The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 22 February 2022
Humdrum(Adjective) : फीका
- Meaning: Lacking excitement or variety
- अर्थ: उत्साह में कमी या विविधता
- Synonym: Dull, boring, monotonous
- Antonym: Remarkable, exciting
- Usage: No matter how humdrum is your life without a job, once you get it things will go fine.
Connivance(Noun) : देखी-अनदेखी
- Meaning: Secretly involved in immoral or illegal activity.
- अर्थ: अनैतिक या अवैध गतिविधि में गुप्त रूप से शामिल।
- Synonym: Involvement, assistance, conspiracy, intrigue
- Antonym: Disapprobation, rejection, dislike
- Usage: With the connivance of the government, the Indian army planned a surgical strike.
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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.
DISTRATE (adjective) : विचलित
- Meaning: distracted or absent-minded.
- अर्थ: विचलित या अनुपस्थित-चित्त।
- Synonyms: forgetful, inattentive, oblivious, heedless.
- Antonyms: alert, attentive, focused, unperturbed.
- Usage: He grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash
BENIGNANT (adjective) : दयालु
- Meaning: having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others.
- अर्थ: दूसरों के लिए सहानुभूति और विचार द्वारा चिह्नित या चिह्नित करना।
- Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, compassionate, softhearted.
- Antonyms: atrocious, barbarous, callous, fiendish.
- Usage: The queen had a benignant reputation and was loved for her caring treatment of others.
FARRAGO (noun) : मिश्रण
- Meaning: a confused mixture.
- अर्थ: एक उलझन भरा मिश्रण।
- Synonyms: mishmash, hodgepodge, clutter, turmoil.
- Antonyms: constituent, ravel, sequence, categorization.
- Usage: The present gun law is a farrago of nonsense as most of it is unenforceable.
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, curtailing, cutting back, cut back, cut, attenuation, reduction, lessening,
- Antonym: accretion, accrual, accumulation, addition, supplement
- Usage: Led by P.V. Narasimha Rao, it steered the country away from a diminution of its political stature that was assured were it to renege on them.
Preponderance (NOUN) : प्रधानता
- Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance.
- अर्थ: संख्या, मात्रा, या महत्व में अधिक होने का गुण या तथ्य।
- Synonym: prevalence, predominance, dominance
- Antonym: couple, few, handful, smattering, sprinkling
- Usage: the preponderance of medical tests identifies your medical condition as terminal cancer.
Wanton(Adjective) : ऊधमी
- Meaning: (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked
- अर्थ: (एक क्रूर या हिंसक कार्रवाई के लिए) जानबूझकर और अकारण
- Synonym: bawdy, nasty, obscene, deliberate, malicious,
- Antonym: clean, decent, acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing
- Usage: The man is probably going to get the death penalty for his wanton killing of six school children.
