Spoken English (Bank & SSC - Important Vocabulary 41 to 50)

Bank & SSC - Important Vocabulary 41

1.Familial (adjective)

Hindi translation: पारिवारिक

Meaning: Relating to family or occurring between family members

Memory Tip: Famili + al → Family + All →Something related to all family members.

Use in Sentence: It is a familial tradition for everyone to sit and eat dinner together without distractions like telephones and televisions.

 

2.Discomfiture (noun)

Hindi Translation: शर्मिंदगी

Meaning: A feeling of embarrassment or awkwardness or uneasiness.

Memory Tip: Disco + m + fiture → Disco + me + furniture → Disco mein dance karte I fell on the furniture and felt discomfiture because everybody started laughing.

Use in Sentence: When questioned sharply about his last night’s whereabouts by his wife, the man’s discomfiture clearly showed on his face.

 

3.Affluent (adjective)

Hindi translation: संपन्न, धनी

Meaning: Very Wealthy

Memory Tip: Af + fluent → After + Influence → After you become affluent (very rich) you have influence.

Use in Sentence: When Sameer’s parents used their affluence to build the school’s new library, Sameer easily got admission into the school.

 

4.Obsolete (adjective)

Hindi translation: अप्रचलित

Meaning: Out of date

Memory Tip: Obsolete → Absolute + Late → This mobile phone is absolutely late because such phones are now obsolete.

Use in Sentence: Most classrooms in cities these days do keep chalkboards as they have become nearly obsolete because of the advent of projectors and whiteboards.

 

5.Quest (verb, noun)

Hindi translation: खोज

Meaning: Long search for something

Memory Tip: Quest → Question → When you have a question that has been bothering you for a long time, you go on a quest to find answers.

Use in Sentence: The KKR’s quest to win IPL 2016 finally came to an end, even though they played well this season.

 

6.Prospective (adjective)

Hindi translation: प्रत्याशित

Meaning: Likely to happen in the future

Memory Tip: Prosp + ective → Propose + Active → After the boy proposes to a girl, his status as “prospective bridegroom” becomes active.

Use in Sentence: We interviewed a bunch of prospective applicants for the post of HR Manager at our office.

 

7.Turbulence (noun)

Hindi translation: अशांति

Meaning:
(1) Violent or Unsteady movement of air, water etc.
(2) Deep confusion or inner conflict.

Memory Tip:
(1) Rhymes with ‘disturbance’.
(2) Turb + Ulence → Terrible + Ambulance → When you see an ambulance at the scene of a terrible accident, you know that there was some turbulence in traffic that led to someone getting hurt.

Use in Sentence: The King was not competent enough to handle the political turbulence that beset his country.

 

8.Inevitable (adjective)

Hindi Translation: अनिवार्य

Meaning: Something that will certainly happen

Memory Tip: In +Evi + Table → In + every + table → In every table set, chair are inevitable.

Use in Sentence: So much bitterness and resentment had crept in between them after the death of their only son that divorce was inevitable.

 

9.Sartorial (adjective)

Hindi translation: दज़ी-संबंधी

Meaning: Relating to tailoring, style, clothes.

Memory Tip: Sar + torial→ Sari + Tailor (Unscramble the letters of TORIAL to get TAILOR).

Use in Sentence: She refers to this fashion magazine for her sartorial needs.

 

10.Voluminous (adjective)

Hindi translation: विशाल-काय

Meaning: Plenty OR Thick

Memory Tip: Every object that is thick has volumeso it is voluminous.

Use in Sentence: Her long, black, voluminous hair fell down to her thighs in thick curls which drove men mad, it is said.

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1. litigation – मुकदमेबाज़ी

Meaning – the process of taking legal action.

Usage – “the company wishes to avoid litigation”

Synonyms – legal proceeding(s), legal action, lawsuit, legal dispute, legal case, case, legal contest, action, cause, judicial proceeding(s), suit, suit at law, legal process, prosecution, bringing of charges, indictment, trial

2. Heist – चोरी

Meaning – a robbery.

