Vocabulary List 01

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1. Stance - অব ান
Definition: Your stance is your posture or the way

you stand. Figuratively, if you take a stance against
bullying, you are standing against it.
Synonyms: position, posture
Example 1: Cain drew his sword, a crooked grin on

his face as he crouched in a defensive stance in the
center of the ring.
Example 2: Every passerby, every motorcar, every

alteration in stance caught their attention and was
commented on.
2. Malice - িবে ষ, শ তা, িহংসা, ষ ইত ািদ
Definition: Malice is the intention to cause harm. If

someone feels malice toward you, look out! They've
got bad intentions.
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Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness,

venom
Example 1: Says you,” Pumblechook went on,

“‘Joseph, I have seen that man, and that man bears
you no malice and bears me no malice.
Example 2: When the leaders were older than me I

could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they
had transcended rage and malice and the need to
be loved.
3. Unruly - অবাধ , শাসনাতীত
Definition: Unruly means lacking in restraint or not

submitting to authority. Spitballs, shouting kids, a
shouting teacher — these are all signs of an unruly
classroom. Often, one unruly student is all it takes.
Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable
Example 1: In the calm stillness I saw him open his

eyes, his hand came to my face, tender and
searching, wiping away the unruly tears.

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Example 2: He whipped off his hat, revealing a

head of unruly hair.
4. Moot - তকিবতক করা
Definition: When a point is moot, it's too trivial to

think about. If your basketball team loses by 40
points, the bad call by the official in the first quarter
is moot: it isn't important.
Synonyms: irrelevant
Example 1: The question of bridesmaids’ dresses

became moot when the engagement was broken.
noisome.
Example 2: Within two weeks, the original intent of

the engineer who walked away from her, whatever it
might have been, was moot.
5. Spate - জল ীিত, বন া
Definition: A spate is a large number. If a spate of

new coffee shops open in your neighborhood, it’ll be
easy for you to stay wide awake. You’ll have easy

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access to plenty of caffeine.
Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge
Example 1: Soon she stood on a great stone bridge

that spanned the river, which was in spate.
Example 2: Rajesh had witnessed those rioting

mobs in their tidal spate that summer.
6. Exhort - উৎসািহত করা, েনািদত করা
Definition: French roots for the word exhort mean

"thoroughly encourage," so to exhort is
to fill up with encouragement! "When he heard the
crowd exhort him with stomping and cheering, he
knew that he could finish the marathon.
Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on
Example 1: There’s nothing to do but try to ignore

the nasty stuff soaking my foot and, as Ted exhorts
us, work through it.
Example 2: Our struggle is your struggle, exhorted

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student leaders.
7. Evince - কিরয়া দখান
Definition: The verb evince means to show or

express clearly or to make plain. Evidence can
evince the innocence of the accused, and tears can
evince the grief of mourning.
Synonyms: express, show
Example: I have gone to each officer of that

Regiment demanding that they send a retributive
expedition, but none evinces the slightest interest in
the undertaking..
Example 2: “This particular dragon has already

evinced a fondness for roast pork. And roast dwarf
is twice as tasty.”.
8. Daunt- ভয় দখােনা, দমােনা
Definition: Daunt means to frighten or scare off.

The Cowardly Lion's efforts to daunt Dorothy, the
Scarecrow, and the Tin Man were less than

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successful.
Synonyms : dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall,

scare, scare away, scare off
Example 1: The state troopers were huge and

daunting in their gray uniforms.
Example 2: The mountains seemed to be trying

with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them
back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow
them away into the darkness behind
9. Lament - কা াকা ট, িবলাপ
Definition: If you are really upset or sorry about

something, you might lament it. A lament is full of
regret and grief.
Synonyms: paint,wail,lamentation
Example 1: It was the lament sung at a funeral—a

death song.
Example 2: “For the first time since moving to

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Seattle, we had money problems,” she laments.
10. Naive - সরল, সাধািসেধ
Definition: No one likes being called naive, since it

means you lack sophistication or street smarts.
Synonyms: naif,credulous
Example 1: Were those naive villagers collecting

every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it
home, poisoning themselves on most of the species,
and nourishing themselves from only a few species?
Example 2: “Maybe I was naive,” he said in a

halting voice freighted with emotion.
11. Jargon - অপভাষা, অথহীন ভাষা
Definition: Jargon usually means the specialized

language used by people in the same work or
profession. Internet advertising jargon includes the
terms "click throughs" and "page views."
Synonyms: argot, cant

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Example 1: As writers, then, we should try to get

into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy
it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private
abstractions
Example 2: There’s one that everyone is at least

vaguely aware of: the use of jargon, abbreviations,
and technical vocabulary.
12. Sullen - অ কার , িতকূল
Definition: A bad-tempered or gloomy person is

sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps.
Synonyms: dark, dour,glum
Example 1: It was sullen with helpless fury at all the

bad luck that had befallen them lately.
Example 2: His rounded helm gleamed a sullen red,

and a pale pink cloak streamed from his
shoulders.ion and was commented on.

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13. Elated - উ ািসত, গিবত
Definition: If you're elated you aren't just happy —

you're over the moon, absolutely excited, and
bursting with pride. Like the way you feel after
winning a scholarship to your first-choice college or
mastering a back handspring.
Synonyms: giddy, exultant, jubilant
Example 1: I accept it, and his familiar face appears

as if he’s in the room with me, his expression elated.
Example 2: Whatever he saw caused him to be

strangely elated.
14. Fickle - চ ল
Definition: People who are fickle change their

minds so much you can't rely on them. If your best
friend suddenly decides that she doesn't like you
one week, and then the next week she wants to
hang out again, she's being fickle.
Synonyms: erratic, quicksilver

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Example 1: A fickle breeze suddenly kicked up

sand around us.
Example 2: For, besides what has been said,

people are fickle by nature: it is easy to convince
them of something, but difficult to hold them in that
conviction.
15. Snub - িতর ার
Definition: To snub is to ignore or refuse to

acknowledge someone. If you want to snub your
former best friend, you can refuse to even look at
her when you pass in the hallway.
Synonyms: cut, ignore ,disregard
Example 1: Since this part of our property adjoined

the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law,
my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high
wall lest it be considered a snub.
Example 2: There was none, only a single horse at

the snubbing post.

