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The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For NABARD Grade A 2017

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The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For NABARD Grade A 2017

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.Dreaded 
Meaning:  Regarded with great fear or apprehension; regard with great awe or reverence.
Synonym: affright, alarm, apprehension, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, horror, panic, terror, trepidation.
Antonym:  hopefulness; confidence, optimism, sanguinity

2.Expeditious
Meaning: having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation
Synonym: alacritous, alert, quick, prompt, ready, willing,speedy, swift, quick, rapid, fast, prompt, punctual, immediate, instant,
Antonym:unresponsive,crawling,creeping,dallying,dawdling,dilatory, dragging, laggard, lagging, lazy, lazyish, leisurely

3.Trawl
Meaning: Trawl is defined as to fish or catch with a large, baglike net; to make a thorough search (of)

4.Luddite
Meaning:  Any of a group of workers in England (1811-16) who smashed new labor-saving textile machinery in protest against unemployment and reduced wages ;a person opposed in principle to technological change: a pejorative term

5.vying
Meaning: to engage in a contest;
Synonym: compete, contest, struggle.battle, contend, faceoff, fight, race, rival
 Antonym: truce,  concord, harmony, peace

6.Polysemy
Meaning: the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase; having several meanings, or being open to several interpretations.;
Synonym: doubt,dubiety,vagueness,dubiousness,equivocancy, tergiversation.
Antonym: assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction,  surety, trust

7.Hubris
Meaning: excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance
Synonym: arrogance, conceit,haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, pomposity, superciliousness,
Antonym: humility, respected, timidity,modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness

8.Emanated
Meaning: to throw or give off; (of a feeling, quality, or sensation) issue or spread out from (a source).
Synonym: cast, discharge, emit, evolve, exhale, expel, expire,emerge, flow, pour, proceed, issue, ensue,exude, give off,
Antonym:  conceal,keep,take,withdraw,absorb, inhale, soak (up), sponge, suck (up)

9.Hatched
Meaning: (of an egg) open and produce a young animal; conspire to devise (a plot or plan); a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
Synonym: devise, conceive, contrive, concoct, brew, invent, plan, design, formulate; gate, door, portal
Antonym: miss ,clone, copy, copycat,  duplicate, imitate

10.Draconian
Meaning: (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe.
Synonym: harsh, severe, strict, extreme, drastic, stringent, tough, swingeing, cruel, brutal, oppressive,  severe
Antonym:  amenable,easy,gentle,temperate,calm,mild

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