Newspaper Words - MECO

📚 Crucible ❓Definition: A tough situation that forms or transforms character. (Figurative) 🪞Synonym: 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Indian constitution is an embodiment of the ideals and the aspirations of a nation that was forged in the crucible of an anti-colonial struggle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

💫 Color Idioms

📚 Unassail ❓Definition: To not be attacked, questioned, or doubted. 🪞Synonym: Unchallenged, unquestioned. 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Despite this warning, the market saw unassailed growth in India. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Shotgun approach ❓Definition: A broad, scattered strategy that tries many things at once, hoping some will succeed. 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ In a shotgun approach, the system produces original thinkers who change the course of their discipline and give society new leads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Masquerade ❓Definition: Pretend to be something you're not 🪞Synonym: Disguise, Impersonate 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Often the imaginary masquerades as new knowledge. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Incorrigible ❓Definition: Incapable of being corrected or improved. 🪞Synonym: Unreformable 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ An incorrigible Pakistan is continually finding ways and means every few years to provoke a conflict. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

💫 Music Idioms

📚Connoisseur ❓Definition: An expert on matters involving the judgement of beauty, quality or skill in art, food or music. 🪞Synonym: Aficionado, gourmet ( for food and wines) 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ I am a connoisseur of perfume. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Stride ❓Definition: An important positive development 🪞Synonym: Leap 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ In recent years, notable strides have been made in enhancing gender representation within the district judiciary. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Bolt from the blue ❓Definition: A sudden and unexpected event or piece of news. 🪞Synonym: Surprise 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ The news was a bolt from the blue for many who sympathised with the movement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Depredation ❓Definition: Acts that cause harm or damage 🪞Synonym: Preying upon, Plundering 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Despite the depredations, Israel has not, with any clarity, met its objectives of bringing back the hostages or of wiping out Hamas’s presence there yet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Wanton ❓Definition: Causing harm or damage deliberately and for no acceptable reason: 🪞Synonym: Malicious, inconsiderate 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ Development should not lead to the wanton destruction of biodiversity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Alacrity ❓Definition: Enthusiasm 🪞Synonym: Eagerness 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ The alacrity with which the US intervened to terminate Operation Sindoor and sought to impose a ceasefire serves as a reality check for India’s security and foreign policy establishment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords

📚 Hamstrung ❓Definition: Prevented from acting effectively 🪞Synonym: Limited, restricted 🗞️ Today in newspaper: ➥ According to government sources, while India laid its grievances before the Executive Board, it was “hamstrung” by the fact that there is no provision in the voting system for a “no” vote. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 @MecoWords