Daily Vocabulary 2022 March 15 Hindu

1. COVID jab for 12­-14 age group from tomorrow

        Jab: poke roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed.

2. The decision was taken after due deliberations with scientific bodies.

        Deliberations: long and careful consideration or discussion.


3. He urged families to ensure the vaccination of children.

        Urge: try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something.

4. Central bank sets caveat that rates should not be usurious.

        Caveat: a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.

        Usurious: A usurious price or rate of interest is one that is unfairly high

5. Judge recuses from hearing ED’s plea in INX Media case.

        Recuse: (of a judge) excuse oneself from a case because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

6. Police personnel, barged in the house.

        Barge: move forcefully or roughly.

7. Bihar CM, Speaker spar over conduct of House.

        Spar: argue with someone without marked hostility.

8. The Congress has precluded the possibility of any honest conversation.

        Preclude: prevent from happening; make impossible.

9. There has been simmering discontent over it.

        Simmering: show or feel barely suppressed anger or other strong emotion.

        Discontent: dissatisfaction

10. Nod for J&K Budget amid spat over Pandits’ exodus.

        Spat: a quarrel about an unimportant matter.

        Exodus: a mass departure of people

11. The Jammu and Kashmir Budget 2022-23 was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday amid much acrimony.

        Acrimony: bitterness or ill feeling.

12. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will head to Moscow on Tuesday, his Ministry said, days after negotiations to salvage the Iran nuclear deal stalled amid new Russian demands.

        Salvage: retrieve or preserve (something) from potential loss or adverse circumstances.

        Stalled: stop or cause to stop making progress.

13. Karunaratne’s century shows the Lankans have the stomach for a fight.

        To have stomach for a fight: to have enough determination to do something unpleasant or dangerous

14. “As a team we did well in patches,” he said at the postmatch presentation. “But we couldn’t capitalise on those and go big.

        In patches: in some parts only.

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