Dear students, English language is the flavor of the millennium. In every aspect of life, we need great English language skills to stand out and be a success in your chosen field. In your competitive Exams for govt. jobs, English section is the most challenging. The best way to improve your language skills is by Reading newspapers. We are providing 10 vocabulary words from The Hindu Newspaper Editorial. Read and learn.
1.Lambaste (verb)
Meaning: criticize (someone or something) harshly.
synonyms: criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against.
Example: Mr. Corbyn, whose anti-monarchist, anti-conflict views already had many of Britain’s tabloids in a tizzy, was lambasted for supposedly refusing to bow as he laid a wreath at the ceremony.
2.Steadfast (adjective)
Meaning: resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.
synonyms: loyal, faithful, committed, devoted, dedicated, dependable, reliable, steady, true.
Example: It’s been driven in part by his steadfast refusal to play ball with the mainstream media — he doesn’t take press questions after every public speech, and often ignores questions out of the context of a planned interview, often preferring to respond to criticism on his own terms, through social media.
3.Avowed (adjective)
Meaning: that has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly.
Example: An avowed socialist, he has no qualms talking about re-nationalising infrastructure or raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy, an approach shunned by Labour since the days of Tony Blair.
4.Detractor (noun)
Meaning: a person who disparages someone or something.
synonyms: critic, disparager, denigrator, deprecator, belittler, attacker, censurer, fault-finder, carper, backbiter, caviller, reviler, vilifier, slanderer, libeller, calumniator, defamer, traducer.
Example: His detractors denounce him as a rebel (he voted against the party whip over 400 times while Labour was in power, between 1997 and 2010), but to his supporters he is a deeply principled politician, willing to stand up to the party, and his family, when those values are on the line.
5.Imminent (adjective)
Meaning: about to happen.
synonyms: impending, at hand, close, near, approaching, fast approaching, coming, forthcoming, on the way, about to happen.
Example: With fruit and vegetable prices soaring 50% and faced with an imminent milk shortage, the Fadnavis administration bought peace by agreeing to waive the loans of “small and marginal” farmers — nearly 80% of the State’s 13.7 million-strong farmer population — as well as waiving interest and penalty on pending power bills.
6.Paradoxical (adjective)
Meaning: seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.
synonyms: contradictory, self-contradictory, inconsistent, incongruous, anomalous, conflicting.
Example: It is paradoxical that agrarian distress has risen even as agricultural output has grown. There are many reasons for this.
7.Procurement (noun)
Meaning: the action of obtaining or procuring something.
Example: Farmers continue to grow cereals, tempted by rising MSPs. Procurement, faced with growing grain mountains and tightening of subsidies, has reduced, except in traditionally strong agri-markets like Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
8.Dismal (adjective)
Meaning: causing a mood of gloom or depression.
synonyms: dingy, dim, dark, gloomy, sombre, dreary, drab, dull, desolate, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, grim, funereal, inhospitable, uninviting.
Example: Most of us in South Asia, even the occasional cricket watchers, set a calendar alert for the next India-Pakistan match. And today’s match between the two teams in Birmingham is bound to be particularly charged — expectedly so, given how cricketing ties between the two countries are so dismal that an India-Pakistan encounter is a rare thing. This lazy Sunday is bound to be given over to the match, the English weather permitting.
9.Partisan (noun)
Meaning: a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
synonyms: supporter, follower, adherent, devotee, champion, backer, upholder, promoter, fanatic, fan, enthusiast, stalwart, zealot, disciple.
Example: To amount to something more than wholly partisan account-keeping of the final result, fixtures between the keenest rivals in team sport need to be embedded in a larger narrative — such that cricket in its normal calendar allows, with bilateral Test tours, the odd tri-series, the rare friendship match setting up individual sub-plots (such as the Sachin Tendulkar-Shoaib Akhtar competitiveness), imbuing nuance (a record of relative strengths in different formats and conditions putting each victory/loss in perspective) and reminding the viewer of context.
10.Nuance (noun)
Meaning: a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
synonyms: fine distinction, subtle distinction/difference, shade, shading, gradation, variation.
Example: with bilateral Test tours, the odd tri-series, the rare friendship match setting up individual sub-plots (such as the Sachin Tendulkar-Shoaib Akhtar competitiveness), imbuing nuance (a record of relative strengths in different formats and conditions putting each victory/loss in perspective) and reminding the viewer of context.
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