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Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper Editorial. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.
1.The measures to enhance resilience of its economy.
Resilience:
Meaning: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness; the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
Synonym: Flexibility, pliability, suppleness, plasticity, elasticity, springiness, spring, give
Antonym: inelastic, inflexible, nonelastic, rigid, stiff
2.Brazen:
Meaning: (adjective) bold and without shame; (verb)endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame.
Synonym: arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brass bound, brassy, nervy, brazen-faced,
Antonym: demure, humble, modest; courteous, genteel, mannerly, polite, proper
3. Nagaland plunged into a political crisis
plunged:
Meaning : an act or instance of diving;(verb) jump or dive quickly and energetically; the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude
Synonym: pitch, dive, down, drop, fall, nosedive, descent, jab, stab, push, shove, force, sink
Antonym: jump, leap, ascent, climb, rise, rising, soaring, upswing, upturn
4. Former Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang staking claim to form a new government by ousting the incumbent Shurhozelie Liezietsu.
Staking:
Meaning : a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something; the money or thing risked on the outcome of an uncertain event; support (a plant) with a stake or stakes; mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it.
Synonym: prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, mark off, mark out, demarcate, claim, share, interest
Antonym: disclaimer, quitclaim, release, waiver
5.Incumbent :
Meaning: (adjective)necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility; (of an official or regime) currently holding office; (noun)the holder of an office or post
Synonym: binding, obligatory, mandatory, necessary, compulsory, required, requisite, essential, imperative,forced, involuntary, nonelective, obligatory, peremptory,
Antonym:elective, optional, voluntary,inconsequential,
insignificant, non-essential, unimportant
7.There is also a library with periodicals:
periodicals:
Meaning: appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly; occurring or appearing at intervals; a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.
Synonym: journal, publication, magazine, newspaper, continual, on-and-off, periodic, intermittent, recurrent
Antonym: constant, continuous, incessant, unceasing
8.perfunctorily:
Meaning: adjective (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort;characterized by routine or superficiality; lacking in interest or enthusiasm
Synonym: cursory, desultory; quick, brief, hasty, hurried, rapid, passing, fleeting, summary;
token, casual, superficial, uninterested,
Antonym: concerned, interested, attentive, aware, conscientious, heedful, mindful
9. Many bus routes were inundated
inundated:
Meaning: overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with; to cover with a flood
Synonym: overwhelm, overpower, overburden, overrun, overload, swamp, flood, deluge, overflow,
Antonym: drain, dehydrate, dry, parch
10. Globalized world, in the case of China it is a ploy to systematically develop hegemony over the region and intervene in internal policies to its benefit.
ploy:
Meaning : a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage; a time or instance of carefree fun
Synonym: artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play,
Antonym: averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dis-relish, distaste, detachment, impartiality, artlessness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness
hegemony:
Meaning: controlling power or influence over others; leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.
Synonym: leadership, dominance, dominion, supremacy, ascendancy, predominance,
Antonym: helplessness, weakness; impotence, powerlessness
intervene:
Meaning: take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events; occur in the time between events; to act as a go-between for opposing sides
Synonym: intercede, intermediate, interpose, mediate, involve oneself, insinuate oneself
Antonym: stand by, avoid, eschew, shun; disregard, ignore, overlook
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