The Hindu Editorial VOCAB: 8th May 2025

The Hindu Editorial VOCAB:  8th May 2025

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 ‘Vocabulary’

1. Snugly (adv.)

Meaning: in a comfortable, warm, and cozy or well-protected manner. (आराम से)

Synonyms: comfortable, comfy, cozy

Antonyms: uncomfortable, troubled

Sentence: I left the children tucked up snugly in bed.

2. Delinquency (noun)

Meaning: minor crime, especially that committed by young people. (अपराध)

Synonyms: crime, wrongdoing, criminality

Antonyms: compliance, goodness, morality

Sentence: There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.

3. Fritter (verb)

Meaning: waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters. (व्यर्थ नष्ट करना)

Synonyms: squander, waste, misuse

Antonyms: conserve, save

Sentence: I wish we hadn’t frittered the money away so easily

4. Galled (verb)

Meaning: make (someone) feel annoyed. (परेशान होना)

Synonyms: irritate, annoy, bothered

Antonyms: delighted, gladdened, gratified

Sentence: He knew he was losing, and it galled him.

5. Seamless (adj.)

Meaning: being entirely without fault or flaw (निरपराध)

Synonyms: absolute, faultless, flawless

Antonyms: censurable, defective, faulty

Sentence: The conductor’s seamless interpretation of Mozart’s Jupiter symphony was greeted with a standing ovation.

6. Entreaty (noun)

Meaning: an earnest or humble request. (विनती)

Synonyms: appeal, request, petition

Sentence: The king turned a deaf ear to his entreaties.

7. Felicitate (verb)

Meaning: to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune (अभिनंदन करना)

Synonyms: compliment, congratulate, applaud

Antonyms: cry down, decry, deprecate

Sentence: The whole family felicitated John on his new appointment.

8. Statute (noun)

Meaning: a written law passed by a legislative body. (क़ानून)

Synonyms: law, regulation, enactment

Sentence: Protection for the consumer is laid down by statute.

9. Unfettered (adj.)

Meaning: unrestrained or uninhibited. (निरंकुश)

Synonyms: unrestrained, unrestricted, unconstrained

Antonyms: bound, confined, restrained

Sentence: Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished.

10. Debunking (verb)

Meaning: expose the falseness or hollowness of (a myth, idea, or belief). (असली रूप दिखाने)

Synonyms: explode, deflate, puncture

Antonyms: camouflaging, cloaking, disguising

Sentence: The investigative reporter easily debunked the charlatan’s claims of clairvoyance.

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