✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 20 March 2025

1. RETRACT (VERB): (वापस लेना) → take back
Synonyms: withdraw, unsay
Antonyms: assert
Example Sentence: He was forced to retract an opinion too liberal for the time.
2. GHASTLY (ADJECTIVE): (भयंकर) → terrible
Synonyms: frightful, horrible
Antonyms: pleasant
Example Sentence: It was one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed.
3. SCARCELY (ADVERB): (कठिनता से) → rarely
Synonyms: seldom, infrequently
Antonyms: often
Example Sentence: Scarcely a day goes by when they don't see or talk to each other.
4. CONTINGENT (ADJECTIVE): (आकस्मिक) → chance
Synonyms: accidental, fortuitous
Antonyms: predictable
Example Sentence: The nature of the job that I do is contingent.
5. SUPERFLUOUS (ADJECTIVE): (अति अधिक) → surplus
Synonyms: redundant, unneeded
Antonyms: necessary
Example Sentence: The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information.
6. COMPETENCE (NOUN): (योग्यता) → capability
Synonyms: ability, competency
Antonyms: incompetence
Example Sentence: Courses were launched to improve the competence of staff.
7. UBIQUITOUS (ADJECTIVE): (सर्वव्यापक) → omnipresent
Synonyms: ever-present, everywhere
Antonyms: rare
Example Sentence: His ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family.
8. FUSS (NOUN): (गड़बड़) → bother
Synonyms: trouble, inconvenience
Antonyms: convenience
Example Sentence: They settled in with very little fuss.
9. CONVOLUTED (ADJECTIVE): (जटिल) → complicated
Synonyms: complex, involved
Antonyms: simple
Example Sentence: The film is let down by a convoluted plot in which nothing really happens.
10. AFFINITY (NOUN): (सहानुभूति) → empathy
Synonyms: rapport, sympathy
Antonyms: dislike
Example Sentence: He had a special affinity with horses.

Identify the segment that contains error.

In the case of the guinea pig, the number of offsprings varies between two to five.

A. the case of the guinea

B. between two to five

C. of offsprings varies

D. pig, the number

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given one word.

To move into or through something

1. Transparent

2. Perpetuate

3. Cross

4. Penetrate

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given one word.

The reasons or intentions that cause a particular set of beliefs or actions

1. Motive

2. Rationale

3. Practical

4. Thinkable

Spot the erroneous parts, if any, in the following sentences:

a) COVID 19 is a disease / (b) that effects / (c) mainly older people./ (d) No error.

1. (a)

2. (b)

3. (c)

4. (d)

Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meaning to each.Choose the response (a),(b),(c) or(d) which is the most appropriate expression.

Bought the farm.

1. Died

2. Born

3. Alive

4. Strong

Select the meaning of the given phrase/idiom.

‘Look down upon’

1. Be humble

2. Keep head downwards

3. Keep low profile

4. Hate