Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 02nd June 2017

By Shristi|Updated : June 2nd, 2017

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Today’s article, 'NATO loses its grip’ has been picked from The Indian Express.

This article talks about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit with Brussels which has created the world news on its sidelines.

To read more, you can go through the article from the link below -

NATO loses its grip

Challenging Words in the Article -

1) Transpired (मालूम) - Trans-pire-ed
Meaning - (of a secret or something unknown) come to be known, be revealed - Verb
Synonyms - arise, befall
Antonyms - cause, stop
Example - I arrived at the concert early because I did not want to miss any unannounced events that might transpire.

2) Acrid (तीखा) - Ac-rid
Meaning - unpleasantly bitter or pungent - Adjective
Synonyms - pungent, bitter
Antonyms - kind, nice
Example - The room was filled with acrid smoke.

3) Eschewed (परहेज) - Es-chew-ed
Meaning - deliberately avoid using, abstain from - Verb
Synonyms - abandon, renounce
Antonyms - face, keep
Example - True vegetarians eschew food items that come from living animals.

4) Evoking (आह्वान) - Evo-king
Meaning - bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind - Verb
Synonyms - arouse, conjure
Antonyms - calm, decrease
Example - This book was apparently designed to evoke an interest in ancient sculpture.

5) Errant (भटकनेवाला) - Arr-ant
Meaning - erring or straying from the accepted course or standards - Adjective
Synonyms - offending, guilty
Antonyms - normal, correct
Example - The errant student was given a warning for not going directly to class.

6) Proverbial (लौकिक) - Pro-verb-e-al
Meaning - well known, especially so as to be stereotypical - Adjective
used to stand for a word or phrase that is normally part of a proverb or idiom but is not actually uttered - Noun
Synonyms - accepted, current
Antonyms - abnormal, atypical
Example - My grandmother always followed the awful cough medicine with the proverbial spoon of sugar.

7) Abrasive (अपघर्षक) - Ab-ray-sive
Meaning - (of a substance or material) capable of polishing or cleaning a hard surface by rubbing or grinding - Adjective
a substance used for grinding, polishing, or cleaning a hard surface - Noun
Synonyms - annoying, biting
Antonyms - calm, kind
Example - Rub the table down with a fine abrasive paper before painting it.

8) Striding (लांघना) - Stri-ding
Meaning - walk with long, decisive steps in a specified direction - Verb
Synonyms - tramp, stalk
Example - This is the bridge striding between the two countries.

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Ideologue (विचारक) - I-deo-log
Meaning - an adherent of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic - Noun
Synonyms - ideologist, proponent
Antonyms - dabbler, cynic
Example (English) - PM Modi paid tribute to RSS ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on his 134th birth anniversary.
Example (Hindi) - प्रधान मंत्री मोदी ने आरएसएस के विचारक विनायक दामोदर सावरकर को 134 वीं जयंती पर श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित की।

Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following -

What should we expect from the NATO leaders' summit in Brussels?
Currently, what is the greatest problem with NATO?

Given below are some words to check your vocabulary you can make sentences with those words in the comment section which will be reviewed by us.