Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary: Dec Month – Day 16

The Hindu English Vocabulary

Perception : अनुभूति

  • Meaning: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
  • अर्थ: इंद्रियों के माध्यम से किसी चीज को देखने, सुनने या बनने की क्षमता।
  • Synonyms: understanding, impression, notion
  • Antonyms: misunderstanding, ignorance
  • Usage in a sentence: The television has irreversibly changed our perception about the Royal Family.

Delegation : प्रत्यायोजन, प्रतिनिधि मंडल

  • Meaning: a body of delegates or representatives; a deputation.
  • अर्थ: प्रतिनिधियों या प्रतिनिधियों का एक निकाय; एक प्रतिनियुक्ति
  • Synonyms: deputation, commission mission, assignment
  • Antonyms: retention, discharge, acquisition
  • Usage in a sentence: He’s been chosen to lead the delegation to the conference.

Clampdown : कठोर नीति

  • Meaning: a concerted or harsh attempt to suppress something.
  • अर्थ: किसी चीज को दबाने के लिए ठोस या कठोर प्रयास।
  • Synonyms: suppression, prevention, crackdown, limitation, restraint, curb, check
  • Antonyms: freedom, advantage, liberty, arousal
  • Usage in a Sentence: The ensuing clampdown resulted in at least 128 people being killed across Sudan, according to protest organizers

Blockade : नाकेबन्दी/ संरोध करना

  • Meaning: an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. [Noun]
  • अर्थ: माल या लोगों को प्रवेश करने या छोड़ने से रोकने के लिए किसी स्थान को बंद करने का एक कार्य या साधन।
  • Synonyms: block, barricade, siege
  • Antonyms: access, opening
  • Usage in a sentence: They attempted to break the blockade by using submarines.

Erode : काटना

  • Meaning: (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).
  • अर्थ: (हवा, पानी, या अन्य प्राकृतिक एजेंटों के) धीरे-धीरे दूर (मिट्टी, चट्टान, या भूमि)।
  • Synonyms: corrode, diminish, wear away
  • Antonyms: construct, fix, improve
  • Usage in a sentence: Over time, trivial lawsuits will erode the significance of the justice system.

SKULK (verb) : छिपना

  • Meaning: to move about in a sly or secret manner.
  • अर्थ: धूर्त या गुप्त तरीके से आगे बढ़ना।
  • Synonyms: lurk, shirk, sneak, crawl.
  • Antonyms: hustle, hurry, run, race.
  • Usage in a sentence: When the criminal surveyed the jewelry store, he tried to skulk around the neighborhood without being noticed.

DISTRATE (adjective) : असावधान

  • Meaning: distracted or absent-minded.
  • अर्थ: विचलित या अनुपस्थित-चित्त।
  • Synonyms: forgetful, inattentive, oblivious, heedless.
  • Antonyms: alert, attentive, focused, unperturbed.
  • Usage in a sentence: He grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash

Diminution (NOUN) : कमी

  • Meaning: a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
  • अर्थ: किसी चीज के आकार, सीमा या महत्व में कमी।
  • Synonyms: curtailment, curtailing, cutting back, cut back, cut, attenuation, reduction, lessening,
  • Antonym: accretion, accrual, accumulation, addition, supplement
  • Usage in a sentence: Led by P.V. Narasimha Rao, it steered the country away from a diminution of its political stature that was assured were it to renege on them.

Vacillate(verb) : घटना बढ़ना

  • Meaning: Waiver between different opinion or actions.
  • अर्थ: विभिन्न मतों या कार्यों के बीच में छूट।
  • Synonym: temporize, hesitate, oscillate
  • Antonym: resolute
  • Usage in a sentence: You might vacillate between ordering pizza and burger as both are testy.

MEEK(Adjective) : नम्र

  • Meaning: quiet and unwilling to disagree or fight or to strongly support personal ideas and opinions 
  • अर्थ: व्यक्तिगत विचारों और विचारों का दृढ़ता से समर्थन करने या लड़ने के लिए शांत और अनिच्छुक
  • Synonyms: submissive, passive
  • Antonyms: bold, brave
  • Usage in a sentence: The poor do not gain heaven, and the meek inherit the least of the earth.