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16. Opine - মত কাশ করা
Definition: The verb opine is used when someone

speaks up and expresses an opinion. You might
opine that dogs are highly preferable to cats.
Synonyms: animadvert, sound off, speak out
Example 1: When Ptolemy I started to show

evidence of favoring succession to one of his
younger sons, the future Ptolemy II Philadelphus,
Demetrius opined in favor of the interests of
Eurydice, the old king’s first wife.
Example 2: Anecdotes can be told, advice given,

opinions opined, all with a lot fewer first-person
pronouns than you think.
17. Dearth - অভাব, ু দা, দুিভ
Definition: If there is a dearth of something, there is

not enough of it. A dearth of cupcakes is
unfortunate, but a dearth of nutritious food is a
serious problem.

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Synonyms: paucity, scarcity
Example 1: Every day they grow more convinced

that the dearth of bad news about Cuba is a
conspiracy by the leftist media to keep international
support for El Lider strong.
Example 2: Maybe not a miraculous, but certainly a

rather curious, story lay behind Onofre’s dearth of
an appendage.
18. Legacy - উ রািধকার
Definition: Use the word, legacy, for something

handed down from one generation to the next. A
retiring company president might leave a legacy of
honesty and integrity.
Synonyms: bequest, heritage
Example 1: The legacy of racial profiling carries

many of the same complications.
Example 2: Ptolemy passed this legacy down

through the ages.

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19. Voiced - িনত
Definition: produced with vibration of the vocal

cords
Synonyms: soft, sonart
Example 1: Percy voiced the question that she was

too scared to ask.
Example 2: One complaint I voiced to the

International Red Cross concerned the arbitrary way
we were charged by the warders.
20. Serene - শা
Definition: Choose the adjective serene to describe

someone who is calm and untroubled. If you tell
someone horrible news and they remain serene,
you might wonder if they heard you!
Synonyms: calm, tranquil
Example 1: Like Kelvin, his productive work was far

behind him, but his declining years were notably

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less serene.
Example 2: The catastrophe in the sky was distant,

slow, even serene.
21. Avid - আ হী, লাভী
Definition: Avid usually means very eager or

enthusiastic. If you're an avid reader, it means you
read as much as you can, whenever you can.
Synonyms: zealous, keen, enthusiastic, greedy
Example 1: It may interest you to know that one of

your avid readers was Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen.
Example 2: In this sense, the written word, along

with its avid promoters, the Sophists, represented a
frightening challenge to the old order.
22. Smug - দৃ কট ভােব আ তৃ
Definition: A smug person is self-satisfied. You can

usually recognize someone who is pleased with
himself by his smug little smile and self-righteous

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remarks.
Synonyms: self-satisfied, contented
Example 1: I was more than a little smug, trundling

down the hill, helping to maneuver the weight of a
full-grown buck on the travois we’d strapped
together out of branches and sinew
Example 2: The minder is idling on the steps of his

trailer, a smug smile on his face.
23. Putt- গেত ফলার জন মৃদ ু ভােব আঘাত করা
Definition:To putt is to hit a golf ball softly with a

club, usually when you're close to the hole. Golfers
use a special club called a putter when they're ready
to putt.
Synonyms: a batter
Example 1: Even putting aside such concerns,

though, recent research indicates that the basic
assumptions upon which drug war defenses
typically rest are simply wrong.

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Example 2: Although some of the pieces are

missing, I love putting the puzzle together and
slowly seeing a whole world appear—a big, swirly
river surrounded by trees and flowers.
24. Diva - িক রক গায়ীকা
Definition: Technically, a diva is a big-time female

opera star. Beverly Sills and Maria Callas were two
of the world's most renowned divas. More
commonly, though, we call anyone who thinks
they're more fabulous than everyone else a diva.
Synonyms: prima,donna
Example 1: Like, if Taylor’s being a diva at a

rehearsal, we don’t even have to look at each other.
Example 2: As he begins to speak to the cast,

Britney Harron, a diva since he first encountered her
as a freshman, is stretched out on one of the
couches, her feet up, her eyes half open.

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25. Bungle - িবশৃ লা
Definition: Saying the wrong thing at the wrong

time, dropping something, tripping and falling: these
are some classic bungles — and they’re always
embarrassing.
Synonyms: conceive of, blow,bodge
Example 1: In a way this was Finny’s view, except

that naturally he saw it comically, as a huge and
intensely practical joke, played by fat and foolish old
men bungling away behind the scenes.
Example 2: “Didn’t you say that the whole affair

had been bungled, and that you should have been
given a free rein from the first?”
26. Defy - অ ীকার করা, ধা করা
Definition: To defy is to openly refuse to do

something. You can defy the no-costumes-in-class
rule if you wear your fairy wings to school, but just
don’t try to defy the laws of gravity unless you can
actually fly.

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Synonyms:hold, hold up, withstand
Example 1: In the distance he heard a dip in the

sound of the singing, some startled voices breaking
the flow, but then the song rose again, defying the
darkness.
Example 2: It was Antigone who symbolized our

struggle; she was, in her own way, a freedom fighter,
for she defied the law on the grounds that it was
unjust.
27. Locale - ঘটনা ল , ান
Definition: A locale is the specific place where

something happens. If you dream of a trip to some
tropical locale, Hawaii, Belize, and Costa Rica might
all be on your wish list.
Synonyms: locus, venue
Example 1: Even though the family had not decided

where their family vacation spot would be held this
year, the mother wanted a tropical locale.

