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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 01 August 2023
Exceptional words of English vocabulary from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are listed here. Go through these words and read the usages to learn how to use them in sentences. After this, take the quiz based on the vocabulary to check how mucah you learnt. This will really help you boost up your learning.
Happy learning!!!
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1. BURGEONING (adj.) : तेजी से बढ़ते
Pronunciation: buh·juhn·uhng
Meaning: beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing.
Synonyms: flourishing, prospering, thriving
Antonyms: lessening, receding
Sentence: Our company’s business is burgeoning now.
Pronunciation: buh·juhn·uhng
Meaning: beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing.
Synonyms: flourishing, prospering, thriving
Antonyms: lessening, receding
Sentence: Our company’s business is burgeoning now.
2. HARSHEST (adj.) : सख्त से सख्त
Pronunciation: haash·uhst
Meaning: cruel or severe.
Synonyms: cruel, severe, tyrannous
Antonyms: bearable, endurable, tolerable
Sentence: He served for five years in some of the harshest conditions on earth.
3. REMINISCE (verb) : याद दिलाना
Pronunciation: reh·muh·nis
Meaning: indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.
Synonyms: remember (with pleasure), look back on, think back to
Antonyms: disregard, ignore, forget
Sentence: My grandfather used to reminisce about his years in the navy.
4. PANDORA’S BOX (noun) : भानुमती का पिटारा
Pronunciation: Pandora’s box
Meaning: a process that generates many complicated problems as the result of unwise interference in something.
Synonyms: can of worms, confusion, evil.
Antonyms: pleasure, joy, delight
Sentence: Their parents are understandably afraid of opening a pandora’s box if they buy their oldest child a car.
5. BLANDISH (verb) : चापलूसी
Pronunciation: blan·duhsh
Meaning: coax (someone) with kind words of flattery.
Synonyms: blarney, sweet-talk, cajole
Antonyms: browbeat, tease
Sentence: I was blandishing her with imprudences to get her off the subject.
6. PANACEA (noun) : रामबाण
Pronunciation: pa·nuh·see·uh
Meaning: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
Synonyms: universal cure, cure-all, universal remedy
Antonyms: disease, injury, pain
Sentence: Technology is not a panacea for all our problems.
7. GARNER (verb) : इकट्ठा करना
Pronunciation: gaa·nuhr
Meaning: gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).
Synonyms: gather, collect, accumulate
Antonyms: dispel, disperse, dissipate
Sentence: The police struggled to garner sufficient evidence.
8. EDIFY (verb) : उपदेश देना
Pronunciation: eh·duh·fai
Meaning: instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.
Synonyms: educate, instruct, teach
Antonyms: confuse, perplex, puzzle
Sentence: They tried to edify the child with music.
9. THINE (pronoun) : तेरा
Pronunciation: dhine
Meaning: an archaic form of yours; the thing or things belonging to or associated with thee.
Synonyms: thy, yours, thee
Antonyms: mine, not yours, someone else's
Sentence: His spirit will take courage from thine.
10. GRISLY (adj.) : भयानक
Pronunciation: griz·lee
Meaning: causing horror or disgust.
Synonyms: gruesome, ghastly, frightful
Antonyms: comforting, soothing, pleasurable
Sentence: The 55-year-old Canadian had suffered a grisly death.
Now choose any 2 or 3 words, try to use them in your own sentences and share your sentences in the comment section. This will help you to retain the learnt words for a longer duration.
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