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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 14 November 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. BUOYANT (adjective) – प्रसन्नचित्त
Pronunciation: boy·uhnt
Meaning: cheerful and optimistic
Synonyms: bouncy, breezy, bright, cheerful, expansive, jaunty
Antonyms: apathetic, cloudy, depressed
Usage: As the stock market hit a record high, the buoyant investors were celebrating.
2. HAUL (verb) – बलपूर्वक खींचना
Pronunciation: hawl
Meaning: to use effort to transport something
Synonyms: drag, pull, tug, heave, hump, tow, lug
Antonyms: push, drop, lower
Usage: It took several men to haul the fallen tree out of our yard.
3. CONTRITE (adjective) – पश्चातापी
Pronunciation: kuhn·trait
Meaning: feeling or showing remorse or regret
Synonyms: regretful, apologetic, humble, remorseful, repentant, sorry, attritional
Antonyms: indifferent, mean, unrepentant
Usage: The contrite young boy apologized to his parents for breaking the window.
4. CONVOKE (verb) – सभा बुलाना
Pronunciation: kuhn·vowk
Meaning: to call together or summon a meeting
Synonyms: convene, summon, call, cite, order, muster, assemble
Antonyms: separate, scatter, disperse
Usage: The chairman decided to convoke a meeting to discuss the company’s budget issue.
5. CRAGGY (adjective) – पथरीला
Pronunciation: kra·gee
Meaning: rough and uneven
Synonyms: rocky, rough, ragged, uneven, bumpy, stony, irregular
Antonyms: flat, smooth, even
Usage: The craggy peaks of the mountains are so uneven that no hiker could ever stand on them.
6. ABRADE (verb) – घिसना
Pronunciation: uh·breid
Meaning: to wear something away through friction
Synonyms: wear, scrape, erode, chafe, grate, rub, scuff
Antonyms: please, rebuild
Usage: Strong river currents began to abrade the shore and caused a breakdown in the coastline.
7. MISER (noun) – कंजूस
Pronunciation: mai·zuh
Meaning: an individual who tries to spend as little money as possible
Synonyms: cheapskate, pinchpenny, niggard, hoarder, saver, collector, tightwad
Antonyms: spender, spendthrift, waster
Usage: To save money, the miser ate only one meal a day.
8. UMBRAGE (noun) – रोष
Pronunciation: uhm·bruhj
Meaning: offence or annoyance
Synonyms: grudge, anger, annoyance, offense, fury, huff, rage
Antonyms: calmness, cheer, delight
Usage: I certainly took umbrage for not being invited to my best friend's wedding.
9. FERRET (verb) – खोजना
Pronunciation: feh·ruht
Meaning: search and discover through persistent investigation
Synonyms: search, check, examine, comb, explore, hunt, inspect
Antonyms: neglect, overlook, cover
Usage: The team is trying to ferret out missing details.
10. GAUCHERIE (noun) – अशिष्टता
Pronunciation: gow·shuh·ree
Meaning: awkward or unsophisticated ways
Synonyms: barbarism, indecency, rudeness, immodesty, vulgarism, indecorum, solecism
Antonyms: decency, decorum, modesty
Usage: I cannot stand his gaucherie any more.
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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