Vocabulary Flashcards
Neetu Singh book complete
whip
a strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.
synonyms: lash, scourge, thong,
lackey
a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.
“lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage”
synonyms: servant, flunkey, footman
Asylum
- an institution for the care of people who are mentally ill.
“he’d been committed to an asylum”
synonyms: psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, - the protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee.
“she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status”
Seismograph
Scientific instrument which records earth’s tremors, earthquake
1) Official
2) Officious
1) relating to an office
2) too eager to tell others what to do
Blizzard
Stormy weather
1) Septic
2) Sceptic
1) a medical term involving sepsis
2) doubtful of an idea or belief
Contingency
संभावना
Something that might happen in the future
Sadist
one who obtains pleasure by hurting others
1) Incumbent
2) Recumbent
1) to be necessary
2) lying down
1) Flair
2) Flare
3) Frailty
1) natural ability
2) a burst of flame or light/ to become angry
3) infirmity, infirmness, weakness, weakliness, feebleness,
1) Candour
2) Candid
1) Candour - Noun - frankness
2) Candid - Adjective - Frank
1) Rancor
2) Rancorous
bitterness, hatred/ Bitter/ hateful
Hodophobia
fear of travelling
Flounder
to struggle helplessly
Hypothesis
preposition made as a basis for reasoning without the assumption of its truth
Spouse
life partner
Pageant
Elaborate public spectacle
Tamasha
Gullible
भोला-भाला
Easily duped or fooled
1) Alternate
2) Alternative
1) one after another
2) available instead/ substitute
Hailstorm
A sudden heavy fall of hail
notion
idea
1) Harbingers
2) Herald
1) a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another
2) a person or things viewed as a sign that something is about to happen
Articulate
A good orator