Daily Vocabulary from The Hindu dated 8 June 2017

Daily Vocabulary from The Hindu dated 8 June 2017

1.     Prenuptial agreement (noun): an agreement made by a couple before they got married in which they say how their money property is to be divided if they get divorced.

2.     Compendium (noun): a collection of facts, drawing and photographs on a particular subject especially in a book.

3.     Anachronism (noun): a person, a custom or an idea that seems old-fashioned and does not belong to the present; something that is placed, for example in a book or play, in the wrong period of history; Adjective: Anachronistic ·        The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world. ·        She said nuclear weapons were an anachronism in the post cold war era. ·        The consumers were anachronistic for a Victorian play.

4.     Consummate (adjective): extremely skilled, perfect; ·        She was a consummate performer. ·        A consummate liar. Consummate (verb): to make a marriage or relationship complete by having sex; to make  something complete or perfect; ·        The marriage lasted only a week and was never consummated.

5.     Egalitarian (adjective): based on or holding, the belief that everyone one is equal and should have equal rights and opportunities; ·        An egalitarian society. ·        He described himself as ‘egalitarian’.

6.     Pre-empt (verb): to prevent something from happening by taking action to stop it; to do or say  something before somebody else does; to replace a planned a program on TV; ·        A good training course will pre-empt many problems. ·        The government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt. ·        She was about to apologize when he pre-empted her.

7.     Vehemently (adjective): showing very strong feelings, especially anger;      Synonym: forceful ·        She had been vehement in her opposition to the idea.      Noun: Vehemence ·        She was surprised by the vehemence of his reply.      Adverb : Vehemently ·        The charge was vehemently denied.

8.     Sternly (adjective): serious and often disapproving; expecting somebody to obey you; serious and difficult;      Synonym : Strict ·        Her voice was stern. ·        The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime. ·        We face stern opposition.      Noun: the back end of a ship or boat.

9.     Haul (verb): to pull something/somebody with lot of effort; to force somebody to go somewhere they do not want to go; to make somebody appear in the court in order to be judged; ·        Fishermen were hauling in their nets. ·        He reached down and hauled her up onto the ledge. ·        The creature began to haul itself out of the water.      Noun: a large amount of something that has been stolen or that is illegal; a large number of points, goals, etc., ; the distance covered in a particular journey; a quantity of fish caught at one time; ·        The thieves got away with a record haul of $25 million. ·        When I haul, gave a haul on the rope. ·        The biggest ever haul of illegal drugs.      Synonym : tug, pull, draw, drag, tow