Usage – “a diamond heist”

Synonyms – break-in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, five-finger discount, holdup, larceny, pilferage etc.

antonyms – give, offer

3. Crunch – की कमी

Meaning – crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound.

Usage – she paused to crunch a ginger biscuit

Synonyms – crisis, critical point, crux, difficulty, emergency etc.

antonyms – trivia

4. Malaise – अस्वस्थता

Meaning – a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify.

Usage – “a general air of malaise”

Synonyms – unhappiness, restlessness, uneasiness, unease, melancholy, depression, despondency, dejection, disquiet, trouble, anxiety, anguish

Antonyms –good health, healthiness, well being

5. Capitulate – शर्त पर हथियार डाल देना

Meaning – cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; yield.

Usage – “the patriots had to capitulate to the enemy forces”

Synonyms – surrender, give in, yield, admit defeat, concede defeat, give up the struggle, submit, back down, climb down, give way, cave in, succumb, crumble

Antonyms – defend, fight

6. Biennial – द्वैवार्षिक

Meaning – taking place every other year.

Usage – “the first of a series of biennial exhibitions”

7. Asinine – बुद्धू

Meaning – extremely stupid or foolish.

Usage – “Lydia ignored his asinine remark”

Synonyms – stupid, foolish, pointless, brainless, mindless, senseless, doltish, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, insane, lunatic, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, nonsensical, fatuous, silly, childish, infantile, puerile, immature, juvenile, inane, witless, half-baked, empty-headed, unintelligent, half-witted, slow-witted.

8. Berate – डाँटना

Meaning – scold or criticize (someone) angrily.

Usage – “she berated herself for being fickle”

Synonyms – rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one’s mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure.

9. Decrepit – पुराना

Meaning – worn out or ruined because of age or neglect.

Usage – “a row of decrepit houses”

Synonyms – dilapidated, rickety, run down, broken-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, worn out, derelict, in ruins, ruined, falling apart.

antonyms – fit,healthy,young.

10. inclinations – हठ

Meaning – a person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition.

Usage – “John was a scientist by training and inclination”

Synonyms – tendency, propensity, proclivity, leaning; predisposition, disposition, predilection, weakness, proneness; desire, wish, readiness, impulse; bent; archaiclist, humour; rarevelleity

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1.Quagmire (noun)

Hindi translation: दलदल

Meaning:
(1) Soft, boggy or swampy area that you cannot walk on.
(2) A complex situation.

Memory Tip: Qua + Mire → कुंऐं + मरे → वो बच्चे कुंऐ के पास खेलते-खेलते मरे क्योंकि कुंऐ के पास दलदल है

Use in Sentence: The division of the property did not happen as the brothers wanted because it got stuck in the legal quagmire.

2.Rejuvenate (verb)

Hindi translation: जीर्णोद्धार करना

Meaning: Make something look or feel new, better or younger.

Memory Tip: Re + juvenate → दुबारा (‘Re’ means again) + जीवनदान (boon of life)

Use in Sentence: The house needs to be rejuvenated with a new coat of paint.

 

3.Fuelled (verb)

Hindi Translation: शह

Meaning:
(1) Supply power or motivation.
(2) Stir (angry or passionate) feelings in others.

Memory Tip: Fuel helps a vehicle to run, so fuelledhelps to start something

Use in Sentence: Many speculate that the beef ban fuelled the Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.

 

4.Unleash (verb)

Hindi translation: खोलना

Meaning: Release something

Memory Tip: Un + Lease → Unhe + Release → उन्हेRelease किया

Use in Sentence: Many tribals believed that the Gods unleashed their fury in the form of the tsunami that hit in 2003.

 

5.Copious (adjective)

Hindi translation: प्रचुर

Meaning: Abundant in quantity

Memory Tip: Copious → Before exams, you study too many copies of notes.

