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The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 19-03-19

Mahendra Guru
1. CAVALIER (ADJECTIVE): (अभिमानपूर्ण): Arrogant 

Synonyms: haughty, offhand 

Antonyms: humble, shy 

Example Sentence: 

The attack on professionalism so often found in the literature is cavalier and misguided. 

2. AGHAST (ADJECTIVE): (भौचक्का): Appalled 

Synonyms: awestruck, agog 

Antonyms: unsurprised, composed 

Example Sentence:

She was aghast at his question. 

3. ERSTWHILE (ADJECTIVE): (भूतपूर्व): Former 

Synonyms: bygone, previous 

Antonyms: recent, new 

Example Sentence:

There's now a store where erstwhile lay green and pleasant pastures. 

4. POMPOUS (ADJECTIVE): (आडम्बरपूर्ण): arrogant, egotistic

Synonyms: boastful, selfish 

Antonyms: humble, kind

Example Sentence:

Because the movie star was pompous, she spent most of her time looking into the mirror. 

5. SINISTER (ADJECTIVE): (भयावह): Nasty 

Synonyms: ominous, perverse 

Antonyms: auspicious, benevolent 

Example Sentence:

It was a pretty sinister comment that you made so far. 

6. MULISHNESS (NOUN): (हठ): Doggedness 

Synonyms: obstinacy, bullheadedness 

Antonyms: irresolution, dubiety 

Example Sentence:

He is buying everything by showing his heights of mulishness. 

7. OSTRACIZE (VERB): (बहिष्कार करना): banish 

Synonyms: expel, exclude 

Antonyms: accept, embrace 

Example Sentence:

Nalini was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers. 

8. DOMINEERING (ADJECTIVE): (निरंकुश): Bossy

Synonyms: tyrannical, despotic 

Antonyms: yielding, submissive 

Example Sentence:

She let her career overtake the relationship, and she's become too controlling and domineering. 

9. QUIXOTIC (ADJECTIVE): (विलक्षण): idealistic 

Synonyms: impractical, dreamy 

Antonyms: realistic, sensible 

Example Sentence:

It was clearly a quixotic case against the defendant. 

10. LEGATEE (NOUN): (वसीयतदार): Owner 

Synonyms: partner, keeper 

Antonyms: leaser, renter 

Example Sentence: 

Varun sees himself as a legatee of his father, Sanjay Gandhi, not his great-grandfather Nehru.

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