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The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 31st December 2025
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- Busybody (noun)
Meaning: a person who meddles in the affairs of others (वाधा डालनेवाला)
Synonyms: intruder, meddler, interloper
Sentence: That busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden.
- Confutation (noun)
Meaning: something (as an argument) that serves to disprove (खंडन)
Synonyms: refutation, rebuttal, counterargument
Antonyms: confirmation, validation
Sentence: He crafted an elegant confutation to the argument that animals do not feel pain.
- Callow (adj.)
Meaning: lacking in adult experience or maturity (अनुभवहीन)
Synonyms: immature, inexperienced, naive
Antonyms: mature, experienced
Sentence: He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
- Grudging (adj.)
Meaning: given, granted, or allowed only reluctantly or resentfully. (अनिच्छुक)
Synonyms: reluctant, unwilling, forced
Antonyms: allowing, authorizing
Sentence: He even earned his opponents’ grudging respect.
- Extemporize (verb)
Meaning: to perform, make, or do without preparation (बिना तैयारी के)
Synonyms: improvise, devise, concoct
Antonyms: prepare, ready
Sentence: I’d lost my notes and had to extemporize.
- Proliferate (verb)
Meaning: to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number (संख्या में बढ़ना)
Synonyms: increase, rise, accelerate
Antonyms: decrease, diminish, recede
Sentence: Rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet.
- Melee (noun)
Meaning: a confused fight, skirmish, or scuffle. (हाथापाई)
Synonyms: brawl, scuffle, clash
Sentence: Several people were hurt in the melee.
- Forfend (verb)
Meaning: to drive danger or attack away from; as in to protect (दूर करना)
Synonyms: protect, defend, safeguard
Antonyms: attack, assault, assail
Sentence: It’s a place of refuge where the settlers could forfend themselves from attack.
- Ken (noun)
Meaning: one’s range of knowledge or sight. (ज्ञान)
Synonyms: knowledge, awareness, understanding
Antonyms: illiteracy, inexperience
Sentence: Such determination is beyond my ken.
- Tendentious (adj.)
Meaning: expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. (विवादास्पद)
Synonyms: preference, favoritism
Sentence: He made some extremely tendentious remarks.
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