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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 208

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1). Impose (Verb) 

Definition: force (an unwelcome decision or ruling) on someone

Synonyms: foist, force, thrust, inflict, obtrude, press, urge

Antonyms: disorder, forger, displace, overlook

Usage: the decision was theirs and was not imposed on them by others

 

2). Unveil (Verb) 

Definition:  show or announce publicly for the first time.

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

Antonyms: conceal, cover, hide, secrete, withhold

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

 

3). Minuscule (Adjective) 

Definition: extremely small; tiny

Synonyms: tiny, minute, microscopic, nanoscopic, very small, little, micro, diminutive, miniature

Antonyms: vast, huge

Usage: a minuscule fragment of DNA

 

4). Commensurate (Adjective) 

Definition: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion

Synonyms:equivalent, equal, corresponding, correspondent, comparable, proportionate, proportional

Antonyms: incompatible, unsuitable, inadequate

Usage: salary will be commensurate with age and experience

 

5). Retaliatory (Adjective) 

Definition: (of an action) characterized by a desire for revenge

Synonyms: reciprocate, get, pay, retrospect, return

Antonyms: depart, lose, leave, take, forgive

Usage: fears of a retaliatory attack by the victim’s friends

 

6). Transpire (Verb) 

Definition: occur; happen

Synonyms: happen, occur, take place, come about, come to pass, crop up, turn up, arise, chance, ensue, befall

Antonyms: vanish, remove, stop, quit

Usage: I’m going to find out exactly what transpired

 

7). Lynch (Verb) 

Definition:  (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.

Synonyms:  execute, hand, kill, murder

Antonyms: bear, create

Usage: her father had been lynched by whites

 

8). Suspicion (Noun) 

Definition: a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true.

Synonyms:intuition, feeling, impression, inkling, surmise, guess, conjecture, speculation, hunch, fancy, notion

Antonyms: believing, careless, certain, confident, convinced

Usage: she had a sneaking suspicion that he was laughing at her

 

9). Enrage (Verb) 

Definition: make (someone) very angry.

Synonyms: anger, incense, infuriate, madden, inflame, incite, antagonize, provoke

Antonyms: placate, please, calm, good-humoured

Usage: the students were enraged at these new rules

 

10). Reckon (Verb) 

Definition: establish by calculation

Synonyms:  calculate, compute, work out, put a figure on, figure, number, quantify

Antonyms: abandon, cancel, displace, forger, disregard, disbelieve

Usage: the society can reckon among its members males of the royal blood

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