The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 19 January 2022
NONPAREIL (adjective) : अतुल
- Meaning: having no match or equal; unrivalled.
- अर्थ: जिसका कोई मेल या बराबर न हो; बेजोड़।
- Synonyms: incomparable, matchless, unrivalled, inimitable.
- Antonyms: familiar, frequent, normal, ordinary.
- Usage: The champions deserved the title because they were nonpareil all season and won every game.
Apportioned (Verb): विभाजित
- Meaning: To give or share out something
- अर्थ: किसी वस्तु को देना या बाँटना
- Synonyms: Allocate, Distribute, Serve, Divide.
- Antonyms: Misallocate, Decline, Deny, Deprive.
- Usage: The power should be apportioned as per the requirement.
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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.
COZEN (verb): छलना
- Meaning: to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery.
- अर्थ: छल-कपट करना, जीतना, या कृत्रिम मनोदशा और घरघराहट या चतुर चालबाजी द्वारा कुछ करने के लिए प्रेरित करना।
- Synonyms: bamboozle, beguile, bluff, deceive, delude, dupe, gaff, gull, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, juggle, misguide.
- Antonyms: debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask, disclose, divulge, unveil
- disabuse, disenchant.
- Usage: Dicing-houses, where cheaters meet, and cozen young men out of their money.
LOUT (noun): गंवार
- Meaning: a big clumsy often slow-witted person.
- अर्थ: एक बड़ा अनाड़ी अक्सर धीमा-शांत व्यक्ति होता है।
- Synonyms: ignoramus, imbecile, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, dimwit.
- Antonyms: brain, egghead, genius, intellectual, sage, thinker, whiz, wizard.
- Usage: But this question was beyond the poor lout’s intelligence; he could only blubber and fend off possible chastisement.
Protege (Noun): आश्रित
- Meaning: A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person.
- अर्थ: एक व्यक्ति जो एक बड़े और अधिक अनुभवी या प्रभावशाली व्यक्ति द्वारा निर्देशित और समर्थित है।
- Synonyms: Pupil, student, trainee.
- Antonyms: Guardian, adult
- Usage: Ram submitted his protege name to the elections.
GRIPE (verb): कष्ट देना
- Meaning: to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely.
- अर्थ: असंतोष, दर्द या आक्रोश व्यक्त करने के लिए आमतौर पर थकाऊ होते हैं।
- Synonyms: bellyache, bleat, carp, complain, crab, croak, fuss, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, nag, scream, squawk, squeal, whimper, whine.
- Antonyms: bear, countenance, endure, tolerate, applaud, cheer, commend, delight, rejoice.
- Usage: Her tendency to gripe constantly drove everyone away.
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.
SEMINAL (adjective): लाभदायक
- Meaning: Strongly influencing later developments.
- अर्थ: बाद के घटनाक्रमों को दृढ़ता से प्रभावित करना।
- Synonyms: Influential, Formative, Important, Primary.
- Antonyms: Dull, Inessential, Minor, Unsubstantial.
- Usage: Newton’s laws are seminal in the field of physics.
