“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

UPDATE YOUR VOCABULARY – 423

1. BAWDINESS (NOUN): (अश्लीलता): dirtiness 
Synonyms: profaneness, filthiness 
Antonyms: decency, sophistication 
Example Sentence: 
There was a comedy with just a right sprinkling of bawdiness. 
2. GEHENNA (NOUN): (कष्ट): place of the condemned; bad situation 
Synonyms: misery, nightmare 
Antonyms: heaven, bliss 
Example Sentence: 
The survivors of the wreck face a different kind of gehenna. 
3. INCURSION (NOUN): (आकस्मिक हमला): attack 
Synonyms: irruption, intrusion 
Antonyms: retreat, withdrawal 
Example Sentence: 
The US officials urged Iran to end the incursion. 
4. SOCIABLE (ADJECTIVE): (मिलनसार): familiar 
Synonyms: convivial, gregarious 
Antonyms: aloof, unsociable 
Example Sentence: 
I’m a lot more sociable with everybody. 
5. LICENTIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (अनैतिक): libertine 
Synonyms: debauched, salacious 
Antonyms: moral, controlled 
Example Sentence: 
Aviraj is licentious and has no regard for the morality of law. 
6. DISBURSE (VERB): (व्यय करना): spend 
Synonyms: dispense, spend 
Antonyms: hold, keep 
Example Sentence: 
$47 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed. 
7. RAZZ (VERB): (चिढाना): ridicule 
Synonyms: jest, joke 
Antonyms: respect, honour 
Example Sentence: 
He cracked a joke to razz other players. 
8. SUASIVE (ADJECTIVE): (समझाने-बुझाने वाला): effective 
Synonyms: compelling, convincing 
Antonyms: ineffective, invalid 
Example Sentence: 
Ministers of religion as well as physicians have always wielded the authority of suasive powers. 
 
9. POSTULATE (VERB): (स्वयं सिद्ध मान लेना): to assume to be true or existent 
Synonyms: posit, guess 
Antonyms: reject, deny 
 
Example Sentence: 
Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct. 
10. PAUSATION (NOUN): (स्र्कावट): break, pause 
Synonyms: hiatus, interruption 
Antonyms: continuation, closure 
Example Sentence: 
You have to finish the task without pausations. 

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