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1. Resilience (Noun) –
- Meaning: power or ability to return to original state, position.
- Synonyms: Flexibility, pliancy, elasticity, adaptability
- Antonyms: fi·agile, vulnerable, weakness
- Usage: The question of the resilience of the Indian health system becomes more Pressing
2. Ingenious (verb) –
- Meaning: clever, 0riginal, and inventive.
- Synonyms: intuitive, sophisticated, trailblazing, pioneering
- Antonyms: unskillful, slow, uninventive, unready
- Usage: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
3. Overturned (verb) –
- Meaning: Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom.
- Synonyms: upended, upturned, inverted, reversed, backward, capsized
- Antonyms: careful, formal, standard, disciplined, coherent
- Usage: His decision, now overturned by the Delhi Lieutenant Governor.
4. Extort (verb) –
- Meaning: The To obtain money or favors by intimidation, violence, or the misuse of authority; To draw out or bring out
- Synonyms: blackmail, cheat, fleece, educe, elicit, raise, enforce, compel
- Antonyms: assist, assuage, calm, free
- Usage: Two brothers have been an·ested for allegedly trying to extort Rs.2 crore from a man as they were facing huge financial losses due to the lockdown
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5. An obviously true or hackneyed statement –Truism
6. To reduce to nothing – Null
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9. Add insult to injury:
- Meaning: – When people add insult to injury, they make a bad situation even worse.
- Example: – My car broke down in the middle of nowhere, then, to add insult to injury, it started to rain.
10. Against the clock:
- Meaning: – If you do something against the clock, you are rushed and have very little time to do it.
- Example: – The team was working against the clock to finish the project on time.
