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1. Obeisance –
- Meaning: A gesture expressing deferential respect, such as a bow or curtsy; Deferential respect
- Synonyms: homage, respect, bow, bob, curtsy, genuflection, kowtow
- Antonyms: censure, condemnation, disdain, dishonour
- Usage: The students of different classes used multitudinal ways to articulate honour and obeisance to the teachers.
2. Construe –
- Meaning: To have a particular interpretation of something; To explain the meaning of something; Arrive at a judgment or opinion by reasoning
- Synonyms: conclude, gather, deduce, explain, elucidate, clarify, interpret, read, see, understand
- Antonyms: obscure, cloud, confuse, fail
- Usage: We think it right to construe it in relation to what one would normally think of as legal costs.
3. Exigencies –
- Meaning: an urgent need or demand.
- Synonyms: need demand requirement want necessity essential requisite
- Antonyms: frivolousness, triviality, levity, flightiness
- Usage: But here, at home, some courts have not found the time to seek an explanation for the police brutality writ large, but heartlessly shrouded in the exigencies of the Covid-19 lockdown
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4. Study of the interaction of people with their environment – Philosophy
5. A list of explanations of rare, technical or obsolete words – Glossary
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6. (A) Spontaneous (B) Spountaneous (C) Spontanieuss (D) Spontanueus
7. (A) Inartificiel (B) fnartifficial (C) Inartificial (D) Inertificial
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Bad workers always blame their tools:
- Meaning: “A bad worker always blames their tools” – If somebody does a job badly or loses in a game and claims that they were let down by their equipment, you can use this to imply that this was not the case.
- Example: The football player blamed the rainy weather for his poor performance, but as they say, a bad workman blames his tools.
9. Beggars can’t be choosers:
- Meaning: This idiom means that people who are in great need must accept any help that is offered, even if it is not a complete solution to their problems.
- Example: That dress wasn’t exactly what I would have picked for myself, but, hey, it was free, and I’m broke right now. Beggars can’t be choosers.
