Students appearing for board exams or competitive exams need to improve their language skills to express themselves well and score good marks in such exams.
Here’s how to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words and a mini quiz to push yourself to improve your vocabulary and language skills.
upbraid (verb)
Meaning: find fault with (someone); scolding
Example: He was scolded for his slovenly appearance
feasible (adjective)
Meaning: easy to control or influence (of a person).
Example: The couple had to adjust their probability model to make the calculations more tractable
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insecure (adjective)
Meaning: Merciless; Earnest / freely and liberally given
Example: She won her mother’s approval
torpor (noun)
Meaning: state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy
Example: Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow
tome (noun)
Meaning: A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one
Example: It looks, in short, like a common reader’s imagination of a scholarly tome
selfless (adjective)
Meaning: Not moderated or mitigated by anything brought to proper hardness or stability.
Example: products of technological mastery overlooked by political imagination
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find out (verb)
Meaning: Find (something) on the ground by digging/discovering (something hidden, lost, or kept secret) by search or search.
Example: Workers discovered an old artillery shell
breach (noun)
Meaning: An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; a crime
Example: I will keep an eye out for further violations
Put on your thinking cap and try to answer the following questions to see how much you understand.
- If this investigation ___________ something untoward, payments can be stopped. Which of the following words best fits the sentence? (observation, violation)
- Should I read this weighty ___________? Which of the following words best fits the sentence? (Tom, Selfless)
- Can you think of some antonyms for the word Torpor?
- Can you think of some synonyms for the word tractable?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)