The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 2 May 2022
RELEGATE (Verb) : निर्वासित कर देना
- Meaning: assign an inferior rank or position to.
- अर्थ: हीन पद या पद को सौंपना।
- Synonyms: downgrade, banish, exile, degrade
- Antonyms: upgrade, promote
- Example : If you don’t want your boss to relegate you to the status of unemployed, you’d better watch what you say on social media.
NAB (verb) : पकड़ लेना
- Meaning: catch (someone) doing something wrong.
- अर्थ: कुछ गलत करते हुए (किसी को) पकड़ना।
- Synonyms: seize, apprehend, arrest, restrain.
- Antonyms: emancipate, free, liberate, unchain.
- Usage: A bank robber was nabbed because he made the classic mistake of returning to the scene of the crime.
Vernacular (Noun) : जनभाषा
- Meaning: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.
- अर्थ: किसी देश या क्षेत्र के सामान्य लोगों द्वारा बोली जाने वाली भाषा या बोली।
- Synonym: everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, slang
- Usage: To hold the interest of the community, the playwright penned his play using only the local vernacular.
Plagiarize (Verb) : साहित्यिक चोरी करना
- Meaning: take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one’s own.
- अर्थ: (किसी दूसरे के काम या विचार) को लेना और उसे अपने ही समान मानना।
- Synonym: infringe the copyright of, pirate, steal, poach, borrow,
- Usage: Professional writers who plagiarize can be taken to court and ordered to pay damages.
DOWNRIGHT (adjective) : सर्वथा
- Meaning: (of something bad or unpleasant) utter; complete (used for emphasis).
- अर्थ: (कुछ बुरा या अप्रिय का) उच्चारण करना; पूर्ण (जोर देने के लिए प्रयुक्त)।
- Synonyms: total, absolute, thorough, perfect, sheer.
- Antonyms: inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, unfinished.
- Usage: It was downright bad marking that allowed Dermot Shields head past Larkin from six yards for the lead goal.
MANDATE (noun) : शासनादेश
- Meaning: an official order or commission to do something.
- अर्थ: कुछ करने के लिए एक आधिकारिक आदेश या आयोग।
- Synonyms: instruction, directive, direction, decree, command
- Antonyms: encourage
- Usage: They carried out the governor’s mandate to build more roads.
DISSIDENCE (Noun) : मतभेद
- Meaning: disagreement over a matter
- अर्थ: किसी बात पर असहमति
- Synonyms: contention, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, dispute
- Antonyms: agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence
- Usage: So much is said nowadays about the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual worlds.
INCHOATE (adjective) : प्रारंभिक
- Meaning: just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.
- अर्थ: अभी शुरू हुआ और इसलिए पूरी तरह से गठित या विकसित नहीं हुआ; अल्पविकसित।
- Synonyms: budding, inceptive, incipient, nascent.
- Antonyms: developed, full-fledged, evolved, ripened.
- Usage: Having just come into existence a few years ago, the new political party is considered inchoate by many historians.
CONFLATE (verb) : मिलाना
- Meaning: combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
- अर्थ: एक में दो (सूचना, ग्रंथों, विचारों, आदि के दो या अधिक) संयोजन।
- Synonyms: amalgamate, converge, unify, fuse.
- Antonyms: divide, part, separate, rupture.
- Usage: To conflate art and science, teachers must design activities that blend the two.
STRINGENT (adjective) : कड़ी से कड़ी
- Meaning: not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards
- अर्थ: किसी भी अपवाद या मानकों को ढीला करने की अनुमति नहीं
- Synonyms: brassbound, cast-iron, exacting, hard-line, inflexible, rigid, rigorous,
- Antonyms: flexible, lax, loose, relaxed, slack
- Usage: There are stringent rules against unauthorized persons being in our building
