Circuitous (adj.)
Circuit… the electric circuit in any room follows a circuitous path.
E.g.:
Took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site.
We took a circuitous route to the FIFA world cup so as to avoid the massive traffic jam on the highway.
Syn:
omplicated, devious, labyrinthine, long way, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous
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Circuitous (Antonym)
(A) labyrinthine
(B) presumptuous
(C) compendious
(D) pert
(E) Reserved
Popularity: 20% [?]
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Scuttle(n)
There is a cut in ship.
Meaning:
To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship’s hull).
Popularity: 2% [?]
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Ruse (v)
Tricksters use rouge to ruse the people.
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Meaning:
A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge
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Usage:
Synonyms: wile, artifice, trick, ruse, feint, stratagem, maneuver, dodge
These nouns denote means for achieving an end by indirection or deviousness.
Wile suggests deceiving and entrapping a victim by playing on his or her weak points: “He did not fail to see/His uncle’s cunning wiles and treachery” William Morris.
Artifice refers to something especially contrived to create a desired effect: “Should the public forgive artifices used to avoid military service?” Godfrey Sperling.
Trick implies willful deception: “The … boys … had all sorts of tricks to prevent us from winning” W.H. Hudson.
Ruse stresses the creation of a false impression: Your pretended deafness was a ruse to enable you to learn our plans, wasn’t it?
Feint denotes a deceptive act calculated to distract attention from one’s real purpose: One person bumped into me as a feint while the other stole my wallet.
Stratagem implies carefully planned deception used to achieve an objective: The manager used ruthless stratagems to win the promotion.
Maneuver often applies to a single strategic move: “To this day they always speak of that Reform Bill as if it had been a dishonest maneuver” The Standard.
Dodge stresses shifty and ingenious deception: “‘It was all false, of course?’ ‘All, sir,’ replied Mr. Weller, ‘ … artful dodge’” Charles Dickens.
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Example:
>> rouged her cheeks
>> An excellent ruse in controversy, to reverse positions.
>> This ruse will be discovered later
>> This ruse worked well for some time, but finally the Folk no longer were inveigled into showing themselves.
ruse (antonym)
a) subterfuge
b) trick
c) roundabout
d) chicanary
e) undeceive
Popularity: 17% [?]
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Rig (v)
Criminals wear wig to rig the elections.
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>> to manipulate dishonestly for personal gain: rig a prizefight; rig stock prices.
>> to manipulate or control usually by deceptive or dishonest means
>> to fix in advance for a desired result
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>> rig the contest
>> rig an election
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Pogrom (n)
An official prosecution program which usually leads to mass killing of a group of people, usually for racial or religious reasons.
Pogrom is a program of official mass killing.
E.g.:
State organized pogrom after the Godhera train carnage.
A pogrom ordered by Hitler.
Syn: slaughter, mass murder, massacre, butchery, killing, wholesale slaughter, general slaughter, carnage, blood bath, genocide
Antonyms of Pogrom
A) Slaughter
B) Schedule
C) Renaissance
D) Persecution
E) Peonage
Popularity: 16% [?]
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Fulgent (adj)
Full + detergent — we can bring fulgent using a full detergent cake.
>> “Tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” Nicholas Profits
Meaning:
shining intensely; “the blazing sun”; “blinding headlights”; “dazzling snow”; “fulgent patterns of sunlight”; “the glaring sun”
Syn: ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike limpid, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid
Ant: black, dark, dim, dreary, dull, gloomy
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a) blinding
b) preen
c) radiant
d) black
e) tenebrous
Popularity: 21% [?]
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