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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words with Meanings: 20th January 2026
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. YOKED (VERB): जोड़ना
Pronunciation: yoket
Meaning: to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole.
Synonyms: catenated, chained, compounded
Antonyms: disconnected, disjoined, disunited
Sentence: He yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory.
2. RESIDUUM (NOUN): बाक़ी
Pronunciation: ruh·zi·joo·uhm
Meaning: a substance or thing that remains or is left behind.
Synonyms: leftovers, remainder, remains
Antonyms: body, bulk, origin
Sentence: Even highly decaffeinated coffee contains a tiny residuum of caffeine.
3. SPLURGING (VERB): अधिक खर्च करना
Pronunciation: splurj-ing
Meaning: spend (money) freely or extravagantly.
Synonyms: consuming, depleting, exhausting
Antonyms: preserving, conserving, saving
Sentence: You should let yourself splurge once in a while.
4. APOCRYPHAL (ADJECTIVE): शंकायुक्त
Pronunciation: uh·paw·kruh·fl
Meaning: (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
Synonyms: fictitious, made-up, untrue
Antonyms: real, factual, literal
Sentence: Most of the stories about him are apocryphal.
5. FILLIP (NOUN): प्रोत्साहन
Pronunciation: fi·luhp
Meaning: something which acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity.
Synonyms: boost, encouragement, incitement
Antonyms: dampen,weary,undermine
Sentence: The news gave the stock market a big fillip.
6. SUPERFLUITY (NOUN): आधिक्य
Pronunciation: soo·puh·floo·uh·tee
Meaning: an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something.
Synonyms: surplus, excess, overabundance
Antonyms: deficiency, dearth, insufficiency
Sentence: The city has a superfluity of five-star hotels.
7. DEBILITATING (ADJECTIVE): दुर्बल
Pronunciation: duh·bi·luh·tayt·uhng
Meaning: making someone very weak and infirm.
Synonyms: weakening, enfeebling,demoralizing
Antonyms: strengthening, energizing
Sentence: He was hoping for a cure from his debilitating illness.
8. IMPUTE (VERB): मढ़ना
Pronunciation: uhm·pyoot
Meaning: to explain (something) as being the result of something else.
Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, credit
Antonyms: absolve, exculpate
Sentence: I impute his failure to laziness.
9. RAMBUNCTIOUS (ADJECTIVE): उधमी
Pronunciation: ram·buhngk·shuhs
Meaning: being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way.
Synonyms: boisterous, raucous, noisy
Antonyms: orderly, staid, solemn
Sentence: That beach is often taken over by packs of rambunctious young people, so don’t go there expecting peace and quiet.
10. APOLOGIA (NOUN): औचित्य
Pronunciation: a·puh·loh·jee·uh
Meaning: a formal written defense of one’s opinions or conduct.
Synonyms: justification, defense, excuse
Antonyms: condemnation, denial, accusation
Sentence: The above apologia was written in 1909
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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