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We are here with your Daily dose of Challenging Wordlist. Consider the given newspaper article as a Comprehension for your exams and do answer the questions at the end.
Today’s article, 'Lift the veil of secrecy’ has been picked from The Hindu.
This article is about Demonitisation. India demonetised its 500 and 1000 rupee notes on November 8, 2016 and this action affected 86 percent of all cash in circulation. The demonetisation action was intended to curb black money, the hoarding of unaccounted cash, and sponsorship of terrorism, but also led to long queues from bank runs, leaving more than 30 people dead. The old notes are now being replaced by new 500 and 2000 rupee notes.
To read more, you can go through the article from the link below -
Lift the veil of secrecy
Challenging Words in the Article -
- Hardship (कष्ट) - Noun
Meaning - severe suffering or privation
Synonyms - adversity, calamity
Antonyms - benefit, blessing
Example - Intolerable levels of hardship. - Slew (धसान)
Meaning - turn or slide violently or uncontrollably (Verb)
a violent or uncontrollable sliding movement (Noun)
Synonyms - abundance, bundle
Antonyms - individual, debt
Example - My anger built a slew pressure. - Sops (रियायतों)
Meaning - a thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met (Noun)
soak up liquid using an absorbent substance (Verb)
Synonyms - absorb, bribe
Antonyms - dehydrate, dry
Example - My agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work. - Collusion (मिलीभगत) - Noun
Meaning - secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to deceive others
Synonyms - complicity, deceit
Antonyms - honesty
Example - The collusion between the two oil companies is being investigated by the justice department. - Counterfeit (नक़ली)
Meaning - made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive or defraud (Adjective)
a fraudulent imitation of something else (Noun)
imitate fraudulently (Verb)
Synonyms - copied, false
Example - The man was arrested for making counterfeit money. - Precision (यथार्थता) - Noun
Meaning - the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate
Synonyms - rigor, heed
Antonyms - disregard, ignorance
Example - There was no need for precision regarding the time. - Stash (छिपाने की जगह)
Meaning - store (something) safely in a hidden or secret place (Verb)
a store or supply of something, typically one that is kept hidden or secret (Noun)
Synonyms - cache, inventory
Antonyms - debt, poverty
Example - Find his emergency stash. - Remittances (प्रेषण) - Noun
Meaning - a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift
Synonyms - keep, living
Antonyms - entertainment, neglect
Example - To pay your bill please forward the remittance to our corporate office.
Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following -
- Is Demonetisation was the last resort to clean economy?
- What are other measure that government should take to supplement the demonetization and what are it's expected gains in future?
Given below are some words to check your vocabulary you can make sentences with those words in the comment section which will be reviewed by us.
- Unearthed, Hoarding, Exempted, Unethical & Fortnightly.
Take the Quiz below to find out how versed you are in your vocab.
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