Diva Flashcards

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Diva

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Short Definition : operatic singer; prima donna

(noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
Synonyms : prima donna

Divya bharti the singer

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Divest

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Short Definition : strip (as of clothes); deprive (as of rights); dispossess; N. divestiture(divestment)

divest = বিবস্ত্র করা , অধিকারচ্যুত করা , রেহাই পাওয়া

(verb) take away possessions from someone
Synonyms : deprive , strip

(verb) deprive of status or authority
Synonyms : disinvest

opposite to invest; di + vest; vest means an inner garment; divest is to remove it.

di + vest; (A vest is a type of collarless sleeveless upper-body garment. ); divest is to remove it.

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Divulge

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Short Definition : reveal

divulge = ফাঁস করা , উদঘাটন করা

(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Synonyms : break , bring out , disclose , discover , expose , give away , let on , let out , reveal , unwrap

A girl asks u what is that bulge ( rhymes with vulge) in your pant ,then u reveal or show it

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Docile

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Short Definition : obedient; easily managed; submissive

docile = সহজবশ্য , অনুগত , নিরীহ

(adj) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

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Doc-ket

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Short Definition : program as for trial; book where such entries are made; list of things to be done; agenda; label fixed to a package listing contents or directions; V: describe in a docket

  1. (noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court’s activities
  2. (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
    Synonyms : agenda , schedule
  3. (verb) place on the docket for legal action
  4. (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

docket - rocket - a rocket launch involves many trial programs before the actual takeoff.

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Doctrinaire

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Short Definition : unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding; marked by inflexible attachment to a doctrine without regard to its practical difficulties

  1. (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
    Synonyms : dogmatist
  2. (adj) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
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Doctrine

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Short Definition : teachings in general; particular principle (religious, legal, etc.) taught; dogma; tenet; ADJ. doctrinal

(noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
Synonyms : ism , philosophical system , philosophy , school of thought

Doctrine is related to Doctr. We believe whatever the doctr says is right. so doctrine:Belief which is authoratative

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Dod-de-ring

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Short Definition : shaky; infirm from old age; V. dodder

(adj) mentally or physically infirm with age
Synonyms : doddery , gaga , senile
Example Sentence
his mother was doddering and frail

she decided marry Dod seeing his picture pretty young but wn she found he was doddering from his old age she screamed DOD DE RING

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Doff

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Short Definition : take off; OP. don

(verb) remove
Example Sentence
He doffed his hat

DO + OFF or take off, remove.

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Dogged

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Short Definition : determined; stubborn; stubbornly persevering; tenacious; Ex. Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean

dogged = জেদি

dogged perseverance = গোঁ

(adj) stubbornly unyielding
Synonyms : dour , persistent , pertinacious , tenacious , unyielding

a dogs tail is always curved and can never be made straight thus it is dogged

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Doggerel

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Short Definition : poor verse

doggerel = হালকা ছড়া

(noun) a comic verse of irregular measure
Synonyms : doggerel verse , jingle

Example Sentence
he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind

Dogged is stubborness but dog in real (doggerel) is poor verse or comic verse that is sometimes we use kutti word to call our pal

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DOgmatic

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Short Definition : opinionated; holding stubbornly to one’s opinion; arbitrary; doctrinal

dogmatic = প্রশ্নাতীত মতবাদ রূপে উপস্থাপিত , যুক্তিপ্রমাণ ব্যতিরেকে উপস্থাপিত , উদ্ধত

  1. (adj) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
    Synonyms : dogmatical
  2. (adj) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  3. (adj) relating to or involving dogma
    Example Sentence
    dogmatic writings

If you try to read “dogmatic” from back to front, you will get “i am god”. the person who think that he is a god is arrogant and stubborn

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d-old-rums

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Short Definition : blues; listlessness(lack of spirit or energy); slack(inactive) period; period of stagnation; ocean area near the equator where ships cannot move because there is no wind; Ex. in the doldrums

doldrums = অচঞ্চল অবস্থায় , নিরক্ষরেখার কাছাকাছি যে অঞ্চলে কখনো শান্ত আবহাওয়া থাকে কখনো আচমকা ঝড় বা অপ্রত্যাশিত মৃদু বাতাস বয়

  1. (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
    Synonyms : stagnancy , stagnation
  2. (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific

d+old+drums. The old drums are inactive

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Dolorous

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Short Definition : sorrowful; N. dolor

Definition
(adj) showing sorrow
Synonyms : dolourous , lachrymose , tearful , weeping

The image of Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter made us lachrymose, tearful, weeping

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Dolt

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Short Definition : slow-thinking stupid person; CF. dull

dolt = নির্বোধ ব্যক্তি

(noun) a person who is not very bright
Synonyms : dullard , pillock , poor fish , pudden-head , pudding head , stupe , stupid , stupid person

BOLT—one whose bolt is loose

In exam i told him severaal time but he is such a “DOLT” nvr understand the ans.

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Domi-cile

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Short Definition : home; V. ADJ. domiciled: having one’s domicile; Ex. He is domiciled in Britain.

domicile = আবাস , স্থায়ী বাসস্থান

abandonment of domicile = নিবেশ ত্যাগ

(noun) (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time
Synonyms : legal residence

somthing that provides a kind of dome is domicile

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Domineer

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Short Definition : rule over tyrannically

domineer = প্রভুত্ব করা

(verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
Synonyms : tyrannise , tyrannize
Example Sentence
her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her

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Don

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Short Definition : put on; OP. doff

  1. (noun) a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
  2. (noun) teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
    Synonyms : preceptor
  3. (noun) the head of an organized crime family
    Synonyms : father
  4. noun) Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu
  5. (noun) a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov
    Synonyms : don river
  6. (noun) a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename
    Example Sentence
    Don Roberto
  7. (verb) put clothing on one’s body
    Synonyms : assume , get into , put on , wear

DON used to ‘PUT ON’ diverse sorts of clothes to escape from the CBI or FBI.

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Doom

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Short Definition : condemnation to a severe penalty; ruin; fate (esp. a tragic or ruinous one); V.

  1. (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
    Synonyms : day of reckoning , doomsday , end of the world
  2. (verb) decree or designate beforehand
    Synonyms : designate , destine , fate
  3. (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
    Synonyms : condemn , sentence
  4. (verb) make certain of the failure or destruction of
    Example Sentence
    This decision will doom me to lose my position
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Dormer

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Short Definition : window projecting upright from roof; CF. sleeping room

(noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window
Synonyms : dormer window

Dorm er window dormer