The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 10 October 2020 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
SISYPHEAN(Adjective) : व्यर्थ
- Meaning: Referring to a task that can never be finished
- अर्थ: ऐसे कार्य का जिक्र करना जो कभी समाप्त नहीं हो सकता
- Synonym: futile, fruitless
- Antonym: effective, useful
- Usage: It’s a difficult task, maybe even a sisyphean one, but it’s a challenge for someone to do.
DEMUR (Verb) : आपत्ति
- Meaning: raise objections or show reluctance.
- अर्थ: आपत्तियाँ उठाना या अनिच्छा दिखाना।
- Synonyms: object, protest, cavil, dissent
- Antonyms: accept, agree
- Usage: Because the DA decided to demur the low bond, it was set at a higher fee.
TIRADE(Noun) : निंदा-भाषण
- Meaning: a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation.
- अर्थ: आलोचना या आरोप का लंबा, गुस्सा भरा भाषण।
- Synonyms: diatribe, invective, polemic, denunciation, rant
- Antonyms: compliment, praise
- Usage: She launched into a tirade against the policies that ruined her business.
INTERDICT (Noun) : प्रतिबंध
- Meaning: an authoritative prohibition, in particular
- अर्थ: एक आधिकारिक निषेध, विशेष रूप से
- Synonym: prohibition, ban, bar, veto, prescription,
- Antonym: corroborate, support
- Usage: Because I failed most of my classes last term, my parents will probably interdict me from working this semester.
FARE (verb) : प्रबंधन
- Meaning: perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period.
- अर्थ: किसी विशेष स्थिति में या किसी विशेष अवधि में निर्दिष्ट तरीके से प्रदर्शन करना।
- Synonyms: proceed, progress, manage, cope.
- Antonyms: cease, regress, suppress, retard.
- Usage: We’ll also give you an exclusive analysis of how each team fared over the weekend.
POGROM (noun) : तबाही
- Meaning: massacre, mass murder.
- अर्थ: नरसंहार, सामूहिक हत्या।
- Synonyms: holocaust, slaughter, decimation, carnage.
- Antonyms: relief, rescue, refuge, support.
- Usage: It is unthinkable that anyone could design a pogrom as a means for eliminating a group of people.
SUPPURATE(Verb) : पकना
- Meaning: Cause to ripen and discharge pus.
- अर्थ: मवाद का पकना और निकलना।
- Synonym: fester, decay
- Antonym: invest, enlist
- Usage: If that scrape on your hand starts to suppurate, you might want to go to the doctor.
TROVE (noun): कोष
- Meaning: a store of valuable or delightful things.
- अर्थ: मूल्यवान या रमणीय वस्तुओं का भंडार।
- Synonyms: accumulation, agglomeration, backlog, conglomeration, heap, pile, reservoir, stock
- Store, supply.
- Antonyms: trash, litter, junk, dispersion, reduction, shrinkage.
- Usage: I discovered a trove of candy bars and pop tarts in my teen son’s pillow case.
EXEGESIS (noun): टिप्पणी
- Meaning: an explanation or critical interpretation of a text.
- अर्थ: किसी पाठ की व्याख्या या आलोचनात्मक व्याख्या।
- Synonyms: interpretation, exposition, explication, elucidation, clarification, gloss, annotation, illustration.
- Antonyms: pain point.
- Usage: The student’s exegesis of the novel was one of the best summaries the professor had ever read.
PRATTLE (verb): बकबक करना
- Meaning: talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
- अर्थ: मूर्खतापूर्ण या असंगत तरीके से बात करना।
- Synonyms: chatter, babble, prate, blather, ramble, gabble, jabber, maunder, drivel, patter, jibber-jabber, blabber, natter, waffle.
- Antonyms: quiet, silence, clamor, enunciate, articulate, pronounce.
- Usage: To make others envious, Reena likes to prattle on about her great job.
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