1. Catastrophe
Meaning – An event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering
Usage – An environmental catastrophe in the region took away many lives.
2. Staggering
Meaning – To walk or move unsteadily
Usage – He staggered to his feet, after hearing her speech.
3. Errant
Meaning – Straying away from the accepted standards
Usage – I saw an errant man shouting at his daughter for skipping office.
4. Egregious
Meaning – Extremely bad
Usage – Egregious abuses boil his blood.
5. Absolved
Meaning – To set clear away from something
Usage– The pardon absolved them of any crimes.
6. Spectrum
Meaning – Used to classify something in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme points.
Usage – He wanted to know whether I was part of the left or the right of the political spectrum.
7. Unequivocal
Meaning – clear and unambiguous
Usage – But he denied the accusation in unequivocal terms.
8. Regressive
Meaning – returning to a former or less developed state
Usage – The regressive aspects of recent local government reform will let the country down.
9. Crony capitalism
Meaning – An economy which is based on a close relationship between businessmen and the government
Usage – Many political theorists argue that India’s election in 2014 April can be called as the trigger of a decade of crony capitalism.
10. Whammy
Meaning – An event with a powerful and unpleasant effect
Usage- The third whammy was the degradation of the financial system
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