Use in Sentence: She prepared copious notes as it was her last attempt to crack the exam.

 

6.Odium (noun)

Hindi translation: घिनौनाता

Meaning: Widespread hatred or disgust for someone’s actions.

Memory Tip: Od + I + um → Odour + I + am →Because of my bad odour, I am facing odium. 

Use in Sentence: He was the subject of constant odium because of his tendency to lie about others and spread gossip.

 

7.Recondite (adjective)

Hindi translation: गूढ़

Meaning: Less known OR Obscure

Memory Tip: Re + condite → Re + Conduct → The professor had to reconduct the class as he was teaching about recondite things and no one could understand easily.

Use in Sentence: This book is full of recondite information that even my professor wouldn’t know about.

 

8.Misconception (noun)

Hindi Translation: वहम

Meaning: Incorrect opinion based on faulty understanding

Memory Tip: Mis + Concept → If there is something missing in your concept, you have a misconception.

Use in Sentence: There are several misconceptions that people have about lawyers – truth is that they are not all professional liars.

 

9.Beatific (adjective)

Hindi translation: सुखी

Meaning: Blissful OR Peacefully happy

Memory Tip: Beatific → Beat + ific →  Beautiful + Pacific → The Pacific Ocean is so beautiful that you feel peaceful and happy looking at it.

Use in Sentence: I wanted to wake her up but the beatific look upon her face made me leave her sleeping.

 

10.Elaborate (verb, adjective)

Hindi translation: विस्तृत

Meaning: Too detailed

Memory Tip: Ela+ bora + te →  Ela + Bore + Karti → Ela की कहानियाँ इतनी elaborate हो जाती हैं कि वो बातेंकरते करते bore कर देती है

Use in Sentence: There was no way we could cancel the plans after the elaborate arrangements that had been made for the party.

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1. prophecy – prediction,   भविश्यवाणी

Meaning – a prediction of what will happen in the future.

usage – “a bleak prophecy of war and ruin”.

synonyms – prediction, forecast, prognostication, prognosis, divination, augury etc.

2. Ingrains – instill,  अन्तर्निहित

Meaning – (of a habit, belief, or attitude) firmly fixed or established; difficult to change.

Usage – “his deeply ingrained Catholic convictions”

Synonyms – entrenched, established, fixed, implanted, deep-rooted, rooted, deep-seated, settled, firm, unshakeable, ineradicable etc.

3.  Empirical – experimental,  अनुभवजन्य

Meaning – based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Usage – “they provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument”.

Synonyms – observed, seen, factual, actual, real, verifiable, first-hand; experimental, experiential; practical, pragmatic, hands-on, applied etc.

4. Peasant – farmer class,  कृषक वर्ग

Meaning – A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms.

Usage – “peasant farmers”

synonyms – agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf; paysan; muzhik, kulak; campesino, paisano; contadino; fellah; ryot; archaiccarl, cottier, kern, hind.

5. Extol – praise, प्रंशसा

Meaning – praise enthusiastically.

Usage – “he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples”

synonyms – praise enthusiastically, go into raptures about/over, wax lyrical about, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, heap praise on, eulogize, rhapsodize over, rave about, enthuse about/over, gush about/over, throw bouquets at, express delight over.

6. Clumsy – awkward, बेढंगा

Meaning – awkward in movement or in handling things.

Usage – “the cold made his fingers clumsy”

synonyms – awkward, uncoordinated, ungainly, graceless, ungraceful, inelegant, gawky, gauche, gangling, cloddish, blundering, lumbering; bungling, bumbling, fumbling, inept, maladroit, unskilful, inexpert, unhandy, accident-prone.

7. ‪Refutation – disproof, खंडन

Meaning – to prove wrong by argument or evidence :, show to be false or erroneous.

Usage – refuted the allegations.

