The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  1st April 2023

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  1st April 2023

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 ‘Vocabulary’

1. Incredulity (noun)

Meaning: a state of uncertainty or hesitation. (शक)

Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, unbelief

Antonyms: assurance, belief, certainty

Sentence: He stared down the street in incredulity.

2. Finesse (noun)

Meaning: intricate and refined delicacy. (चालाकी)

Synonyms: skill, subtlety, expertise

Antonyms: inadequacy, incompetence, ineptitude

Sentence: He is a true believer, but sadly lacks finesse.

3. Glum (adj.)

Meaning: looking or feeling dejected; morose. (उदास)

Synonyms: bleak, sad, depressed

Antonyms: cheerful, cheery, bright

Sentence: You look glum. What’s up?

4. Stealthy (adj.)

Meaning: behaving, done, or made cautiously and surreptitiously, so as not to be seen or heard. (गुप्त)

Synonyms: furtive, secretive, secret

Antonyms: public, open

Sentence: Cats are among the stealthiest of stalkers.

5. Reclamation (noun)

Meaning: the process of claiming something back or of reasserting a right. (उद्धार)

Synonyms: recovery, recapture, retrieval

Antonyms: loss, misplacement

Sentence: Pumped water out of the field as part of the land reclamation program designed to provide farmers with more farmland.

6. Puritanical (adj.)

Meaning: practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior. (सख़्त)

Synonyms: moralistic, pietistic, prudish

Antonyms: permissive, prurient

Sentence: His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation.

7. Vaunt (verb)

Meaning: boast about or praise (something), especially excessively. (अपनी बड़ाई करना)

Synonyms: boast, brag, pride

Antonyms: belittle, underrate

Sentence: Even the noblest of fellows have been known to vaunt a bit.

8. Condone (verb)

Meaning: accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue. (माफ करना)

Synonyms: deliberately ignore, disregard, take no notice of

Antonyms: heed, mark, mind

Sentence: The state does not condone violence.

9. 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.

10. Dissimilitude (noun)

Meaning: dissimilarity or diversity. (विभिन्नता)

Synonyms: dissimilarity, difference, variance

Antonyms: alikeness, similarity, likeness

Sentence: There’s a real dissimilitude between literature and film, and a critic shouldn’t evaluate one in terms of the other.

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