1.SEDATE: (adjective) शांत
Meaning: avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed.
Synonyms: calm, composed, recollected, tranquil.
Antonyms: agitated, discomposed, flustered, perturbed.
Usage: Dean stepped back further, the smile fading from his face as the two men drove away at a very sedate pace.
2.BEDECK (verb) सजाना
Meaning: to decorate or cover.
Synonyms: adorn, bedizen, embellish, emblaze.
Antonyms: denude, blemish, deface, disfigure.
Usage: The cars were all bedecked with flowers for the wedding ceremony.
3. MOTE (noun) कण
Meaning: a tiny piece of a substance; a speck.
Synonyms: bit, dribble, fleck, nugget.
Antonyms: lump, abundance, bushel, heaps.
Usage: Feeling anxious about the state of her home, the obsessive housewife scrubbed away every tiny mote of dust.
4. ENVIRON (verb) घेरना
Meaning: surround; enclose.
Synonyms: encircle, envelop, cloak, swathe.
Antonyms: unbridle, free, open, release.
Usage: The stone circle was environed by an expanse of peat soil.
5. USHER (verb) परिचय करवाना
Meaning: show or guide (someone) somewhere.
Synonyms: lead, accompany, conduct, assist.
Antonyms: retract, conclude, cease, stop.
Usage: A nurse ushered us into the hospital room.
6.VERNACULAR (noun) स्थानीय भाषा
Meaning: used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing.
Synonyms: colloquial, jargon, argot, patois.
Antonyms: standard, undialectical, genteel, formal.
Usage: While the author never stated the novel’s setting, the vernacular of the characters identified the location as somewhere in Asia.
7.SACK (verb) निकाल देना
Meaning: dismiss from employment.
Synonyms: bounce, discharge, dismiss, terminate,
Antonyms: recruit, employ, engage, hire.
Usage: Any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot.
8.SUBTERRANEAN (adjective) गुप्त
Meaning: secret; concealed.
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.
9. SUBVERT (verb) व्यवस्था भंग करना
Meaning: undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution).
Synonyms: destabilize, unsettle, overthrow, depose.
Antonyms: dignify, exalt, honor, ameliorate.
Usage: She subverted my noble desire to do a good deed without reward.
10.CLINCH (verb) कसना
Meaning: to make final, definite, or beyond dispute.
Synonyms: settle, conclude, finalize, wrap up.
Antonyms: confuse, unsettle, release, unfasten.
Usage: Her work on the project should clinch her a promotion.
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Vocabulary of The Day- 28 October
