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