English tit bits - Dr Prabhu

1.

 "The Lollapalooza effect" - the tendency to get extreme consequences from confluences of psychological tendencies acting in favour of a particular outcome.To graduate, postgraduate..

To graduate means slightly different things in Britain and the USA. If you graduate in Britain, you have at least secured a first degree (B.A./B.Sc) from a university. In the USA, elementary schools and high schools hold graduation ceremonies. One who completes a course of studies in a high school is said to have graduated. This apart, a graduate student in the USA is one who is doing his M.A. or Ph.D. He is in a graduate school. 

A student studying for an M.A. or a Ph.D. in a British university would be a postgraduate student. In the USA, a postgraduate is one who is studying after getting a Ph.D. In both the countries, a doctoral student means the same thing: one working for a Ph.D. The term postdoctoral also is current in both the countries.

2.

✔ CATACOMB is underground cemetery.

✔ ÇENOTAPH is a monument to persons buried elsewhere.

✔ SARCOPHAGUS is a stone coffin.

✔ CRYPT is a vault beneath a church used as a burial place.

3.

Antigram is an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase.

1. Santa
Satan

2. Restful
Fluster

3. Silent
Listen

4. True lady
Adultery

5. Antagonist
Not against