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1. Pile (Noun) –
- Meaning: a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.
- Synonyms: heap, stack, mound
- Antonyms: ace, bit, dab
- Usage: “he placed the books in a neat pile”
2. Contagion (Noun) –
- Meaning: a disease spread by close contact.
- Synonyms: contamination, infection, disease
- Antonyms: advantage, cleanliness, purification
- Usage: ”through personal hygiene the spread of common contagions is discouraged”
3. Endorsement (Noun) –
- Meaning: the action of endorsing someone or something.
- Synonyms: support, backing, approval
- Antonyms: opposition, resistance, counteraction, opposition
- Usage: “the issue of full independence received overwhelming endorsement”
4. Whopping (Adjective) –
- Meaning: very large.
- Synonyms: huge, massive, enormous
- Antonyms: microminiature, microscopic
- Usage: “a whopping £74 million loss”
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5. A fourteen-line poem – Sonnet
6. Of one’s own free will – Voluntary
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7. (A) Transscript (B) Traunscript (C) Transcrippt (D) Transcript
8. (A) Cuonterpart (B) Counterpart (C) Counterppart (D) Countterpart
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9. By a long chalk:
- Meaning: If you beat somebody by a long chalk, you win easily and comfortably.
- Example: He won that match by a long chalk
10. By dint of:
- Meaning: This means ‘as a result of or’ because of: It would be good to think he’d risen to position of Chief Executive by dint of hard work.
- Example: By dint of hard work, I was able to get an A in my math class this semester.
