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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 11 October 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. 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. MERCIFUL (adjective) – दयालु
Pronunciation: muh·suh·fl
Meaning: showing or exercising mercy
Synonyms: forgiving, compassionate, kind, gracious, clement, pitying, forbearing, humane
Antonyms: merciless, cruel
Usage: She was merciful to the prisoners.
2. ENDORSEMENT (noun) – समर्थन
Pronunciation: uhn·daw·smuhnt
Meaning: formal and explicit approval or support
Synonyms: support, backing, approval, agreement, acceptance, recommendation, advocacy
Antonyms: opposition
Usage: His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.
3. FEIGNED (adjective) – झूठा
Pronunciation: feind
Meaning: simulated or pretended
Synonyms: assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, faked, imagined, pretended, simulated
Antonyms: genuine, real, true
Usage: She feigned illness so that she wouldn't have to go to school.
4. FORECAST (verb) – पूर्वानुमान लगाना
Pronunciation: faw·kaast
Meaning: a prediction of a future event
Synonyms: anticipate, augur, foretell, calculate, conclude, determine, estimate
Antonyms: recollect, remember, recall
Usage: The weather forecast says there will be rain.
5. OMNISCIENT (adjective) – सर्वज्ञ
Pronunciation: om·ni·see·uhnt
Meaning: knowing everything
Synonyms: wise, knowledgeable, all-knowing, pansophical, preeminent
Antonyms: stupid, unknowing
Usage: The novel has an omniscient narrator.
6. ODDS (noun) – संभावना
Pronunciation: odz
Meaning: the chances or likelihood of something happening
Synonyms: likelihood, balance, chances, probability, chance
Antonyms: improbability, unlikelihood
Usage: The odds are very much in our favor.
7. ADVENTUROUS (adjective) – साहसी
Pronunciation: uhd·ven·chuh·ruhs
Meaning: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
Synonyms: daring, intrepid, venturesome, bold, audacious, fearless, brave
Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, meek
Usage: John is an adventurous man, unafraid of risks.
8. OBLIGED (adjective) – मज़बूर
Pronunciation: uh·blaijd
Meaning: legally or morally bound
Synonyms: compelled, enslaved, indebted, obligated, committed
Antonyms: disobliged, free
Usage: I felt obliged to ask them to dinner.
9. INSULATE (verb) – बचाना
Pronunciation: in·syuh·leit
Meaning: protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with interposing material
Synonyms: shield, cover, encase, cushion, isolate, seclude, sequester
Antonyms: join, mingle, uncover
Usage: You can insulate a house against heat loss by having the windows double-glazed.
10. GIST (noun) – सार
Pronunciation: jist
Meaning: the central idea or point
Synonyms: essence, core, summary, crux, meaning
Antonyms: redundancy
Usage: His great victory did not seem to elate him.
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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