10 words from this day's editorials with Hindi meaning
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Vestige (noun)
Meaning: A small part or amount of something that remains when most of it no longer exists. अवशेष
Synonyms: Remainder, Remnant, Relic, Trace, Leftover
Antonyms: Whole, All
Example: These old buildings are the last vestiges of a colonial past.
Destitute (adjective)
Meaning: Without money, food, a home, or possessions. बेसहारा; दीन
Synonyms: Poor, Penniless, Indigent, Pauperized, Impoverished
Antonyms: Wealthy, Opulent, Prosperous, Oofy
Example: The floods left thousands of people destitute.
Euphemistically (adverb)
Meaning: In a way that avoids saying an unpleasant or offensive word by using a different word or phrase. शिष्ट भाषा में
Synonyms: Inoffensively, Genteelly, Decorously, Obliquely
Antonyms: Rudely, Abusively, Impolitely, Bluntly
Example: The prison is euphemistically called a “rehabilitation centre”.
Herald (verb)
Meaning: Be a sign that (something) is about to happen. सूचना देना
Synonyms: Indicate, Presage, Augur, Portend, Foreshadow
Antonyms: Hide, Hush, Cover Up
Example: Flashing blue lights heralded the arrival of the police.
Impute (verb)
Meaning: Represent (something, especially something undesirable) as being done or possessed by someone. मढ़ना
Synonyms: Attribute, Ascribe, Accredit, Lay On
Example: The police impute the rise in crime to high unemployment.
Abject (adjective)
Meaning: (of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading. दयनीय, निरानंद
Synonyms: Miserable, Pathetic, Pitiable, Wretched
Antonyms: Fortunate, Providential, Beneficial, Propitious
Example: They live in abject poverty.
Bereft (adjective)
Meaning: Not having something or feeling great loss वंचित
Synonyms: Lacking, Deprived Of, Stripped Of, Devoid Of
Antonyms: Full, Loaded, Replete, Abounding
Example: Alone now and almost penniless, she was bereft of hope.
Pernicious (adjective)
Meaning: Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way. हानिकारक
Synonyms: Harmful, Noxious, Pestilent, Deleterious
Antonyms: Innocuous, Wholesome, Benign, Salubrious
Example: Smoking is pernicious.
Submerge (verb)
Meaning: Completely cover or obscure. छिपाना
Synonyms: Hide, Veil, Cloak, Suppress, Conceal
Antonyms: Reveal, Divulge, Disclose, Expose
Example: She has submerged her identity in the role of photographer's wife and muse.
Nomadic (adjective)
Meaning: moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time. घुमंतू, खानाबदोश
Synonyms: Itinerant, Vagrant, Vagabond, Roaming, Roving,
Antonyms: Settled, Stationary, Resident, Static
Example: Nomadic tribes wander these deserts.
The editorial
Source: The Hindu · 24 Nov 2019The J&K High Court’s verdict on the Beggary Act rejects the state’s fettering of guaranteed constitutional freedoms.
Two centuries of colonial rule visited many cruelties upon Indians. One form that this took was the criminalisation and stigmatisation of entire populations that did not “fit in” to a certain, narrow way of life. Through laws such as the Criminal Tribes Act, for example, indigenous peoples were deemed criminals by birth and herded into concentration camps, where families were separated and forced labour was the norm.
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1. Synonym of Pernicious
2. Antonym of Nomadic
3. Synonym of Abject
4. Antonym of Submerge
5. Synonym of Euphemistically
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