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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 10 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. EULOGY (noun) – प्रशंसा भाषण, गुणगान
Pronunciation: yoo•luh•jee
Meaning: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, especially a tribute to someone who has just died
Synonyms: accolade, citation, commendation, encomium, eulogium, homage, hymn, paean, panegyric, salutation, tribute
Antonyms: censure, condemnation, denunciation, indictment, rebuke, reprimand, admonition, correction, harangue, sermon
Usage: The minister delivered a long eulogy.
Pronunciation: yoo•luh•jee
Meaning: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, especially a tribute to someone who has just died
Synonyms: accolade, citation, commendation, encomium, eulogium, homage, hymn, paean, panegyric, salutation, tribute
Antonyms: censure, condemnation, denunciation, indictment, rebuke, reprimand, admonition, correction, harangue, sermon
Usage: The minister delivered a long eulogy.
2. OBDURATE (adjective) – कठोर, जिद्दी
Pronunciation: ob•joo•ruht
Meaning: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action
Synonyms: affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, pachydermatous
Antonyms: charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender
Usage: He remained obdurate, refusing to alter his decision.
3. DISSONANCE (noun) – बेसुरापन; मतभेद
Pronunciation: di•suh•nuhns
Meaning: lack of harmony among musical notes; lack of agreement or harmony between people or things
Synonyms: conflict, disaccord, discord, discordance, disharmony, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, schism, strife, variance
Antonyms: agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace
Usage: There is a great deal of dissonance between what a liar says and does.
4. PREVARICATE (verb) – टालमटोल करना, झूठ बोलना
Pronunciation: pruh•va•ruh•keit
Meaning: to avoid telling the truth or saying exactly what you think
Synonyms: fabricate, fib, lie, vacillate, quibble, palter, equivocate, tergiversate
Antonyms: authenticate, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify
Usage: British ministers continued to prevaricate.
5. RETICENT (adjective) – कम बोलने वाला
Pronunciation: pruh•va•ruh•keit
Meaning: not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily
Synonyms: closemouthed, dark, secretive, tight-mouthed, uncommunicative, reserved, diffident
Antonyms: communicative, open
Usage: He was extremely reticent about his personal life.
6. EXTANT (adjective) – मौजूदा, वर्तमान
Pronunciation: ek•stant
Meaning: still in existence; surviving
Synonyms: alive, present, around, living, undestroyed, current
Antonyms: dead, extinct
Usage: This is one of the few extant manuscripts.
7. INCULPATE (verb) – दोषी ठहराना, दोषारोपण करना
Pronunciation: in•kuhl•peit
Meaning: accuse or blame
Synonyms: implicate, involve, incriminate, defame, indict, censure, condemn, denounce
Antonyms: exculpate, free, exonerate
Usage: Evidence was used to inculpate the suspects.
8. ARCANE (adjective) – गुप्त, रहस्यमय
Pronunciation: aa•kein
Meaning: understood by few; mysterious or secret
Synonyms: hidden, concealed, covert, abstruse, recondite, enigmatic, occult
Antonyms: well known, open, obscure, esoteric
Usage: The elderly teacher had an arcane way of teaching mathematics.
9. ASSUAGE (verb) – शांत करना, धीमा करना
Pronunciation: uh•sweij
Meaning: make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
Synonyms: allay, alleviate, ease, help, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe, dampen, attenuate
Antonyms: aggravate, exacerbate
Usage: The medicine is used to assuage pain.
10. BURGEON (verb) – फैलना, बढ़ना
Pronunciation: buh•jn
Meaning: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
Synonyms: accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, climb, enlarge, escalate, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, spread, swell
Antonyms: contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane
Usage: Our company's business is burgeoning now.
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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