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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 03 August 2024
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.FIDELITY (noun): सत्य के प्रति निष्ठा
Pronunciation: fuh·deh·luh·tee
Meaning: faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
Synonyms: loyalty, allegiance, obedience
Antonyms: disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness
Sentence: I had to promise fidelity to the Queen.
2.CHUTZPAH (noun) : धृष्टता
Pronunciation: huht·spaa
Meaning: extreme self-confidence or audacity.
Synonyms: audacity, cheek, guts
Antonyms: bashfulness, diffidence, hesitancy
Sentence: It took a lot of chutzpah to talk to your boss like that.
3.COLLOQUIAL (adj.) : बोल-चाल का
Pronunciation: kuh·loh·kvee·uhl
Meaning: (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
Synonyms: informal, conversational, casual
Antonyms: formal, learned, literary
Sentence: It’s hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.
4.ANNULLED (verb) : रद्द करना
Pronunciation: uh·nuhld
Meaning: declare invalid (an official agreement, decision, or result).
Synonyms: declare invalid, nullify, invalidate
Antonyms: allowed, approved, authorized
Sentence: His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
5.INDECOROUS (adj.) : अनुपयुक्त
Pronunciation: uhn·deh·kuh·ruhs
Meaning: not in keeping with good taste and propriety; improper.
Synonyms: improper, inapposite, inappropriate
Antonyms: appropriate, decorous, suitable
Sentence: He cracked an indecorous joke at a solemn moment in the marriage ceremony
6.REVERBERATION (noun) : प्रतिध्वनि
Pronunciation: ruh·vuh·buh·ray·shn
Meaning: prolongation of a sound; resonance.
Synonyms: resonance, echo, echoing
Antonyms: cramped,little,narrow
Sentence: Jason heard the reverberation of the slammed door.
7.IDYLL (noun) : सुखद जीवन
Pronunciation: i·dl
Meaning: an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.
Synonyms: wonderful time, moment of bliss, heaven
Antonyms: hell on earth, bad place
Sentence: His year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that he had expected it to be.
8.EVOCATIVE (adj.) : विचारोत्तेजक
Pronunciation: uh·vawk·uht·uhv
Meaning: bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
Synonyms: reminiscent, suggestive, redolent
Antonyms: unreminiscent
Sentence: Those old toys are evocative of my childhood.
9.APPRENTICE (noun) : शिक्षु
Pronunciation: a·pren·tuhs
Meaning: a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
Synonyms: trainee, learner, probationer
Antonyms: veteran
Sentence: He was an apprentice to a master craftsman.
10.CABAL (noun): साज़िश
Pronunciation: kuh·bal
Meaning: a secret political clique or faction.
Synonyms: clique, faction, coterie
Antonyms: nonmember, curse, bless, inactivity
Sentence: He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime.
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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