Today’s Word from The Hindu
•Depute
•Meaning: appoint or delegate
•Synonym: instruct, appoint, assign
•Antonym: avoid, cancel, deny
•Sentence:I depute you to open this sealed document and read the contents to the company.
2.Toil
•Meaning: hard work
•Synonym: effort, moil , sweat
•Antonym: fun, laziness, pastime
•Sentence:Having lived all his life in toil and poverty, he had never had the time to love
3. Peril
•Meaning: Risk, Danger
•Synonym: Hazard, Insecurity, Jeopardy
•Antonym: Certainly, Safety, Protection
•Sentence: Just be a little careful, and you are perfectly out of peril.
4. Gloom
•Meaning: depression
•Synonym: despair, misery, sadness
•Antonym: confidence, joy, delight
•Sentence: She could not see a thing; but she waited in the gloom for the steward to come and light the lamps.
5. fauxpas
•Meaning: A socially awkward or tactless act
•Synonym: slip. solecism, abuse
•Antonym: praise, certainty.
•Sentence: His trust was warranted, until Landor detected the fauxpas.
6. Erudite
•Meaning: Well-Educated
•Synonym: knowledgeable, literate, scholarly
•Antonym: uneducated, common, ignorant
•Sentence: This erudite priest, born in 1067, was the founder of historical writing in Iceland
7.Insinuate
•Meaning: Hint, Suggest
•Synonym: allude, ascribe, imply
•Antonym: Conceal, hide, withhold
•Sentence: He asked me if I meant to insinuate that he cheated his customers.
8.Irritants
•Meaning: annoyance
•Synonym: burden, bother, trouble
•Antonym: aid, happiness, help
•Sentence:In experiments carried out on animals this immunity to bee poison has been also induced by repeated application of the irritant.
9.Avowedly
•Meaning: allegedly
•Synonym: accepted, admitted, professed
•Antonym: professedly, purportedly, supposedly
•Sentence: This munificence was avowedly for the credit of the settlement.
10.Stalemate
•Meaning: deadlock
•Synonym: standoff, standstill, check.
•Antonym:advance, progress, headway
•Sentence:He seems to have reached a psychological impasse or stalemate.
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