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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 lines from The Hindu.
Example/उदाहरण: With the stock markets hitting record highs, state-run insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) netted a profit of 6,100 crore from its equity investments for the April-June period, a 145% jump over the same period of the previous year, its Chairman V.K. Sharma told reporters.
1. Behemoth [bih-hee-muh th, bee-uh-]-बहुत बड़े डीलडौल का एक पशु/विशालकाय पशु
Noun/संज्ञा: an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24; any creature or thing of monstrous size or power.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: beast, leviathan, monster, mammoth, huge.
Example/उदाहरण: ITC to foray into perishables by adding vegetables, fruits.
2. Foray [fawr-ey, for-ey]-आक्रमण
Noun/संज्ञा: a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder; a quick, sudden attack; an initial venture.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: inroad, invasion, raid, attack, depredation, descent, irruption, reconnaissance, sally, sortie.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: abstention, idleness, laziness.
3. Perishable [per-i-shuh-buh l]-नष्ट होनेवाला
Adjective/विश्लेषण: subject to decay, ruin, or destruction.
Noun/संज्ञा: Usually, perishables. something perishable, especially food.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: comestibles, edibles, foodstuffs, produce, staples, vegetables, viands.
Example/उदाहरण: Company scouts for CEO to build multi-speciality hospitals.
4. Scout [skout]-खोज/ गुप्तचर/पहरेदार
Noun/संज्ञा: a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering; a person sent out to obtain information.
Verb/क्रिया: to act as a scout; reconnoiter; to make a search; hunt; to work as a talent scout.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: investigating
detective, recruiter, advance, adventurer, escort, explorer, guard, lookout, outpost, outrider, patrol.
Antonym/विलोमार्थी: target.
Example/उदाहरण: ‘Scheme for banks not applied as envisaged’.
5. Envisage [en-viz-ij]-विचार करना/परिकल्पना
Verb/क्रिया: to contemplate; visualize; to look in the face of; face.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, form mental.
Example/उदाहरण: A sunny Friday featuring a rain-interlude ebbed away with a rainbow in the sky.
6. Ebb [eb]-अवनति/भाटा
Noun/संज्ञा: the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow ); a flowing backward or away; decline or decay; a point of decline.
Verb/क्रिया: to flow back or away, as the water of a tide (opposed to flow ); to decline or decay; fade away.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: abatement, backflow, decay, decrease, degeneration, depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, dwindling, flagging, lessening, recession.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: advance, development, enlargement, expansion, growth.
Example/उदाहरण: Kalisz and Dressel scintillate.
7. Scintillate [sin-tl-eyt]-चमकना/टिमटिमाना
Verb/क्रिया: to emit sparks; to sparkle; flash; to twinkle, as the , s.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: flash, glimmer, glitter, shine, sparkle.
Antonym/विलोमार्थी: dull.
Example/उदाहरण: The decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reaffirms the iron law of Pakistani politics: a politician can amass wealth and engage in corruption only as long as he does not challenge the ascendance of the country’s powerful national security establishment.
8. Ascendance [uh-sen-duh n-s]-आरोहण/उत्कर्ष
Noun/संज्ञा: the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: ascendancy, control, domination, mastery, power, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, rule, superiority, supremacy, preponderancy, upper hand.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: inefficiency, inferiority, subservience, surrender.
Example/उदाहरण: Although Mr. Sharif has ostensibly been disqualified over the so-called Panama Papers, which exposed holders of offshore bank accounts, the verdict against him has little to do with the revelations in the Panama Papers.
9. Ostensible [o-sten-suh-buh l]-कृत्रिम/काल्पनिक
Adjective/विशेषण: outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended; apparent, evident, or conspicuous.
Related forms: ostensibly, adverb.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: evidently, officially, seemingly, supposedly, at first blush, externally, for all intents and purposes, for show, on the face, on the surface, outwardly.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: improbably, obscurely, unlikely.
Example/उदाहरण: Anatomy of the Trump presidency.
10. Anatomy [uh-nat-uh-mee]-दैहिक गठन संबंधी विद्या
Noun/संज्ञा: the science dealing with the structure of animals and plants; the structure of an animal or plant, or of any of its parts; dissection of all or part of an animal or plant in order to study its structure; an analysis or minute examination.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: analysis, biology, cytology, diagnosis, dissection, division, embryology, etiology, examination, genetics, histology.
Antonym/पर्यायवाची: connection.
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