Vengeance

Wow! It surely is a commendable way in which the Senior Citizen responds to the person smoking in the ad. Vengeance in Hindi means ‘Pratishodha’, which means a revenge for something which harmed you and your response to that in the same or sometimes even more harmful manner in order to make that person learn a lesson.

Meanings of Vengeance:

1. The act of taking revenge/ retribution.
2. The desire for revenge

Idiom: with a vengeance

With great violence or force.

Pronunciation: ven-juhns

Master’s Tip to learn Vengeance

When(Ven) anyone does something immoral , people around should not become an audience(geance). In fact ,they should learn from the way the Senior Citizen reciprocated for the misdeeds of the person shown in the ad.

Sentence Examples for Vengeance

1. It is not always justified to reply with vengeance to anything that goes against our viewpoint.
2. The strong comeback that Shikar Dhawan made in the Indian team is a comeback with ‘Vengeance’.

Quote for the word

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. -Niccolo Machiavelli