Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary: March Month – Day 23

The Hindu English Vocabulary

Apportioned (Verb):  विभाजित

  • Meaning: To give or share out something
  • अर्थ: किसी वस्तु को देना या बाँटना
  • Synonyms: Allocate, Distribute, Serve, Divide.
  • Antonyms: Misallocate, Decline, Deny, Deprive.
  • Example: The power should be apportioned as per the requirement.

TROVE (noun): कोष

  • Meaning: a store of valuable or delightful things.
  • अर्थ: मूल्यवान या रमणीय वस्तुओं का भंडार।
  • Synonyms: accumulation, agglomeration, backlog, conglomeration, heap, pile, reservoir, stock
  • Store, supply.
  • Antonyms: trash, litter, junk, dispersion, reduction, shrinkage.
  • Usage: I discovered a trove of candy bars and pop tarts in my teen son’s pillow case.

COZEN (verb): छलना

  • Meaning: to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery.
  • अर्थ: छल-कपट करना, जीतना, या कृत्रिम मनोदशा और घरघराहट या चतुर चालबाजी द्वारा कुछ करने के लिए प्रेरित करना।
  • Synonyms: bamboozle, beguile, bluff, deceive, delude, dupe, gaff, gull, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, juggle, misguide.
  • Antonyms: debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask, disclose, divulge, unveil
  • disabuse, disenchant.
  • Usage: Dicing-houses, where cheaters meet, and cozen young men out of their money.

LOUT (noun): गंवार

  • Meaning: a big clumsy often slow-witted person.
  • अर्थ: एक बड़ा अनाड़ी अक्सर धीमा-शांत व्यक्ति होता है।
  • Synonyms: ignoramus, imbecile, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, dimwit.
  • Antonyms: brain, egghead, genius, intellectual, sage, thinker, whiz, wizard.
  • Usage: But this question was beyond the poor lout’s intelligence; he could only blubber and fend off possible chastisement.

Protege (Noun): आश्रित

  • Meaning: A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person.
  • अर्थ: एक व्यक्ति जो एक बड़े और अधिक अनुभवी या प्रभावशाली व्यक्ति द्वारा निर्देशित और समर्थित है।
  • Synonyms: Pupil, student, trainee.
  • Antonyms: Guardian, adult
  • Example: Ram submitted his protege name to the elections.

GRIPE (verb): कष्ट देना

  • Meaning: to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely.
  • अर्थ: असंतोष, दर्द या आक्रोश व्यक्त करने के लिए आमतौर पर थकाऊ होते हैं।
  • Synonyms: bellyache, bleat, carp, complain, crab, croak, fuss, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, nag, scream, squawk, squeal, whimper, whine.
  • Antonyms: bear, countenance, endure, tolerate, applaud, cheer, commend, delight, rejoice.
  • Usage: Her tendency to gripe constantly drove everyone away.

EXEGESIS (noun): टिप्पणी

  • Meaning: an explanation or critical interpretation of a text.
  • अर्थ: किसी पाठ की व्याख्या या आलोचनात्मक व्याख्या।
  • Synonyms: interpretation, exposition, explication, elucidation, clarification, gloss, annotation, illustration.
  • Antonyms: pain point.
  • Usage: The student’s exegesis of the novel was one of the best summaries the professor had ever read.

PRATTLE (verb): बकबक करना

  • Meaning:  talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
  • अर्थ: मूर्खतापूर्ण या असंगत तरीके से बात करना।
  • Synonyms: chatter, babble, prate, blather, ramble, gabble, jabber, maunder, drivel, patter, jibber-jabber, blabber, natter, waffle.
  • Antonyms: quiet, silence, clamor, enunciate, articulate, pronounce.
  • Usage: To make others envious, Reena likes to prattle on about her great job.

SEMINAL (adjective): लाभदायक

  • Meaning: Strongly influencing later developments.
  • अर्थ: बाद के घटनाक्रमों को दृढ़ता से प्रभावित करना।
  • Synonyms: Influential, Formative, Important, Primary.
  • Antonyms: Dull, Inessential, Minor, Unsubstantial.
  • Usage: Newton’s laws are seminal in the field of physics.

RICKETY (adjective): जीर्ण

  • Meaning: (of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
  • अर्थ: (एक संरचना या उपकरणों का टुकड़ा) खराब तरीके से बनाया गया और ढहने की संभावना है।
  • Synonyms: dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous.
  • Antonyms: stable, sturdy, durable, strong.
  • Example: She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.