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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 13 August 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.
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1. CEASE (verb) – बंद करना
Pronunciation: sees
Meaning: come or bring to an end
Synonyms: end, halt, stop, conclude, terminate, finish, wind up
Antonyms: start, continue
Usage: Because of the poor economy, the factory will immediately cease operations.
2. DEBONAIR (adjective) – सुरूप
Pronunciation: deh·buh·neuh
Meaning: confident, stylish, and charming
Synonyms: suave, sophisticated, cultured, confident, charming, gracious, civil
Antonyms: unsophisticated, naive
Usage: Onscreen and in person, the Hollywood actor always manages to look so debonair.
3. SUPERFLUITY (noun) – अधिकता
Pronunciation: soo·puh·floo·uh·tee
Meaning: an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something
Synonyms: surplus, excess, overabundance, glut, surfeit, profusion, plethora
Antonyms: lack, shortage
Usage: The city has a superfluity of five-star hotels.
4. CONFUTE (verb) – झूठा ठहराना
Pronunciation: kuhn·fyoot
Meaning: prove a person or an assertion or accusation to be wrong
Synonyms: disprove, contradict, negate, deny, refute, rebut, gainsay
Antonyms: prove, manifest
Usage: He confuted his opponents by facts and logic.
5. WRETCHED (adjective) – अतिदुखी
Pronunciation: reh·chuhd
Meaning: in a very unhappy or unfortunate state
Synonyms: miserable, unhappy, sad, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, anguished
Antonyms: cheerful, fortunate
Usage: Despite Bill’s wretched childhood, he grew up to be a successful well-adjusted man.
6. GUILE (noun) – छल
Pronunciation: gail
Meaning: sly or cunning intelligence
Synonyms: cunning, craft, art, artifice, shrewdness, ingenuity, wiles
Antonyms: honesty, candour
Usage: Without guile, it will be hard for the young man to survive as a politician.
7. CONGEAL (verb) – जम जाना
Pronunciation: kuhn·jeel
Meaning: become semi-solid, especially on cooling
Synonyms: coagulate, clot, cake, set, solidify, harden, thicken
Antonyms: soften, liquefy
Usage: Water congeals into ice.
8. STARK (adjective) – सादा
Pronunciation: staak
Meaning: severe or bare in appearance or outline
Synonyms: obvious, evident, clear, bare, barren, plain, simple
Antonyms: fuzzy, pleasant
Usage: With only a small red dot on a white canvas, the painting looked quite stark.
9. MIRTH (noun) – प्रमोद
Pronunciation: muhth
Meaning: amusement, especially as expressed in laughter
Synonyms: merriment, cheerfulness, cheer, hilarity, glee, laughter, levity
Antonyms: gloom, misery
Usage: It was obvious from Jacob’s mirth he found the movie to be quite funny.
10. PRESUMPTIVE (adjective) – आनुमानिक
Pronunciation: pruh·zuhmp·tuhv
Meaning: presumed in the absence of further information
Synonyms: conjectural, speculative, tentative, notional, hypothetical, theoretical, notional
Antonyms: definitive, conclusive
Usage: If you assume how someone is going to behave or act, you are being presumptive and making an unfair assumption.
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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