Day 90 vocabulary (15th June Hindu Editorials)

TODAY VOCABULARY
Word & its Details

1. Abducted (Verb)

Elaborated meaning : take (someone) away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.
Example : he millionaire who disappeared may have been abducted

2. Personnel (Noun)

Elaborated meaning : staff, employees, workforce
Example : many of the personnel involved require training

3. Embrace (Verb)

Elaborated meaning : hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.
Example : The children embrace their parent while they leaving them.

4. Substantive (Adj)

Elaborated meaning : having a firm basis in reality and therefore important, meaningful, or considerable
Example : Choice likewise provides a substantive basis for parental and student buy-in.

5. Emanating (Verb)

Elaborated meaning : of something abstract but perceptible) issue or spread out from (a source).
Example : Coldness emanated from the Fridge is an artificial one.

6. Contempt (Noun)

Elaborated meaning : he feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
Example : They have bad manners, contempt for authority and no respect for older people.

7. Arena (Noun)

Elaborated meaning : a level area surrounded by seats for spectators, in which sports, entertainments, and other public events are held.
Example : he has re-entered the political arena

8. Relic (Noun)

Elaborated meaning : an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest
Example : It, in a sense, is a relic of an earlier age of procedure.

9. Travesty (Verb)

Elaborated meaning : represent in a false or distorted way
Example : The planning meeting, in my opinion, was a travesty of democracy.

10.Tendentious (Adj)

Elaborated meaning : expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.
Example : This is a tendentious , romanticised version of the history.

Word of the day : scepticism (Noun)

Elaborated meaning : a skeptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something.
Example : There is also reason to think such skepticism may be misplaced.

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