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Neerja Raheja (rahejaneerja)
 Quiz:
Mention their antonyms:

1. Meretricious
2. Indefatigable
3. Picayune
4. Probity
5. Alacrity
 meretricious
Adjective

Meaning:

Tastelessly showy; based on pretense, deceptively pleasing; gaudy; falsely

attractive; flashy and garish; apparently attractive but having no real value

Usage:

The common phrase “fake it until you make it” encourages one to be meretricious
as you are pretending to be something that you aren’t
दखावट
दखावे का
बनावट शोभा यु त
 indefatigable
Adjective

Meaning:

Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; tireless; unflagging;

incapable of being fatigued; untiring

Usage:

प र मी
Smith is an indefatigable laborer who can work from sunrise to sunset

बे थकावट
 छोटा
picayune
तु छ
Adjective

Meaning:

Things that are small, trivial and unimportant that they are not worth getting into; of
little value; paltry; petty, small minded; lilliputian; parochial

Usage:

You should not focus on the picayune details when it is the larger ideas that are
the real concerns
 probity ईमानदार
Noun स चापन
Meaning:

Being morally and ethically above reproach, having integrity; complete and
confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles; uprightness

Usage:

A person of indisputable probity must head the disciplinary panel

The defense attorney questioned the probity of the witness

 alacrity
Noun

Meaning:

Liveliness and eagerness; promptness in response; cheerful readiness

Usage: उ साह
She accepted the invitation with alacrity जोश
He responded with smiling alacrity फुरती
मु तैद
 Quiz:
Mention their antonyms:

1. Meretricious
2. Indefatigable
3. Picayune
4. Probity
5. Alacrity
 Cheat sheet:
1. Meretricious: genuine, real, undecorated, unembellished
2. Indefatigable: lazy, lethargic, tired, inactive, fatigued
3. Picayune: broad minded, cosmopolitan, liberal, tolerant
4. Probity: deceit, mendacity, untruthfulness, dishonesty
5. Alacrity: dullness, slowness
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