Daily Vocab for Various Competitive Exams

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Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few words and phrases from articles published in a reputed Newspaper.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is a gift to headline writers. It is not even two months since he took over from Manik Sarkar, the CPI(M) veteran who was Chief Minister for 20 years. Yet, Mr. Deb has held the spotlight on himself for one gaffe after another. He has said, in a literal manner, that the Internet and satellite communication were in use in ancient India, and that instances of their use could be referenced in the Mahabharata. Freely jumping across themes, he has compared the Indianness of the beauty of Miss Worlds. He has most recently said, very seriously, that civil engineers are better trained to be in the civil services compared to mechanical engineers as the former “know how to build society”. For some of these he has apologised — not for others. He has also made it a habit of doing ridiculous back-of-the-envelope calculations to ask the people of Tripura to, variously, consider how much richer they would be if they had kept a cow or sold paan. Mr. Deb is clearly revelling in his turn in the sun, as the BJP’s young talent come good in a vital ideological face-off by hollowing out the Congress’s State unit and humbling the CPI(M). In the days after the BJP swept the February Assembly election, winning 35 of the 60 seats on its own, with ally the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura bringing in another eight, it was said the victory in the State was as valuable to the party as its earlier achievement in Uttar Pradesh.

It is against this backdrop that Mr. Deb’s irrational remarks reveal the BJP to be completely out of its depth after its historic victory. On Mr. Sarkar’s watch, Tripura had moved up the development indices. According to the 2011 Census, with a literacy rate of about 87% it ranked fifth in India. Its sex ratio is a relatively respectable 960, and mortality rates for infants and children have been drastically reduced. On the flip side, Tripura’s good social health indices are not matched by those on the economic front — its per capita income has languished below the national average, its infrastructure facilities are poor and unemployment rate is extremely high. This is what Mr. Deb seeks to mock. Rather than make laughable references to technological prowess in a mythical age, he would do better to envisage and execute a firm plan to strengthen the State’s economic health. Rather than wade into needless controversies by talking about things such as how a ‘quintessential’ Indian woman looks like — which, given the manner the remark was couched, is something of an affront to Tripura’s ethnic diversity — he should be urged by his political bosses to let his performance, rather than his loose tongue, to do the talking. His advice to people to increase household savings instead of hankering after a government job reflects an incapacity to address the youth constituency that is seen to have voted the BJP to power on the desire for better jobs. All around, Mr. Deb is letting down his office and the people of Tripura.

1. Gaffe: (noun) : चूक

Meaning: an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.

Synonyms: blooper, blunder, impropriety, indiscretion, boner, howler

Antonyms: correction

2. Revel: (verb) : आनंद लेना
gerund or present participle: revelling

Meaning: enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing.

Synonyms: carouse, gaiety, frolic, debauch, carousal, jollity

Antonyms: gloom

3. Humble: (verb) : नम्र

gerund or present participle: humbling

Meaning: cause (someone) to feel less important or proud.
Synonyms: disgrace, confound, humiliate, mortify, abase, embarrass

Antonyms: boost, clarify, compliment, delight, encourage, enlighten, honor

4. Languish: (verb) : दुर्बल
Meaning:  (of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak.

Synonyms: deteriorate, dwindle, decline, fade, despond, hanker, grieve

Antonyms: build, develop, despise, delight, flourish, strengthen

5. Envisage: (verb)=परिकल्पना

Meaning: contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.

Synonyms: confront, consider, regard, visualize

Antonyms: disregard, ignore

6. Quintessential: (adjective) : सर्वोत्कृष्ट

Meaning: representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

Synonyms: typical, ultimate, classic, ideal

7. Couch: (verb) : शब्दों में कहना

past tense: couched; past participle: couched

Meaning: express (something) in language of a specified style.

Synonyms: utter, formulate, frame, phrase

8. Affront: (noun) : प्रत्यक्ष अपमान

Meaning: an action or remark that causes outrage or offence.

Synonyms: indignity, slight, abuse, offense, outrage, vexation, slur

Antonyms: respect, aid, flattery, praise, appeasement

9. Prowess: (noun) : कौशल

Meaning: skill or expertise in a particular activity or field.

Synonyms: accomplishment, aptitude, dexterity, expertise, mastery, excellence

Antonyms: failure, inability, incapacity, lack, cowardice

10. Hankering: (noun) : तीव्र इच्छा

Meaning: a strong desire to have or do something.

Synonyms: craving, pining, yearning, druthers, longing

Antonyms: dislike, hatred

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