Hard work and strong will can help students go a long way in achieving their goals. It is important for candidates to work on their word skills to help them score better in competitive 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.
Irksome (Adjective)
Meaning: irritating; annoying
Example: Clearly, this is an irksome fact to someone whose ambitions extend beyond maximising profit
Irresolute (Adjective)
Meaning: showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain
Example: After previous outrages we had been irresolute and appeared unwilling to defend ourselves
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Interminable (Adjective)
Meaning: endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically)
Example: There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards
Impending (Adjective)
Meaning: (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) about to happen; forthcoming
Example: And that is before some impending high-profile closures cause even bigger problems
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Put your thinking cap on and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have grasped.
- We notice that we have now drawn attention to the album’s ___________ arrival. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Impending, Interminable)
- Having navigated those hurdles we then have the _____________ drive South. Which of the following words fits best in the sentence? (Interminable, Irresolute)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Interminable?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word Irresolute?
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Watch out for this space for your weekly update on improving word power.
(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)