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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation inAffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing some difficult words , which is important for IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other !!!

1. – Fumble – टटोलना

Meaning – do or handle something clumsily.

Usage – “she fumbled with the lock”

Synonyms – grope, feel about, search blindly, scrabble around, muddle around.

2. – Frisky – प्रफुल्ल

Meaning – playful and full of energy.

Usage – “he bounds about like a frisky pup”

Synonyms – lively, bouncy, bubbly, perky, active, energetic, animated, zestful, full of vim and vigour; playful, full of fun, coltish, skittish, spirited, high-spirited, in high spirits, exuberant; informalhigh, frolicky, full of beans, full of get-up-and-go, sparky, zippy, peppy, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed; archaicfrolicsome, gamesome, sportive, frolic, wanton.

3. – Flinch – बच निकलना

Meaning – make a quick, nervous movement of the face or body as an instinctive reaction to fear or pain.

Usage – “she flinched at the acidity in his voice”

Synonyms – wince, start, shy (away), recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, shy away, draw back, withdraw, blench, cringe, squirm, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch.

4. – Gabble – बड़बड़ाना

Meaning – talk rapidly and unintelligibly.

Usage – “he gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed”

Synonyms – jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter, splutter; talk rapidly, talk incoherently, talk unintelligibly; informalwaffle, chunter, witter.

5. – Gadfly – घुड़मक्खी

Meaning – a fly that bites livestock, especially a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly.

Usage – a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action.

6. – Frailties – कमजोरी

Meaning – the condition of being weak and delicate.

Usage – “the increasing frailty of old age”

Synonyms – infirmity, infirmness, weakness, weakliness, feebleness, enfeeblement, debility, incapacity, impairment, indisposition; fragility, delicacy, slightness, puniness; illness, sickness, sickliness, ill health; decrepitude, dodderiness, shakiness; informalweediness.

7. – Heresy – पाषंड

Meaning – belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine.

Usage – “Huss was burned for heresy”

Synonyms – dissension, dissent, dissidence, blasphemy, nonconformity, unorthodoxy, heterodoxy, apostasy, freethinking, schism, faction; scepticism, agnosticism, atheism, non-theism, non-belief, unbelief, idolatry, paganism, separatism, sectarianism, revisionism.

8. – Motley – पंचमेल

Meaning – incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate.

Usage – “a motley crew of discontents and zealots”

Synonyms – miscellaneous, disparate, diverse, assorted, sundry, varied, mixed, diversified, heterogeneous.

9. – Lackey – नौकर

Meaning – a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage – “lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage”

Synonyms – servant, flunkey, footman, manservant, valet, liveried servant, steward, butler, equerry, retainer, vassal, page, attendant, houseboy, domestic, drudge, factotum; informalskivvy; archaicscullion.

10. – polemical – विवादात्मक

Meaning – of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech.

Usage – “a polemical essay”

Synonyms – critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent, vitriolic, venomous, waspish, corrosive, biting, caustic, trenchant, cutting, acerbic, sardonic, sarcastic, scathing, acid, sharp, keen, tart, pungent, stinging, astringent, incisive, devastating, piercing; rareacidulous, mordacious.