The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 1 June 2022
Exhort(verb) : समझाना
- Meaning: Strongly encourage or urge to do something
- अर्थ: कुछ करने के लिए दृढ़ता से प्रोत्साहित करना या आग्रह करना
- Synonym: enjoin, adjure,
- Antonym: discourage
- Usage: Priya tries to Exhort her friend about her career. but she is not ready to listen.
Titter(verb) : दबी हुई हँसी
- Meaning: Give a short, half-suppressed laugh, giggle
- अर्थ: एक छोटी, दबी हुई हंसी
- Synonym: giggle, snigger
- Antonym: Graon, moan
- Usage: The teen girls tittered at her light-hearted curse.
BUOYED(verb) : बढ़ावा देना
- Meaning: to sustain or encourage (often followed by up)
- अर्थ: बनाए रखने या प्रोत्साहित करने के लिए
- Synonyms: bolster, boost
- Antonyms: depress, deplete
- Usage: Her courage was buoyed by the doctor’s assurances.
HARK (verb) : सुनना
- Meaning: to pay attention especially through the act of hearing
- अर्थ: विशेष रूप से सुनवाई के माध्यम से ध्यान देना
- Synonym: attend, harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen, mind
- Antonym: ignore, tune out
- Usage: Upon hearing the offending ringing, the teacher sarcastically cried, “Hark! Could that possibly be a cell phone?”
DYNAMISM (noun) : गतिशीलता
- Meaning: the fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
- अर्थ: एक ही समय में होने वाली या विद्यमान दो या अधिक घटनाओं या परिस्थितियों का तथ्य।
- Synonym: beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, energy, Esprit
- Antonym: lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
- Usage: Voters were attracted to the young challenger’s dynamism, charisma, and progressive ideas.
SUBVERT (verb) : गिराना
- Meaning: undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution).
- अर्थ: (एक स्थापित प्रणाली या संस्था) की शक्ति और अधिकार को कमजोर करना।
- Synonyms: destabilize, unsettle, overthrow, overturn.
- Antonyms: elevate, ennoble, uplift, exalt.
- Usage: Please reject this underhanded attempt to subvert democracy in Illinois.
PRIGGISH (adjective) : दम्भी
- Meaning: self-righteously moralistic and superior.
- अर्थ: स्वयंभू रूप से नैतिक और श्रेष्ठ।
- Synonyms: smug, sanctimonious, moralistic, prudish.
- Antonyms: broad-minded, permissive, overstrung, uptight.
- Usage: After living with his wife for 30 years, the husband was tired of the nagging and demands made by his priggish woman.
SWATHE (noun) : लिफाफा
- Meaning: a large part of something that includes several different things.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज़ का एक बड़ा हिस्सा जिसमें कई अलग-अलग चीज़ें शामिल होती हैं।
- Synonyms: envelope, stretch, area, track.
- Antonyms: brink, border, boundary, margin.
- Usage: These people represent a broad swathe of public opinion.
PLURALISM (noun) : बहुलवाद
- Meaning: the quality or state of being plural
- अर्थ: बहुवचन होने की गुणवत्ता या स्थिति
- Synonym: more than one, double, multiple.
- Antonym: single, only one, one at a time.
- Usage: He spoke of the benefits of cultural pluralism.
