mahendras

Subscribe Mahendras Youtube Channel | Join Mahendras Telegram Channel | Like Mahendras Facebook Page | Online Admission | Download Mahendras App

Now Subscribe for Free videos

Subscribe Now

Vocabulary - 19.06.2016

Mahendra Guru
Vocabulary  - 19.06.2016
1. DIVULGE (VERB): To make known (something private or secret).

Synonyms: disclose, expose 

Antonyms: conceal, hide

Example Sentence: 

Then bending again to Raoul, he whispered: "Above all things do not divulge your name. 


2. SIMPER (VERB): smile coyly

Synonyms: sneer, smirk Antonyms: frown, growl

Example Sentence: 

"I hope I see you well, Miss Florence," she simpered.


3. CONVALESCENT (ADJECTIVE): recovering from illness

Synonyms: ambulatory, healing Antonym: regressing, sickly

Example Sentence: 

I treated him as a convalescent, not as a sick man.


4. FATHOM (VERB): measure the depth (of feeling)

Synonyms: comprehend, penetrate Antonyms: neglect, misinterpret

Example Sentence:

It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.


5. INARTICULATE (ADJECTIVE): unable to express oneself clearly

Synonyms: incoherent, blurred Antonyms: articulate, communicative

Example Sentence: 

He made an inarticulate noise in the back of his throat.


6. VENGEANCE (NOUN): revenge; punishment for a wrong

Synonyms: reprisal, requital Antonym: forgiveness, pardon

Example Sentence:

Yes, I would bear my sorrows, and become great, that in a day to be I might wreak vengeance on the king.


7. BESEECH (VERB): beg earnestly

Synonyms: implore, adjure Antonyms: refuse, give

Example Sentence: 

She beseeched him to cut his drinking and smoking.


8. CHAFE (VERB): be angry

Synonyms: irritate, abrade Antonyms: aid, placate

Example Sentence: 

He chafed at having to take orders from someone else.


9. PUNY (ADJECTIVE): small and weak

Synonyms: inconsequential, diminutive Antonyms: giant, strong

Example sentence: 

His mother stood looking on, with a sad kind of a smile on her lips and in her eyes, to see the zealous and yet puny efforts of her little boy.


10. CONJECTURE (NOUN): guess; speculation

Synonyms: guesswork, hunch Antonyms: certainty, reality 

Example Sentence: 

The commentators made various conjectures about the outcome of the next election.



Copyright © 2023 www.mahendraguru.com All Right Reserved by Mahendra Educational Pvt . Ltd.