English Vocabulary By Neerja Raheja | Free PDF Download – Set 10

Croesus

Meaning:A very rich man

Origin:Croesus, king of Lydia, famed for his wealth

Usage:Everyone wanted to marry Darcy as he was richer than Croesus Our young handsome hero is an international man of mystery, has a fortune worthy of Croesus and enough to break a trading house

Never-never land

Meaning: A pleasing country existing only in our dreams or imagination; utopia; a perfect imaginary place; special place where childhood could last forever; an ideal and imaginary place

Usage: Disney world for the young is a never-never land Your friend is living in a never-never land as he considers that getting into Harvard is easy Despite the tsunami of interest, cryptocurrency as money still operates in a never-never land

lugubrious

Adjective

Meaning: Looking or sounding sad or dismal; anything that makes one sad, gloomy or mournful; excessively mournful; sorrow;

Usage: Funerals are lugubrious Mondays and rainy days are lugubrious for some Due to the death of the CEO the company considered reaching the sales target for the first time to be a lugubrious milestone

Origin: Early 17th century: from Latin lugubris (from lugere ‘mourn’) + -ous.

spavined

Adjective

Meaning: Old and decrepit; not in good physical or mental condition; unfit; affected with swelling

Usage: Don’t sell them a spavined horse My fear is that some of them who are averse to change are spavined in their minds His taxi was rickety and spavined that we cancelled the plan

logomachy

Noun

Meaning: A fight about words; an argument about words; a dispute over or about words; controversy marked by verbiage

Usage: Logomachy is common among logophiles Although he enjoyed his writing group, the logomachies over the subtle meanings of the words soon became tiresome

Origin: You and your word-loving friends might engage in logomachy, if you argue about the Latin and Sanskrit roots of your favorite words. There’s not much to disagree on when it comes to the rare word logomachy itself, though — in Greek, logos means “word,” and the suffix -machy always means “battle” or “contest,” from the Greek makhe, or “fight.”

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