The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For NABARD Grade A 2017 |

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Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper Editorial. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.

1.The measures to enhance resilience of its economy.

Resilience:

Meaning: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness; the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

Synonym: Flexibility, pliability, suppleness, plasticity, elasticity, springiness, spring, give

Antonym: inelastic, inflexible, nonelastic, rigid, stiff

2.Brazen:

Meaning: (adjective) bold and without shame; (verb)endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame.

Synonym: arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brass bound, brassy, nervy, brazen-faced,

Antonym: demure, humble, modest; courteous, genteel, mannerly, polite, proper

3. Nagaland plunged into a political crisis

plunged:

Meaning : an act or instance of diving;(verb) jump or dive quickly and energetically; the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude

Synonym: pitch, dive, down, drop, fall, nosedive, descent, jab, stab, push, shove, force, sink

Antonym: jump, leap, ascent, climb, rise, rising, soaring, upswing, upturn

4. Former Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang staking claim to form a new government by ousting the incumbent Shurhozelie Liezietsu.

Staking:

Meaning : a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something; the money or thing risked on the outcome of an uncertain event; support (a plant) with a stake or stakes; mark an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it.

Synonym: prop up, tie up, tether, support, hold up, mark off, mark out, demarcate, claim, share, interest

Antonym: disclaimer, quitclaim, release, waiver

5.Incumbent :

Meaning: (adjective)necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility; (of an official or regime) currently holding office; (noun)the holder of an office or post

Synonym: binding, obligatory, mandatory, necessary, compulsory, required, requisite, essential, imperative,forced, involuntary, nonelective, obligatory, peremptory,

Antonym:elective, optional, voluntary,inconsequential,

insignificant, non-essential, unimportant

7.There is also a library with periodicals:

periodicals:

Meaning: appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly; occurring or appearing at intervals; a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.

Synonym: journal, publication, magazine, newspaper, continual, on-and-off, periodic, intermittent, recurrent

Antonym: constant, continuous, incessant, unceasing

8.perfunctorily:

Meaning: adjective (of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort;characterized by routine or superficiality; lacking in interest or enthusiasm

Synonym: cursory, desultory; quick, brief, hasty, hurried, rapid, passing, fleeting, summary;

token, casual, superficial, uninterested,

Antonym: concerned, interested, attentive, aware, conscientious, heedful, mindful

9. Many bus routes were inundated

inundated:

Meaning: overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with; to cover with a flood

Synonym: overwhelm, overpower, overburden, overrun, overload, swamp, flood, deluge, overflow,

Antonym: drain, dehydrate, dry, parch

10. Globalized world, in the case of China it is a ploy to systematically develop hegemony over the region and intervene in internal policies to its benefit.

ploy:

Meaning : a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage; a time or instance of carefree fun

Synonym: artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play,

Antonym: averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dis-relish, distaste, detachment, impartiality, artlessness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness

hegemony:

Meaning: controlling power or influence over others; leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.

Synonym: leadership, dominance, dominion, supremacy, ascendancy, predominance,

Antonym: helplessness, weakness; impotence, powerlessness

intervene:

Meaning: take part in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events; occur in the time between events; to act as a go-between for opposing sides

Synonym: intercede, intermediate, interpose, mediate, involve oneself, insinuate oneself

Antonym: stand by, avoid, eschew, shun; disregard, ignore, overlook

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