The common usable Words but having with great meaning
1.
Apartheid:
The policy of racial segregation against the blacks by the whites practiced in
South Africa till the 1990’s.
2.
Avant-Garde:
New and very modern ideas in art, music, painting.
3.
Bahai:
Religion founded in Iran in the mid-19th century by Baha Ullah.
4.
Biometrics: Biometrics
is the science and technology of measuring and analyzing biological data such
as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns
and hand measurements of human body for authentication purposes.
5.
Brainwashing:
The technique of changing a person’s ideas, beliefs and attitudes by force,
ranging from physical torture of psychological pressure.
6.
Calypso:
A type of Folk song originally from Trinidad but sung elsewhere in the
Caribbean (West Indies).
7.
Concorde:
First supersonic, passenger-carrying, commercial aeroplane. Built jointly by
British and French manufacturers, it entered regular service in 1976, now no
longer in service.
8. Dyscalculia: A person having poor mental ability.
9.
Dyslexia:
A disorder of the brain that causes difficulty in reading, and spelling.
10.
Estate
Duty: It is a tax payable by the inheritor on a property
over a specified value when the real owner dies.
11.
Excise
Duty: It is a fax levied on certain commodities produced
and consumed in the country and on licenses for certain trades.
12.
Fifth
Column: Refers to traitors or people who secretly indulge
in antinational or anti government activities and help the enemy.
13.
Fourth
Estate: Newspapers and journalists.
14.
Fundamental
Rights: The basic rights of a citizen in a civilized
country.
15.
Genocide:
Refers to deliberate killing or extermination of a race or a group of people by
another race or group.
16.
Green
Revolution: An Agricultural revolution of the
1960’s made possible by the use new high yielding varieties of rice and wheat.
17.
Habeas
Corpus Act: The act provides that no one is to be
imprisoned without a writ or a warrant stating charges.
18.
Hot
Money: Term used to describe money that flows into a
country to take advantage of high rates of interest there.
19.
Injunction:
Judicial restraint or order to prevent a wrongful act.
20.
IQ-Intelligence
Quotient: A method to measure a person’s intelligence.
21.
Jalapeno:
A hot, green or orange-red pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum.
22.
Kaizen:
A philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices that underlies
total quality management and just-in-time business techniques.
23.
Laissez-faire:
French term meaning "Leave alone."
24.
Mafia:
Secret organisation of criminals, especially in Italy.
25.
Manifesto:
A written public declaration of the intentions, notions or motives of a
sovereign or of a leader or a political party.
26. MODVAT:
Modified Value Added Tax, a term used in excise.
27.
Naxalites:
The term originated from Naxalabari in West Bengal in 1967, when radical
communists attempted a revolt.
28.
Nazism:
Nazi party was a political party led by Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1930s.
29.
Octroi:
It is a tax levied by a municipal committee on the goods brought in within the
municipal limits of a town.
30.
Prima-facie: "
31.
Privy
Purse: Before independence the Government of India granted
certain privileges and annual payments to princes or rulers of various states.
The rulers had agreed to surrender their states to the Indian Union in return
for privy purses.
32.
Quasars:
It is an acronym for quasi-stellar radio sources are thought to be the most
distant objects in the universe.
33.
Referendum:
A means of putting a controversial issue directly to the public for decision by
popular vote.
34.
Richter
scale: A logarithmic scale used to express the total
amount of energy released by an earthquake. Widely used measure of the
magnitude of an earthquake.
35.
Satyagraha:
The name Mahatma Gandhi gave to his nonviolent struggle against unfair and
unjust British Rule.
36.
Seismograph:
An instrument for automatically detecting and recording the intensity,
direction, and duration of a movement of the ground, and records elastic ground
vibrations called seismic waves.
37.
Soap
Opera: Story about the lives and problems of a group of
people which is broadcast everyday or several times a week on TV.
38.
The
Holocaust: The killing of an estimated 6 million Jews by the
Nazi regime in Germany between 1993-45 in concentration camps.
39.
Third
World: Countries mainly belonging to Asia, Africa and
latin America, that are less developed.
40.
UFO
(Unidentified Flying Objects): Any light or object
seen in the sky whose immediate identity in not apparent.
41.
VAT
(value added tax): Indirect tax levied at each stage of
production and distribution, from the primary producer to the retailer.
42.
Wushu:
Chinese martial arts are collectively referred to as Wushu.
43.
X-Factor:
In the world of mathematics, an "X factor" is an unknown quantity
which only becomes known after following a prescribed process. Interviewers and
judges often speak of an "X factor" when they consider a number of
candidates for a single open position.
44.
Yule-tide:
The Christmas season is popularly referred to as 'yuletide'.
45. Zenith: The point directly overhead from the observer, or 90o above the horizon.
45. Zenith: The point directly overhead from the observer, or 90o above the horizon.
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