The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 24th August 2022
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- Inveterate (adj.)
Meaning: having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change. (जिद्दी)
Synonyms: ingrained, stubborn
Antonyms: unaccustomed, unused
Sentence: The man is an inveterate liar who only rarely tells the truth.
- Destitute (adj.)
Meaning: lacking money or material possessions (निराश्रित)
Synonyms: penniless, penurious, pauperized
Antonyms: affluent, prosperous, opulent
Sentence: The floods left thousands of people destitute.
- Panegyric (noun)
Meaning: a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something. (प्रशंसात्मक)
Synonyms: accolade, citation, commendation,
Antonyms: admonition, harangue
Sentence: She delivered a panegyric on the President-elect.
- Retribution (noun)
Meaning: punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act. (प्रतिदण्ड)
Synonyms: punishment, penalty, nemesis
Antonyms: forgiveness, pardon, remission
Sentence: People are seeking retribution for the latest terrorist outrages.
- Dulcet (adj.)
Meaning: giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses (आनंदकर)
Synonyms: delightful, enjoyable, felicitous
Antonyms: unpalatable, unpleasant, disturbing
Sentence: She recorded the dulcet tones of her family and friends.
- Abode (noun)
Meaning: a place of residence; a house or home. (निवास)
Synonyms: home, house, residence
Sentence: They established their permanent abode here.
- Conscience (noun)
Meaning: an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior. (अंतरात्मा की आवाज)
Synonyms: sense of right, moral sense, inner voice
Sentence: Her conscience told her to find the lost wallet’s owner.
- Seething (adj.)
Meaning: filled with or characterized by intense but unexpressed anger. (क्रोध में)
Synonyms: blazing, raging, rankling
Antonyms: cool, calmness
Sentence: He marched off, seething with frustration.
- Effete (adj.)
Meaning: (of a person) affected, overrefined, and ineffectual. (अशक्त)
Synonyms: affected, over-refined, ineffectual
Antonyms: undecadent, determined, mettlesome
Sentence: People said the aristocracy was effete.
- Allegiance (noun)
Meaning: loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause. (निष्ठा)
Synonyms: loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity
Antonyms: disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness
Sentence: FBI demands its employees’ absolute allegiance to this bureau.
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