10 new English words for 6 January 2019, each with its meaning, Hindi meaning, synonyms, antonyms and an example sentence. Learn them today and revise them with the daily quiz — useful for SSC, Bank, Railway, UPSC and IELTS.
Hindi meaning: आधारिका, आधार वाक्य
Synonyms: Postulate, Thesis, Principle, Basis, Idea, Hypothesis
Example: They had started with the <strong>premise</strong> that all men are created equal.
Hindi meaning: सीमा
Synonyms: Purview, Periphery, Verge, Domain
Example: Her case falls within the <strong>ambit</strong> of moral law.
Hindi meaning: तिरस्कारपूर्ण
Synonyms: Scornful, Disdainful, Sneering, Derisive
Antonyms: Laudatory, Adulatory, Admiring
Example: One of the audience, with a <strong>contemptuous</strong> remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.
Hindi meaning: समानता
Synonyms: Juxtaposition, Similitude, Affinity, Equivalence
Antonyms: Contrast, Dissimilarity, Unlikeness
Example: The science teacher tried to make her students understand the <strong>analogy</strong> between a cell and a car battery.
Hindi meaning: जाहिरा तौर पर
Synonyms: Professedly , Supposedly, Purportedly, Superficially
Antonyms: Genuinely, Precisely, Candidly, Assuredly
Example: <strong>Ostensibly</strong>, the celebrity seemed to be hiding from photographers by wearing a disguise.
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Hindi meaning: विरोधात्मक
Synonyms: Contradictory, Diametric, Antipodal, Opposite
Antonyms: Congruous, Synonymous, Analogous
Example: The bill has not passed parliament because the conservative party is <strong>antithetical</strong> to the liberal party’s proposal.
Hindi meaning: निवारक
Synonyms: Disincentive, Damper, Impediment
Antonyms: Catalyst, Goad, Spur
Example: When I saw the caution board on the house, I knew it was there as a theft <strong>deterrent. </strong>
Hindi meaning: अनुमान
Synonyms: Guess, Supposition, Surmise, Intuition, Suspect
Antonyms: Fact, Truth, Reality
Example: There's been a lot of <strong>conjecture</strong> in the media recently about the link ups of the celebrity couple.
Hindi meaning: विलाप करना
Synonyms: Wail, Bemoan, Elegy, Dirge
Antonyms: Laud, Praise, Rejoice
Example: He was <strong>lamenting</strong> the death of his infant daughter.
Hindi meaning: अधिस्वर
Synonyms: Suggestion, Connotation, Hint, Innuendo, Implication
Example: There was an <strong>overtone</strong> of regret in his farewell speech.
