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Prerequisite (noun, adjective)
Hindi Translation: शर्त
Meaning: Prior condition
Memory Tip: Pre + Requisite → Pre (meaning ‘before’) + Requirement → A requirement necessary from before.
Use in Sentence: Fluent writing and speaking skills in English are prerequisites for this job.
Ornate (adjective)
Hindi translation: अलंकृत
Meaning: Highly decorated
Memory Tip: Ornate → Ornaments → When we use ornaments to decorate something, it becomes ornate.
Use in Sentence: The ornate throne was studded with rubies and other precious gems.
Proficient (adjective)
Hindi translation: कुशल
Meaning: Skilled
Memory Tip: Proficient → Pro + efficient → When you show efficiency in something, you become proficient.
Use in Sentence: He is proficient at Computers which gave him an edge over the other candidates.
Malign (verb, adjective)
Hindi translation: हानिकारक OR बुराई करना
Meaning:
(1) Evil OR Harmful (adjective)
(2) Speak bad things about someone to others (verb)
(1) Evil OR Harmful (adjective)
(2) Speak bad things about someone to others (verb)
Memory Tip:
(1) Malign → Malinga → Malinga’s yorkers are a malign force of destruction against the other team’s batsmen.
(1) Malign → Malinga → Malinga’s yorkers are a malign force of destruction against the other team’s batsmen.
Use in Sentence:
(1) The witch used her malign influence on the King and convinced him to sacrifice the Queen.
(1) The witch used her malign influence on the King and convinced him to sacrifice the Queen.
(2) The businessman maligned his rival company’s reputation by spreading rumours about company’s products being old, expired goods.
Incline (noun)
Hindi translation: झुकाव
Meaning: A slope
Memory Tip:
(1) Incline → Cline → Climb → You need to climb a slope (incline)
(2) The tilt in the earth’s axis is measured roughly at an incline of 23.5º.
(1) Incline → Cline → Climb → You need to climb a slope (incline)
(2) The tilt in the earth’s axis is measured roughly at an incline of 23.5º.
Use in Sentence: The route of the train follows a long incline through the ghats.
Inclined (verb, adjective)
Hindi translation: प्रवृत्त
Meaning: Tendency to do something or favour something.
Memory Tip: In + clined → In + Line → When you have a tendency towards something or to favour something you tend to think in one line only.
Use in Sentence: He was inclined to play music rather than sports even though his father was a world-famous cricketer.
Benign (adjective)
Hindi Translation: सौम्य
Meaning: Gentle and kind.
Memory Tip: Benign → Being nice
Use in Sentence: The giant dog looked ferocious but was actually just a benign creature that loved playing with kids.
Torrential (adjective)
Hindi translation: मूसलधार
Meaning: Extremely heavy (rainfall/floods/snow etc.)
Memory Tip: Torr + Ential → Tore + Potential → Tear + Potential → When rain has the potential to tear the house down, it is called torrential.
Use in Sentence: We had to cancel the picnic at the last moment because of the torrential downpour that started suddenly.
Bestow (verb)
Hindi translation: अर्पित करना
Meaning: Present (an honour, title or gift)
Memory Tip: Best + to → When you give the Best Director Award to someone, you bestow him with an honour.
Use in Sentence: The BCCI bestowed Kohli with the Best Cricketer Award this year.
Reluctant (adjective)
Hindi translation: अनिच्छुक
Meaning: Unwilling to do something OR Hesitating
Memory Tip: Rel + Ctant → Really + Can’t → When you ask your reluctant friend to go out with you but she says “I really can’t.”
Use in Sentence: The young man seemed reluctant to answer the policeman’s questions which raised suspicions that he was in fact the murderer.
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1. Inclination – tendency, इरादा
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 etc.
2. Staggeringly – hugely, अत्यधिकता
Meaning – walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.
Usage – “he staggered to his feet, swaying a little”
Synonyms – lurch, walk unsteadily, reel, sway, teeter, totter, stumble, wobble, move clumsily, weave, flounder, falter, pitch, roll etc.
3. Remonstrate -प्रतिवादकरना
Meaning – make a forcefully reproachful protest.
Usage – “he turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy”
Synonyms – protest, complain, expostulate.
4. Opulent – धनी
Meaning – ostentatiously costly and luxurious
Usage – “the opulent comfort of a limousine”
Synonyms – luxurious, sumptuous, palatial, lavishly appointed, lavish, deluxe, rich, lush, luxuriant, splendid, magnificent, grand, grandiose, costly, expensive.
