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The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For Teaching Exam

The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For Teaching Exam_30.1



Dear Readers, we are providing to you Word List from The HINDU Newspaper. It will help you to enhance your word power as well as you can understand the correct usage of the word.We suggest you read a newspaper daily to improve your word power.Your reading habit can make all the difference. If you are not able to read a newspaper for Teaching Exam.We will post important words every day from editorial section. These words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.



1.Jejune
Meaning: naive, simplistic, and superficial, (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting
Synonym: childish, innocuous
Sentence:“their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions”

2.Burgeon
Meaning: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.
Synonym: boom, mushroom, proliferate,
Antonym: shrink
Sentence:“manufacturers are keen to cash in on the burgeoning demand”

3.Buffoon
Meaning: a ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.
Synonym: clown, antic, comedian

Sentence: I wonder when my thirty-year-old son will stop acting like a buffoon and begin to take life seriously.

4.Protrude
Meaning: extend beyond or above a surface.
Synonym: stand out, come through, peek, poke
Antonym: sunken, inconspicuous
Sentence:”something like a fin protruded from the water”

5.Erosion
Meaning: the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
Synonym: wearing away, abrasion
Sentence: “the problem of soil erosion

6. Wince

Meaning:make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of pain or distress.

Synonym:grimace,
Sentence:“he winced at the disgust in her voice”

7.Amorous
Meaning:
showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.
Synonym: lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent;
Antonym: unloving, cold
Sentence: “she rejected his amorous advances”

8.Amputate

Meaning: cut off (a limb) by surgical operation.
Synonym: chop off, remove
Sentence: “surgeons had to amputate her left hand”

9.Pedant

Meaning: a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

Synonym: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire;
Sentence: “the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)”

10.Paucity

Meaning: the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
Synonym: dearth, deficit, drought
Antonym: bountifulness, copiousness; excess,
Sentence: “a paucity of information”

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