English Vocab 45 By Anoop Verma Sir

1. Plethora (noun): A large or excessive amount of something/ an excess of (अधिकता/प्रचुरता)  

Synonyms: Overabundance, Plenty, Profusion, Surfeit, Glut.

Antonyms: Lack, Need, Scarcity, Want, Few, Little, Rarity.

Example: You can find a plethora of books on the subject of creating video games.

Related words:

Plethoric (adjective) – प्रचुर

2. Allegiance (noun): Loyalty or commitment to a superior or to a group or cause. (निष्ठा/वफादारी)   

Synonyms: Loyalty, Faithfulness, Fidelity, Obedience, Adherence, Devotion.

Antonyms: Disloyalty, Disobedience, Faithlessness, Inconstancy, Treachery, Enmity.

Example: Max’s feelings of allegiance will always be with his country, because he was born there.

Related words:

Allegiant (adjective) - Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, a cause, or a duty /निष्ठावान

3. Garish (adjective): Obtrusively bright and showy/ something that is elaborate, showy, striking and in bad taste. (दिखावटी)

Synonyms: Gaudy, Lurid, Showy, Ostentatious.

Antonyms: Normal, Simple, Modest, Drab.

Example: Rappers are known for wearing garish accessories like giant gold chains.

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Garishly (adverb) - दिखावटी ढंग से

Garishness (noun) – दिखावटी पन

4. Raucous (adjective): Disagreeably harsh or strident/ boisterously disorderly.  (गम्भीर/कर्कश)  

Synonyms: Discordant, Strident, Harsh, Dissonant, Squawky.

Antonyms: Mild, Soft, Calm, Quiet.

Example: Although Mitchell never had a dollar to buy a drink, he was always the most raucous person at the bar.

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Raucously (adverb) - कर्कशतापूर्वक

Raucousness (noun) - उग्रता

5. Bode (verb): Be a portent of a particular outcome.  (संकेत करना)

Synonyms: Indicate, Forecast, Augur, Presage, Portend, Foretell, Prophesy, Predict.

Example: The opening of the car plant will bode well for the town’s economic situation.

Verb forms: bode, boded, boded.

Related words:

Bodement (noun) - भविष्य कथन

6. Frivolous (adjective): Not having any serious purpose or value/ of no real worth. (तुच्छ)  

Synonyms: Flippant, Silly, Facetious, Inane, Fatuous.

Antonyms: Intelligent, Sensible, Wise, Mature, Serious, Solemn.

Example: My mother often spends her monthly pension on frivolous purchases she never uses.

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Frivolously (adverb) - उपयोगशून्यतापूर्वक

Frivolousness (noun) – व्यर्थता

7. Newfangled (adjective): Of the newest style or kind/ attracted to novelty/ recently invented or developed and hard to understand/ of the newest style. (नवीन ढंग का)

Synonyms: New, Latest, Modern, Novel, Advanced, Neoteric.

Antonyms: Old, Old-Fashioned, Outmoded, Archaic.

Example: Newfangled gadgets are loved by every contemporary person.

Related words:

Newfangledness (noun) – नयापन

8. Rankle (verb): To cause bitterness or irritation/ cause continuing annoyance or resentment. (परेशान करना)  

Synonyms: Bother, Embitter, Exasperate, Gall, Harass.

Antonyms: Calm, Comfort, Delight, Pacify, Placate, Please.

Example: The fact the plane is leaving two hours late is certainly going to rankle the passengers.

 

Verb forms: Rankle, Rankled, Rankled.

9. Notorious (adjective): Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. (कुख्यात)   

Synonyms: Infamous, Of Ill Repute, With A Bad Reputation/Name, Ill-Famed.

Antonyms: Honorable, Reputable, Respectable.

Example: Many tourists avoid the area because it is notorious for crime.

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Notoriously (adverb): used to emphasize that a quality or fact, typically a bad one, is well known. (कुख्यात रूप से)  

10. Titular (adjective): Holding or constituting a purely formal position or title without any real authority. (नाम मात्र के)

Synonyms: Nominal, In Title/Name Only, Formal, Official, Ceremonial.

Antonyms: Actual, Real.

Example: Tibetan Buddhists are relatively small in number, but highly visible because their titular head is His Holiness the Dalai Lama.