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Which of the following actions is the antithesis of showing veneration?
Which of the following actions is the antithesis of showing veneration?
- Expressing scorn (correct)
- Bestowing honors
- Paying respect
- Offering praise
Which scenario best illustrates the use of forbearance?
Which scenario best illustrates the use of forbearance?
- Immediately reacting with anger to an insult
- Punishing minor rule infractions severely
- Expressing intolerance towards different opinions
- Showing patience and tolerance during a coworker's difficult phase (correct)
In what context would someone be described as being servile?
In what context would someone be described as being servile?
- Displaying independent and assertive behavior
- Leading a team with authority and confidence
- Demonstrating creativity and innovation at work
- Exhibiting excessive eagerness to please others (correct)
Which situation exemplifies duplicity?
Which situation exemplifies duplicity?
If someone were described as incorrigible, what would this imply about their behavior?
If someone were described as incorrigible, what would this imply about their behavior?
What is the most likely outcome of attempting to cajole someone?
What is the most likely outcome of attempting to cajole someone?
Which situation is most indicative of a discordant environment?
Which situation is most indicative of a discordant environment?
What does it mean if a patient's condition begins to taper?
What does it mean if a patient's condition begins to taper?
Which behavior is most aligned with being cordial?
Which behavior is most aligned with being cordial?
In which scenario would someone likely deliver a eulogy?
In which scenario would someone likely deliver a eulogy?
What would be a situation where someone would try to mitigate something?
What would be a situation where someone would try to mitigate something?
Which policy demonstrates a lack of levity?
Which policy demonstrates a lack of levity?
In which of the following scenarios is it most likely for a report to be described as terse?
In which of the following scenarios is it most likely for a report to be described as terse?
What condition is most likely to cause a person to become emaciated?
What condition is most likely to cause a person to become emaciated?
What is the most likely reason someone would try to ingratiate themselves with another person?
What is the most likely reason someone would try to ingratiate themselves with another person?
Which action demonstrates an effort to assuage someone's fears?
Which action demonstrates an effort to assuage someone's fears?
Which setting is most likely to be described as homogeneous?
Which setting is most likely to be described as homogeneous?
Which statement describes someone acting in an altruistic manner?
Which statement describes someone acting in an altruistic manner?
What would be the most likely effect of depleting a forest's resources?
What would be the most likely effect of depleting a forest's resources?
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates abstemious behavior?
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates abstemious behavior?
Flashcards
Depravity
Depravity
The state of being morally bad.
Incorrigible
Incorrigible
Incapable of being corrected or improved.
Ominous
Ominous
Suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen.
Amenable
Amenable
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Recant
Recant
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Contrite
Contrite
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Impervious
Impervious
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Forbearance
Forbearance
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Defamation
Defamation
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Abstruse
Abstruse
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Frivolous
Frivolous
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Ethereal
Ethereal
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Infamous
Infamous
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Vivid
Vivid
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Levity
Levity
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Oblivion
Oblivion
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Discursive
Discursive
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Disparage
Disparage
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Cordial
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Assuage
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Study Notes
Antonyms and Synonyms
- Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
- Synonyms are words with similar meanings.
- Understanding antonyms and synonyms enriches vocabulary and improves communication.
Word: Venerate
- Hindi Meaning: प्रतिष्ठा करना
- English Meaning: To regard with great respect.
- Antonyms: Defame, blaspheme, scorn, insult, desecrate, profane, affront
- Usage: The writer has been venerated for almost a century.
Word: Depravity
- Hindi Meaning: दुराचारता
- English Meaning: The state of being morally bad.
- Synonyms: Corruption, abjection, debasement, decadency, degeneracy, degradation, dissipation, perversion
- Antonyms: Goodness, virtue, morality, righteousness, rectitude, scrupulosity
- Usage: The depravity of his behavior shocked everyone.
Word: Incorrigible
- Hindi Meaning: जिसका सुधार न हो सके
- English Meaning: Incapable of being corrected or improved.
- Synonyms: Hopeless, irrecoverable, incurable, irreformable, irremediable, unredeemable, impenitent
- Antonyms: Savable, curable, retrievable, redeemable, reformable
- Usage: He was expelled from school because of his incorrigible conduct.
