The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 2nd April 2026

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  2nd April 2026

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 ‘Vocabulary’

1. Entailing (verb)

Meaning: involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence. (आकर्षक)

Synonyms: necessitate, make necessary, require

Antonyms: unnecessary, optional

Sentence: The journey will entail changing trains twice.

2. Tannery (noun)

Meaning: a place where animal hides are tanned; the workshop of a tanner. (चमड़े का कारख़ाना)

Sentence: Boots are made in this tannery.

3. Jostle (verb)

Meaning: push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd. (झटका)

Synonyms: bump into, knock into, bang into

Antonyms: leave alone, pull, repress

Sentence: Don’t jostle against me!

4. Blatant (adj.)

Meaning: (of bad behavior) done openly and unashamedly. (प्रबल)

Synonyms: flagrant, glaring, undisguised

Antonyms: concealed, moral, disguised

Sentence: Despite their blatant attraction to each other they try to stay just friends.

5. Dolorous (adj.)

Meaning: feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress. (दर्दनाक)

Synonyms: mournful, woeful, doleful

Antonyms: cheery, happy, hopeful

Sentence: The dolorous film made me recall sad times.

6. Evoke (verb)

Meaning: bring or recall to the conscious mind. (आह्वान)

Synonyms: bring to mind, call to mind, put one in mind of

Antonyms: disregard, forget, ignore

Sentence: The old house evoked memories of his childhood.

7. Uncanny (adj.)

Meaning: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. (अलौकिक)

Synonyms: eerie, unnatural, preternatural

Antonyms: common, expected, natural

Sentence: His powers of observation were uncanny.

8. Pertinent (adj.)

Meaning: relevant or applicable to a particular matter (उचित)

Synonyms: relevant, appropriate, apposite

Antonyms: irrelevant, pointless, inapposite

Sentence: He asked me a lot of very pertinent questions.

9. Perusal (noun)

Meaning: the action of reading or examining something. (अध्ययन)

Synonyms: reading, scrutiny, inspection

Antonyms: ignorance, neglect,

Sentence: I continued my perusal of the instructions.

10. Thud (verb)

Meaning: move, fall, or strike something with a dull, heavy sound. (गिरना)

Synonyms: thump, clunk, clonk

Antonyms: evade, dodge, escape

Sentence: The bullets thudded into the dusty ground.

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