5. Sporadic – छिटपुट
Meaning – occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.
Usage – “sporadic fighting broke out”
Synonyms – occasional, infrequent, irregular, periodical, periodic, scattered, patchy, isolated, odd, uneven.
6. Nebulous -अस्पष्ट
Meaning – (of a concept) vague or ill-defined.
Usage – “nebulous concepts like quality of life”
Synonyms – vague, ill-defined, unclear, hazy, uncertain, indefinite, indeterminate, imprecise, unformed, muddled, confused, ambiguous.
7. Melancholy – उदासी
Meaning – a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Usage – “an air of melancholy surrounded him”
Synonyms – desolation, sadness, pensiveness, woe, sorrow.
8. Inebriated – मदोन्मत्त
Meaning – make (someone) drunk; intoxicate.
Usage – “I got mildly inebriated”
Synonyms – intoxicated, high, smashed, drunk.
9. Stringent -कड़ीसेकड़ी
Meaning – of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting.
Usage – “stringent guidelines on air pollution”
Synonyms – strict, firm, rigid, rigorous, severe, harsh, tough, tight, exacting, demanding, inflexible, stiff, hard and fast, uncompromising, draconian, extreme.
10. Surfeit -अतिरेक
Meaning – an excessive amount of something.
Usage – “a surfeit of food and drink”
Synonyms – excess, surplus, abundance, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, overdose, glut, avalanche, deluge.
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1. Dementia – पागलपन
Meaning – a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
Synonyms – mental illness, madness, insanity, derangement, lunacy; senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Alzheimer’s; informalsoftening of the brain
2. Dilettante – कलाप्रेमी
Meaning – a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Usage – “there is no room for the dilettante in this business”
Synonyms – dabbler, potterer, tinkerer, trifler, dallier; amateur, non-professional, non-specialist, layman, layperson
3. Dispel – दूर हो जाना
Meaning – make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.
Usage – “the brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine’s dejection”
Synonyms – banish, eliminate, dismiss, chase away, drive away, drive off, get rid of, dissipate, disperse, scatter, disseminate; relieve, allay, ease, calm, quell, check, put to rest.
4. Emeritus – ससम्मान सेवामुक्त
Meaning – (of the former holder of an office, especially a university professor) having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honour.
Usage – “emeritus professor of microbiology”
5. Evince – जताना
Meaning – reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling); indicate.
Usage – “the news stories evinced the usual mixture of sympathy and satisfaction”
Synonyms – reveal, show, make clear, make plain, make obvious, make manifest, manifest, indicate, display, exhibit, demonstrate, be evidence of, evidence, attest to, testify to, bear witness to; convey, communicate, proclaim, impart, bespeak; disclose, divulge, betray, give away, expose, lay bare.
6. Exacting – मांग करनेवाला
Meaning – making great demands on one’s skill, attention, or other resources.
Usage – “the exacting standards laid down by the organic food industry”
Synonyms – demanding, hard, tough, stringent, testing, challenging, difficult, onerous, arduous, laborious, tiring, taxing, gruelling, punishing, back-breaking, burdensome, Herculean; archaictoilsome; rareexigent.
7. Rebellious – बलवई
Meaning – showing a desire to resist authority, control, or convention.
Usage – “I became very rebellious and opted out”
Synonyms – defiant, disobedient, insubordinate, unruly, ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, turbulent, mutinous, wayward, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, intractable, resistant, dissentient, disaffected, malcontent; nonconformist; informalbolshie; archaiccontumacious.
8. Inebriation – मद्यपान
Meaning – drunkenness; intoxication.
Usage – “they were in an advanced state of inebriation”
Synonyms – intoxication, drunkenness, insobriety, tipsiness; informaltightness
9. Milieu – परिवेश
Meaning – a person’s social environment.
Usage – “Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius”
Synonyms – environment, background, backdrop, setting, context, atmosphere, scene; location, locale, conditions, surroundings, habitat, environs; sphere, world, territory, home, domain, preserve, province, circle, element.
10. discernible – नमूदार
Meaning – able to be discerned; perceptible.
Usage – “the scandal had no discernible effect on his career”
Synonyms – visible, detectable, noticeable, perceptible, observable, perceivable, distinguishable, recognizable, identifiable; apparent, obvious, clear, manifest, conspicuous, patent, plain, evident, distinct, appreciable.
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1. Inculcate – मन में बैठाना
Meaning – instil (an idea, attitude, or habit) by persistent instruction.
