Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper Editorial. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.
1.Aloof
Meaning: not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.
Synonym: distant, detached, unresponsive, remote,
Antonym: familiar, friendly
Sentence: “they were courteous but faintly aloof
Meaning: the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Synonym: purging, purification, cleansing,
Sentence: “music is a means of catharsis for them”
3.Bigotry
Meaning: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc.: a bigoted person
Synonym: dogmatist, partisan
Sentence: a deeply ingrained bigotry prevented her from even considering the counterarguments
4.Covenant
Meaning: an agreement., agree by lease, deed, or other legal contract.
Synonym: accord, deal, bargain, settlement
Antonym: disagreement, denial, misunderstanding, refusal
Sentence: “there was a covenant between them that her name was never to be mentioned”
5.Skulduggery
Meaning: underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.
Synonym: trickery, swindling, fraudulence
Sentence: “a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery”
6.Lecherous
Meaning: having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.
Synonym: lustful, licentious, lascivious,
Antonym: chaste, pure
Sentence: “she ignored his lecherous gaze”
7. Allure
Meaning: the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.
Synonym: attraction, lure, draw, pull, appeal, glamour
Sentence: people for whom gold holds no allure”
8.Circumspect
Meaning: wary and unwilling to take risks.
Synonyms: chary, guarded
Sentence: “the officials were very circumspect in their statements”
9.Cohesive
Meaning: characterized by or causing cohesion
Synonyms: united
Sentence: “a cohesive social unit”
10.Shirk
Meaning: avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
Synonyms: dodge, shun
Sentence: “I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter”
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