The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 176

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1) Gruesome (Adjective) –

Meaning: Causing repulsion or horror; grisly

Synonyms: Grisly, ghastly, frightful, horrid, horrifying, fearful

Antonyms: Pleasant

Usage: The most gruesome murder

 

2) Stratified (Verb) –

Meaning: form or arrange into strata.

Synonyms: laminated, classist

Antonyms: unstratified

Usage: “socially stratified cities”

 

3) Downbeat (Adjective) —

Meaning: pessimistic or gloomy.

Synonyms: pessimistic, gloomy, negative

Antonyms: upbeat

Usage: “the assessment of the UK’s economic  prospects is downbeat”

 

4) Emphatically (Adverb) –

Meaning: without doubt; clearly.

Synonyms: absolutely, certainly, assuredly

Antonyms: doubtfully, questionably, hesitantly

Usage: “Jane, though born in California, feels  emphatically English”

 

5) Undershooting (Verb) —

Meaning: fall short of (a point or target).

Synonyms: falling short

Antonyms: exceedance

Usage: “the figure undershot the government’s  original estimate”

 

6) Stasis (Noun) —

Meaning: a period or state of inactivity or  equilibrium.

Synonyms: stagnation, immobility, inaction

Antonyms: movement, boom, rise

Usage: “long periods of stasis”

 

7) Squirrelling (Verb) –

Meaning: hide money or something of value in a  safe place.

Synonyms: save, put aside, put by, lay by

Antonyms: using, exhausting, consuming

Usage: “the money was squirrelled away in foreign  bank accounts”

 

8) Preponderance (Noun) —

Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in

number, quantity, or importance.

Synonyms: prevalence, predominance,  dominance

Antonyms: disadvantage, inferiority,  subordination

Usage: “the preponderance of women among  older people”

 

9) Puritanical (Adjective) –

Meaning: having or displaying a very strict or  censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence  or sex.

Synonyms: moralistic, pietistic, strait-laced

Antonyms: permissive, broad-minded

Usage: “his puritanical parents saw any kind of  pleasure as the road to damnation”

 

10) Leeway (Noun) —

Meaning: the amount of freedom to move or act  that is available.

Synonyms: freedom, scope, room to manoeuvre

Antonyms: constraint, restriction

Usage: “the government had greater leeway to  introduce reforms”