Students appearing for board exams or competitive exams need to improve their language skills in order to express themselves better and score well in such exams.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words for the day and a small quiz to push yourself to improve your word power and language skills.
Upbraid (Verb)
Meaning: find fault with (someone); scold
Example: He was upbraided for his slovenly appearance
Tractable (Adjective)
Meaning: (of a person) easy to control or influence
Example: The pair had to adjust their probabilistic model to make the calculations more tractable
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Unsparing (Adjective)
Meaning: merciless; severe/ given freely and generously
Example: She had won her mother’s unsparing approval
Torpor (Noun)
Meaning: a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy
Example: Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow
Tome (Noun)
Meaning: a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
Example: It looks, in short, like a general reader’s fantasy of a scholarly tome
Untempered (Adjective)
Meaning: not moderated or lessened by anything/ (of a material) not brought to the proper hardness or consistency
Example: The products of a technological mastery untempered by political imagination
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Unearth (Verb)
Meaning: find (something) in the ground by digging/ discover (something hidden, lost, or kept secret) by investigation or searching
Example: Workmen unearthed an ancient artillery shell
Transgression (Noun)
Meaning: an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence.
Example: I’ll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions
Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- If this investigation should _______________ anything untoward, payments could be stopped. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Unearth, Transgression)
- Must I read this weighty ___________? Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? ( Tome, Untempered)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Torpor?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Tractable?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
