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The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 16th May 2022
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- Exuberance (noun)
Meaning: the quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience. (जोश-ख़रोश)
Synonyms: ebullience, jazziness, peppiness
Antonyms: inactivity, lifelessness, dullness
Sentence: She was laughing from the sheer exuberance of the performance.
- Savvy (noun)
Meaning: shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgments. (सामान्य बुद्धि)
Synonyms: shrewdness, astuteness, sharp-wittedness
Antonyms: foolish, dumb, silly
Sentence: she’s an excellent scholar of political science, but lacks the kind of savvy needed to run for public office
- Rummaged (verb)
Meaning: search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle. (अफवाह फैलाया)
Synonyms: search (through), hunt through, scrabble around in
Antonyms: ignored, neglected
Sentence: He rummaged through the jumble of papers on his desk.
- Niggling (adj.)
Meaning: causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety. (तुच्छ)
Synonyms: inconsiderable, insignificant, measly
Antonyms: big, consequential, considerable
Sentence: Don’t waste time on niggling details.
- Snappy (adj.)
Meaning: moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed (तेज़)
Synonyms: blistering, lightning, speedy
Antonyms: slow, dilatory, dawdling
Sentence: Bring us some more french fries and make it snappy!
- Fissures (noun)
Meaning: a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth. (दरारें)
Synonyms: opening, crevice, crack
Sentence: Lava flows up through a fissure in the earth’s crust.
- Opprobrium (noun)
Meaning: harsh criticism or censure. (अपमान)
Synonyms: vilification, abuse, vituperation
Antonyms: esteem, honor, respect
Sentence: The government did not deserve the opprobrium heaped on it by the national press.
- Pithily (adv.)
Meaning: in a few words (मतलब की बात)
Synonyms: briefly, compactly, concisely
Antonyms: diffusely, long-windedly, verbosely
Sentence: The observation that “War is hell” is how General Sherman pithily summed up his experiences in combat.
- Subservient (adj.)
Meaning: prepared to obey others unquestioningly. (अधीन)
Synonyms: submissive, deferential, acquiescent
Antonyms: disrespectful, impolite, impudent
Sentence: She was subservient to her parents.
- Pontificating (verb)
Meaning: express one’s opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic. (व्याख्या करना)
Synonyms: expound, declaim, preach
Antonyms: humble, lowly, modest
Sentence: Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.
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