Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 2 June 2020

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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.

1. RECUMBENT (adjective) – लेटा हुआ

Pronunciation: ri-kum-b(u)nt

Meaning: lying down or leaning back so you are almost lying down

Synonyms: lying, flat, horizontal, sprawled, spreadeagled, reclining, resting

Antonyms: erect, standing, upright

Usage: After drinking four beers, my father was recumbent in his favorite chair.

2. PREPONDERANCE (noun) – अधिकता, बहुतायत

Pronunciation: pri-pon-dur-uns

Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance

Synonyms: prevalence, predominance, dominance, bulk, majority

Usage: There is a preponderance of female students in the music department.

3. LUMBER (verb) – बोझ लादना

Pronunciation: lum-buh

Meaning: burden someone with something unwanted

Synonyms: burden, saddle, encumber, hamper, load

Usage: The boss lumbered me with a troublesome task.

4. BELCH (verb, noun) – डकार लेना

Pronunciation: belch

Meaning: emit wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth; (especially of a chimney) send out large amounts of (smoke or flames); an act of belching

Synonyms: rift, burp, gurk, bolk, rout, ruck, eruct, eructate; emit, issue, vent, gush, discharge, eject, expel

Usage:

It doesn’t sound good to belch out so loudly. (verb)
Chimneys belch out dense smoke. (verb)
He gave a loud belch. (noun)

5. WRECKAGE (noun) – मलबा

Pronunciation: rekij

Meaning: the remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed

Synonyms: wreck, debris, detritus, remainder, hulk, shell, skeleton, hull, frame, ruins, remains

Usage: A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.

6. WREATHE (verb) – घेरना, परिवृत्त करना

Pronunciation: reeth

Meaning: cover, surround, or encircle something

Synonyms: festoon, drape, cover, envelop, array, bedeck

Usage: The snake wreathed itself around the branch.

7. PERPETUAL (adjective) – सतत, नित्य, निरंतर

Pronunciation: puh-pechu-al

Meaning: never ending or changing; occurring repeatedly

Synonyms: everlasting, never-ending, eternal, unending, endless; interminable, incessant, ceaseless

Antonyms: transitory, temporary, intermittent

Usage:

We lived for years in a perpetual state of fear.
He was irritated by their perpetual complaints.

8. APPALL (verb) – त्रस्त करना; भय दिलाना

Pronunciation: up-ol

Meaning: greatly dismay or horrify

Synonyms: horrify, shock, dismay, outrage, scandalize

Usage: The way we kill animals appalls a lot of people.

9. FLIPPANT (adjective) – अविनीत

Pronunciation: flipunt

Meaning: not showing a serious or respectful attitude

Synonyms: frivolous, superficial, shallow, glib, thoughtless, carefree

Antonyms: serious, respectful

Usage: You can't afford to be flippant about such matters.

10. RESOLUTE (adjective) – दृढ़निश्चयी, दृढ़संकल्पी

Pronunciation: rezuh-loot

Meaning: admirably purposeful and determined

Synonyms: purposive, resolved, decided, adamant

Antonyms: irresolute, half-hearted

Usage: She remained resolute in her belief that the situation would improve.

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.