Example/उदाहरण: The Army on Friday said five more armed infiltrators were killed in Baramulla’s Uri sector near the Line of Control, taking the death toll of militants to 12 in operations since Tuesday night.
1. Infiltrator [in-fil-treyt-er]=घुसपैठिया
- Noun: The one who infiltrates.
- Synonym: spy, mole.
2. Toll [tohl]=राहदारी
- Noun: a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge; the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity.
- Synonyms: cost, expense, levy, payment, price, rate.
Example/उदाहरण: A major tragedy was averted after an Air India plane from Delhi with 134 passengers on board suffered a brake failure on landing here and skidded beyond the runway before coming to a halt at the end of the strip.
3. Skid [skid] =बैठकी
- Noun: a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along; one of a number of such logs or timbers forming a skidway.
- Synonyms: drift, glide, slip, swerve, veer, move.
3. Halt [hawlt]=पड़ाव
- Verb: to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily; to cause to stop temporarily or permanently; bring to a stop.
- Noun: a temporary or permanent stop.
- Synonyms: cutoff, freeze, interruption, layoff, letup, pause, standstill.
- Antonyms: continuation, beginning, , t, endurance, go.
5. Strip [strip] =कपड़े उतारना
- Verb: to deprive of covering; to deprive of clothing; make bare or naked; to take away or remove.
- Synonyms: band, bar, belt, bit, fillet, layer, ribbon.
- Antonym: whole.
Example/उदाहरण: Footfall of tourists from Gujarat to the Kashmir Valley has fallen significantly this year.
6. Footfall [foo t-fawl]=चाल
- Noun: a footstep; the sound of footsteps.
- Synonyms: stride, footprint, footstep, gait, impression, mark.
Example/उदाहरण: Tourism players in Kashmir blame “negative campaign” by right wing groups on the social media, besides the unrest, for the 85% slump in the sector.
7. Slump [sluhmp]=अकस्मात पतन
- Verb: to drop or fall heavily; collapse; to assume a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture.
- Synonyms: collapse, crash, depreciation, dip, downtrend, downturn.
- Antonyms: ascent, increase, rise, blessing, boon, happiness.
Example/उदाहरण: This year it has come down to a trickle,” Farooq Kuthoo, secretary-general of the Travel Agents’ Association of Kashmir, told The Hindu.
8. Trickle [trik-uh l]=बूंद-बूंद कर बहना,टपकना
- Verb: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream; to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly.
- Synonyms: crawl, creep, dribble, flow, leak, ooze.
- Antonyms: pour, flow.
Example/उदाहरण: Counting the strides.
9. Stride [strahyd] =छलाँग
- Verb: to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance; to take a long step; to straddle.
- Synonyms: stalk, stomp, traipse, tramp, clump, drill, march.
Example/उदाहरण: No one would deny that Pakistan is a particularly misogynistic country, where patriarchal relations and attitudes discriminate heavily against women.
10. Misogynistic [mi-soj-uh-nis-tik, mahy‐] =महिलाओं से घृणा करने वाला
- Adjective: reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
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