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1) Turnaround (Noun) – अप्रत्याशित परिवर्तन
Definition: An abrupt or unexpected change, especially one that results in a more favourable situation.
Synonyms: About-face, About-turn
Antonyms: Approval, Enactment, Validation
Usage: Signs of a turnaround: on RBI’s Financial Stability Report
2) Vigil (Noun) – सतर्कता
Definition: A changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite
Synonyms: Observance, Patrol, Attention, Awareness
Antonyms: Disregard, Heedlessness, Ignorance, Indifference
Usage: Regulatory vigil should not ease after the half-yearly decline in banks’ gross NPA ratio.
3) Shroud (Verb) – कफ़नाना
Definition: Wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial.
Synonyms: Cover, Envelop, Veil, Cloak, Curtain
Antonyms: Expose, Reveal, Uncover, Unveil
Usage: The fog of bad loans shrouding the banking sector appears to be lifting after a long period of sustained stress.
4) Prognosticate (Verb) – शकुन बताना
Definition: Foretell or prophesy (a future event).
Synonyms: Forecast, Predict, Prophesy, Foretell
Antonyms: Describe, Narrate, Recite, Recount, Relate, Report, Tell
Usage: This prompted RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das to prognosticate that the sector “appears to be on course to recovery”.
5) Contagion (Noun) – संसर्ग
Definition: The communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.
Synonyms: Contamination, Infection, Disease, Illness, Infirmity
Antonyms: Purification, Advantage, Cleanliness
Usage: A contagion analysis that assumes there would be no sovereign guarantee provided for the 11 PSBs placed under the PCA curbs.
6) Mala fide (Adjective) – दुर्भावनापूर्ण
Definition: In bad faith; with intent to deceive.
Synonyms: Ambidextrous, Backhanded, Deceitful.
Usage: Close to 95% of the frauds reported in the six months ended September were credit-related, with PSBs again bearing the brunt of mala fide intent on the part of borrowers.
7) Plucky (Adjective) – हिम्मती
Definition: Having or showing determined courage in the face of difficulties.
Synonyms: Brave, Courageous, Bold, Daring, Fearless
Antonyms: Cowardly, Timid, Timorous
Usage: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the Supreme Court’s eldest and pluckiest member.
8) Diminutive (Adjective) – अल्पार्थक
Definition: Extremely or unusually small.
Synonyms: Tiny, Small, Little, Petite, Minute, Miniature, Mini, Minuscul
Antonyms: Enormous
Usage: The sharp words that earned the diminutive justice the moniker “Notorious RBG” in recent years were penned in dissent.
9) Exemplary (Adjective) – अनुकरणीय
Definition: Serving as a desirable model; very good.
Synonyms: Perfect, Ideal, Model, Faultless
Antonyms: Deplorable, Unworthy
Usage: An exemplary relationship of talented, loving equals that bears out the film’s arc.
10) Trajectory (Noun) – प्रक्षेपवक्र
Definition: The path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
Synonyms: Course, Route, Path, Track, Line, Orbit
Usage: The missile’s trajectory was preset
