Terror in new york

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Terror in new york
03,Nov,2017

10 words from this day's editorials with Hindi meaning

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FROSTIER (adjective)

(Comparative degree of frosty] Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain) रूखा

Synonyms: Frigid, Glacial

Antonyms: Amicable, Friendly, Responsive

Example: Rahul is frosty towards his friends.

EMINENCE (noun)

(High status importance owing to marked superiority) प्रतिष्ठा

Synonyms: Distinction, Preeminence, Note

Antonyms: Low Status, Unimportance, Obscurity.

Example: From modest roots, his rise to eminence was all the more remarkable.

VIGOUR (noun)

(Forceful exertion; energetic activity) जोश

Synonyms: Drive, Force, Strength

Antonyms: Incompetence, Impotency, Clumsiness

Example: The boy works with a vigour.

UNSAVOURY (adjective)

(Disagreeable and unpleasant because morally disreputable) घृणित

Synonyms: Odoriferous Offensive Unsavory

Antonyms: Agreeable, Good

Example: Annie is living in an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan, a mean-spirited unsavoury character.

RHETORIC (noun)

(High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; the undue use of exaggeration or display; using language effectively to please or persuade) व्याख्यान विद्या

Synonyms: Grandiosity, Magniloquence, Ornateness, Grandiloquence, Rant, Style

Antonyms: Quiet, Consciesness

Example: People are now fed up with empty rhetorics of politicians.

MELODRAMA (noun)

(A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions) उत्तेजनायुक्त नाटक

Synonyms: Comedy

Antonyms: Tragedy

Example: I objected strongly to being treated as the villain of a melodrama.

TIRADE (noun)

(A speech of violent denunciation) निंदात्मक बातें या निंदात्मक प्रबन्ध

Synonyms: Denouncement, Declamation, Denunciation

Antonyms: Compliment, Praise

Example: The opposition party gave a long tirade against the government.

SUSCEPTIBLE (adjective)

(Yielding readily to or capable of; Easily impressed emotionally) आसानी से प्रभावित होने वाला

Synonyms: Vulnerable, Easy, Prone, Temptable, Perusable.

Antonyms: Invulnerable, Protected, Insensitive, Insusceptibility, Unsusceptible

Example: Pooja Bhatt agrees that being the daughter of an alcoholic makes you more susceptible to be an alcoholic.

OVERTURES (noun)

(A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others) प्रस्ताव

Synonyms: Advance, Proffer, Proposition, Suggestion

Example: She rejected his overtures.

CONTOURS (noun)

(A feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure; Any spatial attributes) रूपरेखा

Synonyms: Shape, Form, Configuration

Example: He could barely make out their contours.

The editorial

Source: The Hindu · 3 Nov 2017

‘Lone wolf’ attacks are a security and political challenge; Donald Trump’s rhetoric won’t help

The terrorist attack in New York on Tuesday confirms fears that terrorism, especially in the West, is becoming more decentralised, with individuals radicalised by terrorist ideology taking up arms on their own. Like the ‘lone wolf’ terrorists in Nice or Berlin, who killed over 100 people last year, the New York attacker ploughed a pickup truck into a busy bicycle path in Manhattan, killing eight. Officials say Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant, was inspired by the Islamic State and wanted to inflict maximum damage.

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Synonyms and antonyms, the way exams ask them. Answers show as you tap.

1. Synonym of RHETORIC

2. Antonym of EMINENCE

3. Synonym of TIRADE

4. Antonym of FROSTIER

5. Synonym of MELODRAMA

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