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The Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary – Day 10

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) Demonstrate (Verb)  व्यावहारिक प्रदर्शनी और स्पष्टीकरण करना

Definition: give a practical exhibition and explanation of (how a machine, skill, or craft works or is performed).

Synonyms: Reveal, Bespeak, Indicate, Signify

Antonyms: Hide

Usage: Computerized design methods will be demonstrated

 

2) Alienate (Verb) — पराया करना

Definition:  Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

Synonyms: Estrange, Turn away

Antonyms: Unite

Usage: An urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants

 

3) Determine (Verb) — निर्धारण

Definition: To give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)

Synonyms: Adjudge, Adjudicate, Arbitrate,

Antonyms: Equivocate, Hedge, Pussyfoot, Skirt

Usage: A three-member panel will determine the case

 

4) Defer (Verb) — आस्थगित करना

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

Synonyms: Postpone, Put off, Adjourn

Antonyms: Stand up to, Disobey

Usage: They deferred the decision until February

 

5) Impend (Verb) — समीप आ जाना

Definition: Be about to happen.

Synonyms: Imminent, At hand, close, Close at hand

Antonyms: Abate, Decline

Usage: For confirmed pessimists some disaster always seems to be impending.

 

6) Suspicion (Noun) – शक या संदेह

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

Synonyms: Intuition, Feeling, Impression, Inkling

Antonyms: Certainty

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

 

7) Romp (Verb) — कोलाहल करते हुए खेलना

Definition:  (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically.

Synonyms: Play, Frolic, Frisk, Gambol

Usage: The noisy pack of children romped around the gardens

 

8) Intense (Adjective) — गहन

Definition:  (of an action) highly concentrated.

Synonyms: Great, Acute, Enormous, Fierce, Severe

Antonyms: Mild, apathetic

Usage:  The job demands intense concentration

 

9) Deceased (Adjective) — मृतक

Definition: recently dead.

Synonyms: Dead, Expired, Departed, Gone

Antonyms: Alive

Usage: The judge inferred that the deceased was confused as to the extent of his assets

 

10) Exert (Verb) – बल लगाना

Definition: Apply or bring to bear (a force, influence, or quality).

Synonyms: Bring to bear, Apply, Bring into play, Exercise, Employ

Usage: The moon exerts a force on the Earth

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