Hindu Editorial with Vocabulary: May Month– Day 08

The Hindu English Vocabulary

EXPUNGE (verb) : मिटाना

  • Meaning: obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant).
  • अर्थ: पूरी तरह से तिरछे या हटाएं (कुछ अवांछित या अप्रिय)।
  • Synonyms: eradicate, eliminate, abolish, annihilate.
  • Antonyms: renovate, repair, restore, revamp.
  • Sentence: Time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here.

TROVE (noun) : निधि

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

GRIM (adjective) : विकट

  • Meaning: very serious or gloomy.
  • अर्थ: बहुत गंभीर या उदास।
  • Synonyms: stern, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable
  • Antonyms: amiable, pleasant
  • Example: His expression was grim when he told them they had lost their jobs.

INVASIVE (adjective) : आक्रामक

  • Meaning: tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully.
  • अर्थ: बहुत जल्दी और अवांछनीय रूप से या हानिरहित रूप से फैलने की प्रवृत्ति।
  • Synonyms: nosy, interfering
  • Example: The samples tested in this series may not include a high proportion of health care staff involved in invasive procedures.

VITIATE (verb) : भ्रष्ट करना

  • Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
  • अर्थ: की गुणवत्ता या दक्षता को खराब या ख़राब करना।
  • Synonyms: annihilate, negate, quash, abate
  • Antonyms: allow, help, permit, affirm
  • Example: Changes at this point may actually vitiate the entire system.

Plenary (adjective) : परिपूर्ण

  • Meaning:  absolute.
  • अर्थ:  पूर्ण।
  • Synonyms: unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, comprehensive.
  • Antonyms: abbreviated, abridged, diminished, reduced.
  • Example: The delegation to the international convention was given plenary authority to negotiate a treaty in the nation’s best interest.

SCARCE (Adjective) : दुर्लभ

  • Meaning:deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
  • अर्थ: मांग की तुलना में मात्रा या संख्या में कमी
  • Synonyms: rare, scant
  • Antonyms:abundant, plentiful
  • Example:With jobs so scarce, many young people have nothing to do.

BESTOW(verb) : सम्मान देना

  • Meaning: to give something as an honour or present
  • अर्थ: किसी वस्तु को सम्मान या वर्तमान के रूप में देना
  • Synonyms: award, grant
  • Antonyms: take, deny
  • Example:The country’s highest medal was bestowed upon him for heroism.

WANDER(Verb) : बहना

  • Meaning:move or cause to move in a sinuous or circular course
  • अर्थ: पापी या वृत्ताकार पाठ्यक्रम में जाने के लिए गति या कारण
  • Synonyms:drift, float
  • Antonyms:stay
  • Example:He was here a minute ago but he’s wandered off somewhere.

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.
  • Example: In my business, all that is needed for a tacit