(VOCABULARY)
1. Usher –
- Meaning: A person who provides instruction or education; A sign or warning of something to come
- Synonyms: precursor, herald, lead, conduct, escort
- Antonyms: cease, close, end
- Usage: Let it not be forgotten that Mrs. Indira Gandhi had Young Turks to usher in her socialist programmes after 1969
2. Bane-
- Meaning: A cause of great distress or annoyance; Physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something
- Synonyms: damage, harm, malice, spite
- Antonyms: blessing, benefit, ,benevolence, friendliness
- Usage: The bane of the Congress leadership has been its reluctance to develop a second line of leadership that is independent of the Gandhi dynasty.
3. Simmer-
- Meaning: To cook in liquid; Become burnt when exposed to heat or a flame
- Synonyms: chums, cooks, scorches, parches
- Antonyms: cools, freezes, soothes
- Usage: In a society where a feudal sense of entitlement simmers beneath a veneer of economic modernity, aspirational upper castes with bottled up resentments are legion in every domain.
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
4. A supplement to a will – Codicil
5. A word or practice that has gone out of use- Obsolete
(MISSPELT WORDS)
6. (A) welfare (B) wellfare (C) welfair (D) Wellfair
7. (A) successful (B) Sucessful (C) Succesful (D) Sucessful
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. once in a blue moon:
- Meaning: very rarely
- Example: I go to visit my grandfather only once in a blue moon; he lives in a remote farm house.
9. A bed of roses:
- Meaning: easy option
- Example: Taking care of my younger sister is no bed of roses; she is very silly.
