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The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 23rd December 2025
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‘Vocabulary’
- Cozen (verb)
Meaning: to cause to believe what is untrue (ठगना)
Synonyms: deceive, fool, trick
Antonyms: reveal, expose, uncover
Sentence: A clever lawyer can cozen the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
- Hackneyed (adj.)
Meaning: (of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite. (साधारण)
Synonyms: cliché, stereotyped, overused
Antonyms: original new, fresh
Sentence: The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.
- Inimitable (adj.)
Meaning: so good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique. (अनोखी)
Synonyms: unique, distinctive, individual
Antonyms: usual, familiar, common
Sentence: He entertained us in his own inimitable style.
- Opine (verb)
Meaning: to make a statement of one’s opinion (विचारना)
Synonyms: comment, remark, note
Sentence: The headmistress opined that the trip would make a nice change.
- Encroach (verb)
Meaning: to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits (घुस पड़ना)
Synonyms: invade, intrude, sneak
Sentence: He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
- Disputatious (adj.)
Meaning: feeling or displaying eagerness to fight (क्रोधी)
Synonyms: aggressive, contentious, quarrelsome
Antonyms: peaceable, nonaggressive, amiable
Sentence: A long history of little wars waged by the disputatious countries occupying that European peninsula.
- Presage (noun)
Meaning: a feeling that something bad will happen (आभास)
Synonyms: presentiment, suspicion, foreboding
Sentence: Those black clouds presage a storm.
- Canard (noun)
Meaning: an unfounded rumor or story. (बेबुनियाद बात)
Synonyms: tale, story, whisper
Sentence: It’s a popular canard that the actress died under scandalous circumstances.
- Get-go (noun)
Meaning: the point at which something begins (शुरुआत से)
Synonyms: beginning, start, outset
Antonyms: end, conclusion, completion
Sentence: Harry’s been involved in the project from the get-go.
- Recreational (adj.)
Meaning: as in comic (मनोरंजन)
Synonyms: entertaining, humorous, fun
Antonyms: uninteresting, boring, pedestrian
Sentence: Lucien was never invited to participate in recreational activities.
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