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Class 01 Volume-1
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 Embellish (verb)

Hindi Meaning: सजाना

Usage: He couldn't resist embellishing the story of

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 Synonyms: Decorate, enhance, garnish, amplify, deck, adorn,
ornament, caparison
Enhance (verb)
to improve the quality, amount, or strength of something:
These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation.

Garnish (verb)
to decorate food with a small amount of different food:
Garnish the dish with something.

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Amplify (verb)
to increase the strength of a sound; make louder:
Electric guitars are amplified through loudspeakers.
Or
To amplify is also to add to the information given in something:
This study amplifies earlier research.
Deck (verb)
to decorate or add something to something to make an effect:
The room was decked with flowers.
Adorn (verb)
to add something decorative to a person or thing:
The bride's hair was adorned with white flowers.
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Ornament (Noun)
decoration that is added to increase the beauty of something:
The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament
for its impressive effect.

Caparison (Noun)
a decorative covering for a horse
Caparison (verb)
to provide with or as if with a rich ornamental covering

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Antonyms: Deface, blemish, spoil, belittle, understate
Deface (verb)
to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing
or drawing on it:
He was fined for defacing library books.

Blemish (verb)
to spoil something:
This latest revelation has seriously blemished the
governor's reputation.

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Belittle (verb)
to make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is
not important:
Though she had spent hours fixing the computer, he belittled
her efforts.
Understate (verb)
to describe something in a way that makes
it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is:
She believes the research understates
the amount of discrimination women suffer.

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Prodigal (adjective)
Hindi Meaning: खर्चीला
English Meaning: Spending money or using resources freely and
recklessly, wasteful
Usage: The prodigal (adjective) landlord spends the money as fast as
he receives it.
Usage: He, who was formerly a prodigal (noun), showed himself
suddenly wise.

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 Synonyms: Profligate, lavish, extravagant, spendthrift, squanderer,
imprudent, profuse

Profligate (Adj.)
spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is
not wise:
She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
Lavish (adj.)
large in quantity and expensive or impressive:
lavish gifts/promises/praise/lavish spending

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extravagant (adj.)
spending too much money, or using too much of something:
The extravagant lifestyle of a movie star is not liked by me.

Spendthrift (adj.)
spending a lot of money in a way that wastes it:
He struggled to support a large family that included his
spendthrift father.

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Squander (verb)
to waste money, or to use something valuable that you have
a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way:
Government should not squander the taxpayers’ money.

Squanderer (Noun)
a recklessly extravagant consumer

Imprudent (adj.)
unwise, by failing to consider the likely results of your actions:
The report criticizes the banks for being imprudent
in their lending.
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Profuse (adj.)
spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to
excess; extravagant
Antonyms: Economical, frugal, thrifty, scrimping, conserving,
niggardly, parsimonious, penurious
Frugal (adj.)
careful when using money or food, or (of
a meal) cheap or small in amount:
a frugal lifestyle

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 Thrifty (Adj.)
showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste:
They have plenty of money now, but they still tend to be thrifty.

Scrimp (verb)
to save money by spending less than
is necessary to reach an acceptable standard:
There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline may be tempted to
scrimp on maintenance or security.

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Parsimonious (adj.)
not willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something:
She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.

Penurious (adj.)
extremely poor

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Repudiate (verb)
Hindi Meaning: अस्वीकार करना
English Meaning: To reject, to refuse to accept or obey something
or someone
Usage: The evidence presented at the trial has been repudiated.

Synonyms: Negate, deny, disown, refute, disclaim, disavow,

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Disown (verb)
to make it known that you no longer have any connection with
someone that you were closely connected with:
It's a story set in the last century about
a girl whose parents disowned her when she married a foreigner.

Refute (verb)
to say or prove that a person, statement, opinion, etc.
is wrong or false:
to refute a person/theory/argument/claim
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disclaim (verb)
to say that you have no responsibility for, or knowledge of,
something that has happened or been done:
We disclaim all responsibility for this disaster.

Disavow (verb)
to say that you know nothing about something, or that you have
no responsibility for or connection with something:
They were quick to disavow the rumour.

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Abdicate (verb)
to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of:
She abdicated all responsibility for the project.

Renounce (verb)
to say formally or publicly that you
no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with
something:
Her ex-husband renounced his claim to the family house.

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Recant (verb)
to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wro
ng and that you no longer agree with them:
After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted
(his views).

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 Antonyms: Accept, espouse, adopt, affirm, corroborate, avow
Espouse (verb)
to become involved with or support an activity or opinion:
He espoused conservative political views.
Avow (verb)
to admit something or say something publicly:
He avowed that he regretted what he had done.

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