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1.Paucity (noun)
Hindi translation: कमी
Meaning: Not sufficient, very small amount
Memory Tip: Pau + City → Pause + city → Paucity of fuel paused the city.
Use in Sentence: The paucity of nitrogen in the soil makes it infertile.
2.Pedant (noun)
Hindi translation: पांडित्यदंभी
Meaning: A person who corrects small errors, gives too much attention to minor details and is concerned with displaying academic learning.
Memory Tip: Ped + ant → पढ़ी + अंत → जिसके लिए पढ़ी-लिखी हुई बातें ही सारी चीज़ों का अंत है
Use in Sentence: I was misfortunate to be paired with an annoying pedant for a lab partner.
3.Pecuniary (adjective)
Hindi translation: आर्थिक संबंधी
Meaning: Related to money
Memory Tip: Pecuniary rhymes with ‘peculiar to money’.
Use in Sentence: Banks check the pecuniary history of a customer before giving a loan.
4.Amorous (adjective)
Hindi translation: प्रेमातुर
Meaning: Romantic
Memory Tip: Amor + ous → अमर → अमर प्रेम
Use in Sentence: MF Hussain’s paintings are amorous accounts of his muse, Madhuri Dixit.
5.Tempered (adjective)
Hindi translation: दृढ़
Meaning: Improved in hardness or elasticity by a process of reheating and cooling the material.
Memory Tip: Tempered glass is tamper proof – it won’t break easily!
Use in Sentence: Some behaviours are innate, while others are learned.
6.Cringe (verb, noun)
Hindi translation: घबराना, संकोच करना
Meaning: To bend one’s body and head in fear or submission or shyness.
Memory Tip: Cringe sounds similar to crunch → Your face looks crunched when you cringe.
Use in Sentence: The boy cringed in terror seeing a giant shadow near the window.
7.Tenuous (adjective)
Hindi translation: हल्का
Meaning: Thin, light.
Memory Tip: Ten + uous → Thin + uous → Thin and light.
Use in Sentence: Although the frozen lake was quite tenuous, Henry still decided to cross it on foot.
8.Officious (adjective)
Hindi translation: तानाशाही
Meaning: Bossy
Memory Tip: Office + ous → Bossy
Use in Sentence: My new manager is very officious and unnecessarily interferes with my work.
9.Maladroit (adjective)
Hindi translation: अक्षम
Meaning: Inefficient in use, unskilled.
Memory Tip: Mal + adroit → Mal(ware) + android → Phone dysfunction.
Use in Sentence: Many maladroit students proved to be geniuses later in their lives.
10.Anomaly (noun)
Hindi translation: विसंगति
Meaning: Unusual, exception.
Memory Tip: A + nomaly → अ (= not) + normally
Use in Sentence: Global warming causes anomalies in climate.
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1. – Obviate – बचना
Meaning – remove (a need or difficulty).
Usage – “the presence of roller blinds obviated the need for curtains”
Synonyms – preclude, prevent, remove, get rid of, do away with, get round, rule out, eliminate, make unnecessary, take away, foreclose, avoid, avert, counter.
2. – Behoove – योग्य होना
Meaning – it is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something.
Usage – “it behoves the House to assure itself that there is no conceivable alternative”
Synonyms – be incumbent on, be obligatory for, be required of, be appropriate for, be expected of, be advisable for, be sensible for, be wise for.
3. – Fracas – कोलाहल
Meaning – a noisy disturbance or quarrel.
Usage – “the fracas was broken up by stewards”
Synonyms – disturbance, quarrel, scuffle, brawl, affray, tussle, melee, free-for-all, fight, clash, skirmish, brouhaha, riot, uproar, commotion; argument, altercation, angry exchange, war of words, shouting match, tiff, dispute, disagreement, row, wrangle, squabble, rumpus; stooshie; donnybrook; bangarang.
4. – Heretic – विधर्मी
Usage – a person believing in or practising religious heresy.