Usage – “I tried to inculcate in my pupils an attitude of enquiry”
Synonyms – instil, implant, fix, ingrain, infuse, impress, imprint, introduce; engender, produce, generate, induce, inspire, promote, foster; hammer into, drum into, drive into, drill into, din into.
2. Innuendo
Meaning – an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.
Usage – “she’s always making sly innuendoes”
Synonyms – insinuation, implication, hint, suggestion, intimation, overtone, undertone, whisper, allusion, nuance, reference, imputation, aspersion, slur.
3. Inebriation – मद्यपान
Meaning – drunkenness; intoxication.
Usage – “they were in an advanced state of inebriation”
Synonyms – intoxication, drunkenness, insobriety, tipsiness; informaltightness; rarecrapulence.
4. Irascible – चिड़चिड़ा
Meaning – having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.
Usage – “an irascible and difficult man”
Synonyms – irritable, quick-tempered, short-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, hot-tempered, thin-skinned, snappy, snappish, tetchy, testy, touchy, edgy, crabby, waspish, dyspeptic; surly, cross, crusty, crabbed, grouchy, crotchety, cantankerous.
5. Luster – चमक
Meaning – a gentle sheen or soft glow.
Usage – “the lustre of the Milky Way”
Synonyms – sheen, gloss, glossiness, shine, brightness, radiance, burnish, polish, patina, glow, gleam, glimmer, shimmer.
6. Muzzle
Meaning – the projecting part of the face, including the nose and mouth, of an animal such as a dog or horse.
Usage – “she patted the horse’s velvety muzzle”
Synonyms – snout, nose, mouth, jaws, maw.
7. Mellifluous – बेहतर बनानेवाला
Meaning – (of a sound) pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.
Usage – “her low mellifluous voice”
Synonyms – sweet-sounding, sweet-toned, dulcet, honeyed, mellow, soft, liquid, soothing, rich, smooth, euphonious, lyric, harmonious, tuneful, musical; raremellifluent.
8. Languid – निस्तेज
Meaning – (of a person, manner, or gesture) having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort.
Usage – “his languid demeanour irritated her”
Synonyms – relaxed, unhurried, languorous, unenergetic, lacking in energy, slow, slow-moving; listless, lethargic, phlegmatic, torpid, sluggish, lazy, idle, slothful, inactive, indolent, lackadaisical, apathetic, indifferent, uninterested, impassive; informallaid back; rareotiose, pococurante, Laodicean.
9. Resonant – गुंजयमान
Meaning – (of sound) deep, clear, and continuing to sound or reverberate.
Usage – “a full-throated and resonant guffaw”
Synonyms – deep, low, sonorous, full, full-bodied, vibrant, rich, clear, ringing, orotund; bass, baritone, basso; loud, carrying, booming, thunderous, thundering; plangent; rarepear-shaped, canorous.
10. 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, mean; informalsarky; raremordacious.
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1. Effete – अशक्त
Meaning – affected, over-refined, and ineffectual.
Usage – “effete trendies from art college”
Synonyms – affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered; informaltwee, la-di-da, pseud; informalponcey, toffee-nosed; rarealembicated.
2. Arraign -कलंक लगाना
Meaning – call or bring (someone) before a court to answer a criminal charge.
Usage – “her sister was arraigned on charges of attempted murder”
Synonyms – indict, prosecute, put on trial, bring to trial; denounce, sue, take to court, bring an action against, lay charges against, file charges against, prefer charges against, summons, cite; accuse of, charge with; impeach.
3. Barge – बजरा
Meaning – move forcefully or roughly.
Usage – “we can’t just barge into a private garden”
Synonyms – push, shove, force, elbow, shoulder, jostle, bludgeon, bulldoze, muscle.
4. Debonair – ख़ुशमिज़ाज
Meaning – (of a man) confident, stylish, and charming.
Usage – “all the men looked debonair and handsome in white tie and tails”
Synonyms – suave, urbane, sophisticated, cultured, self-possessed, self-assured, confident, charming, gracious, well mannered, civil, courteous, gallant, chivalrous, gentlemanly, refined, polished, well bred, genteel, dignified, courtly; well dressed, well groomed, well turned out, elegant, stylish, smart, dashing, dapper, spruce, trim, attractive; soigné; informalsmooth, swish, swanky.
5. Doyen – दल के उच्च सदस्य
Meaning – the most respected or prominent person in a particular field.
