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Some exceptional words of English vocabulary from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are listed here. Go through these words and read their usages to learn how to use them in sentences. This will really help you boost up your learning.
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1. CLEMENCY (noun) – दया
Pronunciation: klemunsi
Meaning: mercy; lenience
Synonyms: mercy, mercifulness, leniency, lenience, mildness
Antonyms: ruthlessness, strictness
Usage: He appealed to the judge for clemency.
2. UNFLAPPABLE (adjective) – अविचलित
Pronunciation: un-flap-ub(u)l
Meaning: having or showing calmness in a crisis
Synonyms: imperturbable, unexcitable, cool, calm, collected
Antonym: excitable
Usage: A good radio-host must be unflappable.
3. EMPATHY (noun) – सहानुभूति
Pronunciation: em-puthi
Meaning: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Synonyms: affinity with, rapport with, sympathy with, understanding of, sensitivity towards
Antonym: distance
Usage: She had great empathy with people.
4. OBSOLETE (adjective) – लुप्तप्रयोग
Pronunciation: obsul-eet
Meaning: no longer produced or used; out of date
Synonyms: out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, disused, outworn
Antonyms: contemporary, current, modern, new, up to date
Usage: Most factories in the area are obsolete and badly managed.
5. ABSTINENCE (noun) – संयम, परहेज़
Pronunciation: absti-nuns
Meaning: the practice of stopping oneself from doing anything
Synonyms: temperance, sobriety, abstention, celibacy, chastity
Antonym: promiscuity
Usage: The patient should practice total abstinence from smoking.
6. EXIGENCY (noun) – अत्यावश्यकता
Pronunciation: eksi-junsi / egzi-junsi / igzi-junsi
Meaning: an urgent need or demand
Synonyms: need, demand, requirement, want, necessity, essential, requisite
Usage: The president is free to act in any sudden exigency.
7. UNDERCOVER (adjective) – गुप्त
Pronunciation: under-kuver
Meaning: involving secret work within a community or organization, especially for the purposes of police investigation or espionage
Synonyms: covert, secret, clandestine, private, confidential, conspiratorial
Antonyms: open, overt
Usage: They had undercover agents everywhere in the hotel.
8. TACTIC (noun) – युक्ति, कार्यनीति
Pronunciation: tak-tik
Meaning: an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end
Synonyms: strategy, scheme, stratagem, plan
Usage: It's time to try a change of tactic.
9. OBSTREPEROUS (adjective) – कोलाहलमय
Pronunciation: ubstrep(u)rus
Meaning: noisy and difficult to control
Synonyms: unruly, unmanageable, disorderly, undisciplined, uncontrollable
Antonyms: calm, quiet, restrained
Usage: The boy is cocky and obstreperous.
10. INSOLVENCY (noun) – दिवालियापन
Pronunciation: in-sol-vunsi
Meaning: the state of being unable to pay debts owed
Synonyms: bankruptcy, liquidation, failure, collapse, ruin
Antonyms: solvency
Usage: The club was facing insolvency.
Now choose any 2-3 words that you liked out of these ten words and try to make sentences on your own. This will make you familiar with these words. Let others know your usage of words by sharing them in the comment section.
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