Important Word List From The Hindu Editorial 04 March 2022
Hindi Meaning - ढीला छोड़ना, कम करना, मध्यम करना
English Meaning - reduce, moderate, lessen, decrease.
2.as long as (phrase)
Hindi Meaning - जब तक, अगर, अभी
English Meaning - provided that.
3.signal (verb)
Hindi Meaning - संकेत करना, इशारा करना, दिखाना
English Meaning - indicate, show, express.
4.hinder (verb)
Hindi Meaning - बाधा डालना, अटकाना, रोकना
English Meaning - obstruct, impede, inhibit, hamper.
5.no longer (phrase)
Hindi Meaning - अब और नहीं
English Meaning - not anymore.
6.considering (preposition)
Hindi Meaning - ध्यान में रखते हुए, सामने रखते हुए
English Meaning - bearing in mind, taking into consideration, taking into account, in view of.
7.peak (verb)
Hindi Meaning - शिखर, नोक
English Meaning - reach the high level.
8.witness (verb)
Hindi Meaning - गवाही देना, देखना, निरीक्षण करना
English Meaning - see, observe, view, notice.
9.fall (noun)
Hindi Meaning - गिरना, कमी
English Meaning - decline, drop, reduction, decrease.
10.rely on (phrasal verb)
Hindi Meaning - भरोसा करना, पर विश्वास रखना, पर निर्भर होना
English Meaning - depend on; resort to, have recourse to.
11.misleading (adjective)
Hindi Meaning - बहकानेवाला, भ्रमित करने वाला, अस्पष्ट
English Meaning - deceptive, confusing, ambiguous, false, pseudo.
12.vaccinated (adjective)
Hindi Meaning - टीका लगाना
English Meaning - (of people) administered with a vaccine to provide immunity against a disease.
13.picture (noun)
Hindi Meaning - चित्र, धारणा, दृश्य
English Meaning - impression, view/idea, notion.
14.strategy (noun)
Hindi Meaning - रणनीति, योजना
English Meaning - plan of action (in order to achieve a more expansive set of political, economic, and security interests).
15.soar (verb)
Hindi Meaning - उड़ना, वृद्धि
English Meaning - increase, rise (quickly).
16.drop/lower one’s guard (phrase)
English Meaning - to become less careful, to become less vigilant, to become less alert.
17.room (noun)
English Meaning - scope, chance, leeway, freedom, latitude, opportunity (for something to happen).
18.bravado (noun)
English Meaning - boldness, bold manner, boasting/bombast, bragging, daredevil.
19.come to an end (phrase)
English Meaning - finish, complete, conclude, close.
20.exponentially (adverb)
English Meaning - in a way something is increasing quickly/rapidly by large amounts; rapidly, dramatically, aggressively, abruptly.
21.livelihood (noun)
English Meaning - means of making a living with the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing); means of support, subsistence, source of income.
22.vaccinate (verb)
English Meaning - inoculate, administer, introduce (with a vaccine to provide immunity against a disease).
23.lead to (verb)
English Meaning - result in, cause, bring on.
24.complacency (noun)
English Meaning - carelessness, laziness, laxity; self-satisfaction, smugness, self-regard.
25.reluctance (noun)
English Meaning - unwillingness, disinclination, hesitation.
26.sustained (adjective)
English Meaning - continuous, constant.
27.positivity rate (noun)
English Meaning - the proportion of positives to total tests done for disease; the percentage of tests that are turning out to be positive for disease; the rate at which people getting tested for disease receive positive results.
28.fell past of fall (verb)
English Meaning - decrease, decline, diminish, reduce, lessen.
29.indicator (noun)
English Meaning - sign, signal.
30.fag end (noun)
English Meaning - last part of something, particularly when considered as less significant or interesting.
31.reflect (verb)
English Meaning - indicate, show, display, demonstrate.
32.hospitalisation (noun)
English Meaning - the act of taking (or) admitting someone to (or) in hospital for treatment.
33.waning (noun)
English Meaning - decrease, lessening, weakening, disappearance.
34.Omicron variant (noun)
English Meaning - On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the (new coronavirus) variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). The first known confirmed Omicron infection was from a specimen collected on November 9. In recent weeks, infections in South Africa have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection.
35.variant (noun)
English Meaning - different or form or version or mutant of something (virus).
36.lull (verb)
English Meaning - lessen, decrease, diminish, ease, mitigate, moderate.
37.notion (noun)
English Meaning - idea, belief, concept, opinion, view.
38.enhanced (adjective)
English Meaning - improved, upgraded, strengthened.
39.surveillance (noun)
English Meaning - monitoring, observation, scrutiny, inspection.
40.manpower (noun)
English Meaning - employees, workers, workforce, personnel, human resources.
41.infrastructure (noun)
English Meaning - the basic physical or organisational structure or framework that a country or organization needs in order to function properly. For a whole nation, it includes all the physical systems such as buildings, roads & railways networks, utilities, etc.
42.reek of (verb)
English Meaning - be indicative of something (unpleasant/undesirable).
43.evolve (verb)
English Meaning - develop, progress, advance gradually; alter, change, transform.
44.shade (noun)
English Meaning - nuance, difference, variation, variety; subtlety.
45.characteristic (noun)
English Meaning - attribute, feature, aspect, quality.
46.impact (noun)
English Meaning - effect, influence; result/consequence.
47.deadly (adjective)
English Meaning - fatal, lethal, life-threatening.
48.drive (verb)
English Meaning - cause something to happen; prompt.
49.delta variant/B.1.617.2 (noun)
English Meaning - Formally known as AY.2 or B.1.617.2, it’s a variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, is renamed as the ‘Delta variant’ by the World Health Organization (WHO) and this variant is reclassified as Variant of Concern (VOC). The B.1.617.1 strain has been reclassified to a Variant of Interest (VOI) and labelled variant “Kappa”.
50.result in (phrasal verb)
English Meaning - cause, bring on, bring about.
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