The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 266

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). Enclave (Noun) – विभिन्न

Definition: a place or group that is different in character from those surrounding it.

Synonyms:  different, alter, vary.

Antonyms: same, similar.

Usage: the engineering department is traditionally a male enclave

 

2). Imminent (Adjective) — समुपस्थित

Definition: about to happen.

Synonyms:  impending, at hand, close, near, approaching, fast approaching,  coming, forthcoming, on the way

Antonyms: remote

Usage: they were in imminent danger of being swept away

 

3). Humanitarian (Adjective)  — मानवीय

Definition: concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare.

Synonyms:  compassionate, humane;  unselfish, altruistic, generous,  magnanimous, benevolent, civilized

Antonyms: selfish, for profit

Usage: groups sending humanitarian aid

 

4). Catastrophe (Noun) – तबाही

Definition: an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

Synonyms: disaster, calamity, cataclysm, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, tragedy

Antonyms: salvation, godsend

Usage: an environmental catastrophe

 

5). Rebellion (Noun) — बगावत

Definition: an act of armed resistance to an established government or leader.

Synonyms: uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, insurgence, insurgency,

rising, rioting, riot

Antonyms: obedience, truth.

Usage: the authorities put down a rebellion by landless colonials

 

6). Brute (Noun) – निर्दयी

Definition: a savagely violent man or animal.

Synonyms:  savage, beast, monster, animal, sadist, barbarian, devil, demon

Antonyms: gentle, mild, week.

Usage: he was a cold-blooded brute

 

7). Dilemma (Noun) — दुविधा

Definition: a difficult situation or problem.

Synonyms:  quandary, predicament, difficulty, problem, puzzle, conundrum, awkward situation, tricky situation

Antonyms: solution, good, advantage.

Usage: the insoluble dilemma of adolescence

 

8). Federal (Adjective) — संघीय

Definition: relating to or denoting the central government as distinguished from the separate units constituting a federation.

Synonyms: confederate, federated, federative

Antonyms: private, local

Usage: the health ministry has sole federal responsibility for health care

 

9). Oblige (Verb) — उपकृत करना

Definition: make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something.

Synonyms: require, compel, bind, make, constrain, obligate, force, put under an obligation

Antonyms: delay, free, release.

Usage: doctors are obliged by law to keep patients alive while there is a chance of recovery

 

10). Rejuvenated (Verb) — फिर से युवा करना

Definition: make (someone or something) look or feel better, younger, or more vital.

Synonyms: revive, revitalize, renew, regenerate, restore, breathe new life into, make someone feel young again

Antonyms:  destroy, damage, kill, ruin.

Usage: a bid to rejuvenate the town centre

 

11). Retrospect (Noun) — बीती बातों की जांच

Definition: a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time.

Synonyms: re-examination, reminiscence, revision.

Antonyms: prospect, prophesy.

Usage: a full retrospect of the battle

 

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