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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 01 July 2020
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. What’s more, take the test given at the last to check how much you learnt. This will really help you boost up your learning.
Happy learning!!!
Happy learning!!!
1. INTRANSIGENCE (noun) – कटृटरता, कठोरता, हठ
Pronunciation: uhn•tran•zuh•jns
Meaning: refusal to change one's views or to agree about something
Synonyms: obstinacy, obduracy, adamancy, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness
Antonyms: acceptance, acquiescence, flexibility, pliability
Usage: I can’t understand Rachel’s intransigence, considering that we have undeniable proof that her idea is incorrect.
Pronunciation: uhn•tran•zuh•jns
Meaning: refusal to change one's views or to agree about something
Synonyms: obstinacy, obduracy, adamancy, pertinacity, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness, willfulness
Antonyms: acceptance, acquiescence, flexibility, pliability
Usage: I can’t understand Rachel’s intransigence, considering that we have undeniable proof that her idea is incorrect.
2. HUBRIS (noun) – अभिमान, घमंड
Pronunciation: hyoo•bruhs
Meaning: excessive pride or self-confidence
Synonyms: overconfidence, presumption, bighead, complacence, conceit, ego, pomposity, self-admiration, self-assumption, vanity, haughtiness
Antonyms: modesty, diffidence, self-doubt, self-disgust, self-loathing, altruism, bashfulness, demureness, timidity
Usage: He was punished for his hubris.
3. INIMICAL (adjective) – हानिकारक
Pronunciation: uh•ni•muh•kl
Meaning: tending to obstruct or harm; unfriendly
Synonyms: harmful, injurious, detrimental, pernicious, adversary, antagonistic, antipathetic, hostile, inhospitable, jaundiced, mortal, unsympathetic
Antonyms: friendly, hospitable, nonantagonistic, nonhostile, sympathetic
Usage: Lack of ambition is inimical to success.
4. PUERILE (adjective) – बचकाना
Pronunciation: pyuor•rail
Meaning: behaving in a silly way, not like an adult
Synonyms: adolescent, babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, fatuous, inane
Antonyms: adult, grown-up, mature, sensible
Usage: He was trying to give puerile excuses.
5. MAGNANIMITY (noun) – उदारता, दरियादिली, दानशीलता
Pronunciation: mag•nuh•ni•muh•tee
Meaning: kindness and generosity, especially towards an enemy or someone you have defeated
Synonyms: altruism, generosity, high-mindedness, humanitarianism, philanthropy, commiseration, benevolence, charity, clemency
Antonyms: mercilessness, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
Usage: The losing team was surprised by the winners’ magnanimity when they invited them to the after party.
6. CONDESCENDING (adjective) – दूसरों को नीचा जताने का व्यवहार
Pronunciation: kon•duh•sen•duhng
Meaning: treating someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them
Synonyms: disdainful, patronizing, authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, pontifical, impudent, assumptive, bumptious, huffy, snooty, blusterous
Antonyms: humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious
Usage: He has a condescending attitude towards women.
7. TANTAMOUNT (adjective) – बराबर, समान
Pronunciation: tan•tuh•mawnt
Meaning: equal to something in value, meaning, or effect
Synonyms: akin, alike, analogous, cognate, comparable, connate, correspondent, corresponding
Antonyms: disparate, distinct, distinguishable, nonequivalent, variable
Usage: To leave a dog in a hot car is tantamount to torture.
8. INVASIVE (adjective) – तेज़ी से फैलने वाला, आक्रामक
Pronunciation: uhn•vei•suhv
Meaning: tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully; tending to intrude on a person's thoughts or privacy
Synonyms: protruding, prying, presumptuous, invading
Antonyms: confined, defensive
Usage: They found invasive cancer during a routine examination.
9. MODICUM (noun) – थोड़ा, नाम मात्र
Pronunciation: mo•duh•km
Meaning: a small quantity of a particular thing, especially something desirable or valuable
Synonyms: morsel, shred, crumb, fragment, pinch, iota, grain
Antonyms: lot, whole, bulk
Usage: All I need is a modicum of money to pay for my basic needs.
10. POGROM (noun) – सामूहिक हत्या
Pronunciation: po•gruhm
Meaning: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe
Synonyms: genocide, carnage, holocaust, slaughter, bloodshed, homicide, manslaughter, murder, slaying
Antonyms: assistance, succor, abetment
Usage: Many people are aware of the Reginald’s pogrom that occurred in the Amritsar.
Now choose any 2 or 3 words, try to use them in your own sentences and share your sentences in the comment section. This way you can retain the learnt words for long time.
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