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We are here with your Daily dose of Challenging Wordlist. Consider the given newspaper article as a Comprehension for your exams and do answer the questions at the end.
Today’s article, 'Keeping safety on the rails’ has been picked from The Hindu.
Railway safety is concerned with the protection of life and property through regulation, management and technology development of all forms of rail transportation. This article talks about derailment of Indore-Rajendranagar Express near Kanpur.
To read more, you can go through the article from the link below -
Keeping safety on the rails
Challenging Words in the Article -
- Wagon (गाड़ी) - Noun
Meaning - a vehicle used for transporting goods or another specified purpose
Synonyms - carriage, caravan
Example - My father is on the wagon. - Sabotage (गड़बड़ करना)
Meaning - deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage (Verb)
the action of sabotaging something (Noun)
Synonyms - disruption, treason
Antonyms - devotion, loyalty
Example - The enemy agent used a bomb to sabotage the factory and halt production. - Derelict (त्याग किया हुआ)
Meaning - in a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect (Adjective)
a person without a home, job, or property (Noun)
Synonyms - disregardful, regardless
Antonyms - careful, improved
Example - Our small town has a large number of derelict buildings that need to be demolished. - Fatal (घातक) - Adjective
Meaning - leading to failure or disaster
Synonyms - incurable, mortal
Antonyms - blessed, trivial
Example - Any mistake would be fatal. - Corpus (कोष) - Noun
Meaning - a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject
Synonyms - bulk, core
Antonyms - part
Example - A computerized corpus of English. - Obligation (कर्तव्य) - Noun
Meaning - an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment
Synonyms - agreement, liability
Antonyms - asset, disbelief
Example - A student has an obligation to perform honesty. - Ultrasonic (अल्ट्रासोनिक) - Adjective
Meaning - of or involving sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing
Synonyms - prompt, swift
Antonyms - delayed, tardy
Example - Ultrasonic sound is too high for people to hear. - Detection (खोज) - Noun
Meaning - the action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed
Synonyms - disclosure, strike
Antonyms - failure, mistake
Example - Modern technology is essential to crime detection.
Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following -
- At what conclusion the Kakodkar committee has come up with, after analyzing the previous year data of derailments?
- What is "Third Class in Indian Railways" a book by Mahatma Gandhi is about?
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.
- Derailment, Collision, Equitable, Framework & Flaw.
Take the Quiz below to find out how versed you are in your vocab.
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