(VOCABULARY)
1. Feasibility (Noun) –
- Meaning: the state or degree of being easily or conveniently done.
- Synonyms: practicability, practicality
- Antonyms: impracticability, incurability, incurable, insolubility
- Usage: ”the feasibility of screening athletes for cardiac disease”
2. Cavalier (Adjective) –
- Meaning: showing a lack of proper concern; offhand.
- Synonyms: offhand, indifferent, casual
- Antonyms: thoughtful, careful, wary, cautious
- Usage: ”Anne was irritated by his cavalier attitude”
3. Efficacy (Noun) –
- Meaning: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
- Synonyms: effectiveness, success, achievement, hit, prosperity
- Antonyms: inefficacy
- Usage: ”there is little information on the efficacy of this treatment”
4. Convalescent (Adjective) –
- Meaning: recovering from an illness or medical treatment.
- Synonyms: recuperating, recovering, succor, safeguard
- Antonyms: deteriorating, failing
- Usage: ”a convalescent child”
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. A person’s peculiar habit – Idiosyncrasy
6. Government by a king – Monarchy
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Dominoin (B) Dominian (C) Dominien (D) Dominion
8. (A) Soveriegnty (B) Sovireignty (C) Sovereiginty (D) Sovereignty
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Cover all the bases:
- Meaning: If you cover all the bases, you deal with all aspects of a situation or issue, or anticipate all possibilities. (‘Cover all bases’ is also used.)
- Example: I covered all the bases by applying to 15 colleges.
10. Cream of the crop:
- Meaning: The cream of the crop is the best there is.
- Example: These delicious strawberries are the cream of the crop.
