The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 10 December 2020 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
Connivance(Noun) : मिलीभगत
- 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.
Diminution (NOUN) : कमी
- 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.
ABSTEMIOUS (Adjective) : संयमी
- Meaning: indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज में बहुत संयमपूर्वक भोजन करना, विशेष रूप से भोजन और पेय।
- Synonym: temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate.
- Antonym: self-indulgent, intemperate, rapacious, voracious.
- Example: Although my husband is normally abstemious with his money, he will buy a ticket to a football game in a minute.
ARDUOUS(Adjective) : कठिन
- Meaning: demanding great effort or labor; difficult
- अर्थ: महान प्रयास या श्रम की माँग करना; कठिन
- Synonyms: exhausting, grueling
- Antonyms: facile, easy
- Example: Needless to say, mastering a foreign language is an arduous challenge.
BESTOW(verb) : सम्मान देना
- Meaning: to give something as an honour or present
- अर्थ: किसी वस्तु को सम्मान या वर्तमान के रूप में देना
- Synonyms: award, grant
- Antonyms: take, deny
- Example:The country’s highest medal was bestowed upon him for heroism.
EPONYMOUS (adjective) : नामस्रोत
- Meaning: of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named.
- अर्थ: जिस व्यक्ति या किसी चीज़ का नाम रखा गया है, उसके लिए व्यक्ति या चीज़ से संबंधित है, या है।
- Synonyms: namesake, cognominal, homonymous, swashbuckling.
- Antonyms: anonymous, pseudo, unidentified, undisclosed.
- Example: By a curious coincidence all the names of eponymous
MIRE(Noun) : कठिन परिस्थिति में फ़साना
- Meaning: involve someone or something in (a difficult situation).
- अर्थ: किसी को या किसी चीज़ को किसी कठिन परिस्थिति में शामिल करना।
- Synonyms: entangle, embroil, enmesh, involve
- Example: The woman worked two jobs in order to remove herself from the mire of poverty.
PIQUE(NOUN) : मनमुटाव
- Meaning:a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging your feeling of being proud of yourself
- अर्थ: क्रोध की भावना, विशेष रूप से किसी के द्वारा अपने आप पर गर्व करने की भावना को नुकसान पहुंचाने के कारण
- Synonyms: annoyance, displeasure
- Antonyms: delight, happiness
- Example:He stormed from the room in a fit of pique, shouting that he had been misunderstood.
Mundane (Adjective) : सांसारिक
- Meaning: Found in the ordinary course of events
- अर्थ: घटनाओं के साधारण पाठ्यक्रम में मिला
- Synonyms: dime, stale, sober, humdrum, day-to-day
- Antonyms: unusual, Exciting, extraordinary.
- Usage: The list included many mundane, routine tasks.
Quirk(Noun) : व्यवहार में छल
- Meaning: a strange habit
- अर्थ: एक अजीब आदत
- Synonyms: irregularity, a trait
- Antonyms: normality,
- Usage: His biggest quirk is his love for old marbles.
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