The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 07-06-2022

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

Synonyms: ending, stopping

Antonyms: retention

Example Sentence:

He was responsible for the abolition of the death penalty.

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.HOSPITALITY (NOUN): (सत्कार): friendliness

Synonyms: welcome, helpfulness

Antonyms: unfriendliness

Example Sentence:

Scotland is a country which is renowned for its hospitality.

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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