WHY LEARN NEW WORDS
Almost invariably men and women in high positions have better vocabularies than those immediately under them.
Daniel P. Eginton ( Author of Better Speech for You: The Practical English Refresher)
GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS
22.08.2011
1.DWINDLE [verb, intransitive] To gradually become less and less or smaller and smaller:
· The elephant population is dwindling.
· The country's foreign currency reserves have dwindled over the past few years.
DWINDLE AWAY
· His money had dwindled away.
DWINDLE TO
· The stream has dwindled to a trickle.
· The fortune of Mr. X has now dwindled to just over Rs.3,000 Cr.
2. “Bid to end HPL ownership TIFF” – The Telegraph, 22.08.2011
TIFF A slight argument between friends or people who are in love.( The scope of the word has broadened with usage, as you can see)
· One of my colleagues gets into tiffs with everyone in the office.
SQUABBLE Noisy argument about something that is not important.
· The kids are having their usual squabble over which TV show they're going to watch.
SPAT A short angry argument, usually about something unimportant.
· It was just a little spat over who DID THE DISHES ( = WASH) last.
3. “SEBI to BEEF UP consent procedures” – The Telegraph, 22.08.2011
BEEF Complain a lot.
BEEF ABOUT
· They're always beefing about something.
BEEF SOMETHING ↔ UP To improve something or make it more interesting, more important etc:
· We need to beef the campaign up. (OR) We need to beef up the campaign. [Meaning of ↔]]}
4. “DABBLE IN debentures” To be involved in something in a casual manner.
– ‘Personal Finance’, The Telegraph, 22.08.2011
· She dabbled in local politics for a while.
· I want to dabble in something new for a while.
From the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
To be ontinued
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