✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 10.07.2023


1. RATIFY (VERB): (पुष्टि करना): confirm
Synonyms: approve, sanction
Antonyms: reject
Example Sentence:
Both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of the year.


2. NEFARIOUS (ADJECTIVE): (कुटिल): wicked
Synonyms: evil, sinful
Antonyms: good
Example Sentence:
The nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates.


3. HEGEMONY (NOUN): (नायकत्व): leadership
Synonyms: dominance, dominion
Antonyms: self-government
Example Sentence:
Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871.


4. ENORMITY (NOUN): (दुष्टता): wickedness
Synonyms: baseness, blackness
Antonyms: goodness
Example Sentence:
The enormities of war are way too high as expected.


5. APEX (NOUN): (चरम सीमा): climax
Synonyms: culmination, apotheosis
Antonyms: nadir
Example Sentence:
The apex of his career was in 1966 when he hosted aloft the World Cup.


6. ABOLITION (NOUN): (उन्मूलन): scrapping
Synonyms: ending, stopping
Antonyms: retention
Example Sentence:
He was responsible for the abolition of the death penalty.


7. CONCOMITANT (ADJECTIVE): (संगत करने वाला): attendant
Synonyms: accompanying, associated
Antonyms: unrelated
Example Sentence:
She loved travel, with all its concomitant worries.


8. INTRANSIGENT (ADJECTIVE): (सैद्धांतिक): uncompromising
Synonyms: inflexible, unbending
Antonyms: compliant
Example Sentence:
Her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent.


9. ORATORICAL (ADJECTIVE): (भाषण -संबंधी): rhetorical
Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent
Antonyms: plain-spoken
Example Sentence:
He has plenty oratorical skills.


10. SHUN (VERB): (किनारा करना): avoid
Synonyms: evade eschew
Antonyms: accept
Example Sentence:
He shunned fashionable society.

✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 11.07.2023


1. SCANDALOUS (ADJECTIVE): (अपमानपूर्ण): discreditable
Synonyms: disreputable, dishonourable
Antonyms: seemly
Example Sentence:
The magazine published scandalous pictures of the movie star.


2. ACQUIT (VERB): (बरी करना): absolve
Synonyms: clear, exonerate
Antonyms: convict
Example Sentence:
One was brought to trial on a charge of affray and was acquitted.


3. RETROGADE (ADJECTIVE): (प्रतिगामी): regressive
Synonyms: negative, downhill
Antonyms: positive
Example Sentence:
To go back on the progress that has been made would be a retrograde step.


4. PERSEVERANCE (NOUN): (दृढ़ता): persistence
Synonyms: tenacity, determination
Antonyms: irresolution
Example Sentence:
His perseverance with the technique illustrates his single-mindedness.


5. BANKRUPT (ADJECTIVE): (दिवालिया): insolvent
Synonyms: bankrupted, failed
Antonyms: solvent
Example Sentence:
His father went bankrupt and the family had to sell their home.


6. RECURRENT (ADJECTIVE): (आवर्तक): repeated
Synonyms: recurring, repetitive
Antonyms: isolated
Example Sentence:
She had a recurrent dream about falling.


7. RESUMPTION (NOUN): (पुनरारंभ): restart
Synonyms: restarting, reopening
Antonyms: suspension
Example Sentence:
Resumption of peace talks is expected soon.


8. LATENT (ADJECTIVE): (निष्क्रिय): dormant
Synonyms: quiescent, inactive
Antonyms: manifest
Example Sentence:
They have a huge reserve of latent talent.


9. FORGO (VERB): (त्यागना): do without
Synonyms: go without, give up
Antonyms: keep
Example Sentence:
I'll forgo dessert tonight—I'm trying to lose weight.


10. AFFLUENT (ADJECTIVE): (धनी): wealthy
Synonyms: rich, prosperous
Antonyms: poor
Example Sentence:
I reside in an affluent neighbourhood.