The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 23-12-2020

1. RATIFY (VERB): (पुष्टि करना): confirm 

Synonyms: approve, sanction 

Antonyms: reject 

Example Sentence: 

Both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year. 

2. NEFARIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (कुटिल): wicked 

Synonyms: evil, sinful 

Antonyms: good 

Example Sentence: 

The nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates. 

3. HEGEMONY (NOUN): (नायकत्व): leadership 

Synonyms: dominance, dominion 

Antonyms: self-government 

Example Sentence: 

Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871. 

4. ENORMITY (NOUN): (दुष्टता): wickedness 

Synonyms: baseness, blackness 

Antonyms: goodness 

Example Sentence: 

The enormities of war are way too high as expected. 

5. APEX (NOUN): (चरम सीमा): climax 

Synonyms: culmination, apotheosis 

Antonyms: nadir 

Example Sentence: 

The apex of his career was in 1966 when he hosted aloft the World Cup. 

6. ABOLITION (NOUN): (उन्मूलन): scrapping 

Synonyms: ending, stopping 

Antonyms: retention 

Example Sentence: 

He was responsible for the abolition of the death penalty. 

7. CONCOMITANT (ADJECTIVE): (संगत करने वाला): attendant 

Synonyms: accompanying, associated 

Antonyms: unrelated 

Example Sentence: 

She loved travel, with all its concomitant worries. 

8. INTRANSIGENT (ADJECTIVE): (सैद्धांतिक): uncompromising 

Synonyms: inflexible, unbending 

Antonyms: compliant 

Example Sentence: 

Her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent. 

9. ORATORICAL (ADJECTIVE): (भाषण -संबंधी): rhetorical 

Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent 

Antonyms: plain-spoken 

Example Sentence: 

He has plenty oratorical skills. 

10. SHUN (VERB): (किनारा करना): avoid 

Synonyms: evade eschew 

Antonyms: accept 

Example Sentence: 

He shunned fashionable society. 

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