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1. Mitigate(Verb) –
- Meaning: make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.
- Synonyms: alleviate, reduce, diminish
- Antonyms: aggravate, increase, intensify
- Usage: ”drainage scl1emes have helped to mitigate t11is problem”
2. Tenuous (Adjective) –
- Meaning: very weak or slight.
- Synonyms: slight, insubstantial, flimsy
- Antonyms: convincing, substantial, strong
- Usage: “the tenuous link between interest rates and investment”
3. Desperate (Adjective) –
- Meaning: feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
- Synonyms: despairing, hopeless, anguished
- Antonyms: cheerful, composed
- Usage: ”a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth”
4. Onerous (Adjective) –
- Meaning: involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty.
- Synonyms: burdensome, heavy, inconvenient
- Antonyms: easy, effortless
- Usage: ”he found his duties increasingly onerous”
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5. Regular user of places/restaurant etc. –Clientele
6. One who pretends to be what he is not –Hypocrite
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7. (A) Priggissness (B) Priggishness (C) Prigishness (D) Prigissness
8. (A) Misbeleiver (B) Misbeliever (C) Missbeliever (D) Misbellieve
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9. Cloud on the horizon:
- Meaning: If you can see a problem ahead, you can call it a cloud on the horizon.
- Example: Financial analysts believe that the sudden drop in oil prices points to a cloud on the horizon for the national economy.
10. Close shave:
- Meaning: If you have a close shave, you very nearly have a serious accident or get into trouble.
- Example: I had a close shave this morning when a tractor trailer unexpectedly swerved into my lane.
