
The Hindu Editorial VOCAB 6 February 2021 (Improve Your Vocabulary)
DEBASEMENT(verb) : नीचा दिखाना
- Meaning: the action of reducing the quality or value of something
- अर्थ: किसी चीज की गुणवत्ता या मूल्य को कम करने की क्रिया
- Synonyms: abase, corrupt
- Antonyms: uplift, ennoble
- Example: Currency debasement means that the more dollars there are in circulation, the less each dollar is worth.
ENSCONCE (Verb) : स्थापित करना
- Meaning: establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place.
- अर्थ: किसी आरामदायक, सुरक्षित जगह पर (किसी को) स्थापित या बसाना।
- Synonyms: settle, install, establish, entrench
- Antonyms: depart, displace
- Example: Clara is comfortably ensconced in a beach chair and has no immediate plans to return to work.
REPRISAL(Noun) :प्रतिहिंसा
- Meaning: an act of retaliation.
- अर्थ: प्रतिशोध का एक कार्य।
- Synonym: retaliation, counterattack
- Antonym: pardon, remission
- Usage: He felt secure enough in his information that he announced his opinion on the matter without fear of reprisal.
INCAPACITATED (adjective) : अक्षम
- Meaning: deprived of strength or power; debilitated.
- अर्थ: शक्ति या शक्ति से वंचित; दुर्बल।
- Synonyms: crippled, decrepit, enfeebled, frail.
- Antonyms: powerful, strong, sturdy, stout.
- Usage: In states such as Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, “countless children are growing up with parents in jail, incapacitated or underground”.
CULMINATION (noun) : परिणति
- Meaning: the highest or climactic point of something, especially as attained after a long time.
- अर्थ: किसी चीज का उच्चतम या चरम बिंदु, विशेष रूप से लंबे समय के बाद प्राप्त किया जाता है।
- Synonym: climax, pinnacle, peak.
- Antonym: nadir, base, bottom.
- Usage: Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
FARRAGO (noun) : गड़बड़ होना
- Meaning: a confused mixture.
- अर्थ: एक उलझन भरा मिश्रण।
- Synonyms: mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, turmoil.
- Antonyms: constituent, ravel, sequence, categorization.
- Usage: The present gun law is a farrago of nonsense as most of it is unenforceable.
RELIC (noun) : निशान
- Meaning: a trace of some past or outmoded practice, custom, or belief.
- अर्थ: कुछ अतीत या बहिर्मुखी अभ्यास, प्रथा, या विश्वास का एक निशान।
- Synonyms: vestige, antique, artifact, residue.
- Antonyms: modern, recent, latest, neoteric.
- Usage: The piece of pottery was a relic of the past that evoked in me a feeling of nostalgia.
EMBELLISH (verb) : संवारना
- Meaning: to make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality
- अर्थ: किसी चीज को वास्तविक रूप से बेहतर या अधिक बेहतर या अधिक स्वीकार्य बनाना
- Synonyms: adorn, deck
- Antonyms: lessen, reduce
- Usage: Grandma likes to embellish her knitting by hiding secret messages in the pattern.
INVIGORATE(Verb) : सबल बनाना
- Meaning: to give life, vigor, or spirit to
- अर्थ: प्राण, शक्ति या आत्मा देना
- Synonym: amp (up), animate, brace, energize, enliven, fillip, fire
- Antonym: damp, dampen, deaden, dull, kill
- Usage: The fresh air and sunshine invigorated the children after a long winter indoors.
SHODDY (adjective) : तुच्छ
- Meaning: badly made or done.
- अर्थ: बुरी तरह से बनाया या किया हुआ।
- Synonyms: trashy, crude, junky, duff.
- Antonyms: prestigious, reputed, elegant, upright.
- Usage: Because of shoddy accounting practices, our firm is being audited.
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