SSC and all Competitive Exams. Explore The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary to score good marks in English Section. Start practising this vocabulary to increase your word power. While reading a passage you have to highlight tough words in it and analyse the correct meaning of those words. This will help you understand the passage clearly and also you can learn more new words, it means also you can develop your vocabulary. To help you in this part we have provided an English Vocabulary passage along with meaning, synonyms and usages of hard words in the passage, make use of it. We also providing Important Vocabulary Quiz based on “THE ECONOMIST” and “THE HINDU”
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Definition: extremely large; enormous.
Synonyms: enormous, vast, immense, very large, very big, great, massive, cosmic, colossal, huge
Antonyms: tiny, small, mini, miniature, petite, small-scale, minute, microscopic
Usage: He owned a humongous private yacht.
Definition: begin (a course of action).
Synonyms: begin, start, commence, undertake, set about, enter on, go into, take up
Antonyms: end, finish, complete, finish-up, accomplished, fulfilled, settled
Usage: She embarked on a new career.
Definition: reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
Synonyms: reduce, cut, cut down, cut back, decrease, lessen, diminish, slim down, tighten up, retrench, pare down, trim, dock, lop, shrink
Antonyms: improve, increase, grow, promote, spread, cultivate, fatten, encourage
Usage: They prepared measures to curtail the outbreak.
Definition: a loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
Synonyms: din, racket, loud noise, uproar, tumult, babel, shouting, yelling, screaming, baying, roaring, blaring, clangour
Antonyms: silence, quiet, quietness, hush, tranquility, peace, noiselessness
Usage: As soon as he stepped out of the crime scene, the questions rose to a clamour
Definition: something which acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity.
Synonyms: stimulus, stimulation, stimulant, boost, encouragement, incitement, incentive, impetus, inducement, motivation
Antonyms: subdue, curb, control, restrict, limit, contain, constrain, curtail
Usage: the halving of car tax would provide a fillip to sales
Definition: show or announce publicly for the first time.
Synonyms: reveal, present, disclose, divulge, make known, make public, air, communicate, publish, broadcast
Antonyms: hide, cover-up, conceal, cover, veil, disguise
Usage: the Home Secretary has unveiled plans to crack down on crime
Definition: the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.
Synonyms: profanity, profaneness, sacrilege, irreligiousness, irreverence, swearing, curse, cursing, impiety, impiousness, ungodliness, unholiness
Antonyms: respectful, holiness, piousness, reverence, holy, faithful
Usage: he was detained on charges of blasphemy
Definition: coming after something in time; following.
Synonyms: following, ensuing, succeeding, successive, later, future, coming, upcoming, to come, next
Antonyms: preceding, before, first, foregoing, antecede, predate, antedate
Usage: the theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906
Definition: uncompromising; strict.
Synonyms: uncompromising, strict, diehard, extreme, tough, inflexible, immoderate, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, undeviating, unwavering, single-minded
Antonyms: flexible, agreeable, moderate, yielding, wavering, open-minded
Usage: He was a hardlined rationalist.
Definition: make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
Synonyms: aggravate, make worse, worsen, inflame, compound
Antonyms: control, relieve, alleviate, treat, strengthen, fix, isolate
Usage: the exorbitant cost of land in urban areas only exacerbated the problem
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