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The Hindu Editorial Daily Vocabulary Booster 26 July 2019

Saloni Singhal

Here is today’s dose of English Vocabulary with our Vocabulary Booster 26 July 2019 comprising of difficult words, their meanings, Synonyms & Antonyms and most importantly correct usage in a sentence. Whether you are an aspirant or not, if you someone looking for improvement in your English Language both Speaking as well as Writing skills, this daily blog is for you. Go through this on a daily basis and you will definitely see a marked improvement in your Language. Read along today’s Vocabulary Booster 26 July 2019.

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The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary Booster 26 July 2019

Words

Meanings & Synonyms

Antonyms

Usage
Abjure To say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving;

To reject solemnly;

Abnegate, Forswear, Recant, Renege, Renounce, Repeal, Repudiate

 Adhere to After Spain passed a law banning parties that supported terrorism, some of the group’s leaders created a new party, EH Bildu, which abjured violence.
Amendment A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc;

Adjustment, Alteration, Change, Modification, Mutation

 Unchanged, Unedited Presidential power was reduced by a constitutional amendment in 1991.
Brinkmanship The activity, especially inpolitics, of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something that could be harmful or dangerous;

Manoeuvring, Politicking

   The talks have collapsed and both sides have resorted to brinkmanship.
Combat To try to stop something unpleasant or harmful from happening or increasing;

Combat is also a fight between two people or things

 Agreement, Accord, Truce, Concord The government is spending millions of dollars in its attempt to combat drug abuse.
Consequence A result or effect, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant;

Result, Outcome

 Antecedent, Causation, Cause, Occasion, Reason The slightest error in the launch can have serious consequences.
Cripple To make something much less effective; 

Damage, Weaken, Enfeeble, Debilitate, Undermine

 Doctor, Fix, Mend, Patch, Rebuild, Recondition, Reconstruct, Renovate, Repair, Revamp Higher taxes could cripple small businesses.
Defiant Full of or showing a disposition to challenge, resist, or fight, Full of or showing defiance;

Bold, Impudent

 Amenable, Biddable, Compliant, Conformable, Docile, Obedient The protesters blocking the entrance to the offices remained defiant this morning.
Detention The act of officially detaining someone

 

 Discharge, Release Concern has been expressed about the death in detention of a number of political prisoners.
Distinct Recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type;

Clear, Definite, Sharp

 Alike, Identical, Indistinguishable The sales chart shows a distinct decline in the past few months.
Forfeiture The loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing;

The loss of rights, property, or money, especially as a result of breaking a legal agreement;

Damages, Fine, Forfeit, Mulct, Penalty

 Win, Gain, Earn He was deep in debt and facing forfeiture of his property.
Grave Seriously Bad, Life threatening Frivolous, Insignificant, Lite, Little, Light, Unserious His carelessness could have grave consequences.
Innocuous Not harmful or offensive;

Benign, Harmless, Hurtless, Innocent, Inoffensive

 Adverse, Bad, Baleful, Baneful, Damaging, Dangerous Some mushrooms look innocuous but are in fact poisonous.
Invalidate Make or prove an argument, statement, or theory unsound or erroneous;

Disprove, Show/prove to be, False, Refute, Explode, Contradict

 Enact, lay down, Legislate

Establish, Found, Institute

Formalize

 

 A few minor factual errors should not invalidate the theory.
Irreparable Impossible to rectify or repair;

Irreversible, Irremediable, Unrectifiable, Irrevocable, Irretrievable

 Correctable, Corrigible, Fixable, Redeemable, Remediable, Repairable The oil spill did irreparable harm to the bay.
Portentous Of momentous significance;

Being a grave or serious matter;

Baleful, Dire, Direful, Doomy, Foreboding, Ill, Ill-boding

 Unthreatening In 1969 people regarded the first landing on the moon as a truly portentous event.
Precarious Not securely held or in position;

Dangerously likely to fall or collapse;

Uncertain, Insecure, Unreliable, Unsure, Unpredictable

 Advantageous, Beneficial, good

Ultrasafe

Harmless, Innocent Innocuous

 

 Many borrowers now find themselves caught in a precarious financial position.
Proroguing Defer, Postpone;

To suspend or end a legislative session

 Launch, Open

Carry on, Continue, draw out, Extend

 The legislative session was prorogued for the summer
Reckon To think or believe;

Estimate, Compute, Conclude, Deduce, Extrapolate, Gather, Infer

 Question, Suspect He reckons all policemen are fascists and bullies.
Reminiscent Tending to remind one of something;

Evocative, Suggestive

 Amnesia, Forgetfulness

 

 That song is so reminiscent of my adolescence.
Taint Contaminate or pollute something Chasteness, Chastity, Modesty, Purity, Stainlessness His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.
Vulnerable Exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally;

In danger, In peril, In jeopardy, At risk, Endangered, Unsafe

 Insusceptible, Invulnerable, Unexposed It is on economic policy that the government is most vulnerable.

 

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