Neha's Notebook

  Popple: Water of a stream or a river, flowing in a tumbling, rippling, rolling, and bubbling way. Tweep: A person who uses Twitter (X) to send and receive messages online. Pronk: To jump straight up. Bound. Leap. Spring. Sozzled: Very drunk. Cutesy-poo: Embarrassingly or sickeningly cute. Pogonip: A dense winter fog containing frozen particles, that is formed in deep mountain valleys of western United States. Toodle-pip: Goodbye! Bungle: To do something badly or to fail at doing something. Meldrop: A drop of mucous in the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise. Dottle: A remnant of tobacco left in the pipe after smoking. Gewgaw: A small decorative object that is just showy but otherwise valueless. Bauble. Trinket. Ribbonry: Ribbons. Ribbonwork. Decorative accessories relating to ribbons. Tizzy: A state of nervous excitement. Snickerdoodles: Sugar cookies made in flour, butter, and salt, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Lollapalooza: A person or a thing that is exceptionally impress

The Hollow by Agatha Christie There is a subgenre of detective fiction, known as the “closed circle mystery.” It refers to a situation in which for a given crime (usually a murder), there are a limited number of suspects, each with credible means, motive, and opportunity for committing the crime. Most of Agatha Christie novels are “closed circle mysteries,” that her signature detective Hercule Poirot solves during the course of the story. The Hollow too is a closed circle mystery, set in the English country house of a character named Lucy Angkatell, who lives there with her husband Henry and a couple of loyal servants. She is portrayed to be a woman with an overactive mind with which she spins imaginary scenarios, which lends a bizarre feeling to the story from the very start. The minds of the other characters in the book are also shown to be steeped in psychological complexity. However, unlike most detective and mystery novels, this book doesn’t jump into action

 A piece of cake: Something that is simple or easy to do. As cheap as chips: Really inexpensive. Spill the beans: To reveal a secret. Nutty as a fruitcake: Wacky or crazy. To go bananas: To go crazy; to act without self-control or restraint. Hard nut to crack: Something that is difficult. Sell like hot cakes: To be bought quickly and in large numbers. Like two peas in a pod: Two things that are very similar, almost identical. Pie in the sky: Something good that is unlikely to happen. Couch potato: A lazy and inactive person, especially one who spends a great deal of time watching television. Buy a lemon: Something you buy that gives you a lot of problems. As cool as a cucumber: Very calm and relaxed, especially in a difficult situation. Not your cup of tea: It is not the kind of thing you'll like. Big cheese: Most important or a powerful person. As flat as a pancake: Something that is very flat. As sweet as honey: Someone very kind and who possesses generosity in speech. Take with

  Baragouin: Unreadable, incomprehensible, outlandish, unintelligible speech or writing. Bumbershoot: Umbrella Phantasmagoria: A sequence of real or imaginary images seen in a dream Griffonage: Careless handwriting Boudoir: A woman's private room, dressing room, or powder room. Bouquiniste: Booksellers of rare, secondhand, and antiquarian books, and vintage postcards. Soupcon: A very small quantity or a little amount of something. Peregrination: A long and meandering journey. Dreamboat: An attractive and handsome man. Babelicious: Good-looking and attractive. Jamboree: A large festive gathering or celebration. Gigglemug: A person with a constant smiling face. Sardoodledom: Melodrama Sangfroid: The ability to stay calm in a difficult situation. Sprezzatura: The art of performing a difficult task so gracefully, that it appears effortless. Read more posts related to  Vocabulary

Wafer Cracker Bicky Snickerdoodle Gingerbread Eclairs Sweet rolls Hardtack Rusk Pretzel Biscotti Butter cookie Bourbon Caycay Chocolate-chip cookie Marshmallow Charcoal Biscuit Digestive biscuit Empire biscuit Finskepinner Gingersnap Half-moon cookie Hamantash Jaconina Kaasstengels Krumiri Krumkake Marie biscuit Paborita Panellets Party ring pepernoten macaron Pinata cookie Rainbow cookie Rum ball Tea cake Sandwich cookie Shortbread Stroopwafel Read more posts related to  Vocabulary

BEE'S KNEES meaning The height of excellence. An excellent, suitable, or highly admirable person or thing! Read more posts related to  Vocabulary

Werifesteria - to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery Sirimiri - light rain, drizzle Moonglade - the bright reflection of moonlight on a body or an expanse of water Gossamer - an extremely light, thin, delicate substance or material such as the filmy cobwebs Alejandro - A Spanish word derived from the Greek word "Alexander." It refers to someone who repels enemies, like a warrior or a defender! Abbozzo - a rough sketch or draft of something Woodnote - a natural verbal expression and untrained musical note like a birdsong in the forest Mamihlapinatapai - looking at each other, hoping that the other will start the conversation which both of them desire, but are unwilling to do Sobremesa - A Spanish word meaning "upon the table." Time spent at the table after eating; the habit of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal, having dessert, fruit, or pudding Paracosm - a fantasy land, a fairyland, or imaginary world involving humans, animals, and other

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Since the earliest timescale of human evolution, men have been designed to be more aggressive than women. In ancient and medieval history too, it was men who dictated and influenced women’s position and status in the society. Even though, much has changed today, but gender differences, undoubtedly, prevail. The fundamental nature is just the same. It is not a bad thing though, unless, men start to confuse this aggression with power. The purpose of men’s trait of belligerence is protection and embrace. But when they mistake this emotion with power and dominance, that’s when humanity begins to become ravaged with things like power games, emotional disturbance, and psychological warfare. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller that is a paradigm of this, and throws light on how these gender differences can take the form of conflicts and suffering in interpersonal relationships. The book is written in f