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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 7 May 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.
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1. BUTTRESS (verb) – सहारा देना
Pronunciation: but-ris
Meaning: to give support to or strengthen something
Synonyms: strengthen, reinforce, fortify, support, underpin
Usage: To buttress his lecture, Dr. Wren prepared a PowerPoint presentation of fifty slides.
2. HEDONIST (noun) – सुखवादी
Pronunciation: hednist / heednist
Meaning: someone who tries to have as much as pleasure as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life is to enjoy yourself
Synonyms: sybarite, pleasure seeker, pleasure lover, libertine
Antonyms: ascetic, austere
Usage: My neighbor is a hedonist who likes to party all night.
3. FORBEARANCE (noun) – संयम, सहनशीलता
Pronunciation: fo-beuh-runs
Meaning: the quality of being patient and being able to forgive someone or control yourself in a difficult situation
Synonyms: tolerance, toleration, patience, resignation, endurance, fortitude, stoicism
Antonyms: impatience, intolerance
Usage: He thanked his employees for the forbearance that they had shown during the company’s difficult time.
4. POSER (noun) – उलझन; समस्या; पहेली
Pronunciation: po-zuh
Meaning: a difficult or perplexing question or problem
Synonyms: puzzle, mystery, conundrum, puzzler, riddle
Usage: Ashley loves a good murder-mystery poser, but her sister hates it.
5. FLASHPOINT (noun) – संकट बिंदु
Pronunciation: flash-point
Meaning: a place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up
Synonyms: trouble spot, crisis point
Antonyms: dreamland, utopia
Usage: Tension in the city is rapidly reaching flashpoint.
6. POINT-BLANK (adjective, adverb) – नज़दीक से गोली मारना; स्पष्ट
Pronunciation: point-blank
Meaning: (of a shot) fired from very close to its target; (of a statement or question) direct and without explanation
Synonyms: blunt, direct, straight, straightforward, frank, candid, forthright
Antonyms: circumlocutory, periphrastic
Usage:
- The bullet, fired at point-blank range, hit him in the middle of the back. (adjective)
- The victim was shot point-blank in the chest. (adverb)
- He doesn’t like to be photographed, so he refused point-blank. (adverb)
7. BANE (noun) – यातना, कष्ट
Pronunciation: bein
Meaning: a cause of great distress or annoyance
Synonyms: scourge, ruin, death, plague, ruination, destruction, torment, torture, menace, suffering
Usage: Those noisy neighbours are the bane of my life.
8. CONTUMELY (noun) – अवहेलना, अपमान
Pronunciation: kon-tyoo-mili / kon-tyoomli
Meaning: insulting language or treatment
Synonyms: abuse, insults, slurs, aspersions, derision
Antonyms: compliments, flattery
Usage: When I met my ex-husband’s new wife, I treated her to a great deal of contumely because she destroyed my happy life.
9. CARNAGE (noun) – नरसंहार, कत्लेआम, हत्याकाण्ड
Pronunciation: kaa-nij
Meaning: the killing of a large number of people
Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery
Usage: The battlefield was a scene of carnage.
10. SEMINAL (adjective) – लाभदायक, प्राथमिक,फलवान
Pronunciation: semi-n(u)l
Meaning: containing important new ideas and having a great influence on later work
Synonyms: influential, formative, groundbreaking, pioneering, original
Antonyms: irrelevant, unimportant
Usage: She wrote a seminal article on the subject while she was still a student.
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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