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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 16 & 17 May 2020
Here some exceptional English words from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are given with their synonyms/antonyms and usage. Hopefully, this will help you improve your vocabulary.
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1. GLEE (noun) – आनंद, प्रसन्नता
Pronunciation: glee
Meaning: great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or another's misfortune
b: delight, pleasure, happiness, joy
Antonyms: gloom, disappointment
b: She opened her presents with glee.
2. PIVOTAL (adjective) – आधारभूत, अत्यधिक महत्वपूर्ण
Pronunciation: pivot(u)
Meaning: very important because other things depend on it
Synonyms: central, crucial, vital, critical, focal, essential, key
Usage: The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market.
3. ANNOTATE (verb) – व्याख्या करना, टिप्पणी करना
Pronunciation: anut-eit
Meaning: add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment
Synonyms: gloss, explain, interpret, elucidate, explicate
Usage: Annotate your photos with your own text.
4. SURMISE (verb, noun) – अंदाज़ा लगाना, अनुमान
Pronunciation: suh-maiz
Meaning: suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it; a supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it
Synonyms: guess, conjecture, suspect, deduce, infer
Antonym: know
Usage:
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I could only surmise that she and Lila had met before. (verb)
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My surmise turned out to be right. (noun)
5. BETOKEN (verb) – सूचित करना, संकेत करना
Pronunciation: bi-toh-kun
Meaning: be a sign of something; be a warning or indication of (a future event)
Synonyms: indicate, signify, evidence, manifest, mean, denote, herald, foretoken, forebode, harbinger
Usage:
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He gave her a gift to betoken his gratitude.
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Those black clouds betoken a storm.
6. ABET (verb) – उकसाना, साथ देना
Pronunciation: ub-et
Meaning: encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime
Synonyms: assist, aid, help, lend a hand, support, back, encourage
Antonym: hinder
Usage: He abetted the thief in robbing the bank.
7. EMOTIVE (adjective) – भावपूर्ण, भावात्मक
Pronunciation: imo-tiv
Meaning: able to arouse intense feeling
Synonyms: inflammatory, controversial, contentious, emotional, sensitive
Usage: Child abuse is an emotive subject.
8. CURT (adjective) – अशिष्टतापूर्ण, संक्षिप्त
Pronunciation: kuht
Meaning: rudely brief
Synonyms: terse, brusque, abrupt, clipped, blunt
Antonyms: polite, expansive
Usage: He gave me an extremely curt answer.
9. URBANITY (noun) – सौम्यता, विनम्रता, शिष्टता
Pronunciation: uh-ban-iti
Meaning: the fact or quality of being confident, relaxed, and polite; urban life
Synonyms: courteousness, sophistication, elegance, civilization, worldliness
Antonyms: naivety, discourteous, rude
Usage:
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The hostess asked for the requirements with urbanity.
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Now urbanity does not attract me anymore.
10. OUTWORN (adjective) – प्राचीन, घिसा-पिटा
Pronunciation: aut-wo-n
Meaning: out of date
Synonyms: outdated, old-fashioned, out of fashion, outmoded, dated, behind the times, ancient, archaic, antiquated, obsolescent
Antonyms: up to date, fresh
Usage: I can’t follow outworn traditions and customs.
Now, choose any 2 or 3 words and try to use them in your own sentences, this way you can retain the learnt words in your memory for long time. You can share your sentences in the comment section.
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