The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  7th October 2022

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  7th October 2022

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 ‘Vocabulary’

1. Caricatured (verb)

Meaning: make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something). (नक़ल बनाना)

Synonyms: parody, satirize, lampoon

Sentence: He caricatured political leaders of his time.

2. Flimflam (noun)

Meaning: nonsensical or insincere talk. (बकवास)

Synonyms: balderdash, baloney, idiocy

Antonyms: reasonableness, sensibleness

Sentence: I was sick of his intellectual flimflam.

3. Appended (verb)

Meaning: to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase (जुड़ा हुआ)

Synonyms: added, adjoined, annexed

Antonyms: deducted, knocked off, removed

Sentence: Footnotes have been appended to the document.

4. Inadmissible (adj.)

Meaning: (especially of evidence in court) not accepted as valid. (अस्वीकार्य)

Synonyms: not allowable, invalid, not acceptable

Antonyms: admissible, allowable, permissible

Sentence: The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible.

5. Frailty (adj.)

Meaning: the condition of being weak and delicate. (निर्बलता)

Synonyms: infirmity, infirmness, weakness

Antonyms: robustness, strength, vigor

Sentence: Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.

6. Delve (verb)

Meaning: reach inside a receptacle and searching for something. (खोजना)

Synonyms: rummage (around) in, search (through), hunt through

Sentence: It’s not always a good idea to delve too deeply into someone’s past.

7. Provenance (noun)

Meaning: the place of origin or earliest known history of something. (उत्पत्ति)

Synonyms: origin, source, place of origin

Sentence: The provenance of the paintings is unknown.

8. Pettifogging (adj.)

Meaning: placing undue emphasis on petty details. (छल-संबंधी)

Synonyms: inferior, mean, trivial

Antonyms: serious, substantial

Sentence: Pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society.

9. Imprimatur (noun)

Meaning: an acceptance of something as satisfactory (इजाज़त)

Synonyms: approbation, approval, acceptation

Antonyms: disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor

Sentence: They can also get the imprimatur of the Constitutional Court to achieve this.

10. Tad (adv.)

Meaning: to a small extent; somewhat. (अल्प)

Synonyms: little, bit, ounce

Antonyms: abundance, barrel, boatload

Sentence: Could you turn the sound down just a tad?

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