Dhingra Classes Raisinghnagar: ENGLISH VOCAB

1. Fantasy (noun) : (An idea with no basis in reality) (कपोल कल्पित)

Synonyms: Dream, Imagination, Illusion, Fiction, Chimera, Delusion, Hallucination

Antonyms: Reality, Certainty, Factual, Verity

Example: He can hardly tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

Verb forms: Fantasy, Fantasied, Fantasied

Related words: Fantasy (verb)

2. Epitomize (verb) : (To be a perfect example or representation of (something)) (एक आदर्श उदाहरण या प्रतिनिधित्व)

Synonyms: Depiction, Exemplar, Icon, Paradigm, Epitome

Antonyms: Mockery, Derision, Satire, Lampoon

Example: When my teacher gave me the award for most outstanding project, she told me my assignmentepitomized excellence in the field of physics.

Verb forms: Epitomize, Epitomized, Epitomized

Related words: Epitomization, Epitomizer, Epitomist, (noun)

3. Vest (verb) : (Rights, benefits, or privileges that are typically inherent or legally guaranteed) (निहित होना, प्रदान करना)

Synonyms: Empower, Endow, Furnish, Provide, Endue, Confer

Antonyms: Bereave, Abrogate, Deprive, Dispossess, Oust

Example: Many people think that the power of the United States is entirely vested in the President, but a system of checks and balances placed power between three branches of government.

Verb forms: Vest, Vested, Vested

Related words: idioms:- play it close to the vest (to avoid taking unnecessary risks).

Vestless, Vestlike (adjective) Vest (noun)

4. Embodiment (noun) : (Someone or something that is a perfect representative or example of a quality, idea, (अवतार, मूर्त रूप)

Synonyms: Epitome, Incarnation, Personification, Quintessence, Paradigm

Antonyms: Replica, Duplicate, Descendants, Clone, Imitation

Example: My lecturer holds several advanced degrees and is the embodiment of the ideal scholar.

Verb forms: Embody, Embodied, Embodied

Related words: phrase:-living embodiment (someone that is a perfect representative or example of a quality, characteristic, etc.)

5. Arbitrage (noun) : (The process of exploiting differences in the price of an asset by simultaneously buying and selling it) (मध्यस्थता का उपयोग कर संपत्ति खरीदना और बेचना)

Synonyms: Intermediation, Stock Jobbing, Arbitrament, Interposition, Brokerage

Antonyms: Noninterference, Laissez-Faire, Isolationism, Free Trade

Example: “Much of the short selling was being done by people who were arbitraging between the bond and the equity market”

Verb forms: Arbitrage, Arbitraged, Arbitraged

Related words: Arbitrage (verb)

6. Prop up (phrasal verb) : (To stop someone or something from falling) (संभालना)

Synonyms: Shore Up, Support, Sustain, Bolster, Uphold, Strengthen

Antonyms: Squelch, Put-Down, Repress, Squash

Example: This new initiative is a desperate attempt to prop up the economy.

Verb forms: Prop up, Propped up, Propped up

7. Herald (verb) : (Be a sign that (something) is about to happen.) (सूचना देना, घोषणा करना)

Synonyms: Harbinger, Precursor, Announce, Augur, Foretell, Messenger, Prognosticate

Antonyms: Receiver Collector Picker

Example: Because he was always up-to-date on the latest information, we referred to our friend as a herald.

Verb forms: Herald, Heralded, Heralded

Related words: Herald (noun)

8. Accumulation (noun) : (Increase or growth by addition especially when continuous or repeated) (संग्रह, संचयीकरण)

Synonyms: Accrual, Aggregation, Accretion, Agglomerate, Stockpile Conglomeration

Antonyms: Dissipation, Plethora, Dissemination, Excess

Example: The sanitation department is on strike causing our garbage to accumulate.

Verb forms: Accumulate, Accumulated, Accumulated

Related words: Accumulate (verb)

9. Gobble (verb) : (To seize upon eagerly) (हडप जाना, डकार जाना)

Synonyms: Usurp, Take Over, Confiscate, Expropriate

Antonyms: Relinquish, Surrender, Abdicate, Renounce, Repudiate

Example: An entire industry developed around producing low-fat snack foods and consumers have gobbledthem up in hopes of losing weight and improving health.

Verb forms: Gobble, Gobbled, Gobbled

Related words: Gobble (noun)