The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 5 March 2022
ARRANT (adjective) अत्यन्त
- Meaning: Complete, utter.
- अर्थ: पूरा, बिलकुल।
- Synonyms: total, absolute, thorough, sheer.
- Antonyms: minor, light, unclear, obscure.
- Usage: These people crumble when their arrant nonsense is confronted with simple common sense.
STARK (adjective) निरानंद
- Meaning: Unpleasantly or sharply clear.
- अर्थ: अप्रिय या तीव्र रूप से स्पष्ट।
- Synonyms: blunt, plain, unembellished, harsh.
- Antonyms: lush, bleak, cheerful, opulent.
- Usage: His evidence in chief stood in stark contrast to his evidence on cross-examination.
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PREPONDERANCE (noun): प्रमुखता
- 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।
- Synonyms: prevalence, predominance, majority, generality.
- Antonyms: subservience, disability, inferiority, flaw
- Usage: The preponderance of unemployed workers is linked to the manufacturer’s desire to cut costs by sending jobs overseas.
EPICENE (adjective) उभयलिंगी
- Meaning: Effeminate; effete.
- अर्थ: प्रयास करना; अशक्त।
- Synonyms: Sissy, womanish, unmanly, girlish.
- Antonyms: manly, mannish, masculine, virile.
- Usage: More epicene than handsome, if you asked me,’ he muttered a bit darkly.’
ATROPHY (verb) अपक्षय
- Meaning: gradually decline in effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect.
- अर्थ: धीरे-धीरे प्रभाव या उपेक्षा के कारण प्रभावशीलता या ताक़त में गिरावट।
- Synonyms: dwindle, deteriorate, decline, wane.
- Antonym: strengthen, revive, advance, flourish.
- Usage: When the gang leader died, his organization’s hold on the city began to atrophy as other gangs moved into the area.
Subtler: (adjective) जटिल
- Meaning: clever at attaining one’s ends by indirect and often deceptive means
- अर्थ: अप्रत्यक्ष और अक्सर भ्रामक साधनों द्वारा एक के सिरों को प्राप्त करने में चतुर
- Synonyms: artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, tricky, wily
- Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent
- Usage: There have been many subtler, more original and more systematic thinkers about the conditions of the social union.
Proffer: (verb) निवेदन करना
- Meaning: to put before another for acceptance or consideration
- अर्थ: स्वीकृति या विचार के लिए दूसरे के सामने रखना
- Synonyms: extend, offer, tender, propose, give in, submit.
- Antonyms: decline, deny, disallow, disapprove, negative, reject.
- Usage: It is the ultimate manifestation of the marketplace of ideas; the more people who proffer their ideas to the world, the better the outcome will be for us all.
Hoary: (adjective) वयोवृद्ध
- Meaning: dating or surviving from the distant past
- अर्थ: दूर के अतीत से डेटिंग या जीवित रहना
- Synonyms: age-old, aged, ancient, antediluvian, antique, dateless, hoar, immemorial, old, venerable
- Antonyms: modern, new, recent
CONCOMITANT (adjective) सहगामी
- Meaning: naturally accompanying or associated.
- अर्थ: स्वाभाविक रूप से साथ या जुड़ा हुआ।
- Synonyms: attendant, collateral, linked, accessory, auxiliary.
- Antonyms: unassociated, unconnected, unrelated, indifferent, unbound.
- Usage: That it is apparently devoid of psychical concomitant need not imply that the impressions concerned in it are crude and in elaborate.
STULTIFY (verb) वृथा करना
- Meaning: cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
- अर्थ:विशेष रूप से थकाऊ या प्रतिबंधात्मक दिनचर्या के परिणामस्वरूप उत्साह और पहल को खोने का कारण।
- Synonyms:hamper, impede, obstruct, thwart, suppress, smother, repress, counteract, trammel, restrain.
- Antonyms:consolidate, augment, glorify, exacerbate, exalt, stir, elevate, accentuate, strengthen.
- Usage: By referencing actual statistics, he was able to stultify his opponent’s argument.
