vocabulary and unknown words

[priyanka chakraborty]

obnoxious:- highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
Archaic . exposed or liable to harm, evil, or anything objectionable.

synonym:- reprehensible, unpleasant, abhorrent.

[ankanghoshal]

Word - Stint
Meaning - 1.An unbroken period of time during which you do something

2. An individual's prescribed share of work

Sentence - "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
Synonyms - scrimp, skimp, stretch, scant

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Ankan Ghoshal
Batch - 2010-12
FOSTIIMA Business School
(Fostiima.Org)

[priyanka chakraborty]

eke -to make (a living) or support (existence) laboriously, to supplement
synonyms :- supplements, increase, magnify

[ankanghoshal]

Word = Tautologic

Meaning = Repetition of same sense in different words

Synonyms = pleonastic, redundant, tautological



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Ankan Ghoshal
Student (Batch 2010-2012)
FOSTIIMA Business School [fostiima.org]
Golden Rules :- "Who is helping you, Don't forget them, who is loving you, don't hate them & who is believing you , don't cheat them." *Have a Nice Day*

[kanikasingh]

word---moue
meaning---A pouting grimace
Synonyms---frown, grimace, mouth, mug, physiognomy, pout, smile, smirk

[simonsays]

plethora is my favorite word in the English language!

[bobmorton]

Originally Posted by priyanka chakraborty

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is probably the longest word in English language. What does it mean?

Probably the longest word. It's my first time to encounter this word.

[vivian]

Originally Posted by priyanka chakraborty

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is probably the longest word in English language. What does it mean?

This is the longest word I have seen, it is a fictional lung disease.

[sreelavanya]

It's a lung Cancer.

According to your own link

a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust causing inflammation in the lungs. Occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word."[1]. It was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. .... A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.