Shape Up Your Vocabulary

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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, 'Auto sector awaits breaks beyond Budget’ has been picked from Business Line.

This article talks about the outlay of credit which may bring back tractor sales despite the nation was blinded from a poor monsoon.

To read more, you can go through the article from the link below - 

Auto sector awaits breaks beyond Budget

Challenging Words in the Article -

• Optimistic (आशावादी) - AdjectiveMeaning - hopeful and confident about the future
  Synonyms - assured, encouraged
  Antonyms - dejected, doubtful
  Example - My sister is not an optimist because she always expects the worst case scenario.
• Incentives (प्रोत्साहन) - NounMeaning - a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something
  Synonyms - encouragement, motivation
  Antonyms - deterrent, hindrances
  Example - The workers have no incentive to work harder.
  
• Emphasis (महत्त्व) - Noun
  Meaning - special importance, value, or prominence given to something
  Synonyms - attention, strength
  Antonyms - ignorance, lethargy
  Example - Our English teacher put emphasis on pronunciation.
  
• Apprehension (शंका) - Noun
  Meaning - anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
  Synonyms - dread, mistrust
  Antonyms - belief, calm
  Example - Her apprehension was assuming a reduced priority.
  
• Ancillary (अधीनस्थ) 
  Meaning - providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, system, etc. (Adjective)
  a person whose work provides necessary support to the primary activities of an organization, system, etc. (Noun)
  Synonyms - additional, collateral
  Antonyms - necessary, needed
  Example - He runs a small ancillary unit at the outskirts of the city.
  
• Pessimism (निराशावाद) - Noun
  Meaning - a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen
  Synonyms - distrust, grief
  Antonyms - cheer, faith
  Example - The decrease in car sales reveals the pessimism many consumers feel about the economy.
• Stifle (दम घुटना) - Verb
  Meaning - make (someone) unable to breathe properly, suffocate
  Synonyms - curb, suffocate
  Antonyms - allow, free
  Example - I couldn't stifle my tears at the sight of the handicapped beggar. 
• Buoyant (प्रसन्नचित्त) - Adjective
  Meaning - able or tending to keep afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas
  Synonyms - floatable, airy
  Antonyms - heavy, down
  Example - As the stock market hit a record high, the buoyant investors were celebrating.

 Now considering the article above as a Reading Comprehension question, try to answer the following - 

• Entry of newcomers is expected good for the automobile space. Define the reason behind it?
• What is the biggest challenge in getting ready the BS VI (Bharat Stage VI norms) in 2020?

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.

• Trigger 
• Ambitious 
• Crippling 
• Compatible 
• Intent