Synonyms – dissident, dissenter, nonconformist, unorthodox thinker, heterodox thinker, apostate, freethinker, iconoclast, schismatic, renegade; sceptic, agnostic, atheist, non-theist, non-believer, unbeliever, idolater, idolatress, pagan, heathen; separatist, sectarian, revisionist; raretergiversator, recreant, recusant, nullifidian.
5. – Imbued – भर देना
Meaning – inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).
Usage – “his works are invariably imbued with a sense of calm and serenity”
Synonyms – permeate, saturate, diffuse, suffuse, pervade; impregnate, inject, inculcate, instil, ingrain, inspire, inform; fill, charge, load.
6. – Ingrained – जमा हुआ
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, driven in; inveterate, dyed-in-the-wool, abiding, enduring, stubborn, unfading; inbred, instinctive.
7. – Knotty – विकट
Meaning – full of knots.
Usage – “panelling in knotty pine”
Synonyms – gnarled, knotted, knurled, nodular, knobbly, lumpy, bumpy, rugged, rough, coarse; rarenodulous, nodose.
8. – Kinship – समानता
Meaning – blood relationship.
Usage – “ties of descent and kinship”
Synonyms – relationship, relatedness, being related, family ties, family connections, blood relationship, blood ties, common ancestry, common lineage, kindred, connection; formalconsanguinity, propinquity.
9. – Melee – हाथापाई
Meaning – confused fight or scuffle.
Usage – “several people were hurt in the melee”
Synonyms – tumult, disturbance, rumpus, commotion, disorder; brawl, fracas, fight, affray, fray, scuffle, breach of the peace, struggle, skirmish, free-for-all, tussle, quarrel; donnybrook; bangarang; informalscrap, set-to, ruction, shindy, shindig, punch-up, dust-up.
10. – Nonplus – उधेड़-बुन
Meaning – surprise and confuse (someone) so much that they are unsure how to react.
Usage – “Diane was nonplussed by such an odd question”
Synonyms – surprise, stun, dumbfound, confound, astound, astonish, amaze, take aback, disconcert, stop someone in their tracks, throw, throw/catch off balance; puzzle, perplex, baffle, mystify, confuse, bemuse, bewilder; informalfaze, flummox, floor, flabbergast, discombobulate, stump, bamboozle.
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1.Edify (verb)
Hindi Meaning : ऊँचा उठाना, सदुदाहरण देना
English Meaning : To teach in a way that improves the mind or character
Synonyms: Educate, Instruct, Teach
Use: The minister hoped his sermon on faith would edify some of his troubled congregation.
2.Profane (adjective)
Hindi Meaning : लौकिक, सांसारिक
English Meaning : Vulgar and inappropriate
Synonyms: Desecrate, Violate, Defile
Use : We do not allow our young children to watch movies with profane references.
3.Bustle (verb)
Hindi Meaning : धूमधड़ाका, हलचल
English Meaning: Move in an energetic and busy manner.
Synonyms: Rush, Dash, Scurry
Use: The Sunday street was bustling with shoppers.
4.Sabotage (verb)
Hindi Meaning : तोड़-फोड़ की हरकत, तोड़-फोड़
English Meaning : Deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct
Synonyms: Wreck,Vandalize, Destroy, Obstruct
Use: The enemy agent used a bomb to sabotage the factory and halt production.
5.Ostensibly (adverb)
Hindi Meaning : प्रकट रूप से, देखने में
English Meaning: to all outward appearances
Synonyms: Apparently, Seemingly , Superficially
Use: Ostensibly, the undercover cop looked like a regular college student.
6.Absquatulate (verb)
English Meaning : Leave abruptly.
Synonyms: Abscond, Make off, Levant
Use: To escape a death sentence, the killer knew he had to absquatulate from the country.
7.Uncanny (adjective)
Hindi Meaning : विचित्र, विलक्षण
English Meaning : Strange or mysterious
Synonyms: Eerie, Unnatural, Preternatural
Use: The narrator’s uncanny voice made the horror story even scarier.
8.Taper (verb)
Hindi Meaning : पतली मोमबत्ती, लंबा पतला टुकड़ा
English Meaning : Diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end.
Synonyms: Narrow,Attenuate
Use: The woman asked the artist to gradually taper her tattoo down her back.
