Today’s Word from The Hindu
1. Acrimonious
•Meaning: Marked by strong resentment or cynicism
•Synonym: belligerent, caustic, trenchant
•Antonym: pleasant, helping, mild
•Sentence:The answers which he received from Versailles were cold and acrimonious.
2. Miffed
•Meaning: Aroused to impatience or anger
•Synonym: resentful, muffed, vexed
•Antonym: happy, pleased
•Sentence:His behaviour really miffed me
3. Budge
•Meaning: Move very slightly
•Synonym: sway, convince, propel
•Antonym: dissuade, suppress, prevent
•Sentence:He budged in his seat
4. Cogent
•Meaning: Powerfully persuasive
•Synonym: compelling, momentous, valid
•Antonym: ineffective, impotent, unimportant
•Sentence:The Master was unimpeachable; His terse, cogent assertions were unanswerable.
5. Cohorts
•Meaning: A company of companions or supporters; A band of warriors
•Synonym: comrade, legion, satellite
•Antonym: opponent, antagonist, foe
•Sentence:The fatally faulty psychology of the Hun and cohorts misled him as usual.
6. Waning
•Meaning: A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent
•Synonym: lessening, decrescendo, ebbing
•Antonym: waxing
•Sentence:The waning of his enthusiasm was obvious
7. Plenum
•Meaning: A meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present
•Synonym: breadth, surfeit, swelling
•Antonym: lack, scarcity, void
•Sentence:The plenum will vote on all tax increases
8. Furore
•Meaning: An interest followed with exaggerated zeal
•Synonym: commotion, bedlam, craze
•Antonym: docility, nippiness, frigidity
•Sentence:He always follows the latest furores
9. Epithets
•Meaning: A defamatory or abusive word or phrase
•Synonym: appellation, designation, sobriquet
•Antonym: accolade, commendation
•Sentence:In both his letters he uses it as an epithet for diverse things.
10. Tandem
•Meaning: An arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another
•Synonym: velocipede, team, buggy
•Antonym:velocipede, Two-wheeler
•Sentence:Riding horses down the path in tandem
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