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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster – 16 December 2019

Saloni Singhal

Enhance your English Vocabulary with Oliveboard’s Daily Vocabulary Booster. This daily article on Oliveboard gives you a list of English words taken from the Editorial section of The Hindu Editorial, with their correct meanings, synonyms, antonyms and correct usage. Here you get a chance to not only enhance your English Vocabulary but will aid you immensely in your competitive exams as well if you are consistent in reading this article on a daily basis. So, read along the Daily Vocabulary 16 December 2019.

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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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