- Above – below
- Attack – defend
- Ability – inability
- Advance – retreat
- Adversity – prosperity
- Arrival – departure
- Ancient – modern
- Arrest – release, free
- Ascent – descent
- Acquit – convict
- Acceptance – rejection
- Armament – disarmament
- Absurd – reasonable
- Ample – meagre
- Advantage – disadvantage
- Agree – disagree
- Angel – devil
- Absence – presence
- Bottom – top
- Broad – narrow
- Buy – sell
- Blunt – sharp
- Busy – idle
- Beautiful – ugly
- Blessing – curse
- Bravery – cowardice
- Belief – disbelief
- Beneficial – harmful
- Barren – fertile
- Beginning – end
- Barbaric – civil
- Boon – bane, curse
- Better – worse
- Cheerful – gloomy
- Concord – discord, disagreement
- Complicated – simple
- Cautious – negligent
- Consent – dissent
- Confess – deny
- Compare – contrast
- Courageous – timid
- Care – neglect
- Creation – destruction
- Confidence – diffidence
- Civilized – uncivilized, wild
- Cause – effect
- Certain – uncertain
- Credit – cash
- Converge – diverge
- Docile – stubborn
- Deep – shallow
- Friendly – hostile
- Foolish – wise
- False – true
- Guest – host
- Gain – loss
- Grateful – ungrateful
- General – particular
- Genuine – spurious
- Humility – insolence
- Heaven – hell
- Honour – shame, dishonour
- Hope – despair
- Heredity – environment
- Humble – proud, haughty
- Honest – dishonest
- Import – export
- Include – exclude
- Increase – decrease
- Innocent – guilty
- Initial – final
- Inhale – exhale
- Justice – injustice
- Junior – senior
- Joy – sorrow
- Knowledge – ignorance
- Kind – cruel
- Like – dislike
- Literate – illiterate
- Logical – illogical
- Lack – abundance
- Legitimate – illegitimate
- Lend – borrow
- Material – spiritual
- Maximum – minimum
- Mortal – immortal
- Miser – spendthrift
- Merit – demerit
- Mourn – rejoice
- Noble – ignoble
- Natural – unnatural, artificiaL
- Oral – written
- Dead – alive
- Dull – bright, interesting
- Defence – offence
- Domestic – wild
- Deficit – surplus
- Deposit – withdraw
- Dwarf – giant
- Demand – supply
- Defeat – victory
- Difficult – easy
- Desolate – inhabited
- Distress – comfort
- Dynamic – static
- Diminish – increase
- Death – life
- Defensive – offensive
- Dependent – independent
- Dry – wet
- Exterior – interior
- Examiner – examinee
- Expedite – delay
- Ebb – flow
- Enjoyment – suffering
- Early – late
- Economical – extravagant
- Encourage – discourage
- Earn – spend
- Entrance – exit Failure – success
- Frank – reserved
- Freedom – slavery
- Fame – obscurity
- Front – back
- Frown – smile
- Far – near
- Fortune – misfortune
- Full – empty
- Fine – coarse
- Fresh – stale
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Sunday, 18 May 2014
LIST OF NEW APPOINTMENTS Part -2
- Dinesh Sarraf - ONGC chief
- Arseny Yatseniuk - Ukraine’s new prime minister
- Rashid Latif - Pakistan cricket chief selector
- Bappi Lahiri - goodwil ambassador in Nepal
- Metro Man E Sreedharan - Uttar Pradesh government’s chief adviser for Lucknow metro rail project.
- Cheteshwar Pujara - ‘brand ambassador’ of the Gujarat state Election Commission.
- Salil Nair - Shoppers Stop CEO
- Ashok Varadhan - co-head of Goldman Sachs’ securities
- Justice Mukul Mudgal - appointed as Chief of BCCC
- Siddharth Das - Flipkart Chief Operating Officer of its online payment solution PayZippy
- Rakesh Maria - Mumbai’s new police commissioner
- Vallabhaneni Venkateshwara Rao - the member of Censor Board.
