The Vocab Master For All Competitive Exams | 08-11-2023

 

1-Sulking (verb): be silent, morose, and bad-tempered out of annoyance or disappointment

 Synonyms: grumping, moping, pouting 

Sentence: He’s been sulking for days about being left out of the team.

2-Multihued (adjective) : marked by a variety of usually vivid colors

Synonyms: chromatic, coloured, colourful

Antonyms: colourless, monochromatic, monochromatic

Sentence: This magnificent view shows the multihued beauty of the Adirondacks, a

mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York.

3-Maverick (noun): an unorthodox or independent-minded person.

Synonyms: individualist, nonconformist, unorthodox person

Antonyms: conformer, conformist

Sentence: Politically, she’s a bit of a maverick.

4-Veneer (noun): a deceptively attractive external appearance.

Synonyms: facade, gloss

Sentence: The veneer of civility that the neighbors had maintained over the years disappeared with the filing of the first lawsuit.

5-Atrophy (verb): gradually decline in effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect.

Synonyms: decay, decline, degenerate

Antonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate

Sentence: His artistic skills atrophied from lack of use.

6-Domineering (adjective): asserting one’s will over another in an arrogant way.

Synonyms: browbeat, bully, intimidate

Antonyms: humble, meek, modest

Sentence: Many of her women friends also had domineering husbands.

7-Devious (adjective): showing a skilful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals.

Synonyms: underhand, underhand,deceptive

Antonyms: guileless, ingenuous, innocent

Sentence: You have to be a bit devious if you’re going to succeed in business.

8-Desiccate (verb): remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry.

Synonyms: dried, dried up, dehydrated

Antonyms: hydrate, wash, water

Sentence: The bricks were desiccated by the sun.

9-Harshest (adjective): cruel or severe.

Synonyms: tyrannous

Antonyms: bearable, endurable, tolerable

Sentence: He served for five years in some of the harshest conditions on earth.

10-Panacea (noun): a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

Synonyms: universal cure, cure-all, universal remedy

Sentence: Technology is not a panacea for all our problems.

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