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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 4 June 2020
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. SPRITE (noun) – परी
Pronunciation: sprait
Meaning: a fairy
Synonyms: elf, pixie, imp, brownie, puck, peri, goblin, hobgoblin, kelpie
Usage: It is said that little water sprite lives in this river.
2. DISSENSION (noun) – मतभेद, विचार-विभिन्नता
Pronunciation: di-sen-sh(u)n
Meaning: disagreement that leads to discord
Synonyms: disagreement, difference of opinion, dispute, dissent, variance, conflict, friction, strife, discord, discordance
Antonyms: agreement, harmony
Usage: Religion caused so much dissension in the family that the controversial topic was banned from the dinner table.
3. PINCHED (adjective) – कमज़ोर; चिंतित; थका हुआ; दुबला-पतला
Pronunciation: pinchd
Meaning: tense, pale, or unattractively thin from cold, worry, or hunger
Synonyms: strained, stressed, fraught, tense, taut, worn
Antonyms: healthy, glowing, chubby
Usage: Their faces were pinched with grief.
4. TRUNCHEON (noun) – छड़ी, डण्डा, लाठी
Pronunciation: trunch(u)n
Meaning: a short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer
Synonyms: club, baton, cudgel, bludgeon, stick, staff, billy, billy club, blackjack, nightstick, cosh
Usage: He was held for four hours and beaten with a truncheon.
5. SCRUNCH (verb, noun) – चरचराना
Pronunciation: skrunch
Meaning: make a loud crunching noise; crush or squeeze (something) into a compact mass; a loud crunching noise
Synonyms: crush, rumple, screw up, mash (up), squeeze, compress, squidge
Usage:
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As a child I liked to scrunch crisp yellow leaves satisfyingly underfoot. (verb)
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Flora scrunched the handkerchief into a ball. (verb)
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I heard the scrunch of boots in the snow. (noun)
6. MANGLE (verb) – क्षति पहुंचाना, नाश करना
Pronunciation: mang(u)l
Meaning: destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing; ruin or spoil (a text, piece of music, etc.)
Synonyms: mutilate, maim, disfigure, damage, injure; spoil, ruin, mar, bungle, mess up, make a mess of
Usage: The lion's razor-sharp claws mangled the terrified kitten.
7. SIMILITUDE (noun) – समानता
Pronunciation: si-mili-tyood
Meaning: the quality or state of being similar to something
Synonyms: resemblance, similarity, likeness, sameness
Antonyms: dissimilarity, difference
Usage: A striking similitude between the brother and sister arrested my attention.
8. DIVULGENCE (noun) – प्रकटीकरण, पर्दाफ़ाश
Pronunciation: di-vul-j(u)ns
Meaning: the action of revealing private or sensitive information
Synonyms: disclosure, revelation, declaration, unveiling
Antonym: concealment
Usage: The divulgence of secret data may be the one most serious problem.
9. COMBATANT (noun, adjective) – योद्धा
Pronunciation: kom-but(u)nt / kum-but(u)nt
Meaning: a person or nation engaged in fighting during a war; a person engaged in conflict or competition with another; engaged in fighting during a war
Synonyms: fighter, soldier, serviceman; contender, antagonist, adversary, battler, opponent; warring, opposing, contending, belligerent, combating
Antonyms: civilian; ally, non-participant; non-combatant
Usage:
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Carey loved hearing his grandfather’s stories about when he was a combatant in WWII. (noun)
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All the combatant armies went to war with machine guns. (adjective)
10. CHARLATAN (noun) – ढोंगी
Pronunciation: shaa-lut(u)n
Meaning: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill
Synonyms: quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, fake, humbug, impostor, pretender
Usage: I want to know whether he is an outstanding artist or a charlatan?
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.
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