30 April 2016

aphasic

onomatopoeic

quotidian

29 April 2016

• Nugatory: Of no value or importance
• The cardinal points used to be firmly located in the English-speaking world, but now the needle swings erratically to less developed markets like ours, where the numbers are nugatory. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Strychnine: A bitter and highly poisonous compound obtained from nux vomica and related plants.  
• Here, an English language book, which is well received might sell only 2000 copies, a figure which would cause a London publisher to reach for the strychnine. (Pratik Kanjilal) 
• Evanescent: Vanishing, fading away, fleeting 
• The second is in that evanescent moment after a group has formed but its hierarchy has not. (Jerry Useem) 

27 April 2016

• Pro bono; Done or donated wthout charge free
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• Compostable
• Underhanded

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• Discursive: Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
• This meditation is not a discursive reflection on a philosophy of meditation. (Thay)
• Gnomic: Accustomed, used to 
• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Inscrutable
• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)

26 April 2016

• Discursive: Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
• This meditation is not a discursive reflection on a philosophy of meditation. (Thay)
• Gnomic: Accustomed, used to 
• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Inscrutable
• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)
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25 April 2016

• Sublimate: To divert the energy of (a sexual of other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral or aesthetic nature or use. 
• The worst experience endured by people in the Middle East and North Africa, had to be expiated on surface instead of being pent up or sublimated. (Stuart Schaar) 
•  Polemic: A controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine , etc.
•   On an occasion like this I have no appetite for polemics. (Saul Bellow) 
• Unswerving: Not turning aside, constant 
• Chris Hann, who knew Gellner, in his obituary in The Independent (London), 8 November 1995, pointed out that 'his scorn for western Marxism was unswerving'. (Stuart Schaar)

24 April 2016

• Surmise: 
• Foment
• Obviate: Remove a need or difficulty 
• Does it obviate all the decsions analysis courses? 

23 April 2016

Conscientious:  Controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled

• Censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.

Quid pro quo: A favor or advantage granted in return for something. 

• And the right time 
• And the right time would have been when you can get the necessary quid pro quo – if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States. (Al Jazeera)

Polygraph: A machine designed 

• Walk-ins are assumed by the CIA to be unreliable, and the response from the agency’s headquarters was to fly in a polygraph team.

Redact:

• The Saudis themselves have previously called for the release for the redacted pages. (Nytimes)
• Wholesome: Conducive to moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial
• Whenever a wholesome thought arises acknowledge it. (Thay)
• Ipso facto: By the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
• When one says that a statement was recorded under "duress" then it also means ipso facto that the contents of the statement will be false. (Moeed Pirzada) 

22 April 2016

• Redact: Censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.
• The Saudis themselves have previously called for the release for the redacted pages. (Nytimes)
• Wholesome: Conducive to moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial
• Whenever a wholesome thought arises acknowledge it. (Thay)
• Ipso facto: By the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
• When one says that a statement was recorded under "duress" then it also means ipso facto that the contents of the statement will be false. (Moeed Pirzada) 

21 April 2016

• Passe: No longer fashionable; out of date.
• The talk about digital divide is passe. ( Dr. Ishrat Hussain)
• Solemn: 
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• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Solipsism: The theory that only the self exists. 
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• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)

20 April 2016

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19 April 2016

• Discursive: Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
• This meditation is not a discursive reflection on a philosophy of meditation. (Thay)
• Accustomed, used to 
• Last week, as I am wont to do, I jetted over to London for 36 hours to interview a CEO of a multinational company.  
• Expeditious: Characterized by promptness; quick
• Pakistan has a long agenda of reforms that would entail better security, law and order, an expeditious system to adjudicate disputes, a modern civil service, an efficient infrastructure and skilled labor force. (Dr. Ishrat Hussain) 
• Avulse: To pull off or tear away forcibly
• The lights of the tent became cloudy and his eyes started rolling, he tried to scream but he felt his tongue had been avulsed from the root. (Siraj)