8. ‪Persistent – continuous, लगातार

Meaning – continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

Usage – “one of the government’s most persistent critics”

synonyms – tenacious, persevering, determined, resolute, purposeful, dogged, single-minded, tireless, indefatigable, pertinacious, patient, diligent, assiduous, sedulous etc.

9. ‪Inadequate‬ – insufficient, अपर्याप्तता

Meaning – the state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required.

Usage – “the inadequacy of available resources”

synonyms – insufficiency, deficiency, scantness, scarcity, scarceness, sparseness, dearth, paucity, poverty, shortage, want, lack, undersupply etc.

10. ‎Indelible‬ – unerasable, अमिट

Meaning – (of ink or a pen) making marks that cannot be removed.

Usage – “an indelible marker pen”

synonyms – ineradicable, inerasable, ineffaceable, unexpungeable, indestructible, permanent, lasting, persisting, enduring, stubborn, ingrained, unfading, imperishable etc.

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1. Forlorn 

Hindi Meaning: अनाथ, असहाय

English Meaning: lonely and miserable

Synonym: blue, brokenhearted, cast down,

Usage:The forlorn man was so sad he thought about killing himself.

2.Exhilarate

Hindi Meaning: ख़ुश करना, मग्न करना, आनन्दित करना

English Meaning: To make an individual extremely happy

Synonym: electrify, excite, thrill

Usage: According to the author, the purpose of the novel is to exhilarate readers and leave them with happy thoughts.

3.Farcical

Hindi Meaning: हास्यास्पद, विनोदपूर्ण, हंसी का

English Meaning: Bizarre or outlandish

Synonym: funny, hilarious

Usage: As we watched the farcical film, we could not help but laugh at the antics of the three comedians.

4.Expatriate

Hindi Meaning: निर्वासित, घूमना, प्रवासी

English Meaning: an individual who does not reside in his native nation or birthplace

Synonym: deportee, evacuee, exile

Usage: My uncle is an expatriate who left the country of his birth to live in France.

5.Endowed

Hindi Meaning: संपन्न

English Meaning: To furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribut

Synonym: favor, gift, invest

Usage: Women tended to ignore RamLal because he wasn’t endowed with the same good looks as his brother.

6.Debilitate

Hindi Meaning: दुर्बल या कमजोर करना, कमजोर करना, दुर्बल करना

English Meaning:To diminish the physical strength of

Synonym: weaken, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble

Usage: Cancer can quickly debilitate an otherwise healthy person.

7.Clemency

Hindi Meaning: दया, दयालुता

English Meaning:A decision not to punish someone severely

Synonym: mercy, forbearance, lenience

Usage: Because that man killed five little kids, I hope the judge grants him no clemency and sentences him to death.

8.Burgeon

Hindi Meaning: कली, किसलय, फटना

English Meaning: To grow and expand rapidly 

Synonym: accelerate, accumulate, appreciate,

Usage: As car prices go down, car dealers are expecting sales to burgeon

9.Bourgeois 

Hindi Meaning: पूंजीपति, दकियानूसी

English Meaning: Characteristic of the social middle class or relating to one who likes to put on airs

Synonym: conservative, materialistic, middle-class

Usage:The prince’s fiancée was looked down upon because of her bourgeois upbringing

10.Acrimonious

Hindi Meaning: उग्र, कटु, प्रचण्ड

English Meaning: Angry in tone; bitter

Synonym: acrid, bitter,

Usage: Your acrimonious arguments about religion only sever friendships.

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1.Repel (verb)

Hindi Translation: विकर्षण करना

Meaning: Drive something away

Memory Tip: Mosquito Repellent repels (drives away) mosquitoes.

Use in Sentence: She was repelled by his chauvinist attitude and decided to break off the engagement.

 

2.Clench (noun, verb)

Hindi translation: जकड़ना

Meaning: Tightly grab hold of something OR Make something tight

Memory Tip: Clench (rhymes with clutch) → Before you hit the sudden brake, you will clench the clutch of the car with your foot.

