♦️Daily Vocab part 23♦️

✅221). Hedge (Noun)
👉Definition: a way of protecting oneself against 
financial loss or other adverse circumstances.
👉Synonyms: 
safeguard, protection, shield, screen, guard, buffer, cus
hion
👉Usage: index-linked gilts are a useful hedge against 
inflation

✅222). Crucial (Adjective)
👉Definition: decisive or critical, especially in the 
success or failure of something
👉Synonyms: pivotal, critical, key, climacteric, decisive, 
deciding, determining
👉Usage: negotiations were at a crucial stage

✅223). Undue (Adjective)
👉Definition: unwarranted or inappropriate because 
excessive or disproportionate
👉Synonyms: excessive, extreme, immoderate, 
intemperate, disproportionate
👉Usage: this figure did not give rise to undue concern

✅224). Auction (Noun)
👉Definition: the part of the play in which players bid to 
decide the contract in which the hand shall be played
👉Synonyms: bargain, sell-off
👉Usage: Player’s auction is popular.

✅225). Ailing (Adjective)
👉Definition: in poor health
👉Synonyms: ill, unwell, not well, sick, sickly, poorly, 
weak, indisposed
👉Usage: I went to see my ailing mother

✅226). Patented (Verb)
👉Definition: obtain a patent for (an invention)
👉Synonyms: copyright, licence, legal 
protection, right, performing right, permit, privilege
👉Usage: an invention is not your own until it is 
patented

✅227). Heartening (Verb)
👉Definition: make more cheerful or confident
👉Synonyms: cheer up, cheer, raise someone's spirits, 
encourage, comfort, reassure
👉Usage: she was heartened to observe that the effect 
was faintly comic

✅228). Assault (Verb)
👉Definition: make a physical attack on.
👉Synonyms: hit, strike, physically attack, aim blows at, 
slap, smack, beat, thrash
👉Usage: he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer

✅229). Unsung (Adjective)
👉Definition: not celebrated or praised
👉Synonyms: unacknowledged, uncelebrated, 
unacclaimed, unapplauded, unpraised
👉Usage: Harvey is one of the unsung heroes of the 
industrial revolution

✅230). Dispenser (Noun)
👉Definition: an automatic machine or container which 
is designed to release a specific amount of something.
👉Synonyms: delivery, dealer
👉Usage: a paper towel dispenser