Grotesque Vocab Meme Dctionary – English to Hindi translation with picture dictionary
Grotesque
(adj) odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre; “a grotesque creature with a flattened body and a squashed head”
(adj) incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree; “stories of grotesque mismanagement and wasting of money”
(noun) a very ugly or comically distorted figure or image; “the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques”
(noun) a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.
Grotesque (ग्रोटेस्क) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
mid 16th century (as noun): from French crotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italian grottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’; ‘grotto’ here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome which had been revealed by excavations, and which contained murals in the grotesque style.
Grotesque in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
Chennai’s killers share grotesque trait: Like to watch victims die.
Harlan Ullman: Presidential race has become grotesque game show.
Grotesque ISIS video shows the training of child soldiers.
GROTESQUE images of gangrenous toes and clogged arteries are to be emblazoned across cigarette packets made for sale in UK shops.
An economy that tackles the grotesque inequality that is holding people back.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of grotesque
imagine a tusk grow on your face… you will look grotesque 🙂
Grovel Vocab Meme Dictionary – English to Hindi translation with pciture dictionary
Grovel
(verb) lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one’s face downwards; “George grovelled at his feet”
(verb) act obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour; “they dislike leaders who grovel to foreign patrons”
Grovel (ग्रवल / ग्रावल) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
रेंगना, गिड़गिड़ाना, विनीत भाव दरसाना
Grovel Origin
Middle English: back-formation from the obsolete adverb grovelling, from obsolete groof, grufe ‘the face or front’ (in the phrase on grufe, from Old Norse á grúfu ‘face downwards’) + the suffix -ling .
Grovel in a sentence (Word usage in recent newspaper)
We love to snivel and grovel in front of those in power with all that feet touching brown nosing stuff.
After all it is your life’s mission to grovel in front of that corrupt family.
You have to swallow your pride and have to grovel a bit.
We’ll make them grovel.
Clearly it’s time for Obama to bow to and grovel before China’s leaders.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of grovel
if you want to “grow” + “well” –> grovel before your boss
Pauper Vocab meme Dictionary – English to Hindi translation with picture dictionary
Pauper
a very poor person; “he died a pauper”
Pauper meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
कंगाल, दरिद्र, भिक्षुक, भिखारी
Pauper origin
late 15th century: from Latin, literally ‘poor’. The word’s use in English originated in the Latin legal phrase in forma pauperis, literally ‘in the form of a poor person’ (allowing non-payment of costs).
Pauper in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
He set up what is perhaps the most respected “pauper’s hospital”.
Chemistry Nobel laureate dies a pauper.
A prince dies a pauper.
State may be pauper but Badal is the highest paid CM in India.
Mallya makes a distinction between his personal fortune and his professional fortune (or lack of it); he is thus both a millionaire and a pauper.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of pauper
pauper = pau + per, agar ‘pau’ bread ‘per’ jinda rehna padde toh samjh jaana ‘pauper’ ban gaye
