Daily Vocabulary – 10 November 2025

Synonyms: Onerous, Laborious, Strenuous, Taxing

Antonyms: Easy, Effortless, Simple, Painless

Example: Clearing the civil services in one attempt is an <strong>arduous</strong> task that demands relentless discipline.

Trick: Arduous = “hard-to-do-us” — jo काम hard to do हो, वो ही arduous; yaad रखो: “आरंभ किया तो मेहनत होगी—arduous.”

Synonyms: Pliable, Pliant, Ductile, Adaptable

Antonyms: Rigid, Inflexible, Brittle, Intractable

Example: Gold is so <strong>malleable</strong>that a small piece can be beaten into an extremely thin sheet.

Trick: Malleable = “mall-able” — mall ke jeweller gold ko easily shape kar deta; jo cheez ya insaan easily shape/influence ho, wo malleable.

Synonyms: Astute, Shrewd, Ingenious, Witty

Antonyms: Dull, Foolish, Inept, Slow-witted

Example: Her <strong>clever</strong> solution reduced the project’s cost without compromising quality.

Trick: CLeVER ≈ “clear every” — jo banda har problem clear kar de, wo hi clever; yaad रहे: clever log jaldi samajh ke smart tareeke se kaam karte हैं.

Synonyms: Harmony, Coherence, Symmetry, Elegance

Antonyms: Discord, Dissonance, Incongruity, Chaos

Example: The <strong>concinnity </strong>of the argument—its structure, tone, and evidence—made the paper compelling.

Trick: Con + unity = concinnity—jab sab cheezein milकर perfect unity बनाएँ, tab hoti है concinnity.

Synonyms: Pun, Wordplay, Play on words, Punning

Antonyms: Literalism, Plainness, Directness, Seriousness

Example: The headline used clever <strong>paronomasia</strong>, turning a serious topic into a memorable pun.

Trick: Socho—“Para = pair” aur “nomasia ≈ names-similar”; jab pair of names/words same-sounding ho aur unपर joke बने, वही है paronomasia (pun).