Usage – “he became the doyen of British physicists”
6. Dispel – दूर हो जाना
Meaning – make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.
Usage – “the brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine’s dejection”
Synonyms – banish, eliminate, dismiss, chase away, drive away, drive off, get rid of, dissipate, disperse, scatter, disseminate; relieve, allay, ease, calm, quell, check.
7. Brook – छोटी नदी
Meaning – a small stream.
Usage – “the Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks”
Synonyms – stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet, gill; beck; bourn; billabong; burn; creek.
8. Behest – आज्ञा
Meaning – a person’s orders or command.
Usage – “they had assembled at his behest”
Synonyms – instruction, bidding, request, requirement, wish, desire; command, order, decree, edict, rule, ruling, directive, direction, charge, will, dictate, demand, insistence, injunction, mandate, precept; informalsay-so; rarerescript.
9. Cursory – सतही
Meaning – hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.
Usage – “a cursory glance at the figures”
Synonyms – perfunctory, desultory, casual, superficial, token, uninterested, half-hearted, inattentive, unthinking, offhand, mechanical, automatic, routine; hasty, quick, hurried, rapid, brief, passing, fleeting, summary, sketchy, careless, slapdash.
10. Hunch – कूबड़
Meaning – raise (one’s shoulders) and bend the top of one’s body forward.
Usage – “Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow”
Synonyms – arch, curve, hump, bend, bow, curl, crook.
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1.Cognate:
Hindi Meaning: आत्मीय, संबंधी, सजात
English Meaning: (of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another (e.g. English father, German Vater, Latin pater ), related; connected.
Synonym: interconnected, linked, coupled
Usage: "cognate subjects such as physics and chemistry"
2.Colloquial:
Hindi Meaning: बोलचाल का, बोलचाल संबंधी, बोल-चाल का
English Meaning: (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
Synonym: informal, conversational, everyday, casual
Usage: a colloquial essay on what makes a marriage successful
3.Nullify:
Hindi Meaning: रद्द करना, उठा देना, प्रभावहीन करना
English Meaning: make legally null and void; invalidate.
Synonym: annul,
Usage: "judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions"
4.Tussle:
Hindi Meaning: लड़ाई, हाथापाई, कशमकश
English Meaning: a vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically in order to obtain or achieve something.
Synonym: scuffle, fight, struggle
Usage: "there was a tussle for the ball"
5.Aficionado:
Hindi Meaning: अनुकरणकर्ता, भक्त
English Meaning: a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.
Synonym: connoisseur, expert
Usage: "a crossword aficionado"
6.Assiduous:
Hindi Meaning: श्रमशील, श्रमसाध्य, अध्यवसायपूर्ण
English Meaning: showing great care, attention, and effort
Synonym: active, busy, bustling, diligent,
Usage: The project required some assiduous planning.
7.Affinity:
Hindi Meaning: रिश्तेदारी, विवाह-सम्बन्ध, संबंध, नाता
English Meaning: a natural liking for and understanding of someone or something.
Synonym: empathy, rapport, sympathy, accord, harmony
Usage: "he had a special affinity with horses"
8.Whimsical:
Hindi Meaning: अद्भुत, अस्थिर, झक्की, तरंगी
English Meaning: playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
Synonym: fanciful, playful, mischievous,
Usage: "a whimsical sense of humour"
9.Connotation:
Hindi Meaning: लक्ष्यार्थ, संकेतार्थ
English Meaning: an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Synonym: overtone, undertone, undercurrent, implication
Usage: "the word ‘discipline’ has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression"
10.Conglomerate:
Hindi Meaning: संगुटिका, सम्पिण्डित, एकत्र करना
English Meaning: a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together
Synonym: mix, combination, mingling,
Usage: "the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms"
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1. Suave – शिष्ट
Meaning – (especially of a man) charming, confident, and elegant.
Usage – “all the waiters were suave and deferential”
Synonyms – charming, sophisticated, debonair, urbane, worldly, worldly-wise, polished, refined, poised, self-possessed, dignified, civilized, gentlemanly, gallant; smooth, smooth-talking, smooth-tongued, silver-tongued, glib, bland, polite, well mannered, civil, courteous, affable, tactful, diplomatic.
2. Demagogue – दुर्जनों का नेता
Meaning – a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
Usage – “the Senator was a gifted demagogue, with particular skill in manipulating the press”
Synonyms – rabble-rouser, political agitator, agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand; troublemaker, incendiary.
