(VOCABULARY)
1. Imbibing (Noun)_
- Meaning: to consume a liquid; to have a clear idea or understanding of; to mix or blend together, typically into a single mass or unit; The process by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another;
- Synonyms: absorption, assimilation, incorporation, incorporating, blending, combining, assimilating
- comprehending, drinking, consuming, quaffing,
- Antonyms: impermeable, nonabsorbent waterproof, abstaining, fasting
- Usage: It is easy to in1agine him inheriting caste prejudices in his childhood and, after arrival in London to study law, imbibing the prejudices of his colonial masters, to see himself as close to educated British elites than to Indian peasants or the ‘untouchables’,
2. Impinges (noun) –
- Meaning: Have an effect, especially a negative one; Enter with disruptive or adverse effect
- Synonyms: affects, touches, influences, infringes, invades, violates, abuts, adjoins joins
- Antonyms: avoids, dodges, leaves, alone
- Usage: It impinges on the Liberty of an entire populace.
3. Sophistry (verb)-
- Meaning: The art of using deceptive speech or writing; Talk intended to confuse; Excessive concern with 1ninor details and rules
- Synonyms: pedantry, dogmatism, double talk, deceit, fallacy, equivocation, dishonesty
- Antonyms: honesty, truth ,openness
- Usage: While there can be no argument about the importance of development projects,
it bas resorted to sophistry in classifying activity for exemptions.
4. Spearheaded (verb) –
- Meaning: To have shown the way by being in front; to have pioneered; to get a sizable lead in a contest;
- Synonyms: leaded, led, headed, captained, commanded, established, innovated
- Antonyms: followed, trailed, tailed, discouraged, dissuaded
- Usage: The mass sit ins since June have attracted wider support from theprofess1onal classes that spearheaded the 2019 popular uprising that led to the fall of the autocratic regime of Mr. Bashir
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. Too willing to obey other people – Subservient
6. A person who always run after women – Philanderer
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Somnumbulism (B) Somnambulizm (C) Sumnambulism (D) Somnambulism
8. (A) Arconist (B) Arsonist (C) Arrsonist (D) Arsunist
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Bird’s eye view:
- Meaning: If you have a bird’s eye view of something, you can see it perfectly clearly.
- Example: From up here you can get a bird’s eye view of the entire campus.
10. Bear the brunt:
- Meaning: People who bear the brunt of something endure the worst of something bad.
- Example: When our system crashed, the call center employees bore the brunt of our customers’ anger.
