BCS English (Final Part)

Word
Meanings & Other Items

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##Extremist: A
person whose opinions, especially about religion or politics, are extreme, and
who may do things that are violent, illegal etc. for what they believe, (চরমপন্থী)

##Militant:
Using, or willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve your aims,
especially to achieve social or political change. (জঙ্গি)

##Anarchist: A
person who believes that laws and government are not necessary. (নৈরাজ্যবাদী)

##Terrorist: A
person who uses violent action in order to achieve political aims or to force a
government to act. (সন্ত্রাসবাদী)

##
Contagious: Infectious (by
touch)

##Contiguous: Adjacent (with/to sth) touching
or next to sth

(Example:
The countries are contiguous.)

##Nuptial: (Only
before noun) connected with marriage or a wedding: nuptial bliss – marital bliss।

a
nuptial mass – wedding mass।

[Note:
The indefinite article ‘a’ is not used before ‘Marriage’. But ‘a’ is used before ‘Wedding’.]

##Succumb: not
to be able to fight an attack or illness, a temptation etc.

##Disparate: Dissimilar; unequal; incomparable in quality or quantity. a disparate group of
individuals.

##Aggrandize: To increase (in power, status, wealth, and importance). He is bent on personal
aggrandizement.

##
Typify: To serve as a symbol or representative of something।

##Divergent: Deviating, diverging।

##Meander: To wander around aimlessly; to speak without purpose (Wander)।

##Menace: To intimidate; to threaten।

##Circuitous: Indirect; roundabout; circular।

##Forage for: To search for (food, etc.)।

##Ultra Vires:
beyond your legal power or authority(Latin, law).

##
Blatant: Obvious, flagrant।

##Overt: Open, clear, evident।

##Inimical:
harmful, hostile, opposed.

##Efface: to
rub out, to obliterate. (To erase, to obliterate।)

##I‘m all
in — I’m very tired.

##Blue chips:
Industrial shares considered to be a safe investment.

##to read
between the lines — to read carefully to find out any hidden meaning.

##Infringe — to
violate = to transgress।

##
Quaint: Whimsical, Skilful.

##Delay:Expedite
— Detain:Dispatch

[Note:
Delay/Detain = to cause delay।

Expedite/Dispatch
= to accelerate।]

##
Elucidate: to expound (on)

— to
make sth clearer by explaining it more fully.

##Ominous:
suggesting that sth bad is going to happen in the future. (FOREBODING)

Example:
She picked up the phone but there was an ominous silence at the other end.

##Sinister(adj):
seeming evil or dangerous; making your think sth bad will happen.

Example:
There is another, more sinister, possibility.

##
Stagflation(Stagnation+Inflation): It occurs when a country’s inflation rate is
high and the unemployment rate is high.

##Scuttle —
Scurry: to run with quick short steps.

##Stanch —
Staunch : to stop the flow of something especially blood.

##Surveillance: the
act of carefully watching a person suspected of a crime or a place where a
crime may be committed.(OBSERVATION)

Example:
The police are keeping the suspects under constant surveillance.

##Propitious: Favorable, suitable।

##Trickle: to
flow or make sth flow, slowly in a thin stream.

Example:
Tears were trickling down her cheeks.

##Drip: (of
liquid) to fall in small drops.

Example:
She was hot and sweat dripped into her eyes.

##Exacerbate: to
make sth worse, especially a disease or problem.(-AGGRAVATE)

Example:
The symptoms may be exacerbated by certain drugs.

##Enter into: to begin discussions; Enter in: to record; Enter on/upon: to begin.

##Emphasize:
“Emphasize on” is incorrect when emphasize is used as a transitive
verb.

Use
“emphasize on” with
Put/lay/place.

##Angry: Angry
at/with – angry with a person.

Angry
at/about – angry about something.

##
Stockings: knee-high socks. #

##Proforma:
(adv.) as a matter of form only.

Example:
A pro forma document can be used as a model.

(It can be used to fill out forms later.)

##Morbidity: depression, melancholy.

