The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 15th January 2022
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‘Vocabulary’
- Amassed (verb)
Meaning: gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of valuable material or things) over a period of time. (जमा कर रखे)
Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble
Antonyms: dispelled, dispersed, dissipated
Sentence: They amassed huge wealth by plundering the colonies.
- Sardonic (adj.)
Meaning: grimly mocking or cynical. (तिरस्कारपूर्ण)
Synonyms: mocking, satirical, sarcastic
Antonyms: gentle, mild, good-natured
Sentence: He looked at her with sardonic amusement.
- Kith (noun)
Meaning: one’s friends, acquaintances, and relations. (स्वजन)
Synonyms: family, kin, relations
Sentence: I had a reunion today with all my kith and kin.
- Pauper (noun)
Meaning: a very poor person. (कंगाल)
Synonyms: poor person, indigent, bankrupt
Antonyms: affluent, billionaire, tycoon
Sentence: He did die a pauper and is buried in an unmarked grave.
- Conjectural (adj.)
Meaning: based on or involving conjecture. (मान लिया)
Synonyms: speculative, suppositional, theoretical
Antonyms: actual, factual, real
Sentence: Much of the racial history of Madagascar remains conjectural.
- Colloquially (adv.)
Meaning: in the language of ordinary or familiar conversation; informally. (बोलचाल की भाषा में)
Synonyms: conversational, informal, unbookish
Antonyms: undialectical
Sentence: Limestone is colloquially called cyan stone.
- Eloquence (noun)
Meaning: fluent or persuasive speaking or writing. (वाग्मिता)
Synonyms: oratory, rhetoric, grandiloquence
Antonyms: inarticulateness
Sentence: She was renowned for her eloquence and beauty.
- Quietus (noun)
Meaning: death or something that causes death, regarded as a release from life. (मरण)
Synonyms: death, decease, demise
Antonyms: birth, nativity, existence
Sentence: After weeks of suffering, the cancer-stricken cat received a quietus of the pain by taking her final nap.
- Abhorrent (adj.)
Meaning: inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant. (घिनौना)
Synonyms: detestable, detested, hateful
Antonyms: admiring, innocuous, inoffensive
Sentence: I am abhorrent of smoking.
- Fortuitous (adj.)
Meaning: happening by accident or chance rather than design. (आकस्मिक)
Synonyms: chance, unexpected, unanticipated
Antonyms: hapless, intentional, planned
Sentence: The similarity between the paintings may not be simply fortuitous.
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