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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 104

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1) Inadequacy (Noun) – अपर्याप्तता

Meaning: The state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required

Synonyms: Insufficiency, deficiency, scantness, scarcity, scarceness

Antonyms: Abundance, surplus, competence, strong point

Usage: The inadequacy of available resources

 

2) Contradict (Verb) – खंडन करना

Meaning: Deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite

Synonyms: Deny, refute, rebut, dispute, counter

Antonyms: Confirm, verify, agree with

Usage: The survey appears to contradict the industry’s claims

 

3) Envisage (Verb) – परिकल्पना करना

Meaning: Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event

Synonyms: Foresee, predict, forecast, foretell, anticipate, expect

Antonyms: Doubt, be amazed,s be surprised

Usage: It was envisaged that such hospitals would be opened in all the principal towns

 

4) Adverse (Adjective) – विपरीत

Meaning: Preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable

Synonyms: unfavourable, disadvantageous, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfortunate, unlucky

Antonyms: Favourable, beneficial, positive, friendly

Usage: Taxes are having an adverse effect on production

 

5) Curtail (Verb) – कम करना

Meaning: Reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on

Synonyms: Reduce, cut, cut down, cut back, decrease, lessen, diminish

Antonyms: Increase, lengthen

Usage: Civil liberties were further curtailed

 

6) Rhetoric (Noun) – अलंकार शास्र

Meaning: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

Synonyms: Oratory, eloquence, power of speech, command of language, expression

Antonyms: Inarticulateness

Usage: He is using a common figure of rhetoric, hyperbole

 

7) Unravel (Verb) – खोलना

Meaning: Undo (twisted, knitted, or woven threads)

Synonyms: Untangle, disentangle, straighten out, separate out, unsnarl, unknot, unwind,

Antonyms: Entangle, tangle

Usage: He cut the rope and started to unravel its strands

 

8) Circumvent (Verb) – दरकिनार करना

Meaning: Find a way around (an obstacle)

Synonyms: Avoid, get round, find a way round, evade, get past, bypass

Antonyms: Follow, keep, obey, observe, aid, allow

Usage: If you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it

 

9) Exacerbate (Verb) – ख़राब करना

Meaning: Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse

Synonyms: Aggravate, make worse, worsen, inflame, compound

Antonyms: Calm, reduce

Usage: The exorbitant cost of land in urban areas only exacerbated the problem

 

10) Precedent (Noun) – मिसाल या पूर्व उदाहरण

Meaning: An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances

Synonyms: Model, exemplar, example, pattern, previous case, prior case, previous instance/example

Antonyms: After, later, product, outgrowth

Usage: There are substantial precedents for using interactive media in training

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