Word: Servile
- Hindi Meaning: खुशामदी
- English Meaning: Wanting too much to please somebody.
- Synonyms: Slavish, abject, menial, sycophant, toadyish, subservient, demure
- Antonyms: Imperious, arrogant, haughty, supercilious, lordly
- Usage: As a waiter, be pleasant without appearing servile.
Word: Ominous
- Hindi Meaning: अमंगल, अपशगुन
- English Meaning: Suggesting something unpleasant is likely to happen.
- Synonyms: Threatening, baleful, doomy, inauspicious, menacing, portentous, depressive, sinister
- Antonyms: Unthreatening, auspicious, bright, propitious, prosperous, hopeful
- Usage: An ominous silence implied contract renewal issues.
Word: Discord
- Hindi Meaning: विरोध, अनबन
- English Meaning: Disagreement or argument.
- Synonyms: Conflict, disharmony, strife, disaccord, dissension, dissonance, contention, dissidence
- Antonyms: Concord, accord, agreement, concordance, harmony, peace
- Usage: Discord has crept into relations.
Word: Amenable
- Hindi Meaning: प्रतिसंवेदी, जिम्मेदार
- English Meaning: Willing to accept influence.
- Synonyms: Conformable, docile, obedient, tractable, compliant, submissive, law-abiding, placable
- Antonyms: Defiant, incompliant, intractable, recalcitrant, willful
- Usage: Is the new manager amenable to proposals?
Word: Recant
- Hindi Meaning: अपने को वंचित करना
- English Meaning: To retract an opinion or belief.
- Synonyms: Take back, unsay, withdraw, abjure, renounce, repudiate, retract, renege, repeal
- Antonyms: Adhere, admit, assert, contend, proclaim, confirm, endorse
- Usage: He recanted, saying his brother had lied.
Word: Contrite
- Hindi Meaning: पछताया हुआ
- English Meaning: Feeling very sorry and guilty.
- Synonyms: Apologetic, compunctious, penitent, remorseful, repentant, rueful
- Antonyms: Remorseless, shameless, impenitent, unapologetic, pitiless, ruthless
- Usage: He seemed genuinely contrite when he apologized.
Word: Pompous
- Hindi Meaning: अति प्रतापी
- English Meaning: Self-important.
- Synonyms: Arrogant, ostentatious, assumptive, imperious, pretentious, supercilious, cavalier
- Antonyms: Humble, lowly, unpretentious, diffident, introverted, timid
- Usage: He can sound pompous when discussing acting.
Word: Impervious
- Hindi Meaning: प्रबल
- English Meaning: Not allowing liquid to go through.
- Synonyms: Impenetrable, impermeable, tight, impassable, airtight, hermetic, inflexible, unyielding
- Antonyms: Penetrable, pervious, permeable, negotiable, pliable, malleable
- Usage: He is impervious to criticism & this watch is impervious to water.
Word: Cajole
- Hindi Meaning: बहलाना
- English Meaning: Persuade someone to do something.
- Synonyms: Sweet-talk, flatter, blandish, coax, wheedle, palaver, blarney, beguile
- Antonyms: Tease, harass, coerce, intimidate, compel, force
- Usage: He hoped to cajole her into selling the house.
Word: Forbearance
- Hindi Meaning: सहनशीलता
- English Meaning: Self-control in a difficult situation.
- Synonyms: Patience, acquiescence, lenience, clemency, mercifulness, charity, empathy, philanthropy
- Antonyms: Impatience, intractability, mercilessness, reprisal, atrocity
- Usage: He thanked employees for their forbearance.
Word: Defamation
- Hindi Meaning: मानहानि, अपयश
- English Meaning: Damaging someone's reputation.
- Synonyms: Vilification, slander, character assassination, calumny, maligning
- Antonyms: Acclaim, accolade, applause, praise, esteem, veneration
- Usage: He is suing for defamation.
Word: Prologue
- Hindi Meaning: आरंभ
- English Meaning: Introductory remarks.
- Synonyms: Warm-up, overture, preamble, introduction, preface, prelude, proem, prolusion
- Antonyms: Epilogue, envoi, postscript, conclusion, finale
- Usage: The play had a prologue.
Word: Angular
- Hindi Meaning: कोणीय, पतला
- English Meaning: Sharp-cornered, thin and bony.
