Vocab 6

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Quiescent

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📌 Meaning (Hindi):

✔ निष्क्रिय / शांत / सुप्त अवस्था में

📌 Easiest Meaning:
✔ Inactive; at rest; temporarily quiet

📌 Synonyms (SSC-oriented):
✔ Inactive (सबसे आसान और सीधा)
✔ Dormant
✔ Passive
✔ Latent

📌 Antonyms (Quick recall):
✔ Active, Dynamic, Energetic

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Out at the elbow

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📌 Meaning (Hindi):
✔ फटा-पुराना कपड़ों वाला / गरीब दिखने वाला / जर्जर हालत में

📌 Usage Sense:
✔ Someone whose clothes are worn out, especially at the elbows → indicates poverty or shabby appearance

📌 Synonym (with Hindi meaning):
✔ Shabby — फटा-पुराना, अस्त-व्यस्त
✔ Threadbare — घिसा-पिटा
✔ Ragged — चिथड़ों वाला

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Pedant

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📌 Meaning (Hindi):
✔ पांडित्य दिखाने वाला व्यक्ति / छोटी-छोटी बातों पर जरूरत से ज़्यादा जोर देने वाला

📌 Easiest Meaning:
✔ A person who shows off knowledge or is too concerned with minor details

📌 Synonyms (SSC-oriented):
✔ Show-off scholar — ज्ञान का दिखावा करने वाला
✔ Dogmatic — कट्टर, अपनी बात पर अड़ा हुआ
✔ Bookish — किताबों का कीड़ा (negative sense)
✔ Nit-picker — छोटी गलतियाँ निकालने वाला

📌 Antonym (Quick recall):
✔ Practical, Broad-minded

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• Word: Onerous

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• Hindi Meaning: भारी, कठिन, बोझिल

• Synonyms:

  • Easy meaning: Burdensome

  • SSC PYQ Synonyms: Troublesome (SSC CGL 2022), Taxing (SSC CHSL 2021)

• Antonyms: Light, Easy, Effortless, Manageable

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Vacuous

📌 Exam Appearance (SSC & others):
➤ SSC CGL 2019 (Vocabulary)
➤ SSC CHSL 2020
➤ SSC MTS 2021

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✔ Meaning (English): Empty; lacking ideas, intelligence, or meaningful content
✔ Hindi Meaning: खोखला, अर्थहीन, बुद्धिहीन

🔹 Easiest Meaning: Empty / meaningless

🔹 Synonyms (SSC-oriented):
➤ Empty (सबसे आसान और direct)
➤ Hollow
➤ Meaningless
➤ Blank
➤ Insipid

🔹 Antonyms:
➤ Intelligent
➤ Meaningful
➤ Thoughtful
➤ Profound

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Cursory

📌 Exam Appearance (SSC & others):
➤ SSC CGL 2018
➤ SSC CHSL 2019
➤ SSC MTS 2020

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✔ Meaning (English): Done quickly and without attention to detail
✔ Hindi Meaning: सरसरी, ऊपरी तौर पर किया गया

🔹 Easiest Meaning: Quick but not careful

🔹 Synonyms (SSC-oriented):
➤ Superficial (सबसे आसान और direct)
➤ Hasty
➤ Casual
➤ Brief
➤ Swift

🔹 Antonyms:
➤ Thorough
➤ Detailed
➤ Careful
➤ Meticulous

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Conjecture

📌 Exam Appearance (SSC & others):
➤ SSC CGL 2017
➤ SSC CHSL 2019
➤ SSC MTS 2021

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✔ Meaning (English): An opinion or conclusion formed without sufficient evidence; to guess
✔ Hindi Meaning: अनुमान, कयास

🔹 Easiest Meaning: Guess without proof

🔹 Synonyms (SSC-oriented):
➤ Guess (सबसे आसान और direct)
➤ Supposition
➤ Speculation
➤ Assumption
➤ Hypothesis

🔹 Antonyms:
➤ Proof
➤ Fact
➤ Certainty
➤ Evidence

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Word: Celerity

✔ Exams Where Appeared:

• SSC CGL 2017

• SSC CHSL 2019

• SSC CPO 2016

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✔ Hindi Meaning: तीव्रता / शीघ्रता

✔ Synonyms:

• Speed (easiest and most direct meaning)

• Swiftness (SSC CGL 2017)

• Rapidity (SSC CHSL 2019)

• Promptness (SSC CPO 2016)

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Word: Cogent

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Hindi Meaning:
✔ ठोस / तर्कसंगत / प्रभावशाली

Synonyms:
✔ Convincing (सबसे आसान और सीधा अर्थ)
✔ Persuasive
✔ Compelling
✔ Forceful

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Word: Apodictic (often confused spelling: apodictive)

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Hindi Meaning:
✔ निर्विवाद / पूर्णतः निश्चित / बिना किसी संदेह के सत्य

Synonyms:
✔ Certain (सबसे आसान और सीधा अर्थ)
✔ Indisputable
✔ Undeniable
✔ Absolute