9.Swoon (verb)
Hindi Meaning : बेहोशी, मूर्छा
English Meaning : To faint or lose consciousness from extreme emotion
Synonyms: Collapse , Drop
Use: The actor pretended to fall into a swoon while he ranted incoherently.
10.Revelation (noun)
Hindi Meaning : प्रकटन, प्रकटीकरण
English Meaning : A surprising realization that makes you look at things in a new way
Synonyms: Disclosure,Declaration, Utterance
Use : The philosophy book helped him to come to a personal revelation on how to live a better life.
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1.Efficacy (noun)
Hindi translation: गुण-कारिता
Meaning: The ability to produce the desired effect.
Memory Tip: EFFICACY is like EFFICienCY → Both are related to the ability to do something.
Use in Sentence: The medicine has the efficacy to reduce the amount of pain.
2.Malicious (adjective)
Hindi translation: दुर्भावनापूर्ण
Meaning: Intending or intended to do harm.
Memory Tip: Like malware software intends to harm computers, malicious people intend to hurt other people → Mal(ware)icious.
Use in Sentence: We must understand that malicious comments on social media hurt others.
3.Quiescent (adjective)
Hindi translation: मौन, स्थिर
Meaning: Being quiet, inactive or still.
Memory Tip: ‘Quiescent’ → ‘quiet’ + ‘saint’
Use in Sentence: The boy seems quiescent because he is meditating.
4.Satiate (verb, adjective)
Hindi translation: भर पेट खिलाना, संतुष्ट
Meaning: Fill to satisfaction, to satisfy.
Memory Tip: I SAT & ATE everything, so I was SAT-I-ATED.
Use in Sentence: Hopefully, this heavy meal will satiate your hunger.
5.Belie (verb)
Hindi translation: झुठलाना
Meaning: To misrepresent, fail to justify a claim.
Memory Tip: Belie → lie!
Use in Sentence: Lawyers belie facts for their client’s benefit.
6.Effluent (noun)
Hindi translation: प्रवाह, बहनेवाला
Meaning: Liquid waste that flows out of industries, etc. into water bodies.
Memory Tip: Ef – FLU – ENT → “Flowing Pollutant”.
Use in Sentence: Industrial effluents flow into rivers and pollute them.
7.Exculpate (verb)
Hindi translation: निर्दोष सिद्ध करना
Meaning: To show or declare someone to be blameless.
Memory Tip: Ex + culpate → Ex + culprit → No longer a culprit.
Use in Sentence: They need a strong evidence to exculpate themselves.
8.Noisome (adjective)
Hindi translation: दुर्गंध, नुकसानदेह
Meaning: Having an extremely foul smell, offensive or unpleasant.
Memory Tip: Noisome → “(an)noy+some” smell.
Use in Sentence: The old man’s clothes were noisome as he hadn’t washed them in a week.
9.Convict (noun, verb)
Hindi translation: मिद्धदोष अपराधी, अपराधी घोषित करना
Meaning: A person who is guilty of a crime, to declare someone guilty.
Memory Tip: Con + vict → कौन + Witch (In earlier times, witches were considered to be criminals and were burnt alive.)
Use in Sentence: The man was convicted of robbery.
10.Conviction (noun)
Hindi translation: दृढ विश्वास
Meaning: 1. An unshakable belief in something without the need for proof.
2. Formal declaration of a person as being guilty of a criminal offence
Memory Tip: Conviction means believing without proof. But we declare a person convict only after reviewing all proof. How strange!
Use in Sentence: 1. Some people have strong political convictions and opinions.
2. She will appeal against her conviction, in the court.
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1. – Nullify – अमान्य घोषित करना
Meaning – make legally null and void; invalidate.
Usage – “judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions”
Synonyms – annul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, invalidate, render invalid; repeal, reverse, rescind, revoke, set aside, cancel, abolish, undo, abrogate; countermand, veto, dissolve, cast aside, do away with, bring to an end, terminate, quash, obliterate; vacate; archaicrecall; raredisannul.
2. – Grievances – शिकायतों
Meaning – a real or imagined cause for complaint, especially unfair treatment.
