Example: The scheme was introduced for small businesses that would struggle to comply with the various requirements of GST.
1. Comply [kuh m-plahy]
Verb: to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with).
Synonyms: acquiesce, adhere to, give in, give up, obey, observe, quit.
Antonyms: disobey, dissuade, condemn, deny, disallow, disapprove.
Example: “This should mean that a significant number of SME sector players should benefit from not having to meet with detailed compliances under GST and also having a less financial burden, on account of GST,” Mahesh Jaising, Partner, Indirect Tax, BMR & Associates said.
2. Compliance [kuh m-plahy-uh ns]
Noun: the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yieldinga tendency to yield readily to others, especially in a weak and subservient way; conformity; accordance.
Synonyms: conformity, consent, acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession.
Antonyms: difference, disagreement, refusal, disobedience, rebellion, resistance.
Example: In fact, most waited for the economy to rebound as it quickly healed from the impact of the demonetisation of high-value rupee notes in November.
3. Rebound [ri-bound]
Verb: to bound or spring back from force of impact; to recover, as from ill health or discouragement.
Synonyms: overcome, pick up, revive, backfire, boomerang, convalesce, heal.
Antonyms: destroy, deteriorate, hurt, ruin, weaken.
Example: Critics of demonetisation felt vindicated, particularly after GDP figures for the third quarter suggested that the shocking, overnight move to demonetise had very little negative impact.
4. Vindicate [vin-di-keyt]
Verb: to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like; to afford justification for; justify; to uphold or justify by argument or evidence.
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, corroborate, defend, disprove, exonerate, justify, prove.
Antonyms: blame, charge, condemn, convict, deny, disprove, incriminate.
Example: Yet, for all the sermon delivered by the country’s punditry, the fact remains that macroeconomic forecasting is a lousy business — regardless of who makes the predictions.
5. Sermon [sur-muh n]
Noun: a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service; any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue.
Synonyms: advice, exhortation, homily, lecture, lesson, preaching.
6. Punditry [puhn-di-tree]
Noun: the opinions or methods of pundits.
7. Lousy [lou-zee]
Adjective: mean or contemptible; wretchedly bad; miserable.
Synonyms: awful, horrible, miserable, poor, rotten, second-rate.
Antonyms: good, great, happy, nice, pleasant, rich.
Example: For one, data cannot prove or disprove any hypothesis as they do not establish causation.
8. Causation [kaw-zey-shuh n]
Noun: the action of causing or producing; the relation of cause to effect; causality; anything that produces an effect; cause.
Synonyms: element, explanation, matter, motivation, motive, origin, principle.
Antonyms: discouragement, effect, result, conclusion, finish, neglect.
Example: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has gleefully foisted two more board examinations on unsuspecting students from next year.
9. Gleefully [glee-fuh lli]
Adjective: full of exultant joy; merrily; delightfully.
Synonyms: brilliantly, cheerfully, colorfully, flamboyantly, joyfully, merrily.
Antonyms: sadly, solemnly, unhappily.
10. Foist [foist]
Verb: to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably; to bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently (usually followed by in or into).
Synonyms: impose, compel to accept, fob off, insert fraudulently, palm off, pass off.
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