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: arousing or likely to arouse envy.
Synonyms: desirable, attractive, sought-after, desired, admirable, fortunate, lucky, favoured, blessed, worth having, excellent.
Example: Indian judges wield power like no others. For, which other judiciary can boast a free hand in crafting policy on an almost daily basis, setting up booze free zones, mandating theatrical standing for the national anthem and even controlling a circus called cricket. However, what truly sets apart India’s higher judiciary is the enviable freedom to select its very own: through that cosy cabal of a clique that we call the “collegium”.
2.Ferret (verb)
Meaning: (of a person) hunt with ferrets, typically for rabbits, rummage about in a place or container in search of something.
Synonyms: rummage, search about, scrabble around, feel around, grope around, forage around.
Example: This is a freedom ferreted out from a rather tortuous reading of the Constitution some decades ago when the Supreme Court decided that the collegium would predominate over judicial appointments, to the near exclusion of all other stakeholders.
3.Enigmatic (adjective)
Meaning: difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
Synonyms: mysterious, puzzling, hard to understand, mystifying, inexplicable, baffling, perplexing.
Example: All of this forces us to ask that eternally enigmatic question: how do we judge our judges? For this, we must have some measurable metric of merit, and a transparent one at that. One that is well reasoned and turns (in turn) on how well the judge in question “reasons”. In the Justice Patel case, one of the key demands by a local bar association which protested this seemingly arbitrary transfer was: pray, what are the “reasons”?
4.Shroud (noun)
Meaning: a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.
Synonyms: winding sheet, grave clothes, burial clothes, cerements, chrisom.
Example: Given that the collegium has operated in a shroud of secrecy for more than two decades now, this is nothing short of revolutionary. Unfortunately, this path-breaking development for judicial transparency falls a bit short on some counts. For one, it does not detail the “metric” or methodology for measuring judicial merit.
5.Inscrutable (adjective)
Meaning: impossible to understand or interpret.
Synonyms: enigmatic, unreadable, impenetrable, mysterious, impossible to interpret, cryptic;
Example: The collegium resolutions do speak to some of these more subjective virtues, but again in a rather rushed and inscrutable manner.
6.Arrogate (verb)
Meaning: take or claim (something) without justification.
Synonyms: assume, take, take on, take over, secure, acquire, seize, expropriate, take possession
of, help oneself to, make free with, appropriate, steal, wrest, usurp, commandeer, hijack, annex,
claim, lay claim to.
Example: In order to uphold constitutional values such as judicial independence, our judges were compelled to arrogate to themselves the power to pick their very own. At the very least, they must ensure that those that are picked are truly meritorious: and certainly above “average”.
7. Upfront (adverb)
Meaning: at the front; in front, (of a payment) in advance.
Synonyms: in advance, beforehand, ahead of time, in readiness
Example:Of this unit cost, trawl owners have to only pay ₹8 lakh upfront and ₹16 lakh through a loan from the Pandyan Grama Bank. The balance ₹56 lakh will be a subsidy shared by the State and Central governments.
8.Coalesce (verb)
Meaning: come together to form one mass or whole.
Example: The plains-based parties, which recently coalesced into the Rastriya Janata Party (RJP), have been able to manipulate the weaknesses of the present Nepali Congress-Maoist coalition government to force unconscionable compromises in conduct of the elections.
9.Roughshod (adjective)
Meaning: (of a horse) having shoes with nail heads projecting to prevent slipping.
Example: Through immediate amendment to the Constitution, running roughshod over parliamentary procedure, they want to increase the number of local bodies units in the plains, adjust the electoral college system for the Upper House, and redefine the boundaries of the newly minted provinces — essentially setting a Lakshman Rekha between hill and plain.
10.Travesty (noun)
Meaning: a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.
Synonyms: misrepresentation, distortion, perversion, corruption, poor imitation, poor substitute,
mockery, parody, caricature;
Example: All of which is a travesty of constitutionalism, as the proper entity for amendment of provisions of substance would be the newly elected Parliament rather than the caretaker House of today. Among other things, redrawing of boundaries should require concurrence of the federal units concerned, rather than be a matter of unilateral decision by the centre.
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