session-42

Complete exhaustion

• to enervate: Mental, physiological, emotional exhaustion

Tongue Lashing

• to castigate: scolding someone out of irritation and questioning his honesty, ambition, fairness, even his ancestry

Altruistic

• to self-abnegate: keeping others (say family) needs on priority than her own

Repetition

• to recapitulate: to repeat some important point of lecture/ discussion so that others will remember it.

No joie de vivre

• to vegetate: living or spending a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.

Pretense

• to Simulate: Pretending to be paying attention

Slight hint, no more

• to intimate: no equivocal commitments, no clear-cut promises, only the slight and oblique mention of possibilities; hint

Helpful

• to alleviate: Expresses the action of aspirin

  i.e. doesn’t cure any disease but relieves the pain

When the bell tolls

• to commiserate: vicarious sharing of sorrow with someone who directly suffers

When two men propose

• to vacillate: Pendulum-like indecision