Daily Vocab From The Hindu -26-March-2017

1. revel-आनंद लेना, 

enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing

make merry, have a party, carouse, roister, go on a spree, party, live it up, whoop it up, make whoopee, rave, paint the town red, delight in, love, like, adore, be pleased by, take pleasure in, appreciate, relish, lap up, savor, get a kick out of, jollify, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, wassail.

Ex-  Kuldeep trips Aussies even as Smith revels with a ton.

2.snook-चिढ़ानाplace one's hand so that the thumb touches one's nose and the fingers are spread out, in order to express contempt.

Ex- Debutant cocks a snook at the visitors.

3.fructify-फलवान होना, फलित होना

Gandhi's dream of non-violent world-order can not fructify unless there is a qualitative transformation of leaders of nations and peoples.

4.captivity-कैद

confinement, internment, incarceration, detention, custody, imprisonment, immurement

The species was chosen because they are better suited to relatively higher temperatures and adapt themselves well to life in captivity

5 facile-सहज, सरल, सुगम

superficial, oversimplified, shallow, glib, jejune, naive, dime-store, easy, undemanding, unexacting, painless, trouble-free

.it would be facile to conclude that the Indian voter is changing, and development now makes a more compelling case for the electorate than old-school politics of caste and community

6. motif -आकृति, मूल भाव, विशेष लक्षण

pattern, decoration, figure, shape, device, emblem, ornament, idea, concept, subject, topic, leitmotif, element, through line

In fact, they are often not necessarily seen as ‘criminals’ but as ‘toughs’ who protect society and provide public goods, stepping in when the state machinery creaks to a halt. In a way, this motif of a local hero who steps out of convention to cater to immediate social needs reminds one of localised divinities who abound across India.

7. accrue- वृद्धि होना, arise from, follow from, ensue from, be caused by, attend

These ‘small’ divinities — from Aiyyanaar in Tamil Nadu, Jhunjharji Maharaj in Rajasthan, Kail Bisht in Uttarakhand, Jasma Odan in Gujarat — who are often removed from the ‘high’ philosophical traditions also accrue their worth in the social imagination as prolific ‘doers’ who defend the social order.