- Synonyms: Skinny, lean, slender, lithe, scraggy, svelte, stringy, gangly
- Antonyms: Bulky, heavy, brawny, fleshy, paunchy
- Usage: His face has become quite angular.
Word: Abstruse
- Hindi Meaning: गूढ़
- English Meaning: Difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: Complicated, arcane, esoteric, hermetic, recondite, profound, enigmatic, cryptic
- Antonyms: Easy, facile, comprehensible, apparent, evident, lucid
- Usage: Students struggled with the abstruse philosophical essay.
Word: Frivolous
- Hindi Meaning: तुच्छ
- English Meaning: Not taking things seriously.
- Synonyms: Futile, puerile, foolish, negligible, trifling, trivial, incidental, paltry
- Antonyms: Decisive, overbearing, distinctive, prominent, eminent, illustrious
- Usage: He sees her as a frivolous young woman.
Word: Ethereal
- Hindi Meaning: स्वर्गीय, आकाशीय
- English Meaning: Extremely light and delicate.
- Synonyms: Delicate, flimsy, immaterial, spiritual, impalpable, intangible, tenuous, heavenly
- Antonyms: Substantial, corporeal, ponderous, solid, terrestrial, mundane, earthly
- Usage: Ethereal sounds calmed the patient.
Word: Infamous
- Hindi Meaning: निर्लज्ज, बदनाम
- English Meaning: Well-known for bad qualities.
- Synonyms: Disreputable, discreditable, ignominious, louche, disgraceful, despicable
- Antonyms: Reputable, honorable, decent, commendable, ethical
- Usage: He is infamous for saying that cheating is the way.
Word: Vivid
- Hindi Meaning: चमकीला
- English Meaning: Bright and clear with powerful images.
- Synonyms: Visual, delineated, graphic, depicted, expressive, pictorial
- Antonyms: Indeterminate, vague, obscure, unclear, hazy
- Usage: He has vivid memories of his trip.
Word: Deplete
- Hindi Meaning: कम कर देना, समाप्त करना
- English Meaning: To reduce in size/amount.
- Synonyms: Absorb, consume, exhaust, drain, abate, debilitate, expend
- Antonyms: Renew, augment, enlarge, strengthen, enforce
- Usage: Depleting earth's resources causes damage.
Word: Levity
- Hindi Meaning: लघुता
- English Meaning: Lack of seriousness.
- Synonyms: Silliness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frothiness, festivity, gaiety
- Antonyms: Seriousness, gravity, solemnness, sobriety
- Usage: Levity was inappropriate at the funeral.
Word: Amiable
- Hindi Meaning: सौम्य
- English Meaning: Pleasant and friendly.
- Synonyms: Affable, agreeable, genial, gracious, mellow, amicable, cordial, benign, sociable
- Antonyms: Disagreeable, unamiable, ungenial, unpleasant, ill-tempered
- Usage: The meeting's mood was amiable.
Word: Homogeneous
- Hindi Meaning: सजातीय, समरूप
- English Meaning: Of the same kind.
- Synonyms: Unchanging, cognate, connate, resemblant, commensurate, congenial, congeneric
- Antonyms: Disparate, distinct, imprecise, diverse, unlike
- Usage: The village population has remained homogeneous.
Word: Oblivion
- Hindi Meaning: विस्मृति
- English Meaning: State of being forgotten.
- Synonyms: Forgetfulness, innocence, ignorance, insensibility, unfamiliarity
- Antonyms: Recall, remembrance, alertness, cognizance, consciousness
- Usage: Singer's career had fallen into oblivion.
Word: Discursive
- Hindi Meaning: असंबद्ध, तार्किक
- English Meaning: Moving randomly from topic to topic.
- Synonyms: Desultory, rambling, excursive, digressional, leaping, maundering
- Antonyms: Logical, coherent, consistent, focused
- Usage: His discursive speech was hard to follow.
Word: Duplicity
- Hindi Meaning: कपट, दोहरी चाल
- English Meaning: Dishonest talk or behavior.
- Synonyms: Deceitfulness, cunning, guile, craftiness
- Antonyms: Good faith, guilelessness, sincerity
- Usage: They were accused of duplicity.
