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1. Expertise –
- Meaning: expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
- Synonyms: skill, skillfulness, expertness, ability, astuteness
- Antonyms: incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineptitude ‘ uselessness
- Usage: “Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise.”
2. Overdue –
- Meaning: not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.
- Synonyms: late, not on time, behind, schedule
- Antonyms: early, punctual, on time
- Usage: “All I’m saying is that we’re 7 years overdue for skinny ties and narrow lapels.”
3. Assertion –
- Meaning: a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief
- Synonyms: Declaration, Contention , Statement
- Antonyms: Disavowal, Denial, Desertion
- Usage: “Imposing such a ban requires far more compelling logic than the assertion that we should not play God.”
4. Devastated –
- Meaning: destroy or ruin.
- Synonyms: destroy, ruin, leave in ruins
- Antonyms: fixed, repaired, sober
- Usage: “the city was devastated by a huge earthquake”
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5. A person in a vehicle or on horseback escorting another vehicle- Escort
6. Intentional destruction of racial groups – Genocide
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7. (A) Fulfilled (B) Fullfilled (C) Fulfiled (D) Fulfilled
8. (A) Superside (B) Superseed (C) Supersede (D) Superrsede
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9. Turn a blind eye:
- Meaning:- When people turn a blind eye they deliberately ignore something , especially if people are doing something wrong
- Explanation :- Whenever a girl turns a blind eye on your comments – it doesn’t mean that she started liking you.
10. Yellow press:
- Meaning: – The yellow press is a term for the popular and sensationalist newspapers.
- Explanation: – I can’t believe you read those tabloids-they’re just yellow press stuffed with ads.
