10 words from this day's editorials with Hindi meaning
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Exacerbate (verb)
Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse. ख़राब करना
Synonyms: Aggravate, Compound, Intensify, Make worse
Antonyms: Improve, Better, Alleviate
Example: His aggressive reaction only exacerbated the situation.
Obfuscate (verb)
To make something less clear and more difficult to understand, usually deliberately. अस्पष्ट करना
Synonyms: Make unclear, Obscure, Cloud, Befog
Antonyms: Clarify, Elucidate, Simplify
Example: A technology that was designed to enhance our already communication-heavy lives now serves to obfuscate it.
Resile (verb)
Abandon a position or a course of action. प्रतिघात करना
Synonyms: Rebound, Ricochet, Be deflected
Antonyms: Stay, Remain
Example: In the instant case both experts resiled from more extreme positions.
Rhetoric (noun)
Speech or writing that is intended to influence people, but that is not completely honest or sincere. वक्रपटुता
Synonyms: Loftiness, Turgidity, Magniloquence
Example: His speech was dismissed as mere rhetoric by the opposition.
Solidarity (noun)
Support by one person or group of people for another because they share feelings, opinions, aims, etc. एकजुटता
Synonyms: Unanimity, Accord, Oneness, Cohesion, Consensus
Antonyms: Discord, Disagreement, Difference, Variance
Example: Demonstrations were held as a gesture of solidarity with the hunger strikers.
Overshadow (verb)
Be more impressive or successful than (another person). फीका कर देना
Synonyms: Outshine, Eclipse, Outstrip, Outclass
Example: I can't be on same stage with him because he overshadows me.
Transpire (verb)
(of a secret or something unknown) come to be known; be revealed. खुल जाना
Synonyms: Emerge, Come out, Become known, Be revealed
Antonyms: Hide, Cover
Example: It transpired that the cat had gone missing in the night.
Ostensibly (adverb)
As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so. प्रकट रूप से
Synonyms: Seemingly, Apparently, Supposedly, Outwardly
Antonyms: Truly, Genuinely, Really, Actually
Example: Troops were sent in, ostensibly to protect the civilian population.
Ruptures (noun)
A breach of a harmonious relationship. संबंध विच्छेद
Synonyms: Rift, Split, Separation, Breach
Example: The rupture with his father would never be healed.
Adroit (adjective)
Clever or skilful. निपुण
Synonyms: Adept, Dextrous, Deft
Antonyms: Inept, Unskilful
Example: This is an adroit sidestepping of the issue, but a sidestep all the same.
The editorial
Source: The Economic Times · 11 Feb 2021India’s Covid inoculation programme needs more vigour. The first phase focuses on healthcare and frontline workers — doctors, nurses, other medical personnel, sanitation workers — most exposed to Covid.
Only 56% of those who are eligible have been vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy in the medical community will spread with greater virulence to the general population. This will impede India acquiring herd immunity, and its interactions with broader global community. Government and its agencies, medical institutions and vaccine developers and manufacturers must step in to remedy this situation.
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1. Synonym of Obfuscate
2. Synonym of Rhetoric
3. Synonym of Resile
4. Antonym of Adroit
5. Synonym of Transpire
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