Example/उदाहरण: Seshasayee hits back at Murthy. Says charges are false and slanderous.
1. Slander [slan-der]-बदनामी/अपवाद
Noun/संज्ञा: defamation; calumny; a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report; Law. defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
Verb/क्रिया: to utter slander against; defame.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: defamatory, disparaging, malicious, calumniatory, maligning, opprobrious.
Antonym/विलोमार्थी: complimentary.
Example/उदाहरण: All the three quit the board following a public spat with Mr. Murthy.
2. Spat [spat]-झगड़ा/मनमुटाव
Noun/संज्ञा: a petty quarrel; a light blow; slap; smack.
Verb/क्रिया: to engage in a petty quarrel or dispute.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: altercation, bickering, brouhaha, difference of opinion, disagreement, discord, falling-out, feud, flare-up, fracas, friction, misunderstanding, run-in, squabble, strife.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: agreement, concord, concurrence, harmony.
Example/उदाहरण: The government action comes in the wake of the GJM expelling interlocutors Binoy Tamang and Anit Thapa, who represented it in talks with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
3. Interlocutor [in-ter-lok-yuh-ter]-वार्ताकार
Noun/संज्ञा: a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue; the man in the middle of the line of performers in a minstrel troupe, who acts as the announcer and banters with the end men; a person who questions; interrogator.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: interrogator, interviewer, questioner, speaker, talker, dialogist.
Example/उदाहरण: However, in 2015, the Dera chief and Yoga practitioner-turned-businessman Baba Ramdev had approached the government to include their names in the “no frisk” list.
4. Frisk [frisk]-क्रीड़ा करना/ नाचना
Verb/क्रिया: to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic; to search (a person) for concealed weapons, contraband goods, etc., by feeling the person’s clothing.
Noun/संज्ञा: a leap, skip, or caper; a frolic or gambol.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: bounce, caper, dance, frolic, gambol, hop, jump, lark, leap, play, prance, rollick, romp, skip, sport, trip.
Antonym/विलोमार्थी: face.
Example/उदाहरण: The agency has invoked Sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC, read with provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, against the accused.
5. Invoke [in-vohk]-आह्वान करना
Verb/क्रिया: to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for; to call on (a deity, Muse, etc.), as in prayer or supplication; to declare to be binding or in effect; to appeal to, as for confirmation; to petition or call on for help or aid; to call forth or upon (a spirit) by incantation.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: appeal to, conjure, adjure, beg, beseech, crave, entreat, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, request, solicit, summon, supplicate, call forth, send for.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: answer, give, reply.
Example/उदाहरण: The falling garbage crashed into a canal causing a tide of sludge over a nearby road.
6. Sludge [sluhj]-कीचड़/मिटटी
Noun/संज्ञा: mud, mire, or ooze; slush; a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water; any of various more or less mudlike deposits or mixtures; the sediment in a steam boiler or water tank; broken ice, as on the sea.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: goo, grease, gunk, muck, sediment, silt, slime, glop, goop, mire, oil, ooze, scum, slop.
Example/उदाहरण: Calibrating a new standard.
7. Calibrate [kal-uh-breyt]-जांच करना
Verb/क्रिया: to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements); to divide or mark with gradations, graduations, or other indexes of degree, quantity, etc., as on a thermometer, measuring cup, or the like.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: aligning, averaging, calculating, checking, gauging, grading, leveling, mapping, rhyming, scaling, surveying.
Example/उदाहरण: One track focused on reminding her that the drop in numbers in some groups (including Indian students) was largely the result of the crackdown on fake colleges that admitted students under the pretense of study merely to enable them to come to Britain.
8. Pretense [pri-tens, pree-tens]-दिखावा करना
Noun/संज्ञा: pretending or feigning; make-believe; a false show of something; a piece of make-believe; the act of pretending.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: charade, cloak, pretext, semblance, veneer, act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, claim, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: reality, frankness, honesty, honor.
Example/उदाहरण: The second argument focussed on highlighting the supposedly sizeable number of overstaying students.
9. Sizeable [sahy-zuh-buh l]-बड़े आकार का
Adjective/विशेषण: sizable.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: colossal, considerable, enormous, gigantic, humongous, monumental, tremendous, vast, whopping, astronomic, epic, ginormous, jumbo, mammoth, massive.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: insignificant, little, small, teeny.
Example/उदाहरण: With smaller businesses still grappling with the GST framework, there are concerns over what the expected revenue will be from the new indirect taxation policy.
10. Grapple [grap-uh l]-पकड़ना/हाथापाई करना
Verb/क्रिया: to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple; to use a grapple; to seize another, or each other, in a firm grip, as in wrestling; clinch.
Noun/संज्ञा: a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel; a seizing or gripping.
Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: confront, contend, cope, deal with, attack, battle, catch, clash, clasp, close, clutch, combat, encounter, engage, face, fasten.
Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: agree, avoid, be immune, cancel.
