Vocabulary Batch Class - 01 PDF
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This document is a vocabulary learning resource, focused on English vocabulary words, their Hindi meanings, and usage examples. It is a student learning material, not a past paper.
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The Complete Vocabulary Batch 2024 (free Batch on YouTube) YouTube Channel Name : English By Jaideep Singh Class 01 Volume-1 Inform friends also. Page - 2 Embellish (verb) Hindi Meaning: सजाना English Meaning...
The Complete Vocabulary Batch 2024 (free Batch on YouTube) YouTube Channel Name : English By Jaideep Singh Class 01 Volume-1 Inform friends also. Page - 2 Embellish (verb) Hindi Meaning: सजाना English Meaning: To make something more beautiful by adding (something/decoration) to it Page - 3 Usage: The ceiling was embellished with flowers and leaves. Usage: He couldn't resist embellishing the story of his accident a little. Page - 4 Synonyms: Decorate, enhance, garnish, amplify, deck, adorn, ornament, caparison Enhance (verb) to improve the quality, amount, or strength of something: These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation. Garnish (verb) to decorate food with a small amount of different food: Garnish the dish with something. Page - 5 Amplify (verb) to increase the strength of a sound; make louder: Electric guitars are amplified through loudspeakers. Or To amplify is also to add to the information given in something: This study amplifies earlier research. Deck (verb) to decorate or add something to something to make an effect: The room was decked with flowers. Adorn (verb) to add something decorative to a person or thing: The bride's hair was adorned with white flowers. Page - 6 Ornament (Noun) decoration that is added to increase the beauty of something: 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 Page - 7 Antonyms: Deface, blemish, spoil, belittle, understate Deface (verb) to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing on it: He was fined for defacing library books. Blemish (verb) to spoil something: This latest revelation has seriously blemished the governor's reputation. Page - 8 Belittle (verb) to make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important: 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: She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer. Page - 9 NEXT STEP Prodigal (adjective) Hindi Meaning: खर्चीला English Meaning: Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly, wasteful Usage: The prodigal (adjective) landlord spends the money as fast as he receives it. Usage: He, who was formerly a prodigal (noun), showed himself suddenly wise. Page - 10 Synonyms: Profligate, lavish, extravagant, spendthrift, squanderer, imprudent, profuse Profligate (Adj.) spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise: She is well-known for her profligate spending habits. Lavish (adj.) large in quantity and expensive or impressive: lavish gifts/promises/praise/lavish spending Page - 11 extravagant (adj.) spending too much money, or using too much of something: The extravagant lifestyle of a movie star is not liked by me. Spendthrift (adj.) spending a lot of money in a way that wastes it: He struggled to support a large family that included his spendthrift father. Page - 12 Squander (verb) to waste money, or to use something valuable that you have a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way: Government should not squander the taxpayers’ money. Squanderer (Noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer Imprudent (adj.) unwise, by failing to consider the likely results of your actions: The report criticizes the banks for being imprudent in their lending. Page - 13 Profuse (adj.) spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant Antonyms: Economical, frugal, thrifty, scrimping, conserving, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious Frugal (adj.) careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount: a frugal lifestyle Page - 14 Thrifty (Adj.) showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste: 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: There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security. Page - 15 Parsimonious (adj.) not willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something: She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly. Penurious (adj.) extremely poor Page - 16 NEXT STEP Repudiate (verb) Hindi Meaning: अस्वीकार करना English Meaning: To reject, to refuse to accept or obey something or someone Usage: The evidence presented at the trial has been repudiated. Synonyms: Negate, deny, disown, refute, disclaim, disavow, abdicate, renounce, recant Page - 17 Disown (verb) to make it known that you no longer have any connection with someone that you were closely connected with: 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: to refute a person/theory/argument/claim Page - 18 disclaim (verb) to say that you have no responsibility for, or knowledge of, something that has happened or been done: 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: They were quick to disavow the rumour. Page - 19 Abdicate (verb) to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: 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: Her ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house. Page - 20 Recant (verb) to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wro ng and that you no longer agree with them: After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted (his views). Page - 21 Antonyms: Accept, espouse, adopt, affirm, corroborate, avow Espouse (verb) to become involved with or support an activity or opinion: He espoused conservative political views. Avow (verb) to admit something or say something publicly: He avowed that he regretted what he had done. : BOOKS : Page - 22 Page - 23