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1. Clinging (verb)-
- Meaning: Sticking together; Having or showing a strong wish to protect someone or something; to attach, or be attached, to a wall; to maintain one’s beliefs or opinions
- Synonyms: retaining, conserving, sticking, adhering, protective, caring, adherent, agglutinant
- Antonyms: slack, billowing, detaching, discontinuing
- Usage: With the BJP and the JD(U) clinging to each other, the social combination
2. Whammy (verb)-
- Meaning: A mystical term or phrase believed to have magical powers; An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage
- Synonyms: setback, reverse, knock, catastrophe, disaster, shock, blow, distress
- Antonyms: achievement, advance, blessing, benediction
- Usage: a double ,whammy of lost employment and unresolved environmental damage.
3. Hegemony (noun)-
- Meaning: Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society.
- Synonyms: dominion, stewardship, sway, sovereignty, ascendance
- Antonyms: servility, subjection, subservience, yielding, surrender, impotence
- Usage: The Indo-Pacific has prospered under American hegemony for the previous 40 years
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4. An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astrono1nical data and tide tables- Almanac
5. A statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based- Axiom
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6. (A) Gragarious (B) Gregariess (C) Grigarious (D) Gregarious
7. (A) Geruntocracy (B) Gerontocrecy (C) Girantocracy (D) Gerontocracy
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8. Wear many hats
- Meaning: Do many different types tasks
- Example: We have such a small number of employees that one is often supposed to wear many hats.
9. Wild goose chase
- Meaning: Waste time looking for something that has little chance of being found
- Example: She tried to find out who the anonymous caller was, but it turned out to be a wild goose chase.