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Example 2: Still working on his man, right in the old

jungle locale, in dives that you wouldn’t believe
existed, the Muslim often collects audiences of a
dozen junkies.
28. Elicit - কাশ করা, টািনয়া বািহর করা
Definition: When you elicit, you're bringing out a

response of some sort. A good comedian elicits a lot
of laughs.
Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke
Example 1: Further inquiries elicited suspicion from

male acquaintances, who wondered at my interest
in such a person.
Example 2: Somehow, this remark did not elicit the

dramatic response I expected.
29. Meager - সামান , অ
Definition: Meager means small and often applies

to portions. Your mother may only allow you a
meager serving of chocolate cake, and you may

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need to eat a meager serving of veggies in order to

deserve that dessert.
Synonyms: stingy, scarce, meagerly
Example 1: Ma sighed a great deal, an impatient

noise usually accompanied with a frown at their
rough clothes, rundown house, or meager food.
Example 2: Whatever was her own in the house,

everything which she had acquired aside from her
husband’s bounty, she caused to be transported to
the other house, supplying simple and meager
deficiencies from her own resources.
30. Censor - সমােলাচক
Definition: A censor takes out things that are

objectionable or inappropriate, like the censors at
the TV networks bleeping out all the bad words in a
show.
Synonyms: examiner, editor
Example 1: We were soon able to supplement

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these papers with copies of the Star, the Rand Daily

Mail, and the Sunday Times, but these papers were
even more heavily censored.
Example 2: A request for a book with the word red

in the title, even if it was Little Red Riding Hood,
would be rejected by the censors.
31. Malady - অসু তা, ব ািধ
Definition: A malady is an illness, like a malady that

keeps you home, sick in bed for days, or something
that causes you to have trouble or to suffer, like jet
lag — a malady that affects travelers.
Synonyms: illness, sickness, affliction
Example 1: Supplicants approach him and put their

hands on his veiny arms and bony shoulders,
seeking healing from maladies real or imagined.
Example 2: Some childhood malady had made all

his hair fall out.

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32. Waver - নড়বেড়, দালায়মান হওয়া
Definition: To waver is to move back and forth, like

when you waver, one minute thinking you'll stay
home, planning to go meet your friends the next,
until you finally make your decision.
Synonyms: hesitate, waffle, falter
Example 1: For nine years victory wavered, now to

this side, now to that
Example 2: Then he pointed to the top of the fire,

where the snapping yellow flames dissolved into an
invisible shimmery heat that made the desert
beyond seem to waver, like a mirage.
33. Accede - ীকার করা, রাজী হওয়া
Definition: If you accede, it means you agree with

someone or give in to his or her wish. The word is
often used in a political context — the Queen
acceded to the Prince's demands for more territory,
a larger army, and funnier jesters.

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Synonyms: bow, defer, submit
Example 1: Fie continued to provide Segre with

metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request
to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from
Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear
reactions.
Example 2: Having acceded to her husband’s

indulgent discipline throughout Ernest’s childhood
and adolescence, Gunda now put her foot down,
insisting that he attend St. Olaf College, a cloistered
Lutheran institution in frigid Northfield, Minnesota.
34. Ornate -অলঙ্কৃত, স ত

Synonyms: position, posture, flowery
Example 1: The church has an ornate black and

white marbled interior.

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Example 2: The style is ornate and highly

decorative.
35. Demure - গ ীর, সংযম

Synonyms: shy, modest, coy
Example 1: Ms. Connors did not win a lacrosse

scholarship by being demure or hesitant.
Example 2: Each of them wore the remains of a

black cap and ages ago they had stood in two
demure rows and their voices had been the song of
angels.
36. Lowly - িন পদ , িন ’, অন সর
Definition: Lowly things aren't considered to be

important or impressive. Your lowly position on a
sports team might make you best suited to carry all
of the players' equipment.

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Synonyms: humble, low, modest
Example 1: When you hardly had anything, even a

lowly rubber band could fill you with feelings.
Example 2: I was also about to start middle school,

where I would be a lowly sixth grade.
37. Fauna - াণীজগৎ
Definition: When you go on a nature walk in a

school setting, your teacher might tell you to
observe the flora and fauna in the woods. Flora is
plant life; fauna refers to animals.
Synonyms: wildlife, zoology
Example 1: Thus, New Guineans have had ample

opportunity to get to know their local flora and fauna.
Example 2: The label seems to have unpleasant

connotations, such as that human creativity counts
for nothing, or that we humans are passive robots
helplessly programmed by climate, fauna, and flora.

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38. Muted - িনশশ , শ হীন, কালাহল্মু
Definition: Something muted has a softened tone or

quieted sound. When you try to listen through the
wall at what someone is saying, it's really muted and
mumbly, even if you put a glass to your ear.
Synonyms: soft, quiet
Example 1: He paints passionately, with huge,

violent sweeps, squinting at the soft, muted colors in
the sky.
Example 2: Thomas took it all in with a distant and

muted wonder—he was far past being surprised or
overcome by anything ever again.
39. Rebuke - তী িতর ার
Definition: If you receive a rebuke, it means that

you have been reprimanded, or scolded. You're sure
to get a rebuke if you forget to do your math
homework four days in a row.
Synonyms: reproof, reprimand

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Example 1: The Justice Department publicly

rebuked him over a leaked memorandum.
Example 2: That was not the only rebuke I received

on account of my trespasses against the reverend.
40. Errant - ভল/ মণরত/ অসভ / মনশীল

(বাক েভেদ িবিভ অথ হেত পাের)
Definition: Something or someone described as

errant has gone astray or done wrong by going in an
unexpected direction. An errant bird might end up in
northern Canada while his friends fly to southern
Mexico for the winter.
Synonyms: fallible, uncontrolled
Example 1: The distance between the men and the

errant robot was being cut down momentarily—more
by the efforts of Speedy than the slow plodding of
the fifty-year-old antique mounts of Donovan and
Powell.
Example 2: “Penny for your thoughts?” she asked,

brushing at an errant strand of hair.

