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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 27 May 2021
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.Plethora (noun) - बहुतायत
Pronunciation: pleh·thuh·ruh
Meaning: an excess, a very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with
Synonyms: abundance, adequacy, competence, competency, sufficiency
Antonyms: paucity, poverty, scarcity, barrenness, infertility
Usage: He eagerly accepted the job because it came with a plethora of opportunities.
2.Compliance (noun) - अनुपालन
Pronunciation: kuhm·plai·uhns
Meaning: the act of obeying an order, rule or request
Synonyms: acquiescence, servility, slavishness, acceptance, assent, consent
Antonyms: animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, ill will
Usage: Patients should have a history of good compliance with treatment.
3.Cessation (noun) - समापन
Pronunciation: ses·ei·shn
Meaning: the fact of something ending or stopping
Synonyms: arrestment, cease, check, close, expiration, finish, halt
Antonyms: extension, persistence, prolongation, continuation
Usage: The arrival of several police cruisers brought a quick cessation to the gang fight.
4.Shunning (noun) - त्यागते
Pronunciation: shuhn·uhng
Meaning: to avoid somebody/something; to keep away from somebody/something
Synonyms: avoidance, cop-out, dodging, ducking, eluding, elusion
Antonyms: abidance, endurance, submission, toleration
Usage: That evils are to be shunned, because they are of the devil and from the devil.
5.Disarray (noun) - अव्यवस्था
Pronunciation: dis·uh·rei
Meaning: A state of disorganization or untidiness
Synonyms: disorder, confusion, chaos, knot, snarl, tangle
Antonyms: orderliness, tidiness, method, pattern, plan, system
Usage: Furniture and papers were all jumbled together in disarray.
6.Snub (verb) - अपमान
Pronunciation: snuhb
Meaning: to treat somebody rudely, for example by refusing to look at or speak to him/her
Synonyms: insult, rebuff, disregard, humiliate, repulse
Antonyms: respect, approve, praise, acceptance, embrace, welcome
Usage: He took the opportunity to deliver us another snub.
7.Calibrate (verb) - जांचना
Pronunciation: ka·luh·breit
Meaning: adjust to take external factors into account or to allow comparison with other data.
Synonyms: modify, alter, regulate, appraise, estimate, evaluate
Antonyms: disorganize, disorder, mismanage
Usage: The system is calibrated to account for different camera locations.
8.Confound (verb) - उलझाना
Pronunciation: kuhn·fawnd
Meaning: to prove somebody/something wrong
Synonyms: invalidate, negate, contradict, counter, disconcert, embarrass
Antonyms: support, agree, accept, corroborate, assure, reassure, satisfy, enlighten
Usage: The rise in share prices confounded expectations.
9.Behest (noun) - आज्ञा, आदेश
Pronunciation: buh·hest
Meaning: A person's orders or command
Synonyms: command, order, instruction, control, dictate, direction
Antonyms: suggestion, recommendation, proposition, appeal, entreaty, petition
Usage: I also had the opportunity of conducting a number of interviews with Idi Amin, at his own behest.
10.Amenable (adj) - उत्तरदायी
Pronunciation: uh·mee·nuh·bl
Meaning: open and responsive to suggestion
Synonyms: compliant, tractable, acquiescent, controllable, favorable, receptive
Antonyms: intractable, unsusceptible, unwilling, reluctant, reticent
Usage: My husband never complains about anything and is amenable to all my vacation suggestions.
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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