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1) exigencies (noun) – एक तत्काल आवश्यकता या मांग
Meaning: an urgent need or demand.
Synonyms: need demand requirement want necessity essential requisite
Antonyms: frivolousness, triviality, levity, flightiness
Usage: But here, at home, some courts have not found the time to seek an
explanation for the police brutality writ large, but heartlessly shrouded in the
exigencies of the Covid-19 lockdown.
2) shrouded (verb) – आवरण या दृश्य से छिपाना
Meaning: cover or envelop so as to conceal from view.
Synonyms: swathe, cloak, obscure disguise
Antonyms: conspicuous, stand out,
Usage: But here, at home, some courts have not found the time to seek an
explanation for the police brutality writ large, but heartlessly shrouded in the
exigencies of the Covid-19 lockdown.
3) aggrieved (adj) – असंतुष्ट, व्यथित, पीड़ाग्रस्त
Meaning: feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated.
Synonyms: resentful, affronted, indignant, disgruntled, discontented, distressed,
anguished
Antonyms: pleased, soothe, placid
Usage: Far from reaching out to the aggrieved student body, the police have
issued notices to dozens of them a
4) cavil (verb) – दोष ढूंढना
Meaning: make petty or unnecessary objections.
Synonyms: complain, grouse, grouch, condemn, decry
Antonyms: sanction, endorse
Usage: There can be no cavil with that proposition.
5) dereliction (noun) – परित्यक्ति
Meaning: The state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated.
Synonyms: Decrepitude, negligence, delinquent,
Antonyms: Fulfillment, satisfied,
Usage: Former Supreme Court judges took public transport to visit the affected
areas and pointed out clear dereliction of duty by the police
6) browbeat (verb) – धमकाना
Meaning: intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or
abusive words.
Synonyms: bludgeon, intimidate, domineer, subjugate
Antonyms: hamper, impede, hinder,
Usage: The investigation officers are reportedly browbeating innocent political
activists to surrender
7) spree (noun) – अनर्गल गतिविधि का एक जादू या निरंतर अवधि
Meaning: a spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of a particular kind.
Synonyms: Splurge, binge
Antonyms: rest, disturbance,
Usage: Governments are on a law-making spree
8) missives (noun) – समाचार, बुलेटिन, घोषणा
Meaning: a letter, especially a long or official one.
Synonyms: news, bulletin, announcement.
Antonyms: neglect, silence
Usage: Elon musk’s latest missives on the social media network was his demand to
break up Amazon
9) apportioned (verb)- विभाजित
Meaning: divide up and share out.
Synonyms: handout, allocate, assign
Antonyms: amass, reassemble, gather, consolidate, concentrate
Usage: But the fluidic contiguity ( mearby) of peoPioneerple, who chased
ambition in one and a comfortable living in the other, has meant that they got
blended in a concept called the National Capital Region or (NCR). In other words,
lives were apportioned among these extended territories around the power capital.
10) preemptive (verb) – रिक्तिपूर्व
Meaning: taken as a measure against something possible,
Synonyms: deterrent, protective, precautionary.
Antonyms: permissive, vulnerable, impuissant
Usage: After the LG’s intervention, the Chief Minister and his deputy, Manish
Sisodia, reiterated (say something again) the argument and preemptively
sought to wash their hands of the worsening situation.
