Consistency and hard work are necessary for anyone to improve their skills. It is the same if you want to improve your communication skills and word power.
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.
Heinous (Adjective)
Meaning: (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked
Example: Her angelic appearance and heinous crimes have made her an object of morbid public fascination.
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Hiatus (Noun)
Meaning: a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity
Example: A welcome hiatus in proceedings gives me a chance to check my emails.
Histrionic (Noun)
Meaning: melodramatic behaviour designed to attract attention/ dramatic performances; the theatre
Example: He loved the theatre and everything which savoured of histrionics
Hodgepodge (Noun)
Meaning: a confused mixture; a hotchpotch
Example: Rob’s living room was a hodgepodge of modern furniture and antiques
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Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- By now, Anna was accustomed to her mother’s ______________. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Hodgepodge, Histrionics)
- The first album they recorded after a five-year____________. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Hiatus, Histrionic)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Hodgepodge?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Heinous?
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Watch out for this space for your weekly update on improving word power.
(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