##Reverie:
dreamy thinking or imagining, especially of agreeable things; fanciful musing;
day dreaming.

##
Forthcoming: incoming, upcoming, imminent.

##Anaesthesia: numbing, making insensible.

##Caterpillar: money-grubber (Rapacious); caterpillar (Cankerworm)

##Gargantuan:
(before noun) extremely large

(-
ENORMOUS) a ~ appetite/meal.

##Reticent(about
sth): unwilling to tell people about things (- Reserved, Uncommunicative)

Example:
She was shy and reticent. He was extremely reticent about his personal life.

##Puny: small
and weak. (=
Feeble)

##Insipid:
having almost no taste or flavour; not interesting or exciting.

##Trite: (of a
remark, an opinion, etc.) dull and boring because it has been expressed so many
times before; not original (= Banal)

##Sturdy: healthy, robust.

##Girth: the
measurement around something especially a person’s waist.

##Rotund(Plump):
having a flat round body (Noun – Rotundity)

##Go
around/round: to be enough for everyone to have one or some. Example: There are
not enough chairs to go around.

##Tendril: a
thin curling stem that grows from a climbing plant.

Example:
A plant uses tendrils to attach itself to a wall or other support.

##Contemporancous:
happening or existing at the same time (=
contemporary with)

##
Retainer: a trusted servant or follower of a distinguished person.

##Retinue: a
group of people who travel with an important person to provide help and
support.(= Entourage)

##Coven: a
group or meeting of witches.

##Vassal: a
country that depends on and controlled by another country.

##Suitor: a man
who wants to marry a particular woman.

##gain, get,
have, etc the upper hand: to gather an advantage over somebody so that you are
in control of a particular situation.

##Ballad: a
song or poem that tells a story; a slow popular song about love.

##Dirge: a
song sung in the past at a funeral or for a dead person.

##Effigy: a
statue of a famous person, a saint or a God.

##Profundity: the
quality of understanding or dealing with a subject at a very serious level; the
quality of being very great, serious or powerful. (- DEPTH)

Example:
He lacked profundity and analytical precision. The profundity of her misery.

##
Overt: done in an open way and not secretly.

##Covert:
secret or hidden, making it difficult to notice.

##Intractable: very
difficult to deal with.

##Conjure: to do
clever tricks such as making things seem to appear or disappear as if by magic.

##T.S
Eliot’s full name— Thomas Stearns Eliot.

## As
many as: a phrase used to qualify the meaning of many as a very large member,
depending on what follows it.

Example:
You can take as many pens as you need.

##Culpable:
responsible and deserving blame for having done sth wrong.

##Culpable
homicide: in some countries, the crime of killing sb illegally but not
deliberately.

##Extortion: the
act of making sb give you sth by threatening them,

Example:
The gang extorted money from over 30 local business.

##Exasperate: to
annoy or irritate sb very much. (- INFURIATE)

Noun- exasperation.
A groan/look/sigh of

##Retroactive/Retrospective:
thinking about or connected with sth that happened in the past.

##
Perforation: a small hole in a surface, often one of a series of small holes.

##Recourse: the
fact of having to, or being able to, use sth that can provide help in a
difficult situation.(refuge, resort)

##
Endorse: to say publicly that you support a person, statement or course of
action.

##
Purloin: to steal something or to use it without permission.

##
Infringe-Transgress: to break or violate a law or a rule. (+on)

##
Supercilious: behaving towards other people as if you think you are better than
they are. (=
Superior)

##Amenable: easy
to control. (+to)

##Forgo/Forego:
to decide not to have or do something that you would like to have or do.

##
Contentious: likely to cause disagreement between people. (a ~
issue/topic/subject)

##Imbecile: Idiot

##
Imbecility: Idiocy.

##Renounce: to abandon/discard/relinquish.

##
Spatial: relating to space.

##Smug: self-satisfied.

##Crook: the call of a frog.

##Bray: the call of a donkey.

##Temerity –
Insolence: audacity, impudence.

##Nebulous: unclear; vague.

