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1.Nefarious (adjective)
Meaning: (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal.
Synonyms: black, dark, evil, immoral, iniquitous, bad, rotten, sinful, unethical, unlawful, unrighteous, unsavory, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong.
Antonyms: decent, ethical, good, honest, honorable, just, moral, right, righteous, sublime, upright, virtuous.
Example: Default, by design, and under the watch of independent directors is unacceptable. However, the notion that all shell companies have a nefarious intent is misplaced.
2.Impeccable (adjective)
Meaning: in accordance with the highest standards; faultless.
Synonyms: flawless, faultless, unblemished, spotless, stainless, untarnished, perfect, exemplary, ideal, model.
Example: Directors of companies must have impeccable integrity. They must act as watchdogs for companies to uphold corporate governance and protect interests of all shareholders.
3.Vicarious (adjective)
Meaning: experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
Synonyms: indirect, second-hand, secondary, derivative, derived, at one remove, surrogate, substitute, substituted, by proxy.
Example: Criminal negligence is not some vicarious reflex. If a mishap occurred because senior management failed to allocate resources, either human or financial, that were needed in a systemic sense to prevent it, the misguided senior management would, indeed, be culpable.
4.Culpable (adjective)
Meaning: deserving blame.
Synonyms: to blame, guilty, at fault, in the wrong, blameworthy, blameable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, found wanting.
Example: Criminal negligence is not some vicarious reflex. If a mishap occurred because senior management failed to allocate resources, either human or financial, that were needed in a systemic sense to prevent it, the misguided senior management would, indeed, be culpable.
5.Laxity (noun)
Meaning: lack of strictness or care, looseness of a limb or muscle.
Synonyms: indecision, indifference, leniency
Example: But if such resources were, in fact, available to operational functionaries and laxity on their part resulted in tragedy, accountability must stop at the level of the errant functionaries.
6.Scrupulously (adverb)
Meaning: in a very careful and thorough way, with great effort to avoid doing wrong.
Synonyms: careful, meticulous, painstaking, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, searching, close, elaborate, minute, studious, rigorous, particular.
Antonyms: careless, slapdash, dishonest, unscrupulous
Example: But if such resources were, in fact, available to operational functionaries and laxity on their part resulted in tragedy, accountability must stop at the level of the errant functionaries. Law enforcement and justice mechanisms should scrupulously follow this maxim. This must happen in the government as well.
7.Gobble (verb)
Meaning: eat (something) hurriedly and noisily.
Synonyms: eat greedily/hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp, swallow hurriedly, devour, wolf, cram, gorge (oneself) on, gorge oneself.
Example: Industries that profited from textile and clothing quotas, duty-free imports, tax holidays, free infrastructure, subsidised services and lax environmental and labour regulations still depend on imports of raw and semi-finished materials. This is a barrier to linkages in the local economy and gobbles up net foreign exchange earnings.
8.Exploitative (adjective)
Meaning: making use of a situation or treating others unfairly in order to gain an advantage or benefit.
Example: Export-oriented industrialisation is promoted as the cure-all for all ills. Its labour force is mostly of women in low-wage and highly exploitative conditions, and where unions are not allowed to organise inside and outside export-processing zones.
9.Aggravate (verb)
Meaning: make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious, annoy or exasperate.
Example: Chronic under-investment in food production has intensified dependence on imports and also insecurity as consumers are more exposed to world market price fluctuations. The withdrawal of state support in access to credit, inputs and extension services as well as in direct purchase, storage, transport and distribution has abandoned producers to predatory middlemen, aggravating agrarian distress.
10.Predatory (adjective)
Meaning: (of an animal) preying naturally on others.
Synonyms: predacious, carnivorous, hunting, raptorial, ravening
Example: Chronic under-investment in food production has intensified dependence on imports and also insecurity as consumers are more exposed to world market price fluctuations. The withdrawal of state support in access to credit, inputs and extension services as well as in direct purchase, storage, transport and distribution has abandoned producers to predatory middlemen, aggravating agrarian distress.
