आरबीआई ग्रेड बी 2017 के लिए The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary

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Example: Is the media under siege?

1. Siege [seej]=घेराबंदी

Noun: the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible; any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance; a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group.

Synonyms: annoy, bedevil, beset, plague, badger, blockade.

Example/उदहारण: The anecdote might well be apocryphal.

2. Anecdote [an-ik-doht]=उपाख्यान

Noun: a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature; a short, obscure historical or biographical account.

Synonyms: episode, gag, narration, narrative, reminiscence, short story.

3. Apocryphal [uh-pok-ruh-fuh l]=शंकायुक्त

Adjective: of doubtful authorship or authenticity; of or relating to the Apocrypha; of doubtful sanction; uncanonical; false; spurious.

Synonyms: fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, unsubstantiated, untrue.

Antonyms: true, authentic, doubtless, real.

Example/उदहारण: What is not is that mainstream media is in deep coma, gasping under pressure not felt even during Emergency’s darkest nights.

4. Mainstream [meyn-streem]=विशेष पक्ष

Noun: the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend; a river having tributaries; regular school classes or regular schools.

Synonyms: average, common, current, dominant, general, normal, primary, regular.

Antonyms: abnormal, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, infrequent, irregular, rare.

Example/उदहारण: What is on today is a sly, insidious operation without anybody’s Aadhaar-linked fingerprints.

5. Sly [slahy]=शातिर

Adjective: cunning or wily; stealthy, insidious, or secret; playfully artful, mischievous, or roguish.

Synonyms: canny, impish, ingenious, intriguing, mischievous, roguish, shrewd, smart, subtle.

Antonyms: behaved, foolish, inept, stupid, honest, open.

6. Insidious [in-sid-ee-uh s]=धोखेबाज

Adjective: intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful; operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect.

Synonyms: dangerous, subtle, artful, astute, corrupt, crafty, crooked.

Antonyms: fair, honest, open, sincere.

Example/उदहारण: It is aimed not merely at “managing the headlines” in the newsroom but at paving the way for a lethal ideology that has long craved legitimacy, through the boardroom.

7. Lethal [lee-thuh l]=जानलेवा

Adjective: of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal; a lethal dose; made or carried out to cause death; causing great harm or destruction.

Synonyms: dangerous, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, malignant.

Antonyms: harmless, healthy, helpful, kind, wholesome, beneficial.

8. Legitimacy [li-jit-uh-muh-see]=वैधता

Noun: the state or quality of being legitimate(in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards).

Synonyms: appropriate, certain, consistent, correct, fair, genuine, justifiable.

Antonyms: abnormal, affected, counterfeit, deceptive, dishonest, false, illegal.

9. Boardroom [bawrd-room, -roo m, bohrd-]=बैठक का कमरा

Noun: a room set aside for meetings of a board, as of a corporation; a room in a broker’s office where stock-market quotations are listed on a board or by other means.

Synonym: meeting room.

Example/उदहारण: Influential owners, anchors, editors across the nation resemble the hapless Kashmiri tied to the Army jeep.

10. Hapless [hap-lis]=अभागी

Adjective: unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.

Synonyms: unlucky, woeful, behind the eightball, cursed, hexed, ill-fated.

Antonyms: happy, fortuitous, fortunate, lucky, well-off.