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1. Mitigating –
- 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. Vulnerable –
- Meaning: exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
- Synonyms: in danger, in peril, in jeopardy
- Antonyms: well protected, invulnerable, resilient
- Usage: “we were in a vulnerable position”
3. Curtailment –
- Meaning: the action or fact of reducing or restricting something.
- Synonyms: reduction, cut, cutback
- Antonyms: increase, expansion
- Usage: “the curtailment of human rights”
4. Ethos –
- Meaning: the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations.
- Synonyms: spirit, character, atmosphere
- Antonyms: abstract, exterior
- Usage: “a challenge to the ethos of the 1960s”
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5. A continuous process of change is known as- Flux
6. The practice of submitting a proposal to popular vote – Referendum
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7. (A) Hemorrhage (B) Hemorhage (C) Hemorrhege (D) Hemourrhage
8. (A) Mortgege (B) Murtgage (C) Mourtgage (D) Mortgage
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9. As cool as a cucumber:
- Meaning: Untroubled by heat or exertion.
- Example: If someone is as cool as a cucumber, they don’t get worried by anything.
10. At death’s door:
- Meaning: (especially in hyperbolic use) so ill that one 1nay die.
- Example: If someone looks as if they are at death’s door, they look seriously unwell and might actually be dying.
