| Sr No. | Word | hindi | Meaning | Example |
| 3246 | spry | चंचल | vigorously active; nimble | She was eighty years old, yet
still spry and alert. |
| 3247 | spurious | नक़ली | false; counterfeit; forged;
illogical | The hero of Jonathan Gash's mystery novels is an antique dealer who gives the reader advice on how to tell spurious antiques from the real things.
|
| 3248 | spurn | तिरस्कार | reject; scorn | The heroine spurned the
villain's advances. |
| 3249 | squabble | झगड़ा | minor quarrel; bickering | Children invariably get involved
in petty squabbles; wise parents know when to interfere and when to let the
children work things out on their own. |
| 3250 | squalid | मलिन | dirty; neglected; poor | It is easy to see how crime can
breed in such a squalid neighborhood. |
| 3251 | squander | गंवाना | waste | The prodigal son squandered the
family estate. |
| 3252 | squat | फूहड़ | stocky; short and thick | Tolkien's hobbits are somewhat
squat, sturdy little creatures, fond of good ale, good music, and good food. |
| 3253 | staccato | staccato | played in an abrupt manner;
marked by abrupt, sharp sound | His staccato speech reminded one
of the sound of a machine gun. |
| 3254 | stagnant | स्थिर | motionless; stale; dull | The stagnant water was a
breeding ground for disease |
| 3255 | staid | शांत | sober; sedate | Her conduct during the funeral
ceremony was staid and solemn. |
| 3256 | stalemate | गतिरोध | deadlock | Negotiations between the union
and the employers have reached a stalemate; neither side is willing to budge
from previously stated positions. |
| 3257 | stalwart | निष्ठावान | strong, brawny; steadfast | His consistent support of the
party has proved that he is a stalwart and loyal member. |
| 3258 | stamina | सहनशक्ति | strength; staying power | I doubt that she has the stamina
to run the full distance of the marathon race. |
| 3259 | stanch | stanch | check flow of blood | It is imperative that we stanch
the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries. |
| 3260 | stanza | छंद | division of a poem | Do you know the last stanza of
"The Star-Spangled Banner"? |
| 3261 | static | स्थिर | unchanging; lacking development | Nothing had changed at home;
things were static there |
| 3262 | statute | क़ानून | law | We have many statutes in our law
books which should be repealed. |
| 3263 | statutory | वैधानिक | created by statute or
legislative action | The judicial courts review and
try statutory crimes. |
| 3264 | steadfast | दृढ़ | loyal; unswerving | Penelope was steadfast in her
affections, faithfully waiting for Ulysses to return from his wanderings. |
| 3265 | stealth | छल | slyness; sneakiness;
secretiveness | Fearing detection by the
sentries on duty, the scout inched his way toward the enemy camp with great
stealth. |
| 3266 | steep | खड़ी | soak; saturate | Be sure to steep the fabric in
the dye bath for the full time prescribed. |
| 3267 | stellar | तारकीय | pertaining to the stars | He was the stellar attraction of
the entire performance. |
| 3268 | stem | तना | check the flow | The paramedic used a tourniquet
to stem the bleeding from the slashed artery. |
| 3269 | stemfrom | से उत्पन्न | arise from | Milton's problems in school
stemmed from his poor study habits. |
| 3270 | stentorian | बुलंद | extremely loud | The town crier had stentorian
voice. |
| 3271 | stickler | हामी | perfectionist; person who
insists things be exactly right | The Internal Revenue Service
agent was a stickler for accuracy; no approximations or rough estimates would
satisfy him. |
| 3272 | stifle | दबाना | suppress; extinguish; inhibit | Halfway through the boring
lecture, Laura gave up trying to stifle her yawns. |
| 3273 | stigma | कलंक | token of disgrace; brand | I do not attach any stigma to
the fact that you were accused of this crime; the fact that you were
acquitted clears you completely. |
| 3274 | stilted | असार | bombastic; stiffly pompous | His stilted rhetoric did not
impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances. |
| 3275 | stint | कार्यकाल | be thrifty; set limits | Spare no expense, the bride's
father said, refusing to stint on the wedding arrangements. |
| 3276 | stint | कार्यकाल | supply; allotted amount;
assigned portion of work | He performed his daily stint
cheerfully and willingly. |
| 3277 | stipend | वृत्ति | pay for services | There is a nominal stipend for
this position. |
| 3278 | stipple | स्टिपल | paint or draw with dots | Seurat carefully stippled dabs
of pure color on the canvas, juxtaposing dots of blue and yellow that the
viewer's eye would interpret as green. |
| 3279 | stipulate | शर्त लगाना | make express conditions, specify | Before agreeing to reduce
American military forces in Europe, the president stipulated that NATO teams
be allowed to inspect Soviet bases. |
| 3280 | stodgy | फूला हुआ | stuffy; boringly conservative | For a young person, Winston
