Daily Star Vocab 22/08/25

 

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Featuring 30 relatively tough words from today's Daily Star articles:

Advanced Vocabulary from Current Affairs

30 challenging words extracted from recent news articles

#	Word	Part of Speech	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms	Example Sentence
1	Adversity	noun	Difficulties or misfortune	hardship, difficulty, misfortune, trouble	prosperity, fortune, success, advantage	She showed great resilience in the face of adversity.
2	Literacy	noun	Ability to read and write	education, knowledge, learning, proficiency	ignorance, illiteracy, unawareness, incompetence	Financial literacy is essential for making sound money decisions.
3	Liabilities	noun	Financial debts or obligations	debts, obligations, responsibilities, burdens	assets, advantages, resources, strengths	The company's liabilities exceeded its assets.
4	Compensation	noun	Payment for work or to make up for something	payment, remuneration, recompense, restitution	loss, penalty, deprivation, forfeiture	He received financial compensation for his overtime work.
5	Empowering	adjective	Giving power or confidence to	enabling, strengthening, encouraging, inspiring	disempowering, weakening, discouraging, inhibiting	Opening a bank account can be an empowering experience for young people.
6	Ikigai	noun	Japanese concept meaning "reason for being"	purpose, passion, mission, calling	aimlessness, purposelessness, pointlessness, meaninglessness	Finding your ikigai can bring fulfillment to your life.
7	Intersection	noun	Point where things meet or cross	junction, crossing, convergence, meeting point	divergence, separation, division, detachment	Her career was at the intersection of technology and art.
8	Resilience	noun	Ability to recover from difficulties	toughness, perseverance, endurance, fortitude	fragility, weakness, vulnerability, sensitivity	Yoga can help build mental resilience and clarity.
9	Exasperated	adjective	Intensely irritated and frustrated	frustrated, annoyed, irritated, aggravated	pleased, calm, content, satisfied	She was exasperated by the constant delays.
10	Autonomous	adjective	Self-governing or independent	independent, self-governing, self-ruling, sovereign	dependent, controlled, subordinate, subject	Universities should be autonomous in their academic decisions.
11	Dilapidated	adjective	In a state of disrepair or ruin	decayed, crumbling, run-down, deteriorated	renovated, restored, maintained, pristine	Many community clinics are housed in dilapidated buildings.
12	Indispensable	adjective	Absolutely necessary or essential	essential, crucial, vital, necessary	dispensable, unnecessary, nonessential, superfluous	Community clinics are indispensable for rural healthcare.
13	Collusion	noun	Secret cooperation for deceitful purposes	conspiracy, complicity, intrigue, collaboration	opposition, resistance, conflict, competition	The probe revealed collusion between officials and illegal miners.
14	Rampant	adjective	Spreading unchecked or widespread	uncontrolled, widespread, prevalent, unrestrained	controlled, restrained, limited, checked	Corruption was rampant in the mineral extraction industry.
15	Entrenched	adjective	Firmly established and difficult to change	established, ingrained, rooted, fixed	superficial, temporary, changeable, flexible	The business of illegal extraction has become entrenched in the region.
16	Plunder	verb/noun	To steal goods forcibly; loot	loot, pillage, rob, ransack	protect, guard, preserve, conserve	The systematic plunder of natural resources continued for years.
17	Impunity	noun	Exemption from punishment or harm	immunity, exemption, exception, freedom	accountability, responsibility, liability, answerability	Perpetrators of campus abuse have continued with impunity.
18	Apathy	noun	Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern	indifference, unconcern, passivity, lethargy	interest, enthusiasm, concern, passion	A sense of insecurity has fueled political apathy among students.
19	Vociferously	adverb	In a loud and forceful manner	loudly, vehemently, stridently, clamorously	quietly, softly, silently, meekly	They argued vociferously for electoral reforms.
20	Franchise	noun	Right to vote in public elections	suffrage, vote, ballot, enfranchisement	disenfranchisement, prohibition, exclusion, restriction	Citizens exercised their franchise in the national elections.
21	Proportional	adjective	Corresponding in size or amount	commensurate, corresponding, equivalent, comparable	disproportionate, unequal, inconsistent, irregular	The party advocated for a proportional representation system.
22	Territorial	adjective	Relating to ownership of area or space	regional, zonal, areal, spatial	universal, global, general, nonterritorial	Single gates become territorial markers on university campuses.
23	Monopolize	verb	To have exclusive control over something	dominate, control, corner, hog	share, distribute, allocate, apportion	No group should be able to monopolize movement on campus.
24	Surveillance	noun	Close observation, especially of suspects	observation, monitoring, scrutiny, watch	privacy, secrecy, confidentiality, concealment	The architecture should ensure safety without obvious surveillance.
25	Ambush	noun/verb	Surprise attack from a concealed position	trap, surprise attack, ambuscade, waylaying	retreat, withdrawal, openness, transparency	Narrow corridors make ambush easy on university campuses.
26	Kowtowing	verb	Acting in an excessively subservient manner	submitting, yielding, groveling, bowing	resisting, defying, opposing, confronting	She was accused of kowtowing to foreign leaders.
27	Integrity	noun	Honesty and strong moral principles	honesty, probity, rectitude, uprightness	dishonesty, corruption, deceit, immorality	Ministers are expected to maintain evident integrity.
28	Controversial	adjective	Causing disagreement or discussion	contentious, disputed, debatable, polemical	uncontroversial, undisputed, accepted, agreeable	Her father was a controversial but influential former leader.
29	Allegations	noun	Claims that someone has done something wrong	accusations, charges, claims, assertions	denials, exonerations, vindications, absolutions	She faced allegations of misconduct in her handling of foreign affairs.
30	Coalition	noun	Alliance of parties or groups	alliance, partnership, union, bloc	separation, division, schism, rift	The main partner in her ruling coalition walked out in protest.