Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary: Dec Month – Day 14

The Hindu English Vocabulary

SUBVERT (verb) व्‍यवस्‍था भंग करना

  • Meaning: undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution).
  • अर्थ: (एक स्थापित प्रणाली या संस्था) की शक्ति और अधिकार को कमजोर करना।
  • Synonyms: destabilize, unsettle, overthrow, depose.
  • Antonyms: dignify, exalt, honor, ameliorate.
  • Usage: She subverted my noble desire to do a good deed without reward.

USHER (verb) परिचय करवाना

  • Meaning: show or guide (someone) somewhere.
  • अर्थ: कहीं दिखा या मार्गदर्शक (कोई)।
  • Synonyms: lead, accompany, conduct, assist.
  • Antonyms: retract, conclude, cease, stop.
  • Usage: A nurse ushered us into the hospital room.

SUBTERRANEAN (adjective) गुप्त

  • Meaning: secret; concealed.
  • अर्थ: गुप्त।
  • Synonyms: covert, subversive, sunken, private.
  • Antonyms: aboveground, surface, open, palpable.
  • Usage: The robbers are digging a subterranean path that will allow them to enter the bank from underneath the vault’s floor.

SACK (verb) निकाल देना

  • Meaning: dismiss from employment.
  • अर्थ: रोजगार से खारिज करना।
  • Synonyms: bounce, discharge, dismiss, terminate,
  • Antonyms: recruit, employ, engage, hire.
  • Usage: Any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot.

CLINCH (verb) कसना

  • Meaning: to make final, definite, or beyond dispute.
  • अर्थ: अंतिम, निश्चित या विवाद से परे करना।
  • Synonyms: settle, conclude, finalize, wrap up.
  • Antonyms: confuse, unsettle, release, unfasten.
  • Usage: Her work on the project should clinch her a promotion.

MALAPERT (Adjective) : बेशरम

  • Meaning: boldly disrespectful; impudent.
  • अर्थ: साहसपूर्वक अनादर।
  • Synonym: impertinent, cheeky, rude, brazen.
  • Antonyms: courteous, humble, modest, polite.
  • Usage: In a fury, she said that he was too malapert to give her such an answer, and affirmed that both he and they should repent it.

Quirk (Noun) : विशेषता

  • Meaning: a strange habit
  • अर्थ: एक अजीब आदत
  • Synonyms: irregularity, trait
  • Antonyms: normality,
  • Usage: His biggest quirk is his love for old marbles.

TACIT (adjective) : उपलक्षित

  • Meaning: understood or implied without being stated.
  • अर्थ: बिना बताए समझे या निहित।
  • Synonyms: implicit, inferred, insinuated, unspoken.
  • Antonyms: blatant, evident, manifest, explicit.
  • Usage: In my business, all that is needed for a tacit.

EPONYMOUS (adjective) : नामस्रोत

  • Meaning: of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named.
  • अर्थ: जिस व्यक्ति या किसी चीज़ का नाम रखा गया है, उसके लिए व्यक्ति या चीज़ से संबंधित है, या है।
  • Synonyms: namesake, cognominal, homonymous, swashbuckling.
  • Antonyms: anonymous, pseudo, unidentified, undisclosed.
  • Usage: By a curious coincidence all the names of eponymous.

DOLE(Noun) : ख़ैरात करना

  • Meaning: benefit paid by the state to the unemployed.
  • अर्थ: बेरोजगारों को राज्य द्वारा दिया गया लाभ।
  • Synonyms: benefit, allowance, charity, benefit
  • Antonyms: forfeit, loss
  • Usage: Do any of these people have jobs or are they all freeloading on the public dole?