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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. Effete – अशक्त
Meaning – affected, over-refined, and ineffectual.
Usage – “effete trendies from art college”
Synonyms – affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered; informaltwee, la-di-da, pseud; informalponcey, toffee-nosed; rarealembicated.
2. Arraign -कलंक लगाना
Meaning – call or bring (someone) before a court to answer a criminal charge.
Usage – “her sister was arraigned on charges of attempted murder”
Synonyms – indict, prosecute, put on trial, bring to trial; denounce, sue, take to court, bring an action against, lay charges against, file charges against, prefer charges against, summons, cite; accuse of, charge with; impeach.
3. Barge – बजरा
Meaning – move forcefully or roughly.
Usage – “we can’t just barge into a private garden”
Synonyms – push, shove, force, elbow, shoulder, jostle, bludgeon, bulldoze, muscle.
4. Debonair – ख़ुशमिज़ाज
Meaning – (of a man) confident, stylish, and charming.
Usage – “all the men looked debonair and handsome in white tie and tails”
Synonyms – suave, urbane, sophisticated, cultured, self-possessed, self-assured, confident, charming, gracious, well mannered, civil, courteous, gallant, chivalrous, gentlemanly, refined, polished, well bred, genteel, dignified, courtly; well dressed, well groomed, well turned out, elegant, stylish, smart, dashing, dapper, spruce, trim, attractive; soigné; informalsmooth, swish, swanky.
5. Doyen – दल के उच्च सदस्य
Meaning – the most respected or prominent person in a particular field.
Usage – “he became the doyen of British physicists”
6. Dispel – दूर हो जाना
Meaning – make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.
Usage – “the brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine’s dejection”
Synonyms – banish, eliminate, dismiss, chase away, drive away, drive off, get rid of, dissipate, disperse, scatter, disseminate; relieve, allay, ease, calm, quell, check.
7. Brook – छोटी नदी
Meaning – a small stream.
Usage – “the Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks”
Synonyms – stream, small river, streamlet, rivulet, rill, brooklet, runnel, runlet, freshet, gill; beck; bourn; billabong; burn; creek.
8. Behest – आज्ञा
Meaning – a person’s orders or command.
Usage – “they had assembled at his behest”
Synonyms – instruction, bidding, request, requirement, wish, desire; command, order, decree, edict, rule, ruling, directive, direction, charge, will, dictate, demand, insistence, injunction, mandate, precept; informalsay-so; rarerescript.
9. Cursory – सतही
Meaning – hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.
Usage – “a cursory glance at the figures”
Synonyms – perfunctory, desultory, casual, superficial, token, uninterested, half-hearted, inattentive, unthinking, offhand, mechanical, automatic, routine; hasty, quick, hurried, rapid, brief, passing, fleeting, summary, sketchy, careless, slapdash.
10. Hunch – कूबड़
Meaning – raise (one’s shoulders) and bend the top of one’s body forward.
Usage – “Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow”
Synonyms – arch, curve, hump, bend, bow, curl, crook.
