The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 30 April 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
Afflict(Verb) : पीड़ा देना
- Meaning: Cause pain or suffering
- अर्थ: पीड़ा या पीड़ा का कारण
- Synonym: distress, grieve
- Antonym: please, relieve
- Usage: This will remove the problems afflicting society, specially those affecting the working class majority.
AXIOMATIC (Adjective) : सिद्ध
- Meaning: self-evident or unquestionable.
- अर्थ: स्वयं स्पष्ट या निर्विवाद।
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- Synonym: Understood, Given, Granted, self-evident
- Antonym: Misunderstood, uncertain
- Usage: The arithmetic principles are axiomatic in nature.
WREST (Verb) : हथियाना
- Meaning: forcibly pull (something) from a person’s grasp.
- अर्थ: किसी व्यक्ति की समझ से जबरन (कुछ) खींचना।
- Synonyms: wrench, snatch, seize, grab
- Antonyms: give
- Usage: Sita felt she had to wrest the weapon from the hostage-taker for the sake of her safety.
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.
- Usage: They want the Democrats to act as a backstop for this wild nonsense.
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।
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- Synonyms: contriteness, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, repentance
- Antonyms:-impenitence, remorselessness
- Usage:- The defendant pled guilty to the crime and expressed heartfelt contrition for the things he had done.
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.
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.
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