English Word Meaning
English Word Meaning
ভূগোলিকা-Bhugolika-এর ‘পরীক্ষা প্রস্তুতি’ বিভাগে আপনাকে স্বাগত জানাই। ‘পরীক্ষা প্রস্তুতি’ বিভাগের উদ্দেশ্য হল বিভিন্ন প্রতিযোগিতামূলক পরীক্ষা (Competitive Exams)-তে শিক্ষার্থী ও পরীক্ষার্থীদের প্রস্তুতিতে সাহায্য করা। ‘পরীক্ষা প্রস্তুতি’ -এর MISCELLANEOUS বিভাগে সকল প্রতিযোগিতামূলক পরীক্ষার ক্ষেত্রে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বিষয়গুলি আলোচনা করা হয়। প্রতিযোগিতামূলক পরীক্ষাতে একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বিষয় হল: English Word Meaning । এই পোস্টের মাধ্যমে আপনি অর্থসহ গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ইংরেজি শব্দের এক বিস্তারিত তালিকা লাভ করবেন।
English Word Meaning
Aberration — A change from what is typical or usual, especially a temporary change.
Abeyance — A state of temporary disuse or suspension ; a state of temporary inactivity ; a state of not happening or being used at present.
Abnegation — The denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief ; the act of not allowing yourself to have something, especially something you like or want.
Abstemious — Indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.
Acrimonious — Angry and full of strong bitter feelings and words ; full of anger, arguments, and bad feeling.
Adumbrate — To give only the main facts and not the details about something ; describe roughly or give the main points or summary of a future event.
Aggrandize — To make someone more powerful or important ; increase the power, status, or wealth of.
Amalgagender — A gender that is not exclusively male or female ; a gender that is affected by, or mixed into one’s intersex identity.
Ambivalent — Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone ; uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow.
Ameliorate — To make a bad or unpleasant situation better.
Amorphous — Without a clearly defined shape or form.
Anomalous — Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.
Antediluvian — Extremely old-fashioned ; made, evolved, or developed a long time ago.
Anthropomorphize — The attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities ; attribute human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.
Appoggiatura — An embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone ; a note that is played or sung quickly before the main note of a piece.
Apprehensive — Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen ; viewing the future with anxiety or alarm.
Apocryphal — Doubtful authors or authenticity, mythical, fictional.
Asterisk — A small starlike symbol (*), used in writing and printing as a reference mark ; a symbol (*) used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote.
Autochthonous — Something is native to an area ; indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.
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Balatron — A buffoon, a clown, a prattling fool, or a self-indulgent person who speaks a lot of nonsense.
Bellicose — Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
Belligerent — Hostile and aggressive ; wishing to fight or argue.
Benevolent — Kind and with positive intentions ; helpful and generous.
Blandishment — A flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something.
Boulevard — A wide street in a town or city, typically one lined with trees ; a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees.
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Cacophony — A harsh discordant mixture of sounds ; an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds.
Callipygian — Having well-shaped buttocks.
Camaraderie — Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.
Capricious — Changing mood or behaviour suddenly and unexpectedly.
Chanteuse — A woman who is an accomplished nightclub singer.
Chauffeur — A person employed to drive a private or hired car ; a person employed to drive passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle.
Chiaroscuro — The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
Circumlocution — The use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
Circumscribe — Draw a geometric figure around another figure ; restrict something within limits.
Clandestine — Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
Colloquialism — The linguistic style used for casual and informal communication.
Commensurate — Corresponding in size or degree ; in proportion.
Concomitant — A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.
Confabulate — To hold an informal discussion or a casual conversation.
Conflagration — An extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property ; a large and violent event.
Connoisseur — A person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts ; a discerning judge of the best in any field.
Consanguineous — Relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor.
Conscientious — Wishing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly ; involving or taking great care.
Contemplate — To think deeply about something, typically a problem, idea, or concept.
Conundrum — A confusing and difficult problem or question ; an intricate and difficult problem.
Convalescence — The process or period of resting in order to get better after an illness or operation ; gradual return to health after illness, injury, or an operation, especially through rest.
Corroborate — Confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding.
Curmudgeon — A crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man ; a bad-tempered person, especially an old one.
Cymotrichous — Having wavy hair or curly hair.
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Debilitate — Make someone very weak and infirm.
Decadence — Moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
Defenestration — The action of throwing someone out of a window ; the action or process of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority.
Demagogue — A leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions.
Demitasse — A small cup, used for serving coffee or soup ; a small coffee cup.
Diaphanous — Very thin and almost transparent cloth or dress ; light, delicate, and translucent fabric.
