Meaning: to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, croak, fuss, gripe, grouch, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh,murmur, mutter, nag, scream, squawk, squeal
Antonyms: crow, delight, rejoice
Usage: Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair.
2. Devolve: (verb) गिरना
Meaning: to become worse or of less value
Synonyms: atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen
Antonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate
Usage: A conversation that devolved into an argument.
3. Stall: (verb) रोकना
Meaning: to bring (something) to a standstill
Synonyms: arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up, fetch up, halt, hold up, pull up, stay, still, stop
Antonyms: start (up)
Usage: If initiatives on the political front have been so stalled, efforts to revive the economy do not offer much promise either.
4. Sinister: (adjective) भयावह
Meaning: being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
Synonyms: baleful, dire, direful, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, threatening
Antonyms: unthreatening
Usage: The movie relies too much on sinister background music to create the suspense that the plot sorely lacks.
5. Concede: (verb) स्वीकार करना
Meaning: to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly
Synonyms: acknowledge, admit, agree, allow, confess,grant
Antonyms: deny
Usage: She grudgingly conceded his point.
6. Oaf: (noun) भद्दा
Meaning: a big clumsy often slow-witted person
Synonyms: clod, clodhopper, gawk, hulk, lout, lubber, lug, lump, Neanderthal
Antonyms: brain, genius
Usage: With the oaf’s foolish answer in class, everyone rolled their eyes and ignored any future answers he would say
7. Outlive: (verb) जीवित रहना
Meaning: to last longer than
Synonyms: outlast, outwear
Usage: Tortoises will outlive most people, as they live to be over 100 years old.
8. Frantically: (adverb) पागलपन
Meaning: in a confused and reckless manner
Synonyms: amok,berserk, berserkly, frenetically, frenziedly, hectically, madly, pell-mell, wild, wildly
Antonyms: calmly, collectedly, composedly,imperturbably, peacefully, placidly, self-composedly, self-possessedly, serenely, unconcernedly
Usage: The veterinarian ran frantically from room to room looking for the escaped hamster.
9. Melee: (noun) हाथापाई
Meaning: a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people
Synonyms: brawl, donnybrook, fracas, fray, free-for-all, rough-and-tumble, row, ruckus
Usage: A verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general melee involving scores of spectators.
10. Toil: (noun) कठिन परिश्रम
Meaning: very hard or unpleasant work
Synonyms: drudgery, grind, labor, slavery, sweat, travail
Antonyms: fun, play
Usage: After years of toil in a sweatshop, Kim was finally able to start her own business.
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