Word: Emaciate
- Hindi Meaning: दुर्बल, क्षीण
- English Meaning: Very thin and weak.
- Synonyms: Cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted
- Antonyms: Healthy, chubby, obese, rotund
- Usage: Pictures of emaciated children on the magazine.
Word: Disparage
- Hindi Meaning: उपेक्षा करना
- English Meaning: To criticize or belittle.
- Synonyms: Belittle, decry, denigrate, vilipend, censure
- Antonyms: Acclaim, applaud, exalt, extol, glorify
- Usage: He never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors.
Word: Cordial
- Hindi Meaning: हार्दिक
- English Meaning: Friendly (formal and polite).
- Synonyms: Amicable, collegial, comradely, genial, affable
- Antonyms: Antagonistic, hostile, estranged, alienated, frosty
- Usage: Relations between the leaders are cordial.
Word: Assuage
- Hindi Meaning: शांत करना
- English Meaning: To make unpleasant feelings less strong.
- Synonyms: Allay, alleviate, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate
- Antonyms: Aggravate, exacerbate, impair, intensify, hurt, injure
- Usage: The letter assuaged the fears.
Word: Terse
- Hindi Meaning: संक्षिप्त
- English Meaning: Using few words.
- Synonyms: Brief, aphoristic, elliptical, compact, laconic, pithy, succinct
- Antonyms: Circuitous, prolix, rambling, verbose, diffuse
- Usage: He was shouting terse orders.
Word: Eulogy
- Hindi Meaning: प्रशंसा भाषण
- English Meaning: Speech praising someone, especially after death.
- Synonyms: Salutation, tribute, accolade, commendation, panegyric, citation
- Antonyms: Censure, indictment, condemnation, rebuke, admonition
- Usage: He delivered the eulogy at his father's funeral.
Word: Mitigate
- Hindi Meaning: कमी करना
- English Meaning: Make something less severe.
- Synonyms: Allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, mollify, palliate
- Antonyms: Intensity, impair, harm, hurt, aggravate
- Usage: He apologized to mitigate her dislike.
Word: Preclude
- Hindi Meaning: नामुमकिन करना
- English Meaning: Prevent from happening.
- Synonyms: Avert, forestall, obviate, impede, block
- Antonyms: Aid, assist, ease, abet, permit, encourage
- Usage: His contract precludes discussing his work.
Word: Mutability
- Hindi Meaning: परिवर्तनशीलता
- English Meaning: Likely to change.
- Synonyms: Capricious, changeful, fickle, fluid, mercurial, volatile
- Antonyms: Certain, constant, immutable, invariable
- Usage: Opinion mutability was due to political pressure.
Word: Equivocate
- Hindi Meaning: गोलमोल बात कहना
- English Meaning: Try to mislead or lie.
- Synonyms: Fudge, circumvent, elude, evade, waffle, palter
- Antonyms: Be honest, confront, face, speak on
- Usage: Government leaders have equivocated too often.
Word: Dexterous
- Hindi Meaning: निपुण
- English Meaning: Ability to perform actions quickly with hands.
- Synonyms: Clever, handy, deft, agile, flexible, capable, proficient
- Antonyms: Unhandy, inept, inexpert, maladroit
- Usage: The machine shop advertised for dexterous workers.
Word: Amass
- Hindi Meaning: एकत्र करना
- English Meaning: To get a large amount over time.
- Synonyms: Collect, assemble, accumulate, congregate, cluster
- Antonyms: Dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter
- Usage: He has amassed a huge fortune.
Word: Nullify
- Hindi Meaning: तुच्छता
- English Meaning: Cancel, invalidate.
- Synonyms: Annul, avoid, abate, abolish, quash, rescind, vacate
- Antonyms: Establish, legislate, enact, legalize, validate, endorse
- Usage: The state death penalty law was nullified.
Word: Elucidate
- Hindi Meaning: स्पष्ट करना
- English Meaning: To explain.
- Synonyms: Clarify, explicate, expound, illuminate, illustrate
- Antonyms: Obscure, cloud, confound, confuse, obfuscate
- Usage: Elucidate some important changes in the tax.
Word: Proliferation
- Hindi Meaning: प्रसार
- English Meaning: Increasing in number.