Dichotomy — A division or contrast between two things that are, or are represented as being, opposed or entirely different.
Disabuse — To free from error, misconception, or fallacy.
Disseminate — Spread something, especially information widely.
Doomscrolling — The act of consuming a large quantity of negative online news at once ; constantly scrolling through negative news for long periods of time.
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Ebullient — Cheerful and full of energy ; very energetic, positive, and happy.
Effervescent — Giving off bubbles ; enthusiastic and vivacious.
Elucubrate — To produce something, such as a literary work or an idea, through long and intensive effort ; To work on a literary work in a dedicated manner at night-time.
Embezzlement — The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property ; a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer.
Embourgeoisement — A process by which a working-class person adopts middle-class values via increased wealth and/or a change in occupation.
Enfranchise — Grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude ; give the right to vote to.
Entrepreneur — An individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses ; a person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.
Ephemeral — Lasting for a very short peroid of time.
Epiphany — A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization.
Equanimity — Calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation.
Eudaemonic — Producing happiness and well-being ; conducive to happiness.
Evanescent — Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence ; quickly fading or disappearing.
Exacerbate — Make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.
Exasperated — Annoyed, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem ; intensely irritated and frustrated.
Fastidious — Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail ; being careful that every detail of something is correct.
Filibuster — A parliamentary procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate ; a long speech that someone makes in order to delay or prevent a new law being made.
Filigree — Delicate ornamental work made of some type of metal ; a form of intricate metalwork found in jewellery.
Flabbergasted — Greatly surprised or astonished ; extremely surprised or shocked.
Floccinaucinihilipilification — The estimation of something as worthless ; the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant.
Forbearance — The quality of being patient and being able to forgive someone or control yourself in a difficult situation.
English Word Meaning
Gargantuan — Tremendous in size, volume, or degree ; an object that’s physically massive in size.
Garrulous — Excessively talkative, especially about trivial things.
Gerrymander — manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class.
Gobbledegook — Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms.
Gourmand — A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess ; one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking.
Grandiloquent — Extravagant, lofty, or bombastic in style or manner, especially language.
Habilimented – Dressed or clothed, especially in fine or distinctive attire.
Hackneyed — Lacking in freshness or originality ; a phrase or idea having been overused.
Halcyon — Characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity ; calm and peaceful.
Handkerchief — A square of cotton or other finely woven material intended for wiping one’s nose or drying the eyes.
Harbinger — A person or thing that shows that something is going to happen soon ; a sign or indication of something to come.
Hegemony — Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.
Hellacious — Very great, bad, or overwhelming ; exceptionally powerful or violent.
Idiosyncratic — Peculiar or individual in nature.
Ignominious — Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
Impecunious — Not having enough money to pay for necessities ; having very little money.
Inadvertent — Done by accident, without being intended ; failing to act carefully or considerately.
Inamorata — A woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations.
Inchoate — Something that is not, or not yet, completely formed or developed.
Indefatigable — Always determined and energetic in trying to achieve something and never willing to admit defeat.
Inebriated — Having drunk too much alcohol ; exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol.
Interlocutor — A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
Intransigent — Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
Jingoist — Someone who believes that their own country is always best ; an extreme form of patriotism that often calls for violence towards foreigners and foreign countries.
Jeopardize — To put something or someone in danger ; to expose to danger or risk.
Juggernaut — A huge, powerful, and overwhelming force ; a literal or metaphorical force regarded as merciless, destructive, and unstoppable.
Jurisprudence — The science or philosophy of law ; the study of law and the principles on which law is based.
Juvenescence — The state or period of being young.
Juxtapose — To put things that are not similar next to each other ; place or deal with close together for contrasting effect.
Kafkaesque — Eextremely unpleasant, frightening, and confusing.
Kakistocracy — A government in which the worst people are in charge ; a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country.
Kaleidoscope — A constantly changing pattern or sequence of elements.
Kindergarten — An establishment where children below the age of compulsory education play and learn ; a nursery school.
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Laceration — A wound that is produced by the tearing of soft body tissue ; a tear or ragged cut in skin or flesh.
Lachrymose — Sad or likely to cry often and easily.
Lackadaisical — Showing little enthusiasm and effort ; without interest, vigor, or determination.
Laodicean — A general term for any half-hearted or irresolute follower of a religious faith ; lukewarm and indifferent, especially in religious matter.
Legerdemain — Skilful use of one’s hands when performing conjuring tricks.
Leviathan — A thing that is very large or powerful, especially an organization or vehicle ; anything of immense size and power.
Logorrhea — A communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness ; a tendency to extreme loquacity ; a pathological inability to stop talking.
