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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 13 June 2025
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.
Happy learning!!!
Happy learning!!!
1. EMBOLDEN (VERB): साहसी बनाना
Pronunciation: uhm.boled.uhn
Meaning: give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something.
Synonyms: encourage, hearten, rouse
Antonyms: discourage, daunt, weaken
Sentence: The party has been emboldened by recent local election successes.
2. BREAKTHROUGH (NOUN): उन्नत
Pronunciation: brayk.throo
Meaning: an important discovery or development.
Synonyms: advance, step forward, find
Antonyms: set back
Sentence: detectives think they have made a breakthrough in their search.
3. ABATEMENT (NOUN): कमी
Pronunciation: uh.bayt,muhnt
Meaning: the action of abating or being abated; ending or subsiding.
Synonyms: subsiding, fade, decrease
Antonyms: addition, increase, rise
Sentence: Colchester Council slapped a noise abatement notice on the site.
4. AMELIORATE (VERB): सुधारना
Pronunciation: uh.mee.lee.uh.rayt
Meaning: to make something better.
Synonyms: improve, better, enhance
Antonyms: worsen, impair, harm
Sentence: She wanted to ameliorate the situation.
5. BLEAK (ADJECTIVE): सर्द
Pronunciation: bleek
Meaning: (used about a place) cold, empty and grey.
Synonyms: keen, raw
Antonyms: warm
Sentence: the forecast looks bleak for the next week.
6. EXQUISITE (ADJECTIVE): अति सुंदर
Pronunciation: ek.skvuh.zuht
Meaning: extremely beautiful and pleasing.
Synonyms: lovely, elegant, superb
Antonyms: soft, light, weak
Sentence: the gallery houses some exquisite works of art.
7. TANGLE (NOUN): उलझन
Pronunciation: tang.gl
Meaning: a confused mass, especially of threads, hair, branches, etc. that cannot easily be separated from each other.
Synonyms: entangle, catch, twist
Antonyms: conviction, certainty, sureness
Sentence: She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend.
8. ASSERTIVE (ADJECTIVE): निश्चयात्मक
Pronunciation: uh.suh.tiv
Meaning: expressing your opinion clearly and firmly so that people listen to you or do what you want.
Synonyms: confident, positive, bold
Synonyms: confident, positive, bold
Antonyms: unassertive, submissive, docile
Sentence: the country is playing a more assertive role on the world stage.
9. INFIRM (ADJECTIVE): कमजोर
Pronunciation: uhn.fuhm
Meaning: not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness.
Synonyms: frail, weak, weakly
Antonyms: powerful, stout, strong
Sentence: care for the infirm.
10. UNLEASH (VERB) : खोलना
Pronunciation: uhn.leesh
Meaning: to suddenly let a strong force, emotion, etc. be felt or have an effect.
Synonyms: release, free, untie
Antonyms: contain, restrain, control
Sentence : The editorial unleashed a torrent of angry responses.
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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