Vocabulary
(a)Take out 100 new words/difficult words/on the basis of reading page 1 to 30 and prepare a dictionary of those words with –synonym, antonym and usage in
sentence along with their pronunciation.
Answers
. Factotum
Pronunciation: fak-toh-tuh m
Meaning: An employee or official who has various different responsibilities to handle
Synonyms: Retainer, Servant, workaholic, odd-job person
Usage: She might appear as the perfect factotum; and indeed she was.
2. Nostrum
Pronunciation: nos-truh m
Meaning: Patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable.
Synonyms: catholicon, elixir, medicine, remedy, treatment, cure, drug
Usage: Riyah gave her sister a nostrum to allay her allergy towards the pollen grains
3. Brook
Pronunciation: broo k
Meaning: A natural stream of water smaller than a river
Synonyms: beck, creek, streamlet, branch, river, watercourse, spring
Usage: This brook dried up every year in the summer
4. Liturgy
Pronunciation: lit-er-jee
Meaning: A form of public worship; ritual.
Synonyms: observance, rite, sacrament, celebration, ceremonial
Usage: People's faith is being choked out by the thorns of fabricated liturgy (Source: Church Militant)
5. Larceny
Pronunciation: lahr-suh-nee
Meaning: The act of taking something from someone unlawfully
Synonyms: burglary, Crime, stealing, touch, stealing, pilfering
Antonyms: return, pay, reimbursement, compensation
Usage: The larceny is appalling at Kennedy International
6. Quixotic
Pronunciation: kwik-sot-ik
Meaning: Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
Synonyms: dreamy, foolish, impractical, impulsive, unrealistic
Antonyms: hardheaded, hard-nosed, tough-minded, unsentimental; practical, pragmatic
Usage: Our quixotic prime minister may need Labour to save him in Europe. (Source: The Guardian-20-Feb-2016)
7. Quash
Pronunciation: kwosh
Meaning: to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue
Synonyms: crush, pull down, quell, repress, beat, overcome
Antonyms: abet, aid, assist, back, help, prop up, support; foment, incite
Usage: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today refused to quash an FIR registered against two youngsters in a criminal intimidation case. (Source: Chandigarh Tribune)
8. Skullduggery
skuhl-duhg-uh-ree
Meaning: an instance of dishonest or deceitful behavior; trick.
Synonyms: crafty; trickery; chicanery; duplicity; guile; perfidy; falsehood
Antonyms: truthfulness; loyalty; trustworthiness; truthfulness; honesty
Usage: The tax is high on years of expediency and governmental skullduggery in arming and feeding and giving harbour to such factions (Source: Firstpost)
9. Ludicrous
Pronunciation: loo-di-kruh s
Meaning: Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Synonyms: foolish, comical, outlandish, silly, laughable, crazy, funnys
Antonyms: grave, tragic, sensible, logical, reasonable
Usage: Meet the epically ludicrous instrument that uses 2,000 steel marbles to make music. (source: Classic FM)
10. Lachrymose
Pronunciation: lak-ruh-mohs
Meaning: Showing sorrow;
Synonyms: sad, teary, weeping, weepy, melancholy, blue, dejected, gloomy
Antonyms: beaming, chuckling, giggling, grinning, laughing, smilings
Usage: While presidents, being also human, may be allowed some display of emotion, they cannot be lachrymose all the time. (Source: Philippine Star)
11. Admonish
Pronunciation: ad-mon-ish
Meaning: Warn strongly; put on guard, to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
Synonyms: berate, censure, chide, rebuke, reprimand, scold, warn, hoists
Antonyms: approve, endorse, sanction; applaud, extol, hail, laud, praise, salute, tout
Usage: The two acts of mercy being focused on this March in the Archdiocese of Portland will be to forgive offenses and to admonish sinners. (Source: Catholic Sentinel-15-Mar-2016)
12. Tirade
Pronunciation: tahy-reyd or tahy-reyd
Meaning: A speech of violent denunciation
Synonyms: harangue, ranting, screed, sermon, anger, censure, dispute
Antonyms: peace, harmony, agreement, calm, praise, accord, unperturbed
Usage: Australian movie star Rebel Wilson has launched a vitriolic Twitter tirade at a journalist who allegedly “harassed” her sick grandmother. (Source: The New Daily-28-Feb-2016)
13. Labyrinthine
Pronunciation: lab-uh-rin-thin, -theen
Meaning: Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
Synonyms: intricate, meandering, serpentine, twisting, winding, complex, mazy
Antonyms: simple, straight, blunt, candid, apparent, clear, definite, even, explicit
Usage: The sentences that once sang became so labyrinthine in complexity that the reader got lost in the maze. (Source: The Independent-28-Mar-2016)
14. Alacrity
Pronunciation: uh-lak-ri-tee
Meaning: Liveliness and eagerness
Synonyms: alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, sprightliness, willingnesss
Antonyms: apathy, aversion, slowness, dullness, delay, amble, lethargy
Usage: The Prime Minister asked the party to embrace technology with greater alacrity and enthusiasm
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