The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 20th February 2023
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‘Vocabulary’
- Jubilation (noun)
Meaning: a feeling of great happiness and triumph. (आनंदोत्सव)
Synonyms: exultation, triumph, joy
Antonyms: agony, anguish, desolation
Sentence: There were scenes of jubilation among her supporters.
- Skirmish (noun)
Meaning: an episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting, especially between small or outlying parts of armies or fleets. (झड़प)
Synonyms: fight, battle, clash
Sentence: The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.
- Quibbling (noun)
Meaning: the action of raising objections about a trivial matter. (आपत्तियां उठाना)
Synonyms: criticizing, niggling
Antonyms: approving, supporting
Sentence: He spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II.
- Strenuous (adj.)
Meaning: requiring or using great exertion. (ज़ोरदार)
Synonyms: aggressive, forceful, muscular
Antonyms: effortless, nonemphatic, unemphatic
Sentence: The doctor advised Ken to avoid strenuous exercise.
- Posthumously (adv.)
Meaning: occurring after one’s death (मरणोपरांत)
Synonyms: belated, delayed
Sentence: Her last book was published posthumously in 1948.
- Nitty-Gritty (adj.)
Meaning: having to do with the practical details of regular life (दैनिक)
Synonyms: everyday, mundane, prosaic
Antonyms: rare, singular, uncommon
Sentence: A look at the nitty-gritty aspects of putting out a newspaper.
- Reciprocity (noun)
Meaning: the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another. (आदान-प्रदान करना)
Synonyms: collaboration, mutualism, harmony
Antonyms: antagonism, antipathy, enmity
Sentence: The proposal calls for reciprocity in trade relations.
- 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.
- Veritable (adj.)
Meaning: formal true or real —used to emphasize a description (सच्चा)
Synonyms: authentic, genuine, real
Antonyms: doubtful, dubious, equivocal
Sentence: The area is a veritable paradise for those who love walking
- Revanchism (noun)
Meaning: a policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory. (प्रतिशोध)
Synonyms: revenge, vengeance, reprisal
Sentence: But we also know that revanchism is never-ending.
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