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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.Hail
Meaning: a heavy fall of objects; a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
Synonym: sleet, precipitation, beat, shower, rain, fall, pour, drop, shower blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, cannonade,
Antonym: dribble, drip, trickle
2.Barbarism
Meaning: absence of culture and civilization; extreme cruelty or brutality.
Synonym: atrocious, barbaric, cruel, brutal, brute, butcherly, fiendish, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, sadistic, savage, truculent, vicious, wanton
Antonym: cultured, enlightened, humane, sophisticated; genteel, polished, polite, refined, urbane, well-bred; semicivilized
3. Standoff
Meaning: a deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict.
Synonym: deadlock,stalemate,toss-up,impasse
Antonym:agreement,breakthrough
4.Breaching
Meaning: an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship; a breaking of a moral or legal code; a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation
Synonym: offense, crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, sin,
Antonym: noninfringement, nonviolation, observance; noncrime
5. Adjudication
Meaning: the action or process of adjudicating; a formal judgement on a disputed matter.
Synonym:conclusion,determination,pronouncement,decision
Antonym:beginning,start,indecision
6. Vandalised
Meaning: deliberately destroy or damage (public or private property).
Synonym: demolish,trash,despoil,ravage,wreck,disfigure,ravish,ruin,damage
Antonym:build,fix,repair,construct,mend,aid,assist,help
7.Disburse
Meaning: pay out (money from a fund); to make a payment in settlement of
Synonym: spend, drop, expend, fork (over, out, or up), give, layout, outlay, pay, shell out
Antonym: cache, hoard, lay up, save; acquire, earn, gain, garner, make, procure, realize, secure, win
8. Calving
Meaning: of an ice mass: to separate or break so that a part becomes detached; to give birth to a calf; also: to produce offspring
9. Resurgence
Meaning: The definition of a resurgence is a new start or a revival; A continuing after interruption; a renewal.
A restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor; a revival.
Synonym: reanimation, rebirth, regeneration, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renewal, revival, resurrection, resuscitation, revitalization, revivification
Antonym: death, expiration, extinction
10.Bipartite
Meaning: consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined
Synonym: binary, double, double-barreled, double-edged, dual, duplex, twin, twofold
Antonym: single
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