Improve Your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist: 25th June, 2020

Our series, ‘Improve Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist’ aims to help you completely understand the commonly used words with their meanings, pronunciations, synonyms, antonyms, proper use in sentences, etc.

Here is an important editorial for you from ‘The Hindu’, followed by important words from the same, to help you strengthen your vocabulary. Read it, understand the context and go through the meanings of words to boost up your learning.

Lost in clarifications: On Modi's LAC statement

Important Words from the Article

1. Word: Foil (विफल कर देना)

• Pronunciation: foil/फॉइल
• Part of Speech: Verb, Noun
• Meaning: 
  a. to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk (Verb)
  b. to keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc (Verb)
  c. a piece of a very thin metal sheet or paper used to wrap a piece of someone's hair when it is being dyed or highlighted (Noun)
  d. something or someone that makes another's good or bad qualities more noticeable (Noun)
• Synonyms: thwart, frustrate, hinder, baffle
• Antonyms: help, assist, abet, aid, encourage
• Usage in a sentence: An attempted coup against the country’s military ruler was foiled yesterday.

2. Word: Intruder (घुसपैठिया)

• Pronunciation: in-trooder/इन्ट्रूडर
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:
  a. someone who is in a place or situation where they are not wanted
• Synonyms: trespasser, invader, infiltrator
• Antonyms: ally, honest person, member
• Usage in a sentence: Intruders had entered the house through a back window.

 3. Word: Transgression (उल्लंघन)

• Pronunciation: trans-gresh-uh n/ट्रैन्ज़्ग्रेशन
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: 
  a. the act or process of breaking a law or moral rule
  b. an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command
• Synonyms: offense, sin, misdeed, crime
• Antonyms: obedience, conformity to law
• Usage in a sentence: Adolescence is a period marked by fascination with the transgression of rules.

4. Word: Mischievous (हानिप्रद)

• Pronunciation: mis-chuh-vuh s/मिस्चवस
• Part of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning:
  a. maliciously or playfully annoying
  b. causing annoyance, harm, or trouble
  c. roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance
  d. harmful or injurious
• Synonyms: naughty, impish, wicked, playful
• Antonyms: obedient, innocent, well-behaved
• Usage in a sentence: She has a mischievous sense of humour.
  
  

5. Word: Transpire (पता चलना)

• Pronunciation: tran-spahyuh r/ ट्रैन्स्पाइअर
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: 
  a. to occur; happen; take place
  b. to emit or give off waste matter, watery vapor, etc., through the surface, as of the body or of leaves
  c. to escape, as moisture or odor, through or as if through pores
  d. to be revealed or become known
• Synonyms: occur, happen, befall, take place
• Antonyms: vanish, remove, stop, quit
• Usage in a sentence: No one is willing to predict what may transpire at the peace conference.

6. Word: Seize (दबोचना)

• Pronunciation: seez/सीज़
• Part of Speech: Verb
• Meaning:
  a. to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp
  b. to grasp mentally; understand clearly and completely
  c. to take possession of by force or at will
  d. to take possession or control of as if by suddenly laying hold
• Synonyms: grab, grasp, take, capture
• Antonyms: release, free, relinquish, give
• Usage in a sentence: I seized his arm and made him turn to look at me.

7. Word: Magnitude (मात्रा/महत्ता)

• Pronunciation: mag-ni-tood/मैग्निटूड
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:
  a. size; extent; dimensions
  b. great importance or consequence
  c. greatness of size or amount
  d. moral greatness
• Synonyms: size, extent, amount, degree, scale
• Antonyms: puniness, minuteness
• Usage in a sentence: They don't seem to grasp the magnitude of the problem.

8. Word: Inflection (विभक्ति)

• Pronunciation: in-flek-shuh n/इन्फ्लेक्शन 
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:
  a. a change in or addition to the form of a word that shows a change in the way it is used in sentences
  b. the way in which the sound of your voice changes during speech, for example when you emphasize particular words
• Synonyms: accent, tone, modulation, intonation
• Antonyms: monotone, gibberish
• Usage in a sentence: Phyllis replies without any particular inflection in her voice, "I guess I’m lazy."

9. Word: Speculation (सट्टेबाज़ी/अनुमान)

• Pronunciation: spek-yuh-ley-shuhn/स्पेक्यलैशन
• Part of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:
  a. the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information to be certain
  b. the contemplation or consideration of some subject
  c. a speculative commercial venture or undertaking
• Synonyms: guess, supposition, conjecture
• Antonyms: fact, truth
• Usage in a sentence: Rumours that they are about to marry have been dismissed as pure speculation. 

10. Word: Obscure (अस्पष्ट)

• Pronunciation: obs-cure/अब्स्क्युर
• Part of Speech: Adjective, Verb
• Meaning: 
  a. not discovered or known about; uncertain (Adjective)
  b. keep from being seen, conceal (Verb)
• Synonyms: ambiguous, hidden
• Antonyms: clear, common
• Use in a Sentence: His poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.

'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!

• Foil
• Mischievous
• Magnitude
• Inflection
• Speculation

Exercise 2: Match the columns.

Share your answers in the comment section. 

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