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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 30 April 2020
Here some exceptional English words from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are given with their synonyms/antonyms and usage. Hopefully, this will help you improve your vocabulary.
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1. OUTBID (verb) – बढ़कर बोली बोलना
Pronunciation: aut-bid
Meaning: offer to pay a higher price for something than (another person)
Synonym: overbid
Antonym: divest
Usage: Our Company offered Rs. 10,00,000 for the land, but another company outbid us.
2. PERFIDY (noun) – बेवफ़ाई
Pronunciation: puh-fidi
Meaning: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal
Synonyms: duplicity, deceitful, untrustworthy, disloyalty, infidelity
Antonyms: faithfulness, loyalty
Usage: Because my husband’s perfidy hurt me terribly, I served him with divorce papers.
3. STOCKY (adjective) – छोटा और मोटा
Pronunciation: stoki
Meaning: (of man) fairly short and has a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest
Synonyms: thickset, heavily built, sturdy, heavyset, bull-necked
Antonyms: slender, skinny
Usage: The missing man is about 170 pounds with a stocky build.
4. INCENDIARY (adjective, noun) – आग भड़कानेवाला
Pronunciation: in-sendi-uri
Meaning: designed to cause fire; tending to cause conflict; a person who causes conflict
Synonyms: combustible, flammable, inflammable; provocative, seditious, subversive, revolutionary; agitator, demagogue, rabble-rouser, firebrand, troublemaker
Antonym: conciliatory
Usage:
- Five incendiary devices were found in her house. (adjective)
- She is famous for writing incendiary articles for monthly magazines. (adjective)
- He was an English incendiary, responsible for the burning of three French battleships. (noun)
5. EKE OUT (verb) – जीवित रहना; श्रमपूर्वक जीवनयापन करना
Pronunciation: eek-aut
Meaning: to make a living or support existence laboriously
Synonym: survive
Antonym: waste
Usage: They managed to eke out by farming a small piece of land.
6. VORTEX (noun) – भंवर
Pronunciation: vo-teks
Meaning: a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind
Synonyms: whirlwind, whirlpool, gyre, maelstrom, eddy, swirl, swirling, countercurrent, counterflow
Usage: The hurricane has produced a vortex that is pulling ships under water.
7. REPATRIATION (noun) – स्वदेश में आगमन
Pronunciation: ree-pat-ri-eish(u)n
Meaning: the return of someone to their own country
Synonym: return
Antonyms: exile, expulsion
Usage: Organizations like the United Nations spend millions of dollars on the repatriation of refugees so they are able to return to the home countries after war.
8. GUT-WRENCHING (adjective) – अत्यंत दर्दनाक; कष्टदायक
Pronunciation: gut-renching
Meaning: extremely unpleasant or upsetting
Synonyms: painful, tormenting
Antonyms: pleasing, agreeable, calming
Usage: Gut-wrenching cries could be heard from the burning building as those trapped inside begged for help.
9. CAGEY (adjective) – संकोची
Pronunciation: kei-ji
Meaning: not wanting to say plainly what you think or intend to do; unwilling to act or speak in a direct or open way
Synonyms: secretive, guarded, non-committal, tight-lipped, reticent, cautious, circumspect
Antonyms: frank, open
Usage: She's very cagey about her past life.
10. FREEBOOTER (noun) – साहसी; जोखिमी
Pronunciation: free-bootuh
Meaning: a lawless adventurer
Synonyms: pirate, marauder, adventurer
Usage: He is said to have been a fearless freebooter.
Now, choose any 2 or 3 words and try to use them in your own sentences, this way you can retain the learnt words in your memory for long time. You can share your sentences in the comment section.
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