Today’s Word from The Hindu
1. Cohort
•Meaning: partner in activity
•Synonym: companion, comrade, disciple
•Antonym: enemy, foe, opponent
•Sentence:The cohort on duty was drawn up under arms at the palace gates
2. Sever
•Meaning: Set or keep apart
•Synonym: detach, separate
•Antonym: attach, combine
•Sentence:It needs immense courage to sever a marriage if you have time to think what you are doing.
3. Curing
•Meaning: Helping cure
•Synonym: healing, sanative
•Antonym: harmful, damaging
•Sentence:The flavor is due partly to soil and climate, and partly to skill in curing
4. Parched
•Meaning: Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
•Synonym: arid, withered
•Antonym: moist, damp
•Sentence:Her lips were dry and parched, and she felt a terrible thirst.
5. Inflict
•Meaning: Make (someone) do something unpleasant
•Synonym: levy, apply
•Antonym: hold, take, withhold
•Sentence:"The principal inflicted his rage on the students"
6. Lenity
•Meaning: Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
•Synonym: altruism, compassion
•Antonym: cruelty, harshness
•Sentence:It is for the jury to find a just medium between harshness and lenity
7. Parley
•Meaning: negotiation
•Synonym: confab, debate, talk
•Antonym: Quite, silence
•Sentence: Aparley is in progress and the invaders may withdraw
8. Apostate
•Meaning: Traitor
•Synonym: Backslider, defector, deserter
•Antonym: adherent, loyalist, faithful
•Sentence:after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith
9. Rugged
•Meaning: Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
•Synonym: irregular, lumpy
•Antonym: even, smooth
•Sentence:with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
10.Veer
•Meaning: Change direction
•Synonym: Bend, deflect
•Antonym: keep to, stay
•Sentence:"The motorbike veered to the right"
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