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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 08 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. ABATE (verb) – कम होना
Pronunciation: uh•beit
Meaning: (of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread
Synonyms: de-escalate, decline, diminish, dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, phase down, recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane
Antonyms: accumulate, balloon, build, enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax
Usage: The storm began to abate slightly.
Pronunciation: uh•beit
Meaning: (of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread
Synonyms: de-escalate, decline, diminish, dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, phase down, recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane
Antonyms: accumulate, balloon, build, enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax
Usage: The storm began to abate slightly.
2. IGNOMINIOUS (adjective) – बदनाम
Pronunciation: ig•nuh•mi•nee•uhs
Meaning: deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
Synonyms: discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, infamous, notorious, opprobrious, shady, shameful, shoddy, shy, unrespectable
Antonyms: honorable, reputable, respectable
Usage: It is an ignominious thing to attack others in the back.
3. ORNATE (adjective) – सुन्दर, सुशोभित
Pronunciation: aw•neit
Meaning: elaborately or highly decorated
Synonyms: bedizened, florid, fussy, gingerbread, gingerbreaded, overdecorated, overwrought, fancy
Antonyms: austere, plain, severe, stark, unadorned
Usage: That style of architecture is too ornate.
4. REPUDIATE (verb) – नकारना, अस्वीकार करना
Pronunciation: ruh•pyoo•dee•eit
Meaning: refuse to accept; reject
Synonyms: contradict, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refute, reject
Antonyms: acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own
Usage: The candidate was told by his advisers to repudiate a previously made statement.
5. SQUALID (adjective) – मैला, गंदा
Pronunciation: skwo•luhd
Meaning: (of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect
Synonyms: insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed, bedraggled, befouled, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty
Antonyms: clean, flawless, sparkling, untainted
Usage: Ravi lived in a squalid little room above a shop.
6. DELETERIOUS (adjective) – हानिकारक
Pronunciation: deh•luh•teeuh•ree•uhs
Meaning: causing harm or damage
Synonyms: adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious
Antonyms: anodyne, benign, harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe
Usage: Because I know alcohol is deleterious, I rarely drink more than one glass of wine.
7. BRUSQUE (adjective) – अशिष्ट, रूखा
Pronunciation: brusk
Meaning: direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner
Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, crusty, curt, downright, short-spoken, snippy, unceremonious
Antonyms: circuitous, mealymouthed
Usage: The angry doctor spoke in a brusque tone.
8. DILATORY (adjective) – आलसी
Pronunciation: di•luh•tuh•ree
Meaning: slow to act
Synonyms: crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, sluggish, snail-paced, tardy, unhurried
Antonyms: barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, hasty
Usage: The government has been dilatory in dealing with the problem of unemployment.
9. RANCOROUS (adjective) – शत्रुतापूर्ण
Pronunciation: rang•kuh•ruhs
Meaning: characterized by bitterness or resentment
Synonyms: acrid, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, hard, resentful, sore
Antonyms: unbitter, kind, gentle
Usage: The boy I met at school today was a transfer student from abroad, but he was so unhappy with leaving his country that he was rancorous and unfriendly to everyone.
10. HACKNEYED (adjective) – घिसा-पिटा, मामूली, साधारण
Pronunciation: hak•need
Meaning: lacking in freshness or originality
Synonyms: commonplace, hack, hackney, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
Antonyms: fresh, new, original
Usage: Majority of the things that we learn at school are hackneyed.
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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