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 2017Geopolitical interests in Southern Asia are complex — India must keep evaluating the U.S. grand strategy Southern Asia is all set to witness the unfolding of several new geopolitical gambits. The U.S. appears to have found a new strategic balance in the region; China is pushing its way through the great American wall in Southern Asia; the ‘cold war’ between Kabul and Rawalpindi seems to be getting frostier (expressive of unfriendliness or disdain) by the day; Pakistan is focussed on several strategic moves; and New Delhi is looking to navigate various regional dilemmas and strategic indeterminacies. The stage is set for a new great game.
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1. Synonym of TIRADE
2. Antonym of RHETORIC
3. Synonym of UNSAVOURY
4. Antonym of MELODRAMA
5. Synonym of CONTOURS
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