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Today’s article title is: ‘Would be massive’: Paytm Money looks to tap India’s stock trading mania
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FIERCE
Adjective
Pronunciation: feers
Meaning: violently unfriendly or aggressive in disposition/ extreme in degree, power, or effect
Synonyms: grim, savage, vicious/ acute, intense
Antonyms: gentle, mild, unaggressive/ light, moderate, soft
Usage: He is a fierce person/The wind was fierce yesterday
Forms: Fierceness (noun), Fiercely (adverb)
STOKE
Verb
Pronunciation: stohk
Meaning: to make greater in size, amount, or number
Synonyms: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build up, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hype
Antonyms: abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, minify, reduce, subtract
Usage: Moving the logs will stoke the fire
SPECULATIVE
Adjective
Pronunciation: spek-yuh-ley-tiv
Meaning: existing only as an assumption or speculation
Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetical, suppositional, theoretical
Antonyms: actual, factual, real
Usage: I cannot believe in speculative hearsay
Forms: Speculation (noun)
OUST
Verb
Pronunciation: oust
Meaning: to drive or force out
Synonyms: banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, dismiss
Antonyms: accept, admit, receive, take, take in
Usage: They can oust the king from his throne
Forms: Ouster (noun)
RALLY
Verb
Pronunciation: ral-ee
Meaning: to assemble and make ready for action/to regain a former or normal state
Synonyms: mobilize, muster/ bounce (back), come back, rebound, recover, snap back
Antonyms: demobilize/ decline, fail, worsen
Usage: The forces will rally together/She will quickly rally to win the race
