(VOCABULARY)
1. Sway (Verb)
- Meaning: control or influence (a person or course of action).
- Synonyms: Influence, Affect, Bias
- Antonyms: Powerlessness, Inability, Inefficiency
- Usage: “Apparently the object began to sway backwards and forwards as if it were searching for something.”
2. 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 in Colchester’s history is making a return to the town she razed to the ground.”
3. Shrug (Verb)
- Meaning: dismiss something as unimportant.
- Synonyms: disregard, dismiss, take no notice of
- Antonyms: nod, agree, assent
- Usage: “Instead of shrugging his shoulders, he became agitated and a sarcastic torrent of words flew out.”
4. Paucity (Noun)
- Meaning: the presence of something in only 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.”
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. A political leader appealing to popular desires and prejudices – Demagogue
6. A person who readily believes others – Credulous
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7. (A) Lesure (B) Leisure (C) Liesure (D) Lisure
8. (A) Turniquet (B) Tourniquet (C) Tournequit (D) Torniquit
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. butter someone up
- Meaning:- To praise or flatter someone excessively
- Example:- Percy was always buttering up the boss, so he was surprised when he failed to get a promotion.
10. Die is cast:
- Meaning:- If the die is cast, a decision has been made that cannot be altered and fate will decide the consequences.
- Example:- As soon as he pulled out his gun, the die was cast and he was sure to be killed by the police.
