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- Article 32
- Constitutional right to move the Supreme Court for enforcement of Fundamental Rights; called the heart and soul of the Constitution by Dr. Ambedkar.
- 42nd Amendment
- 1976 amendment known as the Mini Constitution; added socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble and inserted Fundamental Duties in Part IVA.
- Tropic of Cancer in India
- Passes through eight states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
- Indian Standard Meridian
- 82 degrees 30 minutes east longitude passing through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh; gives Indian Standard Time as GMT plus five and a half hours.
- Money Bill
- A bill dealing only with taxation, borrowing or the Consolidated Fund; introduced only in the Lok Sabha with the President's prior recommendation.
- Uttar Pradesh formation
- Became Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950, after being the North-Western Provinces and then the United Provinces from 1902.
- Repo rate
- The rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term funds to commercial banks against securities; a rise in it tightens money supply.
- NITI Aayog
- Policy think tank that replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015; the Prime Minister chairs it and it issues no financial allocations to states.
- स्वर के भेद
- मूल स्वर ग्यारह होते हैं और संयुक्त स्वर दो - अं तथा अः। शेष वर्ण व्यंजन कहे जाते हैं।
- गुण संधि
- जब अ या आ के बाद इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ आए तो क्रमशः ए, ओ, अर् बनता है; जैसे सूर्य + उदय = सूर्योदय।
- बहुव्रीहि समास
- वह समास जिसमें दोनों पद मिलकर किसी तीसरे अर्थ की ओर संकेत करते हैं; जैसे दशानन का अर्थ दस सिर वाला रावण।
- कृत् प्रत्यय
- क्रिया के मूल रूप के बाद जुड़कर नया शब्द बनाने वाला प्रत्यय, जैसे पढ़ से पढ़ाई और लिख से लिखावट।
- यमक अलंकार
- जहाँ एक ही शब्द दो या अधिक बार आए पर हर बार उसका अर्थ भिन्न हो, वहाँ यमक अलंकार होता है।
- करुण रस
- शोक स्थायी भाव से उत्पन्न रस; इसमें किसी प्रिय व्यक्ति के वियोग या हानि का दुख चित्रित होता है।
- वाच्य के भेद
- कर्तृवाच्य में क्रिया कर्ता के अनुसार चलती है, कर्मवाच्य में कर्म प्रधान होता है और भाववाच्य में अकर्मक क्रिया का भाव प्रधान होता है।
- अंधे की लाठी
- मुहावरे का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा या सहायक; जैसे बुढ़ापे में पुत्र ही अंधे की लाठी होता है।
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- With either-or and neither-nor the verb agrees with the nearer subject; words like each, everyone, nobody and news take singular verbs.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle; expresses a past action with present relevance and pairs with since or for.
- Article use by sound
- Use an before vowel sounds and a before consonant sounds, judged by pronunciation: an hour, a university, an MLA.
- Third conditional
- If plus past perfect in the clause, would have plus past participle in the main clause; expresses an unreal past situation and its imagined result.
- Affect versus effect
- Affect is usually a verb meaning to influence; effect is usually a noun meaning the result or outcome of a change.
- Stationary versus stationery
- Stationary means not moving, while stationery means writing material such as paper, pens and envelopes sold by a stationer.
- One-word: misanthrope
- A person who dislikes or distrusts mankind, in contrast to a philanthropist, who loves and helps mankind.
- Idiom: burn the midnight oil
- To work or study late into the night, from the old practice of burning oil lamps while working after dark.
- Successive discount formula
- Two successive discounts of a and b percent equal one discount of a plus b minus ab divided by 100 percent.
- Compound interest amount
- Amount equals principal multiplied by one plus rate over 100, raised to the number of years; interest is the amount minus principal.
- Relative speed of trains
- Speeds add when two trains move in opposite directions and subtract when they move in the same direction along parallel tracks.
- Alligation rule
- Ratio of two mixed quantities equals higher value minus mean, compared with mean minus lower value; used for mixtures and averages.
- Combination formula
- Number of ways to choose r items from n is n factorial divided by r factorial times n minus r factorial; nC0 equals one.
- Reverse letter value
- Position of a letter counted from the end equals 27 minus its forward alphabetical position; Z is 1 and A is 26.
- Syllogism particular premise
- Two particular premises, such as two statements beginning with some, yield no valid conclusion; a conclusion must hold in every possible diagram.
- Partnership profit share
- Profit is divided in the ratio of capital multiplied by the time each partner's capital remained invested in the business.