The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 27 December 2018

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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 27 December 2018 

Sr No.	Words	Meaning	Usage
1.	ACKNOWLEDGE	Recognize the importance or quality of	The corporate world has begun to acknowledge his genius and excellence.
2.	COLLOQUIAL	Used in ordinary or familiar conversation; Not formal or literary	Colloquial language is not considered appropriate in official mails.
3.	CRITICISM	The expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes	The present government received a lot of criticism by the intellectuals.
4.	DICKENSIAN	Reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens, especially in suggesting the poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters that they portray	The Dickensian characters were very interesting.
5.	ERA	A long and distinct period of history	The death of the emperor is considered beginning of new era.
6.	GAUGE	An instrument that measures and gives a visual display of the amount, level, or contents of something; A means of estimating something.	Astronomers can gauge the brightness of any planet or star.
7.	GLARE	Stare in an angry or fierce way	His glare scares me to the core.
8.	INCUMBENT	Necessary for someone as a duty or responsibility; Of an official currently holding office	The incumbent chief minister lost the recent elections.
9.	INFLATION	A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money; The condition of being inflated	The main agenda of the monetary policy was to control inflation.
10.	LAPSE	A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement	Her lapse of concentration in the first half of the match cost her the match.
11.	MANDATE	An official order or commission to do something; Require something to be done; make mandatory	The government issued a mandate to seek the release of the political prisoners.
12.	PLUNGE	Fall suddenly and uncontrollably; Suffer a rapid decrease in value	The prices of the vegetables plunged to great extent.
13.	PROHIBITION	Formally forbid something by law, rule, or other authority	Cigarette smoking was strictly prohibited inside the premises.
14.	PROTOCOL	The accepted or established code of procedure or behaviour in any group, organization, or situation	The princess went against the protocol in front of the king.
15.	REMISS	Lacking care or attention to duty; Negligent	It would be very remiss of me if I do not follow the traffic rules.
16.	REMUNERATIVE	Financially rewarding; Lucrative	The labourers found the mining job reasonably remunerative.
17.	REQUISITIONING	Demand the use or supply of something by official order; An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials	The official ordered the requisitioning of the building for personal usage.
18.	SHORTCOMING	A fault or failure to meet a certain standard	The shortcomings in the plan cost the company millions.
19.	SLUMP	Sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply; Undergo a sudden severe or prolonged fall in price, value, or amount	The prices of the land slumped after the government interference.
20.	SPECTRUM	A band of colours, as seen in a rainbow; Used to classify something in terms of its position on a scale between two extreme points	He was on the right of the political spectrum.
21.	TEETERING	Move or balance unsteadily; sway back and forth.	She had to teeter after him in her sandals.
22.	UNAPPROVED	Not officially accepted or sanctioned	The builder started working on the unapproved plans.
23.	UNSCRUPULOUS	Having or showing no moral principles; Not honest or fair	The unscrupulous landlord extracted extra money from the poor tenants.
24.	UPTREND	An upward tendency, especially a rise in economic value	The uptrend in sales was seen after she joined the team.

 

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