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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 05 May 2022
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. DETRIMENTAL (adj.) : हानिकारक
Pronunciation: deh·truh·ment·uhl
Meaning: tending to cause harm.
Synonyms: harmful, damaging, noxious
Antonyms: harmless, hurtless, innocent
Sentence: Moving her could have a detrimental effect on her health.
2. DISGRUNTLED (adj.) : असंतुष्ट
Pronunciation: duhs·gruhn·tld
Meaning: angry or dissatisfied.
Synonyms: dissatisfied, discontent, aggrieved
Antonyms: content, pleased, satisfied
Sentence: Disgruntled employees recently called for his resignation.
3. PIETY (noun) : धर्मनिष्ठा
Pronunciation: pai·uh·tee
Meaning: the quality of being religious or reverent.
Synonyms: devoutness, devotion, piousness
Antonyms: atheism, godlessness, unholiness
Sentence: This is clearly a work of filial piety.
4. VALOROUS (adj.) : वीरतापूर्ण
Pronunciation: va·luh·ruhs
Meaning: showing great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle.
Synonyms: bold, brave, courageous
Antonyms: coward, ungallant, unheroic
Sentence: The warriors were very valorous in the battle.
5. COROLLARY (noun) : परिणाम
Pronunciation: kuh·raw·luh·ree
Meaning: a proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved.
Synonyms: conclusion, after-effect, consequence
Antonyms: cause, occasion, reason
Sentence: The huge increases in unemployment were the corollary of expenditure cuts.
6. PERVERSITY (noun) : प्रतिकूलता
Pronunciation: puh·vuhs·uh·tee
Meaning: a deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness.
Synonyms: contrariness, perverseness, awkwardness
Antonyms: amiability, serenity
Sentence: She’s marrying him out of sheer perversity.
7. RAPACIOUS (adj.) : लालची
Pronunciation: ruh·pay·shuhs
Meaning: aggressively greedy or grasping.
Synonyms: grasping, greedy, avaricious
Antonyms: satisfied, stuffed, generous
Sentence: Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on a variety of small animals.
8. LAGGARD (noun) : सुस्त
Pronunciation: lag·uhd
Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.
Synonyms: straggler, loiterer, sluggard
Antonyms: expeditious, scrambler
Sentence: Bhutan has been a laggard in securing alternative energy resources overseas.
9. EERIE (adj.) : भयानक
Pronunciation: eerie
Meaning: strange and frightening.
Synonyms: uncanny, sinister, ghostly
Antonyms: normal, ordinary, usual
Sentence: I walked down the eerie dark path.
10. RECTITUDE (noun) : इंसाफ
Pronunciation: rek·tuh·chood
Meaning: morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.
Synonyms: righteousness, goodness, virtue
Antonyms: evil, immorality, iniquity
Sentence: Maddie is a model of rectitude.
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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