Enhance your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist: 23rd June, 2021

Our series, ‘Enhance your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist’ aims to help you completely understand the commonly used words with their meanings, pronunciations, synonyms, antonyms, proper use in sentences, etc.

Given below is an important editorial from the newspaper ‘The Hindu', followed by important words from the same, to help you strengthen your vocabulary.

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A time to give: On ex-gratia compensation to families of COVID-19 victims

Important Words from the Article

1. Word: Fallout (नतीजा)

• Pronunciation: fawl-out/फॉलाउट
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: 
  a. the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout )
  b. the particles themselves. Compare rainout
  c. an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product
  d. effects; results
• Synonyms: effect, impact, repercussions
• Antonyms: cause, reason
• Usage in a sentence: A number of cancer deaths are caused by fallout from weapons testing.

2. Word: Impoverish (गरीब करना)

• Pronunciation: im-pov-er-ish/ इम्पाव्रिश
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning:
  a. to reduce to poverty:
  b. to make poor in quality, productiveness, etc.; exhaust the strength or richness of:
• Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, deplete
• Antonyms: enrich, empower, adorn
• Usage in a sentence: Bad farming practices impoverished the soil.

 3. Word: Ameliorate (सुधरना)

• Pronunciation: uh-meel-yuh-reyt
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
• Synonyms: improve, better, alleviate, enhance
• Antonyms: aggravate, deteriorate, exacerbate, worsen
• Usage in a Sentence: This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.

4. Word: Assert (द्दढ़तापूर्वक करना)

• Pronunciation: uh-surt/असर्ट
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning:
  a. to behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others
  b. to say that something is certainly true
  c. to do something to show that you have power
  d. to maintain or defend
• Synonyms: Affirm, declare, claim, state, maintain
• Antonyms: deny, reject, abandon
• Usage in a sentence: I really must assert myself more in meetings.

5. Word: Intervention (हस्तक्षेप)

• Pronunciation: in-ter-ven-shuh n/ इन्टर्वेन्शन
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: the action or process of intervening
• Synonyms: interference, mediation, intrusion
• Antonyms: noninterference, nonintervention, challenge
• Usage in a Sentence: We would resist any armed intervention from outside in our country's affairs.

6. Word: Deploy (असरदार तरीके से इस्तेमाल करना)

• Pronunciation: dih-ploi / डिप्लॉइ
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning:
  a. move (troops or equipment) into position for military action.
  b. bring into effective action.
• Synonyms: install, utilize, employ
• Antonyms: uninstall, withdraw
• Usage in a sentence: The decision has been made to deploy extra troops.

7. Phrase: Raft of Something (अनेकता)

• Pronunciation: rahft-awf-sum-thing/राफ्ट ऑफ़ समथिंग 
• Meaning:
  a. a very large number of people or things
• Synonyms: stack, pile, heap
• Antonyms: dearth, glimmer, grain
• Usage in a sentence: A whole raft of strategies were suggested in the report.

8. Phrase: Spell out (बताना)

• Pronunciation: spell-aoot/स्पेल आउट
• Meaning:
  a. to explain something in a very clear way with details
• Synonyms: explain, expound, interpret
• Usage in a sentence: The government has so far refused to spell out its plans/policies.

9. Phrase: Tie in knots (किसी को असमंजस में डालना )

• Pronunciation: to-tie-sum-one/टाई इन कनोट्स 
• Meaning:
  a. to confuse someone and make them unable to explain something clearly
• Synonyms: confound, bewilder, baffle
• Antonyms: clarify, explain, interpret
• Usage in a sentence: The Director of Studies tied me up in knots by asking tricky questions.

10. Word: Aver (प्रमाणित करना)

• Pronunciation: uh-vur/ऐवर
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning:
  a. to say that something is certainly true
• Synonyms: assert, affirm, declare
• Antonyms: refute, deny, contradict
• Usage in a sentence: The lawyer averred her client's innocence.

'Writer's Corner'

Based on the description of the words, we have some practice questions for you. Answer these questions in the comments section. Our team will review them at the earliest!

Exercise 1. Make your own Sentences.

Here are some of the words from the above article. Try to frame sentences from them in your own words and share them with us in the comments section!

• fallout
• averred
• impoverish
• spell out
• raft of something

Exercise 2: Match the columns.

Share your answers in the comment section. 

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