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1) Oppressive (Adjective) – उत्पीड़क
Meaning: Inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment
Synonyms: Harsh, cruel, brutal, repressive, crushing, tyrannical
Antonyms: Lenient, humane
Usage: An oppressive dictatorship
2) Perverse (Adjective) – विकृत
Meaning: Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable
Synonyms: Awkward, contrary, difficult, unreasonable, uncooperative, unhelpful
Antonyms: Accommodating, cooperative
Usage: Kate’s perverse decision not to cooperate held good
3) Arbitrary (Adjective) – मनमाना
Meaning: Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system
Synonyms: Capricious, whimsical, random, chance, erratic, unpredictable, inconsistent
Antonyms: Rational, reasoned
Usage: An arbitrary decision
4) Apparently (Adverb) – जाहिरा
Meaning: As far as one knows or can see
Synonyms: Seemingly, evidently, it seems (that), it would seem (that), ostensibly, outwardly
Antonyms: Dubiously, improbably, questionably, uncertain, unlikely
Usage: The child nodded, apparently content with the promise
5) Acrimony (Noun) – कड़वाहट या बीमार भावना
Meaning: Bitterness or ill feeling
Synonyms: Bitterness, rancour, resentment, ill feeling, ill will, bad blood, animosity
Antonyms: Goodwill
Usage: The AGM dissolved into acrimony
6) Append (Verb) – संलग्न करना
Meaning: Add (something) to the end of a written document
Synonyms: Add, attach, affix, adjoin, include, put in/on
Antonyms: Abate, bate, deduct, remove, subtract, detach
Usage: The results of the survey are appended to this chapter
7) Gratuitous (Adjective) – बिना अच्छे कारण के
Meaning: Done without good reason; uncalled for
Synonyms: Unjustified, without reason, uncalled for, unwarranted
Antonyms: Justifiable, necessary
Usage: Gratuitous violence
8) Blatant (Adjective) – ज़बरदस्त
Meaning: (Of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly
Synonyms: Flagrant, glaring, obvious, undisguised, unconcealed, overt, open
Antonyms: Inconspicuous, subtle
Usage: Blatant lies
9) Aberrant (Adjective) – असामान्य
Meaning: Departing from an accepted standard
Synonyms: Deviant, deviating, divergent, abnormal, atypical, anomalous
Antonyms: Normal, typical
Usage: This somewhat aberrant behaviour requires an explanation
10) Coup (Noun) – तख्तापलट
Meaning: A sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government
Synonyms: Seizure of power, overthrow, takeover, ousting, deposition, regime change
Antonyms: Election
Usage: He was overthrown in an army coup
11) Topple (Verb) – गिर पड़ना
Meaning: Overbalance or cause to overbalance and fall
Synonyms: Fall, tumble, overturn, overbalance, tip, keel, drop, pitch, plunge
Antonyms: Rise, uprise, ascend, get up, hold, increase
Usage: She toppled over when I touched her
12) Dogged (Adjective) – दृढ़
Meaning: Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence
Synonyms: Tenacious, determined, resolute, resolved, purposeful, persistent
Antonyms: Hesitant, half-hearted
Usage: Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence
13) Stance (Noun) – आसन
Meaning: The way in which someone stands, especially when deliberately adopted (as in cricket, golf, and other sports); a person’s posture
Synonyms: Posture, body position, pose, attitude, bearing
Antonyms: Evenness, fairness, level
Usage: She altered her stance, resting all her weight on one leg
14) Erode (Verb) – धीरे-धीरे नष्ट होना
Meaning: Gradually destroy or be gradually destroyed
Synonyms: Wear away/down, abrade, scrape away, grind down, crumble, dissolve, weather
Antonyms: build, construct, fix, ignore, neglect
Usage: This humiliation has eroded what confidence Jean has
15) Renege (Verb) – वादे से मुकर जाना
Meaning: Go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract
Synonyms: Default on, fail to honour, go back on, break, back out of, pull out of, withdraw from
Antonyms: Keep, honour
Usage: The government had reneged on its election promises
