1) Convene (Verb)
- Meaning: Come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble.
- Synonyms: Summon, Call.
- Antonyms: Disperse
- Usage: Meghalaya’s Conrad Sangma, who runs a coalition government which includes the BJP, convened the meeting in Guwahati, the region’s political hub, challenging the BJP on its own turf.
2) Placate (Verb)
- Meaning: Make (someone) less angry or hostile.
- Synonyms: Pacify, Calm, Calm Down, Appease, Mollify, Soothe
- Antonyms: Provoke, Anger
- Usage: Britain veers to a hard Brexit as Prime Minister May continues to placate Tory hardliners.
3) Recede (Verb)
- Meaning: Go or move back or further away from a previous position.
- Synonyms: Retreat, Go back, Withdraw.
- Antonyms: Advance, Approach
- Usage: The prospects for Britain’s orderly withdrawal from the European Union on March 29 have receded further, even as MPs rallied to stop a no-deal scenario.
4) Disburse (Verb)
- Meaning: Pay out (money from a fund).
- Synonyms: Spend, Expend
- Antonyms: Claim
- Usage: Just a day after a ₹300-crore loan was disbursed to Videocon International Electronics in 2009, Mr. Kochhar’sNupower Renewable received ₹64 crore from the Videocon group.
5) Inadvertent (Adjective)
- Meaning: Not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning.
- synonyms: Unintended, Accidental, Unpremeditated
- Antonyms: Deliberate, Intentional
- Usage: India must be alert as there is a possibility of emerging disruptive technologies prompting inadvertent conflict.
6) Lacklustre (Adjective)
- Meaning: something which is dull .
- Synonyms: boring, gloomy
- Antonyms: Inspired, Brilliant
- Usage: This rather lacklustre response to major ‘futuristic’ challenges to our national security raises a larger question: is India adequately
7) Disruptive (Adjective)
- Meaning: Causing or tending to cause disruption.
- Synonyms: Innovative, Inventive, Ingenious, Original
- Antonyms: Unimaginative, Conservative
- Usage: The arrival of these technologies might deeply frustrate strategic stability as we know it given their disruptive nature.
8) Glide (Verb)
- Meaning: Move with a smooth, quiet continuous motion.
- Synonyms: Slide, Slip, Float and Drift
- Antonyms: Hurtle
- Usage: Once accuracies get better, hypersonic glide vehicles replace conventional delivery systems.
9) Succinct (Adjective)
- Meaning: (Especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.
- Synonyms: Concise, Short, Brief, Compact, Condensed, Crisp
- Antonyms: Lengthy, Long-winded, Verbose
- Usage: In a January 2018 article, the Economist put it succinctly: “Disruptive new technologies, worsening relations between Russia and America and a less cautious Russian leadership than in the cold war have raised fears that a new era of strategic instability may be approaching.”
10) Surreptitious (Noun)
- Meaning: Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
- Synonyms: Secret, Stealthy, Clandestine, Secretive, Sneaky
- Antonyms: Blatant, Open, Honest
- Usage: Low wages were supplemented by surreptitious payments from tradesmen.
