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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 29 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. HUFFY (adjective) – क्रोधी
Pronunciation: huh·fee
Meaning: annoyed or irritated and quick to take offence at petty things
Synonyms: irritable, annoyed, cross, grumpy, crotchety, crabby, crabbed
Antonyms: cheerful, friendly
Usage: I told her she had made a mistake and she got huffy with me.
2. STOUT (adjective) – मोटा; बलवान
Pronunciation: stawt
Meaning: rather fat or of heavy build
Synonyms: fat, plump, rotund, hefty, bulky, heavily built, abdominous
Antonyms: thin, slender
Usage: He was a tall, stout man with gray hair.
3. PRODIGAL (verb) – खर्चीला
Pronunciation: pro·duh·gl
Meaning: spending money or using resources freely and recklessly
Synonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, imprudent, profligate
Antonyms: thrifty, economical
Usage: Jack’s prodigal actions left him penniless and without a home.
4. JEJUNE (adjective) – सरल
Pronunciation: juh·joon
Meaning: naive, simplistic, and superficial
Synonyms: naive, simple, innocent, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous
Antonyms: sophisticated, mature
Usage: I am very jejune and refuse to eat anything I can not spell.
5. CAJOLE (verb) – फुसलाना
Pronunciation: kuh·jowl
Meaning: persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery
Synonyms: persuade, wheedle, coax, lure, beguile, blarney, flatter
Antonyms: bully, dissuade
Usage: The candidate managed to cajole many voters into choosing his name on the ballot.
6. LARGESSE (noun) – उदारता
Pronunciation: laa·jes
Meaning: generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others
Synonyms: generosity, liberality, munificence, bounty, benefaction, altruism, charity
Antonym: meanness, miserliness
Usage: The largesse provided by local corporations will support the building of a neighborhood park.
7. FLAUNT (verb) – इठलाना
Pronunciation: flawnt
Meaning: display ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration
Synonyms: show off, parade, exhibit, flourish, brandish, wave, dangle
Antonyms: hide, conceal
Usage: Eric loves to flaunt his flashy clothes.
8. DOGMATIC (adjective) – कट्टर
Pronunciation: dog·ma·tuhk
Meaning: inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true
Synonyms: opinionated, peremptory, assertive, imperative, insistent, emphatic
Antonyms: tentative, open-minded
Usage: You can't be dogmatic in matters of taste.
9. AFFECTATION (noun) – दिखावा
Pronunciation: a·fek·tei·shn
Meaning: behaviour, speech, or writing that is pretentious and designed to impress
Synonyms: pretension, artificiality, insincerity, posturing, posing, pretence, ostentation
Antonyms: naturalness, frankness
Usage: Her posh accent is pure affectation.
10. ODDITY (noun) – विचित्रता; अनोखा आदमी
Pronunciation: o·duh·tee
Meaning: a strange or peculiar person or thing
Synonyms: eccentric, crank, misfit, eccentricity, maverick, weirdo, kook
Antonym: conformist, familiarity
Usage: The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all.
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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