Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 07th February 2017

By Shristi|Updated : February 7th, 2017

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Good Morning Everyone..!!

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, 'Digital economy bill: a last chance to get it right’ has been picked from The Guardian.

This article talks about the ideological thrust which would be a good thing to unfetter the state, allowing it to integrate its many databases.

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

Digital economy bill

Challenging Words in the Article -

Persuade (राज़ी करना) - Verb
Meaning - induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument
Synonyms - advice, assure
Antonyms - discourage, dissuade
Example - I was persuaded to stop smoking.
Rammed (पीट कर समतल बनाना) - Verb
Meaning - roughly force (something) into place
Synonyms - cram, crash
Antonyms - halt, assist
Example - He rammed his stick into the ground.
Unfetter (मुक्त) - Adjective
Meaning - not confined or restricted
Synonyms - liberate, deliver
Antonyms - detain, imprison
Example - Once the bird was unfettered and out of the cage, it flew up into the sky.
Integrate (संपूर्न करना) - Verb
Meaning - combine (one thing) with another to form a whole
Synonyms - accommodate, conform
Antonyms - disarrange, divide
Example - The school district wants to integrate the middle and high schools into one building to reduce expenses.
Scrutinize (जाँचना) - Verb
Meaning - examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
Synonyms - inspect, explore
Antonyms - forget, ignore
Example - Do not sign your name on any document you have not had time to scrutinize!
Astonished (आश्चर्यचकित) - Adjective
Meaning - greatly surprised or impressed, amazed
Synonyms - amaze, bewilder
Antonyms - expect, explain
Example - Hopefully the magic show will astonish our guests and leave them amazed.
Ominously (बुरी बात) - Adverb
Meaning - in a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen
Synonyms - threatening, menacing
Example - The warning sounds of an ominous storm made us run for cover.
Boggling (विलक्षण) - Verb
Meaning - (of a person or their mind) be astonished or baffled when trying to imagine something
Synonyms - amaze, shock
Antonyms - expect
Example - After a mind boggling search through more investment files, she found his savings account.

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

What are the major steps forwarded by the UK government on Digital Economy Bill?
Why was there such a focus on online copyright infringement, when the legislation was designed to look at other issues such as video games ratings etc.?

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.