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UPSC Dictionary

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UPSC Dictionary

  1. 01Abundance Mindset
  2. 02Accidentally Trod
  3. 03Acquiesce
  4. 04Aggrandise
  5. 05Albeitx
  6. 06All over the place
  7. 07Altruism
  8. 08Amenable
  9. 09Amicus Curiae
  10. 10Annulment
  11. 11Apogee
  12. 12Arbitrary
  13. 13Arbitration
  14. 14Arboreal
  15. 15Art Connoisseur
  16. 16Ask me no secret and I will tell you no lies
  17. 17Attrition Rate
  18. 18Banglar Meye
  19. 19Beck & Call
  20. 20Been a minute
  21. 21Being in a state of flux
  22. 22Being in a state of flux
  23. 23Biennial
  24. 24Bovine
  25. 25Byzantine Changes
  26. 26Cajoling
  27. 27Called out
  28. 28Cash For
  29. 29Cauldron
  30. 30Caveat
  31. 31Celluloid
  32. 32Civil Society
  33. 33Conducive
  34. 34Consecration
  35. 35Conspicuous
  36. 36Constitutional Monism
  37. 37Constitutional Obstinacy
  38. 38Contentious
  39. 39Contraband
  40. 40Course correction
  41. 41Declaring a Diplomat Persona Non Grata
  42. 42Deleterious
  43. 43Democratic Deficit
  44. 44Dichotomy
  45. 45Disengage
  46. 46Disparagingly
  47. 47Distant second
  48. 48Electoral Autocracy
  49. 49End of one's tether
  50. 50Enthu Cutlet
  51. 51Exacerbating
  52. 52Exhibit A
  53. 53Exigency
  54. 54Expunged
  55. 55First Coram, Second Coram,
  56. 56Fiscal Health
  57. 57Fluke
  58. 58Former & Latter
  59. 59Frankenstein's Monster
  60. 60Frittered
  61. 61Guise
  62. 62Hire & fire
  63. 63Hit a Raw Nerve
  64. 64Hitherto
  65. 65Holding the Frame
  66. 66Humbug
  67. 67I am vain but I am not Narcissistic
  68. 68I don't wear my heart on my sleeve
  69. 69I like to hold my gold
  70. 70I will Get us square
  71. 71Impediment
  72. 72Impeding
  73. 73Imposter to conversation
  74. 74Incepted
  75. 75Indiscriminate
  76. 76Injustice Meted Out
  77. 77Interlocutor
  78. 78Judicial Deference
  79. 79Judicial Evasion
  80. 80Kangaroo Court
  81. 81Kitchen Cabinet
  82. 82Knee Jerk Reaction
  83. 83Law of Matsy Nyaya
  84. 84Lo & Behold
  85. 85Makes a Pass at you
  86. 86Making a Martyr Out of Someone
  87. 87Making an episode out of it
  88. 88Metastasize
  89. 89Militate
  90. 90Mitigate
  91. 91Modicum
  92. 92Modus Vivendi
  93. 93Monism
  94. 94Muddle
  95. 95Nonplus
  96. 96Onerous (ONERUS)
  97. 97Overt & Covert
  98. 98Pace Yourself
  99. 99Palatable
  100. 100Parity
  101. 101Pebbles Flintstone
  102. 102Peril
  103. 103Pervasive
  104. 104Pervy
  105. 105Petrogard
  106. 106Plaintiff
  107. 107Platonic
  108. 108Playing Whack-a-Mole
  109. 109Poetic Justice
  110. 110Political Capital
  111. 111Prima Facie
  112. 112Princess in Dismal
  113. 113Princess of Maison
  114. 114Profligacy
  115. 115Prudent
  116. 116Psephology
  117. 117Psephology
  118. 118Psephology
  119. 119Puisne Judge
  120. 120Puisne Judge
  121. 121Quintessential
  122. 122Radio Silence
  123. 123Relevance is Irrelevant
  124. 124Repatriate
  125. 125Replete with Risk
  126. 126Rhetoric
  127. 127Rude Shock
  128. 128Sanguine
  129. 129Segway
  130. 130Seminal
  131. 131Shadow Cabinet
  132. 132Show the downhill
  133. 133Singe
  134. 134Snowden Effect
  135. 135Stray and Feral Cattle
  136. 136Struck a chord
  137. 137Sui Generis
  138. 138Sulking
  139. 139Tepid
  140. 140This Fiscal
  141. 141Thwart
  142. 142Torrential Rain
  143. 143Tortuos (Tortuous)
  144. 144Touch base with parents
  145. 145Track 1 Diplomacy
  146. 146Ubiquitous
  147. 147Veneers
  148. 148Verbal Diarrhoea
  149. 149What he says goes
  150. 150Wreath Laying Ceremony
  151. 151You are the prize
  152. 152Zoonotic disease