The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 4 September 2019

Published on 4 September 2019 by
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Reading the daily Editorial be it of any newspaper, is very beneficial not only for Vocabulary building but also gives you useful insights on the day to day happenings in the world. So, here we are with the today’s dose of daily vocabulary from the Editorial section of the Hindu Newspaper. You can read the Editorial here. In this blog “Daily Vocabulary 4 September 2019″, we have taken difficult words, explained their meanings with synonyms, antonyms and correct usage. Go through them below.

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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary 4 September 2019

Words

Meanings & Synonyms

Antonyms

Usage
Coerce Persuade an unwilling person to do something by using force or threats;

Force, Compel, Coerce, Constrain

 Persuade A confession was coerced from the suspect by police
Cognisant Having knowledge or awareness;

Aware, Conscious, Apprised, Abreast

 Unaware We should be cognisant of the fact that every complaint is not a justified complaint.
Debilitate Make someone very weak and infirm;

Weakening, Enfeebling, Enervating, Enervative, Devitalizing

 Strengthen, Invigorate Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.
Disconcerting Causing one to feel unsettled;

Unsettling, Unnerving, Discomfiting, Disturbing, Perturbing, Troubling, Upsetting

 Reassuring He had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties.
Espionage The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information;

Spying, Undercover Work, Cloak-And-Dagger Activities, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Eavesdropping

   He was charged with several counts of espionage.
Faltering Losing strength or momentum;

Fence-Sitting, Hesitance, Indecision, Irresolution

 Certainty, Certitude, Confidence, Decisiveness, Determination, Firmness The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.
Inevitable Certain to happen;

Unavoidable, Inescapable, Bound to Happen, Sure to Happen, Inexorable

 Avoidable, Uncertain The accident was the inevitable consequence of carelessness.
Reprieve Cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially someone condemned to death;

Grant a stay of execution to, Cancel/postpone/commute/remit someone’s punishment;

Pardon, Spare, Acquit, Grant an Amnesty To, Amnesty

 Conviction, Sentence

Assessment, Charge

 

 Under the new regime, prisoners under sentence of death were reprieved.
Sham A thing that is not what it is purported to be;

Pretence, Fake, Act, Fiction, Simulation, Imposture

 Real, Genuine It turned out that he wasn’t a real doctor at all – he was just a sham.

 

 

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