Use in Sentence: The second Jiten saw Ramu walk his way, he became so angry that he clenched his fist to start punching Ramu.

 

3.Tepid (adjective)

Hindi translation: गुनगुना OR उत्साहहीन

Meaning: Lukewarm (not too hot, not cold) ORShowing little enthusiasm

Memory Tip: Te + Pid → Tea + Dip → You can dip your hand in the tea only if it is not too hot i.e. if it is tepid.

Use in Sentence: The director’s big budget movie, while not a complete flop, only received a tepid response from the fans.

 

4.Abate (verb)

Hindi translation: न्यून होना 

Meaning: Reduce or make something less intense

Memory Tip: Ab + Ate → अब जब (Now that) I ate, my hunger did abate.

Use in Sentence: I really wanted to go to Khandala this weekend, but the rains just wouldn’t abate.

 

5.Clock (verb)

Hindi translation: दर्ज करना

Meaning: Attain or register (a specified time, distance or speed)

Memory Tip: A clock registers time. So when you clock 12 hours of sleep, that means you slept for 12 hours of sleep.

Use in Sentence: The worker was given a gold-plated watch for clocking up fifty years of dedicated service.

 

6.Meticulous (adjective)

Hindi translation: सूक्ष्म

Meaning: Very carefully, with a lot of attention to detail.

Memory Tip: Me + ti + culous → Main + thi + clueless → मैं थी clueless till I paid meticulous attention to the details.

Use in Sentence: The threads of the Benarasi sariare woven with meticulous care.

 

7.Compel (verb)

Hindi translation: मजबूर करना

Meaning: Force to do something

Memory Tip:
(1) Compel → Complete → I was compelled to complete the project no matter what.
(2) Come + Pel → Come + Play → I was compelled to study for the exam even though my friends asked me to come play.

Use in Sentence: The witness was compelled to change his statement because of the threat to his life.

 

8.Nepotism (noun)

Hindi Translation: भाई-भतीजावाद

Meaning: Practice of favouring relatives and friends by people with influence by giving them jobs.

Memory Tip: Nepo + tism → Nephew + favouritism→ Showing favouritism towards your nephew by giving him a job.

Use in Sentence: The babus were fired by the new government for nepotism in awarding contracts for fixing the roads.

 

9.Deliberate (adjective)

Hindi translation: जानबूझकर किया हुआ

Meaning: Done on purpose, intentionally.

Memory Tip: Deliberate → Deli + berate → Daily + Bread → Once or twice can be by mistake, but if you eat my bread daily, it is a deliberate act of theft.

Use in Sentence: There was a deliberate silence from the government while the riots were going on.

 

10.Verge (noun)

Hindi translation: सीमा

Meaning: An extreme limit

Memory Tip: Ver + ge → Very+ edge → Extreme edge

Use in Sentence: I was on the verge of falling out of the auto when the driver hit the brakes suddenly.

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1. – Whittle – छीलना

Meaning – carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.

Usage – “he was sitting at the tent door, whittling a piece of wood with a knife”

Synonyms – pare, shave, peel, cut, hew, trim, carve, shape, model.

2. – Naivete – भोलेपन

Meaning – lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement.

Usage – “his appalling naivety in going to the press”

Synonyms – innocence, lack of sophistication, lack of experience, ingenuousness, guilelessness, lack of guile, unworldliness, childlikeness, trustfulness, simplicity, naturalness; gullibility, credulousness, credulity, over-trustfulness, lack of suspicion, blind faith, immaturity, callowness, greenness, ignorance.

3. – Wince – दर्द का भाव

Meaning – make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of pain or distress.

Usage – “he winced at the disgust in her voice”

Synonyms – grimace, pull a face; flinch, blench, start, draw back, shrink away, recoil, cringe, squirm.

4. – Panegyric – स्तुतिपाठ

Meaning – a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.