Usage – “a website which enabled staff to air their grievances”
Synonyms – injustice, unjust act, wrong, injury, ill, offence, disservice, unfairness, evil, outrage, atrocity, damage; affront, insult, indignity.
3. – Wriggle – कसमसाहट
Meaning – twist and turn with quick writhing movements.
Usage – “she kicked and wriggled but he held her firmly”
Synonyms – squirm, writhe, wiggle, jiggle, jerk, thresh, flounder, flail, twitch, turn, twist, twist and turn, zigzag; snake, worm, slither, slink, crawl, creep.
4. – Conciliation – समझौता
Meaning – the action of stopping someone being angry; placation.
Usage – “he held his hands up in a gesture of conciliation”
Synonyms – appeasement, pacification, peacemaking, placation, propitiation, mollification, reconciliation.
5. – Biblical – बाइबिल का
Meaning – relating to or contained in the Bible.
Usage – “the biblical account of creation”
6. – Sparse – विरल
Meaning – thinly dispersed or scattered.
Usage – “areas of sparse population”
Synonyms – scanty, scant, scattered, thinly distributed, scarce, infrequent, sporadic, few and far between; meagre, paltry, skimpy, limited, in short supply, at a premium, hard to come by; slight, thin.
7. – Nurture – पालन – पोषण करना
Meaning – care for and protect (someone or something) while they are growing.
Usage – “Jarrett was nurtured by his parents in a close-knit family”
Synonyms – bring up, care for, provide for, take care of, attend to, look after, rear, support, raise, foster, parent, mother, tend; feed, nourish; rareprovender.
8. – Formidable – दुर्जेय
Meaning – inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
Usage – “a formidable opponent”
Synonyms – intimidating, forbidding, redoubtable, daunting, alarming, frightening, terrifying, petrifying, horrifying, chilling, disturbing, disquieting, dreadful, brooding, awesome, fearsome, ominous, foreboding, sinister, menacing, threatening, dangerous; informalspooky, scary, creepy; archaicdireful, bodeful.
9. – Bolster – गोल लम्बा तकिया
Meaning – a long, thick pillow that is placed under other pillows for support.
Usage – “most of them were sitting on the floor which was strewn with cushions, bolsters, and rugs”
Synonyms – pillow, cushion, pad, support, rest
10. – Feud – झगड़ा
Meaning – be engaged in a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute.
Usage – “Hoover feuded with the CIA for decades”
Synonyms – quarrel, fight, argue, bicker, squabble, dispute, clash, differ, be at odds, be at daggers drawn; wage war, take up arms; informal scrap.
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1. Capitulate (verb)
Hindi Meaning : झुकना, आत्मसमर्पण करना
English Meaning : To surrender under certain terms
Synonyms: Surrender, Crumble ,Succumb
Use : The two countries agreed to capitulate a twenty-four hour cease fire on the holiday.
2.Squirm (verb)
Hindi Meaning : छटपटाहट, तड़प
English Meaning : To move about in distress as a result of fear or shame
Synonyms: Wriggle, Fidget, Jiggle
Use: The defendant is going to squirm under the prosecutor’s intense questioning.
3.Obdurate (adjective)
Hindi Meaning : ज़िद्दी, ज़िद्दी, हठकारिता
English Meaning : Unmoved by persuasion
Synonyms: Unsympathetic , Obstinate
Use: The protesters were obdurate and did not move even when the police arrived.
4.Euphoria (noun)
Hindi Meaning : सुखाभास, परम आनंद का अनुभ
English Meaning: An excited state of joy
Synonyms: Elation, Happiness, Joy
Use : The euphoria has been politically crafted and media hyped.
5.Munificent (adjective)
Hindi Meaning : उदार, दाता
English Meaning : Very generous
Synonyms: Generous, Bountiful, Beneficent
Use : The sizable gift card was a munificent present from my grandparents.
6.Candor (noun)
Hindi Meaning : खरापन, निष्कपटता
English Meaning : The state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression
Synonyms : Honesty , Truthfulness, Sincerity
Use: The politician’s candor and honesty made him the favorite candidate in the election.
