The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 12-03-2023

1. Exacerbate (Verb) : बिगाड़ देना : make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse

Synonyms: aggravate, intensify, complicate, amplify

Antonyms: alleviate, mitigate, relieve

Example Sentence: If you do not take your medicine, youcondition will exacerbate, and you  will feel worse.

2. Relinquish (Verb) : त्यागना : voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up

Synonyms: surrender, render, abandon

Antonyms: retain, keep, withhold

Example Sentence: When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

3. Prudence (Noun) : सावधानी : behavior that is careful and avoids risks

Synonyms: caution, circumspection, care

Antonyms: recklessness, brashness, carelessness

Example Sentence: The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence.

4. Reenact (Verb) : दोहराना : to act out a past event; to enact again

Synonyms: reduplicate, repeat, recreate

Example Sentence:The group reenacted a famous American Civil War battle.

5. Consternation (Noun): बेचैनी : feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected

Synonyms: dismay, panic, tension

Antonyms: ease, contentment, tranquility

Example Sentence: Much to her parents' consternation, she had decided to not go to college.

6. Corralled (Verb) : इकट्ठा करना : gather together and confine (a group of people or things)

Synonyms: accumulated, amassed, assembled

Antonyms: dispelled, dispersed, dissipated

Example Sentence: They corralled the cattle before loading them onto the truck.

7. Enervated (Adjective) : सुस्त : drained of energy or vitality

Synonyms: lackadaisical, languid, listless

Antonyms: active, ambitious, energetic

Example Sentence: The wrestler's plan was to deliver a crushing blow that would enervate his opponent.

8. Scandalous(Adjective) : अपमानपूर्ण : causing general public outrage by a perceived offense against morality or law

Synonyms: discreditable, disreputable, dishonorable

Antonyms: appreciative, innocuous, inoffensive

Example Sentence: They spread a scandalous rumor about a coworker that almost cost him his job.

9. Truce (Noun) : युद्ध-विराम: a short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time

Synonyms: armistice, cease-fire

Antonyms: war, hostilities, conflict

Example Sentence: Hopefully the truce will last long enough for the leaders to agree to a peace treaty.

10. Amok (Adverb): आपे से बाहर : to be out of control and act in a wild or dangerous manner

Synonyms: rampage, berserk, frenziedly

Antonyms: calmly, collectedly, composedly

Example Sentence:When the robot started going amok and could not be controlled, the engineers realized they had made a terrible mistake in the programming.

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