Vocab Tadka – Lackey – Malleable – Sacrilegious

LACKEY– 1. servant (naukar in hindi); 2. person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

So one who makes LOCKEY ki sabji for you is your LACKEY..

or you can say, LACKEY ~ LOCK + KEY when you go out of your house   you give  LOCK and KEY of your house to LACKEY so that he can do his work without calling you.

2nd meaning : Lackey person lacks in lot of things so he/she always flatters, do boot licking to get lot of things.

 

 

MALLEABLE – Easily controlled or influenced.

Many women believe that they are CAPABLE of molding their MALE partners and hence they are MALLEABLE.

or we can say: considering the business strategy of selling things,  MALLS take the advantage of MALLEABLE minds of children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SACRILEGIOUS – Violating something that is religious.

After destroying Buddha’s idols at Bamiyan, Terrorists must have said-  “Akhir hum logo ne in SACred or RELIGIOUS statue ko tod hi diya.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dictionary Meaning of these words:

LACKEY 

1

(n)

a male servant (especially a footman) Type: ‘noun.person’ Synonym: flunkey, flunky,

2

(n)

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage Type: ‘noun.person’ Synonym: ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, toady,

Malleable

1

(s)

easily influenced Type: ‘adj.all’; Synonym: ductile,

2

(s)

capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out Type: ‘adj.all’;  Usage: ‘they soaked the leather to made it pliable’ ; Synonym: ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile,

Sacrilegious

1

(s)

grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred Type: ‘adj.all’; Usage: ‘it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on’ ; Synonym: blasphemous, profane,

 

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