1.Recalcitrant (adjective)-आज्ञा न माननेवाला/दुर्दम्य/अड़ियल
Meaning: having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
Synonyms: balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, froward,
incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel,
rebellious, disobedient, recusant, refractory, restive.
Antonyms: amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive.
Example: the recalcitrant judge is doubtful if sending Justice Karnan to jail is the most judicious way of restraining him.
2.Contumacious (adjective)-उद्दंड/अक्खड़
Meaning: (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority.
Example: That the only punishment that the highest court could
come up with against a sitting high court judge was imprisonment speaks
volumes about the total absence of any disciplinary mechanism short of
impeachment to deal with contumacious conduct by a member of the higher
judiciary.
3.Purport (verb)-तात्पर्य बतलाना
Meaning: appear to be or do something, especially falsely.
Synonyms: claim, lay claim, profess, pretend.
Example: The court’s gag order on the media from reporting
Justice Karnan’s purported orders and comments only adds to the sense of
unease about the whole episode.
4.Titular (adjective)-नाममात्र का
Meaning: holding or constituting a purely formal position or title without any real authority.
Synonyms: nominal, in title/name only, formal, official, ceremonial.
Example: President Pranab Mukherjee’s term ends soon. Given that
the President has only a formal, titular role, is it better to look for a
candidate outside the realm of active politics? Is opening up the
positionfor writers, artists, public intellectuals and so on more desirable?
5.Disseminate (verb)-प्रसारित करना
Meaning: spread (something, especially information) widely.
Synonyms: spread, circulate, distribute, disperse, diffuse,
proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publicize, communicate, pass on, make
known, put about
Example: At the local level, capacity building enables the
community to make decisions and disseminate them to the appropriate
authorities, thus influencing political processes.
6.Incubate (verb)-अंडों पर बैठना
Meaning: (of a bird) sit on (eggs) in order to keep them warm and
bring them to hatching., be developing an infectious disease before
symptoms appear.
Example: U.S. foreign policy incubated the Taliban, which spread
terror in the name of Islam, and rained terror on Iraqi children in the
name of keeping the world safe from weapons of mass destruction.
7.Vulnerable (adjective)-चपेट में
Meaning: exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
Synonyms: in danger, in peril, in jeopardy, at risk, endangered, unsafe, unprotected, ill-protected, unguarded.
Example: Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.
Example: Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.
8.Rudimentary (adjective)-मौलिक
Meaning: involving or limited to basic principles.
Synonyms: basic, elementary, introductory, early, primary, initial, first.
Example: It is said she incurred the wrath of the guards because
of her rising popularity among the women prisoners. This suggests that
until her arrival the inmates may not have been accustomed to even
rudimentary care from the jail authorities.
9.Animus (noun)-विरोधपूर्ण भावना
Meaning: hostility or ill feeling., motivation to do something.
Example: Eyewitnesses say that when the warder was severely
assaulted by the guards, it led to a riot-like situation among the
prisoners. It is not difficult to surmise that simmering discontent over
the prevailing conditions, and an intense animus between the guards and
the inmates, were behind the events. It is some consolation that the
police have arrested six prison officials for the custodial murder.
10.Tantamount (adjective)-समान
Meaning: equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as.
Synonyms: equivalent to, equal to, amounting to, as good as, more
or less, synonymous with, virtually the same as, much the same as,
comparable to, on a par with, commensurate with, along the lines of, as
serious as, identical to
Example: When the government, with which the first point of
contact for a farmer is the village office, causes mental agony for the
citizen by denying him the opportunity to discharge his obligations, it
is tantamount to terrorism.
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