Loquacious — Someone who talks easily, fluently, and a lot, or is talkative and chatty.
Lugubrious — Looking or sounding sad and dismal ; exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful.
Magnanimous — Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person ; someone who is big-hearted.
Mastectomy — A surgical operation to remove a woman’s breast.
Melancholic — feeling or expressing pensive sadness ; having or expressing the feeling of being very sad.
Mellifluous — Having a pleasant and flowing sound ; sounding sweet and smooth.
Mendacious — One who tells lies habitually and intentionally ; not telling the truth.
Mercurial — Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Minuscule — When something is teeny tiny ; extremely small.
Mischievous — Causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way ; naughtily or annoyingly playful ; causing or tending to cause annoyance or minor harm or damage.
Mountweazel — An invented or fake entry in a reference work ; a decoy/bogus entry in a reference work, such as a dictionary or encyclopedia.
Multifarious — A person or thing with many sides or different qualities ; many and of various types.
Munificent — Characterized by or displaying great liberality or generosity.
Myrmecophilous — Fond of, associated with, or benefited by ants.
Narcissistic — Having or showing an excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance ; having too much interest in and admiration for yourself.
Necromancy — The act of communicating with the dead in order to discover what is going to happen in the future, or black magic ; the art or practice of supposedly conjuring up the dead.
Nomenclature — A system of terms used in a particular science, field of knowledge, or art ; the system or set of names used in a specific branch of learning or activity.
Nonchalant — Behaving in a calm manner ; acts indifferent or uninterested, but really cares very much.
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Obfuscate — To make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally.
Obsequious — Too eager to praise or obey someone ; obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
Obstreperous — Marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness ; difficult to deal with and noisy.
Odontalgia — Technical name for toothache ; a pain in or about a tooth.
Omnipotent — Having unlimited power or authority ; almighty or infinite in power.
Omphaloskepsis — A lack of will to move, exert, or change ; navel-gazing ; self-absorption.
Onomatopoeia — The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Opprobrium — Harsh criticism or censure ; disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct.
Ostentatious — Attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration.
Otorhinolaryngologist — A doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, and throat ; an ENT doctor.
Palpitate — To beat very fast and in a way that is not regular ; to beat rapidly and strongly.
Paraprosdokian — A sentence or statement with an unexpected and often humorous ending, prompting the reader/listener to reinterpret its beginning.
Peccadillo — A relatively minor fault or sin.
Pejorative — Expressing contempt or disapproval ; a word or phrase that has negative connotations.
Peregrination — A long and meandering journey, especially on foot.
Perfunctory — Carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort ; done as part of a routine or duty.
Pernicious — Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Perspicacious — Having a ready insight into and understanding of things ; quick in noticing, understanding, or judging things accurately.
Pettifogging — Behaviour that gives too much attention to small details that are not important.
Philanthropic — A person or organization freely gives money or other help to people who need it.
Phlegmatic — Not easily excited or emotional ; a person having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.
Phubbing — A behavior where smartphone usage takes precedence over interacting with a companion ; the act of ignoring others in favour of one’s cell phone.
Pochemuchka — A child who asks many questions ; an overly curious child.
Pococurante — A person who is careless or indifferent ; an apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant person.
Precocious — Intellectual giftedness, especially when in children ; characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
Predilection — A preference or special liking for something ; a bias in favour of something.
Preponderance — The quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance.
Prestidigitator — A performer who uses tricks and sleight-of-hand to entertain the crowd.
Prevaricate — Speak or act in an ambiguous or evasive way to conceal the truth.
Proletarianisation — The social and economic process by which individuals or groups are transformed into the working class (proletariat).
Promulgate — Put a law or decree into effect ; to announce something publicly, especially a new law.
Prospicience — The act of seeing ahead, knowing in advance, or foreseeing ; a quality of farsightedness, foresight, or prevision.
Psychotomimetic — Of, relating to, involving, or inducing psychotic alteration of behavior and personality.
Pugnacious — Wanting to start an argument or fight, or expressing an argument or opinion very forcefully.
Pulchritudinous — Physically beautiful or attractive.
Punctilious — Very careful to behave correctly or to give attention to details.
Pusillanimous — Showing a lack of courage or determination ; weak and cowardly.
Quarantine — A restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests ; a period of 40 days.
Quattuordecillion — A number equal to 1 followed by 45 zeros.
Querulous — Having a tendency to complain ; complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner.
Questionnaire — A research tool that gathers quantitative or qualitative information ; a set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purposes of a survey or statistical study.
Quiescence — A state of inactivity or stillness.
