Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist: 08 January, 2020

To enhance your command over English vocabulary, you must learn new words regularly. Now, the question arises, how you can strengthen your vocabulary skills. For this, it is necessary that you improve your reading habit by going through newspapers on a daily basis and look up the new words. This exercise will also help you understand the context of the sentences.
Our series, ‘Shape up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist’ comes in very handy to boost this exercise. It helps you grasp the commonly used words with their meanings, pronunciation, synonym, antonym, proper use in sentences, etc.

Given below is an important editorial from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’. Read it, understand the context and go through the meanings of words given below to scale-up your knowledge.

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The mask of anarchy: On JNU violence

Important Words from the Article 

1. Word: Connivance (अव्यक्त अनुमति)

• Pronunciation: kuh-nahy-vuh ns/ कनाइवन्स
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act.
• Synonyms: collusion, conspiracy, complicity, scheme, indulgence 
• Antonym: intolerance, impermeability
• Usage in a sentence: In the old days, bride kidnapping, often with the connivance of the bride, was the key to courtship.

2. Word: Rampage (उपद्रव)

• Pronunciation: ram-peyj/ रैम्पेज
• Part of Speech: Verb, Noun
• Meaning:
  a. (especially of a large group of people) move through a place in a violent and uncontrollable manner. (Verb)
  b. a period of violent and uncontrollable behaviour by a group of people. (Noun)
• Synonyms: rage, turmoil, disturbance, frenzy, ruckus
• Antonym: calm, harmony, relax, social order, restraint
• Usage in a sentence: Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.

3. Word: Conscience (अंतःकरण)

• Pronunciation: kon-shuh ns/ कान्शन्स
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour.
• Synonyms: morals, scruples, morality, ethics
• Antonym: insensibility, immorality, unaware, unconcern
• Usage in a sentence: The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing from it.

4. Word: Pedigree (उत्पत्ति)

• Pronunciation: ped-i-gree/ पेडग्री 
• Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective
• Meaning:
  a. the record of descent of an animal, showing it to be pure-bred. (Noun)
  b. the recorded ancestry or lineage of a person or family. (Noun)
  c. (of an animal) pure-bred. (Adjective)
• Synonyms: genealogy, lineage, descent, ancestry, family
• Usage in a sentence: The company has an excellent pedigree with over a century in the business.

5. Word: Revile (धिक्कारना)

• Pronunciation: ri-vahyl/ रिवाइल
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.
• Synonyms: vilify, abuse, berate, attack, censure, condemn
• Antonym: laud, praise, compliment, admire
• Usage in a sentence: Many people reviled him for his callous behaviour.

6. Word: Fanaticism (कट्टरपन)

• Pronunciation: fuh-nat-uh-sahyz-uh m/ फनैटसिज़म
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: the quality of being fanatical.
• Synonyms: bigotry, enthusiasm, zeal, intolerance
• Antonym: apathy, disinterest, calmness, impartiality
• Usage in a sentence: Fourteen people with direct knowledge of camp conditions described in interviews the mounting anger, violence and fanaticism growing amid the squalor.

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7. Word: Credible (विश्वास करने योग्य)

• Pronunciation: kred-uh-buhl/ क्रेडबल
• Part of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning:
  a. able to be believed; convincing.
  b. capable of persuading people that something will happen or be successful. 
• Synonyms: believable, plausible, trustworthy, reliable
• Antonyms: unbelievable, incredible, unreliable
• Usage in a Sentence: The plot is credible but the characters lack individuality.

8. Word: Desecrator (अपवित्रकर्ता)

• Pronunciation: des-i-kreyt/ डसिक्रेटर 
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A person who profanes or violates the sacredness or sanctity of something.
• Synonyms: defiler, violator, robber, defacer, polluter
• Antonym: consecrator, inventer, approver, architect, worshipper
• Usage in a sentence: The protesters say building another would further desecrate the site.

9. Word: Alacrity (उत्साह)

• Pronunciation: uh-lak-ri-tee/ अलैक्रटी
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: brisk and cheerful readiness.
• Synonyms: willingness, eagerness, readiness, preparedness
• Antonyms: laziness, reluctance, indifference, disinclination, aversion
• Usage in a sentence: It was an interesting challenge and I responded with alacrity.

10. Word: Bystander (दर्शक)

• Pronunciation: bahy-stan-der/ बाइस्टैन्डर
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.
• Synonyms: spectator, observer, onlooker, viewer, beholder
• Antonym: participant, accomplice, party, contributor
• Usage in a sentence: Two innocent bystanders were injured in the shooting.

11. Word: Credence (विश्वसनीयता)

• Pronunciation: kreed-ns/ क्रीडन्स
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:
  a. belief in or acceptance of something as true.
  b. the likelihood of something being true; plausibility.
  c. a small side table, shelf, or niche in a church for holding the elements of the Eucharist before they are consecrated.
• Synonyms: trust, belief, confidence, faith, reliance
• Antonym: distrust, disbelief, uncertainty, suspicion
• Usage in a sentence: I'm afraid I don't put much credence in common gossip.

12. Word: Mayhem (अफरा-तफरी)

• Pronunciation: mey-hem/ मेहेम
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: violent or extreme disorder; chaos.
• Synonyms: chaos, havoc, disorder, commotion
• Antonym: hierarchy, harmony, calm, disposition
• Usage in a sentence: The escape of a criminal from the prison caused mayhem in the city.

13. Word: Ransack (लूट लेना)

• Pronunciation: ran-sak/ रैन्सैक
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: 
  a. go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage.
  b. search (a place or receptacle) thoroughly, especially in such a way as to cause harm.
• Synonyms: pillage, plunder, loot, despoil, strip
• Antonyms: clean, mend, safeguard, enrich, hone
• Usage in a sentence: Robbers ransacked the apartment looking for money.

'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!

• Fanaticism
• Credence
• Conscience
• Rampage
• Ransack
• Mayhem

Exercise 2: Match the columns.

Share your answers in the comment section. 

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