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Old Friday, November 11, 2011
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Learn a few more words now:


1. Condescend (Verb)

a. to do something that you think it is below your social position to do:

We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
Many of our political leaders consider it to condescend interacting with common people.
He actually condescended to say hello to her in the street today.
Our Holy Prophet (PBUH) disliked condescending to do one's own work.
Lauren Booth said that before converting to Islam, she took with her a swagger and condescended to help the Muslim women in Asia whenever she visited.

b. [INTRANSITIVE] condescend (to somebody):

to behave towards somebody as though you are more important and more intelligent than they are:

When giving guidance, be careful not to condescend to your junior.
You lack a sense of co-operation in a discussion, when you begin to condescend to each other.

2. Blob (Noun)

a small amount or drop of something esp a liquid; a small area of something:

I can see a few blobs of tea on your shirt.
The table had many blobs of wax/paint/ink on it.

3. Peripheral (Adj)

not as important as the main aim, part, etc of something:

The preface only gives the peripheral information about the book.
We Muslims have entangled ourselves in the religious issues of peripheral concern.
Fund raising is peripheral to their main activities.
She possessed a peripheral vision about Islam before.

4. Spurt (verb)

a.

( of liquids of flames ) to burst or pour out suddenly; to produce sudden powerful streams of liquid or flames:


The blood was spurting from her nose.
The human growth spurts at two different stages- from gestation till two years of age after birth and from adolescence to maturity.
The water spurted from the ground when we dug it with spade.
His leg started spurting blood.
Red and yellow flames spurted out of the fire.
Volcano produces an amazing aura when its lava spurts out of it.

b. to increase your speed for a short time to get somewhere faster:

We had to spurt the cars and other vehicles to get at the airport on time.
She spurted past me to get to the line first.

5. Perfidious (adj)

that cannot be trusted:

Our political leaders deliver empty rhetoric with perfidious claims.
The USA is too perfidious for the Muslim countries to have friendship on the basis of equality.
Perfidious influence/promise/charter.
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