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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 24 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. RELINQUISH (VERB): त्य़ागऩा
Pronunciation: ruh·ling·kvuhsh
Meaning: voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.
Synonyms: surrender, render, abandon
Antonyms: retain, keep, withhold
Sentence: When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
2. VOUCH (VERB): ग़ारंटी देऩा
Pronunciation: vawch
Meaning: assert or confirm as a result of one's own experience that something is true.
Synonyms: certify, attest, witness
Antonyms: undermine, weaken, enfeeble
Sentence: the explosive used is of my own formulation, and I can vouch for its efficiency.
3. CAVEAT (NOUN): चेतावनी
Pronunciation: ka·vee·at
Meaning: a warning of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
Synonyms: warning, caution, admonition
Antonyms: carelessness , betrayal
Sentence: There is, of course, a caveat to playing the stock market: not everyone will end up a winner.
4. DISCRETION (NOUN): विवेक
Pronunciation: duh·skreh·shn
Meaning: the freedom and power to make decisions by yourself.
Synonyms: prudence, wisdom, sense
Antonyms: indiscretion, imprudence, stupidity
Sentence: Because my daughter spends money recklessly, I have to give out her allowance at my discretion.
5. DISPARITY (NOUN): असमानता
Pronunciation: duh·spae·ruh·tee
Meaning: a difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair.
Synonyms: contrast, distinction, dissimilarity
Antonyms: similarity, likeness, analogy
Sentence: Therefore, separate churches only add to the disparity between the races.
6. DETERRENT(NOUN): निरोधक
Pronunciation: duh·teh·ruhnt
Meaning: something that should stop you from doing something.
Synonyms: Hindrance , Obstacle , Bridle
Antonyms: Encouragement, advantage, benefit
Sentence: They executed him, as a deterrent to any other young soldiers thinking of trying to desert from the army.
7. FANFARE (NOUN): धूमधाम
Pronunciation: fan·feuh
Meaning: media attention or elaborate ceremony; a short and lively sounding of trumpets.
Synonyms: pomp, pageantry, spectacle
Antonyms: restraint, understatement, simplicity
Sentence: There is usually a great deal of fanfare involved when it comes to graduation for both high schoolers and college students.
8. FALTER (VERB): लड़खड़ाना
Pronunciation: fawl·tuh
Meaning: to become weak or move in a way that is not steady.
Synonyms: waver, vacillate, halt
Synonyms: waver, vacillate, halt
Antonyms: decide, budge, plunge
Sentence: His voice began to falter at the mention of his sufferings in the old days.
Sentence: His voice began to falter at the mention of his sufferings in the old days.
9. RECESSION (NOUN): मंदी
Pronunciation: ruh·seh·shn
Meaning: a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced.
Synonyms: slump, stagnation, downswing
Antonyms: growth, boom, recovery
Sentence: At periods the country as a whole seemed fairly prosperous, but the broad agricultural recession remained constant.
10. TRAJECTORY (NOUN): प्रक्षेप पथ
Pronunciation: truh·jek·tuh·ree
Meaning: the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
Synonyms: path, route, way
Antonyms: deviation
Sentence: The one thing we are incapable of learning by imitating our friends and peers and playmates is the life trajectory that has been prepared for us.
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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