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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words with Meanings: 23rd February 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. BUSYBODY (NOUN): वाधा डालने वाला
Pronunciation: bi·zee·baw·dee
Meaning: a person who meddles in the affairs of others.
Synonyms: intruder, meddler, interloper
Antonyms: incurious, hearer, unobtrusive.
Sentence: That busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden.
2. CONFUTATION (NOUN): खंडन
Pronunciation: con·fu·ta·tion
Meaning: something (as an argument) that serves to disprove.
Synonyms: refutation, rebuttal, counterargument
Antonyms: confirmation, validation, corroboration
Sentence: He crafted an elegant confutation to the argument that animals do not feel pain.
3. CALLOW (ADJECTIVE): अनुभवहीन
Pronunciation: ka·loh
Meaning: lacking in adult experience or maturity
Synonyms: immature, inexperienced, naive
Antonyms: mature, experienced
Sentence: He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
4. GRUDGING (ADJECTIVE): अनिच्छुक
Pronunciation: gruhj·uhng
Meaning: given, granted, or allowed only reluctantly or resentfully.
Synonyms: reluctant, unwilling, forced
Antonyms: allowing, authorizing, generous
Sentence: He even earned his opponents’ grudging respect.
5. EXTEMPORIZE (VERB): बिना तैयारी के
Pronunciation: ex·tem·po·rize
Meaning: to perform, make, or do without preparation
Synonyms: improvise, devise, concoct
Antonyms: prepare, ready
Sentence: I’d lost my notes and had to extemporize.
6. PROLIFERATE (VERB): संख्या में बढ़ना
Pronunciation: pruh·li·fuh·rayt
Meaning: to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number
Synonyms: increase, rise, accelerate
Antonyms: decrease, diminish, recede
Sentence: Rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet.
7. MELEE (NOUN): हाथापाई
Pronunciation: meh·lay
Meaning: a confused fight, skirmish, or scuffle.
Synonyms: brawl, scuffle, clash
Antonyms: calm, harmony, peace
Sentence: Several people were hurt in the melee.
8. FORFEND (VERB): दूर करना
Pronunciation: fuh·fend
Meaning: to drive danger or attack away from; as in to protect
Synonyms: protect, defend, safeguard
Antonyms: attack, assault, assail
Sentence: It’s a place of refuge where the settlers could forfend themselves from attack.
9. KEN (NOUN): ज्ञान
Pronunciation: Ken
Meaning: one’s range of knowledge or sight.
Synonyms: knowledge, awareness, understanding
Antonyms: illiteracy, inexperience, blindness.
Sentence: Such determination is beyond my ken.
10. TENDENTIOUS (ADJECTIVE): विवादास्पद
Pronunciation: ten·den·shuhs
Meaning: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.
Synonyms: preference, favoritism
Antonyms: nonpartisan, impartial, equitable
Sentence: He made some extremely tendentious remarks.
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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