- Kalyan Singh -BJP vice-president
- Sheila Dikshit – Governor of Kerala Published
- Ibrahim Mahlab – Prime Minister of Egypt
- Matteo Renzi - PM of Italy
- Edward Snowden - Rector of University of Glasgow
- Abdul Basit - high commissioner of Pakistan
- Vinod Sawhny - CEO of Reliance Communications
- Jatinder Bir Singh - CMD of Punjab and Sind Bank
- R.K.Tiwari – new Chairman of CBDT
- N Ramachandran- President of IOA
- Marco Lambertini - Director-General of WWF International
- Sanjeev Kulkarni - dean of Princeton University Graduate School (DGH)
- Satya Nadella – CEO of Microsoft
- M Teresa Kho – Country Director of ADB
- Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur – head 7th Central Pay Commission
- Poonam Khetrapal Singh – Regional Director of SEARO
- Vivek Lall -Special Advisor Published
- Manoj Vaish – MD & CEO of MCX
- Harish Rawat -8th Chief Minister of Uttrakhand
- Michel Rogers – Director of NSA
- Arun Gupta – CMD of Shipping Corporation of India
- Ajoy Misra – the CEO and MD of Tata Global Beverages Limited
- Manoj Kohli – MD&CEO of non telecom businesses of Bharti Enterprises
- Gopal vittal – MD&CEO of Bharti Airtel
- Egypt’s Army Chief Fattah al-Sisi -Field Marshal
- Professor Rakesh Khurana – Dean of Harvard College
- Kailash Meghwal – Speaker of Rajasthan Assembly
- Aruna Bahuguna -first woman to be appointed chief of National Police Academy
- Catherline Samba-Panza- CAR’s Interim President (first woman to be elected as the interim president)
- Jamila Bayaz -first women to be appointed police chief of Kabul province
- Sirajuddin Qureshi – President of IICC Published
- Morten Sorby – new Uninor CEO
- Munish Sharda – MD and CEO of Future Generali Life
- Janet Yellen – Chairperson of Federal Reserve
- Chandrashekhar – President of NASSCOM
- Srinivas and Pravin Rao – Infosys Presidents
- Raj Jain – CEO of Bharti Retail
- Pradhyuman Singh – pro-tem speaker of 14th Rajasthan Assembly
- S.K.Sharma – Chairman and Managing Director of BEL
- Ashraf Jehan-first female judge in Pak’s National Sharia Court
- Devendra Kumar Pathak – DG, BSF
- Pradeep Kumar – MD Corporate Banking of State Bank of India
- J.N.Chaudhary – Head of NSG
- CISF – chief Arvind Ranjan
- Ashok Lavasa, – the New Civil Aviation Secretary
- M. Veerappa Moily – new Environment and Forests Minister
- Siddarth Birla – President of FICCI
- Vinod Kumar Duggal – the Governor of Manipur
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar – ambassador of US
- Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed – Prime Minister by Somalian Parliament
- Usha Sangwan – first woman Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation.
- P.H. Parekh – President of Supreme Court Bar Association
- S B Nayar -Chairman and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Corp Limited
- Puneet Kumar – secretary general of AEPC
- Harsh Kumar Bhanwala -Chairman of NABARD
- CVR Rajendran – CMD of Andhra Bank
- Krishna Iyer – CEO of Wal-Mart India
- Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag – new Army chief
Important Idioms and Phrases
1. Like a fish out of water - In a strange situation
2. Smell a rat - Suspect something foul
3. Read between the lines - Understand the hidden meaning
4. Tooth and Nail - With all of one’s power
5. Spread like wild fire - Spread quickly
6. Hit the nail on the head - Do or say the exact thing
7. Burn the midnight Oil - Work or study hard
8. Under his thumb - Under his control
9. With a high hand - Oppressively
10. Gain ground - Become popular
11. By leaps and bounds - Rapidly
12. Make off with - To run away with
13. Pass away - to die
14. To cry for the moon - Ask for the impossible
15. To make a pig of oneself - To over-eat
16. Donkey’s years - Very long time
17. To pull one’s leg - to joke; tease
18. To keep one’s fingers crossed - to hope fervently
19. To eat humble pie - To apologize in a humble manner
20. To fight a losing battle - Struggle without hope of success
21. A deadlock - A position when no progress can be made
22. A daredevil - A person who does not care for any
consequences
23. Once in a blue moon - Very rarely
24. At a premium - Difficult to get or obtain
25. To play the game - To act honestly