Daily Vocabulary Words: List of Daily Used Words in Leading Indian Newspapers
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• The Times of India
• The Economic Times
• Hindustan Times
• Mint
• Indian Express
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Word-1: Abdication
Meaning: No longer controlling or managing something you are in charge of.
Synonyms: Renunciation, relinquishment, surrender, resignation, ceding, waiving, waiver, yielding, abjuration, cession, quitclaim, giving up, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. It would have been an abdication of our duty not to have found him guilty.
2. This time, she promises the promise. She can’t again abdicate the second time.
3. Abdication of many places cannot draw housing accumulation funds.
Word-2: Tardy
Meaning: You think that they are later than they should be or later than expected.
Synonyms: Late, delayed, belated, behind, behindhand, unpunctual, dilatory, overdue, delinquent, latish, lagging, behind schedule, not on time,
Usage Examples:
1. This makes the car feel tardy in quick manoeuvres.
2. Talking out, skipping class, being tardy or disrespectful is no more acceptable for work-inhibited students than for others.
3. They were tardy in filing the application.
Word-3: Dissociated
Meaning: To consider as separate and not related.
Synonyms: Separated, divided, disconnected, severed, parted, split, divorced, disjoined, uncoupled, sundered, decoupled, disassociated, unlinked, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. At no time could his work for the press be dissociated from his political convictions.
2. For different reasons, the first two of these have dissociated themselves from the causal-corrective concerns of traditional criminology.
3. The prospect of providing variety can not be dissociated from a sense of swamping the subject in its alternatives.
Word-4: Relocation
Meaning: The act of moving or moving something or someone from one place to another.
Synonyms: Move, transfer, moving, repositioning, rearrangement, replacement, remotion, redomiciling, removal, change of address, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. They were engaged before the relocation and provided induction training in a nearby hotel.
2. The blow was softened somewhat by the relocation of a cream cake factory bringing 700 jobs.
3. The company must also provide a suitable relocation compensation and benefits package.
Word-5: Authoritarian
Meaning: Someone who demands that people obey completely and refuses to allow them the freedom to act as they wish.
Synonyms: autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical, autarchic, draconian, absolute, oppressive, illiberal
Usage Examples:
1. His speech provides further evidence of his increasingly authoritarian approach.
2. My father was a real authoritarian, so we were brought up very strictly.
3. Don became the overly strict authoritarian he felt his brother needed.
Word-6: Deprivation
Meaning: Deprivation means something is missing, and the situation is serious.
Synonyms: Want, poverty, need, privation, penury, impoverishment, lack, neediness, scarcity, deficiency, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. It speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty without the due process of law.
2. He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.
3. Psychoanalysts regard both sadism and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.
Word-7: Accolades
Meaning: A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
Synonyms: Acclaim, praise, acclamation, admiration, laudation, commendation, homage, applause, honour, approval, tribute, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. As star producers, they were used to receiving public accolades and acknowledgement of their achievements.
2. It helps that both bands have been receiving critical accolades since their inception, and album sales for each have been solid.
3. The Mutawas offered the father moral support in his strong stance and showered him with accolades for his religious conviction.
Word-8: Majoritarian
Meaning: A person who adheres to a form of democracy that upholds the majority’s rule.
Synonyms: ochlocracy, democracy, elective government, commonwealth, autonomy, self-government
Usage Examples:
1. However, in France, whether it was a presidential or semi-presidential system, the majoritarian government stands all the time.
2. In that sense, the presidency functions more in keeping with the majoritarian model of democracy.
3. In his appeals to the common person, his attacks on privileged wealth, and his help building a new mass political party, he advanced the causes of equal rights and majoritarian democracy.
Word-9: Chauvinism
Meaning: The strong and unreasonable belief that your country or race is the best or most important thing.
Synonyms: Prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, bias, discrimination, partisanship, jingoism, partiality, sectarianism, xenophobia, isolationism, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, antisemitism and ethnic tension are still widespread.
2. Bandaranaike used Sinhalese chauvinism to gain power but found he could not control it.
3. The chance remark revealed his deep-rooted chauvinism and primary male insensitivity.