18 April 2016

• Scurrilous: Grossly or obscenely abusive
• While the first family has every right to defend itself, against all allegations, scurrilous or otherwise, there is a higher principle at stake here. (Dawn editorial) 
• Dissembling: To give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal a truth or real nature of 
• Was the Sharif scion dissembling in 1999 when he claimed that he was living in a rented property?  (Dawn editorial)
• Communion: Association, fellowship 
• Like that, I can really enter into a communion with each leaf. (Thay) 

17 April 2016

• Stymied: A situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it. 
• These efforts have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign nations that gives some immunity from lawsuits in American courts. (Mark Mazzetti)
• Distended: Increased, as in, volume, size, etc. 
• He had been housebound one day with asthma, on a rainy and distended morning, apparently through some of his father's promotional materials.  (David Foster Wallace)  
• Automaton:A mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot 
• It's also worth keeping in mind that your goal with productivity porn shouldn't be to transform yourself into a hyper efficient automaton who can take an ever larger piles of work. (Daniel Mcginn) 

16 April 2016

• Agreeable: To one's liking; pleasing
• Nowadays one stands in a kitchen equipped with liquid soap, special scrub pads, and even running hot water which makes it all the more agreeable. (Thay)
• Laundromat: A commercial establishment equipped with washing machines and dryers, usually coin-operated and self service.  
• How does Allen manage to work, study Joey's lesson, take Ana's diapers to the laundromat. and practice mindfulness at the same time? (Thay)
• Dispersion: Spreading wildly
• Mindfulness frees us from forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. (Thay)

15 April 2016

Measly: Contemptibly small; meager or slight

• Is he seriously suggesting, all things being equal, Don Quixote's thousand-odd pages makes it simply better than Death in Venice's measly 72?  (Richard Lea) 

Bean Counting: Having to do with bureaucratic statistics and calculations. 

• I'm the first to acknowledge the special pleasures of long-form fiction, but isn't this kind of aesthetic bean counting a little one-dimensional.  (Richard Lea) 

Rambling: Aimlessly wandering; (of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.  

• The novella is "the perfect form of prose fiction...the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant."  (Richard Lea) 
• It was during these days that Khan's ramblings about a U.S. conspiracy against him and Pakistan took hold. (Maham Jawaid: 10 October 2022)

14 April 2016

• Oomph: Energy, vitality, enthusiasm 
• Now he never had enough oomph to do much of anything. (Ellen G. Langer)
• Cantankerous: Bad tempered; argumentative; and uncooperative 
• Gladwell likes to write about compellingly cantankerous people. (Drake Baer) 
• Accolade: Any award, honor or laudatory notice
• Martin accomplishments earn him Dean of the year honors from Poets&Quants for 2013, making him the first dean who is no longer in the job to be given the accolade. (John A. Byme) 

13 April 2016

• Asunder: Apart, into separate parts; in or into pieces
• But much worse, if and when one of these candidates does become the Republican party's nominee for president, the party could very well be torn asunder into factions. (Cody Cain)
• Lobotomy: An operation of cutting into a lobe, as of the brain or lung 
• I want to give you a lobotomy about change. (Jim Collins) 
• Aperiodic: Not periodic, not occurring at regular intervals
• He is obsessed with aperiodic tile patterns. (Malcolm Gladwell) 

12 April 2016

• Rattle: To disconcert and confuse (a person) 
• These American technological advances rattle Russia and China, which cite them as a pretext to develop their own new weapons. (Mark Landler) 
• Broach: To mention or suggest for the first time 
• He first broached the issue of a nuclear-armed Japan and South Korea in an interview with The New York times last week, putting it in the context of his case that the United States should no longer bear the full burden of defending its Asian allies.  (Mark Landler) 
• Marquee: Superlative; headlining
• Earlier on Friday, Mr. Obama argued that his marquee accomplishment in non proliferation-the nuclear deal with Iran-had "achieved a substantial success". (Mark Landler) 

