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✅Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 29.11.2022

Entice (verb)
Meaning: attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage. (लुभाने)
Synonyms: tempt, allure, lure
Antonyms: alert, caution, forewarn
Sentence: A show that should entice a new audience into the theatre.

Bribery (noun)
Meaning: the giving or offering of a bribe. (रिश्वत)
Synonyms: corruption, subornation, payola
Sentence: Ministers have dismissed the rumors of a bribery scandal as nonsense.

Protract (verb)
Meaning: to make longer (फैलना)
Synonyms: prolong, extend, stretch out
Antonyms: abridge, reduce, shorten
Sentence: Let’s not protract the debate any further.

Hegemony (noun)
Meaning: leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others. (नायकत्व)
Synonyms: leadership, dominance, supremacy
Antonyms: impotency, powerlessness
Sentence: Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871.

Smirch (verb)
Meaning: make (something) dirty (मैला करना)
Synonyms: contaminate, defile, pollute
Antonyms: clean, freshen, renew
Sentence: Their clothes were smirched by dust from the trail.

Naive (adj.)
Meaning: (of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment. (अनाड़ी)
Synonyms: childish, immature, inexperienced
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, experienced, sophisticated
Sentence: The rather naive young man had been totally misled.

Supple (adj.)
Meaning: bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible. (लचीला)
Synonyms: lithe, limber, nimble
Antonyms: inflexible, rigid, stiff
Sentence: The gloves were made of very supple leather.

Extricate (verb)
Meaning: free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty. (समाधान करना)
Synonyms: extract, free, release
Antonyms: embroil, entangle
Sentence: He was trying to extricate himself from official duties.

Laggard (noun)
Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others. (सुस्त)
Synonyms: straggler, loiterer, sluggard
Antonyms: expeditious, scrambler
Sentence: Bhutan has been a laggard in securing alternative energy resources overseas.

Hubris (noun)
Meaning: excessive pride or self-confidence. (अभिमान)
Synonyms: arrogance, conceit, conceitedness
Antonyms: humbleness, humility, modesty
Sentence: The self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s.

IMPORTANT OPERATION & CODE NAME 2021-22

🌟OPERATION AAHT :
Indian Railway Protection Force has launched a nationwide operation to curb human trafficking

🌟OPERATION DEVI SHAKTI:
India’s complex mission of evacuating its citizens from war-torn Afghanistan.

🌟OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM : Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar flags off ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ to create a World Record at Siachen Glacier.

🌟OPERATION PARAVAAH :
Cochin airport launches ‘Operation Paravaah’ for flood control.

🌟OPERATION CO-JEET :
Launched by armed forces to fight COVID-19 in day.

🌟OPERATION SAMUDRA SETU-II : Indian Navy launches for Speedy Shipment of Oxygen-filled Containers to India From Other Nations.

🌟OPERATION SARD HAWA :
Border Security Force (BSF) launched to the western international border of Rajasthan.

🌟OPERATION MY SAHELI :
South Eastern Railway launches to ensure security of women passengers

🌟OPERATION GARUDA:
Operation has been launched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against illicit drug trafficking networks in September 2022.

🌟OPERATION SATARK:
Railway Protection Force (RPF) has recently started “Operation Satark” taking action against illicit
liquor, fake currency circulation, etc.

🌟OPERATION GANGA:
India launches mission named Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals from Ukraine

🌟OPERATION YATRI SURAKSHA: To give assurance of the safety to the passengers, the Indian railways with the coordination of Railway Protection Force has launched a pan India drive under the code name Operation Yatri Suraksha.

🌟OPERATION “NARCOS”:
Railway Protection Force (RPF) recently recovered narcotic products worth Rs 7.40 crore under "Operation Narcos".

🌟OPERATION SANKALP:
Indian Navy’s stealth Frigate, INS Talwar is presently deployed for Op-Sankalp commemorating
the 3rd continuous year of Indian Navy’s presence in the Gulf.

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Moratorium (noun)

Meaning: a temporary prohibition of an activity. (रोक)
Synonyms: stop, ban,
Antonyms: continuance, continuation
Sentence: The debt was to be subject to a five-year moratorium.

Quashing (verb)

Meaning: reject or void, especially by legal procedure. (रद्द करने)
Synonyms: cancel, revoke, disallow
Antonyms: help, allow, support
Sentence: His conviction was quashed on appeal.

Transient (adj.)

Meaning: lasting only for a short time. (अनित्य)
Synonyms: momentary, adventitious, sliding
Antonyms: deathless, lasting, immortal
Sentence: These exploits, however, were transient in their effects.

Belie (verb)

Meaning: disguise or contradict. (झुठलाना)
Synonyms: explode, contradict, disprove
Antonyms: allow, approve, agree
Sentence: Her energy and youthful good looks belie her 65 years.

Moiety (noun)

Meaning: each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided. (आधा भाग)
Synonyms: half, moiety, part
Antonyms: entirety, whole, full
Sentence: The tax was to be delivered in two moieties.

Ardent (adj.)

Meaning: enthusiastic or passionate. (उत्साही)
Synonyms: passionate, emotional, enthusiastic
Antonyms: emotionless, impassive, unpassionate
Sentence: All her life she was an ardent feminist.

Envision (verb)

Meaning: visualize. (कल्पना करना)
Synonyms: imagine, envision, speculate
Antonyms: neglect, look away, disregard
Sentence: She envisioned the admiring glances of guests seeing her home.

Vernacular (noun)

Meaning: the language or dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or region. (मातृभाषा)
Synonyms: unbookish, unliterary, vulgar
Antonyms: formal, learned, literary
Sentence: Galileo wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.

Argot (noun)

Meaning: the jargon or slang of a particular group or class. (कठबोली)
Synonyms: jargon, slang, idiom
Antonyms: silence, quiet
Sentence: Pupils’ argot is of particular interest.

Execrable

Meaning: extremely bad or unpleasant. (घिनौना)
Synonyms: horrible, terrible, disgusting
Antonyms: bitchin, marvelous, wonderful
Sentence: Living conditions in the slums were execrable.