Daily Vocabulary Words: List of Daily Used Words in Leading Indian Newspapers
Hi there. Welcome to this special section @ Wordpandit. Our endeavour here is straightforward: highlighting daily vocabulary words that you would come across in leading newspapers in the country. We have included the following newspapers in our selection:
• The Times of India
• The Economic Times
• Hindustan Times
• Mint
• Indian Express
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Word-1: Ordinance
Meaning: A law that is promulgated by the President of India only when the Indian parliament is not in session.
Synonyms: Authorization, canon, code, command, decree, dictum, direction, edict, enactment, fiat, mandate, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. Students failing to comply with the rules will be subject to the provisions of Ordinance 1985/7, Students Discipline.
2. He said The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partner’s ordinance.
3. The Court expressly concedes that this interest is compelling and is promoted by the ordinance.
Word-2: Allegations
Meaning: A statement made without proof that someone has done something wrong or illegal.
Synonyms: Accusation, claim, charge, plea, statement, deposition, affirmation, etc.
Usage Examples:
Mr Bird remained unmoved by the corruption allegations.
1. The company has denied the allegations.
2. The allegations have not yet been adequately investigated.
Word-3: Haphazardly
Meaning: Haphazard is random, disorganized, slipshod, or hit-or-miss.
Synonyms: Aimlessly, carelessly, casually, randomly, accidentally, by chance, inconstantly, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. The bigger fish will turn up haphazardly to almost anyone.
2. All the papers were haphazardly strewn on desks.
3. It results in a rather haphazardly curved path.
Word-4: Unperturbed
Meaning: Not worried, upset, or disquieted/ not worried about something.
Synonyms: Composed, placid, undisturbed, calm, collected, serene, tranquil, unagitated, unflurried, unflustered, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. The news had shattered him, but Vivian was unperturbed.
2. This message had shattered me, but Sam was unperturbed.
3. The good-tempered man tends to be unperturbed.
Word-5: Metallurgical
Meaning: The technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
Synonyms: Mythological, most logical, meteorological, methodological, tautological, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. It is used in electronics, instrumentation, and metallurgical industry.
2. The mineral is also used widely as a refractory material or metallurgical additive.
3. The river is already heavily polluted by chemical and metallurgical industries.
Word-6: Bloomberg
Meaning: A high tech, market moving, data driven, cross platform information company designed to solve global problems.
Synonyms: Slimebag, blamable, bum bag, belt bag, alembic, plumbic, bullbeggar, clambake, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has scheduled his annual preliminary budget presentation to the City Council for Jan. 31.
2. The UK’s largest homebuilder told Bloomberg that 42 per cent of the residential units it sold in London this year were to Chinese buyers.
3. Bloomberg pulled the obit and issued a brief retraction a few hours later.
Word-7: Bolster
Meaning: To improve something or make it stronger, bolster something to bolster someone’s
Synonyms: Aid, boost, buoy, buttress, cushion, help, maintain, reinforce, shore up, strengthen, support, sustain, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. Some believe that increasing advertising will bolster their support.
2. But several factors bolster their position.
3. Can brainpower bolster Berlin’s economy?
Word-8: Shallower
Meaning: Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
Synonyms: Flat, trivial, empty, hollow, shelf, slight, surface, shoal, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. Nevertheless, potential reservoir rocks may occur at these shallower levels.
2. Gordon finally roused himself and tried to steer the conversation toward shallower waters.
3. Redraw the three diagrams of Figure 18.2 with a steeper L curve and a shallower I curve.
Word-9: Monetary
Meaning: Relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy.
Synonyms: Budgetary, financial, fiscal, pecuniary, bread-and-butter, capital, cash, commercial, pocket, etc.
Usage Examples:
1. The grand design of Europe’s monetary union is already agreed upon.
2. Domestic conditions did not justify a loosening of monetary policy.
3. A period of financial crisis has disequilibrated the monetary system.
