Daily Vocabulary: 14 सितम्बर 2019

EGALITARIAN (Noun) : समानाधिकारवादी
Meaning: one who advocates or practices social equality.
अर्थ: वह जो सामाजिक समानता की वकालत करता है या करता है।
Synonyms: democrat, leveler
Antonyms: snob, snoot
Usage: As egalitarians, some people have always promoted policies for equal pay.

XENOPHOBIC (adjective) : नस्लवादी, नृजातीय
Meaning: having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
अर्थ: दूसरे देशों के लोगों के प्रति अरुचि या पूर्वाग्रह का होना।
Synonyms: racist, racialist, ethnocentric, ethnocentrist.
Antonyms: bountiful, permissive, thoughtful, lenient.
Usage: As a result, the new parliament is distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than its predecessor.

MURKY(Adjective) : अंधेरा
Meaning: dark and dirty or difficult to see through
अर्थ: अंधेरे और गंदे या मुश्किल से देखना
Synonyms: cloudy, dark
Antonyms: bright, luminous
Usage:The river was brown and murky after the storm.

Vacillate(verb) : घटना बढ़ना
Meaning: Waiver between different opinion or actions.
अर्थ: विभिन्न मतों या कार्यों के बीच में छूट।
Synonym: temporize, hesitate, oscillate
Antonym: resolute
Usage: You might vacillate between ordering pizza and burger as both are testy.

Exhort(verb) : समझाना
Meaning: Strongly encourage or urge to do something
अर्थ: कुछ करने के लिए दृढ़ता से प्रोत्साहित करना या आग्रह करना
Synonym: enjoin, adjure,
Antonym: discourage
Usage: Priya tries to Exhort her friend about her career. but she is not ready to listen.

Slipshod(adjective) : असावधानीपूर्ण
Meaning: characterized by a lack of care, thought, or organization.
अर्थ: देखभाल, विचार या संगठन की कमी।
Synonym: careless, lackadaisical
Antonym: meticulous, painstaking
Usage: Ravi did a slipshod job. His scholarship is slipshod at best.

RATIFIED(verb) : पुष्टि की
Meaning: confirmed or made official
अर्थ: पुष्टि या आधिकारिक बना दिया
Synonyms: approve, confirm
Antonyms: deny, destroy
Usage: For the rule change to be approved, it must be ratified by 8 out of 10 teams.

PURPORTEDLY (adverb) : माना जाता है
Meaning: As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; allegedly.
अर्थ: जैसा कि प्रतीत होता है या सच कहा जाता है, हालांकि जरूरी नहीं कि; कथित तौर पर।
Synonyms: professedly, supposedly, seemingly, superficially.
Antonyms: absolutely, authentically, certainly, earnestly.
Usage: The fans found a bat purportedly signed by Virat Kohli.

SCOFF (Verb) : उपहास
Meaning: speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
अर्थ: किसी से या किसी बात के बारे में अपमानजनक तरीके से या अपमानजनक तरीके से बोलना।
Synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule
Antonyms: flatter, praise, compliment
Usage: The rude rich boy thought it was fun to scoff at the poor people at his school.

ABOMINATE(Adjective) : घृणा
Meaning: to hate something very much
अर्थ: किसी चीज से बहुत अधिक घृणा करना।
Synonyms: abhor, despise
Antonyms: love, like
Usage: They abominated the idea of red tapism.