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✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 17.03.2023

1. Braving (Verb) : सामना करना : to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage
Synonyms: confronting, facing, encountering
Antonyms: avoiding, ducking, sidestepping
Example Sentence: He did not feel up to braving his parents after the declaration of the 10th result because of his poor scores.

2. Proprietor (Noun) : मालिक : one who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership
Synonyms: owner, holder, possessor, keeper
Antonyms: tenant, lessee, squatter
Example Sentence:He is now the sole proprietor of the business.

3. Frivolous (Adjective): तुच्छ : not having any serious purpose or value
Synonyms: trivial, unimportant, worthless, foolish
Antonyms: important, meaningful, substantial, serious
Example Sentence: Students who consider test instructions to be frivolous often fail exams.

4. Recompense (Noun) : मुआवजा / पुरस्कार : compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made
Synonyms: compensation, reparation, indemnification
Example Sentence: It was the jury’s task to decide how much recompense the survivor of the plane crash deserved.

5. Ratify (Verb): प्रमाणित करना : sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid
Synonyms: approve, confirm, finalize, endorse
Antonyms: reject, deny, disapprove
Example Sentence: The shareholders will ratify any merger that will increase their dividends.

6. Forborne (Verb): रोकना : politely or patiently restrain an impulse to do something; refrain
Synonyms: refrain, abstain, desist
Antonyms: bow (to), give in (to), submit (to)
Example Sentence: She had been there once already, but seeing him asleep, she had forborne to wake him.

7. Apocryphal (Adjective): शंकायुक्त : (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
Synonyms: fictitious, made-up, untrue
Antonyms: real, factual, literal
Example Sentence: Most of the stories about him are apocryphal.

8. Toil (Noun): कठिन परिश्रम : work extremely hard or incessantly.
Synonyms: work hard, labor, drudgery
Antonyms: relax, repose, rest
Example Sentence: If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.

9. INFREQUENT (ADJECTIVE): (असामान्य): Rare
Synonyms: Uncommon Unusual
Antonyms: Frequent
Example Sentence:
Her visits were sudden and infrequent.

10. EARMARK (VERB): (चिह्नित करना): Set aside
Synonyms: Reserve, Appropriate
Antonyms: Use up
Example Sentence:
The cash had been earmarked for a big expansion of the programme.

✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 18.03.2023


1. Pernicious (Adjective) : हानिकारक : having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
Synonyms: harmful, damaging, destructive
Antonyms: anodyne, benign, harmless
Example Sentence: Violence in the workplace is pernicious to an employee’s need for safety.

2. Feisty (Adjective) : लडाकू : feeling or displaying an eagerness to fight
Synonyms: aggressive, agonistic, argumentative
Antonyms: nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific
Example Sentence: He’s a pretty feisty kid, isn’t he?

3. Grousing (Verb): बड़बड़ाना / शिकायत : complain pettily; grumble
Synonyms: grumble, complain, moan
Antonyms: commendation, compliment, plaudit
Example Sentence: She heard him grousing about his assistant.

4. Peregrination (Noun) : सफ़र : a journey, especially a long or meandering one.
Synonyms: travels, voyages, journey
Example Sentence: While Ted learned a lot in college, he felt he learned even more during his peregrination in a povertystricken country.

5. Gingerly (Adverb): सावधानी से : in a careful or cautious manner.
Synonyms: cautiously, carefully, circumspectly
Antonyms: careless, heedless, unmindful
Example Sentence: He opened the box gingerly and looked inside.

6.Luminary (Noun): प्रभावशाली व्यक्ति : a person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.
Synonyms: guiding light, inspiration, leader
Example Sentence: Luminaries from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and politics were at the gala.

7.Mire (Noun): मुसीबत में फसना : a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself.
Synonyms: rattrap, difficult situation
Example Sentence: The book tells how a homeless man overcame the mire of business to become a successful entrepreneur.

8. Poltroonery (Noun): कायरता : a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger
Synonyms: fearfulness, cowardice, cravenness
Antonyms: bravery, courage, daring
Example Sentence: Decried the poltroonery of those politicians who caved in to pressure from the special interests.

9-Acquitted(Verb) : निर्दोष साबित होना : Persons who have been declared not guilty of a crime
Synonyms : Exonerated , Excused
Antonyms : Guilty , Accused
Example Sentence : None of the acquitted received any kind of compensation or redress.

10-Elapsed(Verb) : व्‍यतीत होना : Pass, go by
Synonyms: Ended , Finished
Antonyms : Alive , Exixting
Example Sentence : Thirty minutes elapsed before the performance began.