"Daily Vocabulary Dose : Enhance Your English Word Power" 🗒🗒🗒 07 May 2025 (Bank, ssc exam)

 

"While studying English, we often encounter new words. To enhance our vocabulary, we note these words and their meanings. This post aims to share such words along with their meanings, synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples."  this word help us to enhance our English language preparation. whenever we face new word we make some foot note to help us add this word in our vocab. so catching this point we start  to small efforts to post vocab footnote here.

In this footnote we post some words and related information like parts of speech of word, meaning, use in sentence and at the end of this word list we make one passage using this word to help you remember meaning of this word.

1. Explosions

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A violent burst, often with a loud noise, causing destruction.
Synonyms: Blast, Detonation, Eruption
Antonyms: Implosion, Silence, Calm
Use in Sentence: His cooking causes more explosions than a chemistry lab — even the toaster fears him.

2. Escalatory

Parts of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Causing or likely to cause an increase in intensity or seriousness, especially in conflict.
Synonyms: Intensifying, Aggravating, Heightening
Antonyms: Calming, De-escalating, Easing
Use in Sentence: Her escalatory comments turned a minor disagreement into a full-blown family summit.

3. Apparatus

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A set of materials or equipment designed for a specific function.
Synonyms: Equipment, Gear, Machinery
Antonyms: Simplicity, Disorganization, Chaos
Use in Sentence: He brought an entire gym's worth of apparatus just to lift a single dumbbell

4. Misanthrope

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A person who dislikes or distrusts humankind.
Synonyms: Cynic, Recluse, Hermit
Antonyms: Humanitarian, Optimist, Philanthropist
Use in Sentence: As a proud misanthrope, he only attends meetings if there's a mute button.

5. Intransigent

Parts of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Unwilling to change one's views or to agree about something.
Synonyms: Stubborn, Unyielding, Adamant
Antonyms: Flexible, Agreeable, Compliant
Use in Sentence: She remained intransigent on her pizza toppings — pineapple or nothing.

6. Forage

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To search widely for food or provisions.
Synonyms: Scavenge, Hunt, Rummage
Antonyms: Hoard, Store, Preserve
Use in Sentence: At midnight, he began to forage in the fridge like a raccoon in a hoodie.

7. Sagacious

Parts of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment.
Synonyms: Wise, Insightful, Prudent
Antonyms: Foolish, Ignorant, Unwise
Use in Sentence: His sagacious advice? “Never trust a cat near a sandwich.”

8. Congeal

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To become semi-solid, especially on cooling.
Synonyms: Clot, Solidify, Coagulate
Antonyms: Melt, Liquefy, Dissolve
Use in Sentence: The leftover soup had congealed into something that could star in a horror film.

9. Epithet

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A descriptive phrase expressing a quality or attribute of the person or thing mentioned; often used as an insult.
Synonyms: Nickname, Label, Insult
Antonyms: Compliment, Praise, Flattery
Use in Sentence: He earned the epithet “The Human Tornado” after breaking three chairs in one day.

10. Petrify

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To paralyze with fear, or to turn into stone.
Synonyms: Terrify, Immobilize, Harden
Antonyms: Comfort, Soften, Soothe
Use in Sentence: The spider didn’t bite him, but it did petrify him enough to climb the fridge.

11. Attune

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To bring into harmony or agreement.
Synonyms: Adapt, Adjust, Harmonize
Antonyms: Mismatch, Disorient, Ignore
Use in Sentence: He tried to attune his mind to productivity but ended up attuned to nap mode.

12. Amortize

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To gradually reduce or pay off a debt over time.
Synonyms: Pay off, Settle, Liquidate
Antonyms: Borrow, Accrue, Accumulate
Use in Sentence: He planned to amortize his loan, but first, he bought another coffee machine.

13. Flimsy

Parts of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Lacking strength or substance; easily damaged.
Synonyms: Weak, Fragile, Rickety
Antonyms: Sturdy, Strong, Solid
Use in Sentence: His excuse was as flimsy as the paper he scribbled it on.

14. Sawdust

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Tiny particles of wood produced by cutting or grinding.
Synonyms: Wood shavings, Chips, Powder
Antonyms: Planks, Logs, Lumber
Use in Sentence: He claimed it was cereal, but it tasted suspiciously like sawdust.

15. Dislodge

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To remove or force out from a position.
Synonyms: Remove, Eject, Detach
Antonyms: Secure, Fix, Attach
Use in Sentence: It took three friends to dislodge him from the couch during a movie marathon.

16. Truce

Parts of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period.
Synonyms: Ceasefire, Armistice, Peace
Antonyms: Conflict, War, Hostility
Use in Sentence: After hours of sibling war, they called a truce — mostly because dinner arrived.

17. Succor

Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb
Meaning: Assistance and support in times of hardship.
Synonyms: Aid, Help, Relief
Antonyms: Neglect, Harm, Oppression
Use in Sentence: He rushed to succor his friend — mainly because the Wi-Fi was down.

18. Condense

Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To make something more compact or concise.
Synonyms: Compress, Shorten, Concentrate
Antonyms: Expand, Lengthen, Enlarge
Use in Sentence: He tried to condense his essay into 500 words but ended up with 499 apologies.

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