The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 18 June 2022
ECHELON (noun): उपाधि स्तर
- Meaning: a level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.
- अर्थ : एक संगठन, एक पेशे या समाज में एक स्तर या रैंक।
- Synonyms: status, rank, grade, stratum.
- Antonyms: slope, unemployment, unsettle.
- Example: The prominent college ranks among the top echelon of schools in the nation.
EXIGENT (Adjective) : जरूरी, अत्यावश्यक
- Meaning: pressing; demanding.
- अर्थ : अत्यावश्यक, माँग करना
- Synonyms: urgent, crucial
- Antonyms: unpressured, facile
- Example: I try not to be exigent with my students, but as a teacher I have to press them to get their work done.
EULOGIZE(Verb): स्तुति करना
- Meaning: to praise someone or something in a speech or piece of writing
- अर्थ : भाषण या लेखन के किसी अंश में किसी की प्रशंसा करना
- Synonyms: applaud, commend
- Antonyms: blame, criticize
- Example: Critics everywhere have eulogized her new novel.
DIMINUTION (Noun) : अवनति
- Meaning: a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज के आकार, सीमा या महत्व में कमी।
- Synonyms: curtailment, contraction, constriction, restriction, limitation
- Antonyms: increase, expansion, growth
- Sentence: The diminution of cafeteria monitors has resulted in an increase in food fights at the high school.
RELENT (verb) : नरम पड़ना
- Meaning: to cease resistance (as to another’s arguments, demands, or control).
- अर्थ: प्रतिरोध को रोकना (दूसरे के तर्क, मांग या नियंत्रण के अनुसार)।
- Synonyms: concede, give in, submit, succumb.
- Antonyms: combat, confront, counter, defy.
- Sentence: Because my mother is very angry, she won’t relent on my severe punishment.
Malapert (adjective) : गुस्ताख़
- Meaning: boldly disrespectful; impudent.
- अर्थ: साहसपूर्वक अनादर।
- Synonym: impertinent, cheeky, rude, brazen.
- Antonyms: courteous, humble, modest, polite.
- Sentence: In a fury, she said that he was too malapert to give her such an answer, and affirmed that both he and they should repent it.
Taciturn(Adjective) : अल्पभाषी
- Meaning: tending to be quiet, not speaking frequently.
- अर्थ: शांत रहना, बार-बार नहीं बोलना।
- Synonym: closemouthed, laconic, untalkative, uncommunicative, reticent, reserved.
- Antonym: chatty, garrulous, blabby, talkative, loquacious
- Sentence: He is somewhat taciturn young man.
STASH (Verb) : छिपाने की जगह
- Meaning: store (something) safely in a hidden or secret place.
- अर्थ: एक छिपी या गुप्त जगह में सुरक्षित रूप से (कुछ) स्टोर करें।
- Synonyms: bury, conceal, disguise, smuggle
- Antonyms: expose, reveal
- Example: Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners.
SUBTERRANEAN (adjective) : भूमिगत
- Meaning: secret; concealed.
- अर्थ: गुप्त।
- Synonyms: covert, subversive, sunken, private.
- Antonyms: aboveground, surface, open, palpable.
- Example: The robbers are digging a subterranean path that will allow them to enter the bank from underneath the vault’s floor.
Knackered(Adjective) : थका हुआ
- Meaning: Feeling very tires
- अर्थ: बहुत थकान महसूस करना
- Synonym: worn out, weary
- Antonym: Working and fixed
- Usage: Reema is feeling knackered after working all day long in the seminar.
INIMICAL (Adjective) : विरोधी
- Meaning: unfriendly; hostile.
- अर्थ: अमित्र; शत्रुतापूर्ण।
- Synonyms: hostile, unfriendly, antagonistic, ill-disposed, unkind
- Antonyms: friendly, warm
- Example: It may have become inimical to our happiness.