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The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS RRB PO 2017

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The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS RRB PO 2017


Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few lines from The Hindu.


Example/उदाहरण: Search and seizure operations against Karnataka Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar continued for the second day on Thursday, bringing for the first time his official chambers at the Ministry under the scanner.


1. Seizure [see-zher]-अभिग्रहण 
Noun/संज्ञा: the act or an instance of seizing; the state of being seized; a taking possession of an item, property, or person legally or by force.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: breakdown, convulsion, illness, stroke, access, fit, paroxysm, spasm, spell, throe, turn.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: letting go, liberation, release.

Example/उदाहरण: Centre not helping us tackle flood havoc, claims Mamata.

2. Havoc [hav-uh k]-तबाही/सर्वनाश/विनाश 
Noun/संज्ञा: great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage
Verb/क्रिया: to work havoc upon; devastate.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, destruction, devastation, disruption, mayhem, damage, desolation, dilapidation, disorder.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: blessing, boon, building, calm, construction.

Example/उदाहरण: The unusual project coaxes people to “not judge a book by its cover” and instead initiate conversations.

3. Coax [kohks]-मनाना/समझाना 
Verb/क्रिया: to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole; to obtain by coaxing; to manipulate to a desired end by adroit handling or persistent effort; to use gentle persuasion.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: cajole, entice, induce, tease, tempt, wheedle, allure, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: discourage, repel, repulse, turn off, disenchant.

Example/उदाहरण: The stories narrated give readers a new perspective and broaden their horizons.

4. Horizon [huh-rahy-zuh n]-क्षितिज 
Noun/संज्ञा: the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky; the limit or range of perception, knowledge, or the like.
Synonyms/विलोमार्थी: boundary, perspective, prospect, scope, border, compass, ken, limit, purview.

Example/उदाहरण: Nonetheless, two aspects merit close scrutiny: the potential for abuse, and the underlying premise that a generic anti-lynching law could address India’s lynching problem.

5. Premise [prem-is]-परिसर 
Noun/संज्ञा: Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion; a tract of land including its buildings; a building together with its grounds or other appurtenances; the property forming the subject of a conveyance or bequest.
Verb/क्रिया: to set forth beforehand, as by way of introduction or explanation; to assume, either explicitly or implicitly, (a proposition) as a premise for a conclusion.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: denial, reality, rejection, fact.

6. Generic [juh-ner-ik]-सामान्य 
Adjective/विश्लेषण: of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general; of, relating to, or noting a genus, especially in biology; (of a word) applicable or referring to both men and women.
Noun/संज्ञा: a generic term; any product, as a type of food, drug, or cosmetic commonly marketed under a brand name, that is sold in a package without a brand.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: universal, blanket, collective, comprehensive, sweeping, all-encompassing, inclusive, nonexclusive.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: exclusive, individual, particular, specific.

7. Lynch [linch]-वध करना 
Verb/क्रिया: to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: execution, capital punishment, mob justice, stringing up, the gallows, vigilante justice.

Example/उदाहरण: Would it not have been prudent to mandate that the Review Committee make its report public or have members from civil society?

8. Prudent [prood-nt]-विवेकी 
Adjective/विशेषण: wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober; careful in providing for the future; provident.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: careful, cautious, discreet, economical, frugal, judicious, reasonable, sane, shrewd, vigilant, advisable, canny, circumspect, discerning, far-sighted, hedging one’s bets.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: careless, expensive, foolish, hasty, inattentive, incautious.

Example/उदाहरण: The NCAML activists must know that this confidence has little to do with legislative lacuna.

9. Lacuna [luh-kyoo-nuh]-कमी/आभाव 
Noun/संज्ञा: Noun: a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus; Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells; Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: break, cavity, depression, gap, hiatus, interim, interval, opening, space.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: closure, continuation, continuity, misfortune.

Example/उदाहरण: Put simply, the problem is not mob lynching per se but the mob lynching of minorities, for that is where impunity kicks in.

10. Impunity [im-pyoo-ni-tee]-दण्ड मुक्ति 
Noun/संज्ञा: exemption from punishment; immunity from detrimental effects, as of an action.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: immunity, dispensation, exception, exemption, liberty, license, permission.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: denial, prohibition, veto, imprisonment, incarceration.

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