(VOCABULARY)
1. Tenterhook (Noun) –
- Definition: In a state of uneasiness, strain, or suspense
- Synonyms: Anxious, Awkward, Discomfited.
- Antonyms: Alleviate, Comfort, Disallow and Discontinue
- Usage: The waiting kept us on tenterhooks
2. Condign (Adjective)-
- Definition : (of punishment or retribution) appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved.
- Synonyms : Competent, Deserved, Due, Fair
- Antonyms: Incoherent, incorrect, irrelative, irrelevant
- Usage: A suspension without pay is coding punishment for breaking the company’s code of’n business ethics.
3. Beheaded (Verb)-
- Meaning : cut off the head of (someone), especially as a form of execution.
- Synonyms: Decapitate, cut off the head of guillotine
- Antonyms: recapitate
- Usage: “Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay”
4. Ethnic (Adjective)-
- Definition: relating to a population subgroup (with in a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.
- Synonyms: racial, race-related, ethnological, genetic,
- Antonyms: recent.
- Usage: ethnic and cultural rights and traditions
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5. One who mends shoes – Shoemaker
6. Government by a sovereign with uncontrolled authority – Despotism
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7. (A) Interegnum (B) Interregnam (C) Interregnem (D) Interregnum
8. (A) Stretocracy (B) Stractocracy (C) Stratecracy (D) Stratocracy
(IDIONS AND PHRASES)
9. Take a back seat
- Meaning : Choose to be less important in a role
- Example: He finally decided to take a back seat and let his son run the family business.
10. Weak in the knees
- Meaning : Barely able to stand because of emotion, fear or illness
- Example : The shock of being summoned by the Supreme Court made me go weak in the knees.