Usage – “a panegyric on the pleasures of malt whisky”

Synonyms – eulogy, speech of praise, paean, accolade, tribute, testimonial; commendation, acclamation.

5. – polemical – विवादात्मक

Meaning – of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech.

Usage – “a polemical essay”

Synonyms – critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent, vitriolic, venomous, waspish, corrosive, biting, caustic, trenchant, cutting, acerbic, sardonic, sarcastic, scathing, acid, sharp, keen, tart, pungent, stinging, astringent, incisive, devastating, piercing; rareacidulous, mordacious.

6. – Torrid – उमसदार

Meaning – very hot and dry.

Usage – “the torrid heat of the afternoon”

Synonyms – hot, sweltering, sultry, scorching, boiling, parching, sizzling, roasting, blazing, burning, blistering, tropical, stifling, suffocating, oppressive; dry, arid, barren, parched, waterless, desert.

7. – Snide – जाली

Meaning – derogatory or mocking in an indirect way.

Usage – “snide remarks about my mother”

Synonyms – disparaging, derogatory, deprecating, deprecatory, denigratory, insulting, vituperative, disapproving, contemptuous; mocking, taunting, ridiculing, sneering, jeering, scoffing; scornful, derisive, sarcastic, caustic, biting, bitchy, shrewish, spiteful, hurtful, nasty.

8. – Revelry – मद्यपान का उत्सव

Meaning – lively and noisy festivities, especially when these involve drinking a large amount of alcohol.

Usage – “sounds of revelry issued into the night”

Synonyms – celebration(s), partying, parties, revels, festivity/festivities, jollification, merrymaking, carousing, carousal, roistering, debauchery.

9. – Sleazy – निर्बल

Meaning – (of a person or situation) sordid, corrupt, or immoral.

Usage – “a sleazy private detective”

Synonyms – corrupt, immoral, sordid, unsavoury, unpleasant, disreputable; informalshady, sleazoid.

10. – Strident – तेज़

Meaning – (of a sound) loud and harsh; grating.

Usage – “his voice had become increasingly strident”

Synonyms – harsh, raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, loud, stentorian, shrill, screeching, piercing, ear-piercing; unmelodious, unmusical, discordant, dissonant, unharmonious; rarestridulous, stridulant, stridulatory, stentorious.

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1.Tutelage

Hindi Meaning: देख-रेख, रक्षण, रक्षा

English Meaning: the teaching of an individual student by a teacher, an act of guarding or protecting something

Synonym: teaching, training, tuition,

Sentence: The company is relying on the tutelage of its new CEO to increase profits.

2.Uncanny

Hindi Meaning: अलौकिक, अस्वाभाविक

English Meaning: strange or unusual in a way that is surprising or difficult to understand

Synonym: cryptic, deep, enigmatic

Sentence: She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before
 

3.Transient

Hindi Meaning: अनित्य, अस्थायी

English Meaning: not lasting long, staying somewhere only a short time

Synonym: brief, ephemeral 

Sentence: had transient thoughts of suicide but never acted upon them

4.Treacherous

Hindi Meaning: Treacherous

English Meaning: not able to be trusted : showing that someone cannot be trusted, very dangerous and difficult to deal with

Synonym: disloyal, false,

Sentence: They were not prepared to hike over such treacherous terrain

5.Sumptuous

Hindi Meaning: आलीशान, बहुमूल्य

English Meaning: very expensive, rich, or impressive

Synonym: luxury, opulent,

Sentence: the cruise ship claims to offer sumptuous furnishings, exquisitely prepared cuisine, and stellar entertainment

6.Supersede

Hindi Meaning: उठा देना, हटा देना

English Meaning: to take the place of (someone or something that is old, no longer useful, etc.) : to replace (someone or something

Synonym: relieve, substitute, replace,

Sentence: This edition supersedes the previous one.

7.Subterfuge

Hindi Meaning: छल, चाल

English Meaning: the use of tricks especially to hide, avoid, or get something

Synonym: artifice, chicane, chicanery

Sentence: They obtained the documents by subterfuge.

