Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 13th March 2017

By Shristi|Updated : March 13th, 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, 'Open gates: EU countries must stand up for humane asylum policies’ has been picked from The Hindu.

This article talks about the European Union’s top court giving member-states the right to grant or deny asylum which is a welcome news for the refugees coming from west asia.

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

Open gates: EU countries must stand up for humane asylum policies

Challenging Words in the Article -

Hostile (प्रतिरोधी) - Adjective
Meaning - showing or feeling opposition or dislike, unfriendly
Synonyms - adverse, contrary
Antonyms - sympathetic, agreeable
Example - When the police officer pointed the gun at me, he looked quite hostile.
Hovering (उड़ना) - Verb
Meaning - remain poised uncertainly in one place or between two states
Synonyms - drift, flicker
Antonyms - rest, settle
Example - Good servers will be attentive, but they will not hover over guests and make them feel uncomfortable.
Surge (महोर्मि)
Meaning - a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide (Noun)
(of a crowd or a natural force) move suddenly and powerfully forward or upward (Verb)
Synonyms - gush, rush
Antonyms - decline, decrease
Example - The journalists surged forward.
Catastrophe (दुर्घटना) - Noun
Meaning - the denouement of a drama, especially a classical tragedy
Synonyms - calamity, crisis
Antonyms - advantage, fortune
Example - The governor referred to the destructive hurricane as a catastrophe.
Verdict (निर्णय) - Noun
Meaning - a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest
Synonyms - judgement, resolution
Antonyms - accusation
Example - The lawyer suspected that the judge was bribed to arrive at a guilty verdict.
Arbiter (मध्यस्थ) - Noun
Meaning - a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter
Synonyms - authority, determiner
Example - Unfortunately the arbiter hasn’t been able to end the dispute between management and the union workers.
Embarked (शुरू) - Verb
Meaning - begin (a course of action)
Synonyms - begin, start
Antonyms - cease, finish
Example - Lawrence has plans to embark on a new career as a journalist.
Divisive (भाग करनेवाला) - Adjective
Meaning - tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people
Synonyms - alienating, isolating
Example - The Civil War was the most divisive American war because it ripped the country apart.

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

What is your opinion on the final judgment of the European Court of Justice of the 28-nation immigration crisis?
Explain the term "biggest challenge in decades"?

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.