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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 07 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!!!
1. PROPINQUITY (noun) – निकटता, पड़ोस
Pronunciation: pruh·ping·kwuh·tee
Meaning: the state of being close to someone or something
Synonyms: adjacency, closeness, contiguity, immediacy, nearness, proximity, vicinity
Antonyms: distance, remoteness
Usage: The propinquity of the danger ahead made the scouts turn around and take a different path.
2. POIGNANT (adjective) – मार्मिक, तीखा
Pronunciation: poy·nynt
Meaning: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret; sharp or pungent in taste or smell
Synonyms: affecting, emotional, impactful, impressive, moving, stirring, touching, bitter, painful, pitiable
Antonyms: unaffecting, unemotional, unimpressive
Usage: I found his speech deeply poignant.
3. IRASCIBLE (adjective) – चिड़चिड़ा
Pronunciation: uh·ra·suh·bl
Meaning: having or showing a tendency to be easily angered
Synonyms: choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly
Antonyms: affable, cordial, amiable
Usage: Laziness makes people irascible.
4. CONTROVERT (verb) – अस्वीकार करना, विवाद करना
Pronunciation: kon·truh·vuht
Meaning: to say or show that something is not true
Synonyms: altercate, argue, argufy, bicker, brabble, brawl, dispute, fall out, fight, hassle, jar, quarrel, quibble, row, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle
Antonyms: accept, agree, assent, concur, consent
Usage: The statement of the last witness controvert the evidence of the first two.
5. REVERIE (noun) – सपना, ख्यालों में खोना
Pronunciation: reh·vuh·ree
Meaning: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts
Synonyms: daydreaming, trance, woolgathering, hallucination, musing, absorption
Antonyms: realization, reality, nightmare
Usage: He was lost in reverie until he suddenly heard someone behind him.
6. LURID (adjective) – भयंकर, भड़कीला
Pronunciation: luor·ruhd
Meaning: too brightly coloured; causing horror or revulsion
Synonyms: appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific
Antonyms: agreeable, appealing, attractive, delectable, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, enticing, inviting, pleasant
Usage:
- She was wearing a lurid orange and green blouse.
- The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.
7. ASSIDUOUS (adjective) – परिश्रमी, श्रमशील
Pronunciation: uh·si·joo·uhs
Meaning: showing great care and perseverance
Synonyms: active, bustling, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, hopping, industrious, laborious, occupied, sedulous, tied-up, working
Antonyms: inert, passive, dead, dull
Usage: The book was the result of ten years' assiduous research.
8. OCCLUDE (verb) – रोकना, बन्द करना
Pronunciation: uh·klood
Meaning: to close up or block off
Synonyms: block, choke, clog, clot, congest, dam, jam, obstruct, stuff, seal, shut
Antonyms: clear, free, open (up), unblock, unclog, unplug, unstop
Usage: It is quite dangerous when blood clots occlude the flow of oxygen in the human body.
9. TERSE (adjective) – संक्षिप्त
Pronunciation: tuhs
Meaning: brief, or using very few words
Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious
Antonyms: circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy
Usage: Her reply about the matter was terse.
10. PALTRY (adjective) – मामूली, तुच्छ
Pronunciation: pawl·tree
Meaning: (of an amount) very small or meagre
Synonyms: cheap, contemptible, cruddy, deplorable, despicable, dirty, grubby, lame, lousy, mean, nasty, pitiable, pitiful, ratty, scabby
Antonyms: admirable, commendable, creditable, laudable, meritorious, praiseworthy
Usage: She made some paltry excuse and left.
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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