8.Capitol

Hindi Meaning: अमरीकी संसद भवन, कांग्रेस सदन

English Meaning: the building in which the people who make the laws of a U.S. state meet

Synonym: statehouse

Sentence: the legislators were called to the capitol for an emergency session

9.Capricious

Hindi Meaning: अस्थिर, उथला, उमंगी

 English Meaning: changing often and quickly; especially : often changing suddenly in mood or behaviour

Synonym: fickle, changeable, changeful.

Sentence: The court ruled that the punishment was arbitrary and capricious.

10.Procrastinate

Hindi Meaning: उत्पादक, टालना

English Meaning: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done : to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.

Synonym: delay, postpone action 

Sentence: He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.

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1.Redundant (adjective)

Hindi Translation: अनावश्यक, व्यर्थ

Meaning: Not needed anymore because it is repeated, outdated or useless now.

Memory Tip: Red + Undant → Read + Hundred → You don’t need to read a hundred books on a topic – it is redundant because you will find the same thing everywhere.

Use in Sentence: The debate was based on redundant theories and thus no clear winner could emerge.

 

2.Savour (verb)

Hindi translation: स्वाद लेना

Meaning: Taste and enjoy to the fullest

Memory Tip: Savour rhymes with flavour: You taste the flavour and enjoy it.

Use in Sentence: Before going to America, I want to savour all of my mother’s cooking one last time!

 

3.Acute (adjective)

Hindi translation: प्रखर

Meaning: Severe

Memory Tip: A+ cute → A cut → A cut can cause acute pain.

Use in Sentence: She suffered from acute pain in her knee and had to undergo replacement surgery.

 

4.Generate (verb)

Hindi translation: उत्पन्न करना

Meaning: Produce or create

Memory Tip: Generator produces electricity.

Use in Sentence: The changes in India’s FDI policy are going to generate controversy.

 

5.Consistent (adjective)

Hindi translation: अविरोधी OR निरंतर

Meaning: Matching with logical expectations ORContinuous

Memory Tip:
(1) Consi + stent → Kaunse + extent → उसको कौन से भी extent तक test कर लो, वो हमेशा consistent performance देगा
(2) Consistent → Constant which means ‘continuous’.

Use in Sentence:
(1) The consistent performance of the batsmen of the team helped them win the series.
(2) The FIR lodged against the Minister was consistent with the version of events narrated by witnesses of the shooting.

 

6.Clandestine (adjective)

Hindi translation: गुप्त

Meaning: Secret

Memory Tip: Clan + destine → As the members of the clan were holding secret meetings, the emperor was destined to be overthrown.

Use in Sentence: The clandestine meetings meant only one thing: there was a conspiracy taking place against the king.

 

7.Suppress (verb)

Hindi translation: अंत करना OR कुचलना

Meaning: Put an end to something by force OR To curb/restrain

Memory Tip: Suppress → Press down → Put down

Use in Sentence: The revolution was suppressed by the King’s soldiers very easily.

 

8.Gratify (verb)

Hindi translation: कृतार्थ करना

Meaning: Give satisfaction

Memory Tip: Gratify rhymes with satisfy

Use in Sentence: The zamindar was gratified with several gifts so that he would let the farmer work on his land one more year.

 

9.Despicable (adjective)

Hindi Translation: घिनौना

Meaning: Deserving hatred

Memory Tip: De + spic + able → Not + speak + able → If it is something unspeakable, it means it is despicable.

Use in Sentence: The man must be imprisoned for life for committing such a despicable crime.

 

10.Superficial (adjective)

Hindi translation: बाहरी

Meaning: Only at the surface, appearing to be real.

Memory Tip: Superficial → ऊपर से artificial

Use in Sentence: Some people believe Zoe is superficial because she thinks so much about her hair and makeup.

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1. – Knead – सानना

Meaning – work (moistened flour or clay) into dough or paste with the hands.