7.Haggle (verb)
Hindi Meaning : मोल-भाव, झंझट करना
English Meaning : Dispute or bargain persistently
Synonyms: Barter, Negotiate , Quibble.
Use: Although my grandfather is quite wealthy, he will haggle to save a dollar.
8.Obviate (verb)
Hindi Meaning : टालना, बचना
English Meaning : To prevent or eliminate
Synonyms: Preclude, Prevent, Remove
Use : We replaced the old mechanisms because we wanted to obviate any nervousness about potential breakdown.
9.Execrable (adjective)
Hindi Meaning : घटिया, घिनौना
English Meaning :Extremely bad or unpleasant
Synonyms: Appalling, Awful, Dreadful, Terrible
Use: When news was released of the execrable treatment of refugees in detention centers, there was a public outcry against the government entity in charge.
10.Bliss (noun)
Hindi Meaning : विलास, स्वर्गसुख
English Meaning: Perfect happiness
Synonyms: Joy, Pleasure, Delight
Use : As a chocolate lover, I see bliss as an endless supply of chocolate bars.
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1.Adage (noun)
Hindi translation: कहावत
Meaning: A proverb or wise saying that states a general truth.
Memory Tip: Advice + aged = Wise advice.
Use in Sentence: “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life,” is a Chinese adage.
2.Affable (adjective)
Hindi translation: मिलनसार
Meaning: Friendly, good-natured or easy to talk to.
Memory Tip: Aff+able = laugh+able = Someone who is able to laugh with you is generally good-natured and friendly.
Use in Sentence: Wherever you work, you must be affable in order to have a good work life.
3.Erstwhile (adverb, adjective)
Hindi translation: भूतपूर्व
Meaning: Formerly, former.
Memory Tip: Erst (= earlier) + while (= a period of time) → In the earlier times, no longer now.
Use in Sentence: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, erstwhile the President of India, was a great scientist.
4.Sabotage (noun, verb)
Hindi translation: तोड़-फोड़ करना
Meaning: Deliberately destroy or damage, especially for military advantage.
Memory Tip: 1. Sab hatao!
2. To destroy everything like Saaboo would!
Use in Sentence: He sabotaged the enemy forces by throwing a giant elephant at them.
5.Aggrandize (verb)
Hindi translation: शक्ति अथवा प्रटिष्ठा में बढ़ाना
Meaning: Enhance someone’s reputation beyond a justified limit.
Memory Tip: Grand + ize (= make) → Make a person more grand.
Use in Sentence: Some people support only those causes that aggrandize them.
6.Ordeal (noun)
Hindi translation: अग्नि परीक्षा
Meaning: A very unpleasant and prolonged experience, trial.
Memory Tip: You can either quit OR DEAL with it!
Use in Sentence: Just relax, this exam is not an ordeal. You can do it!
7.Adherent (noun, adjective)
Hindi translation: अनुयायी, चिपकने वाला
Meaning: 1. Strong supporter of a party, ideas etc.
2. Sticking fast to a surface.
Memory Tip: Adhesive means glue. Adherent = Sticking like glue.
Use in Sentence: He is an adherent of the Republic party.
8.Discomfit (verb)
Hindi translation: नाकाम करना, बिगाड़ देना
Meaning: Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed, ruin.
Memory Tip: Discomfit = To cause discomfort to someone.
Use in Sentence: The boy was visibly discomfited because of the mean comments of his classmates.
9.Cacophony (noun)
Hindi translation: कोलाहल
Meaning: A harsh mixture of sounds.
Memory Tip: Caco + phony → Ka Ka (=CROW) + PHONE → Mix the harsh sounds of crows and phones. The resultant sound could be called a cacophony!
Use in Sentence: The cacophony in the crowded classroom drowned out the principal’s announcement.
10.Prevaricate (verb)
Hindi translation: छलकपट करना
Meaning: To speak in a way as to mislead the listener.
Memory Tip: Pre+varicate → Prevent + verification → To prevent the verification of lies.
Use in Sentence: The politician tried to prevaricate when the press asked about the new government project.
