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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.

Awards: Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis grabs 2013 edition

Man Booker International Prize.

- a biennial international literary award.

- awarded to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation - Fiction.

GK: Death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi is observed on Anti-Terrorism Day 21 May

Defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma, 61, was appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India on 21/05/2013.
 
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