The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 29 March 2022
PURITANICAL (adjective) : सख़्त
- Meaning: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence.
- अर्थ: स्व-भोग के प्रति बहुत सख्त या असंवैधानिक नैतिक रवैया रखना या प्रदर्शित करना।
- Synonyms: prudish, puritan, prim, priggish.
- Antonyms: lecherous, indulgent, indecent, debauched.
- Usage: It just shows that those endless puritanical bromides about the perils of fixating on individual designers are wasted breath.
SWATHE (noun) : लिफाफा
- Meaning: a large part of something that includes several different things.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज़ का एक बड़ा हिस्सा जिसमें कई अलग-अलग चीज़ें शामिल होती हैं।
- Synonyms: envelope, stretch, area, track.
- Antonyms: brink, border, boundary, margin.
- Usage: These people represent a broad swathe of public opinion.
MALAPERT (Adjective) : बेशरम
- Meaning: boldly disrespectful; impudent.
- अर्थ: साहसपूर्वक अनादर।
- Synonym: impertinent, cheeky, rude, brazen.
- Antonyms: courteous, humble, modest, polite.
- Usage: 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
Pernicious (adjective) हानिकारक
- Meaning: causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed.
- अर्थ: अक्सर इस तरह से बहुत नुकसान या क्षति पहुंचाना जो आसानी से देखा या नोटिस नहीं किया जाता है।
- Synonym: damaging, dangerous, lethal, malicious.
- Antonyms: assisting, benevolent, beneficial, advantageous.
- Sentence: These resolutions later acquired extraordinary and pernicious prominence in the historical elaboration of the states’-rights doctrine.
Amicable (adjective) : मैत्रीपूर्ण
- Meaning: Friendly
- अर्थ: मित्रवत
- Synonym: Cordial, Harmonious, amiable, polite.
- Antonym: impolite, uncivil, rude, unfriendly.
- Sentence: Most customer service agents are amicable people who are good at settling disagreements.
Delineating (verb) : चित्रित करना
- Meaning:- describe or portray (something) precisely.
- अर्थ: – ठीक-ठीक वर्णन (चित्रण) करो।
- Synonyms:- define, depict, lay out
- Antonyms:-confuse, distort
- Example:-There was a particular dog in Washington which he was never tired of delineating.
Perfunctory (adjective) : असावधान
- Meaning:- (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort.
- अर्थ: – (किसी क्रिया का) बिना वास्तविक रुचि, भाव या प्रयत्न के किया गया।
- Synonyms:- cursory, offhand, sketchy
- Antonyms:-careful, complete
- Example:-She began to fry her pork and apples, with a perfunctory attempt at conversation.
Exaggerated (adjective) : अतिशयोक्तिपूर्ण
- Meaning:- regarded or represented as larger, better, or worse than in reality.
- अर्थ: – वास्तविकता से बड़ा, बेहतर या बुरा माना या माना गया।
- Synonyms:- abstract, distorted, excessive
- Antonyms:-actual, believable, calm
- Example:-His great failing was that he exaggerated–no tale ever losing anything in his charge.
Scurrility (noun) : गाली-गलौज
- Meaning:- the quality of being scurrilous.
- अर्थ: – खूंखार होने का गुण।
- Synonyms:- abomination, affront, atrocity
- Antonyms:-blessing, compliment, decency
- Example:-There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.
Backdrop (verb) : पृष्ठभूमि
Meaning:- lie behind or beyond; serve as a background to.अर्थ: – पीछे या परे झूठ; की पृष्ठभूमि के रूप में सेवा करते हैं।Synonyms:- scenery, scrimExample: -A low line of hills loomed beyond, painted of silver-gray against the backdrop of starry sky and the pallor of moon mists.
