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Ostensible (adjective)
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• Meaning stated or appearing to be true but not
  necessarily true
• Synonyms apparent, feigned
• Antonyms real, genuine
• It is the CVCs note to the government that was
  the ostensible provocation for the government to
  wield its axe at midnight.

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Dithered(verb)

• Meaning be indecisive
• Synonyms agitation, babble
• Antonyms calm, peace
• The CBI has dithered in providing records to the
  CVC, no doubt, but there is no matter of such
  great concern or exigency mentioned in the note
  that required immediate interim measures or a
  midnight cabinet meeting to wield the axe.

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Impediment (noun)

• Meaning a hindrance or obstruction in doing
  something
• Synonyms obstacle, encumbrance
• Antonyms freedom, benefit
• The moment of truth will come when the deal, if
  reached, is put to a parliamentary vote, widely
  considered to be an impediment for Ms. May

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Egregious (adjective)

• Meaning outstandingly bad shocking
• Synonyms blatant, conspicuous
• Antonyms unobtrusive
• And if that was the extent of the problem, far
  less egregious measures, consistent with its
  powers, were possible including actually
  summoning the CBI Director instead of the
  records, and registering a case against him,
  which has still not been done.

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Palpable (adjective)

• Meaning able to be touched or felt
• Synonyms perceptible, tangible
• Antonyms impalpable, imperceptible
• As the clock ticks without a breakthrough so far
  in the talks, anxiety is palpable among the
  business community and the general public.

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Loathe (verb)

• Meaning feel intense dislike or disgust for
• Synonyms abhor, detest
• Antonyms love, like
• It is unclear what the routine decisions
  essential to the CBI functioning are, but the
  interim Director should be loathe to act with
  the alacrity and brutality he deployed in the
  first hours when he took office.

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Sufficed (verb)

• Meaning be enough
• Synonyms adequate, satisfy
• Antonyms displease
• However, as an interim measure, it is hard to
  think what else would have sufficed.

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Humongous (adjective)

• Meaning huge or enormous
• Synonyms immense, prodigious
• Antonyms small
• This is a humongous task as some of the
  countries outside the bloc, including the U.S.,
  have opposed Britain leaving the EU.

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Ratified (verb)

• Meaning sign or give formal consent
• Synonyms affirm, authorize
• Antonyms disapprove
• The deal will also have to be ratified at a
  plenary by the European Parliament.

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Reinstate (verb)

• Meaning restore to their former position or
  state
• Synonyms restore, rehabilitate
• Antonyms destroy, kill
• It has not immediately reinstated the CBI
  Director and instead has clipped the wings of the
  interim Director, restraining him from making
  any policy or major decisions, except those that
  are routine and essential for the CBI to
  function.

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Evangelical (adjective)

• Meaning of or according to the teaching of the
  Christian religion.
• Synonyms orthodox
• Antonyms irreligious
• The first set of debates regarding Chaus
  evangelical calling and his almost willing
  surrender to the hazards it entailed are not of
  interest to us at this moment nor are the details
  of the investigations that are being carried out
  by the local police and administration

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Abjured (verb)

• Meaning solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or
  claim).
• Synonyms repudiate
• Antonyms adhere
• It goes to the credit of the Indian government
  that unlike its colonial predecessors it has
  completely abjured all kinds of coercion against
  the indigenous communities of the Andaman and
  Nicobar Islands.

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Punitive (adjective)

• Meaning inflicting or intended as punishment.
• Synonyms penitentiary
• Antonyms exculpating
• Colonial punitive expeditions, kidnappings,
  forced confinements that devastated the
  Andamanese populations at large are a thing of
  the past.

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Distraught (adjective)

• Meaning very worried and upset
• Synonyms fraught
• Antonyms calm
• Communities in the affected areas are distraught
  as houses have collapsed, farms lie ruined, water
  sources are contaminated and electricity supply
  remains disrupted.

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Rendered (verb)

• Meaning provide or give (a service, help, etc.).
• Synonyms proffer
• Antonyms retain, withhold
• Many of them have invested in trees and livestock
  expecting long term returns, but have been
  rendered paupers overnight.

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Partake (verb)

• Meaning join in (an activity).
• Synonyms consume, receive
• Antonyms abstain
• By apologising, an offender demonstrates that
  despite his past acts, he partakes in a shared
  moral world.

