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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster – 9 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 9 December 2019.

The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary 9 December 2019

Words Meanings & Synonyms Antonyms Usage
Delimitation The action of fixing the boundary or limits of something;

Demarcation, Boundary, Ring-fencing, Border

 Freedom, Liberation, Liberty, Allowance, Permission The government is yet to pass legislation on delimitation of constituencies in the province.
Dissent The holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held;

Disagreement, Lack of Agreement, Difference of Opinion, Argument

 Agreement, Acceptance

 

 When the time came to approve the proposal, there were one or two voices of dissent.
Lapse A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement;

Failure, Failing, Slip, Error, Mistake, Blunder, Fault

 Continue, hang on, Persist

 

 The management’s decision to ignore the safety warnings demonstrated a remarkable lapse of judgment.
Litigation The process of taking legal action;

Legal proceeding, Legal action, Lawsuit, Legal dispute, Legal case

   The company has consistently denied responsibility, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of lengthy litigation.
Travesty A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something;

Misrepresentation, Distortion, Perversion, Corruption

 Seriousness, Solemnity

 

 The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice.

 

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