1. MOLLIFY (Verb) : अनुकूल करना
Meaning: appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).
Synonyms: appease, placate, pacify, conciliate
Antonyms: aggravate, agitate, intensify
Example: She managed to mollify the angry customer.
2. CULT (Noun) : सम्प्रदाय
Meaning: a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
Synonyms: sect, denomination, faith, belief
Example: The movie was sure to become a cult classic, it had all the markings of a movie that people would mock for year to come.
3. OBFUSCATE (Verb) : अस्पष्ट
Meaning: make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
Synonyms: obscure, confuse, blur, muddle
Antonyms: clarify
Example: Because I am a sympathetic teacher, I avoid using language which will obfuscate my students.
4. BANAL (Adjective) : तुच्छ या मामूली
Meaning: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Synonyms: trite, hackneyed, conventional, stereotyped, predictable,
Antonyms: new, original
Example: Because the movie’s plot was banal, we knew exactly how the film would end.
5. NOCTURNAL (Adjective) : निशाचर
Meaning: done, occurring, or active at night.
Synonyms: nightly, nighttime
Example: Because I sleep all night, I do not consider myself to be a nocturnal person.
6. SANCTIMONIOUS (Adjective) : पाखंडी
Meaning: making a show of being morally superior to other people.
Synonyms: churchy, pious, moralizing, unctuous, smug,
Antonyms: sincere, forthright
Example: My sanctimonious aunt tends to look down upon people who do not go to church every Sunday.
7. EFFETE (Adjective) : अशक्त, क्षीण
Meaning: affected, over-refined, and ineffectual.
Synonyms: affected, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious
Antonyms: unpretentious
Example: The effete man was scared of his own shadow and hid in the closet during thunderstorms.
8. IMMINENT (Adjective) : निकटस्थ
Meaning: about to happen.
Synonyms: close, near, approaching, forthcoming
Antonyms: distant, remote
Example: Some people thought it was funny when the media predicted the imminent death of the drug-addicted celebrity.
9. INADVERTENT (Adjective) : असावधान
Meaning: not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning.
Synonyms: unintended, accidental, unpremeditated, unplanned,
Antonyms: deliberate, intentional
Example: I wonder how many inadvertent inventions were developed in the process of trying to discover something totally different.
10. ENSUE (Verb) : परिणाम निकलना
Meaning: happen or occur afterwards or as a result.
Synonyms: result, follow, arise, emerge
Antonyms: cease, disregard, repress, precede
Example: Once the defense attorney makes his final statement, jury deliberations will ensue.
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