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41. Anemic - র শূণ তা
Definition: Sometimes you can tell just from looking

at someone's pale face and lips that they're anemic.
If you're anemic, your body has a shortage of
healthy red blood cells.
Synonyms: weak, anemic
Example 1: He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox,

pneumonia three or four more times, started
coughing blood when he was six, was anemic,
drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and
miserable, and—everybody thought— dying.
Example 2: I’m no Spartan and hold up an anemic

wrist to prove it.
42. Dupe - তািরত ব া
Definition: A dupe is a furry, ceremonial hat worn

during ancient pagan rituals...or not. Dupe actually
means “trick or deceive.” We’re sorry we tried to
dupe you into believing the wrong definition.

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Synonyms: swindle, befool, cod, fool
Example 1: The Helena Independent called Rankin

“a dagger in the hands of the German
propagandists, a dupe of the Kaiser...a crying
schoolgirl,” even though a majority of her
constituents opposed the war.
Example 2: The Sea of Flames could have been in

the Paris Museum all along—that simpering
mineralogist and the assistant director laughing as
he slunk away, duped, fooled, inveigled.
43. Peruse - পু ানুপু েপ পরী া করা, পযেব ণ

করা
Definition: Traditionally, peruse has meant to read

or examine something carefully. But informally, it can
have the opposite meaning, to read something
casually and quickly.
Synonyms: examine, see
Example 1: Biff leaned his weight on the counter

and began to peruse the evening newspaper.

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Example 2: Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from

her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her
features.
44. Derive - আহরণ করা
Definition: If you want to talk about something that

comes from something else, but you want to sound
sophisticated and maybe financial or scientific, use
derive, like so: That scent? It's derived from a
solution of roses boiled with toothpicks.
Synonyms: descend, come, gain
Example 1: She derived no benefit from the course

of drugs.
Example 2: Genetics, he called it: the study of

heredity and variation—the word ultimately derived
from the Greek genno, “to give birth.”
45. Lull - ি র করা, শা করা, শিমত করা
Definition: See lull, think "calm." It could be the

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noun form (like "the lull before the storm") or the

verb: one can lull someone by calming them (as in
lulling a baby to sleep with a lullaby).
Synonyms: quiet, calm, tranquilize
Example 1: The regular sound of the engine that

had lulled her to sleep had stopped.
Example 2: Then all at once the wind fell, and a

calm came over all the sea, as though some power
lulled the swell.
46. Futile - িনরথক
Definition: When something fails to deliver a useful

result, you can call it futile. Hopefully all the time
you're spending studying vocabulary won't turn out
to be futile!
Synonyms: ineffectual, useless
Example 1: Few challenges to sentencing

schemes, patterns, or results have been brought
since McCleskey, for the exercise is plainly futile.

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Example 2: “Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight

me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for
the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill
magical blood.”
47. Entail - ফল প ঘটা
Definition: To entail is to involve. A job at a movie

theater might entail sweeping popcorn off the floor,
probably because watching a movie entails eating
popcorn in the dark. It’s a small price to pay!
Synonyms: imply, mean, necessitate
Example 1: When that was found, the solution of

one problem would immediately entail the solution of
all others which belonged to the same series as
itself.
Example 2: The game entailed using a computer

mouse to direct a virtual tank through a battlefield.

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48. Shun - পিরহার করা, এিড়েয় চলা
Definition: If you purposely stay away from

someone, you shun that person. A sensitive baker
may ask why you are shunning her cookies.
Synonyms: expel, eschew
Example 1: But I wasn’t totally shunned and

ignored either.
Example 2: Would I be shunned by the other

shamans?
49. Entice - লু করা, িবপেথ চািলত করা
Definition: Let's say your friend wants to go to the

movies and you don't want to. Your friend might try
to entice you by offering to buy you popcorn and a
soda. Entice means to persuade with promises of
something.
Synonyms: tempt, lure

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Example 1: “Before you go, Antain. Why don’t you

do us a favor, since we cannot entice you to apply
your clever hands to the making of beautiful things,
no matter how many times we ask?”
Example 2: “We can stop at BookBarn on the way

back,” Mom says, as if to entice me.
50. Pique - িবে ষ, শ তা

Synonyms: anger, elicit, arouse
Example 1: The verb pique means to make

someone angry or annoyed. But when something
piques your interest or curiosity, here the verb pique
just means to arouse, stimulate, or excite.
Example 2: It had not been in my plan to listen to

him, but my curiosity was piqued and I straightened
up to give him my attention.

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51. Zealot - ধমা ,অিত গাঁড়া লাক
Definition: The hamburger zealot was so fanatical

about his burgers that he camped outside his
favorite fast-food joint for hours every morning,
waiting for it to open. And he would never put
mustard on them, only ketchup.
Synonyms: partisan, fanatic
Example 1: Religious zealots and religious

dissenters were making noise while members of the
Church of England and Unitarians like the Darwins
also quietly questioned their faith.
Example 2: All men of talent, whether they be men

of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or
aspirants, or despots—provided only they be
sincere—have their sublime moments, when they
subdue and rule.
52. Banish - তািড়য়া দয়া, িনবািসত করা
Definition: To banish is to get rid of. Think very

carefully before you banish someone from your

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group. Someday, you may want that person around

again.
Synonyms: cast out, expel
Example 1: “No one was nearer to Henry than

myself. Will you banish me as well?”
Example 2: He was banished for life.
53. Taxung - ক দায়ক, পীড়াদায়ক

Synonyms: onerous, burdensome
Example 1: The magistrate would forgo taxing

Painter Chen's old hometown village for a year and
Painter Chen would paint the magistrate a dragon.
Example 2: Breakdancing involved extremely taxing

physical work, but it was work that filled me with joy
and purpose.

