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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 12 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. DUPE (verb) – छला हुआ मनुष्य
Pronunciation: joop
Meaning: a person who is tricked or swindled
Synonyms: victim, gull, innocent, pawn, puppet, fool, simpleton
Antonyms: swindler, fraud, cheat
Usage: Those men were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders.
2. DETAIN (verb) – रोकना
Pronunciation: duh·tein
Meaning: to hold someone and delay them from leaving a particular place
Synonyms: hold, seize, confine, imprison, incarcerate, impound, intern
Antonyms: allow, assist, facilitate
Usage: Airport workers can detain flyers and hold them for questioning if they feel they might be doing something illegal.
3. STARK (adjective) – फीका, कोरा
Pronunciation: staak
Meaning: without decoration
Synonyms: bare, plain, simple, austere, bleak, unadorned, undecorated
Antonyms: fuzzy, indistinct, ornate
Usage: With only a small red dot on a white canvas, the painting looked quite stark.
4. COLLOQUIAL (adjective) – बोलचाल की भाषा
Pronunciation: kuh·low·kwee·uhl
Meaning: casual and conversational language
Synonyms: informal, conversational, vernacular, common, dialectal, everyday, popular
Antonyms: literary, formal
Usage: I could just understand enough of the colloquial language to grasp all this.
5. STIFF (adjective) – सख़्त
Pronunciation: stif
Meaning: unable to be easily bent or shaped
Synonyms: rigid, hard, firm, hardened, inelastic, inflexible, ungiving
Antonyms: flexible, plastic, limp
Usage: Because it is so stiff, the modeling clay is difficult for the kids to bend.
6. DISSOCIATE (verb) – अलग करना
Pronunciation: duh·sow·shee·eit
Meaning: to distance or detach someone or something from a group
Synonyms: separate, detach, disconnect, sever, segregate, distinguish, isolate, alienate
Antonyms: relate, connect
Usage: It is impossible to dissociate language from culture.
7. INHERENT (adjective) – अंतर्निहित, स्वाभाविक
Pronunciation: uhn·heh·ruhnt
Meaning: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Synonyms: intrinsic, innate, immanent, inborn, ingrained, essential, natural
Antonyms: acquired, alien
Usage: Even as a youngster, Janice showed she had an inherent talent to be a great singer.
8. GUILTLESS (adjective) – बेगुनाह
Pronunciation: gilt·luhs
Meaning: having no guilt
Synonyms: innocent, blameless, faultless, righteous, sinless, spotless
Antonyms:blameful, guilty, sinful
Usage: Though he was guiltless of the damage, he felt morally bound to get it repaired.
9. ARRESTING (adjective) – आकर्षक
Pronunciation: uh·reh·stuhng
Meaning: striking in an eye-catching way
Synonyms: striking, noticeable, impressive, imposing, spectacular, breathtaking, dramatic
Antonyms: normal, ordinary, usual
Usage: Falling from the sky, the striking star was arresting and captured the astronomer’s attention.
10. SCANT (adjective) – अपर्याप्त
Pronunciation: skant
Meaning: barely sufficient or adequate
Synonyms: little, minimal, limited, meager, insufficient, inadequate, negligible
Antonyms: abundant, ample, sufficient
Usage: We have to ration the water because we only have a scant amount.
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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