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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 28 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.Chunk (noun) - टुकड़ा
Pronunciation: chuhngk
Meaning: a large or thick piece of something
Synonyms: abundance, barrel, epidemic, plague, rash, bonanza
Antonyms: glimmer, handful, hint, , inadequacy, insufficiency
Usage: Each blow of the hammer removed a great chunk of plaster.
2.Ominous (adj) - अमंगल
Pronunciation: aw·muh·nuhs
Meaning: suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future.
Synonyms: threatening, foreboding, inauspicious, sinister, unpromising
Antonyms: unthreatening, promising, propitious, encouraging
Usage: There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead.
3.Wrath (noun) - कोप
Pronunciation: rawth
Meaning: extreme anger
Synonyms: anger, rage, fury, outrage, aggravation, annoyance
Antonyms: pleasure, delight, happiness , calmness, forbearance, patience
Usage: In mythology mortals generally fearsed the wrath of the powerful gods.
4.Predicament (noun) - स्थिति
Pronunciation: pruh·d·kuh·muhnt
Meaning: A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
Synonyms: plight, quandary, quagmire, crisis, clutch, crisis
Antonyms: benefit, advantage, blessing, agreement, solution
Usage: I suddenly found myself in an awkward predicament.
5.Repatriation (noun) - देश-प्रत्यावर्तन
Pronunciation: ree·pa·tree·e·shn
Meaning: the return of someone to their own country.
Synonyms: return, restitution, revival, immigration
Antonyms: banishment, deportation, displacement, exile, expatriation
Usage: He never argued for forced repatriation.
6.Rummaging (verb) - तलाशी
Pronunciation: ruh·muh·uhng
Meaning: to make a thorough search or investigation.
Synonyms: ascertaining, descrying, detecting, scaring up, scouting
Antonyms: losing, mislaying, misplacing, missetting, abandoning, losing
Usage: She began rummaging among the books on her desk.
7.Authoritarian (adj) - सत्तावादी
Pronunciation: a·thaw·ruh·teuhree·uhn
Meaning: insisting on strict obedience to authority.
Synonyms: domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, commanding, controlling, dictating
Antonyms: humble, meek, modest, unassuming, amenable, docile, obedient, tractable
Usage: Critics claim his management has become too authoritarian.
8.Blatantly (adv) - शोर मचाते हुए
Pronunciation: blei·tuhnt·lee
Meaning: in an open and unashamed manner
Synonyms: boisterously, clamorously, loudly, clearly, discernibly, distinctly
Antonyms: inaudibly, silently, soundlessly, voicelessly
Usage: Safety guidelines had been blatantly ignored.
9.Seraphic (adj) - आसमानी
Pronunciation: səˈrafik
Meaning: heavenly or divine.
Synonyms: heavenly, spiritual, divine, eternal, astral, angelic
Antonyms: demonic, hateful, evil, unrighteous, wicked
Usage: He imagined a seraphic presence in the room.
10.Vicissitude (noun) - अन्याय
Pronunciation: vuh·si·suh·chood
Meaning: a variation in circumstance, fortune, character etc
Synonyms: alteration, variation, uncertainty, reversal, crucible, fire
Antonyms: stagnation, uniformity, stability, certainty
Usage: Though he had many vicissitudes in life, nothing would stop him from becoming an entrepreneur.
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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