(VOCABULARY)
1. Veered (Verb)_
- Meaning: change direction suddenly.
- Synonyms: swerve, career, skew
- Antonyms: stayed, went direct, gone direct
- Usage: “One can veer off the main paths into gorgeous, overgrown woodland areas.”
2. Probe (Noun) –
- Meaning: a thorough investigation into a crime or other matter.
- Synonyms: investigation, inquiry, examination
- Antonyms: answer, ignore, misunderstand
- Usage: “I don’t think I shall ever know: in the time of recovery it seen1ed dangerous to ask and then the time for asking passed and one was afraid to probe an old wound.”
3. Brevity (Noun) –
- Meaning: concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
- Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness
- Antonyms: long-windedness, verbosity, loquaciousness, garrulity
- Usage: “The most notorious woman Colchester’s history is making a return to town she razed to the
ground.”
4. Paucity (Noun)
- Meaning: the presence of something in small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
- Synonyms: Scarcity, Sparseness, Sparsity
- Antonyms: Abundance
- Usage: “Much of this product is now power loom woven, due to a paucity of labour.”
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5. An act of violence to take control of a plan- Hijack
6. A person who readily believes others –Credulous
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7. (A) Gymnassium (B)Gimnasium (C) Gyinnasuim (D) Gymnasium
8. (A) Stretocracy (B) Stractocracy (C) Stratecracy (D) Stratocracy
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Dog tired:
- Meaning: – If you are dog tired, you are the exhausted.
- Example: – Carl usually got home at around 5 o’clock, dog tired after overtime on the job.
10. Birds and the bees:
- Meaning: – If a child is taught about the birds and the bees, they are taught about sex.
- Example: – He’s twenty years old and doesn’t understand about the birds and the bees!
