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1) rudimentary (noun) – अल्पविकसित
Meaning: Involving or limited to basic principles; Relating to an immature,
undeveloped, or basic form; Not thorough or detailed
Synonyms: basic, elementary, incomplete, cursory, inadequate
Antonyms: developed, evolved, secondary, subordinate
Usage: This is the most rudimentary form of what is known as the ‘social contract
theory’.
2) grail (verb) – निरर्थकता, उद्देश्यहीनता, निराशा
Meaning: an aim or end result that a person is trying to achieve; a passionate
aspiration or ambition
Synonyms: futility, purposelessness, hopelessness goal, aim, objective, mission,
resolution
Antonyms: aversion, disinclination, dread
Usage: Unquestioned obedience is the holy grail of every autocrat.
3) expounded (verb) – व्याख्या करना
Meaning: To have expressed in greater detail; o express one’s opinions in a pompous
and dogmatic way;
Synonyms; pontificated, preached, proposed, submitted, developed, elaborated,
embellished
Antonyms– condensed, summed up, abbreviated, obscured, complicated
Usage: Modern society and modern governments also use the social contract theory to
claim legitimacy for their actions, but rely more on the theory as expounded by
Hobbes and Rousseau.
4) brutish (verb) – पाशविक
Meaning: t Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast or animal;
Horrifyingly wicked; heedless
Synonyms: bestial, beastly, feral, animalistic, atrocious, barbaric
Antonyms: humane, kind, nice, attentive, aware, boorish, savage, uncultivated
Usage: While Hobbes believed that man, in Nature, was “solitary, nasty and brutish”,
for Rousseau, man, in Nature was “born free”.
5) bare (noun) – अनाच्छादित
Meaning: the appropriate or usual contents; Deficient in something needed or usual;
Unquestionable or indisputable
Synonyms: absent, abstracted, indisputable, genuine, incontrovertible
Antonyms: covered, dressed, furnished filled
Usage: The novel corona virus pandemic has laid bare the falsity of this image.
6) brunt (noun) – प्रभाव, परिणाम
Meaning: The majority of consequences or negative results of a thing or event; A
forceful collision of two things;
Synonyms: impact, consequence, influence, force, pressure, shock
Antonyms: ease, peace, relaxation
Usage: We are not sharing the brunt of the pandemic with the poorest of India, the
voiceless millions.
7) pedantic (noun) – निपुण, सटीक
Meaning: academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way; Excessively
concerned with minor details or rules; Inclined to express negative or disapproving
comments; Boring or severely lacking in interest
Synonyms: overscrupulous, precise, exact, academic, didactic, bookish, critical,
censorious, condemnatory
Antonyms: uncritical, easy-going
Usage: it will be pedantic to point out to them that though starving they are free”.
8) imbues (Adj) – आवेग, आसव
Meaning: To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality; To spread
through, causing a gradual change; To teach with a biased, one-sided or uncritical
ideology
Synonyms: inculcate, infuse, saturate
Antonyms: indoctrinate drain, take out, neglect, abort
Usage: The social contract which imbues a centralised sovereign with overreaching
powers has clearly failed on this occasion,
9) predate (noun) – उचित समय से पूर्व तिथि डालना
Meaning: To designate a date earlier than the actual one
Synonyms: antecede, forego, antedate
Antonyms: follow, postdate, succeed
Usage: The academic and political debates in India on unemployment, which is widely
attributed to jobless growth amidst stagnation in the agricultural and manufacturing
sectors, predate the pandemic.
10) aloof (Adj) – अलग, दूरस्थ
Meaning: unsociable and unfriendly; slow to reveal emotion or opinions; showing
contempt or lack of respect Having an exaggerated perception of one’s positive qualities
Synonyms: detached, distant, remote, swellheaded, conceited, unsociable and
unfriendly
Antonyms: friendly, warm, sociable
Usage; Testing levels are very low in Bihar, and Mr. Kumar has remained aloof.
