✅ 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

✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 21 March 2025

ESPOUSE (VERB): (समर्थन करना): adopt
Synonyms: embrace, take up
Antonyms: reject
Example Sentence: She espoused the causes of justice and freedom for all.
AVARICIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (लालची): grasping
Synonyms: acquisitive, covetous
Antonyms: generous
Example Sentence: He showed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians.
MYRIAD (ADJECTIVE): (असंख्य): innumerable
Synonyms: countless, infinite
Antonyms: countable
Example Sentence: He gazed at the myriad lights of the city.
CONTENTIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (विवादास्पद): controversial
Synonyms: disputable, debatable
Antonyms: uncontroversial
Example Sentence: The socio-economic plan had been the subject of contentious debate.
TRIVIALITY (NOUN): (तुच्छता): unimportance
Synonyms: insignificance, pettiness
Antonyms: importance
Example Sentence: There is mediocrity and triviality in the current popular culture.
NARCISSISTIC (ADJECTIVE): (आत्ममुग्ध): vain
Synonyms: self-absorbed, self-obsessed
Antonyms: modest
Example Sentence: She is a narcissistic actress.
LINGER (VERB): (क़ायम रहना): persist
Synonyms: continue, remain
Antonyms: vanish
Example Sentence: The tradition seems to linger on.
EXORBITANT (ADJECTIVE): (अत्यधिक): extortionate
Synonyms: extremely high
Antonyms: reasonable
Example Sentence: Some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls.
DUBIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (अस्पष्ट): equivocal
Synonyms: ambiguous, indeterminate
Antonyms: decisive
Example Sentence: He holds the dubious distinction of being lowered by every club he has played for.
FLOUT (VERB): (अवज्ञा करना): defy
Synonyms: go against, scorn
Antonyms: observe
Example Sentence: He flouted all the rules and regulations.