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SSC and all Competitive Exams. Explore The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary to score good marks in English Section. Start practising this vocabulary to increase your word power. While reading a passage you have to highlight tough words in it and analyse the correct meaning of those words. This will help you understand the passage clearly and also you can learn more new words, it means also you can develop your vocabulary. To help you in this part we have provided an English Vocabulary passage along with meaning, synonyms and usages of hard words in the passage, make use of it. We also providing Important Vocabulary Quiz based on “THE ECONOMIST” and “THE HINDU”

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Humongous (adjective) — बहुत ही बड़ा

Definition: extremely large; enormous.

Synonyms: enormous, vast, immense, very large, very big, great, massive, cosmic, colossal, huge

Antonyms: tiny, small, mini, miniature, petite, small-scale, minute, microscopic

Usage: He owned a humongous private yacht.

Embark (verb) — पोतारोहण करना

Definition: begin (a course of action).

Synonyms: begin, start, commence, undertake, set about, enter on, go into, take up

Antonyms: end, finish, complete, finish-up, accomplished, fulfilled, settled

Usage: She embarked on a new career.

Curtail (verb) – कम करना

Definition: reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.

Synonyms: reduce, cut, cut down, cut back, decrease, lessen, diminish, slim down, tighten up, retrench, pare down, trim, dock, lop, shrink

Antonyms: improve, increase, grow, promote, spread, cultivate, fatten, encourage

Usage: They prepared measures to curtail the outbreak.

Clamour (noun) — कोलाहल

Definition: a loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.

Synonyms: din, racket, loud noise, uproar, tumult, babel, shouting, yelling, screaming, baying, roaring, blaring, clangour

Antonyms: silence, quiet, quietness, hush, tranquility, peace, noiselessness

Usage: As soon as he stepped out of the crime scene, the questions rose to a clamour

Fillip (noun) – प्रोत्साहन

Definition: something which acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity.

Synonyms: stimulus, stimulation, stimulant, boost, encouragement, incitement, incentive, impetus, inducement, motivation

Antonyms: subdue, curb, control, restrict, limit, contain, constrain, curtail

Usage: the halving of car tax would provide a fillip to sales

Unveil (verb) – अनावरण करना

Definition: show or announce publicly for the first time.

Synonyms: reveal, present, disclose, divulge, make known, make public, air, communicate, publish, broadcast

Antonyms: hide, cover-up, conceal, cover, veil, disguise

Usage: the Home Secretary has unveiled plans to crack down on crime

Blasphemy (noun) — ईश्वर निन्दा

Definition: the action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

Synonyms: profanity, profaneness, sacrilege, irreligiousness, irreverence, swearing, curse, cursing, impiety, impiousness, ungodliness, unholiness

Antonyms: respectful, holiness, piousness, reverence, holy, faithful

Usage: he was detained on charges of blasphemy

Subsequent (adjective) — उत्तरवर्ती

Definition: coming after something in time; following.

Synonyms: following, ensuing, succeeding, successive, later, future, coming, upcoming, to come, next

Antonyms: preceding, before, first, foregoing, antecede, predate, antedate

Usage: the theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906

Hardline (adjective) — समझौता का विरोधी

Definition: uncompromising; strict.

Synonyms: uncompromising, strict, diehard, extreme, tough, inflexible, immoderate, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, undeviating, unwavering, single-minded

Antonyms: flexible, agreeable, moderate, yielding, wavering, open-minded

Usage: He was a hardlined rationalist.