant, mala fide, shroud, tiff, en masse
1) brazen (adjective)
Synonyms: brassy - impudent - shameless - barefaced - impertinent
Meaning: behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable, and not caring if other people are shocked or offended
Vocabulary: perjure, intransigence, fraught, amnesty, flounder, abut, depose
1) perjure (verb)
Synonyms: forswear
Meaning: willfully tell an untruth when giving evidence to a court
Sentence: It is necessary for the court to proceed against those who had perjured themselves.
Vocabulary: perennial, adjudicate, burgeoning, interred, encomium, subvert
1) perennial (adjective)
Synonyms: perpetual - everlasting - eternal - permanent
Meaning: always existing, or never seeming to change
Sentence: For people living on the outskirts of city the scarcity of water has been a perennial problem.
Vocabulary: unrelenting, beleaguered, rile, melee, inundate, incessant
1) unrelenting (adjective)
Synonyms: inexorable - relentless - merciless - implacable
Meaning: used about people’s actions or feelings
Sentence: Sonia Gandhi forcefully defended the PM against the unrelenting criticism he has been facing recently.
Phrases: ruffle someone’s feathers, rule the roost, eke out, the big bad wolf
Phrase: ruffle someone’s feathers
Meaning: to make someone feel worried or annoyed
Sentence: Review of announced schemes by the newly elected CM ruffled the feather's of the opposition party.
Phrases: nip something in the bud, cock a snook at
Phrase: nip something in the bud
Meaning: to stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development
Vocabulary: besiege, ostensibly, lackadaisical, reining, erring
1) Besiege (verb)
Synonyms: beleaguer - beset - surround - invest - encircle
Meaning: to make more requests, offers, comments, or complaints than someone can deal with
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