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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 schemes have helped to mitigate this problem”
2. Rationale (Noun) –
- Meaning: a set of reasons or a logical basis for a course of action or belief
- Synonyms: reasoning, thinking, (logical) basis
- Antonyms: discouragement, proof, reality
- Usage: “he explained the rationale behind the change”
3. Ply (Noun) –
- Meaning: a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material.
- Synonyms: layer, thickness, strand
- Antonyms: disregard, idle, ignore
- Usage: “tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination”
4. Deemed (Verb) –
- Meaning: regard or consider in a specified way.
- Synonyms: regard as, consider, judge
- Antonyms: disregarded, disapproved, refuted
- Usage: “the event was deemed a great success”
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5. A vivacious and lively experience is said to be – Scintillating
6. A person who is easily deceived or tricked – Gullible
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7. (A) Conscintiouss (B) Conscientiuos (C) Consceintious (D) Conscientious
8. (A) Pronuonced (B) Pronounced (C) Pronnounced (D) Pronuoncced
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9. Big fish in a small pond:
- Meaning: A big fish in a small pond is an important person 1n a small place or organization.
- Example: His coarse management style made it evident that he was used to being a big fish in a small pond. That attitude certainly won’t be tolerated by anyone at his new company.
10. Break your duck:
- Meaning: If you break your duck, you do something for the first time.
- Example: Their esteemed batsman, having an unusually poor performance today, finally broke his duck midway through the match.
