(VOCABULARY)
1. Endeavour (Verb)-
- Meaning: try hard to do or achieve something.
- Synonyms: try, attempt, venture
- Antonyms: abstention, destruction, ease
- Usage: “he is endeavouring to help the Third World”
2. Fraught (Adjective) –
- Meaning: causing or affected by anxiety or stress.
- Synonyms: anxious, worried, upset
- Antonyms: calm, noiseless, soundless, quiet, silent
- Usage: “there was a fraught silence”
3. Amenable (Adjective) –
- Meaning: open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
- Synonyms: compliant, acquiescent, biddable
- Antonyms: uncooperative
- Usage: “parents who have amenable children”
4. Hostage (Noun) –
- Meaning: a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition.
- Synonyms: captive, prisoner, detainee
- Antonyms: captor, independent, escapee
- Usage: “they were held hostage by armed rebels”
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5. Constant efforts to achieve something –Perseverance
6. One who runs away from justice or the law- Fugitive
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7. (A) Stubborrnnes (B) Stubborrness (C) Stuborrnness (D) Stubbornness
8. (A) Pertinasity (B) Pertinecity (C) Partinacity (D) Pertinacity
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9. Come up smelling of roses:
- Meaning: If someone comes up smelling of roses, they emerge from a situation with their reputation undamaged.
- Example: By reporting his colleagues as soon as the feds started snooping around, the CEO pocketed millions and still came up smelling of roses.
10. Come with the territory:
- Meaning: If something comes with the territory, it is part of a job or responsibility and just has to be accepted, even if unpleasant.
- Example: Sleep deprivation comes with the territory of being a new parent.
