Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 26 May 2020

MME Expert

5 years ago Banking and Insurance

Here some exceptional English words from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are given with their synonyms/antonyms and usage. Hopefully, this will help you improve your vocabulary.

1. CADENCE (noun) – तालबद्ध स्वर

Pronunciation: kei-duns

Meaning: a regular rise and fall of sound, especially of the human voice

Synonyms: rhythm, tempo, metre, measure, beat, pulse

Usage: He read the poems with cadence.

2. MASQUERADE (noun, verb) – बहाना, स्वांग

Pronunciation: maaskuh-reid

Meaning: a false show; pretend to be someone else

Synonyms: pretence, deception, pose, act, front, disguise; impersonate, simulate, personate

Usage:

Her sorrow is just a masquerade. (noun)
He got into the stadium masquerading as a security guard. (verb)

3. TRUANCY (noun) – अनुपस्थित होना

Pronunciation: troo-unsi

Meaning: the action of staying away from school without good reason

Synonyms: absenteeism, non-attendance, absence, truanting, skiving

Antonym: attendance

Usage: Truancy rates at the school are very high.

4. RAVENOUS (adjective) – भूखा

Pronunciation: rav(u)nus

Meaning: extremely hungry

Synonyms: starving, starved, famished, sharp-set, esurient

Antonym: full

Usage: The ravenous children ate everything on the table.

5. CONTRAVENE (verb) – अवहेलना करना, उल्लंघन करना

Pronunciation: kontruh-veen

Meaning: to do something that a law or rule does not allow, or to break a law or rule

Synonyms: break, breach, violate, infringe, defy, disobey, flout

Antonym: uphold

Usage: The sale of untreated milk may contravene public health regulations.

6. PERVERSION (noun) – विकृति, बिगाड़

Pronunciation: puh-vuh-sh(u)n

Meaning: distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something

Synonyms: distortion, falsification, travesty, misinterpretation

Usage: His speech was clearly a perversion of the truth.

7. KINKY (adjective) – घुंघराले, तरंगित

Pronunciation: kinki

Meaning: having twists

Synonyms: curly, crimped, curled, curling

Antonym: straight

Usage: She has long and kinky hair.

8. RAVISH (verb) – अति प्रसन्न करना

Pronunciation: rav-ish

Meaning: fill someone with intense delight

Synonyms: enrapture, enchant, delight, charm, entrance, enthral

Antonyms: repel, bore

Usage: I was ravished by the way she smiled.

9. MUTINOUS (adjective) – आज्ञा न माननेवाला; विद्रोही

Pronunciation: myoo-ti-nus

Meaning: (of a soldier or sailor) refusing to obey the orders of a person in authority

Synonyms: rebellious, insubordinate, subversive, seditious, insurgent, rebel, disobedient

Antonyms: obedient, compliant

Usage:

The mutinous sailors took control of the ship.
The mutinous children refused to obey their teacher.

10. CONDONE (verb) – माफ करना, छोड़ देना, जाने देना

Pronunciation: kun-dohn

Meaning: accept (behaviour that is considered morally wrong or offensive)

Synonyms: accept, allow

Antonyms: condemn, punish

Usage: I cannot condone the use of violence under any circumstances.

Now, choose any 2 or 3 words and try to use them in your own sentences, this way you can retain the learnt words in your memory for long time. You can share your sentences in the comment section.