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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 23 May 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. TRANQUILLIZE (VERB): बेहोश करना
Pronunciation: tran.kuh.lize
Meaning: to make a person or an animal calm or unconscious, especially by giving him/her/it a drug.
Synonyms: soothing, relaxing, calming
Antonyms: painful, trying, unsettling
Sentence: He used nicotinamide to tranquilize the animal.
2. EXPEDIENT (ADJECTIVE): फ़ायदेमंद
Pronunciation: uhk.spee.dee.uhnt
Meaning: (used about an action) convenient or helpful for a purpose, but possibly not completely honest or moral.
Synonyms: advantageous, useful, prudent
Antonyms: inexpedient, unwise, untimely
Sentence: Either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so.
3. CUSTOMARILY (ADVERB): प्रथानुसार
Pronunciation: kuh.stuhm.uh.ruh.lee
Meaning: in a way which follows customs or usual practices; usually.
Synonyms: usually, regularly, naturally
Antonyms: unusually, weirdly, queerly
Sentence: The leaves are customarily used for animal fodder.
4. UNDERSCORE (VERB): बल देना
Pronunciation: un.duh.skawz
Meaning: a line drawn under a word or phrase for emphasis.
Synonyms: underline, point up, magnify
Antonyms: understate, minimize, decrease
Sentence: They underlined the need for daily, one-to-one contact between parent and child.
5. LAMENT (NOUN): विलाप करना
Pronunciation: luh.ment
Meaning: a song, poem or other expression of sadness for somebody who has died or for something that has ended.
Synonyms: sorrow, wail, moan
Antonyms: celebrate, joy, glory
Sentence: I may lament and weep, but truly I have had admirable sport.
6. RESCIND (VERB): रद्द करना
Pronunciation: ruh.sind
Meaning: to officially state that a law, contract, decision, etc. is no longer valid.
Synonyms: repeal, cancel, revoke
Antonyms: enforce, keep, continue
Sentence: The government was required to rescind all the unpleasant measures.
7. DESICCATE (VERB): सुखा देना
Pronunciation: deh.suh.kayt
Meaning: remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry.
Synonyms: dry, dehydrated, drain
Antonyms: moist, energize, vivify
Sentence: Both the old and the new vegetation were desiccated by months of relentless sun.
8. IRREFUTABLE (ADJECTIVE): अखंडनीय
Pronunciation: i.ri.fyoo.tuh.bl
Meaning: (used about a statement, argument, idea etc.) that cannot be proved wrong and must be accepted.
Synonyms: undeniable, unquestionable, conclusive
Antonyms: unreliable, moot, problematic
Sentence: It is a profound thought and, I believe, an irrefutable one.
9. INVENTIVENESS (NOUN): रचनात्मकता
Pronunciation: uhn.vent.uhv.nuhs
Meaning: the quality of showing or having new and original ideas.
Synonyms: originality, innovation, creativity
Antonyms: unimaginativeness, literalness, literality
Sentence: We all loved the inventiveness of the staging.
10. EXTOL (VERB): प्रशंसा करना
Pronunciation: uhk.stole
Meaning: praise enthusiastically.
Synonyms: praise, laud, cite
Antonyms: criticize, blame, censure
Sentence: He extolled the virtues of the Indians.
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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