08/06/2025
Vocabulary for competitive exams
1. **RATIFY (VERB): (নিশ্চিত করা)**: confirm
**Synonyms**: approve, sanction
**Antonyms**: reject
**Example Sentence**: Both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year.
2. **NEFARIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (দুষ্ট)**: wicked
**Synonyms**: evil, sinful
**Antonyms**: good
**Example Sentence**: The nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates.
3. **HEGEMONY (NOUN): (নেতৃত্ব)**: leadership
**Synonyms**: dominance, dominion
**Antonyms**: self-government
**Example Sentence**: Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871.
4. **ENORMITY (NOUN): (অনৈতিকতা)**: wickedness
**Synonyms**: baseness, blackness
**Antonyms**: goodness
**Example Sentence**: The enormities of war are way too high as expected.
5. **APEX (NOUN): (শীর্ষবিন্দু)**: climax
**Synonyms**: culmination, apotheosis
**Antonyms**: nadir
**Example Sentence**: The apex of his career was in 1966 when he hosted aloft the World Cup.
6. **ABOLITION (NOUN): (বিলোপ)**: scrapping
**Synonyms**: ending, stopping
**Antonyms**: retention
**Example Sentence**: He was responsible for the abolition of the death penalty.
7. **CONCOMITANT (ADJECTIVE): (সহগামী)**: attendant
**Synonyms**: accompanying, associated
**Antonyms**: unrelated
**Example Sentence**: She loved travel, with all its concomitant worries.
8. **INTRANSIGENT (ADJECTIVE): (অনমনীয়)**: uncompromising
**Synonyms**: inflexible, unbending
**Antonyms**: compliant
**Example Sentence**: Her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent.
9. **ORATORICAL (ADJECTIVE): (বাগ্মিতা-সংক্রান্ত)**: rhetorical
**Synonyms**: grandiloquent, magniloquent
**Antonyms**: plain-spoken
**Example Sentence**: He has plenty oratorical skills.
10. **SHUN (VERB): (এড়িয়ে চলা)**: avoid
**Synonyms**: evade, eschew
**Antonyms**: accept
**Example Sentence**: He shunned fashionable society.