Certainly! Here are ten English vocabulary words along with their meanings, alternate words, and examples from The Hindu editorial dated May 14, 2024:
- Constituencies (noun):
- Meaning: One of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature.
- Alternate Words: Electoral districts, voting regions, constituencies.
- Example: In the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election 2024, 96 constituencies voted
- Simultaneous (adjective):
- Meaning: Happening or being done at exactly the same time.
- Alternate Words: Concurrent, synchronous, parallel, coexisting.
- Example: Polls were also held in the simultaneous Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha
- Elaborate (adjective):
- Meaning: Containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts.
- Alternate Words: Detailed, intricate, extensive, thorough.
- Example: The BJP had an elaborate plan to make gains in the election
- Blow Hot and Cold (phrase):
- Meaning: To keep changing one’s mind/opinion, change mood/attitude frequently; vacillate, oscillate.
- Alternate Words: Vacillate, waver, fluctuate, equivocate.
- Example: Parties and leaders have been blowing hot and cold with various slogans during the campaign
- Unsavoury (adjective):
- Meaning: Distasteful, unpleasant, or morally objectionable.
- Alternate Words: Disagreeable, distasteful, offensive, objectionable.
- Example: The exchange between the Election Commission and the Opposition party was unsavoury
- Insinuations (noun):
- Meaning: The action of suggesting, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true.
- Alternate Words: Implications, hints, innuendos, veiled suggestions.
- Example: The BJP made insinuations about Muslims for political polarization
- Autoimmune (adjective):
- Meaning: Relating to a condition where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own tissues.
- Alternate Words: Autoimmunity, self-immunity.
- Example: When this happens, it’s called “autoimmune”
- Contempt (noun):
- Meaning: The feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
- Alternate Words: Disdain, disrespect, scorn, disregard.
- Example: The ECI said people held doubts in “contempt”
- Diversity (noun):
- Meaning: The fact of many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things or people.
- Alternate Words: Variety, multiplicity, heterogeneity, assortment.
- Example: One of its advisers used racist vocabulary to describe India’s diversity
- Vacillate (verb):
- Meaning: To waver or be indecisive; to alternate between different opinions or actions.
- Alternate Words: Oscillate, hesitate, fluctuate, dither.
- Example: Leaders have been vacillating with slogans during the election campaign
Remember to use these words in context to enhance your vocabulary! 😊1
