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Today’s article talks about the measures taken by the Delhi government to increase the recovery rate of covid-affected people.
The article title is: ‘HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri emerges as the highest paid banker’.
Did you find words that were absolutely new? Great! Below are the explanations given for some of those difficult words you found. Go through them slowly and don’t forget to do the exercises at the end.
Important words and idioms from the article
KICK-START
Verb
Pronunciation: kik-stahrt
Meaning: to begin or set-out
Synonyms: jump-start, reactivate, restart, revive, stimulate, spur, rouse, provoke
Antonyms: extinguish, kill, quench, suppress
Usage: Now that you feel better, let’s kick-start the journey
ENTAIL
Verb
Pronunciation: en-teyl
Meaning: to have as part of a whole
Synonyms: carry, comprehend, contain, embrace, encompass, include, involve, number, subsume, take in
Antonyms: exclude, leave (out), miss out, omit
Usage: The plan will entail leaving behind the non-essentials.
FISCAL
Noun
Pronunciation: fis-kuh l
Meaning: of or relating to money, banking, or investments
Synonyms: financial, monetary, pecuniary
Antonyms: nonfinancial
Usage: If I want to invest wisely, I need to gain some fiscal knowledge first.
Forms: Fiscal (adjective)
EMERGE
Verb
Pronunciation: ih-murj
Meaning: to come forth into view or notice
Synonyms: arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up), surface, appear
Antonyms: disappear ,depart, fade, recede, retreat, sink, submerge, wane
Usage: The sky turns pink as the sun emerges every dawn
Forms: Emergence (noun), Emerged/Emergent (Adjective)
NOVEL
Adjective
Pronunciation: nov-uhl
Meaning: not known or experienced before
Synonyms: fresh, new, original, strange, unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, unprecedented
Antonyms: familiar, hackneyed, old, time-honored, tired, warmed-over
Usage: The recently discovered virus is a novel form of the previously known ones
Forms: Novelty (noun)
Practice Questions
Q1) If the words ‘novel’ and ‘fresh’ make a perfect pair, select the correct pair from the following set of words following the same logic:
- Emerge-Arise
- Fiscal- Non-financial
- Entail-Exclude
- Kick-start- Kill
Q2) Create sentences of your own with the following words:
- Entail
- Emerge
- Kick-start
- Fiscal
- Novel
Tell us your answers in the comments below.
