The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 5 July 2022
DEMEAN: नीचा दिखाना
- Meaning: cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something).
- अर्थ: (किसी या कुछ) के सम्मान और सम्मान में एक गंभीर नुकसान का कारण।
- Synonyms: degrading, humiliating, inglorious, abject
- Antonyms: admire, elevate, honor, laud
- Example: We should not demean any profession.
RELENT (verb) : नरम पड़ना
- Meaning: to cease resistance (as to another’s arguments, demands, or control).
- अर्थ: प्रतिरोध को रोकना (दूसरे के तर्कों, मांगों या नियंत्रण के अनुसार)।
- Synonyms: concede, give in, submit, succumb.
- Antonyms: combat, confront, counter, defy.
- Example: Because my mother is very angry, she won’t relent on my severe punishment.
TRIFLE (Noun) : तुच्छ
- Meaning: a thing of little value or importance.
- अर्थ: कम मूल्य या महत्व की वस्तु।
- Synonyms: bagatelle, inessential, nothing
- Antonyms: lot
- Example: We should not trouble the CEO over such trifles.
SCOFF (Verb) : व्यंग्य
- Meaning: speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
- अर्थ: किसी से या किसी बात के बारे में तिरस्कारपूर्वक उपहासपूर्ण या उपहासपूर्ण तरीके से बोलना।
- Synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule
- Antonyms: flatter, praise, compliment
- Example: The rude rich boy thought it was fun to scoff at the poor people at his school.
INURE (verb) : सहनशील बनाना
- Meaning: accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज का आदी (कोई), विशेष रूप से कुछ अप्रिय।
- Synonyms: accustom, habituate, acclimatize, adapt.
- Antonyms: enervate, enfeeble, debilitate, incapacitate.
- Usage: The hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare.
REVERE (verb) : सम्मान
- Definition: feel deep respect or admiration for (something)
- अर्थ:(कुछ) के लिए गहरा सम्मान या प्रशंसा महसूस करना
- Synonyms: respect, admire, cherish, appreciate.
- Antonyms: blaspheme, desecrate, profane, violate.
- Usage: If you want to achieve any goal, revere the process & success will follow.
ABOMINATE : घृणा करना
- Meaning: to hate something very much
- अर्थ: किसी बात से बहुत अधिक घृणा करना
- Synonyms: abhor, despise
- Antonyms: love, like
- Example: They abominated the idea of red tapism.
PROFANE : अपवित्र
- Meaning: vulgar and inappropriate
- अर्थ: अशिष्ट और अनुपयुक्त
- Synonyms: coarse, nasty
- Antonyms: kind, polite
- Example: They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the Temple.
RATIFIED : पुष्टि करना
- Meaning: confirmed or made official
- अर्थ: पुष्टि या आधिकारिक किया गया
- Synonyms: approve, confirm
- Antonyms: deny, destroy
- Example: The proposal was ratified by the concerned authority.
PURPORTEDLY (adverb) : कथित रूप से
- Meaning: As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; allegedly.
- अर्थ: जैसा प्रतीत होता है या सत्य कहा जाता है, हालांकि जरूरी नहीं कि ऐसा हो; कथित तौर पर।
- Synonyms: professedly, supposedly, seemingly, superficially.
- Antonyms: absolutely, authentically, certainly, earnestly.
- Usage: The fans found a bat purportedly signed by Virat Kohli.
