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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 25-26 July 2020
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. What’s more, take the test given at the last to check how much you learnt. This will really help you boost up your learning.
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1. SINUOUS (verb) – टेढ़ा
Pronunciation: si·nyoo·uhs
Meaning: having many curves and turns
Synonyms: winding, windy, serpentine, curving, twisting, meandering, snaking, snaky
Antonyms: straight, direct
Usage: Because the maze was especially sinuous with countless twists and turns, we were lost in it for hours.
2. PETULANT (adjective) – ढीठ, चिड़चिड़ा
Pronunciation: peh·tyu·luhnt
Meaning: childishly sulky or bad-tempered
Synonyms: peevish, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, pettish, cross, impatient, irritable, moody
Antonyms: easy-going, affable
Usage: He was a petulant child who was aggravated by the smallest things.
3. PALPABLE (adjective) – सुस्पष्ट
Pronunciation: pal·puh·bl
Meaning: a feeling or atmosphere so intense as to seem almost tangible
Synonyms: perceptible, visible, noticeable, appreciable, discernible, detectable, observable
Antonyms: intangible, imperceptible
Usage: Her joy was palpable.
4. MAGNANIMOUS (adjective) – उदार
Pronunciation: mag·na·nuh·muhs
Meaning: generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person
Synonyms: generous, charitable, benevolent, beneficent, kind, munificent
Antonyms: mean-spirited, selfish
Usage: He is a magnanimous person.
5. EFFUSIVE (adjective) – उल्लासपूर्ण
Pronunciation: uh·fyoo·suhv
Meaning: showing or expressing gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner
Synonyms: gushing, gushy, unrestrained, unreserved, extravagant, fulsome, demonstrative, lavish
Antonyms: restrained, lethargic
Usage: Our host gave us an effusive welcome.
6. COMMENSURATE (adjective) – अनुरूप
Pronunciation: kuh·men·suh·ruht
Meaning: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
Synonyms: equivalent, equal, corresponding, correspondent, comparable
Antonym: unequal, disproportionate
Usage: Six yards is commensurate with eighteen feet.
7. EVANESCENT (adjective) – क्षणभंगुर
Pronunciation: eh·vuh·neh·snt
Meaning: soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence
Synonyms: vanishing, fading, evaporating, disappearing, diminishing, dwindling
Antonyms: permanent, unlimited
Usage: Talk is evanescent but writing leaves footprints.
8. FOOLHARDY (adjective) – उतावला, अति साहसिक
Pronunciation: fool·haa·dee
Meaning: recklessly bold or rash
Synonyms: reckless, rash, incautious, careless, heedless, unheeding, thoughtless, unwise
Antonyms: wise, prudent
Usage: It was foolhardy to take the plane up alone, with so little flying experience.
9. VERBOSE (adjective) – वाचाल
Pronunciation: vuh·bows
Meaning: using or expressed in more words than are needed
Synonyms: wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble, orotund, expansive, babbling
Antonyms: succinct, laconic
Usage: The verbose man took thirty minutes to give me a simple answer.
10. DIMINUTION (verb) – कमी
Pronunciation: di·muh·nyoo·shn
Meaning: a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something
Synonyms: curtailment, curtailing, cutback, cut, attenuation, reduction, lessening
Antonym: increase, expansion, growth
Usage: They are hoping for a small diminution in taxes.
Now choose any 2 or 3 words, try to use them in your own sentences and share your sentences in the comment section. This way you can retain the learnt words for long time.
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