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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. EDIFY (verb) – उपदेश या शिक्षा देना
Pronunciation: edi-fai
Meaning: instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually
Synonyms: educate, instruct, teach, school
Usage: The teacher hoped her speech about good citizenship would edify her students and encourage them to contribute to their communities.
2. REGRESS (verb, noun) – प्रत्यावर्तन
Pronunciation: ri-gres
Meaning: to return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving
Synonyms: revert, retrogress, relapse, lapse, backslide
Antonyms: progress, improve
Usage: When I saw my teenage son starting to regress to toddler behavior, I took him to see a therapist.
3. COCKY (adjective) – अहंकारी
Pronunciation: koki
Meaning: arrogant or confident in a bold way
Synonyms: arrogant, conceited, overconfident, overweening, cocksure
Antonyms: modest, diffident
Usage: I don't like our class monitor; he is too cocky.
4. MOCKERY (noun) – उपहास
Pronunciation: mok-uri
Meaning: teasing language or behaviour directed at a particular person or thing
Synonyms: ridicule, derision, jeering, sneering, contempt, scorn, scoffing
Usage: There was a tone of mockery in his voice.
5. ABSURD (adjective) – बेतुका
Pronunciation: ub-sird
Meaning: wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate
Synonyms: preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable
Antonyms: reasonable, sensible
Usage: It is ridiculously absurd to believe that the number 13 is unlucky.
6. CABAL (noun) – गुप्तदल, गुट
Pronunciation: kuh-bal
Meaning: a small secret political close-knit group which does not readily allow others to join them
Synonyms: clique, faction, coterie, group
Usage: I read in a children story book that the world is being secretly ruled by a cabal from inside a secret room.
7. RATIFY (verb) – पुष्टि करना
Pronunciation: rati-fai
Meaning: give formal approval to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid
Synonyms: confirm, approve, sanction, endorse, agree to, accept
Antonyms: reject, revoke
Usage: Today the governor will ratify the bill by signing it during a press conference.
8. IMMURE (verb) – क़ैद करना
Pronunciation: im-yo
Meaning: enclose someone against his will
Synonyms: confine, intern, lock up, incarcerate, imprison
Antonyms: liberate, free, release
Usage: He was immured in a dark room.
9. DUBIOUS (adjective) – संदिग्ध
Pronunciation: dyoo-bi-us
Meaning: hesitating or doubting
Synonyms: doubtful, uncertain, unsure, hesitant, undecided
Antonyms: certain, definite
Usage: These claims are dubious and not scientifically proven.
10. DIGRESS (verb) – विषयान्तर करना
Pronunciation: di-gres
Meaning: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing
Synonyms: deviate, diverge
Antonym: stick to the point
Usage: Don't digress when you deliver a lecture.
Now choose any 2-3 words that you liked out of these ten words and try to make sentences on your own. This will make you familiar with these words. Let others know your usage of words by sharing them in the comment section.
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