- Noun: vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism; a quarrel, struggle, or clash; competition or rivalry.
- Synonyms: animosity, bickering, clash, conflict, controversy, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, disunity, fighting, friction, quarrel, rivalry, squabble, warfare, wrangle, wrangling, affray.
- Antonyms: accord, agreement, concurrence, harmony.
2. Lethal [lee-thuh l] =घातक
- Adjective: of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal; made or carried out to cause death; causing great harm or destruction.
Example/उदाहरण: As global leaders, India and the U.S. resolve to work together to eradicate this scourge,” Mr. Mattis said.
3. Scourge [skurj] =दंड
- Noun: a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture; a person or thing that applies or administers punishment or severe criticism; a cause of affliction or calamity.
- Verb: to whip with a scourge; lash; to punish, chastise, or criticize severely.
- Synonyms: curse, pest, terror, affliction, bane, correction, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pestilence, punishment, visitation.
- Antonyms: reward, advantage, benefit, blessing.
Example/उदाहरण: “There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, and the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law,” Tennyson wrote in his work, ‘Locksley Hall’, spelling out his vision for a world where the “war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle flags were furled.”
4. Fretful [fret-fuh l] =चिड़चिड़ा
- Adjective: disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- Synonyms: captious, carping, caviling, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy, mean, ornery, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish, splenetic, testy.
- Antonyms: calm, cheered, easy-going, happy.
5. Realm [relm] =प्रदेश
- Noun: a royal domain; kingdom; the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates; the special province or field of something or someone.
- Synonyms: dimension, domain, field, sphere, territory, world, branch, compass, country, department, dominion, empire, expanse, extent, ground, kingdom, land, monarchy, neighborhood.
- Antonym: sky.
Example/उदाहरण: Of paramount interest?
6. Paramount [par-uh-mount] =ऊंचे दर्जे का
- Adjective: chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent; above others in rank or authority; superior in power or jurisdiction.
- Noun: a supreme ruler; overlord.
- Synonyms: outstanding, predominant, preeminent, ascendant, capital, cardinal, chief, commanding, controlling, crowning, dominant, eminent, first, foremost, headmost.
- Antonyms: inferior, unimportant, last, least.
Example/उदाहरण: “We are a world in pieces, we need to be a world at peace,” he said, listing the world’s seven biggest threats: nuclear peril, terrorism, unresolved conflicts and violations of international humanitarian law, climate change, growing inequality, cyber warfare and misuse of artificial intelligence, and human mobility, or refugees.
7. Peril [per-uh l] =जोखिम
- Noun: exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger; something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction.
- Verb: to expose to danger; imperil; risk.
- Synonyms: hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, menace, pitfall, uncertainty, vulnerability, endangerment, exposure, liability, openness, cause for alarm, double trouble, risky business.
- Antonyms: certainty, protection, safety, safeness.
Example/उदाहरण: Even the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, against which the U.S. and Russia united to pass a slew of economic, political and travel sanctions in the 1990s, didn’t change course on its support to al-Qaeda or its brutal treatment of women and minorities.
8. Slay [sley] =टूटना
- Verb: to kill by violence; to destroy; extinguish.
- Synonyms: assassinate, butcher, destroy, dispatch, execute, exterminate, massacre, murder, slaughter, annihilate, do, down, eliminate, erase, finish, hit, liquidate, neutralize, snuff, waste, cut off, do away with.
- Antonyms: bear, create, give birth, build.
Example/उदाहरण: The truth is that sanctions do not work on rogue states; they only help isolate their populations from the world, which in turn tightens the regime’s stranglehold on its people, and strengthens its resolve to disregard the UN.
9. Rogue [rohg] =दुष्ट
- Noun: a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel; a playfully mischievous person; scamp; a tramp or vagabond; a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
- Verb: to live or act as a rogue; to cheat; to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard); to perform this operation upon.
- Synonyms: con artist, crook, rascal, swindler, villain, blackguard, charlatan, cheat, cheater, criminal, defrauder, devil, fraud, heel, hooligan, lowlife, mischief.
10. Stranglehold [strang-guh l-hohld] =शिकंजा
- Noun: an illegal hold by which an opponent’s breath is choked off; a restraining hold in which one person uses an arm to encircle the neck of another; a chokehold; any force or influence that restricts the free actions or development of a person or thing; a stifling grip.
- Synonyms: grip, monopoly, restrict, suppress.
