Example: Hardening their position in their first formal response to the appointment of Dineshwar Sharma as the Government of India (goi) representative on J&K, the separatists on Tuesday described the offer for dialogue as “futile and a ploy to strike a hard bargain” despite New Delhi’s “informal” attempts to persuade them.
1. Futile [fyoot-l, fyoo-tahyl]
Adjective: incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful; trifling; frivolous; unimportant.
Synonyms: fruitless, hollow, impractical, ineffective, ineffectual, insufficient, trivial, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain, worthless, abortive, barren, bootless, delusive, empty, exhausted, forlorn, idle, impracticable, in vain, no dice, nugatory, on a treadmill, otiose, out the window.
Antonyms: effective, fruitful, helpful, productive.
2. Ploy [ploi]
Noun: a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
Verb: Military Archaic. To move (troops) from a line into a column; Military Archaic. To move from a line into a column.
Synonyms: device, maneuver, ruse, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, tactic, artifice, contrivance, dodge, feint, gambit, move.
3. Bargain [bahr-guh n]
Noun: an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost; an agreement between parties settling what each shall give and take or perform and receive in a transaction; such an agreement as affecting one of the parties.
Verb: to discuss the terms of a bargain; haggle; negotiate; to come to an agreement; make a bargain.
Synonyms: arrangement, contract, deal, negotiation, pact, transaction, understanding, bond, business, compact, convention, covenant, engagement, pledge, promise, stipulation, treaty.
Antonyms: disagreement, misunderstanding, break, rip-off.
4. Persuade [per-sweyd]
Verb: to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging; to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.
Synonyms: advise, assure, cajole, coax, enlist, entice, exhort, get, impress, incline, induce, influence, prompt, satisfy, sway, urge, woo, actuate, affect, allure, blandish, brainwash, convert.
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade, fail, halt.
Example: “Comparing the internationally recognised 70-year-old political and humanitarian issue of Kashmir to sectarian war and power struggle in Syria is deception and propaganda. There is no correlation,” they said.
5. Humanitarian [hyoo-man-i-tair-ee-uh n or, often, yoo-]
Adjective: having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people; of or relating to ethical or theological humanitarianism; pertaining to the saving of human lives or to the alleviation of suffering.
Noun: a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist.
Synonyms: altruistic, charitable, humane, philanthropic, good, beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, generous, idealistic, kindly, public-spirited.
Antonyms: inhumane, uncharitable, unkind, unsympathetic.
6. Sectarian [sek-tair-ee-uh n]
Adjective: of or relating to sectaries or sects; narrowly confined or devoted to a particular sect; narrowly confined or limited in interest, purpose, scope, etc.
Noun: a member of a sect; a bigoted or narrow-minded adherent of a sect.
Synonyms: factional, parochial, partisan, dissident, doctrinaire, fanatic, limited, local, nonconformist, provincial, splinter, bigoted, clannish, cliquish, dogmatic, fanatical, hidebound, insular, nonconforming, rigid, schismatic.
Antonyms: conforming, broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian.
7. Deception [dih-sep-shuh n]
Noun: the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived; something that deceives or is intended to deceive; fraud; artifice.
Synonyms: betrayal, deceit, disinformation, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, hypocrisy, lying, mendacity, treachery, trickery, untruth, beguilement, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dirt, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, equivocation, flimflam, fraudulence.
Antonyms: faithfulness, forthrightness, honesty, loyalty.
8. Propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh]
Noun: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc; the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc; the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
Synonyms: disinformation, hype, indoctrination, publicity, advertising, agitprop, announcement, brainwashing, doctrine, evangelism, handout, hogwash, implantation, inculcation, newspeak, promotion, promulgation.
Antonyms: truth.
9. Correlation [kawr-uh-ley-shuh n, kor-]
Noun: mutual relation of two or more things, parts, etc.
Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, matching; parallelism, equivalence; interdependence, interrelationship, interconnection.
Antonyms: difference, disassociation, disconnection, imbalance.
Example: The Hurriyat leaders warned that “any Kashmiri to be part of this futile exercise will only undermine our internationally acknowledged legitimate and just struggle.”
10. Undermine [uhn-der-mahyn or especially for 1, 2, 4, uhn-der-mahyn]
Verb: to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect; to attack by indirect, secret, or underhand means; attempt to subvert by stealth; to make an excavation under; dig or tunnel beneath, as a military stronghold.
Synonyms: blunt, cripple, erode, frustrate, hurt, impair, ruin, sabotage, sap, subvert, threaten, thwart, torpedo, undercut, wreck, attenuate, corrode, debilitate, dig, disable, enfeeble, excavate.
Antonyms: aid, assist, build, construct.
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