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1. Echelon –
- Meaning: A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society
- Synonyms: category, grouping, repute, quality, eminence
- Antonyms: insignificance, lowliness, unimportance
- Usage: For example, a friendly higher echelon may have interdicted the enemy formation we expected to see.
2. Eschew
- Meaning: To shun or shy away from
- Synonyms: evade, shun, elude, body-swerve, get out of, hedge, cheat, fudge
- Antonyms: conspicuous, embrace, face, keep, like, love, meet, indulge in
- Usage: Professionals don’t completely eschew the standard win and place bet, but their focus is overwhelmingly on the exotic bets, especially trifectas.
3. Rudimentary –
- Meaning: Involving or limited to basic principles; Relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form; Not thorough or detaile
- Synonyms: basic, elementary, incomplete, cursory, inadequate
- Antonyms: developed, evolved, secondary, subordinate
- Usage: This is the most rudimentary form of what is known as the ‘social contract theory’.
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4. Who are notorious for doing undue favors to their relative- Nepotism
5. A person who helps even a stranger in difficulty – Samaritan
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6. (A) Hallusinogen (B) Hallussinozen (C) Hallucinozen (D) Hallucinogen
7. (A) Hydrrophobia (B) Hyderoffobia (C) Hydropffobia (D) Hydrophobia
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8. Fast track something:
- Meaning – Rating something higher on your priority list to achieve the desired result.
- Example – In view of the seriousness of the crime, the civil society is pressing up on a fast track decision from the court.
9. Blind as a bat:
- Meaning: Having very bad eyesight.
- Example: If you are in total darkness and can’t see anything at all, you are as blind as a bat.
