Fill This Blank With Yes or No: -----I Don't Have a Brain

 

Our learned, veteran ENT expert with 41 years of experience has recently started another group for learning and understanding English words. These days, he has launched multiple groups. Where he gets so much time to handle them looks like a wonder as he also has a hectic schedule.

There is no dearth of eternal learners as knowing, understanding and learning is a never-ending exercise for those having the urge to keep learning, irrespective of one's age and stage in life. So, let us be thankful for the Doctor preferring to remain anonymous and including me in the group having 300+ members almost all of them being doctors and medical practitioners. 

Ending learning is also ending life: R Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, senior Advocate of Karnataka High Court heaped praise on the new group of understanding words. He is also equally appreciative of the attempts of the veteran ENT Doctor to disseminate. R Vijay Bhaskar Reddy says-"Learning is never-ending and ending learning is equal to ending life".

Doctor joins to praise: Dr Anirudha R Podder has also appreciated the move of our ENT surgeon in enabling his group members to have an understanding of new or less-used words. He is a Senior Consultant Gynaec-oncologist at Mahavir Cancer Sansthan. He is a gynaec oncologist and a laparoscopic gynec surgeon with more than 15 years of experience. He is a high-volume surgeon, performing more than 200 surgeries a year which include laparoscopic hysterectomy, Radical and ultra-radical surgeries for gynaecological cancers, surgeries for vesicovaginal, rectovaginal and ureterovaginal fistulae, and palliative surgeries like ileal conduit. He shares some interesting usage of words at Patna, his current workplace.

Oxford, Cambridge returned assured a job: Dr Anirudha R Podder informs- "There was a time when an Oxford Cambridge returned with a degree in economics, political history or literature would immediately be offered a job as a college professor or an editor, simply because of his English.

Today people laugh at the way Shashi Tharoor speaks because it appears like he is showing off, speaking an alien language. English is now an Indian language which we must speak like Indians. In Patna, I have come across new English words that Biharis have created

1. Bossism- very bossy

He is very arrogant and difficult to work with, can't tolerate his bossism.

2. Renter- tenant

My old renter was not regular with his rent payments

3. Jugad- arrangement 

He has some jugad in his village, and he gets a lot of patients from there.

4. Setting- understanding 

Sab setting ho gaya hai

I have a good setting with him.

5. Marketing- shopping for daily needs, nothing to do with the marketing profession!

Hauwa- hype

There was a lot of hauwa about him but he turned out to be third class.

A close synonym for recondite- esoteric

It was so esoteric that nobody understood".

Let us have a look at a couple of words for today:

Egregious: 

Extremely bad in a very noticeable way:

 It was an egregious error for a statesman to show such ignorance.

Conspicuously bad

1 It was an egregious error for a statesman to show such ignorance.

2 It was an egregious breach of protocol.

3 So a bit of fiddle, but nothing really egregious.

4 But the most egregious sin on the bases by the Mets was in the sixth by Timo Perez with two out.

5 Why should people who do something truly egregious be protected by an arbitrary limit on their punishment?

Adjure

To urge or advise earnestly

To ask or to order someone to do something

She adjured him to tell the truth.

I adjure you to tell the truth before this court.

Gwen adjured him to be truthful.

I adjure you to spare him.

I adjure you to speak the truth.

Cavil 

Make petty or unnecessary objections.

"they cavilled at the cost"

To raise annoying petty objections; quibble;

To raise a trivial and frivolous objection

The author cavilled about the design of the book's cover.

[A typogram is a word or a series of words written and disposed in such a manner that they illustrate what they mean. Artist Aaron Kuehn brings typograms to a new level by dwarfing complex systems depicted using only the names of their parts.]

If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.

To raise trivial objections to

He cavilled the conditions of the agreement.

A customer cavilled about the price

I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report

However, my purpose here is not to cavil, nor to review the exhibition as a whole.

No one could cavil with that, either then, or in historical retrospect.

Even he could find nothing to cavil about.

Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, "I can easily believe it.

Inputs Courtesy: Veteran ENT Doctor with 41 years of experience.