Deft
Meaning: skillful, clever, quick
Sentence:
1.With her deft fingers, Martha played the harp and enchanted the audience with her sweet music.
2. Ridhima’s deft responses to the journalists impressed everyone during the press conference.
3. All I need to make my weekend luxurious is a deft masseuse and an entertaining novel.
Doppelganger
Meaning: a spirit that looks exactly like a living person, or someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related to that person
Sentence:
1.It can be scary to see one’s doppelganger.
2. Shahrukh Khan’s doppelganger got a rare opportunity to appear in a promotional event of Shahrukh’s movie FAN.
Despicable
Pronunciation: di’spi-ku-bul
Meaning: deserving to be hated and strongly disliked
Sentence:
1. Poachers should be strongly punished for despicable wildlife crimes.
2. His behaviour was despicable
Drubbing
Meaning: To defeat badly, especially in sports competition
Sentence:
1. PV Sindhu drubbed world no. 5 Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the BWF world championship and was crowned the first Indian world champion.
2. Nozomi received a serious drubbing (21-7, 21-7) at the hands of PV Sindhu.
Detest
Pronunciation: di’test
Meaning: strong dislike
Sentence:
1. I detest them as much as you do.
2. Rima detests animal cruelty.
3. Shenaz detests smoking.
Double entendre
Pronunciation: doob-ul-ón-tónd-ru
Meaning: a word or phrase open to two interpretations
Sentence:
The song’s title is a double entendre.
Delectable
Pronunciation: di’lek-tu-bul
Meaning: looking or tasting extremely good, giving great pleasure
Sentence:
1. Ohri’s delectable Sizzling brownie is our forever favorite dessert.
2. Alia Bhatt was delectable in her role as Sehmat in the blockbuster movie Raazi.
Dodge
Pronunciation: Dój
Meaning: Avoid someone or something by quick movement
Sentence:
1. My mom tactfully dodged the question when I asked her, “Whom do you love more, my brother or me?”
2. Ritvik tried to punch me, but I easily dodged that.
3.Akshay dodged the paparazzi by disguising himself as a pizza delivery boy and escaped on a bike.
Debilitating
Pronunciation: du- ‘bi- lu- tey- ting
Meaning: to make someone or something physically weak
Sentence:
1. Get rid of beliefs that give rise to debilitating negative emotions.
2. Any kind of stress debilitates one’s health.
Deal Breaker
Meaning: something that causes someone to reject or break the deal
Sentence: “I can accept anything but infidelity is a deal breaker for me in a relationship,” Deepika said upon breaking up with Ranbir Kapoor.