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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 22nd March 2017

Good Morning Everyone..!!
We are here with your Daily dose of Challenging Wordlist. Consider the given newspaper article as a Comprehension for your exams and do answer the questions at the end.
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Today’s article, 'Afforestation: money on the trees’ has been picked from Down to Earth.

This article talks about the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (caf) Act, 2016 paased by the parliament. It will facilitate make available more than Rs. 6,000 crores per annum and these Funds will be primarily spent on afforestation to compensate for loss of forest cover, regeneration of forest ecosystem, wildlife protection and infrastructure development.
To read more, you can go through the article from the link below - 

Afforestation: money on the trees

Challenging Words in the Article -

  • Diluted (जलमिश्रित) - Verb
    Meaning -
     make (something) weaker in force, content, or value by modification or the addition of other elements
    Synonyms - 
    diminish, reduce
    Antonyms - strong, enriched
    Example -
     The reforms have been diluted.
  • Dwellers (वनवासी) - Noun
    Meaning - 
    a person or animal that lives in or at a specified place
    Synonyms -
     resident, inhabitant
    Example - 
    Without a dweller, the house was empty for several months.
  • Shoddy (तुच्छ) 
    Meaning - 
    badly made or done (Adjective)
    an inferior quality yarn or fabric made from the shredded fibre of waste woollen cloth or clippings (Noun)
    Synonyms 
    - inferior, crude
    Antonyms - noble, refined
    Example - 
    The shoddy toy was broken when it arrived in the mail.
  • Indigenous (स्वदेशी) - Adjective
    Meaning - 
    originating or occurring naturally in a particular place, native
    Synonyms - 
    domestic, endemic
    Antonyms - alien, foreign
    Example - 
    The marine scientists were confused when they found a species of fish that was not indigenous to the ocean water.
  • Enactment (कानून) - Noun
    Meaning - 
    the process of passing legislation
    Synonyms - 
    execution, depiction
    Antonyms - failure, neglect
    Example -
     The mayor is likely to enact a curfew to limit the number of people on the streets during the riots.
  • Avenues (रास्ते) - Noun
    Meaning - 
    a broad road in a town or city, typically having trees at regular intervals along its sides
    Synonyms - 
    line, path
    Antonyms - egress, refusal
    Example - 
    We walked along an avenue lined with trees.
  • Sequestration (ज़ब्ती) - Noun
    Meaning - 
    the action of sequestrating or taking legal possession of assets
    Synonyms - 
    aloofness, solitude
    Antonyms - togetherness
    Example - 
    The judge ordered detectives to sequester the witness in a safe house.
  • Nascent (आरम्भ होता हुआ) - Adjective
    Meaning - 
    (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential
    Synonyms - 
    fledgling, incipient
    Antonyms - dying, withering
    Example - 
    Currently, there are no families living in the nascent community that was just built around the corner.
 Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following - 
  • Examine the significance the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (caf) Act, 2016?
  • Is National Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) synonymous to the concept of ‘Green India’? Give reasons.
Given below are some words to check your vocabulary you can make sentences with those words in the comment section which will be reviewed by us.
  • Autonomy 
  • Mandated 
  • Incentive 
  • Grabbing 
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