✅ Daily The Hindu Vocabulary | 21.09.2023


1. VIABLE (ADJECTIVE): (करणीय): workable
Synonyms: feasible, practicable
Antonyms: impracticable
Example Sentence:
The investment was economically viable.


2. EXPLICABLE (ADJECTIVE): (बोधगम्य): comprehensible
Synonyms: understandable, definable
Antonyms: inexplicable
Example Sentence:
Differences in schools were not explicable in terms of differences in intake.


3. INCEPTION (NOUN): (स्थापना): establishment
Synonyms: institution, foundation
Antonyms: end
Example Sentence:
She has been on the board since its inception two years ago.


4. EXTANT (ADJECTIVE): (जीवित): surviving
Synonyms: remaining, abiding
Antonyms: non-existent
Example Sentence:
Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.


5. MISBELIEF (NOUN): (ग़लतफ़हमी): unorthodoxy
Synonyms: heresy, delusion
Antonyms: orthodoxy
Example Sentence:
It is a misbelief that alcohol problems require a specialist response.


6. SCARCELY (ADVERB): (कठिनता से): rarely
Synonyms: seldom, infrequently
Antonyms: often
Example Sentence:
They could scarcely all be wrong.


7. OPPRESSIVE (ADJECTIVE): (उत्पीड़क): harsh
Synonyms: cruel, brutal
Antonyms: lenient
Example Sentence:
The country is ruled by an oppressive regime.


8. AUGMENT (VERB): (बढ़ाना): increase
Synonyms: add to, supplement
Antonyms: decrease
Example Sentence:
His joys augmented after his promotion.


9. EQUITABLE (ADJECTIVE): (न्यायसंगत): fair
Synonyms: just, impartial
Antonyms: inequitable
Example Sentence:
This equitable arrangement was accepted by the estates directly.


10. FORTHWITH (ADVERB): (तत्काल): immediately
Synonyms: at once, instantly
Antonyms: sometime
Example Sentence:
We forthwith paid the money required.