Vocabulary is an essential tool to ace the English section in competitive examinations. You can score better in the subject if you are able to intensify your command over Vocabulary. A regular reading habit can help you with this. With the exercise, you will come across a number of new words, whose meanings you can look up in the dictionary. This, in turn, will help you understand the context of the piece you are reading.
Reading articles from newspapers helps you in two ways: Memorising Static Facts from the Article & Enhancing your Vocabulary.
In conjunction with the above idea, we bring to you our series ‘Shape up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist’. This series aims to help you understand the different aspects of the commonly (and not so commonly) used words, ranging from their meaning and pronunciations to proper usage in sentences.
Today's article is from "The Hindu" newspaper. Understand the gist of the article using the meaning of the words given below and practice questions at the end of this article.
Slow on safety: On Madhya Pradesh bus accident
Important Words from the Article
1. Word: Ghastly (डरावना/डरावने रूप में)
- Pronunciation: gast-lee/गैस्ट्ली
- Part of Speech: Adjective/Adverb
- Meaning:
a. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible (Adjective)
b. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale (Adjective)
c. terrible; very bad (Adjective)
d. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly (Adverb)
e. with a deathlike quality (Adverb) - Synonyms: scary, awful, terrible, frightful
- Antonyms: delightful, beautiful, lovely, pleasing
- Usage in a sentence: Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
2. Word: Grist (पिसान)
- Pronunciation: grist/ग्रिस्ट
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. grain to be ground.
b. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
c. grist to the mill: anything that can be used to one's advantage. - Synonyms: grain, chaff
- Antonyms: chunk
- Usage in a sentence: The grist was being carried off to the market from the mill.
3. Word: Cringeworthy (तकलीफ़देह)
- Pronunciation: krinj-wur-thee/क्रिन्जवर्दी
- Part of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: causing a reaction or feeling of embarrassment, awkwardness, or discomfort
- Synonyms: embarrassing, awkward, uncomfortable
- Antonyms: pleasing, enjoyable, comfortable
- Usage in a sentence: The school drama tried so hard to be woke that it ended up being cringeworthy.
4. Word: Carnage (नाश)
- Pronunciation: kahr-nij/ कार्निज
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: the killing of a large number of people.
- Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butchery
- Antonyms: friendliness, hospitality, civility
- Usage in a Sentence: Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.
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5. Word: Incremental (वृद्धिशील)
- Pronunciation: in-kruh-men-tl/ इन्क्रमेन्टल
- Part of speech: Adjective
- Meaning: relating to or denoting an increase or addition, especially one of a series on a fixed scale
- Synonyms: additional, additive, progressive
- Antonyms: detrimental
- Usage in a sentence: The lack of an incremental salary discouraged the workers from working harder.
6. Word: Lukewarm (गुनगुना, बेपरवाह)
- Pronunciation: look-wawrm/ लूक्वॉर्म
- Part of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning:
a. (of liquid or food that should be hot) only moderately warm; tepid.
b. showing little enthusiasm. - Synonyms: indifferent, cool, tepid, apathetic, uninterested
- Antonyms: excited, enthusiastic, eager, ardent
- Usage in a sentence: Her script received a lukewarm response from the producer.
7. Word: Spate (बाढ़/बड़ी संख्या में)
- Pronunciation: speyt /स्पेट
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring
b. a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time - Synonyms: flood, surge, tide, deluge
- Antonyms: drip, shortage, drought
- Usage in a sentence: We have had a spate of burglaries recently.
8. Word: Indulgent (पक्षपातपूर्ण)
- Pronunciation: in-duhl-juhnt /इन्डल्जन्ट
- Part of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive:
- Synonyms: lenient, tolerant, forbearing
- Antonyms: strict, austere, frugal
- Usage in a sentence: He was extremely indulgent of his son's bad habits.
9. Word: Contraption (मशीन)
- Pronunciation: kuhn-trap-shuhn/कन्ट्रैप्शन
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. a device or machine that looks awkward or old-fashioned, especially one that you do not know how to use - Synonyms: gadget, gizmo, mechanism, contrivance
- Antonyms: barrier
- Usage in a sentence: He could not make any sense of the latest contraption.
10. Word: Plunge (कूदना)
- Pronunciation: pluhnj/प्लन्ज
- Part of Speech: Verb
- Meaning:
a. to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge
b. to bring suddenly or forcibly into some condition, situation, etc.
c. take the plunge: venture something, commit oneself - Synonyms: dive, sink, immerse, plummet
- Antonyms: rise, ascend
- Usage in a sentence: He finally took the plunge and decided to start working on his innovation.
'Writer's Corner'
Based on the description of the words, we have some practice questions for you. Answer these questions in the comments section. Our team will review them at the earliest!
Exercise 1. Make your own Sentences.
Here are some of the words from the above article. Try to frame sentences from them in your own words and share them with us in the comments section!
Exercise 2: Match the columns.
SR No. | Word | Synonym |
1 | lukewarm | lenient |
2 | spate | tepid |
3 | indulgent | plummet |
4 | contraption | deluge |
5 | plunge | gizmo |
Share your answers in the comment section.
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For practice, attempt the quiz based on this daily wordlist from the link below to enhance your exam preparation: Vocabulary Quiz, Click here to attempt!
You can also check the wordlist articles for the previous days from the link below: Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist
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