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Today we are sharing some words and phrases from this book “The Indian Empire at War” by George Morton Jack
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thatched gabled roofs
sign on with a thumbprint
there was the added benefit of cashing the fund in for hundreds of rupees, depending on how much the fun had accrued in value.
moniker
shells were accurate up to a mile
reconnaissance balloons
rambunctious
German winter sick rates that rocketed ten times higher than the Indian Army’s
A truce was brokered
flummoxed
moral quandary
these ideals were best left at home
tutee
purlieus
banderole
commissariat
move with clockwork precision
hedgerows
They showed their professional nous
foreseen
unforeseen
unprecedented
placed orders with military suppliers
solicitude
a colossal sum
YMCA ( Young Men’s Christian Association)
viands
capes
mittens
balaclavas
garish clothes
paying back the enemy in his own coin
self-inflicted wounds
news of this trickled in to Indian headquarters
they took flight
the farm was ablaze from incendiary fire
diminutive
waspish
riff-raff
shambolic
atoll
reconnoitre
nothing to relieve the terrible monotony
fetid
a flair for something
novice
they trawled the kitchens for jam tins
whip-up something
treachery
He was a cosmopolitan creature who liked to dress elaborately in Asian and European costume.
A Don Quixote who had strayed into the 20th century
Grandiloquent letters of introduction
Indian spies in British pay
muleteers
The first infantry on the peninsula were a brigade extracted from force F
hobgoblin
set a thief to catch a thief
audience breaks into wild and prolonged laughter
they offered cogent written critiques
memorabilia
Their rifles became so hot that they charred
cave in
their plans never got off the ground
unrepentant
the influence waned
he gathered on military grapevine
they would creep without snapping a twig
gripe
malingering
they had no sense whatever of geography
use something sparingly
out of kilter with something
a wily
bombardment was stop-start
accoutrements
pilloried
He committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills
untrammelled
corps (pronunciation)
equine disease
an inquiry into
portage
naus- the French farming naus stemmed from education.
lepidopterist
run-in
coiffed (pronunciation)
prow of a ship
penciled in
complaints of bad faith (act in bad faith)
The occasion generally discovers the man, and he was there.
