Dhingra Classes Raisinghnagar: English Vocab

1. Ploy (noun) : (A trick used to make someone do something or get an advantage) (चालाकीभरी योजना, नौटंकी या रणनीति)

Synonyms: Artifice, Dodge, Flimflam, Gimmick, Stratagem, Trick, Subterfuge

Antonyms: Artlessness, Honesty, Bluntness, Candor, Sincerity

Example: My daughter attempts to use the divide and conquer ploy to get something from her father when she cannot get it from me.

Related words: Phrase:- marketing ploy (something that people who are selling a product use to make people want to buy the product)

2. Fervor (noun) : (Intensity of feeling or expression) (जोश, उत्साह, व्यग्रता)

Synonyms: Passion, Ardour, Intensity, Zeal, Vehemence, Avidity, Fervid

Antonyms: Apathy, Indifference, Agony, Lethargy, Insouciance

Example: The terrorist’s fervor made him believe that giving his life for his cause was his purpose in life.

Related words: Fervent (adjective), fervently (adverb)

3. Usurp (verb) : (To seize or exercise authority or possession wrongfully) (हड़पना)

Synonyms: Arrogate, Expropriate, Seize, Take Over, Confiscate, Encroach

Antonyms: Relinquish, Abandon, Abnegate, Surrender, Waive

Example: Since Lisa could not attend the dance, Marie had plans to usurp the title of homecoming queen

Verb forms: Usurp, Usurped, Usurped

Related words: Usurpation, Usurper (noun) Usurpingly, (adverb) Usurpative, Usurpatory, (adjective)

4. Imbroglio (noun) : (An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.) (उलझन, गुत्थी, गड़बड़)

Synonyms: Difficulty, Predicament, Plight, Trouble, Entanglement, Confusion, Muddle, Quandary, Dilemma

Antonyms: Clarification, Enucleation, Elucidation, Explication, Decipherment

Example: The hostages found themselves in an imbroglio when the two kidnappers began to fight.

5. Connive (verb) : (Secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur.) (मिलीभगत, बढ़ावा देना)

Synonyms: Intrigue, Conspire, Machinate, Contrive

Antonyms: Repel, Rebuff

Example: Do you believe the government would connive social concerns to distract the public from key financial issues?

Verb forms: Connive, Connived, Connived

Related words: Conniver, (noun) Connivingly, (adverb) Unconnived, Unconniving, (adjective)

6. Exasperate (verb) : (To cause irritation or annoyance to) (ग़ुस्से में लाना, खिजलाना, भडकाना)

Synonyms: Annoy, Infuriate, Nettle, Provoke, Aggravate, Rile, Pique

Antonyms: Placate, Appease, Soothe, Pacify, Conciliate, Ameliorate

Example: The exasperated bus driver refused to leave the school until all of the students were quiet.

Verb forms: Exasperate, Exasperated; Exasperated;

Related words: Exasperatedly (adverb) exasperatingly (adverb)

7. Languish (verb) : (To continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant or unwanted situation) (क्षीण होना, निस्तेज, कमजोर होना)

Synonyms: Decline, Droop, Emaciate, Fade, Weaken, Sag, Wither

Antonyms: Flourish, Recuperate, Strengthen, Alacrity

Example: If Congress allows the budget bill to languish on the shelf, then the country will find itself in a financial crisis.

Verb forms: Languish, Languished, Languished

Related words: Languisher (noun) Languishingly (adverb) Languishment (noun)

8. Obscurantism (noun) : (The practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.) (प्रगतिविरोध, सुधार या ज्ञान विरोधी मत)

Synonyms: Casuistry, Equivocation, Fallacy, Hypocrisy, Spuriousness

Antonyms: Liberalism, Progressivism, Altruism, Benevolence

Example: The association's primary aim is to defeat scientific obscurantism and promote scientific truth.

Related words: Obscurantist (noun) or (adjective)