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Vocabulary - Exceptional English words with meanings 9 April 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. HIGH-STRUNG (adjective) – संवेदनशील, अनुभूत
Pronunciation: hai-strung
Meaning: nervous and easily upset
Synonyms: excitable, agitated, temperamental, sensitive, unstable, brittle
Antonym: easy-going
Usage: The aging actress was very high-strung.
2. DISQUIET (noun, verb) – घबराहट; बेचैन करना
Pronunciation: dis-kwai-ut
Meaning: a feeling of worry or unease; make (someone) worried or uneasy
Synonyms: unease, uneasiness, worry, anxiety, distress; perturb, agitate, upset, disturb, unnerve
Antonym: calm
Usage:
- People felt a growing sense of disquiet over levels of crime in the neighborhood. (noun)
- The novel is a tense thriller that will disquiet the reader. (verb)
3. MAKEBATE (noun) – उपद्रवी, अंशाति फैलाने वाला
Pronunciation: meik-beit
Meaning: one that excites conflicts and quarrels
Synonyms: rowdy, troublemaker
Antonym: gentleman, gentlewoman, chastiser
Usage: Krista’s argumentative nature has caused her to be labeled a makebate by those who are sick of her troublemaking.
4. THOROUGHBRED (adjective, noun) – ख़ालिस, शुद्धरक्त
Pronunciation: thuruh-bred
Meaning: (of a horse) of pure breed (widely used as racehorses); of outstanding quality (person or thing)
Synonyms: pure-bred, pedigree, pure-blooded, full-blooded; top-quality, high-quality, first-class, first-rate
Antonym: hybrid
Usage:
- Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses. (adjective)
- The performance of a thoroughbred sports car is excellent. (adjective)
- The thoroughbred is probably the oldest of the breeds, and it is known as the “blood-horse”. (noun)
- This soldier is really a thoroughbred who performed his duties very well in such difficult climatic conditions. (noun)
5. CONTRIVE (verb) – ईजाद करना; गढ़ना
Pronunciation: kun-traiv
Meaning: create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice; manage to do something foolish or create an undesirable situation
Synonyms: engineer, manufacture, orchestrate, stage-manage, create, devise, concoct, construct, design, formulate
Usage:
- Can you contrive a meeting between them?
- Their naughty children always contrive to make such a mess of things.
6. TRANSGRESS (verb) – उल्लंघन करना, अवलेहना करना
Pronunciation: traanz-gres / traans-gres
Meaning: go beyond the limits of something that is morally, socially, or legally acceptable
Synonyms: misbehave, err, lapse, fall from grace, sin, degenerate, do wrong
Antonym: obey
Usage: She had transgressed an unwritten social law.
7. DEPRECATORY (adjective) – निंदक, अवरोधक; क्षमा याचक
Pronunciation: depruk-eit(u)ri
Meaning: expressing disapproval; apologetic
Synonyms: disapproving, censorious, censuring, critical, scathing, damning; regretful, sorry, remorseful, contrite, penitent, repentant
Antonym: unrepentant
Usage:
- Although he claimed it was all in fun, the man’s deprecatory comments were hurtful to those they ridiculed.
- He was regretful and thus he ended his speech with a deprecatory statement.
8. HOBBLE (verb) – लंगड़ाकर चलना
Pronunciation: hob(u)l
Meaning: walk with difficulty, typically because of pain from an injury
Synonyms: limp, shuffle, shamble, falter, totter
Antonym: stride
Usage: The old man hobble along with the aid of his stick.
9. NOSH (noun, verb) – खाद्य; लालच से खाना
Pronunciation: nosh
Meaning: food; a snack or small item of food; eat food enthusiastically or greedily
Synonyms: eat, ingest, consume, take, taste, devour
Antonym: nibble
Usage:
- Our fridge is filled with all kinds of nosh. (noun)
- We eat salted peanuts as a nosh. (noun)
- My wife likes to nosh popcorns while watching TV. (verb)
10. NOSEGAY (noun) – गुलदस्ता
Pronunciation: no-z-gei
Meaning: a small bunch of flowers, typically one that is sweet-scented
Synonyms: posy, bouquet, spray, bunch, sprig, buttonhole, corsage
Usage: On mothers’ day, I presented a nosegay of red, white, and yellow roses to my mom.
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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