Lifestyle: Improve your vocabulary skills to score good marks in exams

Lifestyle: Hard work and determination can go a long way in helping students achieve their goals. It is important for candidates to work on their word skills to help them score better in competitive exams. Here is a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the word for the day and a short quiz to motivate yourself to improve your word power and language skills. Irritable (

Adjective)

Meaning: Disturbing; annoying Example: Frankly, this is an irritating fact for someone whose ambitions go beyond maximising profits Indecisive (adjective) Meaning: Showing or feeling hesitant; uncertain Example: After previous outrages we were indecisive and appeared reluctant to defend ourselves Endless (adjective) Meaning: Endlessly or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically) Example: There was as usual endless discussion about this at half-time and afterwards Imminent (adjective) Meaning: (about an event that is considered threatening or important) about to happen; upcoming Example: And this is when some imminent high-profile closures cause even bigger problems Stretch your thinking further and try to answer the following questions to gauge how much you have understood. We see that we have now drawn attention to the arrival of the album. Which of the following words best fits the sentence? (imminent, endless) After overcoming those obstacles we drive south. Which of the following words best suits the sentence? (Endless, Indestructible) Can you think of some antonyms for the word endless? Can you think of some synonyms for the word ‘indestructible’? Watch this space for your weekly update on improving word power.

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