The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 24 April 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
Quirk (Noun) : विशेषता
- Meaning: a strange habit
- अर्थ: एक अजीब आदत
- Synonyms: irregularity, trait
- Antonyms: normality,
- Usage: His biggest quirk is his love for old marbles.
VALIANT (Adjective) : बहादुर
- Meaning: possessing or showing courage or determination.
- अर्थ: साहस या दृढ़ संकल्प रखना या दिखाना।
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- Synonyms: brave, fearless, courageous, valorous
- Antonyms: cowardly, irresolute
- Usage: Firemen are valiant individuals who put their lives on the line to save others.
SUCCOUR (Noun) : परेशानी में सहायता
- Meaning: assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.
- अर्थ: कष्ट और संकट के समय सहायता और समर्थन।
- Synonyms: aid, assistance, support, ease
- Usage: Even though Holly is painfully shy, she is never hesitant to offer succor to anyone who is in pain.
FARCE (noun) : स्वांग
- Meaning: an absurd event.
- अर्थ: एक बेतुकी घटना।
- Synonyms: travesty, sham, masquerade, charade.
- Antonyms: solemnity, reverence, seriousness, sobriety.
- Usage: We need to get more good referees like him, or the game is going to become a complete farce.
PURITANICAL (adjective) : सख़्त
- Meaning: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence.
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- 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.
- Usage: 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.
- Usage: Most customer service agents are amicable people who are good at settling disagreements.
SCRAMBLE (noun) : संघर्ष
- Meaning: a struggle for possession or gain.
- अर्थ: कब्जे या लाभ के लिए एक संघर्ष।
- Synonyms: free-for-all, melee, rush, struggle, tussle
- Antonyms: peace, order, organization
- Usage: There was a scramble for choice seats in the auditorium.
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