Some exceptional words of English vocabulary from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are listed here. Go through these words and read their usages to learn how to use them in sentences. This will really help you boost up your learning.

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1. incarnation (noun) – अवतार
Pronunciation: in-kaa-nei-shun
Meaning: a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or quality
Synonyms: embodiment, personification, epitome, manifestation
Usage: Rama was Vishnu's incarnation on earth.

2. pinpoint (noun, adj, verb) – बिंदु, यथार्थ
Pronunciation: pin-point
Meaning: a tiny dot or point; absolutely precise; to the finest degree
Synonyms: point, spot, speck, dot, fleck; precise, strict, rigorous, meticulous, scrupulous; exact, accurate, correct, unerring, inch-perfect; identify, discover, determine, distinguish, find, locate, detect
Usage:

• Jupiter's moons will look like pinpoints of light. (noun)
• The needle has to be positioned with pinpoint accuracy. (adjective)
• The helicopter allowed us to pinpoint the areas hit hardest by the flood. (verb)

3. hidebound (adjective) – अपरिवर्तनवादी
Pronunciation: ha-id-baund
Meaning: unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention
Synonyms: conservative, reactionary, conventional, orthodox, fundamentalist
Antonyms: liberal, broad-minded
Usage: You can never change their ideas as they are far too hidebound.

4. quash (verb) – अस्वीकार, मिटा देना
Pronunciation: kwosh
Meaning: reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure
Synonyms: cancel, reverse, rescind, repeal, revoke, retract
Antonym: validate
Usage: The police were brought in to quash the strike.

5. perverse (adjective) – अनाड़ी, फूहड़
Pronunciation: per-vers
Meaning: showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable; contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice
Synonyms: awkward, contrary, difficult, unreasonable, uncooperative; illogical, irrational, unreasonable, contradictory, wrong
Antonyms: accommodating, cooperative, reasonable
Usage:

• You are being unnecessarily perverse.
• In two general elections the outcome was quite perverse.

6. emblematic (adjective) – प्रतीकात्मक
Pronunciation: am-blum-atik
Meaning: serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept
Synonyms: symbolic, representative, demonstrative, suggestive, symptomatic
Antonyms: representational, realistic
Usage: A sword is emblematic of power gained by violence.

7. bouncy (adjective) – जीवंत, आत्म विश्वासी
Pronunciation: baun-si
Meaning: (of a person) confident and lively
Synonyms: lively, energetic, perky, frisky, jaunty, zestful
Usage: Whenever I meet him; I find him bouncy.

8. recondite (adjective) – अव्यक्त
Pronunciation: ri-kon-dait / rekun-dait
Meaning: (of a subject or knowledge) little known
Synonyms: obscure, abstruse, arcane, esoteric
Antonyms: straightforward, simple, familiar
Usage: Such teachings are very recondite and need considerable study to understand fully.

9. expedite (verb) – झटपट करना
Pronunciation: ekspi-dait
Meaning: make (an action or process) happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly
Synonyms: accelerate, hurry, hasten
Antonyms: delay, hinder
Usage: The builders promised to expedite the repairs.

10. intersperse (verb) – बिखेरना
Pronunciation: inter-spers
Meaning: scatter among or between other things; place here and there
Synonyms: scatter, distribute, disperse, spread, strew, sprinkle
Usage: Small dots were interspersed among the pattern.

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1. Try to make sentences using given words:

• incarnation
• hidebound
• emblematic
• bouncy
• intersperse

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