(VOCABULARY)
1. Confiscate (Verb)
- Definition: take or seize (someone’s property) with authority.
- Synonyms: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition
- Antonyms: return
- Usage: “the guards confiscated his camera”
2. Promulgate (Verb)
- Definition: Promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
- Synonyms: Publicize, Spread, Communicate, Propagate
- Antonyms: Conceal, Hush (up), Silence, Suppress
- Usage: President Ram Nath Kovind has promulgated the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance.
3. Confiscate (Verb)
- Definition: take or seize (someone’s property) with authority.
- Synonyms: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition
- Antonyms: return
- Usage: “the guards confiscated his camera”
4. Subterfuge (Noun)
- Definition: Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
- Synonyms: Trickery, Intrigue, Deviousness, Evasion, Deceit,
- Antonyms: Honesty, Openness
- Usage: He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions.
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. To write under a different name — Pseudonym
6. One who is out to destroy the Government: –Anarchist
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Accumulate (B) Acumulate (C) Accumoulate (D) Accumulaete
8. (A) Extrimaly (B) Extremaly (C) Extrimely (D) Extremely
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. As much use as a chocolate fire-guard:
- Meaning: A fire-guard is used in front of a fireplace for safety. A chocolate fire-guard is of no use. An alternative to ‘As much use as a chocolate teapot’.
- Example: Until the power comes back on, all those microwaveable meals we got are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
10. Between the devil and the deep blue sea:
- Meaning: If you are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, you are in a dilemma; a difficult choice.
- Example: I was between the devil and the deep blue sea, for if I didn’t take out another loan—and go deeper into debt—I could not pay off the debts I already owed.