seems remarkably stodgy: you'd expect someone of his age to have a little
more life. |
| 3281 | stoic | उदासीन | person who is indifferent to
pleasure or pain | The doctor called her patient a
stoic because he had borne the pain of the examination without whimpering. |
| 3282 | stoke | ईधन झोंकना | stir up a fire; feed plentifully | As a Scout, Marisa learned how
to light a fire, how to stoke it if it started to die down, and how to
extinguish it completely. |
| 3283 | stolidity | मूर्खता | dullness; impassivenss | The earthquake shattered his
usual stolidity; trembling, he crouched on the no longer stable ground. |
| 3284 | stratified | विभक्त हो गया | divided into classes; arranged
into strata | As the economic gap between the
rich and the poor increased, Roman society grew increasingly stratified. |
| 3285 | stratum | परत | layer of earth's surface; layer
of society | Unless we alleviate conditions
in the lowest stratum of our society, we may expect grumbling and revolt. |
| 3286 | streotyped | streotyped | oversimplified; lacking
individuality; seen as a type | My chief objection to the book
is that the characters are stereotyped; they come across as ethnic
caricatures, not as real people with individual quirks, fears, and dreams. |
| 3287 | strew | बिखेरना | spread randomly; sprinkle;
scatter | Preceding the bride to the
altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle. |
| 3288 | striated | धारीदार | marked with parallel bands;
grooved | The glacier left many striated
rocks. |
| 3289 | stricture | निंदा | critical comments; severe and
adverse criticism | His strictures on the author's
style are prejudiced and unwarranted. |
| 3290 | strident | तेज़ | loud and harsh | She scolded him in a strident
voice |
| 3291 | stringent | कठोर | binding; rigid | I think these regulations are
too stringent. |
| 3292 | strut | अकड़ | pompous walk | His strut as he marched about
the parade ground revealed him for what he was: a pompous buffoon. |
| 3293 | strut | अकड़ | supporting bar | The engineer calculated that the
strut supporting the rafter needed to be reinforced. |
| 3294 | studied | का अध्ययन | unspontaneous; deliberate;
thoughtful | Given Jill's previous slights,
Jack felt that the omission of his name from the guest list was a studied
insult. |
| 3295 | stultify | मूर्ख बनाना | cause to appear or become stupid
or inconsistent; frustrate or hinder | His long hours in the blacking
factory left young Dickens numb and incurious, as if the menial labor had
stultified his mind. |
| 3296 | stupefy | मूर्ख बनाना | make numb; stun; amaze | Disapproving of drugs in
general, Laura refused to take sleeping pills or any other medicine that
might stupefy her. |
| 3297 | stupor | व्यामोह | state of apathy; daze; lack of
awareness | In his stupor, the addict was
unaware of the events taking place around him. |
| 3298 | stygian | Stygian | literary dark | The stygian room reminded him of
an empty space. |
| 3299 | stymie | गतिरोध | present an obstacle; stump | The detective was stymied by the
contradictory evidence in the robbery investigation. |
| 3300 | suavity | मधुरता | urbanity; polish | He is particulary good in roles
that require suavity and sophistication. |
| 3301 | subaltern | मातहत | subordinate | The captain treated his
subalterns as though they were children rather than commissioned officers. |
| 3302 | subjective | व्यक्तिपरक | occurring or taking place within
the mind; unreal | Your analysis is highly
subjective; you have permitted your emotions and your opinions to color your
thinking. |
| 3303 | subjugate | अधीन करना | conquer; bring under control | It is not our aim to subjugate
our foe; we are interested only in establishing peaceful relations. |
| 3304 | sublimate | उदात्तीकरण करना | refine; purify | We must strive to sublimate
these desires and emotions into worthwhile activities. |
| 3305 | sublime | उदात्त | exalted; noble; uplifting | Mother Teresa has been honored
for her sublime deeds. |
| 3306 | subliminal | अचेतन | below the threshold | We may not be aware of the
subliminal influences that affect our thinking. |
| 3307 | submissive | विनम्र | yielding; timid | Crushed by his authoritarian
father, Will had no defiance left in him; he was totally submissive in the
face of authority. |
| 3308 | suborn | ठगना | persuade to act unlawfully
(especially to commit perjury) | In the Godfather, the mobsters
used bribery and threats to suborn the witnesses against Don Michael
Corleone. |
| 3309 | subpoena | आकारक | writ summoning a witness to
appear | The prosecutor's office was
ready to serve a subpoena on the reluctant witness. |
| 3310 | subsequent | आगामी | following; later | In subsequent lessons, we shall
take up more difficult problems. |
| 3311 | subservient | अधीन | behaving like a slave; servile;
obsequious | He was proud and dignified; he
refused to be subservient to anyone. |
| 3312 | subside | कम होना | settle down; descend; grow quiet | The doctor assured us that the