##Vogue:
Prevailing fashion.

##Vague:
Uncertain or ill-defined.

##
Ablution: ritual washing/cleansing.

##Aberration –
Deviation: divergence.

##Boisterous:
Noisy/tumultuous.

##Accentuate: To
emphasize.

##Divulge: to reveal.

##Belittle: to diminish, devalue, disparage.

##Listless: lacking energy or enthusiasm.

##Perfunctory: (of
an action) done as a duty or habit, without real interest, attention or
feeling. (done carelessly or mechanically)

Example:
They only made a perfunctory effort.

##The Three
Musketeers: A novel by Alexandre Dumas.

##Effigy: a figurine or dummy of a person.

To burn
a person in effigy — to burn a dummy representing someone as a symbol of hatred.

##Dirge: a mournful song sung during funeral rites; a lament for the dead.

##Hamlet: A
very small village.

##Entrust A to B
/ Entrust A with B:

Entrust
something to somebody.

Entrust
somebody with something.

##I like
almost all of them.

I
almost like — এরকম হবেনা।

almost
+ noun/noun phrase.

##Dissent: to
have or express opinions that are different from those that are officially
accepted.

##To keep
one’s fingers crossed: to remain hopeful.

## Blow
up — a tree

Blow
out — a light

Blow
off — to emit. (smoke)

##Acquiescence: the
fact of being willing to do what sb wants and to accept their opinions, even if
you are not sure that they are right.

##Parthenon: The
chief temple of the goddess Athena built on the acropolis at Athens.

##Pericles:
Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the
construction of the Parthenon.

##Demagogue: A
political leader who tries to win support by using arguments based on emotion
rather than reason.

##Sobriety: The
state of being sober; the fact of being sensible and serious.

##
Propriety: Moral and social behaviour that is considered to be correct and
acceptable.

##Lousy: very
bad; used to show that you are/feel annoyed or insulted because you don’t think
that sth is worth very much.

##Straw
vote/poll: An unofficial poll/voting of public opinion about a matter.

##Genesis: A
beginning, a starting point.

##Imbibe: To
drink in; to absorb, to assimilate.

##Plurality: The
holding of more than one office at a time.

## Boot
leg: To smuggle.

##
Plebiscite: referendum. (a term
related to politics)

##
Archipelago: A collection of many islands.

## To
meet trouble half-way: To be puzzled.

##Soft soap:
Flatter for self-motives.

##Complacent: satisfied, self-satisfied. (self-satisfied)

##Officious: meddlesome, dutiful.

##Supercilious: proud and arrogant in a way that treats everything with disdain or contempt.

##Dog days:
Hot weather.

##Stagflagation:
Economic slowdown.

##Stanch: To
put an end to.

##Belated:
Tardy. (delayed)

##Innocuous: does no harm. (harmless)

##Compliment: A
remark that expresses praise or admiration of sb.

##Compliments: a
polite word or good wishes.

##Raconteur: storyteller.

##Amiable: gentle.

##
Amicable: friendly.

##Sedan: palanquin, litter, a fully enclosed motor car for four or more persons, sedan.

##Hangar: aircraft shelter, airplane hangar.

##Rung: step of a ladder, the highest rung of society or career.

##Restive:
unable to stay still or unwilling to be controlled, especially because you feel
bored or not satisfied.

##Ephemeral:
Short-lived.

##
Vicarious: felt or experienced through watching or reading rather than doing oneself.

##Placate: to calm. (-Pacify)

##Cogent: capable of producing conviction. (- Convincing)

##Ingenuous: simple, straightforward, candid. (- Naive)

##Proscribe: To
say officially that sth is banned.

##Ringmaster: a
person in charge of a circus performance.

##Smile on: to be favorable toward.

##Bring forth:
to produce.

##Pun: the
clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words
that have different meaning but sound that same.

Example:
We’re banking on them lending us the money – no pun indeed.

##Bale: a
large amount of a light material pressed tightly together and tied up(bales of
hay/straw/cotton/wool etc)