- Synonyms: Accretion, accrual, addition, augmentation, expansion
- Antonyms: Abatement, decline, depletion, reduction
- Usage: Proliferation of TV channels in recent years.
Word: Adulation
- Hindi Meaning: अतिप्रशंसा
- English Meaning: Very great admiration.
- Synonyms: Idolatry, idolization, deification, worship, adoration, reverence, glorification
- Antonyms: Condemnation, loathing, disparagement, detraction
- Usage: He found it difficult to cope with the adulation.
Word: Affable
- Hindi Meaning: सुशील
- English Meaning: Friendly and easy to talk to.
- Synonyms: Mellow, amiable, gracious, cordial, genial, sociable
- Antonyms: Disagreeable, unamiable, unpleasant, aloof, surly
- Usage: He was quite affable at the meeting.
Word: Turbulence
- Hindi Meaning: अशांति, विप्लव
- English Meaning: Wild or disturbing activity.
- Synonyms: Agitation, confusion, tumult, havoc, rampage, rupture
- Antonyms: Calm, peace, quiet, tranquility, stillness
- Usage: There are signs of turbulence ahead for the economy.
Word: Disdain
- Hindi Meaning: तिरस्कार
- English Meaning: Feeling of not liking something.
- Synonyms: Contempt, despite, scorn, detestation, loathing
- Antonyms: Admiration, regard, esteem, favor, respect
- Usage: He regards the political process with disdain.
Word: Virtuoso
- Hindi Meaning: कलाप्रवीण व्यक्ति, गुणी
- English Meaning: Skilled at something like music.
- Synonyms: Adroit, deft, delicate, expert, facile
- Antonyms: Amateur, artless, unprofessional
- Usage: He was also a virtuoso on the piano.
Word: Stoic
- Hindi Meaning: उदासीन
- English Meaning: Determined not to complain.
- Synonyms: Tolerant, patient, forbearing, lenient, acquiescent
- Antonyms: Impatient, protesting, complaining
- Usage: He must be in pain despite his stoic attitude.
Word: Implacable
- Hindi Meaning: कठोरचित
- English Meaning: Unable to be appeased or stopped.
- Synonyms: Adamant, dogged, obdurate, obstinate, perverse, stubborn
- Antonyms: Agreeable, amenable, acquiescent
- Usage: He was an implacable enemy.
Word: Imperturbable
- Hindi Meaning: शांत
- English Meaning: Always staying calm.
- Synonyms: Nerveless, unflappable, placid, tranquil, unruffled
- Antonyms: Perturbable, panicky, aflutter, anxious
- Usage: Before the accident, he seemed imperturbable.
Word: Abstemious
- Hindi Meaning: संयमी
- English Meaning: Not indulging in pleasure.
- Synonyms: Temperate, self-abnegating, abstinent, sober, austere
- Antonyms: Gluttonous, hedonistic, greedy
- Usage: He is an abstemious drinker.
Word: Pliable
- Hindi Meaning: लचीला
- English Meaning: Flexible or easily influenced.
- Synonyms: Flexible, pliant, limber, ductile, alterable, malleable
- Antonyms: Constant, steady, brittle, fragile, inelastic
- Usage: He wants a sweet and pliable wife.
Word: Ingratiate
- Hindi Meaning: अनुग्रह प्राप्त करना
- English Meaning: To take someone like you by trying to please them.
- Synonyms: Appease, flatter, assuage, conciliate, gratify, adulate
- Antonyms: Annoy, antagonize, vex, irritate, affront
- Usage: He always tries to ingratiate himself with his boss.
Word: Hedonist
- Hindi Meaning: सुखवादी
- English Meaning: Believes the most important thing is to enjoy yourself.
- Synonyms: Selfish, decadent, debauchee, sybarite, sensualist
- Antonyms: Ascetic, prude, fuddy-duddy, killjoy
- Usage: He is living the life of a committed hedonist.
Word: Rancid
- Hindi Meaning: बासी
- English Meaning: Tasting or smelling unpleasant.
- Synonyms: Abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, loathsome
- Antonyms: Innocuous, inoffensive, savory, alluring, appealing
- Usage: His columns are just rationals for every kind of rancid prejudice.
Word: Raze
- Hindi Meaning: उखड़ना
- English Meaning: Completely destroy.
