Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary: August Month – Day 4

Daily Vocab

INVIGORATE (Verb) : पुनर्जीवित

  • Meaning: give strength or energy to.
  • अर्थ: शक्ति या ऊर्जा देना।
  • Synonyms: revitalize, energize, refresh, revive, vivify
  • Antonyms: discourage, dissuade
  • Usage: As soon as the water hits the roots of the dehydrated plant, it will invigorate it.

VICARIOUS(Adjective) : प्रतिनिधिक

  • Meaning: experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself
  • अर्थ: खुद कुछ करने के बजाय किसी दूसरे के बारे में देखना, सुनना या उसके बारे में पढ़ना या अनुभव करना
  • Synonyms: commissioned, delegated
  • Antonyms: direct, primary
  • Usage: My paralyzed uncle takes vicarious pride in his son’s running achievements.

TRAMMEL (Noun) : बाधा

  • Meaning: restrictions or impediments to freedom of action.
  • अर्थ: कार्रवाई की स्वतंत्रता के लिए प्रतिबंध या बाधाएं।
  • Synonyms: restraint, constraint, curb, check, impediment,
  • Antonyms: help, assistance
  • Usage: Protesters refused to let anyone trammel their first amendment rights and pushed for freedom and equality for all.

MANOEUVRE (noun) : कपट

  • Meaning: a carefully planned or cunning scheme or action.
  • अर्थ: सावधानीपूर्वक योजना या चालाक योजना या कार्रवाई।
  • Synonyms: stratagem, tactic, gambit, ploy.
  • Antonyms: innocence, candor, simplicity, incapacity.
  • Usage: A reasonable bridge-building effort between activists and experts on both sides to try to address the issues through tactical maneuvers might be useful.

INCAPACITATED (adjective) : अक्षम

  • Meaning: deprived of strength or power; debilitated.
  • अर्थ: शक्ति या शक्ति से वंचित; दुर्बल।
  • Synonyms: crippled, decrepit, enfeebled, frail.
  • Antonyms: powerful, strong, sturdy, stout.
  • Usage: In states such as Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, “countless children are growing up with parents in jail, incapacitated or underground”.

VERNACULAR (Noun) : मातृभाषा

  • Meaning: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.
  • अर्थ: किसी देश या क्षेत्र के सामान्य लोगों द्वारा बोली जाने वाली भाषा या बोली।
  • Synonym: everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, slang
  • Usage: To hold the interest of the community, the playwright penned his play using only the local vernacular.

VITIATE(Verb) : भ्रष्ट करना

  • Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
  • अर्थ: गुणवत्ता या दक्षता को खराब करना।
  • Synonym: poison, spoil, stain, tarnish, touch, taint
  • Antonym: Clean, honor, purify
  • Usage: When peers and bullies apply pressure, it can vitiate the moral character of young people and lead them down the wrong path.

CHRONIC (Adjective) : नियमित

  • Meaning: continuing or occurring again and again for a long time,  happening or existing frequently or most of the time, always or often doing something specified
  • अर्थ: लंबे समय तक बार-बार जारी रहना या घटित होना, लगातार या अधिकतर समय, हमेशा या अक्सर कुछ किया जाना
  • Synonym: natural; persistent, regular,
  • Antonym: unaccustomed, unused; intermittent, occasional
  • Usage: He suffers from chronic arthritis.

RATIONAL(Adjective) : युक्तिसंगत

  • Meaning: based on clear thought and reason
  • अर्थ: स्पष्ट विचार और कारण पर आधारित
  • Synonyms: intelligent, judicious
  • Antonyms: careless, foolish
  • Usage: Bayesian analysis provides a rational basis for the qualitative form of set-theoretic models of similarity.