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1 Designation (noun)

नामित

Designation meaning

Appoint (someone) to a specified office or post.

Synonyms: Appoint, Nominate, Depute, Delegate

Antonyms: Avoidable, Unscheduled

Example: She has been designated to organize the meeting.

2 Obligation (noun)

बाध्य

Obligation meaning

Require or compel (someone) to undertake a legal or moral duty.

Synonyms: Oblige, Compel, Commit, Bind

Antonyms: Faltering, Hesitant, Indecisive, Irresolute

Example: You are legally obligated to repay the loan.

3 Prompting (noun)

प्रेरित किया

Prompting meaning

To move to action.

Synonyms: Cause, Occasion, Elicit, Produce

Antonyms: Deter, Restrain, Slow

Example: The actor had to be prompted by someone who was standing offstage.

4 Outreach (noun)

आगे निकल जाना

Outreach meaning

The extent or length of reaching out.

Synonyms: Exceed, Community, Advocacy, Excel.

Antonyms: Recoil, Retract, Withdraw, Flinch

Example: The singer's talent outreaches the dull songs she is asked to perform.

5 Impede (verb)

रोकना

Impede meaning

Delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them.

Synonyms: Obstruct, Hamper, Delay, Disrupt

Antonyms: Gone, Past, Distant, Later

Example: We need to challenge the laws that impede progress.

6 Starving (adjective)

भुखमरी

Starving meaning

Suffering or death caused by lack of food.

Synonyms: Deprivation, Famine, Malnutrition, Inanition

Antonyms: Satisfaction, Satiation, Fullness, Satiety

Example: Thousands died of starvation.

7 Evacuation (noun)

निकास

Evacuation meaning

The act of moving people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe.

Synonyms: Expulsion, Clearing, Discharge, Emptying

Antonyms: Retention, Arrival, Coming, Entrance

Example: They organised the evacuation of the town

8 Complicate (verb)

जटिल बनाना

Complicate meaning

To make something more difficult to deal with, do, or understand.

Synonyms: Convolute, Impede, Involve, Muddle

Antonyms: Enlighten, Explain, Order, Arrange

Example: All he does is complicate things.

9 Threaten (verb)

धमकी

Threaten meaning

A statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.

Synonyms: Warning, Ultimatum, Commination, Menaces

Antonyms: Certainty, Safety, Surety.

Example: The country is a great/major/serious threat to world peace.

10 Triggered (adjective)

उत्प्रेरित

Triggered meaning

Caused by particular action, process, or situation.

Synonyms: Cause, Generate, Produce, Prompt

Antonyms: Destroy, End, Halt, Prevent

Example: His remarks triggered a public outcry.

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