- Synonyms: Demolish, pull down, unbuild, abolish, destroy, eradicate, obliterate
- Antonyms: Build, construct, erect, renovate, forge
- Usage: The town was razed to the ground.
Word: Culpable
- Hindi Meaning: दडनीय
- English Meaning: Deserving to be blamed.
- Synonyms: Blamable, censurable, reproachable, reprehensible, reckless
- Antonyms: Blameless, faultless, impeccable
- Usage: He was held culpable for all that had happened.
Word: Opaque
- Hindi Meaning: अपारदर्शी
- English Meaning: Not able to be seen through or easily understood.
- Synonyms: Ambiguous, cryptic, arcane, dark, enigmatic, equivocal
- Antonyms: Clear, accessible, obvious, certain
- Usage: I find her poetry a little too opaque.
Word: Nuance
- Hindi Meaning: अति सूक्ष्म अंतर
- English Meaning: Very slight difference.
- Synonyms: Distinction, gradation, implication, subtlety, refinement
- Antonyms: Inexact, coarse, rough, apparent
- Usage: The painter captured every nuance.
Word: Taper
- Hindi Meaning: धीरे धीरे कम होना, क्रमसूक्ष्मण
- English Meaning: Diminish or reduce in thickness.
- Synonyms: Abate, decline, drain, dwindle, recede, relent
- Antonyms: Emerge, appear, lengthen, distend, elongate
- Usage: The cave tapered to a narrow passage.
Word: Indigenous
- Hindi Meaning: स्वदेशी
- English Meaning: Native to a certain area.
- Synonyms: Domestic, aboriginal, autochthonous, endemic, regional
- Antonyms: Exotic, strange, expatriate, immigrant
- Usage: Are there any indigenous species of frog in the area?
Word: Galling
- Hindi Meaning: दुखद
- English Meaning: Very irritating or annoying.
- Synonyms: Abrasive, irksome, chafing, aggravating
- Antonyms: Delightful, pleasing, gratifying
- Usage: It would be galling to lose your job.
Word: Altruistic
- Hindi Meaning: परोपकारी
- English Meaning: Unselfishly concerned for others.
- Synonyms: Unselfish, beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic, generous
- Antonyms: Self-centered, niggardly, parsimonious, selfish
- Usage: His donation motive was altruistic.
Word: Antithesis
- Hindi Meaning: विलोम, विरोध
- English Meaning: The exact opposite.
- Synonyms: Reverse, antipode, contrary, obverse, inverse
- Antonyms: Analogue, replica, synonym, carbon copy
- Usage: God is the antithesis of evil.
Word: Dormant
- Hindi Meaning: प्रसुप्त
- English Meaning: Not active but can be.
- Synonyms: Asleep, dozing, inactive, inert, latent, napping, slumbering
- Antonyms: Active, awake, wakeful, conscious, operating
- Usage: The dormant volcano has shown signs of erupting.
Word: Precocious
- Hindi Meaning: असामयिक
- English Meaning: Exceptionally early development.
- Synonyms: Premature, unanticipated, abrupt
- Antonyms: Late, anticipated, belated, tardy
- Usage: He recorded a CD at a precocious age.
Word: Indolence
- Hindi Meaning: सुस्ती
- English Meaning: Showing no interest or effort.
- Synonyms: Laziness, inertia, sloth, apathy
- Antonyms: Drive, industrious, ambition, hustle
- Usage: The team lapsed back into indolence.
Word: Placid
- Hindi Meaning: सौम्य, गंभीर
- English Meaning: Having a calm appearance.
- Synonyms: Composed, cool, sedate, serene, tranquil
- Antonyms: Agitated, disturbed, perturbed, flustered
- Usage: He was a very placid child.
Word: Espouse
- Hindi Meaning: जासूसी
- English Meaning: To support an activity or opinion.
- Synonyms: Adopt, embrace, absorb, take on, marry
- Antonyms: Abandon, relinquish, abnegate, discard, jettison
- Usage: He espoused conservative political views.
Word: Untenable
- Hindi Meaning: अस्थिर, असमर्थनीय
- English Meaning: Cannot be supported.
