The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 16 July 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 16 July 2021

SECLUSION (Noun) तनहाई

• Meaning: the state of being alone, away from other people
• अर्थ: अकेले रहने की अवस्था, अन्य लोगों से दूर
• Synonyms: remoteness, aloneness
• Antonyms: open, public
• Example: In some societies women are kept in seclusion, so that they are hardly ever seen in public.

INVIGORATE  ऊर्जावान

• Meaning: to make someone feel fresher, healthier, and more energetic
• अर्थ: किसी को तरोताजा, स्वस्थ और अधिक ऊर्जावान महसूस कराना

• Synonyms: energize, rejuvenate
• Antonyms: bore, dull
• Example: His overarching argument, forcefully and uncompromisingly presented, is original, challenging, invigorating.

MANOEUVRE (noun)  कुशलता

• Meaning: a carefully planned or cunning scheme or action.
• अर्थ: सावधानीपूर्वक योजना या चालाक योजना या कार्रवाई।
• Synonyms: stratagem, tactic, gambit, ploy.
• Antonyms: innocence, candor, simplicity, incapacity.
• Example: A reasonable bridge building effort between activists and experts on both sides to try to address the issues through tactical maneuvers might be useful.

STERN (adjective)  कठोर

• Meaning: (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.
• अर्थ: (किसी व्यक्ति या उनके तरीके से) गंभीर और अविश्वसनीय, विशेष रूप से अधिकार और अनुशासन के अभ्यास में।
• Synonyms: grave, sober, austere, frowning.
• Antonyms: benign, gentle, mild, tender.
• Example: All are stern judges and they expect others to be as serious about everything as they are.

PETULANT (adjective)  चिड़चिड़ा

• Meaning: easily irritated or annoyed.
• अर्थ: आसानी से चिढ़ या नाराज।

• Synonyms: choleric, grouchy, grumpy, peevish.
• Antonyms: affable, cordial, genial, gregarious.
• Example: When the movie started, the petulant infant would not stop crying because of the loud noise.

STENTORIAN (adjective) बुलंद

• Meaning: (of a person’s voice) loud and powerful.
• अर्थ: (किसी व्यक्ति की आवाज़) ज़ोर से और शक्तिशाली।
• Synonyms: blaring, clamorous, piercing, resounding.
• Antonyms: peaceful, serene, soothing, tranquil.
• Usage: When my father speaks in a stentorian voice, I know I’m in trouble.

Interdict (Noun) पाबंदी

• 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.

Agony(noun) व्यथा

• Meaning: extreme physical or mental suffering.
• अर्थ: अत्यधिक शारीरिक या मानसिक पीड़ा
• Synonym: pain, hurt, suffering
• Antonym: Heaven, paradise
• Usage: For the patient, the mere act of blinking was agony.

Quadrupled(verb) चार गुना

• Meaning: increase or be increased fourfold.
• अर्थ: चार गुना बढ़ जाना या बढ़ जाना।
• Synonym: tetrad, quadrivial
• Antonym: unsettled, unready
• Usage: Since 1970 the number of inmates in American prisons has quadrupled.

Gob­smacked(adjective) चकित

• Meaning: utterly astonished; astounded.
• अर्थ: पूरी तरह से चकित; चकित।
• Synonym: astonished, surprised
• Antonym: unsurprised
• Usage: She was gobsmacked when the limo pulled up outside her home in Tattershall, Toothill.

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