fever would eventually subside. |
| 3313 | subsidiary | सहायक | subordinate; secondary | This information may be used as
subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument. |
| 3314 | subsidy | सब्सिडी | direct financial aid by
government, etc. | Without this subsidy, American
ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets. |
| 3315 | subsistence | जीविका | existence; means of support;
livelihood | In those days of inflated
prices, my salary provided mere subsistence. |
| 3316 | substantiate | सिद्ध करना | verify; support | I intend to substantiate my
statement by producing witnesses. |
| 3317 | substantive | मूल | essential; pertaining to the
substance | Although the delegates were
aware of the importance of the problem, they could not agree on the
substantive issues. |
| 3318 | subsume | किसी नियम के अंतर्गत करना | include; encompass | Does the general theory of
relativity contradict Newtonian physics, or is Newton's law of gravity
subsumed into Einstein's larger scheme? |
| 3319 | subterfuge | छल | pretense; evasion | As soon as we realized that you
had won our support by a subterfuge we withdrew our endorsement of your
candidacy. |
| 3320 | subtlety | सूक्ष्मता | nicety; cunning; guile; delicacy | The subtlety of his remarks was
unnoticed by most of his audience. |
| 3321 | subversive | विनाशक | tending to overthrow;
destructive | At first glance, the notion that
Styrofoam cups may actually be more ecologically sound than paper cups
strikes most environmentalists as subversive. |
| 3322 | succinct | संक्षिप्त | brief; terse; compact | His remarks are always succinct
and pointed. |
| 3323 | succor | परेशानी में सहायता | aid; assistance; relief | We shall be ever grateful for
the succor our country gave us when we were in need. |
| 3324 | succulent | रसीला | juicy; full of richness | To some people, Florida citrus
fruits are more succulent than those from California. |
| 3325 | succumb | मर जाना | yield; give in; die | I succumb to temptation whenever
it comes my way. |
| 3326 | suffragist | suffragist | advocate of voting rights (for
women) | In recognition of her efforts to
win the vote for women, Congress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring
the suffragist Susan B. Anthony. |
| 3327 | suffuse | रंग भरना | spread over | A blush suffused her cheeks when
we teased her about her love affair. |
| 3328 | sully | मैला करना | tarnish; soil | He felt that it was beneath his
dignity to sully his hands in such menial labor. |
| 3329 | sultry | ग़ुस्से में आया | sweltering | He could not adjust himself to
the sultry climate of the tropics. |
| 3330 | summation | योग | act of finding the total,
summary | In his summation, the lawyer
emphasized the testimony given by the two witnesses. |
| 3331 | sumptuous | वैभवशाली | lavish; rich | I cannot recall when I have had
such a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast. |
| 3332 | sunder | तोड़ना | separate; part | Northern and southern Ireland
are politically and religiously sundered. |
| 3333 | sundry | विविध | various; several | My suspicions were aroused when
I read sundry items in the newspapers about your behavior. |
| 3334 | superannuated | वयोवृद्ध | retired or disqualified because
of age | The superannuated man was
indignant because he felt that he could still perform a good day's work. |
| 3335 | supercilious | नफ़रत का | contemptuous; haughty | I prefer Jill's modesty to
Jack's supercilious and arrogant attitude. |
| 3336 | supererogatory | कर्त्तव्यातिक्ति | superfluous; more than needed or
demanded | We have more than enough
witnesses to corroborate your statement; to present any more would be
supererogatory. |
| 3337 | superficial | सतही | trivial; shallow | Since your report gave only a
superficial analysis of the problem, I cannot give you more than a passing
grade. |
| 3338 | superfluous | ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा | excessive; overabundant,
unnecessary | Please try not to include so
many superfluous details in your report; just give me the bare facts. |
| 3339 | superimpose | मिलाना | place over something else | Your attempt to superimpose
another agency in this field will merely increase the bureaucratic nature of
our government. |
| 3340 | supernumerary | फ़ालतू | person or thing in excess of
what is necessary; extra | His first appearance on the
stage was as a supernumerary in a Shakespearean tragedy. |
| 3341 | supersede | निकाल फेंकना | cause to be set aside; replace | This regulation will supersede
all previous rules. |
| 3342 | supine | लापरवाह | lying on back | The defeated pugilist lay supine
on the canvas. |
| 3343 | supplant | उखाड़ना | replace; usurp | Corazon Aquino supplanted
Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines. |
| 3344 | supple | कोमल | flexible; pliant | The angler found a supple limb
and used it as a fishing rod. |