- Synonyms: Indefensible, implausible, specious, invalid, fallacious
- Antonyms: Certified, validated, corroborated, genuine, cogent
- Usage: The position of players' union has become untenable.
Word: Ungainly
- Hindi Meaning: भद्दा
- English Meaning: Awkward or clumsy movement.
- Synonyms: Cranky, cumbrous, ponderous, unwieldy, unhandy, clumsy
- Antonyms: Handy, useful, coordinated, graceful, lithe
- Usage: Boys who grow fast are sometimes ungainly.
Word: Raucous
- Hindi Meaning: फटा, कर्कश
- English Meaning: Loud and unpleasant.
- Synonyms: Boisterous, robustious, roisterous, carnival
- Antonyms: Sober, decorous, dignified, serene
- Usage: Raucous laughter came from the next room.
Word: Illustrious
- Hindi Meaning: महान, प्रसिद्ध
- English Meaning: Famous and admired.
- Synonyms: Eminent, luminous, prestigious, astral, preeminent
- Antonyms: Average, mediocre, inferior
- Usage: He comes from an illustrious political family.
Word: Mollify
- Hindi Meaning: शमन करना
- English Meaning: Make someone less angry or upset.
- Synonyms: Appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, pacify, placate
- Antonyms: Anger, enrage, incense, inflame, infuriate
- Usage: I tried to mollify her by giving her flowers.
Word: Voluminous
- Hindi Meaning: स्थूल
- English Meaning: Of great volume or size.
- Synonyms: Big, hefty, tidy, cavernous, colossal, gigantic
- Antonyms: Dwarf, dinky, puny, shrimpy
- Usage: Have you read his voluminous account of life?
Word: Discrepant
- Hindi Meaning: प्रतिकूल
- English Meaning: Difference between two things that should be the same.
- Synonyms: Conflicting, discordant, incompatible, incongruous
- Antonyms: Accordant, agreeing, compatible, concordant
- Usage: These findings are discrepant with other data.
Word: Static
- Hindi Meaning: स्थिर
- English Meaning: Not changing for a long time.
- Synonyms: Immobile, stationary, immotile, immovable, stagnant
- Antonyms: Mobile, movable, motile, flexible
- Usage: Oil prices have remained static for months.
Word: Profuse
- Hindi Meaning: अत्यधिक
- English Meaning: Very plentiful
- Synonyms: Copious, lavish, riotous, galore, ample
- Antonyms: Dribbling, trickling, meager
- Usage: I offered my profuse apologies.
Word: Lethargic
- Hindi Meaning: सुस्ती
- English Meaning: Feeling unwilling to do anything.
- Synonyms: Dull, inactive, inert, quiescent, sluggish, torpid, apathetic
- Antonyms: Active, energetic, vivacious
- Usage: I was feeling lethargic after a big meal.
Word: Dearth
- Hindi Meaning: अकाल
- English Meaning: Not large enough in amount or supply.
- Synonyms: Deficit, crunch, drought, lack, paucity, scarcity
- Antonyms: Abundance, amplitude, plenty
Word: Banter
- Hindi Meaning: हंसी
- English Meaning: Conversation that is funny or in a teasing manner, to talk in humorous way
- Synonyms: Chaff, badinage, jestingly, wh
- Antonyms: Flattery, praise, loud
- Usage: He stood around bantering with his colleagues.
Word: Clandestine
- Hindi Meaning: गुप्त, क्रियाशील
- English Meaning: Planned or done in secret
- Synonyms: Covert, furtive, stealthy
- Antonyms: Avowed, acknowledged
- Usage: The group held weekly clandestine meetings in a village.
Word: Laconic
- Hindi Meaning: संक्षिप्त, अत्य
- English Meaning: Using very few words to express
- Synonyms: Compact, concise
- Antonyms: Diffuse, wordy, verbose
- Usage: Laconic.
Word: Profane
- Hindi Meaning: लौकिक
- English Meaning: Showing no respect a god or a religion
- Synonyms: Secular, temporal
- Antonyms: Religious, sacred
- Usage: Profane language is not allowed here.
Word: Cynical
- Hindi Meaning: कुटिल
- English Meaning: Believing that people are always looking for what is best their selfs
- Synonyms: Pessimistic, misanthropic
- Antonyms: Naive
- Usage: I have always been deeply cynical about politicians.
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