Usage – make (bread or pottery) by kneading flour or clay.

Synonyms – pummel, work, pound, squeeze, wring, twist, crush, form, shape, mould, mix, blend; raremalaxate.

2. – Refute – खंडन

Meaning – prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.

Usage – “these claims have not been convincingly refuted”

Synonyms – disprove, prove wrong/false, show/prove to be wrong/false, rebut, confute, give the lie to, demolish, explode, debunk, drive a coach and horses through, discredit, invalidate; informalshoot full of holes, shoot down (in flames), blow sky-high; rarecontrovert, negative.

3. – Rue – पछताना

Meaning – bitterly regret (something one has done or allowed to happen) and wish it undone.

Usage – “Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer”

Synonyms – regret, be sorry about, feel apologetic/remorseful about, feel remorse for, repent of; reproach oneself for, kick oneself for; deplore, lament, bemoan, bewail.

4. – Spurt – उछाल

Meaning – gush out in a sudden and forceful stream.

Usage – “he cut his finger, and blood spurted over the sliced potatoes”

Synonyms – squirt, shoot, spray, fountain, jet, erupt; gush, pour, stream, rush, pump, surge, spew, spill, flow, course, well, spring, burst, issue, emanate; disgorge, discharge, emit, belch forth, expel, eject; informalsloosh.

5. – Chicanery – झूठा इलज़ाम

Meaning – the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose.

Usage – “storylines packed with political chicanery”

Synonyms – trickery, deception, deceit, deceitfulness, duplicity, dishonesty, unscrupulousness, underhandedness, subterfuge, fraud, fraudulence, legerdemain, sophistry, sharp practice, skulduggery, swindling, cheating, duping, hoodwinking; deviousness, guile, intrigue, craft, craftiness.

6. – Decipher – पढ़ना

Meaning – convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language. ,

Usage – “authorized government agencies can decipher encrypted telecommunications”

Synonyms – decode, decrypt, break, work out, solve, interpret, translate, construe, explain; make sense of, make head or tail of, get to the bottom of, unravel, find the key to, find the answer to, throw light on; informalcrack, figure out; informaltwig, suss.

7. – Decrepit – पुराना

Meaning – worn out or ruined because of age or neglect.

Usage – “a row of decrepit houses”

Synonyms – dilapidated, rickety, run down, broken-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, worn out, derelict, in ruins, ruined, falling apart, falling to pieces, in (a state of) disrepair, creaky, creaking, gone to rack and ruin, on its last legs; battered, decayed, decaying, crumbling, deteriorated, deteriorating, antiquated, superannuated.

8. – Enervation – दुर्बलता

Meaning – make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.

Usage – “enervating heat”

Synonyms – exhaust, tire, fatigue, weary, wear out, devitalize, drain, sap, weaken, make weak, make feeble, enfeeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, put out of action; informalknock out, do in, take it out of one, shatter, poop, frazzle, wear to a frazzle, fag out; informalknacker; raretorpefy.

9. – Defile – अपवित्र करना

Meaning – damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil.

Usage – “the land was defiled by a previous owner”

Synonyms – spoil, sully, mar, impair, debase, degrade; pollute, poison, corrupt, taint, tarnish, infect; foul, befoul, dirty, soil, stain; destroy, ruin.

10. – Exult – मग्न होना

Meaning – show or feel triumphant elation or jubilation.

Usage – “exulting in her escape, Lisa closed the door behind her”

Synonyms – rejoice, be joyful, be happy, be pleased, be glad, be delighted, be elated, be ecstatic, be euphoric, be overjoyed, be as pleased as Punch, be cock-a-hoop, be jubilant, be rapturous, be in raptures, be transported, be beside oneself with joy, be delirious, be thrilled, jump for joy, be on cloud nine, be walking/treading on air, be in seventh heaven, glory, triumph, be triumphant; celebrate, cheer, revel.