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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 23 August 2025
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. STIFLE (VERB): दबाना
Pronunciation: stai·fl
Meaning: restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion)
Synonyms: suffocate, choke, smother
Antonyms: inspire, breathe, revive, inhale
Sentence: The children tried to stifle their laughter during class but couldn’t hold back their giggles for long.
2. STARTLE (VERB): चौंकाना
Pronunciation: staa·tl
Meaning: cause to feel sudden shock or alarm
Synonyms: shock, stun, astonish, astound, stupefy
Antonyms: assure, soothe, cheer, comfort.
Sentence: If the music is too loud, it will startle the sleeping baby.
3. CALLOUS (ADJECTIVE): कठोर
Pronunciation: ka·luhs
Meaning: showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
Synonyms: ruthless, merciless, heartless, cruel, unfeeling
Antonyms: sympathetic, compassionate, merciful
Sentence: The professor was callous and cold, and no one wanted to remain the class.
Synonyms: ruthless, merciless, heartless, cruel, unfeeling
Antonyms: sympathetic, compassionate, merciful
Sentence: The professor was callous and cold, and no one wanted to remain the class.
4. ANTECEDENT (NOUN): पूर्वर्ती
Pronunciation: an·tuh·see·dnt
Meaning: a thing that existed before or logically precedes another
Synonyms: previous, preceding, earliest, prior
Antonyms: subsequent, later, after, ensuing, following
Sentence: It is no longer what it was antecedent to the Revolution.
5. UNANIMOUS (ADJECTIVE): एकमत
Pronunciation: yoo·na·nuh·muhs
Meaning: united
Synonyms: like-minded, at one
Antonyms: divided
Sentence: The doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses.
6. CATASTROPHIC (ADJECTIVE): आपत्तिजनक
Pronunciation: ka·tuh·straw·fuhk
Meaning: Disastrous event
Synonyms: Calamitous, Cataclysmic
Antonyms: Fortunate, Blessed
Sentence: His mother's untimely death had a catastrophic effect on him.
7. DETERIORATING (VERB): ख़राब होना
Pronunciation: duh·teeuh·ree·uh·rayt·uhng
Meaning: To become worse
Synonyms: Collapse, Degenerate
Antonyms: Improvement, Heighten
Sentence: The weather conditions are deteriorating.
8. ANNEXATION (NOUN): राज्य-हरण
Pronunciation: a·neks·ay·shn
Meaning: To take what originally belonged to someone else.
Synonyms: Seizure, Invasion
Antonyms: Detachment, Loss
Sentence: Annexations of suburban territory in 1888 and 1890 greatly increased the area of the city.
9. NEVERMORE (ADVERB): कदापि नहीं
Pronunciation: neh·vuh·maw
Meaning: at no future time; never again.
Synonyms: seldom, never
Antonyms: forever, always, ever
Sentence: Nevermore will Germans draw the sword against one another.
10. BEFITTING (ADJECTIVE): उचित
Pronunciation: buh·fit·uhng
Meaning: appropriate to the occasion.
Synonyms: proper, acceptable, satisfactory, correct, decorous
Antonyms: improper, wrong, unfitting, inappropriate
Antonyms: improper, wrong, unfitting, inappropriate
Sentence: The museum's silver jubilee was celebrated in a befitting manner.
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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