Dear Readers,
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/рдЙрджрд╛рд╣рд░рдг: 400 villages in Malda waterlogged as rivers breach danger levels; second wave inundates AssamтАЩs Kaziranga Park.
1. Breach [breech]-рдЙрд▓реНрд▓рдВрдШрди
Noun/рд╕рдВрдЬреНрдЮрд╛: the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture; an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise; a gap made in a wall, fortification, line of soldiers, etc.; rift; fissure; a severance of friendly relations; the leap of a whale above the surface of the water.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА : crack, rift, rupture, aperture, break, chasm, chip, cleft, discontinuity, fissure, hole, opening, rent, slit, split.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: agreement, closing, closure, juncture.
2. Inundate [in-uh n-deyt, -uhn-, in-uhn-deyt]-рдкрд╛рдЯ рджреЗрдирд╛/рдкреНрд▓рд╛рд╡рд┐рдд рдХрд░рдирд╛
Verb/рдХреНрд░рд┐рдпрд╛: to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge; to overwhelm.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: deluge, engulf, flood, overflow, overrun, submerge, swamp, dunk, glut, immerse, snow, whelm, pour down on.
Antonym/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: underwhelm.
Example/рдЙрджрд╛рд╣рд░рдг: Flood fury: Videograbs show people being washed away when they attempted to cross the Belwa bridge over Pannar river at Mirzabagh Zero Mile area in Araria district of Bihar on Friday.
3. Fury [fyoo r-ee]-рд░реЛрд╖/рдХреНрд░реЛрдз
Noun/рд╕рдВрдЬреНрдЮрд╛: unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like; violence; vehemence; fierceness.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: acrimony, energy, ferocity, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, passion, rage, storm, violence, acerbity, asperity, conniption, fierceness, fire, flare-up.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: calm, calmness, glee, happiness.
Example/рдЙрджрд╛рд╣рд░рдг: Macroeconomic stability has been a hard-won battle. We must remain mindful of the lurking dangers.
4. Lurk [lurk]-рдШрд╛рдд рдореЗрдВ рд░рд╣рдирд╛
Verb/рдХреНрд░рд┐рдпрд╛: to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively; to go furtively; slink; steal; to exist unperceived or unsuspected.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: hidden, hiding, sneaking.
Example/рдЙрджрд╛рд░рд╣рдг: This is the first time that a second volume is being presented containing a тАЬbackward looking reviewтАЭ and тАЬhistorical data tablesтАЭ, and it subsumes the mid-term economic analysis usually presented in December.
5. Subsume [suh b-soom]-рдХрд┐рд╕реА рдирд┐рдпрдо рдХреЗ рдЕрдВрддрд░реНрдЧрдд рдХрд░рдирд╛
Verb/рдХреНрд░рд┐рдпрд╛: to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one; to bring (a case, instance, etc.) under a rule; to take up into a more inclusive classification.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: classify, contain, incorporate, involve.
Antonym/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: exclude.
Example/рдЙрджрд╛рд╣рд░рдг: For some time, this relationship has ceased. The Economic Surveys have come to increasingly reflect the predilections and preferences of its authors, raising the question whether Economic Surveys are designed to trigger intellectual debate and become incubators of nascent ideas.
6. Cease [sees]-рд░реЛрдХрдирд╛/рд╕рдорд╛рдкреНрддрд┐
Verb/рдХреНрд░рд┐рдпрд╛: to stop; discontinue; to come to an end.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: break off, desist, discontinue, fail, halt, quit, refrain, terminate, close, culminate, die, drop, end, finish, intermit, stay, surcease.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: begin, carry on, complete, continue.
7. Predilection [pred-l-ek-shuh n, preed-]-рдкреВрд░реНрд╡рд╛рднрд┐рд░реБрдЪрд┐
Noun/рд╕рдВрдЬреНрдЮрд╛: a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: fondness, leaning, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, bent, bias, dish, druthers, fancy, flash, groove, inclining, liking.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: disinclination, dislike, hate, hatred.
8. Incubator [in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-]-рдКрд╖реНрдорд╛рдирд┐рдпрдВрддреНрд░рдХ/рдЕрдгреНрдбреЗ рд╕реЗрдиреЗ рдХреА рдорд╢реАрди
Noun/рд╕рдВрдЬреНрдЮрд╛: an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially; an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care; an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.
Synonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: incubator, breeding place.
9. Nascent [nas-uh nt, ney-suh nt]-рдирд╡рдЬрд╛рдд/рдЙрддреНрдкрдиреНрди
Adjective/рд╡рд┐рд╢реЗрд╖рдг: beginning to exist or develop.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: burgeoning, fledgling, growing, incipient, promising, beginning, blossoming, germinal, germinating, maturing, opening, potential, pullulating.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: dying, shrinking, withering.
Example/рдЙрджрд╛рд╣рд░рдг: That said, this Economic Survey has transparency and candour.
10. Candour [kan-der]-рд╕реНрдкрд╖реНрдЯрд╡рд╛рджрд┐рддрд╛
Noun/рд╕рдВрдЬреНрдЮрд╛: the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness; freedom from bias; fairness; impartiality.
Synonyms/рдкрд░реНрдпрд╛рдпрд╡рд╛рдЪреА: directness, fairness, frankness, honesty, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness, artlessness, forthrightness, glasnost, impartiality, ingenuousness.
Antonyms/рд╡рд┐рд▓реЛрдорд╛рд░реНрдереА: deceit, dishonesty, lying, unfairness.
You may also like to Read:
