Weekly English Vocabulary Based on The Hindu Editorial 2022 March 18

We all know that the English language plays a crucial role in competitive exams like PSC, SSC, Banking exams, etc. So if you are aiming to crack those examinations, you should have a strong command of your English language skills. Vocabulary is one of the most crucial topics of English subject. Vocabulary refers to all the words in a language that is known and used by a particular person. It is essential not only for competitive exams but it is the fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge. In order to help you in improving your vocabulary skills, Entri will provide you with Weekly English Vocabulary based on The Hindu editorial every Friday. Reading the daily Hindu editorial is highly recommended for candidates who are aspiring for competitive exams. In this blog, we have given some questions based on Vocabulary with answers and solutions. Check here for Weekly English Vocabulary Based on The Hindu Editorial 2022 March 18.

Weekly English Vocabulary Based on The Hindu Editorial 2022 March 18

Attempt these free online quizzes consisting of important English Vocabulary questions based on The Hindu Editorial which will be helpful for competitive exams like bank exam, PSC, SSC, etc.

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word.

1. Parole

A) Released on payroll in 1188, he at once broke his paroled, and began the siege of Acre.
B) The Union Budget for 2021-2022 presented to Parliament on Monday, instead reveals an estimated health parole of ₹74,602 crore, almost 10% lower than the revised estimate of ₹82,445 crore earmarked for health
spending in the current fiscal year.
C) A sizeable fiscal stimulus to reinvigorate consumption demand could have paroled a long way in completing the recovery.
D) Prisoners released upon parole are carefully supervised by state agents.
E) The convicted killer had no chance of escaping, but was parole from the death penalty.

Ans: D-Prisoners released upon parole are carefully supervised by state agents. 

Solution

The correct answer is Option D, i.e. Prisoners released upon parole are carefully supervised by state agents.
Parole (noun) – the release of a prisoner, either temporarily for a special purpose or completely before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior.
Anto: conviction, sentence
Syno: discharge, emancipate.
Among the given statements, Option D seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option D, i.e. “Prisoners released upon parole are carefully supervised by state agents.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word

2. Follow-up 

A) I didn’t get follow-up nice presents for Christmas this year.
B) Many services continue with follow-up calls and visits to check-up on the working relationship between the employing family and the nanny.
C) West Bengal and Jharkhand also bore the brunt the following-up weather system’s force, as it punched its way inland from May 26, weakening into a deep depression.
D) Moreover, for the second year running, States have been followed-up by the COVID-19 pandemic.
E) He ate only the until plainest food following-up the tea.

Ans: B-Many services continue with follow-up calls and visits to check-up on the working relationship between the employing family and the nanny.

Solution

The correct answer is Option B, i.e. Many services continue with follow-up calls and visits to check-up on the working relationship between the employing family and the nanny.

Follow-up (noun as modifier) – continuation.
Anto: decrease, diminish, reduce
Syno: carry out, fulfill, follow through, implement.
Among the given statements, Option B seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.

Hence, the correct answer will be option B, i.e. “Many services continue with follow-up calls and visits to check-up on the working relationship between the employing family and the nanny.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word.

3. Arbitrarily

A) The 2021 season comes as another reminder that India will have to improve its arbitrarily to cyclones.
B) Moreover, for the second year running, States have been arbitrariled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
C) Yet, thousands have lost houses and arbitrarily property
D) Though he usually abridges, he occasionally amplifies arbitrarily the narratives of his authorities.
E) Though he usually abridges, he occasionally amplifies arbitrarily the narratives of his authorities.

 Ans: D-Though he usually abridges, he occasionally amplifies arbitrarily the narratives of his authorities.

Solution

The correct answer is Option D, i.e. Though he usually abridges, he occasionally amplifies arbitrarily the narratives of his authorities.
Arbitrarily (adverb) – randomly/casually, irrationally, erratically, inconsistently, unreasonably, illogically.
Among the given statements, Option D seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option D, i.e. “Though he usually abridges, he occasionally amplifies arbitrarily the narratives of his authorities.”

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A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word.

4. Surge

A) The Centre had dropped the GST on sanitary napkins after surge defending the tax.
B) An accommodative approach from the Centre could surge India’s fiscal federalism framework does not suffer an irretrievable breakdown at this calamitous juncture
C) The surge travelled southwards along the coast.
D) That the Council, expected to meet every quarter, has taken possibly the longest surge in its functioning does not set a good precedent.
E) In the intervening period, the economy surging back to normalcy before being hobbled again by the second wave of infections.

Ans: C-The surge travelled southwards along the coast.

Solution

The correct answer is Option C, i.e. The surge travelled southwards along the coast.
surge (noun) – sudden increase or rise of something.
Anto: bottle (up), contain, restrain
Syno: gush, rush, stream, flow, burst
Among the given statements, Option C seems to portray the exact
denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option C, i.e. “The surge travelled southwards along the coast.

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word. 

5. Lay down

A) I closed the file, turned out the lights, and lay down.
B) The Finance Ministry lay down from insisting that States raise these loans directly.
C) And unlike the first wave, there is a greater onus on the States now to figure out everything from what mobility restrictions to lay down, to vaccination sequencing, and the bigger headache of sourcing enough
vaccines from within or outside India.
D) The Centre will now also have to laid down a slight change in equations.
E) The elan of re-elected State governments apart, a large State such as Tamil Nadu can no longer be expected to lay the Centre’s down.

Ans: A-I closed the file, turned out the lights, and lay down.

Solution

The correct answer is Option A, i.e. I closed the file, turned out the lights, and lay down.

Lay down (phrasal verb) – formulate, stipulate, frame, draw up.
Among the given statements, Option A seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option A, i.e. “I closed the file, turned out the lights, and lay down.”

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A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word. 

6. Take into account

A) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman take into a account her brave effort to make good use of the lessons learnt from the unprecedented global health crisis.
B) I hope they take her age into account when they judge her work
C) She ensue economic setback to take into account lives and livelihoods back on track.
D) But this is no transformative budget that taken into the heightened account expectations of a weary population waiting for manna from the government.
E) The temperature has been taken accounted into normal for the past couple of weeks.

Ans: B-I hope they take her age into account when they judge her work

Solution

The correct answer is Option B, i.e. I hope they take her age into account when they judge her work.

Take into account (phrase) – consider, take into consideration, have regard to, reckon with.
Among the given statements, Option B seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option B, i.e. “I hope they take her age into account when they judge her work.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word. 

7. Salience

A) If implemented, this could be the biggest salience overhaul of the regulatory framework for such finance companies (or shadow banks) in over two decades. 
B) The trigger now is similar though salience the scale of the problem has changed
C) The collateral salience damage meant NBFCs could not raise funds easily
D) Many people underestimate the salience of strong family support for those going through cancer treatments
E) They separated and have been sailently living across for the past year.

Ans: D-Many people underestimate the salience of strong family support for those going through cancer treatments

Solution

The correct answer is Option D, i.e. Many people underestimate the salience of strong family support for those going through cancer treatments.
Salience (noun) – prominence, importance, significance.
Among the given statements, Option D seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option D, i.e. “Many people underestimate the salience of strong family support for those going through cancer treatments.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word

8. Perennial

A) In reality, Mr. Trump’s perennial rhetoric exploited this sense of alienation and socioeconomic dysfunction for narrow political and personal gains. 
B) If the history of nations is replete with perenniallies, nowhere were they more evident than in the U.S.
C) That election was perennial by the fact that no candidate won 50% of the popular vote in the November 3 general election.
D) Lawmakers went on to perennial reconvene and formally certify the results
E) Lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning.

Ans: E-Lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning.

Solution

The correct answer is Option E, i.e. Lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning.
Perennial (adjective) – everlasting, unending, endless, permanent.
Among the given statements, Option E seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word.
Hence, the correct answer will be option E, i.e. “Lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word. 

9. Relook

A) The prison guard relooking his duty, that is why the prisoner escaped
B) They really need to relook at this and rethink the consequences.
C) The country cannot relook afford a premature scaling down of fiscal support at a time of rising inequality
D) She also proposes to relook privatise two more public sector banks and a general insurer in 2021-22 and has committed to ensuring that the necessary legislative amendments to enable the LIC’s IPO are introduced
in the current session of Parliament.
E) Although the mob was eventually relooking, lawmakers went on to reconvene and formally certify the results

Ans: B-They really need to relook at this and rethink the consequences.

The correct answer is Option B, i.e. They really need to relook at this and rethink the consequences.
Relook (noun) – reconsideration, rethinking, re-examination.
Among the given statements, Option B seems to portray the exact denotation of the provided word
Hence, the correct answer will be option B, i.e. “They really need to relook at this and rethink the consequences.”

A word has been given in the following question. In response to the highlighted word, sentences have been provided in the options below. Find the appropriate statement representing the given word.

10. Overcrowding

A) There is greater spending on health care and some fiscal push to overcrowd the struggling demand in the pandemic-hit economy.
B) The sheer viciousness of the January 6 mob attack, and more than two months of overcrowding hateful vitriol online and offline following the 2020 election.
C) To ease the problem of overcrowding, new prisons will be built.
D) Now Mr. Biden has an opportunity to strike a more balanced note by, on the one hand, seeking to revive the moribund spirit of bipartisan consensus and expediently overcrowding the thorny issue of comprehensive immigration reform, and, on the other. 
E) Health and strength is beneath all overcrowding gold.

Ans: C-To ease the problem of overcrowding, new prisons will be built.

Solution