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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 06

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) Rattled (Verb) – परेशान करना

Definition: Make (someone) nervous, worried, or irritated.

Synonyms: Unnerve, Disconcert, Disturb, Fluster

Antonyms: Appease, Placate, Soothe

Usage: Rattled by the erosion in upper caste votes in the recent Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

 

2) Scrutiny (Noun) — संवीक्षा

Definition: Critical observation or examination.

Synonyms: Inspection, Survey, Scan, Study

Antonyms: Glance, Cursory look

Usage:  It is doubtful if it will stand judicial scrutiny.

 

3)  Unapologetic (Adjective) – अक्षमाप्रार्थी

Definition: not acknowledging or expressing regret.

Synonyms: Impenitent, Remorseless, Unmerciful

Antonyms: Apologetic, Contrite, Penitent

Usage: The BJP government has attempted to recover this traditional vote base through an unapologetic political manoeuvre.

 

4) Drum up (Verb) – बढ़ाना

Definition: To create or think of by clever use of the imagination

Synonyms: Concoct, Construct, Contrive

Antonyms: Clone, Copy, Copycat, Duplicate

Usage: The 124th Constitution Amendment Bill will have to be passed by two-thirds of the MPs present and voting and the challenge will be to drum up the numbers in both Houses.

 

5) Reinstate (Verb) — पुनः स्थापित करना

Definition: Restore (someone or something) to their former position or state.

Synonyms: Restore, Replace, Reinstitute, Rehabilitate

Usage: Reinstated, conditionally: on CBI Director’s return

 

6) Contention (Noun) — विवाद

Definition: Heated disagreement.

Synonyms: Disagreement, Dispute, Disputation

Antonyms: Agreement

Usage:  Supreme Court rejects the Centre’s contention in the CBI Director’s case, but softens the blow

 

7)  Insulated (Verb) – अछूता

Definition: to set or keep apart from others.

Synonyms: Cut off, Isolate, Seclude, Segregate

Antonyms: Desegregate, Integrate, Reintegrate

Usage:  The Supreme Court has strengthened the principle that the head of the agency should be insulated against any form of interference.

 

8)  Bulldoze (Verb) – ध्वस्त करना

Definition: clear (ground) or destroy

Synonyms: Demolish, Knock down, Tear down, Pull down, Flatten

Antonyms: Construct

Usage: The architect, tasked with redesigning the city’s Olympic stadium, argues that new developments need not bulldoze the past.

 

9) Exacerbate (Verb)ख़राब करना

Definition: 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) Flagrant (Adjective) – प्रमुख

Definition: (of an action considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive.

Synonyms: Blatant, Glaring, Obvious, Overt, Evident, Conspicuous

Antonyms: Unobtrusive, Slight

Usage: A flagrant violation of the law

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