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1. Hedonist (adj.) - सुखवादी, आनंदजीवी - someone who believes that pleasure
is very important, and who tries to spend all their time doing things that they
enjoy

Example-
1) Rahul, a bachelor, is a heavy drinker and a womanizer, but he's not a
simple hedonist.
2) He was a hedonist who believed there should be no limits on human
behaviour.

Synonyms - debauchee, decadent, sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary

Hint – Hey Don is.. Hedonist...don enjoys all the pleasures of life so he
believes in pleasure as the aim of life.

2. Topple (verb) - गिर पड़ना -to (cause to) lose balance and fall down

Example-
1) The tree toppled and fell.
2) Winds and rain toppled trees and electricity lines.

- remove (a government or person in authority) from power; overthrow.

Example-
1) The church was prominently involved in the struggle that toppled the
dictatorship.
Synonyms - fall, slip, stumble, trip, tumble
Hint - TOPPLE and STUMBLE have a similar sound and they both mean,
to trip and fall over.

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3. Idiosyncrasy (noun) - अनोखापन –a strange or unusual habit, way of
behaving, or feature that someone or something has

Example-
1) She often cracks her knuckles when she's speaking - it's one of her little
idiosyncrasies.
2) Everyone has a few little idiosyncrasies.

Synonyms – oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk, singularity, tic, trick, twist

Hint - Idiot in sync with the crazy people are idiosyncratic.

4. Mandarin (noun) – उच्चागिकारी - someone who has an important job in the

civil services

- Mandarin is the official language of China.

Example-
1) Foreign Office mandarins.
2) It could prove popular with ministers and mandarins.

Synonyms - Chinese, official.

5. Dossier (Noun) –एक प्रकार गक फाइल गजसमें गकसी व्‍यक्ति, घटना या गवषय पर
गवस्‍तृत जानकारी हो - a set of papers containing information about a person,
often a criminal, or on any subject

Example-
1) The police probably have a dossier on him
2) The secret service probably has a dossier on all of us

Synonyms – file, report, case history.

Hint- Dossier sounds like the boss + here..So our boss is here and he
needs the file. Or Through a 'Courier' he sent me his 'Dossier'

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6. Jaunt (noun) - छोटी यात्रा; सैर, भ्रमण a short excursion or journey made for
pleasure

Example-
1) Her regular jaunts to Europe.
2) A Sunday jaunt into the hills.

- Verb - घूमना गिरना go on a short journey.

Example-
1) They went jaunting through Canada.
Synonyms - trip, expedition, pleasure trip, excursion, safari, tour, pleasure
trip

Hint- journey to you aunt's place= J-Aunt

7. Nexus (noun) – बं िन, an important connection between the parts of a

system or a group of things

Example-
1) The nexus between industry and political power.
2) Times Square is the nexus of the New York subway.

Synonyms - connection, link, tie, knot, yoke, network, bond, union

Hint - remember Naxalites. They have groups and connections with each
other.

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8. Posit (adj.) - to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a
further idea is formed or developed:

Example-
1) If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to
minimize them.
2) Several writers have posited the idea of a universal consciousness.

Synonyms – postulate, presume, put forward, state.

Hint – posit: (pro) pose it. I.e. propose or put forward

9. Overture (noun) – प्रस्ताव, a piece of music that is an introduction to a longer

piece, especially an opera

Example-
1) the overture to "The Magic Flute"

- िाना प्रारम्भ करने का िीत - a communication made to someone in order to

offer something

Example-
1) Overtures of friendship.
2) Neither side in the conflict seems willing to make peace overtures.

Synonyms- curtain-raiser, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prologue, warm-

up

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10. Conundrum (noun) – पहे ली, समस्या - a confusing and difficult problem or
question.

Example-
1) Arranging childcare over the school holidays can be a real conundrum for
working parents.
2) one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts.
Synonyms- problem, difficulty, puzzle, quandary, dilemma, riddle, mystery.
Hint- CONUNDRUM: CON (KAUN) – who + UNDR (ANDAR) – inside; so
whose inside? …. if some one asks you this, you will confuse to solve this
question.

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