_Challenging Words in THE HINDU Article 12/09/2017

*_Challenging Words in THE HINDU Article -_*

1)Reprisal (noun) (प्रतिहिंसा) - ri-pray-zul
Meaning -  an act of retaliation,  to hurt or punish someone because they have done something violent or unpleasant to you.
Synonyms - counterattack; revenge/retribution.
Antonyms -  Kindness, pardon, leniency
Example -  Witnesses of the severe case related to minister are unwilling to testify through fear of reprisals.

2)Enumerate (verb)  (एक एक करके बताना) - Enyu-mer-ate
Meaning - to list or count off individually
Synonyms -  calculate, compute, count.
Antonyms - estimate, randomize
Example -The hundreds of people that contributed to my book are too many to enumerate, so I will thank them collectively.

3)Alienation (noun)  (अलगाव की भावना) - ale-ni-ashun
Meaning - to make an individual feel unwanted or removed from a group or relationship
Synonyms - isolation, detachment, estrangement/separation.
Antonyms -  loyalty, attachment
Example -The restaurant owner hesitates to change his menu because he does not want to alienate his regular customers.

4)Rickety (adjective)   (अस्थिर ,असुरक्षित) - rik-i-tee
Meaning - (of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
Synonyms-  shaky, unsteady, unsafe/broken-down.
Antonyms -  strong, stable, sturdy
Example - As it was an old rickety door, it thrashed as the strong wind came to it.

5)Flee (verb)   ( भागना) - flee
Meaning - to run away
Synonyms-  run, run away, leave/escape.
Antonyms -  Appear, stay, arrive
Example - A police officer showed up just as the burglar was trying to flee the scene.

5)Exodus (noun)  (निकास) - exo-dus
Meaning - a situation in which a lot of people leave a place or activity at the same time
Synonyms-  mass departure, evacuation, leaving.
Antonyms -  arrival,enflow, entrance
Example - Tired of the hardships of farming, many families have made an exodus from the village to the city.

6)Deport (verb) (निर्वासन) : de-port
Meaning -  to evict, especially from a country
Synonyms - expel, banish, exile.
Antonyms - Allow, receive, permit
Example -The man filed for citizenship as a means to avoid a possible forced deport.

7)Humane (adjective) – (दयालु) -  hyu-mane
Meaning - feeling or displaying worry about the misery of another
Synonyms - compassionate, kind-hearted, civilised.
Antonyms - cruel, inhumane, brutal
Example - As a vegetarian, I believe that people should only eat plants as part of an effort to be more humane to animals.

8)Unfold (verb)(होना): un-fold
Meaning -to develop or progress
Synonyms -  happen, take place, occur.
Antonyms - contract, fold, block
Example - It took some time for the child’s personality to unfold, but eventually she came out of her shell.

9)Irony (noun) (विडंबना, व्यंग्य): e-rony
Meaning - a form of humour in which you use words to express the opposite of what the words really mean
Synonyms - paradox, incongruity, peculiarity.
Antonyms - honesty, genuineness
Example -A great example of irony in Indian society is that parents want their children to stand out in a crowd but expect them to do what everybody else is doing.

10) Impasse (कठिन स्थिति) - Im-pass
Meaning - a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement, a deadlock - Noun
Synonyms - deadlock, dilemma
Antonyms - solution, boon
Example - The government had reached an impasse.

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