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Given below is an important editorial from the newspaper ‘The Indian Express’.
Read it, understand the context and go through the meanings of words to boost up your learning.
State of deluge
Important Words from the Article
1. Word: Vagary (उच्छृंखलता)
- Pronunciation: vey-guh-ree/वैगरी
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance:
b. a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action. - Synonyms: whim, caprice, quirk, fancy
- Antonyms: rare opportunity, great potential, strategy
- Usage in a sentence: The success of the event will be determined by the vagaries of the weather.
2. Word: Deluge (डुबोना)
- Pronunciation: del-yooj/डेल्यूज
- Part of Speech: Noun, Verb
- Meaning:
a. a great flood of water; inundation; flood (Noun)
b. a drenching rain; downpour (Noun)
c. anything that overwhelms like a flood (Noun)
d. to flood; inundate (Verb) - Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp, submerge
- Antonyms: drought, drizzle, trickle
- Usage in a sentence: This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.
3. Word: Outmoded (अप्रचलित)
- Pronunciation: out-moh-did/आउट्मोडिड
- Part of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning:
a. gone out of style; no longer fashionable
b. not acceptable by present standards; no longer usable; obsolete - Synonyms: obsolete, old-fashioned, outdated
- Antonyms: new, modern, stylish
- Usage in a sentence: Outmoded working practices are being phased out.
4. Word: Jettison (फेंक देना)
- Pronunciation: jet-uh-suh ning/जेट्टिसोनिंग
- Part of Speech: Verb, Noun
- Meaning:
a. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency (verb)
b. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard (verb)
c. to discard (Verb)
d. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it (Noun) - Synonyms: discarding, dropping, dumping, abandoning
- Antonyms: keep, retain, save, hold
- Usage in a sentence: The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts.
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5. Word: Denude (उघाड़ना)
- Pronunciation: dih-nood/डिनूड
- Part of Speech: Verb
- Meaning:
a. to remove the covering of something, especially land - Synonyms: expose, deprive, uncover
- Antonyms: compensate, re-wrap, drape
- Usage in a sentence: The countryside has been denuded by war.
6. Word: Topography (किसी स्थान का वर्णन)
- Pronunciation: tuh-pog-ruh-fee/टपाग्रफी
- Part of Speech:
- Meaning:
a. the natural features of land, esp. the shape of its surface, or the science of mapping those features - Synonyms: geography, terrain, landscape
- Antonyms: sky
- Usage in a sentence: Volcanoes have sculpted the topography of the island.
7. Word: Embankment (तटबंध)
- Pronunciation: em-bangk-muh nt/एम्बैंगक्मन्ट
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. a bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc. - Synonyms: bank, mound, dike, levee
- Usage in a sentence: Here the schoolboy who was thrown over the embankment at his new school has just finished an extensive description of his injuries.
8. Word: Spate (बाढ़/बड़ी संख्या में)
- Pronunciation: speyt /स्पेट
- Part of Speech: Noun
- Meaning:
a. a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring
b. a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time
- Meaning:
- Synonyms: flood, surge, tide, deluge
- Antonyms: drip, shortage, drought
- Usage in a sentence: We have had a spate of burglaries recently.
9. Word: Recurrent (पुनरावर्ती)
- Pronunciation: ri-kur-uhnt/रीकरन्ट
- Part of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning:
a. that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically - Synonyms: repeated, periodic, frequent
- Antonyms: rare, episodic, sporadic
- Usage in a sentence: The patient has a two-month history of recurrent episodes of pancreatitis.
10. Word: Put heads together (योजना बनाना )
- Pronunciation: put-heds-tuh-geth -er/पुट हेड्स टुगेदर
- Meaning:
a. if two or more people put their heads together, they plan something together - Synonyms: call in, negotiate, discuss, plan
- Usage in a sentence: If we put our heads together, we can think of a solution.
'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!
- Vagary
- Deluge
- Outmoded
- Jettison
- Spate
Exercise 2: Match the columns.
SR No. | Word | Synonym |
1 | Denude | Periodic |
2 | Embankment | Bank |
3 | Recurrent | Landscape |
4 | Topography | Plan |
5 | Put heads together | Re-wrap |
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