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1) usher (verb) –
Meaning: A person who provides instruction or education; A sign or warning of something to come
Synonyms: precursor, herald, lead, conduct, escort
Antonyms: cease, close, end
Usage:Â Let itnot be forgotten that Mrs. Indira Gandhi had Young Turks to usher in her socialistprogrammes after 1969
2) bane (verb) –
Meaning: A cause of great distress or annoyance; Physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something
Synonyms: damage, harm, malice, spite
Antonyms: blessing, benefit, ,benevolence, friendliness
Usage: The bane of the Congress leadership has been its reluctance to develop a secondline of leadership that is independent of the Gandhi dynasty.
3) simmer (verb) –
Meaning: To cook in liquid; Become burnt when exposed to heat or a flame
Synonyms; churns, cooks, scorches, parches
Antonyms– cools, freezes, soothes
Usage: In a society where a feudal sense of entitlement simmers beneath a veneer of economic modernity, aspirational upper castes with bottled up resentments are legion in every domain.
4) veneer (verb) –
Meaning: An attractive appearance that covers or disguises someone or something’s true nature or feelings; To provide assuagement or palliation to; To keep secret or cover the truth of
Synonyms: palliate, relieve, ease, covering, facing, facade, front, camouflage, dissemble
Antonyms: reality, truth, character, inside, interior, reveal, strip, uncover
Usage: In a society where a feudal sense of entitlement simmers beneath a veneer of economic modernity, aspirational upper castes with bottled up resentments are legion inevery domain.
5) legion (noun) –
Meaning: Great in number; Diverse in character or content
Synonyms:Â numerous, countless, many, heterogeneous, mixed, varied
Antonyms:few, numbered, scarce
Usage:Â In a society where a feudal sense of entitlement simmers beneath a veneer of economic modernity, aspirational upper castes with bottled up resentments are legion in every domain.
6) Accentuate (noun) –
Meaning:Â Make more noticeable or prominent; to increase in degree, amount, size, or value
Synonyms: intensify, enhance, magnify, strengthen
Antonyms: camouflage, blanket, enshroud, downplay, understate, cover
Usage: He also uplit the upper facades of the building to accentuate the tower’s verticality.
7) diction (noun) –
Meaning:Â The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing; The style of enunciation in speaking or singing
Synonyms: articulation, enunciation, delivery, phraseology, language
Antonyms: quiet, silence, standard
Usage: The Dalit movement in north India is habituated in using caste based binaries in its mobilisational language but has failed to respond to the changing political .
8) Cavalier (Adj) –
Meaning: Showing haughty disregard; A man of honor and gentility; Poorly considered or thought out; Boisterous and unruly
Synonyms: careless, imprudent, rumbustious, boisterous
Antonyms: humble, lowly,modest, frugal, thrifty, economical, passionate, determined, persistent
Usage: The move taken by British is considered as Cavalier action.
9) Stoking(verb) –
Meaning: Â to poke, pierce, thrust; to affect with powerful emotion
Synonyms: sending, exciting, moving, augmenting, boosting
Antonyms: abating, decreasing, downscaling, easing
Usage: They share comparable traits of mistrusting expert knowledge, stoking suspicion about formal institutions, stirring up their social base of hardcore,
10)Lingering (verb) –
Meaning: lasting for a long time or slow to end.
Synonyms: niggling, gnawing, lasting, residual, protracted, persistent, prolonged.
Antonyms: short live, leave, intermittent
Usage: Notwithstanding lingering criticism that the Supreme Court’s intervention, on its motion, may have come too late
