(VOCABULARY)
1. Conspiracy-
- Definition: A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
- Synonyms: plot, scheme, stratagem
- Antonyms: Faithfulness, Honesty, Ignorance
- Usage: It has tried to put the blame for previous incidents on political opponents hatching conspiracies
2. Vicious –
- Definition: Deliberately cruel or violent.
- Synonyms: Brutal, Ferocious Savage, Violent
- Antonyms: Gentle, Kindly, Benevolent
- Usage: A vicious assault
3. Persuasion-
- Definition:The action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.
- Synonyms: Coercion, Inducement, Convincing, Blandishment
- Antonyms: Fact, Truth
- Usage: As Opposition parties of different persuasions are beginning to stitch together a motley coalition.
4. Macabre –
- Definition: Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death
- Synonyms: Gruesome, Grisly, Grim, Gory, Morbid
- Antonyms: – cheerful, happy, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, common, living, normal
- Usage: The Hashimpura massacre in Uttar Pradesh by members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary in 1987 was the most macabre example of such incidents.
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5. To write under a different name –Pseudonym
6. A person who is well known in an unfavourable way – Notorious
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Referense (B) Refearence (C) Refference (D) Reference
8.(A) Technicel (B) Technecal (C) Teknical (D) Technical
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Stir up a hornets’ nest
- Meaning:- Make trouble, cause a commotion, as in Asking for an audit of the treasurer’s books stirred up a hornets’ nest in the association.
- Example: – It’s not that the management is not aware of few false bills here and there, but they don’t call it because it would expose many and stir up a hornet’s nest.
