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. slouch (verb, noun) – झुकना, आलसी
Pronunciation: sla-uch
Meaning: stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way; a lazy, drooping posture or movement
Synonyms: slump, hunch, loll, droop, sag, stoop
Usage:

• He slouched against the wall. (verb)
• He was standing with round-shouldered slouch. (noun)

2. enliven (verb) - सजीव करना, जान डालना
Pronunciation: in-lai-v(u)n / en-lai-v(u)n
Meaning: make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing; make (someone) more cheerful or animated
Synonyms: improve, enhance, season, leaven; uplift, gladden
Antonym: subdue
Usage: Paintings by West Marin artists enliven their living room.

3. preventive (adjective, noun) - प्रतिबंधक
Pronunciation: pri-ven-tiv
Meaning: intended to stop something before it happens; a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health
Synonyms: inhibitory, preventative, deterrent, pre-emptive, obstructive, precautionary; prophylactic, preventative
Usage:

• We must take preventive measures to reduce crime in the area. (adjective)
• This has proved an effective preventive. (noun)

4. intervention (noun) - हस्तक्षेप
Pronunciation: inter-ven-sh(u)n
Meaning: the action or process of taking part in something so as to prevent a result or course of events; interference by a state in another's affairs
Synonyms: involvement, intercession, interceding, interposing, interposition, mediation
Usage: China has registered a protest over foreign intervention.

5. megalomania (noun) –  अभिमान
Pronunciation: mega-lum-einia / mega-lo-mei-nia
Meaning: obsession with the exercise of power
Synonyms: grandiosity, egotism, conceit
Antonyms: modesty, humility
Usage: The singer’s megalomania has turned her into an arrogant woman who is disliked by everyone who truly knows her.

6. slovenly (adjective) – बेसलीका, बेढ़ंगा
Pronunciation: sluv(u)nli
Meaning: (especially of a person or their appearance) untidy and dirty; (especially of a person or action) careless; excessively casual
Synonyms: scruffy, untidy, messy, unkempt, ill-groomed, slatternly, disheveled; careless, slapdash, slipshod, disorganized, unorganized, unsystematic, unmethodical
Antonyms: tidy, neat; careful, meticulous, painstaking
Usage:

• Their landlady was fat and slovenly.
• He grew lazy and slovenly in his habits.

7. interaction (noun) – बातचीत, परस्पर क्रिया
Pronunciation: in-tent
Meaning: reciprocal action or influence; communication or direct involvement with someone or something
Synonyms: interplay, interchange, interactivity, interconnection, interlinkage; contact, relations, connection, association, communion, intercourse, socializing
Usage: The interaction of the two groups produced many good ideas.

8. manifold (adjective) – अनेक, विविध
Pronunciation: mani-fold
Meaning: many and various; having many different forms or elements
Synonyms: many, numerous, multiple, multifarious, multitudinous
Antonyms: few, homogeneous
Usage: He has manifold talents.

9. palaver (verb) - बकवास करना
Pronunciation: pul-aa-ver
Meaning: unnecessarily elaborate or complex procedure; lengthy and unproductive discussion; talk unproductively and at length
Synonyms: commotion, trouble, rigmarole, folderol; chatter, gossip, prattle, prate, babble, blather, blether
Antonyms: quiet, silence
Usage: I was late for work after my chatty grandmother held me up with palaver about past economic times.

10. sloth (noun) - आलस
Pronunciation: slo-th
Meaning: reluctance to work or make an effort
Synonyms: laziness, idleness, indolence, slothfulness, inactivity, inertia
Antonym: energy
Usage: Sloth is the mother of poverty.

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1. Try to make sentences using given words:

• slovenly
• interaction
• enliven
• manifold
• sloth

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