Daily Vocab For Various Competitive Exams: 26th July 2018

Dear Aspirants,

Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few words and phrases from articles published in a reputed Newspaper.

1. Quagmire: (noun)/नाज़ुक हालत

Meaning: a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

Synonyms: bind,corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jam, mire, pickle, predicament, spot

Antonyms: advantage, solution, agreement, contentment

Usage: He’s caught in a quagmire of debt.

2. Subtler: (adjective)/जटिल

Meaning: clever at attaining one’s ends by indirect and often deceptive means

Synonyms: artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, tricky, wily

Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent

Usage: There have been many subtler, more original and more systematic thinkers about the conditions of the social union.

3. Proffer: (noun)/निवेदन करना

Meaning: something which is presented for consideration

Synonyms: offer, proposal, proposition, suggestion

Usage: A generous proffer of his baronial estate for the charity gala

4. Hoary: (adjective)/वयोवृद्ध

Meaning: dating or surviving from the distant past

Synonyms: age-old, aged, ancient, antediluvian, antique, dateless, hoar, immemorial, old, venerable

Antonyms: modern, new, recent

Usage: From one point of view they shadow out the great epic of the destinies of the human race; again, the universal solar myth claims a share in them; hoary traditions were brought into ex post facto connexion with them; or they served to commemorate simple meteorological and astronomical facts.

5. Tinker: (verb)/ठठेरा

Meaning: to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously

Synonyms: fiddle (with), fool (with), mess (with), monkey (with), play (with), tamper (with), toy (with), twiddle (with)

Usage: The camera hasn’t worked properly ever since our son tinkered with it.

6. Punitive: (adjective)/दंडात्मक

Meaning: inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment

Synonyms: castigating, chastening, chastising, correcting, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing

Antonyms: nonpunitive

Usage: Any misbehavior was immediately met with a punitive response.

7. Prudent: (adjective)/विवेकी

Meaning: having or showing good judgment and restraint especially in conduct or speech

Synonyms: discreet, intelligent, judicious

Antonyms: imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious

Usage: Now as he sat and waited he wondered if the decision had been a prudent one

8. Bruise:(noun)/चोट

Meaning: a bodily injury in which small blood vessels are broken but the overlying skin is not

Synonyms: contusion

Usage: Dean noticed a darkening bruise on her left cheek.

9. Vitriol: (noun)/व्यंग्य

Meaning: biting sharpness of feeling or expression

Synonyms: acidity, acridity, acridness, acrimony, asperity, bile, bitterness, cattiness, mordancy, tartness, virulence

Antonyms: civility, cordiality, courtesy, diplomacy, geniality, graciousness, kindness, politeness, tactfulness

Usage: A film critic noted for the vitriol and sometimes outright cruelty of his pronouncements

10. Brickbat: (noun)/रोड़ा

Meaning: an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another’s feelings

Synonyms: affront, barb, cut, dart, dig, epithet, indignity, insult, name, offense (or offence), outrage, personality, poke, put-down, sarcasm, slap, slight, slur

Antonyms: accolade, commendation, compliment, acclaim, applause, praise, adulation, flattery

Usage: The candidates were reduced to hurling brickbats at each other.

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