Quintessence — The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class ; the perfect example of something.
Quixotic — Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
English Word Meaning
Rambunctious — Full of energy and difficult to control ; difficult to control or handle.
Rancorous — Having or showing a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past.
Ravenous — Very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification ; extreme hunger or desire.
Recalcitrant — Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude, especially towards authority or discipline.
Reciprocate — To share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else ; to give and take mutually.
Rehabilitate — To return someone to a healthy or usual condition or way of living ; restore someone to a good state of health or reputation.
Reminiscent — Making you remember a particular person, event, or thing.
Remonstrate — To protest or object to something ; make a forcefully reproachful protest.
Remuneration — Money paid for work or a service ; payment for work or services.
Reprehensible — Deserving censure or condemnation ; deserving of blame or strong criticism.
Reprimand — A formal expression of disapproval ; strong official criticism of a person or their behaviour.
Resuscitate — To bring someone or something back to life or wake someone or something ; to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
Sacrilegious — Treating something holy or important without respect ; extremely disrespectful towards something considered sacred.
Sadomasochism — Deriving pleasure, often sexual, from inflicting or receiving physical or psychological pain, humiliation, or degradation.
Sagacious — having or showing understanding and the ability to make good judgments.
Sanctimonious — making a show of being morally superior to other people ; excessively or hypocritically pious.
Schadenfreude — Pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.
Scurrilous — Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.
Serendipity — the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
Sesquipedalian — A very long, polysyllabic word.
Silhouette — A dark shape seen against a light surface ; the outline of a solid figure as cast by its shadow.
Smaragdine — Emerald-green in color or of or pertaining to emeralds.
Spanandry — The extreme scarcity of males in a population.
Stultiloquence — Senseless, foolish, or silly talk, also described as babble or foolish discourse.
Succedaneum — Something that is used as a substitute ; a substitute, especially for a medicine or drug.
Surreptitious — Done secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing.
Surveillance — Close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal ; the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army.
Sycophant — A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
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Taciturn — Inclined to silence ; reserved in speech ; reluctant to join in conversation.
Tantamount — Being essentially equal to something ; being almost the same or having the same effect as something, usually something bad.
Tergiversation — Evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement.
Travesty — A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something ; an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.
Trepidation — A feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen ; a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation.
Trichotillomania — An abnormal desire to pull out one’s own hair.
Turquoise — A greenish-blue colour ; a blue-green precious stone often used in jewelry.
Ubiquitous — Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
Umbrage — To feel upset, offended, annoyed, or resentful, often due to a perceived slight or lack of respect.
Unfathomable — Incapable of being fully explored or understood ; impossible to understand.
Ursprache — A hypothetically reconstructed parent language ; any hypothetical extinct and unrecorded language.
Vangeance — The punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family ; punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
Vicissitude — A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
Vitriolic — Filled with bitter criticism or malice ; language or behavior that is full of bitter hatred, anger, and malice, like a strong acid.
Vituperate — To speak or write in an extremely negative way about someone.
Vivisepulture — The act or practice of burying something or someone while they are still alive ; premature burial or burial alive.
Vociferous — Expressing or characterized by vehement opinions ; loud and forceful.
Waggish — Humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner ; using or expressing humour in a clever way.
Wanderlust — A strong desire to travel ; the wish to travel far away and to many different places.
Wardrobe — A large, tall cupboard or recess in which clothes may be hung or stored ; a standing closet used for storing clothes.
Whimsical — Unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying ; spontaneously fanciful or playful.
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Xanthic — Of, relating to, or tending toward a yellow colour ; Yellowish.
Xanthosis — Yellow discoloration of the skin from abnormal causes.
Xenophobia — Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners ; dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
Xeroderma — A skin condition characterized by excessively dry skin ; extremely dry skin.
Yahooism — The behaviour of a brutish or crude person ; the act of online fraud.
Yammer — to talk continuously for a long time in a way that is annoying to other people ; talk foolishly or incessantly.
Yearning — A strong feeling of wishing for something ; a tender or urgent longing.
Yodeling — To sing by suddenly changing from a natural voice to a falsetto and back ; a form of singing or calling marked by rapid alternation between the normal voice and falsetto.
Yummylicious — Something extremely tasty or delightful.
Zabernism — The misuse or abuse of military authority.
Zanyism — A characteristic, state, or practice of being a clown or buffoon.
Zeitgeist — The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
Zephyr — A soft, gentle breeze ; a slight wind.
Zeugma — A literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways.
Zoanthropy — Mental disorder in which a patient believes to be an animal ; a mental condition involving the delusion of being an animal.
