English Vocab

1. Pedagogic (adjective): Of or characteristic of teachers or of teaching. (शैक्षणिक, शिक्षा-विज्ञान-संबंधी)

Synonyms: Academic, Educational, Didactic, Scholastic, Teaching

Example: The teacher is well liked by her students because of her unconventional pedagogic style.

2. Fatalism (noun): The belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that events, especially bad ones, cannot be avoided. (भाग्य पर भरोसा करने का सिद्धान्त)

Synonyms: Defeatism, Pessimism, Negativism, Hopelessness, Capitulation

Example: Many people seem to have developed a sense of fatalism about the war.

 

3. Surreal (adjective): Strange; not seeming real; like a dream. (अवास्तविक, स्वप्निल)

Synonyms: Phantasmagorical, Weird, Dreamlike, Unreal

Antonyms: Real, Ordinary

Example:  Jack knew he had consumed too many beach drinks when he saw the surreal figure of a mermaid approaching him.

 

4. Extern (verb): Banish (someone considered politically undesirable) from a region or district. (निर्वासन)

Synonyms: Deportation, Exile, Expulsion, Ostracise

Antonyms: Repatriation, Immigration, Welcome

Example: He was externed for inciting communal tension in the city

Related: Externed, Externed

5. Jingoistic (adjective): Characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy. (राष्ट्रवाद, क़ौमपरस्ती)

Synonyms: Chauvinistic, Patriotic, Belligerent, Combative

Antonyms: Traitorous, Peaceloving,

Example: Suddenly, rational people, rational newspapers, were becoming jingoistic.

6. Humdrum (adjective): Not interesting: dull, boring, and ordinary. (आनंदहीन, साधारण)

Synonyms: Tedious, Monotonous, Commonplace, Dreary

Antonyms: Exciting, Interesting, Entertaining, Exhilarating

Example: An exciting vacation would give me time away from my humdrum job.

 

7. Fait accompli (phrase): something that has already happened or been done and cannot be changed: (किया हुआ बात)

Synonyms: Accomplished Fact, Done Deal, Irreversible Act, Undeniable Fact

Example: The policy change was presented to us as a fait accompli, without consultation or discussion.

 

8. Giddy (adjective): Lacking in seriousness or maturity: (चपल, चंचल)

Synonyms: Puerile, Frivolous, Flighty, Capricious

Antonyms:  Earnest, Serious, Serious-Minded, Sober

Example: The giddy youngsters continued to laugh, joke, and make faces during the ceremonies

     

9. Genocide (noun): Deliberate murder of a whole community or race. (नरसंहार)

Synonyms: Massacre, Holocaust, Carnage, Extermination, Butchery

Example: There are still many superior Germans who deny the genocide of the Jews ever occurred.

 

10. Utopian (adjective): Modelled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect. (आदर्श लोकीय, काल्पनिक)

Synonyms: Quixotic, Idealistic, Visionary, Impractical

Antonyms: Realistic, Dystopian, Pragmatic

Example: A complete absence of national border controls is utopian.