Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 15th March 2017

By Shristi|Updated : March 15th, 2017

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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, 'End of a chapter’ has been picked from The Hindu.

This article talks about the verdictv taken by the parliament in South Korea for removing a sitting President "Park Geun-hye" due to her involvement in nefarious activities. This decision could well herald a new era in a land where it has for long been unthinkable to get the powerful to face justice even for serious crimes.

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

End of a chapter

Challenging Words in the Article -

Impeach (दोषी ठहराना) - Verb
Meaning - call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice)
Synonyms - challenge, question
Antonyms - absolve, answer
Example - Without sufficient evidence, you cannot hope to impeach a public official.
Herald (घोषणा करना)
Meaning - an official employed to oversee state ceremonial, precedence, and the use of armorial bearings, and (historically) to make proclamations, carry official messages, and oversee tournaments (Noun)
be a sign that (something) is about to happen (Verb)
Synonyms - indicate, signal
Example - Our school herald delivered the announcements every morning.
Nefarious (बेईमान) - Adjective
Meaning - (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal
Synonyms - horrible, shameful
Antonyms - delightful, gentle
Example - That senior prank was a nefarious thing to do.
Confidante (विश्वासपात्र) - Noun
Meaning - a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others
Synonyms - mate, adviser
Antonyms - enemy, stranger
Example - The president knows his psychiatrist is a confidant who will never reveal his secrets.
Solicited (प्रार्थित) - Verb
Meaning - ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone
Synonyms - request, approached
Example - During the war, they looked to solicit help from their neighboring countries.
Autocratic (निरंकुश) - Adjective
Meaning - relating to a ruler who has absolute power
Synonyms - arbitrary, absolute
Antonyms - democratic
Example - The autocratic dictator ordered the deaths of people who opposed him.
Whimsical (सनकी) - Adjective
Meaning - playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way
Synonyms - fanciful, fantastic
Antonyms - boring, dramatic
Example - During the party, our host asked us to join him in a whimsical game of make-believe.
Patronage (संरक्षण) - Noun
Meaning - the support given by a patron
Synonyms - funding, sponsorship
Antonyms - attack, disapproval
Example - Your patronage of the arts program will allow our students to put on four plays this year.
Ascendency (प्रभुत्व) - Noun
Meaning - occupation of a position of dominant power or influence
Synonyms - elevation, glory
Antonyms - failure, subordination
Example - Wealthy people believe they have an ascendancy that gives them the right to criticize the lifestyles of poor people.

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

What according to you steps should be taken by the government if such peoples are found guilty?
Elaborate "South Korea’s example becomes a model worthy of emulation"?

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.