Hi friends, in this post we are sharing with you the Hindu Vocabulary – 10 May 2021 based on the editorials published in The Hindu Newspaper dated 10 May 2021. Everyday, The Hindu covers two editorials on the aspects of National/International events of importance and covers a plethora of useful words. This will be not only be useful in improving your vocabulary, but also for competitive examinations.
The Hindu Vocabulary – 10 May 2021
- augment – to make something larger or fuller by adding something to it
Hindu Usage: State shutdowns are inevitable, but they must be used to augment the health system.
2. calamitous – causing great damage or suffering
Hindu Usage: Several States have done the inevitable, going into a strict lockdown for a fortnight to arrest India’s calamitous descent into COVID-19 hell since mid-March.
3. exhausted – extremely tired
Hindu usage: For an exhausted medical community, staggering under the weight of over 37 lakh active COVID-19 cases and a severe shortage of medical oxygen and drugs, the pause in activity comes as a life saver.
4. incumbent – [it is incumbent on] – someone has a duty or responsibility to do something
Hindu usage: A drop in the vaccination rate poses a serious challenge, and it is incumbent on the Centre to arrange for vaccine imports or augment domestic production to scale it up.
5. frittered away – [fritter away something] – to waste money, time, or an opportunity
Hindu Usage: Without such progress, the lockdowns may yield only small gains, since the opportunity to build the systems to handle another surge would have been frittered away, again.
6. usurp – to take control of a position of power, especially without having the right to
Hindu Usage: As long as the court does not usurp executive’s role, action to mitigate a crisis is welcome
7. apotheosis – the best or most extreme example of something
Hindu usage: Judicial intervention in response to the Union government’s flailing response to the health crisis has reached its apotheosis with the Supreme Court order forming a 12-member national task force for the effective and transparent allocation of medical oxygen to the States and Union Territories “on a scientific, rational and equitable basis”.
8. calibrate – carefully assessed, set, or adjusted.
Hindu Usage: The Supreme Court declined to stay the order, describing it as a careful and calibrated one.
9. flak – strong criticism or opposition
Eg: It cannot be forgotten that the judiciary drew much flak last year for its initial failure to mitigate the crisis set off by the lack of succour to millions of migrant workers.
10. mitigate – to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
11. suo motu – relating to an action taken by a court of its own accord, without any request by the parties involved
Eg: Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who heads the Bench hearing the suo motu proceedings, has clarified that the Court was not usurping the executive’s role, but only wanted to facilitate a dialogue among stakeholders.