Enhance your vocabulary with vocab words - 14th Aug 2023

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Derailed: (verb)

Meaning: Cause (a train or tram) to leave its tracks accidentally. (पटरी से उतरना)

Synonym: Crash, Hinder, Thwart, Wreck

Antonym: Aid, Assist, Encourage, Forward

Example: The train was derailed by heavy snow.

Related Words:

Derailment

Trick: The rail is derailed.

Expressing: (verb)

Meaning: to show something such as a feeling or an opinion by words or actions (व्यक्त)

Synonym:  Communicate, Convey, Indicate, Show

Antonym:  Suppress, Restrict, Restrain, Stifle

Example:  He expressed an interest in the product

Related Words:

Expressed, Expressive

Trick: They expressed and suppressed their feeling

Sabotage: (noun)

Meaning: An act or process tending to hamper or hurt. (बिगाड़ना)

Synonym: Wreck, Destroy, Obstruct, Cripple 

Antonym: Aid, Abet, Assist, Facilitate.

Example: They sabotaged the enemy's oil fields.

Related words:

Sabotaging, Sabotaging

Trick: They engaged and sabotaged

Suspended: (verb)

Meaning: Imposed by a judge or court but not enforced as long as no further offence is committed within a specified period. (निलंबन)

Synonym: Adjournment, Interruption, Delay, Stay 

Antonym: Continuation, Resumption, Beginning, Opening

Example: He was angry about his suspension from the team.

Related words:

Suspension, Suspending

Trick: The suspension of the man caused him caution.

Departure: (noun)

Meaning: The action of leaving, especially to start a journey. (प्रस्थान)

Synonym:  Leaving, Going, Withdrawal, Exit.

Antonym:  Arrival, Coming, Entrance, Stay.

Example:  They had to postpone (their) departure because of bad weather.

Related words:

Departing, Departed

Trick: The departure of the flight was exposure.