3. Hedonist – सुखवादी
Meaning – a person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker.
Usage – “she was living the life of a committed hedonist”
Synonyms – sybarite, sensualist, voluptuary, pleasure seeker, pleasure lover; libertine, playboy, debauchee, loose-liver; epicure, gastronome, gourmand; bon viveur, bon vivant.
4. Highbrow – घमंडी
Meaning – intellectual or rarefied in taste.
Usage – “innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following”
Synonyms – intellectual, scholarly, bookish, cultured, cultivated, academic, educated, studious, serious, donnish, bluestocking, well read, widely read, well informed, sophisticated, erudite, learned; informalbrainy, egghead; archaiclettered, clerkly.
5. Fugitive – भगोड़ा
Meaning – a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding.
Usage – “fugitives from justice”
Synonyms – escapee, escaper, runaway, deserter, refugee, renegade, absconder; archaicrunagate.
6. Cannibal – नरभक्षक
Meaning – a person who eats the flesh of other human beings.
Usage – “cannibal tribes”
Synonyms – man-eater, people-eater; rareanthropophagite, anthropophagist.
7. Shirk – भागना
Meaning – avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
Usage – “I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter”
Synonyms – evade, dodge, avoid, get out of, sidestep, shuffle off, run away from, shrink from, shun, slide out of, play truant from, skip, miss, not attend; neglect, let slide, not attend to, pay little/no attention to, be remiss about, be lax about, leave undone, lose sight of, skimp on; informalduck, duck out of.
8. Pacifist – शांतिवादी
Meaning – a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.
Usage – “she was a committed pacifist all her life”
Synonyms – peace-lover, conscientious objector, passive resister, peacemaker, peace-monger, appeaser, pacifier; informaldove, peacenik; informalconchie; raresatyagrahi.
9. Truant – अनुपस्थित रहने
Meaning – a pupil who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
synonyms – absentee, non-attender; informalskiver; informalwag.
10. Parable – कहावत
Meaning – a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.
Usage – “the parable of the blind men and the elephant”
Synonyms – allegory, moral story, moral tale, fable, lesson, exemplum; Haggadah; rareapologue.
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1.Trivial
Hindi Meaning: तुच्छ, अधम, क्षुद्र
English Meaning: Of little value or importance.
Synonym:unimportant, insignificant
Usage:huge fines were imposed for trivial offences"
2.Tranquil
Hindi Meaning: शांत, प्रशांत, सुखी
English Meaning: Free from disturbance; calm.
Synonym:peaceful, restful,
Usage:the house was once again tranquil after the kids moved outside to play
3.Covetous
Hindi Meaning: लालची, लोभी, लोलुप
English Meaning: having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging
to someone else.
Synonym:grasping, greedy, rapacious, insatiable
Usage:"she fingered the linen with covetous hands"
4.Crescendo
Hindi Meaning: आरोह, उत्कर्ष, चरम सीमा
English Meaning: a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.
Synonym:escalation, upsurge,apex
Usage:"each time the key changes, there is a gradual crescendo"
5.Lucid
Hindi Meaning: चमकदार, चमकीला, प्रांजल, व्यक्त
English Meaning: expressed clearly; easy to understand.
Synonym:intelligible, comprehensible, understandable,
Usage:a lucid account"
6.Valedictory
Hindi Meaning: विदाई भाषण, बिदाई का वचन, विदा का वचन
English Meaning: serving as a farewell.
Synonym:farewell, goodbye, leaving
Usage:a valedictory message from the retiring ambassador"
7.Vehement
Hindi Meaning: उग्र, उद्दंड, जोशीला, तन्मय
English Meaning: showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.
Synonym:forceful, ardent, impassioned,
Usage:"her voice was low but vehement"
8.Vendetta
Hindi Meaning: कुलबैर, प्रतिशोध, प्रतिहिंसा
English Meaning: a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks
vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family.
Synonym:feud, blood feud, quarrel,
Usage:"he has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him"
9.Infidel
Hindi Meaning: अनीश्वरवादी, अशुद्ध, काफिर, नास्तिक
English Meaning: a person who has no religion or whose religion is not that of the
majority.
Synonym:unbeliever, disbeliever
Usage:a crusade against infidels and heretics"
10. Indomitable
Hindi Meaning: अजय, जो न पले, अदम्य, दुर्दमनीय
English Meaning: impossible to subdue or defeat.
Synonym:invincible, unconquerable
Usage:"a woman of indomitable spirit
