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1) Circumvent (noun) – चकमा देना या बिगाड़ना
Meaning To prevent from happening; To find a way around
Synonyms: dodge, evade, outwit, stop, thwart, foil
Antonyms: confront, encounter, encourage, face
Usage: It hopes crowd funding will circumvent these obstacles and create new
opportunities.
Mathematical procedures, such as Fourier deconvolution and derivation, have been
developed to circumvent this problem.
2) thaw (verb) – पिघलाना
Meaning To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid Make or become friendlier or more cordial
Synonyms: soften, dissolve, become, friendlier, loosen up
Antonyms: condense, assemble, coagulate, concentrate
Usage: Even during the brief periods of thaw there was little space for innovation, critique,
or the avant-garde.
3) daggers drawn (adj) – कट्टर शत्रु
Meaning If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an
argument and are still very angry with each other.
Usage: She and her mother were atdaggers drawn.
4) wean (noun) – छुड़ाना
Meaning Overpowering force
Synonyms: ancestor, begetter, detach, deter, discourage, dissuade
Antonyms: unite, join, marry, couple
Usage: Patients were screened daily using published guidelines for ability to wean from the
mechanical ventilator.
5) Revocation (noun) – प्रतिसंहरण
Meaning An act or instance of revoking
Synonyms: repeal, cancelation, abrogation, annulment, rescission, voiding, rescindment
Antonyms: continuation, approval, confirmation
Usage: The second violation would lead to temporary revocation of network privileges..
6) Flagrant (noun) – बुरी तरह से दुष्ट
Meaning done in an obvious way that shows you do not care if you
break rules or offend people; Horrifyingly wicked
Synonyms: outrageous, dreadful, enormous, shocking, atrocious, brazen, abominable
contemptible, despicable
Antonyms: obscure, arcane, abstruse, inconceivable
Usage: In flagrant violation of all existing legal principles, the detainee must then prove
his innocence.
7) Absolve (noun) – दोषमुक्त
Meaning The best of its kind or class; To remove from suspicion or guilt
Synonyms: acquit, exonerate, free, vindicate, discharge, exculpate
Antonyms: reprimand, rebuke, chide, scold, criticise, criticize, berate, admonish, chastise, indict
Usage: So I hereby absolve myself of guilt should he ever read this.
8) Inscrutable (Adj) – असंवेदनशील
Meaning Having a covert or obscure meaning; Impossible to understand or interpret
Synonyms: opaque, unfathomable, impenetrable, obscure, abstruse, ambiguous, baffling
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, accessible
Usage: Newspaper stories see the light of day for all sorts of strange
and inscrutable reasons.
9) Alacrity (Adj)- तत्परता
Meaning speed and eagerness
Synonyms: rapidness, rapidity, swiftness, quickness
Antonyms: dullness, inertia, lethargy, reluctance
Usage: Dillingham pointed out that in certain cases the FAA has acted with alacrity.
10) Infinitesimal (Adj) – बहुत छोटा
Meaning: incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute ; That cannot be observed
Synonyms: negligible, imperceptible, indiscernible
Antonyms: huge, enormous, large, astronomic
Usage: Let us conceive the zone in question to be divided into infinitesimal rings of equal
area.