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Moratorium (noun)

• Meaning a temporary prohibition of an activity.
• Synonyms deferment
• Antonyms continuation
• It is equally important to assure the large
  number of stricken farmers that there will be a
  moratorium on any agricultural loans that they
  have taken, while a fair compensation scheme is
  prepared.

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Tandem (adjective)

• Meaning having two things arranged one in front
  of the other.
• Synonyms lineup
• Antonyms individual
• Since then, the rupee has gained against the
  dollar in tandem with the fall in global crude
  prices. Brent Crude has dropped by a massive 30
  since early October, when a barrel cost around
  86, to around 60 today.

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Melanoma (noun)

• Meaning a tumour of melanin-forming cells,
  especially a malignant tumour associated with
  skin cancer.
• Synonyms cancerous
• Antonyms benign
• From the virtual reality (VR) of 3D printing,
  we are now moving towards augmented reality (AR),
  by which, for example, every piece of node in a
  malignant melanoma can be completely removed,
  thereby eliminating the risk of the cancer
  spreading to any other part of the body.

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Longevity (noun)

• Meaning long existence or service.
• Synonyms durability, endurance
• Antonyms short
• That is the extent of the breakthrough in
  longevity that modern medicine has been able to
  achieve. Healthcare in India too has been
  transformed over the last three decades, and as
  members of this industry, we can be proud of how
  far weve come in terms of improved indices on
  life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal
  deaths and quality of outcomes.

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Leapfrogging (verb)

• Meaning surpass or overtake another to move into
  a leading or dominant position
• Synonyms jump, bounce
• Antonyms decline
• By leapfrogging through smart adoption of
  technology and using emerging platforms such as
  Blockchain, significant improvements are possible
  in healthcare operations and costs

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Innuendo (noun)

• Meaning an allusive remark or hint
• Synonyms suggestion, insinuation
• Antonyms evidence
• It has become fashionable and smart in many
  political circles to evoke hate by suggestion,
  ridicule and innuendo.

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Mutate (verb)

• Meaning change in form or nature
• Synonyms convert, alter
• Antonyms remain, stay
• Hate is exactly like a virus in its ability to
  break up bits from our prejudices and attach them
  to social genetic codes elsewhere, so that your
  hatred for Muslims or Christians will sooner or
  later mutate in some other part of India into
  hatred for Bengalis or Biharis.

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Scapegoat (noun)

• Meaning a person who is blamed for wrongdoings,
  mistakes or faults of others
• Synonyms victim
• Antonyms praise
• All of us need to bear this in mind before we
  point an easy finger of accusation at some
  scapegoat or the other

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Avowed (adjective)

• Meaning that has been asserted, admitted or
  stated publicly
• Synonyms professed, sworn
• Antonyms deny
• In fact, one of the 56 things I love about our
  government is that, despite its many alleged
  failures, it has never wavered in its avowed
  mission to wipe out urban Naxals.

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Shudder (verb)

• Meaning tremble convulsively, typically as a
  result of fear
• Synonyms shiver, quiver
• Antonyms steady
• The fact that the sold out, spineless mainstream
  media never talks about them, that even
  government officials shudder at the mention of
  their name, and that most of us see them every
  single day without the mildest suspicion is a
  testament to how deeply they have embedded
  themselves in Indias civic, social and cultural
  psyche.

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Mustered (verb)

• Meaning assemble especially for inspection or
  for preparation of battle
• Synonyms convoke, collect
• Antonyms avoid
• A friend who had suffered sexual harassment
  several years ago admitted that she mustered
  enough courage to go public only after the MeToo
  campaign had started but wouldnt have done so if
  the offender had written a private letter of
  apology.

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Exonerated (verb)

• Meaning absolve (someone) from blame for a fault
• Synonyms acquit, discharge
• Antonyms blame, condemn
• Hearing these accounts, I was reminded of a news
  story about an Algerian Muslim pilot who was
  falsely accused of training the 9/11 hijackers
  and who spent nearly five months in a prison in
  London before the court exonerated him.

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Fester (verb)

• Meaning become worse or more intense,
  especially through long-term neglect or
  indifference.
• Synonyms intensify, smolder
• Antonyms flourish
• Sometimes these wounds fester and grudges
  congeal, deepening an already spiralling
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Expunge (verb)

• Meaning remove completely (something unwanted or
  unpleasant)
• Synonyms obliterate, abolish
• Antonyms establish
• They betray the sickness of the wrongdoer
  because he continues to treat his victim as an
  object to be manipulated, as an instrument with
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