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54. Lure - লু করা
Definition: To lure is to entice or bait someone. A

lure is used to bait or entice fish to attach
themselves to your hook. "He had a new shiny lure,
which was enough to lure me into going on the
fishing trip."
synonyms: entice, tempt
Example 1: “The Chief God’s purpose in the

creative advance is the evocation of novel
intensities. He is the lure for our feeling.”
Example 2: Then she went to singing a Nigerian

grief song learned from her daddy, who was lured
onto an illegal slave ship in 1848, when he was only
twelve.
55. Inert - জড়, অলস, ম র, িন য়
Definition: Something that's unable to move or

moving without much energy can be described as
inert. Wind up in a body cast and you’ll find yourself
not only itchy, but totally inert.

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Synonyms: unmoving, nonmoving
Example 1: Even then I kept seeing the soldier’s

body tumbling toward the water, splashing down
hard, how inert and heavy it was, how completely
dead.
Example 2: I was inert, still in my school clothes,

lying on top of my sheets, dozing in a transitory
space between asleep and awake.
56. Aloof - একাে , পৃথক
Definition: Someone who's aloof isn't warm and

friendly, instead being distant and reserved. That
emotionally cold and detached fellow who keeps to
himself, drinking espresso and reading French
philosophy, would best be described as aloof.
Synonyms: distant, remote, apart
Example 1: I realized how...professionally aloof his

words were.
Example 2: He seemed aloof from the rest of the

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group, not an actual member of the coalition,

somehow dismissive of it all.
57. Hamper - বাধা
Definition: Anything that hampers slows progress

or makes it difficult to do something. You might think
that the presence of your parents hampers your
ability to look cool.
Synonyms: cramp, halter, hinder
Example 1: She wanted him to help her carry the

heavy boxes and hampers of silver to the chaise.
Example 2: The handsome black washerwoman of

the inn, Lydia, came out carrying a hamper of wet
clothes.
58. Ample - যেথ , পযা ,অজ
Definition: Ample describes an abundance of

something. An ample supply of apple muffins at the
bake sale is a good thing, as is ample legroom in
your new van — but if the vet notices your dog's

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ample waistline, you might have to put Fido on a

diet.
Synonyms: substantial, abundant, full
Example 1: You'll have ample time for questions

later.
Example 2: Here I was doing everything I could to

qualify for the Olympics, but I was missing a large
part of my training that each of my competitors had
ample access to.
59. Melee - হাতাহািত, মারামাির
Definition: A melee is a noisy free-for-all or rowdy

fight — a no holds barred, battle royal, if you will. It's
what pro wrestlers engage in every night, and
shoppers endure at the toy store every holiday
season.
Synonyms: ruckus, battle royal
Example 1: As he approached the melee, a wolf

charged him.

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Example 2: He had won melees before,- the fire

sword frightened the mounts of the other riders, and
nothing frightened Thoros.
60. Spurn - ত াখ ান, পদদিলত করা
Definition: If you reject your mother's offer to buy

you a pair of lederhosen with a snort and eye roll,
you are spurning her generosity. To spurn means to
reject with disdain
Synonyms: kick, trample, tread
Example 1: Contemporary plays dealing realistically

with Negro life were spurned as being controversial.
Example 2: The first I chose was Céline

Varens—another of those steps which make a man
spurn himself when he recalls them.
61. Benign - সদাশয়
Definition: Someone or something that is benign is

gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful: a benign soul
wouldn't hurt a fly.

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Synonyms: kind, pleasant
Example 1: I wash, he dries, and he asks me

benign, avuncular, maddening questions, such as
how do I like Grade Nine.
Example 2: As certainly as he had known that the

doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the
one to wield the sword.
62. Terse - সংি , মসৃণ, বা ল ব জত
Definition: Terse means brief, or using very few

words. If your teacher tells you to make your writing
in your essay style terse and to the point, he's
saying use as few words as you can and be simple
and clear.
Synonyms: crisp, curp
Example 1: We all exchange terse nods then focus

our attention on the temporary stage that is set up
before the Justice Building.
Example 2: When they walked, their stride

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quickened; all the peasant hesitancy of their speech

vanished as their voices became clipped, terse.
63. Feeble - িনে জ, অিত দূবল
Definition: You know how you feel when you can’t

open a jar of pickles? And then grandma walks in
and does it in one shot without even grunting?
That’s called feeling feeble, or lacking strength.
Synonyms: lame, week
Example 1: But eventually I accept that the poison

must have finally worked its way out of my system,
leaving my body wracked and feeble.
Example 2: Now and then the womenfolk called on

him to throw fear into someone, but I knew that he
was feeble and was not frightened of him.
64. Zenith - সুিব ু
Definition: Zenith means the high point — it comes

from astronomy, where it describes the highest point
in an arc traveled by a star or a planet or another

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celestial body. The sun reaches its zenith when it is

as high in the sky as it is going to go on that day.
Synonyms: acme, apex, peak
Example 1: The sun climbed through the sky,

reached its zenith, began to come down.
Example 2: The trees rise straight up to zenith;

there is no horizon.
65. Murky - ঝাপসা, অ
Definition: Something that's murky is dim, gloomy

or hard to see through clearly. Think of the dark fog
around a haunted house or the cloudy, muddy water
in a swamp.
Synonyms: cloudy, muddy
Example 1: I had seen the number on the radio in

Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning
brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his
thoughts.

