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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. Scourge – कोड़ा
Meaning – a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
Usage – “the scourge of mass unemployment”
Synonyms – affliction, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, burden, cross to bear, thorn in one’s flesh/side, bitter pill, trial, nuisance, pest; torment, torture, misery, suffering; blight, cancer, canker; punishment, penalty, visitation.
2. Prompted – के लिए प्रेरित किया
Meaning – (of an event or fact) cause or bring about (an action or feeling).
Usage – “the violence prompted a wave of refugees to flee the country”
Synonyms – give rise to, bring about, cause, occasion, result in, lead to, elicit, produce, bring on, engender, induce, call forth, evoke, precipitate, trigger, spark off, provoke, instigate.
3. Premises – घर
Meaning – a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.
Usage – “the company has moved to new premises”
Synonyms – building(s), property, site, establishment, office, place.
4. Conspiracy – साजिश
Meaning – a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
Usage – “a conspiracy to destroy the government”
Synonyms – plot, scheme, stratagem, plan, machination, cabal; deception, ploy, trick, ruse, dodge, subterfuge, sharp practice; informalframe-up, fit-up, racket, put-up job; rarecomplot, covin.
5. Meticulous – सूक्ष्म
Meaning – showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
Usage – “the designs are hand-glazed with meticulous care”
Synonyms – careful, conscientious, diligent, ultra-careful, scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, demanding, exacting, accurate, correct; thorough, studious, rigorous, detailed, perfectionist, fastidious, methodical, particular, strict; pedantic, fussy; archaicnice, laborious.
6. Connivance – प्रशय
Meaning – willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act.
Usage – “this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials”
Synonyms – collusion, complicity, collaboration, involvement, assistance, abetting; tacit consent; conspiracy, plotting, scheming, intrigue, machination, secret understanding; rareabetment, condonation.
7. Lax – ढीला
Meaning – not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.
Usage – “lax security arrangements at the airport”
Synonyms – slack, slipshod, negligent, neglectful, remiss, careless, heedless, unmindful, inattentive, slapdash, offhand, casual; easy-going, lenient, permissive, soft, liberal, non-restrictive, indulgent, overindulgent, complaisant, over-tolerant, irresponsible.
8. Firmament – आकाश
Meaning – the heavens or sky.
Usage – “thunder shakes the firmament”
Synonyms – the sky, heaven, the blue, the wide blue yonder, the azure, the heavens, the skies; literarythe vault (of heaven), the celestial sphere, the empyrean, the welkin.
9. Realignment – फिर से संगठित करना
Meaning – to align again; especially : to reorganize or make new groupings of.
10. Inconceivable – समझ से बाहर
Meaning – not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable.
Usage – “it seemed inconceivable that the president had been unaware of what was going on”
Synonyms – beyond belief, unbelievable, extremely difficult to believe, scarcely credible, incredible, unthinkable, unimaginable, unimagined, extremely unlikely, not in the least likely, extremely implausible, extremely doubtful; impossible, beyond the bounds of possibility, out of the question, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, incomprehensible; informalhard to swallow, mind-boggling.
