Daily Vocab for Various Competitive Exams:18 June 2018

Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few words and phrases from articles published in a reputed Newspaper.

1. OBFUSCATE : निष्प्रदीप करना
Meaning: make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible
Synonyms: muddle, perplex
Antonyms: clarify

2. LACKADAISICAL: उत्कंठित, लापरवाही से आलसी
Meaning: lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy
Synonyms: apathetic, indifferent, lethargic
Antonyms: enthusiastic, energetic, lively

3. MONOLITHIC : विशालकाय
Meaning: large, powerful, indivisible, and slow to change.
Synonyms: rigid, stiff, non-flexible, unyielding, unbending, unbendable, taut, hard, firm, inelastic
Antonyms: flexible, pliable

4. CHARLATAN : कपटी
Meaning: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill
Synonyms: quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, fake, humbug, impostor, pretender, masquerader, hoaxer, cheat
Antonyms: expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard

5. RAMPART : किले की दीवार
Meaning: a defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.
Synonyms: embankment, earthwork, parapet, breastwork, battlement, stockade, palisade, bulwark, bastion, barbican, outwork, fortification
Antonyms: depression, ditch

6. SCANDALIZE : आघात पहुँचाना
Meaning: shock or horrify (someone) by a real or imagined violation of propriety or morality
Synonyms: shock, appal, outrage, horrify, disgust, revolt, repel, sicken, nauseate
Antonyms: impress

7. SQUASHED : कुचलना (भावना या कार्य)
Meaning: suppress or subdue (a feeling or action)
Synonyms: crush, squeeze, flatten, compress, press, smash, distort, mangle, pound
Antonyms: encourage, let go, release, uncompress


8. AMELIORATE : सुधारना
Meaning: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better
Synonyms: amend, better, enhance, enrich, help, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine, upgrade
Antonyms: damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil, tarnish, vitiate, blemish, blight, deface, disfigure, flaw, mar, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce

9. INTERNMENT : नजरबंदी
Meaning: the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons
Synonyms: bondage, enslavement, servitude, restraint, restriction, arrest, capture, entrapment
custody, detainer, detainment, detention, house arrest
Antonyms: emancipation, liberation, manumission, redemption, release, freedom, independence, liberty

10. SANGUINE : आशावादी
Meaning: optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation
Synonyms: optimistic, bullish, hopeful, buoyant, positive, disposed to look on the bright side, confident, cheerful, cheery, bright, assured
Antonyms: pessimistic, gloomy