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 Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 15 Feb 2025


1. OBFUSCATE (VERB): (अस्पष्ट करना): obscure
Synonyms: confuse, blur
Antonyms: clarify
Example Sentence:She was criticized for using arguments that obfuscated the main issue.


2. FACTION (NOUN): (कलह): infighting
Synonyms: dissension, dissent
Antonyms: harmony
Example Sentence:The council is increasingly split by faction.


3. UTTERLY (ADVERB): (पूर्णता से): completely
Synonyms: totally, absolutely
Antonyms: partly
Example Sentence:He looked utterly ridiculous.


4. CLAMOUR (NOUN): (कोलाहल): din
Synonyms: racket, uproar
Antonyms: silence
Example Sentence:The questions rose to a clamour.


5. DISPERSE (VERB): (बिखेर देना): scatter
Synonyms: disseminate distribute
Antonyms: gather
Example Sentence:Storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes.


6. DESPOTIC (ADJECTIVE): (तानाशाही): autocratic
Synonyms: dictatorial, totalitarian
Antonyms: democratic
Example Sentence:Obeying no law, despotic authority was arbitrary, and its animating spirit was fear.


7. CALAMITY (NOUN): (आपदा): disaster
Synonyms: catastrophe, tragedy
Antonyms: godsend
Example Sentence:Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity.


8. MENACE (VERB): (ख़तरे में डालना): threaten
Synonyms: jeopardize, imperil
Antonyms: friendly, auspicious
Example Sentence:Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching.


9. TORMENT (NOUN): (व्यथा): agony
Synonyms: suffering, torture
Antonyms: pleasure
Example Sentence:Their deaths have left both families in torment.


10. DETRIMENT (NOUN): (क्षति): harm
Synonyms: damage, injury
Antonyms: benefit, good
Example Sentence:He sits up very late to the detriment of his health.
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Synonym of Adapt
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Synonym of Beseech
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 Daily The Hindu Vocabulary 16 Feb 2025


1.Atheist
Meaning in Hindi: नास्तिक
Meaning in English: A person who does not believe in the existence of God.

2. Autocracy
Meaning in Hindi: निरकुश राज्यशासन
Meaning in English: Government By one Man who has unlimited power.

3. Autocrat
Meaning in Hindi: निरकुश
Meaning in English: A person who rules without consulting the opinion of others.

4. Arsenal
Meaning in Hindi: हथियार घर
Meaning in English: A place where weapons and ammunitions stored.

5. Allegory
Meaning in Hindi: रूपक
Meaning in English: A story in which ideas are symbolized as people.

6. Aristocracy
Meaning in Hindi: विषहर
Meaning in English: A Government run by the nobility or the rich and the elite people.

7. Autobiography
Meaning in Hindi: आत्मकथा
Meaning in English: A Life story of a person written by self.

8. Avairy
Meaning in Hindi: पक्षीशाला
Meaning in English: Large cage or building for keeping birds.

9. Analgesia
Meaning in Hindi: पीडाहर
Meaning in English: Loss of ability to feel pain while still conscious

10. Altruist
Meaning in Hindi: परोपकारी
Meaning in English: A person who thinks unselfishly for others.

11. Anarchy
Meaning in Hindi: अराजकता
Meaning in English: The absence of Government in a country

12. Accessible
Meaning in Hindi: प्राप्य
Meaning in English: able to be reached or entered

13. Audible
Meaning in Hindi: सुनाई देने योग्य
Meaning in English: That can be heard.

14. Arbitrator
Meaning in Hindi: निर्णायक
Meaning in English: A person was chosen or appointed by parties in controversy to decide their difference.

15. Ambivert
Meaning in Hindi: उभमुखी
Meaning in English: One who turns thoughts both inwards and outwards.
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The given sentence is divided into four parts: A, B, C, and D. Choose the part that contains an error as your answer. If the sentence is error-free, mark E, i.e., No error as your answer.

If I was knowing (A) about the meeting, I (B) would have prepared (C) for it more thoroughly. (D) No error (E)

1. A
2. В
3. С
4. D
5. E
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The given sentence is divided into four parts: A, B, C, and D. Choose the part that contains an error as your answer. If the sentence is error-free, mark E, i.e., No error as your answer.

One of the brightest students (A) in the class have (B) been selected (C) for the science competition. (D) No error (E)

1. А
2. В
3. С
4. D
5. E
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Select the most appropriate meaning of the given one word.

The statistical study of human populations.

1. Demography

2. Astronomy

3. Palaeography

4. Photography
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In industries, it is very common to observe that people show (undue favour to one's own relative during the hiring process).

1. racism

2. communism

3. nepotism

4. liberalism
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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

A person’s last performance

(A) Prognosis

(B) Elegy

(C) Memoir

(D) Swan song
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Select the most appropriate meaning of given idiom.

'Make hay while the sunshines' means

(A) use the sunshine for harvesting

(B) be active during the day

(C) be merry during the summer

(D) make maximum use of a given opportunity
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