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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary 16 December 2019
| Words | Meanings & Synonyms | Antonyms | Usage |
| Aggravating | Make a problem, injury, or offence worse or more serious;
Annoy, Bother |
Calm down | Attempts to restrict parking in the city centre have further aggravated the problem of traffic congestion. |
| Assertive | Having or showing a confident and forceful personality;
Confident, Forceful, Self, Confident, Positive, Bold, Decisive, Aggressive, Ambitious, Enterprising, Fierce, Go-Getting, High-Pressure, In-Your-Face, |
Retiring
|
I’ve had to train myself to be more assertive at work. |
| Copious | Abundant in supply or quantity;
Superabundant, Plentiful, Ample, Profuse, Full |
Sparse
|
They drank copious amounts of wine. |
| Dormant | Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later time;
Asleep, Dozing, Napping, Resting, Sleeping, Slumbering, Inactive |
Awake, Sleepless, Wakeful, Wide-Awake
|
The long-dormant volcano has recently shown signs of erupting. |
| Exhumed | To bring back from neglect or obscurity;
Dig out something buried, especially a corpse from the ground; Disinter, Dig Up, Unearth, bring out of the ground, Disentomb |
Bury
|
Their controversy then slumbered, and it is only recently that scholars have exhumed it. |
| Imprimatur | Sanction, Approval
Approbation, Approval, Blessing, Favour |
Disapprobation, Disapproval,
Disfavour |
We cannot not begin the project without the boss’s imprimatur. |
| Mutiny | An open rebellion against the proper authorities, especially by soldiers or sailors against their officers;
Insurrection, Rebellion, Revolt, Riot, Revolution, Uprising |
Calm, Peace, Obedience, Subservience
|
Thousands of the soldiers mutinied over the non-payment of wages by the factory owners. |
| Secessionism | The act of becoming independent and no longer part of a country, area, organization, etc | Alliance, Coalition, Compact, Confederacy, Confederation, Federation, Fusion, League, Partnership, Union | The government is trying to crush a secessionist movement. |
| Shoehorned | To force to be included or admitted;
to force or compress into an insufficient space or period of time; Squeeze, Fill, Heap, Jam-Pack, Load, Pack |
A parking garage has been shoehorned between the buildings. | |
| Subterfuge | Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal;
Trickery, Intrigue, Deviousness, Evasion, Deceit, Deception |
Honesty, Openness
|
The party has predictably rejected the proposals as a subterfuge. |
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