**Vocabulary Words - 01.05.2015**

**Vocabulary Words - 01.05.2015**

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►-EXHORT (VERB): Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

Synonyms: Urge, Admonish Antonyms: Discourage, Dissuade

Example Sentence:

While I cannot force you to drive the speed limit, I exhort you to do so or else you might end up in jail.

►-SUMPTUOUS (ADJECTIVE): Splendid and expensive-looking

Synonyms: Lavish, Extravagant Antonyms: Plain, Inferior

Example Sentence:

The restaurant’s sumptuous buffet had some of the finest foods from all over the world.

►-STUPEFIED (ADJECTIVE): Make (someone) unable to think or feel properly.

Synonyms: Astonished, Bewildered Antonyms: Aware, Expected

Example Sentence:

The three adventurous companions were surprised and stupefied, despite their scientific reasonings.

►-UNSTINTING (ADJECTIVE): Given or giving without restraint; unsparing

Synonyms: Benevolent , Magnanimous Antonyms: Stingy, Uncharitable

Example Sentence:

The unstinting provision of liquidity by the central bank is crucial for arresting a financial panic.

►-DISSENSION (NOUN): Disagreement that leads to discord.

Synonyms: Controversy, Bickering Antonyms: Agreement, Harmony

Example Sentence:

This is a clear attempt to cause division and dissension within the ranks of the Unionist family.

►-METAMORPHOSED (VERB): To convert or transform

Synonyms: Mutate, Transmute Antonyms: Stagnate, Remain

Example Sentence:

After two to three weeks the bright orange pupae have metamorphosed into new adults which climb into the plants to continue the cycle.

►-EUPHEMISM (NOUN): Nice way of saying something

Synonyms: Circumlocution, Floridness Antonyms: Criticize, Blatant

Example Sentence:

While a euphemism may tone down your words, the meaning behind the phrase will remain the same.

►-GRANDEUR (NOUN): Splendour and impressiveness, especially of appearance or style.

Synonyms: Magnificence, Majesty Antonyms: Unimportance,Insignificance

Example Sentence:

I am more astonished at the grandeur of the scenery than I expected.

►-QUEST (NOUN) : A long or arduous search for something

Synonyms: Adventure, Investigation Antonyms: Retreat, Ignorance

Example Sentence:

They were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation,and always spending more than they ought.

►-RIGMAROLE (NOUN) : an elaborate or complicated procedure

Synonyms: incoherent, poppycock Antonyms: Possessions, Sense

Example Sentence:

The government's plan to perpetuate itself in office, via the traditional electoral rigmarole, is likely to go ahead.

** ANTONYMS & SYNONYMS **
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►-Remorce- पश्चाताप, पछतावा
S- compunction, contrition, penitence, repentance, ruefulness
A- impenitence, remorselessness, unduration, obduracy

►-Resentment- नाराजी, क्रोध, रोष
S- anger, indignation, bitterness, grudge, ire, animosity
A- calmness, amiably, friendless, mildness