GNASH (verb) – गुस्से में दांत पीसना
Meaning: grind (one’s teeth) together as a sign of anger
Synonyms: grind, grate, rasp, grit
Antonyms: Approve, Commend, Compliment, defend.
Usage: When her husband began to gnash his teeth, she knew that she had to say sorry.
UNSETTLE (verb) – अशांत करना
Meaning: cause to feel anxious or uneasy
Synonyms: discompose, unnerve, upset, disturb, disquiet
Antonyms: hearten, calm, console, placate, pacify
Usage: Anything that could unsettle the public opinion in the capital was to be avoided.
THRALL (noun) – दासता, दासत्व, गुलामी
Meaning: the state of being in someone’s power
Synonyms: power, clutches, hands, control, grip, grasp, yoke, enslavement
Antonyms: mastery
Usage: The country’s economy is largely in thrall to the big companies.
BOTCH (verb, noun) – ढिलाई से काम करना
Meaning: carry out a task badly or carelessly; a task that is carried out badly or carelessly
Synonyms: bungle, make a mess of, mismanage, mishandle, angle, fumble; mess, fiasco, debacle.
Antonym: success
Usage: He was accused of botching the job. (verb)
I’ve just made an awful botch of my translation. (noun)
ULULATE (verb) – चीख़ना, विलाप, आक्रंदन
OUTBID (verb) – बढ़कर बोली बोलना
Meaning: offer to pay a higher price for something than (another person)
Synonym: overbid
Antonym: divest
Usage: Our Company offered Rs. 10,00,000 for the land, but another company outbid us.
PERFIDY (noun) – बेवफ़ाई
Meaning: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal
Synonyms: duplicity, deceitful, untrustworthy, disloyalty, infidelity
Antonyms: faithfulness, loyalty
Usage: Because my husband’s perfidy hurt me terribly, I served him with divorce papers.
STOCKY (adjective) – छोटा और मोटा
Meaning: (of man) fairly short and has a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest
Synonyms: thickset, heavily built, sturdy, heavyset, bull-necked
Antonyms: slender, skinny
Usage: The missing man is about 170 pounds with a stocky build.
INCENDIARY (adjective, noun) – आग भड़कानेवाला
Meaning: designed to cause fire; tending to cause conflict; a person who causes conflict
Synonyms: combustible, flammable, inflammable; provocative, seditious, subversive, revolutionary.
Antonym: conciliatory
Usage: She is famous for writing incendiary articles for monthly magazines. (adjective)
He was an English incendiary, responsible for the burning of three French battleships. (noun)
EKE OUT (verb) – जीवित रहना
Meaning: to make a living or support existence laboriously
Synonym: survive
Antonym: waste
Usage: They managed to eke out by farming a small piece of land.
Meaning: cry loud because of pain, fear, anger; make a prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger
Synonyms: cry, yowl, howl, weep, wail
Antonym : be quiet
Usage: As the soldier’s body was laid out, the grieving widow began to ululate loudly.
