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The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 16th October 2023
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- Indigent (adj.)
Meaning: poor; needy. (दरिद्र)
Synonyms: poor, impecunious, destitute
Antonyms: prosperous, opulent, rich
Sentence: Because he was indigent, the court-appointed a lawyer to represent him.
- Traipse (verb)
Meaning: walk or move wearily or reluctantly. (धीरे-धीरे चलना)
Synonyms: trudge, trek, tramp
Sentence: I spent the day traipsing round the shops but found nothing suitable for her.
- Accrue (verb)
Meaning: (of sums of money or benefits) be received by someone in regular or increasing amounts over time. (उपाजित होना)
Synonyms: result, arise, follow
Antonyms: abate, decline, diminish
Sentence: A penny-pincher who is accruing a fortune by spending next to nothing.
- 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.
- Brusque (adj.)
Meaning: abrupt or offhand in speech or manner. (अशिष्ट)
Synonyms: abrupt, blunt, terse
Antonyms: circuitous, mealymouthed, civil
Sentence: Madison’s brusque style tends to irritate colleagues.
- Perfidy (noun)
Meaning: deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. (विश्वासघात)
Synonyms: treachery, duplicity, deceit
Antonyms: allegiance, constancy, devotedness
Sentence: As devotion unites lovers, so perfidy estranges friends.
- Trove (noun)
Meaning: a store of valuable or delightful things. (भंडार)
Synonyms: assortment, treasure, assemble
Antonyms: ragbag, clutter
Sentence: The dictionary is a vast treasure trove of information.
- Interregnum (noun)
Meaning: a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes. (दो राजाए के भीतर समय)
Synonyms: discontinuity, adjournment, suspension
Antonyms: continuation, continuity
Sentence: The democratic regime proved to be a short-lived interregnum between dictatorships.
- Commiserated (verb)
Meaning: express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize. (हमदर्दी रखना)
Synonyms: offer sympathy to, feel pity for, condole with
Antonyms: distressed, tormented, irritated
Sentence: They commiserated the misfortune of their teacher.
- Contemporaneous (adj.)
Meaning: existing or occurring in the same period of time. (समसामयिक)
Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval, coexistent
Antonyms: asynchronous, noncontemporary
Sentence: The two events were more or less contemporaneous, with only months between them.
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