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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 259

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. Facilitate (verb) – सुविधा प्रदान करना

Definition: make (an action or process) easy or easier.

Synonyms: make easy/easier, ease, make possible, make smooth/smoother, smooth

Antonyms: make harder, complicate, worsen, make complex

Usage: schools were located in the same campus to facilitate the sharing of resources

 

  1. Hardlined (adjective) – कठोर या सख्त

Definition: uncompromising; strict.

Synonyms: uncompromising, strict, diehard, extreme, tough, inflexible, immoderate, intransigent, intractable, unyielding, undeviating, unwavering, single-minded

Antonyms: flexible, agreeable, moderate, yielding, wavering, open-minded

Usage: He was a hardlined rationalist.

 

  1. Deferred (verb) – विलम्बित करना

Definition: put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone.

Synonyms: postpone, put off, adjourn, delay, hold over/off, put back, carry over, backlog, incomplete, delay

Antonyms: complete, prepone, finished, do ahead, plan ahead, advance

Usage: they deferred the decision until February

 

  1. Punitive (adjective) – दंडात्मक

Definition: inflicting or intended as punishment.

Synonyms: penal, disciplinary, corrective, correctional, retributive; in retaliation, in reprisal

Antonyms: free, liberal, general, wide-ranging, broad, humanistic

Usage: he called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc

 

  1. Unpredictable (adjective) – अप्रत्याशित

Definition: not able to be predicted; changeable.

Synonyms: unforeseeable, undivinable, incalculable, uncertain, unsure, doubtful, dubious

Antonyms: foreseeable, calculable, certain, sure, divinable, expected, planned

Usage: the unpredictable weather of the Scottish islands was an issue

 

  1. Conversely (adverb) – अंतर्विरोध में

Definition: introducing a statement or idea which reverses one that has just been made or referred to.

Synonyms: in contradiction, as opposed to, in contrast to, contradictory, opposite

Antonyms: harmony, unity, agreement, agreeing, in unison, concur, accord

Usage: he would have preferred his wife not to work, although conversely he was also proud of what she did

 

  1. Stigma (noun) – कलंक

Definition: a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.

Synonyms: shame, disgrace, dishonour; stain, taint, blot, blot on one’s escutcheon, blemish, mark, brand

Antonyms: honor, pride, self-esteem, dignity, delight, satisfaction, confidence

Usage: the stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me

 

  1. Baffling (verb) – चौंकाने वाला

Definition: totally bewilder or perplex.

Synonyms: perplex, puzzle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, nonplus, disconcert

Antonyms: unsurprised, not shocking, expected, known, seen, planned

Usage: an unexplained occurrence that baffled everyone

 

  1. Confer (verb) – प्रदान करना

Definition: grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right).

Synonyms: bestow on, present with/to, grant to, award to, decorate with, honour with, give to, give out to, gift with

Antonyms: take away from, remove, withhold, suppress, repress, contain, curb

Usage: the Queen conferred an honorary knighthood on him

 

  1. Ostracise (verb) – बहिष्कृत करना

Definition: exclude from a society or group.

Synonyms: exclude, shun, spurn, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder, reject, avoid, ignore

Antonyms: welcome, accept, befriend, include, welcome, embrace, adopt

Usage: she was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers

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