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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 02 May 2025
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 much you learnt. This will really help you boost up your learning.
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1. POLTROONERY (NOUN): कायरता
Pronunciation: pol·troon·ery
Meaning: a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger.
Synonyms: fearfulness, cowardice, cravenness
Antonyms: bravery, courage, daring
Sentence: Decried the poltroonery of those politicians who caved in to pressure from the special interests.
2. FOMENT (VERB): भड़काना
Pronunciation: fuh·ment
Meaning: to cause trouble or violence and make people fight each other or the government.
Synonyms: provoke, incite, trigger
Antonyms: calm, cease, constrain
Sentence: Despite popular beliefs, the police are here to keep people calm, not to foment violence.
3. ACQUITTED (VERB): अपराधमुक्त
Pronunciation: uh·kvi·tuhd
Meaning: persons who have been declared not guilty of a crime.
Synonyms: exonerated , Cleared, Guiltless
Antonyms: guilty , Accused, Punishable
Sentence: None of the acquitted received any kind of compensation or redress.
4. ELAPSED (VERB): बीत गया
Pronunciation: uh·lapst
Meaning: (used about time) to pass.
Synonyms: ended , Finished, Halted
Antonyms: alive , hung on, prolonged
Sentence : Thirty minutes elapsed before the performance began.
5. PRUDENCE (NOUN): सावधानी
Pronunciation: proo·dns
Meaning: behavior that is careful and avoids risks.
Synonyms: caution, circumspection, care
Antonyms: recklessness, brashness, carelessness
Sentence: The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence.
6. IRIDESCENT (ADJECTIVE): रंग-बिरंग
Pronunciation: i·ruh·deh·snt
Meaning: showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.
Synonyms: shimmery, glittering, colorful
Antonyms: dull , dreary
Sentence: Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
7. PESTILENT (ADJECTIVE): विषैला
Pronunciation: peh·stuh·len.shl
Meaning: likely to cause or capable of causing death.
Synonyms: annoying, irritating, vexing
Antonyms: delightful, pleasing
Sentence: Smallpox is a pestilent disease.
8. CORPUS (NOUN): संग्रह
Pronunciation: kaw·puhs
Meaning: a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject.
Synonyms: collection, compilation, body
Antonyms: part
Sentence: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is probably the most well-known work among the corpus of poems.
9. TANTAMOUNT (ADJECTIVE): समान
Pronunciation: tan·tuh·mawnt
Meaning: equivalent in value, significance.
Synonyms: comparable, akin, like
Antonyms: different , varied, disparate
Sentence: His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
10. BODE(VERB): भविष्यव्दाणी
Pronunciation: bode
Meaning: to be a sign of something good or bad for the future.
Synonyms: augur , Presage, Foretell
Antonyms: antinode , Break
Sentence: They have a very good relationship and it bodes well.
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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