Some exceptional words of English vocabulary from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are listed here. Go through these words and read their usages to learn how to use them in sentences. This will really help you boost up your learning.

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1. FLEX (verb) – झुकाना, मोड़ना
Pronunciation: fleks
Meaning: (with reference to a limb or joint) bend or become bent; cause (a muscle) to stand out by contracting or tensing it
Synonyms: bend, curve, crook; tighten, stiffen
Antonyms: straighten; relax
Usage:

• Begin to flex your feet slowly.
• A group of bodybuilders flexed their muscles.

2. ELICIT (verb) – प्रकाशित करना
Pronunciation: ili-sit
Meaning: evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone
Synonyms: obtain, bring out, draw out, extract, evoke
Usage:  I could elicit no response from him.

3. LEVITY (noun) – प्रफुल्लता, उल्लास
Pronunciation: lev-iti
Meaning: the treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect
Synonyms: high spirits, vivacity, liveliness, conviviality, cheerfulness, cheeriness, humour, gaiety
Antonyms: seriousness, gravity
Usage: His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.

4. MAUNDER (verb) – असंबद्ध वाक्य बोलना
Pronunciation: mon-der
Meaning: talk at length in a confused or inconsequential way; move or act in a dreamy or lazy manner
Synonyms: ramble, prattle, prate, blather, blether, blither, drivel; wander, drift, meander, amble, dawdle, potter
Antonym: march
Usage: Dennis maundered on about the wine.

5. BACKLASH (noun) – प्रतिक्रिया
Pronunciation: bak-lash
Meaning: a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development
Synonyms: counterblast, comeback, recoil, retaliation, reprisal
Usage: They face a backlash from shareholders.

6. LACKLUSTER (adjective) – मंद
Pronunciation: lak-lus-ter
Meaning: lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired or uninspiring
Synonyms: uninspired, uninspiring, unimaginative, dull, humdrum, colourless
Antonyms: inspired, brilliant
Usage: Britain's number-one tennis player gave a disappointingly lackluster performance.

7. STREW (verb) – बिखेरना
Pronunciation: stroo
Meaning: scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area
Synonyms: scatter, spread, disperse, distribute, litter, toss
Antonym: gather
Usage: Pour honey and strew white sesame.

8. PAUCITY (noun) – कमी
Pronunciation: po-siti
Meaning: the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts
Synonyms: scarcity, dearth, shortage, rarity
Antonym: abundance
Usage: As a result of the paucity of rain, the town lake is practically empty.

9. UNDERPIN (verb) – नीचे से सहारा देना
Pronunciation: under-pin
Meaning: support (a building or other structure) from below by laying a solid foundation below ground level or by substituting stronger for weaker materials; support, justify, or form the basis for
Synonyms: support, hold up, buttress, carry; promote, nurture, encourage, stimulate, develop, foster
Antonym: hinder
Usage: He presented the figures to underpin his arguments.

10. TACIT (adjective) – सूचित
Pronunciation: tas-it
Meaning: understood or implied without being stated
Synonyms: implicit, understood, implied, inferred, hinted, suggested, insinuated, unspoken, unstated
Antonyms: explicit, stated
Usage: Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement.

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1. Try to make sentences using given words:

• paucity
• maunder
• underpin
• backlash
• strew

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