The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 24 November 2020 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
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.
Exhort(verb) : समझाना
- Meaning: Strongly encourage or urge to do something
- अर्थ: कुछ करने के लिए दृढ़ता से प्रोत्साहित करना या आग्रह करना
- Synonym: enjoin, adjure,
- Antonym: discourage
- Usage: Priya tries to Exhort her friend about her career. but she is not ready to listen.
Titter(verb) : दबी हुई हँसी
- Meaning: Give a short, half-suppressed laugh, giggle
- अर्थ: एक छोटी, दबी हुई हंसी
- Synonym: giggle, snigger
- Antonym: Graon, moan
- Usage: The teen girls tittered at her light-hearted curse.
BUOYED(verb) : बढ़ावा देना
- Meaning: to sustain or encourage (often followed by up)
- अर्थ: बनाए रखने या प्रोत्साहित करने के लिए
- Synonyms: bolster, boost
- Antonyms: depress, deplete
- Usage: Her courage was buoyed by the doctor’s assurances.
HARK (verb) : सुनना
- Meaning: to pay attention especially through the act of hearing
- अर्थ: विशेष रूप से सुनवाई के माध्यम से ध्यान देना
- Synonym: attend, harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen, mind
- Antonym: ignore, tune out
- Usage: Upon hearing the offending ringing, the teacher sarcastically cried, “Hark! Could that possibly be a cell phone?”
FARRAGO (noun) : गड़बड़झाला
- Meaning: a confused mixture.
- अर्थ: एक उलझन भरा मिश्रण।
- Synonyms: mishmash, hodgepodge, clutter, turmoil.
- Antonyms: constituent, ravel, sequence, categorization.
- Usage: The present gun law is a farrago of nonsense as most of it is unenforceable.
Premonition (NOUN) : पूर्व-सूचना
- Meaning: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.
- अर्थ: एक मजबूत भावना जो कुछ होने वाली है, विशेष रूप से कुछ अप्रिय।
- Synonym: foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication, insight, intuition
- Usage: He had a premonition of imminent disaster.
Wanton(Adjective) : प्रचंड
- Meaning: (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked
- अर्थ: (एक क्रूर या हिंसक कार्रवाई के लिए) जानबूझकर और अकारण
- Synonym: bawdy, nasty, obscene, deliberate, malicious,
- Antonym: clean, decent, acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing
- Usage: The man is probably going to get the death penalty for his wanton killing of six school children.
Arraign (VERB) : कलंक लगाना
- Meaning: to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment
- अर्थ: अभियोग का जवाब देने के लिए अदालत के समक्ष (प्रतिवादी) को बुलाना
- Synonym: appeal, book, cite, summon, accuse, charge, criminate
- Antonym: advocate, champion, defend, excuse, forgive, justify
- Usage: They wanted to arraign the thief for stealing cars on the same day he was arrested.
Humdrum(Adjective) : नीरस
- Meaning: Lacking excitement or variety
- अर्थ: उत्साह में कमी या विविधता
- Synonym: Dull, boring, monotonous
- Antonym: Remarkable, exciting
- Usage: No matter how humdrum is your life without a job, once you get it things will go fine.
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