HinKhoj Dictionary

English Hindi Dictionary | अंग्रेज़ी हिन्दी शब्दकोश

Vocabulary for competitive exams


PURLOIN (verb) चुराना
Meaning: steal (something).
GLOAT (Verb)आनंदित होना
Meaning: dwell on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
TIZZY(noun)घबराहट
Meaning: a state of nervous excitement or agitation.
REPROBATE (noun) नीच
Meaning: an unprincipled person.
REDACT (verb) संपादित करना
Meaning: edit (text) for publication.

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Different types of Phobias


Kainotophobia - fear of change
Kakorrhaphiophobia - fear of failure
Kenophobia - fear of empty spaces
Ligyrophobia - fear of loud noises
Linonophobia- fear of string
Lygophobia - fear of darkness

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Quote of the week


धीरे-धीरे ही चलें, मगर पीछे की ओर न चलें।
Walk slowly, but never walk backward.

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Vocabulary for competitive exams


Adverse: Unfavorable, detrimental (प्रतिकूल/ विपरीत)
The drug has so far had no adverse effect on patients.

Blunder: A serious mistake, usually caused by not taking care or thinking (बड़ी गलती)
He said that the tax was a major political blunder.

Fabricate: to invent or produce something false in order to deceive someone (झूठी कहानी बनाना)
He was late, so he fabricated an excuse to avoid trouble.

Backfire: (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended (उल्टी प्रतिक्रिया होना)
Her plans to make him jealous backfired on her .

Glimmer: to shine with a weak light or a light that is not continuous (जगमगाना)
The sky glimmered with stars.

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Know the idioms


प्रस्तुत करना - Turn in
He turned in his answer paper and came out of the examination hall.
निगरानी करना, रक्षा करना - Watch over
The dog faithfully watched over his master's sleeping child.
धुँधला पड़ना - Wear off
This colour will wear off soon.
समय नष्ट करना - While away
Get to work. Don't while away your time in trifles.
अनदेखी करना - Wink at
I can wink at his faults no longer.

 

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