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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 301

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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1). Legitimate (Adjective) — विधिसम्मत

Definition: conforming to the law or to rules.

Synonyms: legal, lawful, licit, legalized, authorized, permitted, permissible,

allowable, allowed, admissible

Antonyms: illegal, illegitimate

Usage: his claims to legitimate authority

2). Turf (Verb) — बाहर निकाल देना

Definition: force (someone) to leave somewhere.

Synonyms: throw out, remove, eject, expel, turn out, fling out, force out, drive out

Usage: they were turfed off the bus

3). Purview (Noun) — अवधारणा

Definition: range of experience or thought.

Synonyms: concept, attenuation, attitude.

Antonyms: blindness, mistake, stupidity.

Usage: social taboos meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally

4). Synergy (Noun) — तालमेल

Definition: the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.

Synonyms: team work, harmony, union, team effort.

Antonyms: discord, divorce, separation.

Usage: the synergy between artist and record company

5). Dissident (Noun) — मतभेद करनेवाला

Definition: a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

Synonyms: dissenter, objector, protester, disputant

Antonyms: conformist.

Usage: a dissident who had been jailed by a military regime

6). Rogue (Noun) — एक बेईमान या अनुशासित आदमी।

Definition: a dishonest or unprincipled man.

Synonyms: scoundrel, villain, reprobate, rascal, good-for-nothing, wretch

Antonyms: honest, straight.

Usage: you are a rogue and an embezzler

7). Amassed (Verb) – संकलित करना

Definition: gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of material or things) over a period of time.

Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble

Antonyms: dissipate

Usage: he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds

8). Untenable (Adjective) — अस्थिर, असमर्थनीय

Definition: (especially of a position or view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

Synonyms: indefensible, undefendable, unarguable, insupportable, refutable,
unsustainable, unjustified

Antonyms: tenable, defensible

Usage: this argument is clearly untenable

9). Tortured (Verb) — यातनाएं देना

Definition: cause great mental suffering to.

Synonyms: torment, afflict, harrow, plague, distress, agonize, cause agony to, cause suffering to, inflict anguish on

Antonyms: relieve, comfort

Usage: he was tortured by grief

10). Dubious (Adjective) — संदिग्ध

Definition: hesitating or doubting.

Synonyms: doubtful, uncertain, unsure, in doubt, hesitant

Antonyms: certain, definite

Usage: I was rather dubious about the whole idea

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