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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. Beatific
Meaning – feeling or expressing blissful happiness.
Usage – “a beatific smile”
Synonyms – rapturous, joyful, ecstatic, seraphic, blissful, serene, happy, beaming, glad.
2. Sneaky
Meaning – furtive; sly.
Usage – “sneaky, underhand tactics”
Synonyms – sly, crafty, cunning, wily, clever, artful, scheming, devious, guileful, tricky, conniving, designing, deceitful, duplicitous, dishonest, disingenuous, underhand, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, double-dealing; furtive, secretive, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, sneaking, skulking, slinking, clandestine, hidden, covert, cloaked, conspiratorial, under the table; black; informaldirty, foxy.
3. Cannon
Meaning – a large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare.
Usage – “they would cross at the Town ford, under cover of the defending cannon”
Synonyms – mounted gun, field gun, gun, piece of artillery, piece of ordnance; mortar, howitzer; informalbig gun; historicalcarronade, bombard, culverin, falconet, long tom, serpentine; historicalpom-pom.
4. Horde
Meaning – a large group of people.
Usage – “a horde of beery rugby fans”
5. Truant
Meaning – a pupil who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
Synonyms – absentee, non-attender; informalskiver; informalwag.
6. Axiom
Meaning – a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
Usage – “the axiom that sport builds character”
Synonyms – accepted truth, general truth, dictum, truism, principle; proposition, postulate; maxim, saying, adage, aphorism; rareapophthegm, gnome.
7. Facsimile
Meaning – an exact copy, especially of written or printed material.
Usage – “a facsimile of the manuscript”
Synonyms – copy, reproduction, duplicate, photocopy, mimeograph, mimeo, replica, likeness, carbon, carbon copy, print, reprint, offprint, image; fax, telefax; clone; telecopy; autotype; trademarkXerox, photostat.
8. Cannibal
Meaning – a person who eats the flesh of other human beings.
Usage – “cannibal tribes”
Synonyms – man-eater, people-eater; rareanthropophagite, anthropophagist.
9. Recluse
Meaning – a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people.
Usage – “she has turned into a virtual recluse”
Synonyms – hermit, ascetic; monk, nun; marabout, santon; rareeremite, anchorite, anchoress, stylite, cenobite.
10. Impregnable
Meaning – (of a fortified position) unable to be captured or broken into.
Usage – “a massive and impregnable fortress”
Synonyms – invulnerable, impenetrable, unattackable, unassailable, inviolable, secure, strong, stout, safe, well fortified, well defended; invincible, unconquerable, unbeatable, indestructible.