11 April 2016

• Rake In: To acquire large sum of money 
• In the year since Pakistani investigators raided Axact, a Karachi-based software company accused of raking in hundreds of millions of dollars with a vast Internet degree scam, Pakistani and American investigators have been busy dismantling its operations. (Declan Walsh)
• Soft-pedal : To tone or play-down; make less strong, as an idea or fact
• The leading prosecutor quit with little explanation, hitting that he had come under political pressure to soft-pedal the case. (Declan Walsh)
• Deposition: The giving of testimony under oath
• The worker, Saleem Kureshi, conducted a webcam video deposition in 2011 for the American court. (Declan Walsh)

10 April 2016

• Juxtaposition: An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. 
• Yet the juxtaposition between the ethical ideals of Buddhist philosophy and hard-nosed pragmatism of business is strange and striking. (Antonia Macaro &; Julian Baggini)
• Sanguine: Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful,or confident.
• This is why many buddhist teachers are sanguine about people beginning to meditate for more instrumental reasons, since they believe the practice itself will in time change the practitioners. (Antonia Macaro &; Julian Baggini)
• Twinge: A sudden, sharp pain; a mental or emotional pang
• For those who value mindfulness as a spiritual or ethical path, it's hard not to feel a twinge of concern that something traditionally subversive of mainstream values and goals is being used in support of them. (Antonia Macaro &; Julian Baggini)

9 April 2016

• Epithet: Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality. 
• He also strongly objected to being called a "management guru"-an epithet often tied to him.  (Manfred J. Hoefle)
• Harried: Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.  
• It was organized by the "Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski and the new-media mogul Arianna Huffington, and conceived, Huffington said, to correct a problem that she had perceived in herself and other harried strivers. (Lizzie Widdicombe)
• Titter: To laugh in a restrained, self conscious, or affected way, as from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement. 
• Brzezinski added, to titters, "You're not going to think 'monk' when he walks onstage!" (Lizzie Widdicombe)

8 April 2016

• Vanguard:  The forefront of any movement, field, activity, or the like. 
• The General Mills initiative is at the vanguard of the movement that is quietly reshaping certain corners of the corporate world.  (David Gelles)
• Echelons: A level of command, authority, or rank
• With meditation, yoga and "mindfulness", the foundational tenets of Buddhism, Hinduism and other pan-Asian philosophies have infiltrated the upper echelons of some of the biggest companies of Earth. (David Gelles)
• Buoy: To sustain or encourage 
• Pioneered by Chade-Meng Tan, an early google employee, its popularity has been buoyed by Tan's book of the same title.  (David Gelles)

7 April 2016

• Voracious:  Craving or consuming large quantities of food; exceedingly eager or avid
• A voracious economic system. (Guardian)
• Paper over: To gloss over, explain away, or patch up (as major difference or disparities) especially in order to maintain a semblance of unity or agreement.
• Pointing to our addiction to consumption as a clear sign we are trying to paper over our suffering, Thay suggests we should go in the opposite direction to the very heart of our pain, in order to transcend it. (Guardian)
• Ethos: The guiding beliefs of a person, group,  or organization. 
• But is it possible for business leaders to create transformation through the building of a community ethos within their companies? (Guardian)
•  I have never been in environment with so strong an ethos of service running through it. (Jim Collins-regarding West Point)

6 April 2016

• Moniker:  A person's name especially a nickname or alias. 
• We labeled our high-performance study cases with the moniker "10X" because they didn't merely get by or just become successful. (Jim Collins)
• Roiling: In a state of agitation or disorder. 
• These are impressive results by any measures, but they're astonishing when you take into account the roiling storms, destabilizing shocks, and chronic uncertainty of Southwest's environment. (Jim Collins) 
• But the remarks of an American presidential candidate roiled the water.   (Mark Landler, April 12' 2016)   
• Modulate: Exert a modifying or controlling influence on 
• But you hold back, modulating your effort.  (Jim Collins)