The Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary Editorial for SBI PO |

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.Debunk-verb

Meaning: expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief).

synonyms: explode, deflate, puncture, quash, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through, expose, show in its true light, discredit, disprove, contradict, controvert,

Example: “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process,” only to have this statement debunked by Mr. Comey at the hearing.

2.Char-verb

Meaning: partially burn so as to blacken the surface.

Exampple1: “a region charred by bush fires”

synonyms: scorch, burn, singe, sear;

Example2: Last week, in a horrific accident in Chennai, two people were charred when their car hit a tree and went up in flames.

3.Schadenfreude-noun

Meaning: pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.

Example: What explains this culture of schadenfreude in which we are now immersed?

4.Bolster-verb

Meaning: support or strengthen.

Example: “the fall in interest rates is starting to bolster confidence”

synonyms: strengthen, support, reinforce, make stronger, boost, fortify, give a boost to;

Example: Bolstered by a conscious effort to help traditionally backward regions, such policies will help eliminate the losses produced by inequalities that lower national human development indices.

5.Stalemate-noun

Meaning: a position counting as a draw, in which a player is not in check but cannot move except into check.

Example: Break The Stalemate

6.Coerce-verb

Meaning: persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Example: “he was coerced into giving evidence”

synonyms: pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, use pressure on, put pressure on, constrain, lean on, press, push

Example: Here’s how a Uniform Civil Code can be introduced without coercing minorities

7.Intricacy-noun

Meaning: details, especially of an involved or perplexing subject.

Example: It is equally puzzling that those who defend the divine sanctity of Muslim Personal Law have willingly submitted to adjudication by India’s secular courts where non-Muslim judges unfamiliar with the intricacies of Islamic law and zero knowledge of Arabic decide matters ostensibly based on Sharia and Quran.

8.Promulgate-verb

Meaning: promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).

Example: “these objectives have to be promulgated within the organization”

synonyms: make known, make public, publicize, spread, communicate,

propagate, disseminate, circulate, broadcast, promote, announce, proclaim;

Example: “ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate”

9.Behest-noun

Meaning: a person’s orders or command.

Example: “they had assembled at his behest”

synonyms: instruction, bidding, request, requirement, wish, desire;

10.Visceral-adjective

Meaning: relating to the viscera.