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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings : 17 September 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. 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. ZENITH (noun) – शीर्षबिंदु
Pronunciation: zeh·nuhth
Meaning: the time at which something is most powerful or successful
Synonyms: height, top, peak, acme, pinnacle, apex, apogee
Antonyms: nadir, bottom
Usage: The singer reached her zenith when she sold over twelve million records in 2013.
2. DREAD (noun) – भय
Pronunciation: dred
Meaning: great fear or apprehension
Synonyms: fear, apprehension, trepidation, anxiety, worry, concern, foreboding
Antonyms: confidence
Usage: Terror and dread filled the minds of all of the passengers aboard the failing aircraft.
3. SUPERCILIOUS (adjective) – घमंडी
Pronunciation: soo·puh·si·lee·uhs
Meaning: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
Synonyms: arrogant, haughty, conceited, disdainful, overbearing, pompous, condescending
Antonyms: humble, modest
Usage: The supercilious woman bragged about living in a mansion to everyone at the banquet.
4. TAME (adjective) – पालतू
Pronunciation: teim
Meaning: not dangerous or frightened of people
Synonyms: domesticated, trained, pet, docile, tamed, disciplined, gentle, mild
Antonyms: wild, fierce
Usage: The wild tiger lost its fight after a few days in the cage and eventually became tame.
5. AFFLUENCE (noun) – समृद्धि
Pronunciation: a·floo·uhns
Meaning: the state of having a great deal of money
Synonyms: wealth, prosperity, opulence, fortune, richness, luxury, plenty
Antonyms: poverty
Usage: The businessman uses his affluence to help people in need.
6. CONSEQUENTIAL (adjective) – महत्त्वपूर्ण
Pronunciation: kon·suh·kwen·shl
Meaning: important; significant
Synonyms: important, significant, major, serious, weighty, material, appreciable
Antonyms: insignificant, minor
Usage: The partial footprint was consequential in solving the case.
7. FUSION (noun) – विलय
Pronunciation: fyoo·zhn
Meaning: the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity
Synonyms: blend, merging, combination, amalgamation, joining, bonding
Antonyms: separation, segregation
Usage: Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.
8. DISCOMFIT (verb) – शर्मिंदा करना
Pronunciation: duh·skuhm·fuht
Meaning: make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed
Synonyms: embarrass, abash, disconcert, nonplus, discompose, discomfort, unsettle
Antonyms: reassure
Usage: The manager’s mean look served to discomfit me during the interview.
9. FOOLPROOF (adjective) – अचूक
Pronunciation: fool·proof
Meaning: incapable of going wrong
Synonyms: infallible, unfailing, dependable, reliable, trustworthy, certain, unerring
Antonyms: flawed, inaccurate, faulty
Usage: He tried to devise a foolproof plan for getting rid of termites.
10. ALIEN (adjective) – अजनबी
Pronunciation: ei·lee·uhn
Meaning: unfamiliar or unrecognized
Synonyms: unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, strange, peculiar, odd, bizarre
Antonyms: familiar, known
Usage: When I first went to New York, it all felt very alien to me.
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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