The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 23 January 2019

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The Hindu Newspaper is considered the Bible by the various exam aspirants as it has the best unbiased views on various current news and happenings in the world. Also, it helps immensely if you are looking for daily dose of English reading and building your English vocabulary. So, we at Oliveboard present to all our viewers and Exam aspirants a daily dose of difficult words with their meanings, synonyms and the correct usage in this blog of The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 23 January 2019.

The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 23 January 2019

Sr No.	Word	Meaning	Synonyms	Usage
1.	ANCESTRY	One’s family or ethnic descent.	Ancestors, forebears, forefathers	He was proud of his Jewish ancestry.
2.	ARRAY	An impressive display or range of a thing	Arrangement, Line-up	The delicious smell came from the array of food at the buffet.
3.	BLINDSIDED	Hit or attack someone on their blind side; Make someone unable to perceive the truth of a situation	Assail	We got blindsided by our own government.
4.	CALIBRATE	Mark a gauge or instrument with a standard scale of readings; Carefully assess, set, or adjust something	Set, Fine-tune	The regulators cannot properly calibrate the risks involved in bidding.
5.	CAPITALISE	Take the chance to gain advantage from; Convert into capital	Exploit, Finance, Fund	The opposition capitalised on the government’s embarrassment after demonetisation.
6.	CONUNDRUM	A confusing and difficult problem or question	Difficulty, Quandary, Dilemma	Trying to solve this conundrum will be difficult.
7.	CURVEBALL	Something which is unexpected	Surprising or disruptive	There will always be a curveball in any adventurous mission.
8.	DIVERGENCE	The process or state of diverging; A difference in opinions, interests	Separation; Dissimilarity, Variance	The brothers show a fundamental divergence of attitudes.
9.	GAUGE	An instrument that measures and gives a visual display of the amount, level, or contents of something; Estimate or determine the amount, level, or volume of	Indicator, Measure, Calculate, Compute	Astronomers can gauge the star’s intrinsic brightness.
10.	HEFT	Lift or carry something heavy; The weight of someone or something; Ability or influence	Lift, Raise	They lacked the political heft to get the film banned.
11.	NATIVIST	Relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants		He has expressed his nativist beliefs through his divisive comments about immigrants.
12.	POPULISM	A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups	Doctrine	The government came to power on a wave of populism.
13.	PROMINENT	Important; Famous	Well known, Eminent	The wedding saw all the prominent personalities from the entertainment industry.
14.	ROBUSTNESS	The quality or condition of being strong and in good condition	Hardiness, Ruggedness	There is an overall robustness of national and international financial systems.
15.	SOAR	Fly or rise high in the air	Rise, Mount	The prices of the vegetables soared after the floods.

 

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