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Example 2: Those murky, glistening orbs were not

capable of vision, not yet; and there was no
intelligence within the quivering blob, nothing that
craved affection or even attention.
66. Forego - পিরত াগ করা
Definition: If you forego something, you choose to

give it up. If you forego dessert after dinner, you are
skipping dessert.
Synonyms: waive, relinquish
Example 1: The foregoing investigation into the

nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude
to my journeying across Texas with Charley in
Rocinante.
Example 2: I’m working up with the foregoing to a

physical description of myself.
67. Morose - িবষ
Definition: A morose person is sullen, gloomy, sad,

glum, and depressed — not a happy camper.

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synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody
Example 1: The carpet is eaten with holes, the

pews look morose.
Example 2: "You cheer me," said Edd, sounding

utterly morose.
68. Detest - ঘৃণা করা
Definition: If you detest something, you dislike it

intensely. The word can apply to things and also to
people. You might detest your ex-boyfriend and you
might also detest rainy Mondays and broccoli.
synonyms: hate, abhor
Example 1: In this case the punishment for the

arrogance the gods detested fell not on Queen
Cassiopeia, Andromeda’s mother, but on her
daughter.
Example 2: “Stop calling me Kate. I detest that

nickname. And don’t lie to me. You’re going to sneak
out tonight with that boy to visit the Spencers’ farm,

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and I’m going with you.”
69. Bereft - িব
Definition: So, they took the thing you most loved,

and you're never going to get it back. You've gone
beyond just plain grief-stricken — you're bereft.
Synonyms: sorrowful, mourning
Example 1: There was no position in reference to

matter or objects; not the recognition of surfaces;
the senses themselves collapsed and abrogated
their wonted distinctions; and the body was left
aware but bereft.
Example 2: Chima and Obiora used plastic ones

while the rest of us had plain glass plates, bereft of
dainty flowers or silver lines.
70. Thwart - বাধা
Definition: A villain's worst nightmare is the

superhero who always seems to thwart his efforts,
preventing him from carrying out his plans to take

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over the world.
Synonyms: baffle, bilk, confound
Example 1: Hazel had thwarted Gaea’s plans that

time, but she’d had to pull down the cavern,
sacrificing her life and her mother’s.
Example 2: My cousins—Aristotle, Socrates,

Cleopatra, and Plato—had the thwarted,
overbrushed look of ministers’ children.
71. Guise - ছ েবশ, ভান
Definition: The noun guise refers to an outward

appearance that conceals the true nature of
someone or something. Your classmate might chat
with you under the guise of friendship, but you know
she's really just looking for juicy gossip.
Synonyms: pretense, pretext
Example 1: It was not jamais vu, since the

apparition was not of someone, or something,
familiar appearing to him in an unfamiliar guise.

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Example 2: Remembering Cristiana’s horror at my

appearance, I thought that the guise of madness
might serve me well.
72. Avert - ঠকােনা, আটকােনা
Definition: To avert is to turn away or to prevent.

You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster —
either way, you are avoiding something.
Synonyms: turn away, word off
Example 1: Now he averted his eyes, and nodded

shamefacedly.
Example 2: The woman asked the traveler for help,

and the man averted his eyes.
73. Sordid - জঘন
Definition: Describe a person's actions as sordid if

they are so immoral or unethical that they seem
dirty. Think of the worst parts of a bad soap opera!
Synonyms: flyblown, dirty

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Example 1: His day to day on the estate consisted

of conducting sordid parties in the big house and
putting his slaves to bleak amusements, forcing
them to serve as his victims in Cora’s stead.
Example 2: But even this was not enough for

Blanca, who found the apartment sordid, dark, and
narrow and the building crowded.
74. Brazen - বহায়া, িনল
Definition: With brazen disregard for the sign that

said "No Cellphones," the woman took a long call in
the dentist's waiting room, irritating the other
patients. Brazen describes something shocking or
done shamelessly.
Synonyms: audacious, barefaced
Example 1: She hasn't got the nerve to stand up

and brazen it out.
Example 2: “How dare you, brazen fool! How dare

you demand an audience of the emissary with
nothing to show him!

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75. Goad - আঁকরা
Definition: A goad is a pointy stick or other

instrument used to prod something along. To goad is
to poke something with that pointy stick. Either way,
the pointiness is really essential for making things
leap into action.
Synonyms: prick, jab, stab
Example 1: You could never tell what treasures the

traders might bring this time, and it would be goad to
hear men speaking Valyrian again, as they did in the
Free Cities.
Example 2: Why is he trying to goad me into giving

up?
76. Flout - ফালত, িব প
Definition: To flout is to scorn or show contempt for.

"I flout the law and the concept of civilian safety by
making a concerted effort to jaywalk every time I
cross a street."

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Synonyms: scoff, disregard
Example 1: She wasn’t used to my flouting the

rules.
Example 2: Keegan’s problem is that he flouts

another principle of coherence in writing, the last
one we will visit in this chapter.
77. Robust - বিল , শ সামথ
Definition: Use robust to describe a person or thing

that is healthy and strong, or strongly built. This
adjective also commonly describes food or drink: a
robust wine has a rich, strong flavor.
Synonyms: rugged, healthy
Example 1: A ‘robust’ or ‘stable’ answer comes to

be regarded as quite simply the right answer.
Example 2: She turned a corner and found Brooke

sitting on the floor in one aisle, staring at a robust
yellow frog on a low shelf.

