The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 1 March 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
RENDER(Verb) : कारण
- Meaning: to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- अर्थ: किसी विशेष अवस्था में किसी के या किसी के होने का कारण
- Synonyms: deliver, cause
- Antonyms: hold, keep
- Sentence: Billions have been spent, but not one gallon of the estimated 54m gallons of waste has been rendered harmless.
RECONCILE'(Verb) : सामंजस्य
- Meaning: restore friendly relations between.
- अर्थ: के बीच मैत्रीपूर्ण संबंधों को बनाना।
- Synonyms: reunite, pacify, appease, mollify
- Antonyms: estrange, alienate
- Sentence: Bill’s plan was to reconcile with his estranged brother whom he had not spoken to in seven years.
PETULANCE(Verb) : चिड़चिड़ापन
- Meaning: the quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
- अर्थ: बचकाने सल्की या बुरे स्वभाव का होने का गुण।
- Synonyms: bitterness, cynicism, irritability
- Sentence: Symptoms of migraines include pain, blurred vision, and petulance.
UNDERLAY(verb) : निर्धारित
- Meaning: place something under (something else), especially to support or raise it.
- अर्थ: कुछ जगह, विशेष रूप से समर्थन या इसे बढ़ाने के लिए।
- Synonyms: control, determine, manage, regulate
- Antonyms: abandon, liberate mismanage, neglect
- Sentence: Construction workers will underlay a support beam beneath the drooping floor in an effort to make it more secure.
BACKSTOP (noun) : सुरक्षा
- Meaning: an emergency precaution or last resort.
- अर्थ: एक आपातकालीन एहतियात या अंतिम उपाय।
- Synonyms: safeguard, preventive measure, insurance.
- Antonyms: constraint, limitation, restriction, sanction.
- Sentence: They want the Democrats to act as a backstop for this wild nonsense.
SWATHE (noun) : लपेटना
- 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.
- Sentence: These people represent a broad swathe of public opinion.
FARCE (noun) : स्वांग
- Meaning: an absurd event.
- अर्थ: एक बेतुकी घटना।
- Synonyms: travesty, sham, masquerade, charade.
- Antonyms: solemnity, reverence, seriousness, sobriety.
- Sentence: We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce.
Contrition(Noun) : पछतावा
- Meaning:- the state of feeling sorry for bad behaviour: the state of repentance.
- अर्थ: बुरे व्यवहार के लिए खेद महसूस करने की स्थिति: पश्चाताप की स्थिति।
- Synonyms: contriteness, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, repentance
- Antonyms:-impenitence, remorselessness
- Sentence:- The defendant pled guilty to the crime and expressed heartfelt contrition for the things he had done.
BELITTLE (Verb) : पतन
- Meaning: dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant.
- अर्थ: महत्वहीन (किसी या कुछ) को खारिज करना।
- Synonyms: disparage, denigrate, deprecate, downgrade
- Antonyms: praise, magnify
- Sentence: There is no reason for you to belittle my wardrobe simply because your clothes are more expensive than the ones I own.
DELVE (Verb) : जांच
- Meaning: research or make painstaking inquiries into something.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज में शोध या श्रमसाध्य पूछताछ करना।
- Synonyms: investigate, probe, examine, explore
- Antonyms: ignore, neglect
- Sentence: Because she was planning a trip, the woman began to delve into a search for plane tickets.
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