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.
Meaning: a deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict.
Synonyms: deadlock, stalemate, impasse, standstill, dead end, draw, tie, dead heat
Example: Amid the standoff with India in the remote Doklam plateau, and rising tensions in North Korea, China on Sunday held a novel military parade, which was demonstrated the country’s military modernisation under President Xi Jinping’s leadership.
2.Fatigue (noun)
Meaning: extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.
Synonyms: tiredness, weariness, exhaustion, overtiredness
Antonyms: energy, vigour, invigorate, refresh
Example: Dressed in combat fatigues and riding a jeep instead of a ceremonial car, President Xi inspected a unique event, where soldiers demonstrated their combat skills in vast open spaces — used for training — in windswept Inner Mongolia.
3.Cohesion (noun)
Meaning: the action or fact of forming a united whole.
Synonyms: unity, togetherness, solidarity, bond, sticking together, continuity, coherence, connection, linkage, interrelatedness.
Antonyms: incoherence, incoherency- lack of cohesion or clarity or organization.
Example: Addressing troops, President Xi conveyed a twin message — 24x7 combat readiness against any enemy, and political cohesion through unswerving loyalty of the armed forces to the Communist Party of China.
4.Unequivocal (adjective)
Meaning: leaving no doubt; unambiguous.
Synonyms: unambiguous, unmistakable, indisputable, incontrovertible, indubitable, undeniable.
Antonyms: equivocal, ambiguous, vague
Example: Ahead of the parade, a write-up in Study Times, a top publication of the CPC party school, unequivocally highlighted President Xi’s “strong leader” characteristics, echoing the footfalls of iconic leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
5.Benign (adjective)
Meaning: gentle and kind.
Synonyms: kindly, kind, warm-hearted, good-natured, friendly, warm, affectionate, agreeable, amiable, good-humoured, genial, congenial, cordial, approachable, tender, tender-hearted, soft-hearted, gentle, sympathetic, compassionate, caring, considerate.
Antonyms: unfriendly, hostile, harsh, unhealthy, unfavourable, malignant
Example: “Considering this slippage in inflation, coupled with the fact that forward-looking factors that earlier had clouded the inflation outlook had also turned out to be relatively benign, we therefore expect the RBI to take up one more rate cut in the August meeting,” Morgan Stanley, which also expects a 25 bps cut, said in a report.
6.Stifling (adjective)
Meaning: (of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating., making one feel constrained or oppressed.
Synonyms: suffocate, choke, asphyxiate.
Antonyms: cold, chilly
Example: It’s pretty straightforward — I get more work in America. I lived in India for four years and did a small role in one film (Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani). And that’s it. And artistically that’s stifling.
7.Juggernaut (noun)
Meaning: a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force., a large, heavy vehicle, especially an articulated lorry.
Example: I love their work and was sad to see Togetherness (HBO, cancelled after two seasons) go. They’re like the underdog juggernauts — if there is a such a term — and I love them for that. I also think they are phenomenal actors.
8.Conducive (adjective)
Meaning: making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible.
Synonyms: good for, helpful to, instrumental in, calculated to produce, productive of, useful for.
Antonyms: unfavourable
Example: Aware that the 21st century is less conducive to direct military takeovers than preceding decades, Gen Musharraf reintroduced the notion of presidential dismissal before sharing power with civilians again. The civilians dispensed with it again in a consensus constitutional package in 2008.
9.Perverse (adjective)
Meaning: showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable.
Synonyms: awkward, contrary, difficult, unreasonable, uncooperative, unhelpful, obstructive, disobliging, unaccommodating, troublesome, tiresome, annoying, vexatious, illogical, irrational, unreasonable, contradictory, wrong, wrong-headed, incorrect.
Example: Fake news is a threat to democracy in a way more perverse than most people appreciate. In these times of easy access to the ability to crunch large amounts of data, unstructured and in real time, it is possible for political parties or, more realistically, specialist troops employed by them, to profile individual voters and flood them with news, fake and real, that would accentuate perceived favourable political propensities or neutralise perceived hostile inclinations.
10.Purveyor (noun)
Meaning: a person who sells or deals in particular goods., a person or group who spreads or promotes an idea, view, etc.
Synonyms: seller, vendor, trader, retailer, supplier, provider, stockist, tout, trafficker, pedlar, hawker.
Example: A more proactive measure would be to prosecute those who incite hatred and violence by spreading fake news and fake images. Traditional media has a big stake in discrediting purveyors of material that is not editorially validated. Fakery can harm both democracy and the media business. Eternal vigilance against it is, indeed, the price of liberty.
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