Shape Up your Vocabulary from Newspaper Wordlist - 24th 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.

Today’s article, 'Superpower dreams: On how India must respond to a low HDI rank’ has been picked from The Hindu.

This article talks about India’s response to a low Human Development Index (HDI) rank which is a concern for good education and a higher health outlay.

To read more, you can go through the article from the link below - 

Superpower dreams: On how India must respond to a low HDI rank

Challenging Words in the Article -

• Trajectory (प्रक्षेपवक्र) - Noun
  Meaning - the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces
  Synonyms - curve, orbit
  Example - The missile’s trajectory shows it is headed for the continental United States.
• Inheritance (विरासत) - Noun
  Meaning - a thing that is inherited
  Synonyms - legacy, endowment
  Example - I have an inheritance, but I can’t touch the money until I turn twenty-one.
• Aviation (विमानन) - Noun
  Meaning - the flying or operating of aircraft
  Synonyms - navigation, flight
  Example - The aviation industry is in a constant state of change and the future appears uncertain.
• Bolstered (बल मिला) - Verb
  Meaning - support or strengthen
  Synonyms - reinforce, support
  Antonyms - block, decrease
  Example - Free tickets were given away to bolster attendance at the game.
• Crucial (महत्वपूर्ण) - Adjective
  Meaning - decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something
  Synonyms - critical, decisive
  Antonyms - minor, insignificant
  Example - Eating right is a crucial part of controlling diabetes.
• Metric (मीट्रिक) - Adjective
  Meaning - relating to or based on the metre as a unit of length
  Synonyms - cadent, measured
  Example - All measurements are given in metric form.
• Ratified (पुष्टि की) - Verb
  Meaning - sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid
  Synonyms - approve, establish
  Antonyms - deny, destroy
  Example - The shareholders will ratify any merger that will increase their dividends.
• Lacuna (कमी) - Noun
  Meaning - an unfilled space, a gap
  Synonyms - gap, space
  Antonyms - closure, misfortune
  Example - The lacuna is his presentation was quite noticeable.

 Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following - 

• What does the Human Development Index tell us? What are the criteria for a country to be included in the HDI?
• Can the HDI indicators be adapted to compute the HDI at the country level? State with 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.

• Reforms 
• Persist
• Steady 
• Eliminate