The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 22nd September 2022
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‘Vocabulary’
- Frittering (verb)
Meaning: waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters. (व्यर्थ नष्ट करना)
Synonyms: squander, waste, misspend
Antonyms: penurious, acquisitive
Sentence: I seem to fritter my time away in coffee mornings.
- Genteel (adj.)
Meaning: polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way. (ललित)
Synonyms: refined, respectable, decent
Antonyms: uncivilized, ungenteel, indecorous
Sentence: She always talks in such a genteel voice when she’s on the phone.
- Vandalism (noun)
Meaning: action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. (बर्बरता)
Synonyms: malicious mischief, devastation, devilry
Antonyms: protection, saving, goodness
Sentence: Two teens were charged with vandalism after they spray-painted curse words on their elderly neighbor’s garage.
- Footing (noun)
Meaning: the basis on which something is established or operates (आधार)
Synonyms: basis, base, foundation
Antonyms: acme, peak, topmost
Sentence: I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs.
- Statutory (adj.)
Meaning: required, permitted, or enacted by statute (वैधानिक/क़ानूनी)
Synonyms: lawful, legal, judicial
Antonyms: illegal, illicit, unlawful
Sentence: When you buy foods you have certain statutory rights.
- Plummeting (verb)
Meaning: fall or drop straight down at high speed (नीचे गिरना या गिरना)
Synonyms: fall headlong, dive, drop
Antonyms: lifting, mounting, rising
Sentence: A climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully
- Pedagogy (noun)
Meaning: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept (शिक्षा शास्त्र)
Synonyms: education, instruction, tutoring
Sentence: Much of today’s mathematical pedagogy is derived from historical antecedents.
- Perpetrator (noun)
Meaning: a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act (अपराधी)
Synonyms: wrongdoer, offender, culprit
Antonyms: innocent, good person
Sentence: The perpetrators of this horrific crime must be brought to justice
- Emulated (verb)
Meaning: match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation (नकल)
Synonyms: imitate, copy, mirror
Antonyms: neglect, be original
Sentence: They hope to emulate the success of other software companies.
- Commuter (noun)
Meaning: a person who travels some distance to work on a regular basis (यात्री)
Synonyms: traveller, passenger, straphanger
Sentence: The delayed commuter train disgorged hundreds of angry passengers.
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