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• Passe: No longer fashionable; out of date.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)