| 3345 | suppliant | मांगनेवाला | entreating; beseeching | He could not resist the dog's
suppliant whimpering, and he gave it some food. |
| 3346 | supplicate | प्रार्थना करना | petition humbly; pray to grant a
favor | We supplicate Your Majesty to
grant him amnesty. |
| 3347 | supposition | अनुमान | hypothesis; surmise | I based my decision to confide
in him on the supposition that he would be discreet. |
| 3348 | supposititious | नक़ली | assumed; counterfeit;
hypothetical | I find no similarity between
your supposititious illustration and the problem we are facing. |
| 3349 | surfeit | अतिरेक | satiate; stuff; indulge to
excess in anything | Every Thanksgiving we are
surfeited with an overabundance of holiday treats. |
| 3350 | surly | रूक्ष | rude; cross | Because of his surly attitude,
many people avoided his company. |
| 3351 | surmise | शंका | guess | I surmise that he will be late
for this meeting. |
| 3352 | surmount | विजय पाना | overcome | He had to surmount many
obstacles in order to succeed. |
| 3353 | surpass | पार | exceed | Her SAT scores surpassed out
expectations. |
| 3354 | surreptitious | छल से किया हुआ | secret | News of their surreptitious
meeting gradually leaked out. |
| 3355 | surrogate | सरोगेट | substitute | For a fatherless child, a male
teacher may become a father surrogate. |
| 3356 | surveillance | निगरानी | watching; guarding | The FBI kept the house under
constant surveillance in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time. |
| 3357 | susceptible | कोमल | impressionable; easily
influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease | He was a very susceptible young
man, and so his parents worried that he might fall into bad company. |
| 3358 | sustain | बनाए रखना | experience; support; nourish | He sustained such a severe
injury that the doctors feared he would be unable to work to sustain his
growing family. |
| 3359 | sustenance | जीविका | means of support, food,
nourishment | In the tropics, the natives find
sustenance easy to obtain because of all the fruit trees. |
| 3360 | suture | टांका | stitches sewn to hold the cut
edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing | We will remove the sutures as
soon as the wound heals. |
| 3361 | swarthy | साँवला | dark; dusky | Despite the stereotype, not all
Italians are swarthy; many are fair and blond. |
| 3362 | swathe | लपेटना | wrap around; bandage | When I visited him in the
hospital, I found him swathed in bandages. |
| 3363 | swelter | उलझन | be oppressed by heat | I am going to buy an air
conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through
another hot and humid summer. |
| 3364 | swerve | भटकना | deviate; turn aside sharply | The car swerved wildly as the
driver struggled to regain control of the wheel. |
| 3365 | swill | खंगालना | drink greedily | Singing, "Yo, ho, ho, and a
bottle of rum," Long John Silver and his fellow pirates swilled their
grog. |
| 3366 | swindler | ठग | cheat | She was gullible and trusting,
an easy victim for the first swindler who came along. |
| 3367 | sybarite | विषयी | lover of luxury | Rich people are not always
sybarites; some of them have little taste for a life of luxury. |
| 3368 | sycophant | चापलूस | servile flatterer | The king enjoyed the servile
compliments and attentions of the sycophants in his retinue. |
| 3369 | syllogism | न्याय | logical formula consisting of a
major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious
argument | There must be a fallacy in this
syllogism; I cannot accept its conclusion. |
| 3370 | sylvan | वनीय | pertaining to the woods; rustic | His paintings of nymphs in
sylvan backgrounds were criticized as oversentimental. |
| 3371 | symbiosis | सहजीवन | interdependent relationship
(between groups, species), often mutually beneficial | Both the crocodile bird and the
crocodile derive benefit from their symbiosis; pecking away at food particles
embedded in the crocodile's teeth, the bird derives nourishment; the
crocodile, meanwhile, derives proper dental hygiene. |
| 3372 | symmetry | समरूपता | arrangement of parts so that
balance is obtained; congruity | The addition of a second tower
will give this edifice the symmetry that it now lacks. |
| 3373 | synchronous | एक समय का | similary timed; simultaneous
with | We have many examples of
scientists in different parts of the world who have made synchronous
discoveries. |
| 3374 | synoptic | सामान्य अवलोकन | providing a general overview;
summary | The professor turned to the
latest issue of Dissertation Abstracts for a synoptic account of what was new
in the field. |
| 3375 | synthesis | संश्लेषण | combining parts into a whole | Now that we have succeeded in
isolating this drug, our next problem is to plan its synthesis in the
laboratory. |
| 3376 | synthetic | कृत्रिम | artificial; resulting from
synthesis | During the twentieth century,
many synthetic products have replaced the natural products. |
