Vocabulary Batch for SSC Exams Volume 1

Vocabulary Batch for SSC Exams

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Embellish (verb)

• Hindi meaning: सजाना
• English meaning: To make something more beautiful by adding something/decoration to it
• Usage example: The ceiling was embellished with flowers and leaves.
• Usage example: He couldn't resist embellishing the story of his accident a little.

Synonyms of Embellish

• Synonyms: Decorate, enhance, garnish, amplify, deck, adorn, ornament, caparison

Enhance (verb)

• To improve the quality, amount, or strength of something
• Example usage: These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation.

Garnish (verb)

• To decorate food with a small amount of different food
• Example usage: Garnish the dish with something.

Amplify (verb)

• To increase the strength of a sound; make louder
• Example usage: Electric guitars are amplified through loudspeakers.

Deck (verb)

• To decorate or add something to something to make an effect
• Example usage: The room was decked with flowers.

Adorn (verb)

• To add something decorative to a person or thing
• Example usage: The bride's hair was adorned with white flowers.

Ornament (Noun)

• Decoration added to increase the beauty of something
• Example usage: The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament for its impressive effect.

Caparison (Noun)

• A decorative covering for a horse

Caparison (verb)

• To provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering

Antonyms of Embellish

• Antonyms: Deface, blemish, spoil, belittle, understate

Deface (verb)

• To damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing on it
• Example usage: He was fined for defacing library books.

Blemish (verb)

• To spoil something
• Example Usage: This latest revelation has seriously blemished the governor's reputation.

Belittle (verb)

• To make a person or an action seem as if he, she, or it is not important
• Example usage: Though she had spent hours fixing the computer, he belittled her efforts.

Understate (verb)

• To describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is
• Example usage: She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.

Prodigal (adjective)

• Hindi meaning: खर्चीला
• English meaning: Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly, wasteful
• Example usage: The prodigal landlord spends the money as fast as he receives it.
• Example usage: He, who was formerly a prodigal, showed himself suddenly wise.

Synonyms of Prodigal

• Synonyms: Profligate, lavish, extravagant, spendthrift, squanderer, imprudent, profuse

Profligate (adjective)

• Spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise
• Example usage: She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.

Lavish (adjective)

• Large in quantity and expensive or impressive
• Example usage: lavish gifts/promises/praise/lavish spending

Extravagant (adjective)

• Spending too much money, or using too much of something
• Example usage: The extravagant lifestyle of a movie star is not liked by me.

Spendthrift (adjective)

• Spending a lot of money in a way that wastes it
• Example usage: He struggled to support a large family that included his spendthrift father.

Squander (verb)

• To waste money, or to use something valuable that you have a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way
• Example usage: Government should not squander the taxpayers' money.

Squanderer (Noun)

• A recklessly extravagant consumer

Imprudent (adjective)

• Unwise, by failing to consider the likely results of your actions
• Example Usage: The report criticizes the banks for being imprudent in their lending.

Profuse (adjective)

• Spending or giving freely and in large amounts, often to excess; extravagant
• Antonyms: economical, frugal, thrifty, scrimping, conserving, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious

Frugal (adjective)

• Careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount
• Example usage: a frugal lifestyle

Thrifty (adjective)

• Showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste.
• Example Usage: They have plenty of money now, but they still tend to be thrifty.

Scrimp (verb)

• To save money by spending less than is necessary to reach an acceptable standard
• Example usage: There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security.

Parsimonious (adjective)

• Not willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something
• Example usage: She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.

Penurious (adjective)

• Extremely poor

Repudiate (verb)

• To reject, to refuse to accept or obey something or someone
• Example usage: The evidence presented at the trial has been repudiated.

Disown (verb)

• To make it known that you no longer have any connection with someone that you were closely connected with
• Example usage: It's a story set in the last century about a girl whose parents disowned her when she married a foreigner.

Refute (verb)

• To say or prove that a person, statement, opinion, etc. is wrong or false
• Example usage: to refute a person/theory/argument/claim

Disclaim (verb)

• To say that you have no responsibility for, or knowledge of, something that has happened or been done
• Example usage: We disclaim all responsibility for this disaster.

Disavow (verb)

• To say that you know nothing about something, or that you have no responsibility for or connection with something
• Example Usage: They were quick to disavow the rumour.

Abdicate (verb)

• To stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of
• Example usage: She abdicated all responsibility for the project.

Renounce (verb)

• To say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something
• Example usage: Her ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house.

Recant (verb)

• To announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them
• Example usage: After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted (his views).

Espouse (verb)

• To become involved with or support an activity or opinion
• Example usage: He espoused conservative political views.

Avow (verb)

• To admit something or say something publicly
• Example usage: He avowed that he regretted what he had done.

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