Showing posts with label Words from My Experiments with Truth. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Words from My Experiments with Truth - acquaintance with religions

Whetted
Sentence - This reading whetted my appetite for studying the lives of other religious teachers

Clergymen
Sentence - A few clergymen also were present to do him the last honours.

Heckled
Sentence - A champion atheist from the crowd heckled one of these clergymen.

Prejudice
Sentence - This talk still further increased my prejudice against atheism.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Words from My Experiments with Truth - My choice

Expound - to explain on detail
Sentence - He began to expound it.

Abstruse - difficult to understand
Sentence - These abstruse things are beyond me.

Words from My Experiments with Truth - in london at last

Abjure - Renounce
SENTENCE - He laughed at my insistence of adjuring meat.

Fib - Insignificant or childish lie
Sentence - `Rest assured it is a fib` said he.

Exasperate - to make angry ; increase intensity
Sentence - And when at the hotel I was told that I should not get my things from Grindlay's the next day, it being a Sunday, I was exasperated.

Insipid - lacking flavour ; not tasty ; lacking quality to excite or stimulate
Sentence - Even the dishes that I could eat were tasteless and insipid.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Words from My Experiments with Truth - Outcaste

Mar - damage
Sentence - His efforts came to fruition in 1947 with India's freedom from British rule but the celebration was marred by Partition, which Gandhi had opposed.

Exultant - jubilant or great joy
Gale - strong wind
Muster - call forward or summon up
Accede - accept or approve a request or demand
Abhor - loathe , hate

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