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78. Impede - ব াহত করা, িতব কতা দওয়া
Definition: To impede something is to delay or block

its progress or movement. Carrying six heavy bags
will impede your progress if you're trying to walk
across town in a hurry.
Synonyms: hinder, prevent
Example 1: But when they reached the edge of the

wood, their progress was impeded.
Example 2: The voice was faint and distorted, as

though impeded by something like a bubble, some
mucus in her throat.
79. Bleak - িনরান , িববণ
Definition: Something that is bleak is gloomy and

depressing. If it's raining and dark, you might
describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for
work and no one will hire you, you could describe
your prospects as bleak.
Synonyms: cutting, raw

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Example 1: The boy had stood there, something

bleak and mad in his gaze.
Example 2: Old people shook their heads, recalling

blizzards of their childhood, but it was impossible for
Kit to visualize anything more bleak than this first
winter of her experience.
80. Enmity - িবেরািধতা, শ তা
Definition: Enmity means intense hostility. If you're

a football fanatic, you feel enmity for your opposing
team.
Synonyms: hostility, antagonism
Example 1: He was just about to forbid him to set

foot on the property when Clara convinced him that
this was hardly the time to place his political
enmities before the peasants’ Christian fervor.
Example 2: Between the armies there was a

serious racial enmity.

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81. Docile - িবনয়ী, অনুগত, িনরীহ
Definition: If someone is docile, he is easily taught

or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker
in class, your teachers would long for the days when
you were sweet and docile.
Synonyms: gentle, tame
Example 1: In fleeting clear spells of lucidity, when

Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell
her what bothered him most and would accept her
sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile
way.
Example 2: Some of them are unmannered, rough,

intractable, as well as ignorant; but others are
docile, have a wish to learn, and evince a
disposition that pleases me.
82. Onus - দািয়
Definition: Take the noun, onus, as a formal word

for responsibility or obligation. If your teacher
assigns onus as a vocabulary word, it puts the onus

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on you to find out what it means.
Synonyms: burden, incumbrance
Example 1: In a feeble attempt to squelch the idea

of inviting her, I put the onus back on them.
Example 2: Under the Sabotage Law, the onus was

on the defense to prove the accused innocent.
83. Glib - সাবলীল, সদা ত
Definition: A hiring manager might think you're

being glib, or slick and insincere, if you say you've
led a successful multinational corporation when you
were actually in charge of flipping burgers for a
fast-food restaurant chain.
Synonyms: persuasive
Example 1: He let the dwarf beguile him with that

glib tongue of his.
Example 2: And they so impressed him with this

that he wrote glib verses to prove it.

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84. Sooth - বা িবকতা, সত
Definition: The quality of being truthful
Synonyms: truth
Example 1: But here’s the lucky part — and ’tis pure

sooth.
Example 2: For sooth, I could have killed Father for

dying.
85. Savvy - বু মান, উপলি , কা ান
Definition: You are known as someone with a lot of

business savvy, but only because you've managed
to keep your staggering debts a secret. Which is
actually pretty savvy. Someone who is savvy is
shrewd and perceptive.
Synonyms: astute, sharp
Example 1: They were savvy enough to bargain for

forty minutes.

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Example 2: Even though their reading scores don’t

indicate that they’re “smart” in the conventional
sense, it’s amazing how savvy they are.
86. Jovial - হািসখুিশ, ফু , উৎফু
Definition: Use jovial to describe people who show

good humor and are full of joy. Santa Claus, with his
constant "ho-ho-hoing" is a jovial figure.
Synonyms: gay, jolly
Example 1: This Tommy’s dad was a jovial, beer-

bellied veteran of Iwo Jima who sold Mack trucks.
Example 2: Dale returned to his seat while the men

backslapped each other and said jovial things back
and forth.
87. Radical - সীমািতির , অবাধ
Definition: If something is considered extremist or

very different from anything that has come before it,
call it radical.

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Synonyms: revolutionary’ ultra
Example 1: He needed only to tweak a radical to

finalize the formula.
Example 2: The leader of the cult was Pythagoras,

an ancient radical.
88. Coherent -সুস ত, সাম স পুণ
Definition: Something coherent is logical and clear.

"I told you if you didn't do your homework you
couldn't watch TV. You didn't do your homework so
you can't watch TV." This is a coherent argument
(and annoying as well)
Synonyms: logical, ordered
Example 1: Here lies one, she thought gracefully,

whose name was written in blood; is it possible that I
am not quite coherent at this moment?
Example 2: Facts are no more solid, coherent,

round, and real than pearls are.

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89. Dubious - সে হজনক
Definition: Choose the adjective dubious for

something you have doubts about or you suspect is
not true. That bridge you just "bought" might be of
dubious value.
Synonyms: uncertain, doubtful
Example 1: It was her public face the mortician had

designed with his dubious art.
Example 2: “Why don’t you run along and partake

in some dubious recreation that appeals to you,”
Ignatius belched.
90. Fleeting - ণ ায়ী
Definition: Fleeting is an adjective that describes

something that happens really fast, or something
that doesn’t last as long as you’d like.
Synonyms: fugitive, momentary
Example 1: The bad news is that atoms are fickle

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and their time of devotion is fleeting–fleeting indeed.
Example 2: Their gray uniforms passed like fleeting

shadows through the confusion.
91. Prowess - তাপ, শৗয-বীয
Definition: Prowess means exceptional skill or

ability. Your sailing prowess might save your life in a
storm, while someone with less experience might
make mistakes.
Synonyms: art, artistry
Example 1: “I have Aech here to thank for my

jousting prowess,” I said.
Example 2: "Was it not you who told me warlocks

were no more than old soldiers, vainly boasting of
forgotten deeds and lost prowess?"
92. Reliant - িনভরশীল
Definition: To be reliant is to depend on someone

or something. When you're reliant on a person, you

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need that person.
Synonyms: dependent
Example 1: The charity is completely reliant on

public donations.
Example 2: Here are the top five “uncertainty

avoidance” countries, according to Hofstede’s
database—that is, the countries most reliant on
rules and plans and most likely to stick to procedure
regardless of circumstance.
93. Purport - সিত নয় এমন িকছ িনেয় তক করা
Definition:Use purport when you want to convince

people about something that might not be true, like
when you purport that the dog ate your homework.
Synonyms: claim, aim, intend
Example 1: Court records showed, for instance,

that Burt had stolen money that Bigheart had
intended for Vaughan, even though Burt purported
to be Vaughan’s close friend.

