The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 10th April 2023
Vocabulary plays a vital role in scoring good marks in the English section of various competitive exams that you can improve if you work in the right direction. So, we are providing you The Hindu Vocab on a daily basis to increase your vocabulary power, which will help you prepare for many exams like Banking, Railway, Insurance, SSC, and other government exams.
‘Vocabulary’
- Cursory (adj.)
Meaning: hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed. (जल्दबाजी)
Synonyms: perfunctory, desultory, casual
Antonyms: deliberate, unhurried, unrushed
Sentence: He put aside the papers after a cursory study.
- Subversive (adj.)
Meaning: seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution. (विनाशक)
Synonyms: disruptive, troublemaking, inflammatory
Antonyms: conservative, moderate, temperate
Sentence: A subversive organization determined to unseat a leader who they believed operated outside the law.
- Frenzy (noun)
Meaning: a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior. (उन्माद)
Synonyms: hysteria, madness, mania
Antonyms: calm, calmness, peace
Sentence: In a frenzy of rage she hit him.
- Gravest (adj.)
Meaning: giving cause for alarm; serious. (सबसे गंभीर)
Synonyms: serious, important, profound
Antonyms: light, unserious, frivolous
Sentence: That is the gravest problem of all.
- Defied (verb)
Meaning: openly resist or refuse to obey. (अवहेलना करना)
Synonyms: resist, withstand, confront
Antonyms: complied (with), conformed (to), followed
Sentence: I wouldn’t have dared to defy my teachers.
- Fastidious (adj.)
Meaning: very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail. (दुराराध्य)
Synonyms: scrupulous, punctilious, assiduous
Antonyms: undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy
Sentence: Everything was planned in fastidious detail.
- Exertion (noun)
Meaning: physical or mental effort. (तनाव)
Synonyms: strain, struggle, toil
Antonyms: struggle, toil
Sentence: A person with nephritis must avoid all exertion.
- Germane (adj.)
Meaning: relevant to a subject under consideration. (सार्थक)
Synonyms: relevant, pertinent, applicable
Antonyms: irrelative, irrelevant, pointless
Sentence: He asks questions that are germane and central to the issue.
- Melancholy (noun)
Meaning: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. (उदासी)
Synonyms: desolation, sadness, pensiveness
Antonyms: cheery, glad, happy
Sentence: An air of melancholy surrounded him.
- Spooked (adj.)
Meaning: filled with fear or dread (डरावना)
Synonyms: affrighted, afraid, aghast
Antonyms: fearless, unafraid, bold
Sentence: Something in the bushes spooked her horse.
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