words, meanings & usage

Tejashree Katdare

Tejashree Katdare

@tejashree-neQ3Bn • Oct 10, 2024
Expunge(v):

Meaning: to cancel, remove

Usage: All the allegations against him were expunged by the court, when he behaved properly for a year.

Syn: discard, erase, obliterate

Extant(adj):

Meaning: still existing

Usage: The earliest extant record of prehistoric man is still preserved in the museum.

Syn: current, existent, immediate, subsisting
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Tejashree Katdare

    @tejashree-neQ3Bn • Jul 20, 2010

    Glean(v):

    Meaning: to gather grain left behind by reapers, to gradually collect

    Usage: He combed the files and gleaned some useful information.

    Syn: accumulate, deduce, cull

    Gingerly(adj):

    Meaning: very cautious or careful

    Usage: I stepped over the broken pieces of glass gingerly.

    Syn: fastidiously, guardedly
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