Yearning and beyond

Wordsmith / FRANK KRISHNER

Yesterday afternoon, I was watching Deepa Mehta’s marvellous movie, Water. There is a scene in the film where an old, toothless widow yearns to have a ladoo. She constantly talks about how the sweets tasted on her wedding day, decades ago.

Yearning means the feeling of wanting or needing something. This feeling includes the feeling of fondness, compassion, or love. The old sailor had a yearning to go to sea.

A desire is a yearning or a wish for something. A miser has a desire for more and more money. Santosh has a desire to see the Taj Mahal. Mona has a desire to grow slimmer.

A longing is a deep desire or yearning for something that is presently out of your reach. During the cold and wet monsoons in Darjeeling, we have a longing to see a clear sky.

A craving is usually a strong yearning for some kind of food. Pregnant women develop cravings for sweet or sour foods. In the movie, the vampire developed an insane craving for blood.

Thirst can mean simply a desire for something, or it can mean a yearning for something to drink. In a Dalit village in Sasaram, the children had a thirst for pencils and paper.

Hankering is a perfectly good word to use when you have a mild yearning for something. Ramesh has a hankering for iced tea on hot summer afternoons.

If something is to your liking, it pleases you and you may want to have it – if you haven’t already. If someone has a liking for motorcycles, he probably reads books about them, goes to bike shows, and hopes to own is own motorbike some day.

If something suits your taste. You like it. Most people have a taste for samosas. You have to develop a taste for litthi and chokha. You may not like them the first time, but after a while, you discover that you like. Bhojpuri music videos do not suit my taste.

A preference is the liking of one thing better than another. He has a preference for Hollywood movies.




Learn-a- word

Competitive

Someone who is competitive seems to enjoy competing and is always trying to do better than other people. A competitive situation is one in which people try hard to do better than each other, for example in a business or an entrance examination. I hate playing ludo with Rajan, he’s so competitive. Working in advertising is very competitive.

wordscore: unscramble these words [they all have something in common]

PETRTY LELOVY IFEAUBUTL SNNTUNIG

[Last week’s solution: Planet, Cosmos, Galaxy, Satellite]




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