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Vocabulary Word List #9: Learning New English Vocab

Hello aspirants, presenting you a new vocabulary word list in which the words which are useful for the exam point of view are covered along with their synonyms, antonyms and their usage for better understanding.

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English Vocabulary Word List#9 


1. entrust 

Meaning: to give a trust or responsibility to; to place in trust for
                   protection, care, or handling
Synonym: assign, charge, confide, commit, delegate

 Antonym: deny, retain, hold
Usage: "She entrusted Kavita with the look after of her grandchild."
             
2. pry

Meaning: to look or enquire closely, curiously, or impertinently
Synonym: nose, poke, intrude, snoop, peep

 Antonym: avoid, eschew, shun, disregard, ignore
Usage: "He always pry into the affairs of his neighbours."

3.  pomp

Meaning: dignified or magnificent display; splendor; vain or ostentatious display

Synonym: grandeur, splendour, show, display, grandiosity
Antonym: simplicity, dullness, modesty, plainness

Usage:  "The pomp and splendour of the wedding ceremony mesmerised everyone."

4. indigent

Meaning: a poor or destitute person; very needy; an impoverished person
Synonym: destitute, poor, impoverished, penurious

Antonym: rich, wealthy, prosperous, affluent
Usage: "The NGO came forward for the well being of indigent persons."
5. penurious

Meaning: a) poverty-stricken; destitute. 
                 b) unwilling to spend money; stingy
                 c) scanty and meagre
Synonym: beggarly, indigent, stingy, miserly, parsimonious
Antonym: rich, affluent, spendthrift, profuse, abundant
Usage: "The old man was living in penurious conditions."

6. furtive

Meaning: characterized by stealth, sly and secretive
Synonym: sneaking, secretive, surreptitious, conspiratorial
Antonym: open, public, frank, straightforward, candid
Usage: "As he sneak out of the room, everyone glanced at him in a furtive manner."

7. rankle


Meaning: to cause (someone) to feel irritated or resentful
Synonym: annoy, anger, irritate, embitter, irk

Antonym: comfort, delight, please, appease

Usage: "Saloni was rankled by Pragya's continuous questioning."
8. ilk

Meaning: type or kind; class, sort

Synonym: type, sort, kind, class, variety

 Usage: "People of that ilk always create disturbance in the society."
9. tyrant

Meaning: an extremely oppressive, unjust or cruel ruler; 
an oppressive, harsh, arbitrary person.
Synonym: dictator, oppressor, despot, autocrat, totalitarian
Antonym: democrat
Usage: "His father was a tyrant."

10. legion
Meaning: a large number, a multitude; constituting a large number
Synonym: numerous, myriad, countless, numberless

Antonym: few, numbered
Usage: "Saloni's good nature won her a legion of friends."

For practice, try to make some sentences with the help of these words.



Bonus Of the day

➤ Idiom of the day: "pick someone's brains"

Meaning: to get information from someone, usually by questioning the
                  person carefully and in great detail. 

Usage: "I have just started learning vocabulary and I would like to pick your 
                 brains for any tips you may give."


Hope this word list will help you improve your vocabulary for the exam preparation and for English knowledge as well.


All the best!!



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