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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 04-05 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. GLUM (adjective) – अप्रसन्न, उदास
Pronunciation: gluhm
Meaning: looking or feeling sad or depressed
Synonyms: desolate, doleful, miserable, lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
Usage: She was very glum and was obviously missing her children.
Pronunciation: gluhm
Meaning: looking or feeling sad or depressed
Synonyms: desolate, doleful, miserable, lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, wretched
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
Usage: She was very glum and was obviously missing her children.
2. BUDGE (verb) – हिलाना, सरकना
Pronunciation: buhj
Meaning: make or cause to make the slightest movement ; change an opinion
Synonyms: move, shift, dislodge, relocate, reposition
Antonym: resist
Usage: The dog refused to budge.
3. QUELL (verb) – कुचलना, घटाना, जीतना, दबाना
Pronunciation: kwel
Meaning: put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force
Synonyms: crush, put down, quash, repress, silence, slap down, squash, squelch, subdue, suppress
Antonyms: start, encourage, compliment
Usage: Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.
4. MUNIFICENT (adjective) – उदार, दानी
Pronunciation: myoo•ni•fuh•snt
Meaning: characterized by or displaying great generosity
Synonyms: bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, generous, liberal, open, openhanded, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting
Antonyms: closefisted, costive, mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, uncharitable, ungenerous
Usage: The munificent man gave all of his inheritance to charity.
5. CONNIVANCE (noun) – मिली भगत, गुप्त सहयोग, किसी के साथ मिलकर अवैध कार्य करना
Pronunciation: kuh•nai•vns
Meaning: willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act
Synonyms: collusion, complicity, conspiracy, involvement, assistance, abetting, conspiracy
Antonyms: refusal, innocence
Usage: The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.
6. MELEE (noun) – दंगा, लड़ाई, हंगामा, हाथापाई
Pronunciation: meh•lei
Meaning: a confused fight or scuffle
Synonyms: tumult, disturbance, rumpus, commotion, disorder, scuffle, struggle, fight
Antonyms: agreement, calm, harmony
Usage: Several people were hurt in the melee.
7. CURSORY (adjective) – शीघ्रता या असावधानी से किया हुआ
Pronunciation: kuh•suh•ree
Meaning: done quickly with little attention to detail
Synonyms: drive-by, flying, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed
Antonyms: deliberate, unhurried, unrushed
Usage: He signed with only a cursory glance at the report.
8. INDIGENT (adjective) – गरीब, जरूरतमंद
Pronunciation: in•duh•jnt
Meaning: poor; needy
Synonyms: beggared, beggarly, destitute, dirt-poor, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious
Antonyms: affluent, deep-pocketed, flush, opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off
Usage: The government is responsible for assistance to indigent people.
9. SOMNOLENT (adjective) – थकाऊ, निद्रा लानेवाला
Pronunciation: som•nuh•luhnt
Meaning: sleepy; drowsy
Synonyms: oscitant, tired, dozy, yawny, torpid, languid, comatose, lethargic
Antonyms: alert, awake, conscious, wakeful, wide-awake
Usage: The sound had a somnolent effect.
10. CALLOW (adjective) – अनाड़ी, अनुभवहीन
Pronunciation: ka•low
Meaning: (of a young person) inexperienced and immature
Synonyms: adolescent, green, immature, inexperienced, juvenile, puerile, raw, unfledged, unformed, unripe
Antonyms: mature, experienced, sophisticated
Usage: He was a callow youth when he joined the company.
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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