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🔍crave (verb)

📌Meaning: to desire something strongly

📌Example: Children crave attention of their parents.
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 Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 02 Feb 2025


1. ALACRITY (NOUN): (आतुरता): eagerness
Synonyms: willingness, readiness
Antonyms: apathy
Example Sentence:She accepted the invitation with alacrity.


2. BRAZEN (ADJECTIVE): (साहसिक): bold
Synonyms: shameless, as bold as brass
Antonyms: timid
Example Sentence:He went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance.


3. INTACT (ADJECTIVE): (पूर्ण): whole
Synonyms: entire, complete
Antonyms: broken
Example Sentence:The church was almost in ruins but its tower remained intact.


4. INVOKE (VERB): (तलब करना): cite
Synonyms: adduce, instance
Antonyms: waive
Example Sentence:The antiquated defence of insanity is rarely invoked in England.


5. ATTENUATE (VERB): (दुर्बल होना): weaken
Synonyms: reduce, lessen
Antonyms: strengthen
Example Sentence:The rain attenuated, ending the storm.


6. IMPAIR (VERB): (हानि पहुंचाना): harm
Synonyms: damage, diminish
Antonyms: improve
Example Sentence:A noisy job could permanently impair our hearing.


7. PROPORTIONAL (ADJECTIVE): (आनुपातिक): corresponding
Synonyms: proportionate, comparable
Antonyms: disproportionate
Example Sentence:The punishment should be proportional to the crime.


8. INTRIGUE (VERB): (दिलचस्पी लेना): interest
Synonyms: fascinate, attract
Antonyms: bore
Example Sentence:Dealing with compositional matters intrigue me the most.


9. UNDUE (ADJECTIVE): (अतिरिक्त): excessive
Synonyms: extreme, immoderate
Antonyms: due
Example Sentence:This figure did not give rise to undue concern.


10. DEPLOY (VERB): (तैनात करना): position
Synonyms: station post
Antonyms: concentrate
Example Sentence:Forces were deployed at strategic locations.
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Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

(A) The boy was the only son of a poor widow.

(B) Sultan Gayasuddin was a famous Pathan king who ruled over eastern India.

(C) One day, while he was hunting, one of his arrows killed a little boy.

(D) Crying and wailing, the woman reported the matter to the magistrate, who was known as Qazi.
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In Indian mythology, most of the Asuras wish to be (never able to die).
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A place where birds are kept
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A bad patch

(A) A path that is untravelled

(B) A period of time when a person faces lots of troubles

(C) A person who takes a difficult path

(D) A dangerous road to walk on
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the highlighted idiom.

All his friends admired him because he was a (straight shooter).

(A) Excellent shooter

(B) Complicated and confusing person

(C) Miserly and pessimistic individual

(D) A thoroughly upright straightforward person
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The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

I goes / to the school / every day / irrespective of the weather.

A. every day

B. I goes

C. irrespective of the weather

D. to the school
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Despite of being / a small girl / she fought / the bull bravely.

A. the bull bravely

B. a small girl

C. she fought

D. Despite of being
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What are the future possibilities for space travel in the long term? ____(1)____ will humans go after they have explored our solar system?
It is said that 'Star Trek' could hold the ______(2)________to these questions. It is predicted
that travel to other galaxies will only be ___(3)___ in huge 'starships'.
These will wander through space for hundreds or even thousands of years. Each of them will carry a large human ___(4)__. Some of those people will take over a suitable new planet and settle down there. This search for new planets to settle in will continue until life on planet Earth could be just a ____(5)_____memory.
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