Challenging Word List

Today’s article, 'Karnataka budget: It’s populist and responsible’ has been picked from The Economic Times.

This article talks about the budget presented by Chief minister Siddaramaiah before next year’s assembly election. The budget states that the borrowings from center to be excluded while calculating fiscal deficit.

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

Karnataka budget: It’s populist and responsible

Challenging Words in the Article -

• Garnished (सुशोमित करना) - Verb
  Meaning - serve notice on (a third party) for the purpose of legally seizing money belonging to a debtor or defendant
  Synonyms - adorn, enhancement
  Antonyms - plainness, decrease
  Example - From what distant land had they travelled together to reach this holiday-garnished city in the hills.
• Freebies (मुफ्त) - Noun
  Meaning - a thing that is provided or given free of charge
  Synonyms - handout, gift
  Example - He gives them regular freebies.
• Leavened (ख़मीरवाला) - Verb
  Meaning - cause (dough or bread) to ferment and rise by adding leaven
  Synonyms - lighten, raise
  Example - His remarkes leaven the tense atmosphere.
• Rectitude (इंसाफ) - Noun
  Meaning - morally correct behaviour or thinking, righteousness
  Synonyms - virtue, probity
  Antonyms - deceit, evil
  Example - Jake’s rectitude prevented him from lying to the police about his actions.
• Substantive (वस्तु-संबंधी) - Adjective
  Meaning - having a firm basis in reality and so important, meaningful, or considerable
  Synonyms - noun, proper noun
  Example - Why should I take the herb when there is no substantive proof it will ease my pain?
• Intoxicating (मादक) - Adjective
  Meaning - (of alcoholic drink or a drug) liable to cause someone to lose control of their faculties or behaviour
  Synonyms - heady, thrilling
  Antonyms - sobering, boring
  Example - This wine's very intoxicating.
• Scrapping (समाप्त करना) - Verb
  Meaning - abolish or cancel (a plan, policy, or law)
  Synonyms - discard, ditch
  Antonyms - accept, keep
  Example - The committee decided to scrap the plan altogether, and start all over.
• Replication (प्रतिकृति) - Noun
  Meaning - the action of copying or reproducing something
  Synonyms - effigy, duplicate
  Antonyms - entity, original
  Example - Why would I pay a huge price for a replication of a designer handbag?

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

• Explain the term "Free laptops are now par for the course"?
• Is macroeconomic stability of state is at risk, State with answers?

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.

• Revenue 
• Deficit 
• Excluded 
• Expenditure