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Example 2: Tenzing Norgay and other eminent

Sherpas signed a petition demanding that the
government of Nepal conduct an official inquiry of
the purported ascent.
94. Irriant - িবর , জালাতন, অিত
Definition: An irritant is a substance that causes

pain, itching, or discomfort. Chlorine, which is
commonly used in swimming pools and hot tubs, is
an irritant that dries out skin and reddens eyes.
Synonyms: thorn, bother
Example 1: Doing otherwise would have been like

failing to resign after losing a major piece in a chess
tournament—a social irritant, a waste of time and
resources.
Example 2: Indeed, I saw the old swollen Frau

peeking from beneath her curtains when those Hitler
Youth irritants arrived at my door and insisted on
coming inside.

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95. Intrepid - িনভ ক
Definition: Intrepid is just a fancy word for

describing a person or action that is bold and brave.
Super heroes are intrepid in their struggle for truth
and justice.
Synonyms: brave, dauntless
Example 1: The three intrepid dogs remove their

helmets and stealthily creep closer.
Example 2: The young girl and the intrepid Jesuit,

both quaking with unchristian passion.
96. Meander - গালকধাধা, আঁকাবাঁকা পথ
Definition: To meander means to wander aimlessly

on a winding roundabout course. If you want some
time to yourself after school, you might meander
home, taking the time to window shop and look
around.
Synonyms: thread, wander

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Example 1: In a library book on African public

health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a
worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front
of a man’s startled eyeball.
Example 2: Out of this trickled blood, which he

watched meander to the edge of his hand.
97. Supplant - িত াপন, উ করা
Definition: Kate was out sick for a month with

mono, and when she came back to school, Jessie
had supplanted her as the funny girl at the lunch
table. Supplant means to take the place of.
Synonyms: replace, supersede
Example 1: She told him how the strange animal

had supplanted her and how nobody had been
prepared to listen to her explanation at the
beginning.
Example 2: That just as the theories of Ptolemy and

Newton seemed perfectly satisfactory for centuries,
so too our most cherished theories will one day be

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supplanted.
98. Paucity - অভাব
Definition: The word paucity means not enough of

something. If you've got a paucity of good cheer, for
example, you'd better cheer up.
Synonyms: dearth, lack
Example 1: In turn, we also saw that this extreme

paucity of domestic animals in the New World
reflects the paucity of wild starting material.
Example 2: The other major obstacle to the

development of food production in Australia was the
paucity of domesticable wild plants.
99. Laudable - শংসনীয়
Definition: Use the word laudable to describe

something that deserves praise or admiration, like
your laudable efforts to start a recycling program at
your school.

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Synonyms: commendable, praiseworthy
Example 1: This laudable decision would have

succeeded if he had not erred in his other moves.
Example 2: I read most of them with laudable zeal,

but few of them really appealed to me.
100. Chronic - দীঘ ায়ী, দুরােরাগ
Definition: If you smoke a cigarette once, you've

simply made a bad choice. But if you're a chronic
smoker, you've been smoking for a long time and
will have a hard time stopping.
Synonyms: degenerative, habitual
Example 1: Ernest was fighting a chronic sinus

infection, his back was aching, and an orthopedic
brace that had been made for him fit so poorly it
aggravated rather than relieved the pain.
Example 2: They seemed to be modifying their

usual attitude of floating, chronic disapproval.

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Definition: Your stance is your posture or the way

Synonyms: position, posture

Example 1: Cain drew his sword, a crooked grin on

Example 2: Every passerby, every motorcar, every

2. Malice - িবে ষ, শ তা, িহংসা, ষ ইত ািদ

Definition: Malice is the intention to cause harm. If

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Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness,

Example 1: Says you,” Pumblechook went on,

Example 2: When the leaders were older than me I

3. Unruly - অবাধ , শাসনাতীত

Definition: Unruly means lacking in restraint or not

Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable

Example 1: In the calm stillness I saw him open his

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Example 2: He whipped off his hat, revealing a

4. Moot - তকিবতক করা

Definition: When a point is moot, it's too trivial to

Example 1: The question of bridesmaids’ dresses

Example 2: Within two weeks, the original intent of

Definition: A spate is a large number. If a spate of

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access to plenty of caffeine.

Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge

Example 1: Soon she stood on a great stone bridge

Example 2: Rajesh had witnessed those rioting

6. Exhort - উৎসািহত করা, েনািদত করা

Definition: French roots for the word exhort mean

Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on

Example 1: There’s nothing to do but try to ignore

Example 2: Our struggle is your struggle, exhorted

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7. Evince - কিরয়া দখান

Definition: The verb evince means to show or

Synonyms: express, show

Example: I have gone to each officer of that

Example 2: “This particular dragon has already

8. Daunt- ভয় দখােনা, দমােনা

Definition: Daunt means to frighten or scare off.

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Synonyms : dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall,

Example 1: The state troopers were huge and

Example 2: The mountains seemed to be trying

9. Lament - কা াকা ট, িবলাপ

Definition: If you are really upset or sorry about

Example 1: It was the lament sung at a funeral—a

Example 2: “For the first time since moving to

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Seattle, we had money problems,” she laments.

10. Naive - সরল, সাধািসেধ

Definition: No one likes being called naive, since it

Example 1: Were those naive villagers collecting

Example 2: “Maybe I was naive,” he said in a

11. Jargon - অপভাষা, অথহীন ভাষা

Definition: Jargon usually means the specialized

Synonyms: argot, cant

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Example 1: As writers, then, we should try to get

Example 2: There’s one that everyone is at least

12. Sullen - অ কার , িতকূল

Definition: A bad-tempered or gloomy person is

Synonyms: dark, dour,glum