Most Important Vocabulary Part - X

1.    Desultory (अनियमित, असंगत)

Meaning: Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.

Example : The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.

2.    Debacle

Meaning:  debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.

Example: After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again.

3.    Diffident (संकोची, शर्मीला)

Meaning: Someone who is diffident is rather shy and does not enjoy talking about themselves or being notices by other people.

Example : Helen was diffident and reserved.

4.    Entice (फुसलाना, बहकाना)

Meaning:  To entice someone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.

Example : Retailers have tried almost everything to entice shoppers through their doors.

5.    Exacerbate (ख़राब करना)

Meaning: If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse.

Example : Long standing poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.

6.    Word: Meagre (अल्प, तुच्छ)

Meaning: If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meager, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.

Example: The bank’s staff were already angered by a meager 3.1% pay rise.

7.    Word: Morbid

Meaning: If you describe a person or their interest in something as morbid, you mean that they are very interested in unpleasant things, especially death, and you think this is strange.

Example: Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.

8.    Word : Obliterate (मिटाना , काटना)

Meaning: If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely.

Example: Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several time over.

9.    Word: Perennial (वर्ष-भर रहनेवाला, सार्वकालिक)

Meaning: You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time; used especially to describe problems or difficulties.

Example: the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness.

10.  Word: Patronize (संरक्षण करना)

Meaning: If someone patronizes you, they speak or behave towards you in a way which seems friendly, but which shows that they think they are superior to you in some way.

Example: Don’t you patronize me!

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